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*Day one*
This perfect and peaceful weekend just went spiraling to hell as I see my bleeding 15 year old brother standing in my doorway. I don't know if it was the shock of not seeing him in two years or if I just couldn't handle the sight before me as a whole. But I instantly froze. I don't know how long I froze or even remembered anything that happened during the process of Aiyden pulling him into the house. I only remember following them in the bathroom to help Ahmad clean himself up.
"How did this happen?" I asked, while cleaning a cut he had on his arm. He wasn't badly injured but the two cuts he did have bled a lot. He had a cut on his forearm and one on his leg.
He ultimately told me that the Uber he was riding in was struck at an intersection by a truck that had ran a red light. Once the police arrived they instructed him to go to the hospital but he told them to just drop him off here. He was so traumatized by everything that happened he knocked and could only ask for help cleaning him off. I asked him if he wanted me to take him to the hospital but he told me that he only wanted to rest. I understood that it could be from his adrenaline coming down so I told him to eat something before he went to sleep.
Once he ate, he took a shower and slept in the extra room that wasn't claimed. I wanted to ask him more questions like, "How did you get here?" "How's grandma?" "How did you know we were here?" But I decided to let him rest before I bombarded him with all those questions. So as he slept, Aiyden and I just decided to also go to sleep.
About three hours later we were woken up by the sound of laughter and talking. I walked out of the room first and seen everyone in the kitchen. Zahur, King, Zae, and Yasmine were cooking while everyone else including Ahmad were sitting at the islander. "Why didn't y'all wake us up?" I asked, as sat on the stool beside Ahmad. Aiyden sat besides me once he came out of the room. "Ahmad told us everything so we just decided to let y'all sleep until it was time to eat." Jordan spoke.
"So how did you know we were here anyway?" I asked Ahmad. I assumed since he explained it to everyone else, I would just ask. "Zahur," he replied. He then proceeded to tell us that he and Zahur had been communicating for a couple of months and Zahur told him about the birthday trip. He also told us that he moved in with a friend last year and her mom put him on a flight to come down here as a surprise.
We continued discussing everything that happened leading up to today as they finished dinner and as we ate. We got caught up with everything that had happened the past couple of years and ultimately began rebuilding our relationship. We never had a bad relationship but we're now starting to become transparent with each other.
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After dinner we all just decided to play a few games and watch movies until everyone went to sleep. Mid movie king got up and stepped outside to talk on the phone with someone. It would have been normal if I didn't overhear him tell Yasmine that it was his mom about "Tyriek." Does King have a little brother that no one knows about? You would think with Aiyden being his best friend that he would know. But I honestly just want to leave it alone. It's hard enough hiding the fact that I'm pregnant to my best friends. But I feel like everything going to hit the fan sooner than later.
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