Beautiful Misfortune

two

- two -
clack

     I woke up to the sound of crying and furrowed my eyebrows. I had a good yawn and stretch and then went to do my morning hygiene.

I decided to get dress as well before going downstairs to be nosey or whatever. I threw on some army green biker shorts and a white tank top with no bra.

When I made it downstairs I scoffed. Kiara was sitting on the couch crying, I ignored her presence and went into the kitchen with my parents.

"Why she here?" I asked. The memories were begging to flood my mind, but I wouldn't let them. It took me 4 years to get back to being me and I'm not about to be damaged again.

"She needs a place to stay" my dad sighed.

"Tell her to kick rocks, we don't want her here" I mugged him.

"I told him that" my mom crossed her arms.

"That's your daughter!" He slightly raised his voice at her.

"Not after she did all that foul ass shit to us and I won't bring up what the fuck she put Kia through" my mom said angrily. "She ain't give a fuck about my daughter when she was doing all that shit, so ion give a fuck now"

Kiara came into the kitchen with a sad look on her face. "Kia I-"

"Girl fuck you" I cut her off. "Dad if you wanna let her stay here you do that, but I'm out"

"I'm not about to choose between the two of you"

"You just did" I left the kitchen bumping her on the way out. I've always had the money to move out, but I just never wanted to leave my mom.

It puts her at ease knowing that I'm okay. She just needs to have eyes on me or she's scared. Kiara really fucked this family up and now that we're good again, she's fucking back.

I wiped my tears and began to pack. I honest feel like Alayah and I were meant to be besties because whenever I'm down she's calling without me even telling her shit.

"Best friend" I cried answering the phone.

"What's wrong baby?"

"Can I come stay with you until I find me a place? My punk ass daddy letting Kiara move back in here"

"For fucking what?" She caught an attitude. "I still wanna beat her ass"

"Stop" I laughed a little.

"And girl you didn't even have to ask, could've just came with all yo shit"

Something hit my window making a clacking sound; which resulted in me jumping. I carefully went over to it and saw Niko looking for another rock. I furrowed my eyebrows and told Alayah I'd call her back.

I raised up my window at the same time he threw a rock. He started to laugh as I held my forehead. "Co-come down here real quick" he said between laughs.

"The hell he want?" I asked myself forcefully closing my window. I jogged down the stairs and out the door. He was hopping the gate and coming to the front.

"What exactly are you doing here?" I raised an eyebrow. "Wait... how do you know where I live?"

"I got connections" was all he said before shrugging.

"Who is this?" I heard Kira ass. "I hope not ya lil boyfriend, because he ain't got no business being outside when we got a whole house right here"

"He ain't my boyfriend ma, go in the house" I rolled my eyes.

"You don't think you're a little too old to still be staying with ya momma?" He asked after she went inside.

I squinted my eyes at him and he surrendered. "I'm 21 and plan on moving out when I know I'm stable enough to stay out, thank you very much"

"Oh, well that's finna be a while considering you got fired the other day"

"Niko" I gave him a stare. "What? Why are you here?"

"You said you'd pay me for staying with you" he cheesed.

"You said you had your own money" I mugged.

"Ion want money, I need a date to this bullshit ass dinner" he said. "I told my momma I had a girl and now she wants to meet you, well her"

"I'm unavailable on that date" I yawned.

"My aunt works in the industry, I heard you singing in that cell. I could hook you up or whatever"

I squinted at him, not believing a thing coming out his mouth. "Fine, I have nothing better to do" I rolled my eyes.

"Gimme yo number, I'll send you the details"

"Just to be clear" I typed in my number. "This is a one time usage of this phone number, I'm not interested in you. Don't make me block you"

"Bummer" he said sarcastically.

"Now fuck off" I walked inside making sure I moved my ass the right way. I turned around to see him staring. He started to laugh and jogged across the street to his all black 2020 BMW i8.

He winked at me as he got in. "I'VE SEEN BETTER!" I yelled to him before going inside.

Fine ass