Secrets

The Attic

(Yay I'm getting better at the pictures/covers)

Huey was laid out on his back on his bed just staring at the ceiling. He had finished yet another book and had no work to do, Jazmine had to do something with her family so her replies were slow, Hiro and Caesar were with their own family and then Riley was in his room.

As you could tell, he didn't want his brother to be in the same space as him right now so he decided to think. Talking to himself mentally was something for him to do when he wasn't so busy which would be less often since he was starting his new job tomorrow which was a Sunday. He managed to get a job as a tutor for some rich kids who desperately needed help so he was getting paid a lot for his help. As much as he dislikes people, he needed money and he didn't have the face or enthusiasm (more like the lack of) for retail or customer service. It would just not work out. Tutor was the best thing for him to do and he wanted to start earning his own money rather than having to practically beg his stubborn grandfather for money a week in advance to get it.

So here he was, actually bored, until he remembered the 'mission' he had set out for himself. It had been while since he had thought about it but it seemed like a good time to go back to it.

He got out his bed and made his way out to the hallway.

His grandfather was out doing who knows what while Riley was on his room, talking very loudly on the phone.

"Royalty stop being a bitch! You're giving real small dick energy right now." He heard his brother say which made Huey look at his door in confusion.

"That's because I ain't got a dick you idiot! You're so bloodclaut slow sometimes. Just for that, you should turn your camera off so I don't have to see your dumb ass." When she said that, he realised the two were on video call with one another.

'I guess the two have become friends.' Huey thought as just reached up to pull down the ladder. Ever since they saw the two sleeping in bed together in the week, they have been talking everyday, as if they were best friends all of a sudden. It was weird to see especially with how angry Caesar was when he saw them in her room. Besides Jazmine, Ming, and Cindy, any other female he talked to or about, he was trying to become friends with all the benefits but you could usually hear and see his intentions from miles away. With Royalty now, he actually seemed genuinely interested in being her friend.

Huey has heard him teach her some Chicago slang while she's been teaching him some Jamaican Patois. That was the first time he has seen his brother as interested in another culture that wasn't heavily influenced by 'gangsters' as he would say.

As he walked up the ladder, he prepared himself for anything to jump out at him but nothing did. The attic was surprising cleaner than he thought it would be. No one has really come up here so it was weird that there wasn't dust flying everywhere. The only person he could think of being up there was Riley because grandad was too old to bother getting up here but he doubted it was Riley too.

Huey sighed and looked at the boxes all on the floor. He hasn't really looked at them since he moved here, he just knew they had things that could help him.

He went over to the first box that was labelled 'PICTURES'.

He opened it up and was met with newspaper. As he pulled them out the box to unwrap them, he saw that there were picture frames inside. His heart sort of jumped in his chest because the very first picture he saw was his parents smiling brightly at him.

It was a picture of them at the beach, pre-kids. He sometimes couldn't believe that he actually had parents, a real mother and father. Onces that loved him unconditionally and would sometimes spoil him in the middle of giving him life lessons and teachings which he still carried with him today. They were taken from him and all he wanted was some more time with them, even for the sake of Riley, they needed more time with their parents.