Chapter 37: A regular day in the August Household

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Thursday December 6th

Kenzie POV

Staying with Cortae and his siblings is pretty cool like all of them in the house is too funny that expect I feel a bad vibe from Danaë and Aniya but Cortae told me not to worry about them but right now I'm laying in the bed with the others in the house expect Kayla, Redd, and Tahlia they in school

Kenzie: *laying down*

Cortae: *walks in* you hungry baby?

Kenzie: yea a lil

Cortae: what you want?

Kenzie: I doesn't matter

Cortae: ight you can come down now or I'll call you when the food ready

Kenzie: is everyone else up?

Cortae: I dont even know but they can feed their damn self's

Kenzie: I'll come down now then *walks downstairs with him*

*In the kitchen*

Cortae: you eat pancakes right?

Kenzie: *sitting at the table* of course pancakes are yummy

Cortae: ight you finna get pancakes, bacon, and eggs

Kenzie: oooo when you learn how to cook

Cortae: when I was 11 because I had to learn since my parents were home a lot

Kenzie: I learned when I was 15

Cortae: at 15 I was taking care of my siblings officially started taking care of my siblings

Kenzie: really

Cortae: yea my parents were out of town a lot so I was basically I guess the parent of the house

Kenzie: its just amazing how you helped raise your younger siblings

Cortae: I had no choice tbh

Kenzie: and you still do it today

Cortae: cause I had to do and I'm just used to it now

Kenzie: you stay here more than your condo?

Cortae: yea I sold my condo anyway my parents brought me it when I turned 18

Kenzie: fr

Cortae: yea when all of us turn 18 they buy us condos

Kenzie: that's cool its like a tradition

Cortae: yea that my parents started we gonna have to do it when our kid turns 18

Kenzie: what buy them a condo?

Cortae: yea its now a tradition now that we created for just our family

Kenzie: not including your cousins and aunts and uncles or grandparents

Cortae: nah they ain't included in it because we don't like their traditions

Kenzie: were you close with your grandparents?

Cortae: my dads parents died when I was 10 but my moms parents are cool asf though

Kenzie; aww you close with them

Cortae: when they see us at family reunions they smile because our parents are the most successful in that family

Kenzie: what is your other family like?

Cortae: their inmates, addicts, whores, cheaters, liars, a lot of bad things

Kenzie: is that why you think your parents worked so hard to get where they are now

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