CHAPTER 1

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~Armani~

I gasped lowly as the ceramic mug passed by my head, inches from knocking me out.

"You whore" my crack head aunt Lauren yelled.

This was one of her drunk tantrums so yeah they happened very often , too often .

I looked over to Myla her daughter and sighed seeing the frightened look on her face.

"C'mon my'my " I said softly trying to get her to come with me .

After 20 more minutes of trauma and trying to get Myla to come with me ,we finally went down the streets of baton rouge.

Hey I'm Armani, I live with my crackhead aunt and her daughter whom I take care of.
My parents died three years ago in a house robbery, our house got robbed while me and Myla were at a friends house and I got a call from my aunt who happened to be at the house after it happened.

They shot my father right in his chest and my mother was found with stab wounds so the FBI predicted that she bled out and well died.

Myla was already living with us at the time because the 'family' decided that my aunt was an unfit mother after all she didn't know who her baby father was so I can't say much to defend her.

Anyways I dropped Myla off at the daycare center and walked to my job that was not so far from the daycare.

___t.s____

I sighed while wiping the tables .why can't people clean up after themselves, like god, how do you order a burger then leave lettuce and ketchup all over the table .

Then there's people that leave their wallets and expect to find them full at the lost and found.

"Armani !" My boss mrs taffy called out knocking me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah ?" I responded looking at her at the counter

" serve table six " she said causing me to sigh lowly .

God I hate this

I looked over at table six and only saw a bunch of criminals and one girl with a weave that looked like 3year old chips.

Girl, take that  shit off 

I walked over there and stood trying to get their attention

Until I noticed one of them looking at me while biting his lips , then I shifted my eyes to see mrs_scrunchy Mcweave mugging the hell out of me.

Tuh, salty much ?

"Watchu looking at ?" She 'asked'

"That tired ass weave" I said with  a shrug causing one of the other boys to bust out laughing , now errbody and their mama was looking at me

"Babe you gon let this bitch disrespect me like that ?" she said looking at OUR nigga , lmao lemme stop playing

But guess what the nigga did ? He  mugged the hell out of her and moved her scrawny ass hands from his face

The silence is loud....

"Sooo.., what can I get yall ?" I said holding my notepad closer

"Ya number " ole boy said smiling showing off his grillz

Oh so he got them dollar dollars

"Really youngboy , this what we doing now ?"

"huh" he said without looking at her

"I said is. this .what. we .doing. now" she said whie hitting the table with each word

"Uhh girl you gon have to pay if you break that" i said tryna be messy

"You talking to me ?" She looked over to me

I was about to say something until one of the other boys spoke "we'll im hungry and we came here to eat so..."

"Yeah , what would y'all like to eat " i said smilling  in my white girl voice

"Y'all got burgers ?" the girl asked

"I'll get the steak and boiled potatoes" one boy with  big ears said totally ignoring her

"Same"

"Same"

"I'll get the waffles and chicken" and from there i got the other boys orders until miss scrunchy Mc Weave decided to speak

" This menu seems so ghetto and i bet the food here tastes the same"

"Then starve" the boy with ears answered her smartly

"Mane just get her a burger" her boy spoke sounding annoyed

" okay then ill be back with the food" i said then went off to get their damn food

Sigh ... i just wanna be a rich material girl , this right here ain't working

So fast forward i gave the their food and allat so now it's time for their bill and to me they look like a bunch of thugs so this outta be interesting

"Y'all paying cash or card" i asked

"Card" the sir that wanted my number spoke

Oh

"And y'all  ?" I asked the rest but he quickly cut me off

"Oh nah i also got them" so whatabout miss gworl over there

"Uh jaz , you might wanna pay already cause we bouta leave" he said again

Chile

"Huh, but i thoug.."but he shushed her

"I just gave you money earlier" he said

"I gave it to my grandma" she defended

"Your grandma died" he said

"I can't belive this , you know what put it on my tab !" She yelled then walked away

"Uhh you dont have a tab" i said awkwardly causing everyone else to bust out laughing and the big eared dude patted my shoulder and said

" i like you , imma come back here just for you frenn" and i chucked before looking oved to ole boy

"So what about your girl's 'tab' she still needs to pay you know"

"I know , i got it ma' "he said taking out his phone for apple pay i guess

"Thank you , come again"i said politely

Don't come , just don't

"Oh trus me i will bestfren " ears said pinching my cheeks and they walked away except for mrs 'tab's boyfriend

"So uh here's your tab ,i mean tip" he then reached into his pocket and pulled out a huge stack passing it to me

"Oh no i can't take this" i said causes i truly couldn't,  i mean iam broke asab rn but i wasn't raised to take money that i didn't work for

"But you will" he said putting it on the table and walking away

Oh well ,i mean  i do need the money so yeah you know imma spend it



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