Noel
Thursday, March 22
That next night she was gone.....
I was beyond broken. Not only was this a new low for our family, but it was also a new low for the whole community. Everybody showed up for her setting up, most I think came to be nosey, and hundreds showed up for her funeral today. After the funeral service the repass followed at her house and instead of sitting around talking to people I just stayed up in the room, not wanting to be bothered at all
"Noel. You good up here?" Liyah asked as she crept into the room. I lifted my head up off of the pillow long enough to glance at her and nod. She sighed
"I can't even imagine how you feel right now but I promise you one thing. I know that sitting up here alone won't make you feel any better"
"I'm good liyah" I mumbled and she sat on the side of the bed
"No you're not. I've known you all our lives Noel. You've been shutting everybody out all week, even Kentrell and he's obviously very concerned about you.... look if you'on talk to nobody else at least talk to him cause apparently neither of y'all listen to anybody but each other"
We both laughed a little and I sat up some
"Where is he?"
"Outside with Quez. Probably smoking or something"
"I'm not even surprised they became cool" I told her with a laugh again
Quez was liyah's sister's boyfriend and he acted just like Kentrell so they immediately became cool once they met
"Yeah and you need to get them far away from each other before they fuck some shit up. They were already talking about Deion"
"What about Deion?"
"Kentrell ain't told you? They got into it at the hospital I guess. Deion surely did go around telling everybody, saying he would've beat kentrell's ass if he really wanted to"
I furrowed my brows and the room door opened. Kentrell walked in while scratching his head and liyah looked at me
"I'll finish talking to you later"
"Okay" I replied as she got up and headed out of the room. Kentrell walked over to the bed and sat on the side of it where I laid
"How you feelin?"
I sighed and let off a shrug "I really don't know what to feel. I still can't even believe she's gone. I know I'll never get over this"
"I can't promise you that it'll get easier because it won't. But over time you'll learn to deal with it"
"I don't know if I can" I told him while scratching my head. Kentrell stopped me by grabbing my hand
"I know you, you got this shawty. And you know I gotchu too so ain no need to get irritated"
"Why are you so good to me?" I asked as he laid back across my legs
"Love make you do that"
I smiled and played with his hair
"I'm so glad you got to meet my grandma before it was too late. You know what she told me after you left on Christmas Day?"
He looked up at me "What?"
"She told me that you're a keeper. She really liked you Kentrell, and my grandma wasn't too big on my choices in boys"
He smirked
"That just made me feel better then"
We both laughed and I continued to play in his hair, remembering what liyah told me about him and Deion.
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Wassup?"
"...what happened with you and Deion?"
He sighed and shook his head "nothin. Don't even worry bout that"
"Kentrell... I heard y'all got into it. And apparently everybody except for me knows about it"
"Niggas out here run they mouth like bitches" he mumbled and sat up "it ain nothin I can't handle. He just think ima bitch or some but we gone see who the bitch really is if he keep playin wimme"
I face palmed myself and shook my head "I didn't want this to happen. I drug you out here and now everybody's coming at you left and right, all because of me-"
"Nah don't blame yourself. Ain none of this your fault. They just need to accept the fact that you ain goin nowhere. Louisiana your home now and you stuck wimme forever"
"Forever ever?" I asked him while arching up my right brow and he smacked his lips
"Shutcho dumbass up"
I started laughing and he shook his head
"You know I'm not going nowhere Kentrell"
"Oh I know. I ain worried bout that at all. Cause you know I'll kill you if you ever try to leave me" he told me while he held a straight face.
"Would you really kill me?"
"Try to leave me and see"
I frowned and he burst out laughing
"Why are you laughing you psycho?"
"Cause you'on know how serious I am" Kentrell responded while slapping my thigh and while he continued to laugh I just sat there looking at him
"Noel?" A woman's voice called as she knocked on the door then walked in. It was Demetria, trey's mom.
What the fuck?
She looked at Kentrell for a second the over at me
"How you feeling?"
"I'll be okay" I told her as I grabbed kentrell's hand and she nodded
"So this is your boyfriend that your grandma couldn't stop talking about after she came back from Louisiana?"
I smiled and looked at Kentrell seeing him wear a cocky look. Meanwhile Demetria looked like her feelings were hurt. I don't know why she wanted me and trey together so bad but now she realizes that it won't ever happen. And knowing that my grandma was bragging about Kentrell confirmed everything I already knew.. he wasn't going anywhere.
"Yeah this is Kentrell"
"Yeah, Deion told me about him. Nice to meet you Kentrell" she blandly greeted him and then her eyes shifted to me again "so I'm guessing you haven't heard about my son going missing"
"Trey? Yeah I know what happened with him" I told her while Kentrell muttered something under his breath
When I told her that she looked as if I just disrespected her or something. I mean what am I supposed to do? Stop my life because they think trey's missing. I mean I can't sit here and pretend to act sad over a situation that I know that truth behind... besides I have a lot to deal with right now
"You know what, we were actually about to leave. Deion's downstairs waiting on me. It was nice seeing you Noel.... Kentrell"
And with that she walked out of the room. I sighed and laid my head on kentrell's shoulder. He wrapped his arm around me and kissed my forehead making me smile
