Hood Mentality: Generational Curses

Chapter 19

(not edited... 📝 excuse any errors)

Omniscient POV:
"Drop us off right here at da 'partments." Draco told Vonte referring to him and KD.

"Aight y'all be safe, we love you sus Quan uh solider he gone be straight" Draco said tapping Melanie shoulder as he got out.

"Yea just keep ya head up sus." KD added before closing the door. Melanie just nodded leaning her head on the window.

"You going home Tayda?" Vonte looked back asking.

"Nah take me to Auntie Trell house" Tayda said lowly sensing the uneasy mood in the car.

Vonte occasionally stole glances at Melanie as he drove. He was purposely dropping her off last so he could get a chance to talk to her.

"Cousin you okay?" Tayda couldn't help but ask, she just wasn't herself. He didn't think he'd ever seen her like this.

"Yea Tay I'm good." Melanie responded quickly pressing her lips together tryna fake a smile.

"Yunno it wasn't your fault, he was just tryna protect you." Tayda replied, he seen the whole thing play out and it wasn't her fault they shouldn't have let her come in until after them. But everything just happened too fast.

"Ok" Melanie responded unconvinced by his words, because she shouldn't have been in the way. Tayda just shook his head, he knew he couldn't win an argument with Nyny or Melanie cause they was both too stubborn.

"Aight li' bra this yo stop, ima fuck with you tomorrow." Vonte told Tayda as he stopped the car in front of Trell's house.

Vonte pulled away and headed towards Melanie's house, as they rode in a comfortable silence. Well until Vonte broke it.

"I know you're not okay. And that's okay, you don't gotta fake like you is." Vonte spoke up looking over at her.

"Who says I'm faking... what's yall problem keep saying lil shit to me. If I said I'm aight them i am" Melanie muttered folding her arms. She did not like when people tried to read her.

"You might can fool other people but I'm round you damn near everyday. I'm not buying the shit. You don't gotta put on for me, I see right through it." Vonte explained.

"Whatever Vonte what do you want me to say. Quan got shot because of me, he could die because he tried to save me." Melanie blurted aggressively.

"That's exactly what I wanted you to say, I wanted to hear how you feel not that lame ass I'm okay bullshit cause you not." Vonte responded.

"I'm not doing this with you, just take me home"

"Why cause you think ion understand? You think I never felt the same way or worse? Look Melanie we get choices in this life, that we have to chose so can't nobody make you do shit, Quan saved you because he wanted too." Vonte gritted getting upset.

"But if I would've been paying attention he wouldn't have had too." Melanie argued.

"You sound like my momma and that shit is making me mad. She'd was on that if she would've did this or that than my daddy wouldn't have treated her a certain way. But like I said we have choices, and no matter what she did or didn't do that nigga made a choice to do what he did." Vonte explained growing tense thinking about his daddy. The thought of his pops angered him.

"But still Quan is 15 years old, he didn't deserve that." Melanie argued.

"And you think you did?" Vonte stopped the car to focus his attention on her.