Dead Makes Sense

Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings

(Please excuse any mistakes 🥴‼️)

"MaKiah, I swear you are part turtle, you walking so slow!", Alahni said as they were rushing to the bus stop. They were about to miss the bus again, and they knew it would be trouble if they did.
"Girl I'm coming, you can't rush greatness!", MaKiah said, laughing immediately after.

MaKiah and Alahni were best friends. They had been together since they were literally in diapers, and they were naturally inseparable. Nothing and nobody could come between them, no matter how extreme the situation was. They were honestly born to be best friends.

This was their senior year in high school, and it was the beginning of their last week before graduation. They had gone to school together all of their lives, and they were excited to be finishing another chapter together.

MaKiah and Alahni had also faced a lot of challenges together, which made them even closer. After Alahni's mother passed away, and MaKiah's dad ran away with her mom's best friend, they turned to each other for consistency in the midst of dysfunction.

"Dude, can you believe we're so close to graduation?! It seems like just yesterday we were planning our matching outfits for our first day of freshman year, and here we are about to graduate!" Alahni was always the one with the bubbly personality, while MaKiah was always the reserved one. They helped to bring each other balance.

"It's so unbelievable! And what's really crazy is how we're graduating as valedictorian and salutatorian of our entire class! What are the freaking odds?!" MaKiah and Alahni prided themselves in their academics, and it showed to be very rewarding in the end for both of them. They were the top of their class all four years of high school, and the scholarships they received collectively totaled to over 1.5 million dollars. In spite of their environments and situations, they pushed their way to the top!

"Hey, look, it's Roman and Delonte! What they doing on this side of town, they never come this way." Alahni was intrigued because Roman and Delonte, who so happened to be their boyfriends, lived on the higher scale end of town and didn't dare cross the lines of the "hood". MaKiah wondered the same thing!

"What's good, y'all? I know you didn't think we were gonna let our girls take the bus the last week of school!" Roman yelled out of the window from the driver's seat as he pulled up, and put his car in park while the girls climbed into the back of his shiny black Camaro. His parents bought him the car when he made quarterback on the school's varsity football team, but restricted him to one person in the car at a time. However, it was evident that when it came to those two girls, that notion went right out the window.

"Hey baby, yuh luk suh gud todeh," Delonte said to MaKiah, letting his native Jamaican accent spill out as he took in her beauty. He was head over heels for that girl, and the feeling was definitely mutual. MaKiah twisted his locs from the back seat and shyly gave her greetings in return. She never would have imagined being in a relationship, let alone with one of the top three star football players in the school. Roman and Delonte also had full ride scholarships to the school of their choice, and contrary to most stereotypes, they were very well educated as too, coming in third and fourth place in their class behind MaKiah and Alahni.

"Let's get this last week out the way, and start our journey to a brighter future! YALL with me?", Roman asked the three. "LET'S GOOOOO!", Alahni yelled as the entire car erupted into laughter and they made their way to their final week as high schoolers.

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ALRIGHT Y'ALL, SO THIS FIRST CHAPTER IS REAL SIMPLE AND SWEET. THIS IS MY FIRST TIME PUBLICIZING MY WRITTEN WORK, SO Y'ALL TAKE IT EASY ON ME! LOL! VOTE, COMMENT, AND LIKE AWAY! THE STORY TAKES OFF IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! 😏💪🏾