"Mama!" I heard in my ear making jump out of my sleep. "Mama, can we go see ky now."
"India get away from me right now before I pop you. Is that how you wake someone up?" I replied raising my hand at her.
"I'm sorry mama I was just 'cited." She apologized before coming to get under the cover with me. She's so cute I never wanna yell at her but she almost gave me a heart attack.
"It's ok love , you just scared me is all. Give me a minute mama is tired." Closing my eyes I enjoy the silence hoping she fell asleep as well.
Until I heard ...
"Can we go see ky nowwwwwwww?"
I took a deep breath before saying :
"let's see what outfit you pick out today , little fish."
Hearing small feet slam against the hardwood floor with no response , drawers flying open.
"Walk India!" Sighing and taking a deep breath. "This girl is gonna be the death of me." I say quietly to myself before rolling out the bed hoping she was at least matching colors today.
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" Baby those shoes don't match with your outfit. How about these ones?"
"Noooooooo"
We've spent twenty minutes arguing about her wearing pink shoes with her yellow dress. She opened the shower curtain to show me her outfit : ponytails lopsided, dressed wrinkled and pink checkered vans on her feet, the wrong feet I might add, I had to get out of the shower to get her situated.
" Listen, yellow and pink just don't go together. You either have to change the dress or the shoes. One has to go bug."
"But Mama I picked out my outfit all by myself. I wanna wear these ones."
"India I don't have time for this I still have to get dressed. We're going to be late."
I was chasing behind her in just a towel and socks hair flying all over the place , with a small pair of vans in my hand.
"India sanders if you do not get up from under that table after I just did you hair you will not be seeing ky anytime soon. . I'm gone tell grandma Lena you wanted to stay here and help her clean the diner instead."
"Nooooo. I'll put them on. Please mama I'll be good." She begged finally coming from under the table tears down her face.
I swooped her up holding her until she calmed down. Rocking her back and forth before taking her into my room and sitting her on the bed. I removed her shoes hearing her sniffles get lower and lower before I knew it she was asleep.
"At least I can get dressed now." I mumbled looking at her one more time before going to finish my shower.
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"Stop calling him a trick if he only buy your food."
YA FAV STEPMUVA
"Hellooooo."
"Where are you ? You better not be catting on me ?"
"Girl on my way to the airport , I've decided to move to Canada and change my name, a'int that right baby."
"Yeah we're moving auntie Lennox!" India shouted from the backseat trying to reach for the phone.
"Sit back before I pop you little girl."
"Why you play so much monie? I'm tryna get you a baby father and you messing with my emotions."
"I'm about to pull up to your house in five, stop hassling me."
"I'll do what i want."
beep beep beep
She hung up on me that's crazy, pulling up I see a nice white house with cars lining up and down the front yard. Music blasting throughout the front and back of the house. I parked my car closest to the curb so that i could make a run for it if needed grabbed indie and prepared for battle.
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The door was open when I walked up so I put India down grabbed her hand and walked past a bunch of people sitting in the living room playing dominos an drinking Hennessey out of the bottle, they didn't even flinch as we walked by. Moving to the kitchen i see an older women cooking and Lennox cutting up food with the a black sundress with a red stripe going down the side , hair in a big curly bun on top of her head.
"Mo!" she yelled putting down the knife and kissing India on the head before almost tackling me to the ground.
"If you made that , I'm not eating it." I smiled flinching as she punched me.
"Simone this is Mama Johnson , Mama Johnson this is Simone the friend I was telling you about."
"It's so nice to meet you , I'm glad Lennox met a friend now she can stop coming over while I'm watching my shows."
"Mama , you know we best friends, two peas in a pod."
"My son is in love with a psychopath." She whispered to me as she walked away sticking her tongue out at Lennox and going to check the food on the grill.
"It was nice meeting you too." I shouted back laughing at the way my friends face turned red right in front of me.
"Here!" she yelled out shoving a cup in my hand that smelled nothing like juice. " Let's take indie here upstairs with the rest of the little knuckleheads , so we can get you into some big girl things." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After walking around the whole party ,and Lennox trying to feed me to every man here like a piece of steak, we finally sit by the pool and put our feet up. I was on my maybe fifth drink and was starting feel a little tipsy. I wouldn't say I'm a lightweight but I never know what's too much until its too late and I'm leaning out of my bed with one sock on and half a shirt.
"Are you enjoying yourself."
"It's actually not as bad as I thought and your right your mans does have some fine ass friends."
"Speaking of my man I haven't seen him since you got here. I'm gonna go find him and get another drink , you want something."
"Anything tequila based please and thank you." I replied throwing the rest of my drink back and handing her the cup before sitting back and putting on my sunglasses before closing my eyes and letting the liquor kick in.
"When you said next time I thought you meant never not soon." A deep voice said behind me making me pull up my glasses and make eye contact with the voice. A voice i hadn't been able to get out of my head for days.
"Vincent...... Hi."
Turns out this party wasn't as chill as I thought.
