The Promises He Made

^Chapter 2^

After many rest stops. Many bathroom breaks and stuff, we finally made it to L.A. It was actually a pretty place. Especially our neighborhood. There were alot of trees and bushes and a lotto... Nature. It was all like a movie scene, kinda. There was a park not too far from here. And people walking around. I seen some people around my age walkin too. Maybe I'll make some friends after all. We pulled up infront of this...this mansion. This house was ^^HUGE!!! Dayvon pulled up and i woke da'kin and chanay up. We all sat there amazed for a minute. My mom laughed at all our expressions. "Well what are you waiting for? Go look around yo new home!" My mom says looking at each of us. We pushed and rushed each other and ran inside to look around. It looks big out side but its enormous inside! I knew my mama was gettin money. But i aint know she was getting enough to afford this house. We all scattered around after our mom told us whos room was whos. I dashed to mine and stood in the door in amazement. I loved my room So much!! I know exactly how I'ma decorate it too. I never even seen a room like this.

It had A LOT of space. It could've been a gym or something. It had a nice patio door with a great view. A lot of doors. A nice carpet. A walk in closet and bathroom.

Chanay ran in my room and gasped.

"Hey why come your room look all cool?" She asks with her hands on her hips. I shrug. "What's your room like?"I ask smiling. She waves her hand in the air. "Ah, just big. And the walls are plain. Nun like this." She looks around.

Dayvon came in and smiled. "Dang why yo room the pimped out one?" He asks pretending to be mad. "Iont k-" I get cut off. "Oh hell naw! Mama why Chanelle got the doped out room?" Da'kin interrupts runnin in my room. My mom comes to my room and smiles.

"Because I picked her name." She says making everyone but me sigh loudly/dramatically. My mom has this dumb box and all our names are in it. Whenever she has to pick something for us she uses that dang box! Rooms, chores, shopping, etc. But for some reason I always get the best thing. I guess it likes me.

"Aye y'all come look at Chanelle's view." Dayvon calls at my balcony. We all go over and you can see over the town basically. And our backyard looked dope too.

My mouth drops from the glorious view. I look down a little and see the pool and hot tub.

"Mama how deep is that pool?" I question still looking at it. It was huge! She shrugs. "10ft I think." She says. Before she finishes we all dash downstairs and to the backyard. Yup it was 10.

"Ooooo I'ma have the finest tricks up in here on my d-" Da'kin starts. "Boy watch your damn mouth." My mom calls from the patio door. "Damnit!" He mumbles under his breath.

Dayvon, Chanay and I just laugh at him. I bend over to look in the pool better when I suddenly fall in. I catch my breath once I resurface. Chanay, Dayvon, Da'kin, and my mama was laughing they asses off.

"Aw don't do my baby like that!" My mom says through her giggles.

"WHO DID IT?!?!" I give them all death glares. They all stop laughing and point at each other.

"Yeah, yeah, ya liars help me out." I reach for they hands. Chanay and Dayvon reach for me and I yank them in. Da'kin laughs harder at them falling in. Untill Dayvon snatches him in. My mom laughs harder and snaps pictures on her pink iPhone 5. We all splash each other and just act a fool for a minute. Then we got out and dried off.

"Okay yall. You have to go to school tomorrow so get as much unpacked tonight and prepare to go to school in the morning. And I have to work really early. So goodnight." She says hugging us all.

We said our goodnights and We all went to unpack. Dayvon insisted on helping me since he doesn't have school. He'll be job hunting so he'll just unpack later. So I let him.

We were unpacking all my clothes and talking about stupid things. I got up with a handful of clothes on hangers. I looked around for a minute when I seen a door I hadn't opened yet. I went to the door I was expecting to be a closet but it had a stairway instead.

"Dayvon! Come look." I say without taking my eyes off the stairwell. He approached the door slowly and looked in it cautiously. "Come on." I say about to go down there when he pulled me back.

"Chanelle we can't go down there." He says as if it were obvious."Why not?" I pout like a baby.

"This mysterious stairwell is here, leading to god knows where-- We're black. And in the black movies, when the girl and her brother go down a mysterious staircase only one comes back up!" He yells paranoid.

I smack my teeth and call for Da'kin and Chanay. They come in the room ad wanted to go too. We started goin the down the staircase but Dayvon just stood there. I walked back up and drag him down the steps. We walked down with Da'kin in the front, Chanay behind him, me, then Dayvon. The closer we got to the bottom the more it smelled like... Like chlorine? We turned a corner and Chanay hit a light switch and the room became visible. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was an indoor pool! From my bedroom!! It had a doped out slide, the water was a neon purple and you could tell it was deep. I smiled and approached it making sure no one was behind me. I looked to my side and seen a maching hot tub.

"Iont know about y'all but I love this house!" Chanay exclaims. I agree. "Me too. But somethin dont feel right." I say from curiosity. I mean we had a nice decent sized house back home. Now we got this pimped out mansion. Knowin my mama it gotta be a catch somewhere in here. But I'm not sure. Ima just enjoy it for now.