"𝖙𝖔𝖔 𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖘"//𝖃𝖃𝖃

24

Diamond Blake

"Long ass flight, huh?" Asia said as she walked and stretched while we carried half of her luggage.

"You slept the entire time, how would you know?" Pearl joked.

"At least I don't snore. I could hear your loud ass from inside my dreams" she complained.

As they argued back and forth, I couldn't help but feel so sad and lonely. Last time I was in this airport, I was with Tyler. He would drag me across the airport and start yelling at people who would even look my way. His overprotective ways were nice....sometimes.

"You okay?" Pearl asked.

"Yeah. Let's just find a way home" I said.

"Don't worry. My mom is coming to pick us up" Asia smiled, weakly. She looked a little sad.

"what's up with you?" Pearl asked.

"Nun. I just haven't seen them in a while. That's all" she said.

"Did y'all fight?" I asked. Pearl punched me in the arm for being insensitive but I just shrugged it off and waited for an answer.

"No. It's just...when I left, they were having some problems. Mom was going out a lot, Dad stopped paying attention to shit going on in the house. Kingston was really slipping. Mentally, you know?" She said.

"Kingston?" Pearl asked.

"My brother. Didn't I tell you about him?" Asia smiled.

"she was too busy texting to pay attention" I joked.

Pearl scoffed and started to walk away from us. We walked around the airport until we finally found Asia's mom.

"Asia...and friends!" She said in a surprised tone. "I thought I was only going to pick you up"

"Sorry, Mom. But they don't really have anywhere to go, and the place that they did wanna go is....well-" Asia looked at me, I knew who she was talking about. I just didn't want to acknowledge her in that moment.

"Asia. I think we should be alone this evening. We have an important family matter to discuss-"

"I know. You wanna give us this long ass speech about how lucky you are to have us home" Asia laughed.

"you better watch that damn mouth" Asia's mom said.

"Momma. I'm almost twenty years old-"

"And? You still my child. Now, come on. Ion got time to be chatting with you" she joked. well...it was kind of hard to tell if she was joking or not.

We all followed Asia's mom to the car and she drove us to Asia's house. I was pretty excited to see Asia's home and the parts that she knew. But Asia seemed pretty uncomfortable, like she didn't want to be there. It was her idea to come with us. Why is she acting like this?

When we pulled up to her house, her brother and father were outside, waiting. I couldn't help but stare at her house. It was pretty big compared to the ones I grew up in.