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Chapter 9

Chapter 9...

Cree POV

Its been a couple of weeks since I moved out here, and I've learned to like it. The people that I have become friends with are making it easy to enjoy it here. I haven't spoken to my mom since I left and my mind is weighing heavy on her, I'm gonna give her a call as soon as I can.

Right now I'm on my way to Nika's house with Tati. We're just gonna chill and stuff hang out the usual things teens do.

We walked up the porch after my aunt dropped us off, I knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer it. A few seconds later a woman answered the door that didn't look a day over fifty. She looked past me and said hi to Tati then looked back at me giving me this funny look like she was trying to figure out who I was.

"Um, hi I'm Cree." I said shyly.

 "Oh, I'm sorry sweetie, you just look so familiar." She said through squinted eyes. She moved aside and let us in. "Y'all can sit in the living room, I'll go get Nika." She said before disappearing down the hallway.

A few minutes later Nika came out from down the hallway, smiling at her phone. "Hey y'all." She said glancing up from phone quickly.

"Hey." Tati and I said together.

"Who you textin'?" Tati asked.

"Qu- Quincy, a friend of mine named Quincy." She managed to get out nervously.

"Mhmm." I said looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

"How come I never met this Quincy?" Tati asked.

"Because he doesn't live here." Nika said.

"Then where does he live?"

"Florida." Nika said quickly.

"Florida? You talkin' to somebody out in Florida, when you have these fine men right here in the ATL?"

"Yea, so?"

"Oh nothing I just find it a little weird." Tati said.

"I don't, come on I have a movies and stuff setup downstairs." Nika said.

We all walked down to the basement and it was setup nicely. There was a projector screen on the wall. There was a big brown fluffy couch going along the opposite wall.

We all sat on the couch as Nika turned on the projector. She clicked on the Netflix app and multiple movies popped up.

"What y'all wanna watch."

"Can we watch Freedom Writers please?" I asked.

"Oh I love that movie." Nika said.

"That's cool with me." Tati said.

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When we got halfway through the movie Tati's phone started ringing. We paused the movie as she answered it.

"Hello...over Nika house....why mom, I just got here and I haven't even been here for an hour...oh my God why can't you bring him here....alright mom whatever." She said then hung up.

"What happened?" Nika asked.

"My mom talm' bout I have to come home, when she said I can come over here." She said in a heavy southern accent.

"Go home to do what?"

"I have to watch Malakai."  

"His bad ass." Nika said.

"I know, he don't never listen to me. Anyway she on her way over here now to come pick me up." She said getting off the couch.

"I'll walk you out." Nika said as she got off the couch.