Chapter 22

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Y/N ValentineAugust 13th, 2023Oakland, California ___________________"I'm standing by the car

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Y/N Valentine
August 13th, 2023
Oakland, California
___________________
"I'm standing by the car. Right informs of the door when you walk out," I spoke as I blocked the sun out of my face. I should've brought some damn sunglasses.
"Okay I see you, I'm coming out now," I hung up the phone, still squinting before I saw her walk out the office building.
"Hey, how are you?" She asked as she shifted her weight to her back leg.
"I'm good. Do you made your decision?" I asked gettings traugjt to the point.
"Can we talk first y/n. I'm sorry babe I swear. I never wanted it to go down like this. I just wanted to ask if you could find it in your heart to forgive me," she begged as I scoffed.
"Listen I been forgave you, for ME. I don't want anything to do with you unless it pertains my sister. Don't make me or her suffer any more and be separated because YOU fucked up raising me," I spat, rolling my eyes. She sighed wiping the tear that had fallen.
"I never wanted to keep y'all apart Y/n/n. I don't mind her spending time with you. I know your a good role model," she said as I nodded.
"Cool. I'll be by to pick her up in an hour, I got some shit to do," I said before leaving her standing there and getting in my car to leave. I friend on gos to see how long It'd take me to get to Gio's.
"Damn. Thirty minutes?" I said absentmindedly. One thing I'll always hate about Cali, the damn traffic. I pulled up in the thirty minutes the gos estimated and saw they were pretty slow at the moment. I walked in and immediately was greeted with familiar faces.
"Davie, Gio! Wassuppp," I said as the whole shop erupted with joy.
"Oh I know that ain't miss superstar. Where you been big time?" Giovani, or Gio was my tattoo artist who I've been coming to since I was maybe seventeen. He was a sweet , old Italian man. His son Davie and I were the same age, and hung out often when I lived here.
"You know I'm in Vegas now Gi. Im you know I had to make
Some time for y'all though. One of y'all got time for a quick piece?" Davie nodded waving em to his station.
"Whatchu getting family?" I smirked. I showed him the idea I had as he rubbed his hands together excitedly.
"That's tough! Shit let's do it. Let's get to work," and that was all that was said aside from the occasional sports talk and what not. And within an hour and a half, he'd finished up. I walked in front of the mirror, posing and staring in awe.

"So now that we finished, I got a question?" Davie said making me look up at him

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"So now that we finished, I got a question?" Davie said making me look up at him.
"Wassup?"
"What is Riyadh supposed to mean? That's like Arabic or sum?" I nodded smilling brightly.
"Kinda, yeah. It's my girl's middle name," I bragged as I nodded smiling too.
"Oh word, not the player is locked down. Congrats man, I'm proud of you," he said as i dapped him up, handing him the cash and a tip.
"Preciate you man. Alright I gotta get outta here and go pick up baby sis, Imma hill at y'all though. Y'all take it easy," and with that I took the thirty five minute drive to Oakland to pick up Asani. I was bored while driving so I FaceTimed A who picked up immediately.
"Hey boo, you picked duo baby sis yet?" She asked as I shook my head.
"Nah I'm on my way to her now, traffic sucks ass. I'm thinking about letting her come back to Vegas with me for a week or so. It's depends I guess. What type of timing her mom is on," she nodded agreeing with me. My hair fell in my face, blocking my view, so I pushed it back up with my left hand, and I heard a loud gasp.
"Bae you got another tattoo? Lemme see it," she said as I laughed.
"Hold on I got you when I stop. How are the boys doing?"
"They runnings round in the back yard. Hopefully that wear they added out. Tired of them running  around here like little Tasmanian devils,"
"Oh damn. Alright you ready baby?" I asked as I pulled up in front of my granny's house.
"Yeah lemme see," she asked excitedly. I flipped the cameras showing her the tattoo and all the excitement on her face made the  with it.
"You didn't! Y/n,"she said as I laughed.
"You like it? I love it," I said as she blushed so hard.
"Stopppp your gonna make me cry again," she whined. I looked up and saw Asani coming out the house. I rolled my window down as my granny stuck her head out the door.
"Hey baby, sani has the container with your peach cobbler. Make sure you save some for my A'ja. Don't be greedy!" She said making A'ja and I both laugh.
"Thank you granny, imma call you when we make it home," I said as she nodded. Sani opened the door, pacing her bag in the car.
"Hey sister. Is that your girlfriend?" She asked, whispering the last part.
"Yeah, wanna say hi?" She nodded cheesing like the damn Cheshire Cat.
"Hey A'ja," she said waving. A looked down at the camera, from whatever she was doing.
"Hey my girl, you exciting come to Vegas?" She asked giving her her full attention. I handed Sani the phone as they continued their conversation, and turned on the gps to my apartment. Now for this 8 hour drive.

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A'ja Wilson August 13th, 2023Las Vegas, Nevada__________________"You think I should get her this one or the pink?" I asked Jackie as we were in target shopping

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A'ja Wilson
August 13th, 2023
Las Vegas, Nevada
__________________
"You think I should get her this one or the pink?" I asked Jackie as we were in target shopping. Y/N's sister was coming to stay with her for a week and I wanted her to be as comfortable and have as much fun as possible. I grabbed her a bunch of snacks, some skincare stuff, hair ties, and now I was looking at the house shoes.
"Mm get the black ones, can't go wrong with black," she said as she grabbed a pair of White ones for herself too.
"These are mad comfy. You might as well grab some too A," I tried some on and she was right. They were like clouds.
"Oh yeah. Imma have to snag me a pair too," I said placing both black pairs in my cart.
"Not you finna match your sis in law," she teased as i flicked her off.
"Worry bout that man of yours and them Anglo-Saxon ass kids y'all gone have," I fired back making her erupt in laughter.
"He just light skinned. Not too much on my man," I waved her off.
"Here you go, 'My Man, my man, my man' head ass," I said laughing.
"Alright man let's get out these people establishment. Where we going for Lunch?" She asked as we headed to check out.
"Mmm, I'm kind of feeling chipotle, you down?"
"Yeah that sounds really good,"
"A'ja?" I heard someone call and my first instinct was to ignore it because common sense, what other 6'4 black women wearing looks like me in Vegas. Maybe common sense ain't that common though. I continued scanning my things, and the kiosk nest to me opened up.
"Oh shit it is you. A, how you been?" I heard someone ask. I looked up and shock immediately fell over me.
"Josh? H-Hey," I stuttered. Jackie walked over and when she realized who was talking to me, and she rolled her eyes.
"How you been? I saw you done switched teams and shit. Lost my girl to another bitch," he said laughing. I didn't find his joke funny though.
"You rude as hell. Watch your mouth," I said as I took my card out of the reader, and Walking away.
"What the hell. Fuck is he doing here?" Jackie said as I rolled my eyes.
"No literally. Then he had the nerve to say that weirdo ass comment. I could've smack his ass right then," I said as I unlocked my truck. I got a message notification and it was y/n. Boy the timing was impeccable. I opened her message and it made me smile so hard i forgot why I was even mad.

Lovergirl🫶🏽 : 4hrs left and I look over to her watching your old college games🥹
{Video clip}

Baby A🤍: I could cry🥹 that's so sweet. I can't wait to meet her in person fr.

"Alright, lunch time," I said as i locked my phone and pulled off.

Excuse all errors
A'jah 🫶🏽

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