MORE THAN FRIENDS

Confused, Yet Not Dumb

  Meona

                 After I finished running a few arrands I went back home to grab up my folder with all my information from school and went into my parent's office. I needed to my birth certificate so that I could register for college while I had some free time. In the middle of me looking through my father's files, a bunch of his folders fell out on the floor. I silently cursed myself for the mess mainly because I was pressed for time. I didn't wanna miss out on what I had to do and have to push it back to a later date because I couldn't be on time. I continued to look through the draw and finally I pulled out my birth certificate just as my phone rang in my back pocket.

"Hello" I said in the phone, already knowing it was my baby because of his music ringtone.
"What you doing babe"?
"Nothing I had to find my birth certificate so I could go do my registation before it's too late. What are you up to"?
"Not shit right now me and Kabron just finished a job for pop's and shit. I was checking up on you for real".  "Oh alright, are you meeting up with me when I leave the place"? I asked because we had plans and I wanted to make sure he wasn't canceling on me.
He took a deep breath in the phone " Nah babe that's what I was calling you to tell you".  "No hell no Jamel don't play with me" I pratically yelled through the phone causing him to laugh hard.  "Shut up cry baby I was just fucking with you... yeah I'mma come get you soon as you done".

If his ass was near me I would have smack his ass for playing so much " You get on my nerves" I sung in the phone as I laughed.
"Your a Big ass baby girl you know that" He said in a deep voice, I could tell his ass was smoking by the way his voice changed.
"But you love me though" I said as I bent down to pick up the papers that I had spilled out all over the floor.  "Yeah you got me with that one" he said. I heard him talking to Kabron in the background just as something caught my eye. I noticed a picture hanging out the side of one of the folders and picked it up. It was a picture of a cute brown skinned little girl who looked no older than four or five. I examined the picture closely to realize it wasn't me when I was little at all, this was someone else. The scary thing was she looked a splitting image of my dad and me when I was younger except she was a little browner than me.  "Um, Jamel let me.. let me call you back".
"For what... What's wrong you good"?
"Yeah I'm going I just made a mess over here and I need to clean it up real quick" I lied. Even though my voice was calm my body was shaking because I was so nervous. I quickly hung up the phone and sat down on the floor for a second just studying this little girl's picture.

The more I searched through the papers I was finding things that didn't add up like separate accounts between him and my mother, infant pictures of this same little girl and all types of stuff. I picked up the rest of the papers, putting them back in their rightful place and rushed over to my father's laptop on his desk.
I clicked it on and entered his password before pulling up his bank account. When it loaded up, I saw a account with some woman name Victoria Wilson. Both him and my mother had been sending this woman money and the deeper I dug I saw that my father had been sending Victoria money for years now, at least a thousand dollar ever two weeks. My mouth dropped and I stood there beyond confused, who was this woman and child that had been in my parent's lives for all these years?? Were they the reason them two were never home anymore I couldn't understand what was going on. By now I had forgotten all about the registation, my mind was flooding and I needed answers.

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Author's POV

   Kyra sat on my porch letting the soft wind blow through her hair. It was a nice quiet evening especially since her father hadn't been home all day. She had just got out the shower and here she was in my pajama shorts and t-shirt, talking to her bestie. When she called and told Kyra that she needed to get out the house and that Jamel was making a run Kyra didn't hesitate to tell her to come over. They both sat on the swing that Kyra's parent's had on the porch years ago, Just talking and geeked up about different topics.