Trouble In Paradise

Chapter 16: "Dad"

Chapter 16: "Dad"

"Kai, what you gon' do?" Syd questioned.

Kai had been at Sydney's house for a week. She had went home and snatched up some clothes and money that'd last her some weeks. Her dad wasn't there when she had went though, she made sure of that because she'd hate to be bothered by him. Kai was ignoring him and his phone calls, but when he threatened to file a missing persons report she let him know she was fine when he did call.

"I don't know. I need to do some quick though, I know your mom tired of me." Kai said.

"Girl you know she love you, don't go there."

Her mom did love Kai. She had said Kai was a good influence on Sydney and she'd said she was her only real friend. That had been proved a year ago when Syd had found herself pregnant, Kai was the only female friend who stuck around.

"But I'm not trying to wear my welcome out." She replied. "I'm not going home no time soon, I need a job."

Sydney giggled. She couldn't imagine Kai working. Kai was spoiled and her dad did everything for her, she never had to nothing herself. Syd would be lying if she said she hadn't been jealous of Kai at one point in life. Kai had always been laced with the finest, and Syd could've been laced with the finest too but instead chased niggas and ended up as a single parent.

"You need a job? Girl please. I need a job, I'm the one with a child." Syd said.

She looked over at her sleeping son, Simon. He was one and a bundle of joy. He had light and brown eyes and pale skin with soft, curled up hair. Syd had got knocked up by the finest Mexican around, Angel. He wasn't a random either, her and him had something. She thought he was different, but to be honest she only thought that because of his race. He fed her with lies and anything else to get up inside her pants and when she told him she was pregnant he told her the typical deadbeat's line, "It's not mine." She was devastated, but her mom, brother and Kai held her up the whole way through.

"True, but I do. I'm tired of depending on my dad, I'm about to be out here on my own."

"Kandi, my cousin is opening a hair salon. She need some people to work up there and she asked me, but I can't do no damn hair." Sydney said.

Kai laughed and thought over what she had said. She did have some skills in hair. The only thing she couldn't do was micro braids and twists, and that was bitches favorite hairstyle.

"I can't braid hair with weave like micro braids and twists." She said.

"Ok then, you'll only be used to do what you know how duh." Syd said.

"Ok then, hit her up."

Sydney sent her a text message and told her she had a friend wanting to work in her shop. She glanced up at Kai when she was done and brung up the topic she'd been wanting to discuss the whole week Kai had been there.

"So, you and the dude. Wassup with him?" Syd questioned.

She went on and on about Raheem, until Kai gave her the face. Sydney ceased her talking and giggled, she had made Kai mad but she didn't care. She knew her and him were feeling eachother to the maximum, and were being stubborn.

"Don't bring him up please." Kai put her hand up. She hadn't been thinking about him, maybe once or twice after the first day but once he hadn't hit her line, she forgot about him. He had pissed her off and fucked with her emotions, something she had been through before and wasn't trying to go down the same path again.

"I understand what he said and shit, but damn call him or something."

Kai huffed. Sydney had chased men her whole Highschool years and hadn't learned her lesson that you don't chase niggas, niggas chase you and that's what Kai was gone let him do. She wasn't dumb and wouldn't be gullible and naive just because she liked someone.