E. 99th Street

Diecinueve

Tania Brooks | Nia

"Tania !"

I sat up in my bed and walked out of my room rubbing my eyes. Why do people have to yell at 2 in the afternoon ? People like me have a nice time sleeping this time in the afternoon.

"Yes ?" I leaned against the wall in the kitchen doorway

"I need you to watch Giavanna for a few hours, I got some business to handle" Daddy fixed his shirt

"Sure" I yawned stretching "Where is she ?" I questioned

"Upstairs in her room, I left some money on your dresser if y'all go out"

I gave him a simple okay and walked out of the kitchen towards the staircase. I walked up the long stairs and down the hallway to Gia's room.

"Gigi" I knocked on her door before opening it

"Huh ?" She asked as she jumped on her bed

"You wanna go with me to get something to munch on ?"

"Yeah, can we go to iHop ? I heard they had this pancake where you can create your own face with yogurt" She jumped off her bed

"Why not ?, go put on a jacket and your boots"

"Can we play in the snow later ?"

"Uh, maybe" I walked off

I don't want no snow in my boots, but whatever makes her happy. I got dressed in my black fitted shirt, Adidas track pants, and my black Bailey Bow UGGS. I put on Rashads black hoodie that I stole and grabbed my phone and the money.

"Gia !"I yelled up the steps

I walked over to the tv to shut it down when I heard a loud thump by the stairs. When I looked over there, Gia was at the bottom of the steps rubbing her head.

"Are you okay ?" I asked as I helped her up

"Yeah, I slipped over Dayas socks when I was running" She rolled her eyes

Dirty. Just dirty

I let Gia walk out to the car first and when she wasn't near me, I busted out laughing. I mean we always tell her not to run on the stairs, so I can't say much except for Daya to pick up her shit.

As we were driving to iHop, Jason Derulo "Wiggle" was playing on the radio.

"You know what to do with that big fat butt ! Wiggle wiggle wiggle !" Gia yelled from the backseat

"Oh hell no" I mumbled changing the radio station

"Heeeey, I liked that song" She whined

"I don't like that song, let's find something else" I said as we stopped at the red light "Who sing this song, September or some shit ?"

"His name is August Alsina"

"You know what I meant"

"Man I love this shit, man I love this shit" She sang

I wasn't even paying attention to her until I noticed she was cursing. I quickly turned around as she continued singing.

"Hey, we don't curse"

"You cursed"

"Yeah cursed, ed meaning past tense. We don't focus on the past, we focus on the future so no cursing"

"I'm way too drunk to be talking like this, I'm way too high to be tripping like this, I'm way too young to be living like this" She completely ignored me singing the song

I just let her have her moment singing October or whatever the fuck his name was. If it ain't Chris Brown, eight times out of ten I don't know about em'. We walked inside iHop and got seated towards the back.

"What you coloring ?" I asked her as I looked through the menu

"I'm drawing through the maze, can you help me ?"

I set my menu down and directed her where to go to get out. A waiter walked up to our table and I looked up. He was cute, looked around my age.

"Hey I'm Zayne, I'll be your waiter -"

"Hello Zayne" Giavanna waved at him

"Giavanna" I whispered

"Sorry" She giggled

"What can I start you guys off with ?" He laughed at Gia

"We're both having lemonade"

"Okay, you guys need more time to look over or are you ready ?"

We nodded and he took our orders. After he left, Gia gave me a silly grin.

"Tania likes Zayne, Tania likes Zayne"

"No I don't, quit it" I waved her off

"Are you suuuurreee ?"

"I'm gonna tell him cancel your order"

"Okay okay, I stop"

"How's school?"

"Oh my god, this little girl took the pink crayon I had and I told her I was using it. Guess what she did ?"

"What'd she -"

"She broke the darn crayon, I wanted to push her out her chair so bad !"

I couldn't help but laugh at her facial expression.

"So you know what I did ?"

"What'd you -"

"I broke that green crayon" She picked up the orange crayon on the table "Like boom" She broke it

"You got in trouble ?" I laughed

"Nope, for every action there is a reaction" She smiled

Zayne brought our food out to us and she wasted no time digging in. As I was texting Jasmine, some girl walked up to our table.

"Hey, I'm sorry to bother you guys but are you Tania ?" She questioned

I looked up and my eyes went to her growing belly. I raised an eyebrow and nodded my head yes.

"I'm Whitney" She held out her hand

I just gave her a blank stare, like okay. What are you talking to me for ?

"Okay" I motioned for her to go on

"I heard that you were Rashads new girlfriend and I couldn't get in touch with him so I was wondering if you could pass the message to him"

"What message?"

"That I'm four months pregnant" She looked down "If I had his number, I wouldn't be walking up to you putting his issues on you"

"Oh okay" I mumbled

"I'm gonna get going now, it's a bit awkward for us both"

"Yeah, okay"

"I'm sorry" She apologized again before walking away

I leaned back and just sat there thinking. Is this who Prince was talking about when he told Ciara she isn't even his girlfriend ?

Haha, drama 😊😊

Rashad and Tania been together for 3 months 💘

Whitney is 4 months pregnant 😳

Welp, who knows what happened? 😏