ᴛᴏxɪᴄ // D. Swing

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August 14, 1992

It felt like a thousand degrees outside and not one ice cream truck came down this ghetto ass street. Ranae and the crew was just kicking it on Kiara's front porch since they didn't have anything else to do. They got tired of walking around in the hot sun.

It's been a month since ranae aborted the baby and she was starting to feel a little better, thanks to her girls getting her mind off of it. They checked on her here and there but ranae didn't even want to be reminded of what she did. After crying about if for days she was just ready to bury it and leave it in the past and go on with her normal life.

"What about you Ranae? Your pops said you could come or what?" Tyrese asked.

"Why would it matter to you? Your little behind is staying here with the rest of your newly senior friends" Tarika teased him and he stuck up his middle finger.

"You bugging, I'll be there too" He assured her.

Ranae and her friends graduated two months ago and decided just now to go on a short vacation. They all saved up and put money in to go down to Miami before school started back. Ranae was still debating if she should take a gap year or just start college on time like the rest of her friends and major in psychology like she planned.

"Anyways nae nae you going or not because we're leaving this Friday" Monique reminded me.

She sighed before answering "Well my mom technically didn't say no, she just wanted to know if we'll have some kind of adult with us" She told the group and they all laughed causing Ranae to roll her eyes "Don't laugh because y'all know how she is, she lets me do a few things with y'all crazy asses but traveling across the country isn't one"

"I mean we all damn near grown but if it helps her sleep at night you could tell her my cousin is coming, she's basically our chaperon" Tarika patted her shoulder.

Ranae already knew what cousin Tarika had in mind and she was the bad influence of the family. Tarika's family have no control over her whatsoever, she does whatever she want whenever she want and it's a good thing Tarika isn't loose like that. Maybe their just letting her get out there and live her life early to learn on her own, Ranae can't relate coming from a somewhat strict household.

"I'm sure she'll be glad to meet the lovely Sandra once again" Ranae said sarcastically with a goofy grin making Tarika mush her head.

"What about the goody two shoes over here, Crystal? Jarvis? Y'all coming or not?" Ricky pointed them out.

"I'm down, I haven't asked my parents yet but I'm sure they'll be alright with it" Crystal answered like it was nothing. It was true though, crystal family trust her and she knows better than to go out and do something she has no business doing. Crystal really isn't a goody two shoes though, sometimes she gets out of hand for fun but it's very rare.

"Y'all can count me in" Jarvis simply said with no excitement whatsoever. Unlike the rest of the group, Jarvis has been out of New York plenty of times. He got to experience a lot of different cities so this wasn't nothing to him.

"Just keep ya business in your pants while we out there, we don't need you being charged as a sex offender for fucking in public again" Alicia put him on the spot making the others laugh.