Amy"I'm not a red flag, Amy. Me, speaking my truth out in the open for you to judge doesn't make me a red flag. I'm not my brother…" Mariah held onto my arm with a well calculated desperate look on her face. I took my time to study the beautiful woman in front of me, from her slit eyebrow, to the silver and black rings, to the black knuckles tattoos of what looked like constellations, She definitely screamed her own person and showed that she made most of her decisions herself, she was a full meaning of herself.She wasn't like me. It was not in the aspect of being the richest family in the business world or the fact that she had an incredible amount of assets at her age because we were born in different mangers. It was not About her money, she was just one hundred percent her. She declared who she was so publicly and out spoken while I showed a fragment of my image. I wasn't that brave of a person. I only let my self on display when I was under the influence and made sure others
RachelIt was warm.It felt like the very middle of summer but the sun was setting and I could see the reddish orange light spill across the horizon on the calm sea. The sound of waves carelessly and lazily flapping over each other. My feets were bare on the sand and I could feel the silt in between my toes and that's how I knew this was all in my head. I have been to the beach before and this was exactly how I felt the sand between my toes and I hated the feeling because of how long it would take to get them out. It was the exact scene that reminded me of ten years ago when my mother was starting to pick herself up from the ground with the help of her new boyfriend we all thought was great. He would get us loads of ice cream against my mother's will and take us to the beach where we would play till the sun set on the weekends.That was the memory.This ascertained that it was all in my head and for whatever reason this was happening in my head, whoever was the reason it was happenin
Ben"Babe...I have something to tell you.." I held this off from him for so long that Now, hearing his story on how he was bullied and it resulted in breaking him in a way that broke me. He might be a funny person and he might hate pity but it doesn't change how much he was hurt during the process, you could see hurt flash through his eyes as he tried to prove how much it didn't affect him by showing how much it did.He laughed in between the narration but they were dry and bitter laughters, they weren't those rich, loud and genuine laughter he let out from his very precious debt, they were very much strangled and much more of a cover up. With everything he told me, it made me more sad that I wasn't on a different side but I was the guy hitting him with a stick. I wasn't any different. I wish I could go to my past sometimes and change them, not hurt isaac or not bully and of the kids I bullied back then all because of my unattended insecurities that I refused to face but rather refl
"Why the f*ck do you look like a younger karen and still manage to give rich aunties vibes?" Ricky pulled up in front of the New age Baptist church which was the opposite road to the hospital, he took the road majorly because Amy threatened him that he wasn't going to visit Araceli without her because if he did.She was going to make sure that he didn't have a penis to use at the end of the day. She wasn't going to rid him of his penis of course but she was going to make sure he didn't feel peace down there by trying to punch it every single time she could, she did it before when they worked in the same bar and now he didn't see anything stopping her."Took you long enough to get your ass here, And it's a church, even the biggest if insta hoes dress like this don't give me shit for trying to look like a responsible adult.." She nagged before she got into the cab. She placed her knee length floral custard gown down before entering and it was just an eye scarring sight for me, she was l
Ricky"Justice for the common man?" Amy asked the moment we got into a cab and got out of the parking lot. Suddenly, the sun was hotter than usual and the heat was making our skin crawl badly, or maybe it was just the allegations finally getting to the back of our minds as the reality of tomorrow unfolding was becoming a near reality. I wished for a cold glass of water to wash the anxiousness down my belle but I couldn't complain. We were lucky that we were still able to get into cabs without losing our comfort zone because the public was going to become too familiar with walking criminals soon."It was the only way to put it. It was the smartest move to make considering we might not be able to get a lawyer for our defense, so we probably would be handed over a shitty public lawyer who would rather have us in 50years in prisonment than actually put any effort into our case." I confessed. This was reality, this wasn't a black lives matter movement, this was the plain works of patria
In Ben's apartment"Okay, Ricky...I'm beginning to feel really bad for you right now, I mean, three to one was pretty decent, it could be overlooked as a little slip up here and there but right now you are seven to—""Haa!— Eight, Eight to one, come on. I know you think I'm like a jackass or something but it's 2022, You shouldn't be pissed off when a girl beats your ass, are you sexist or something— or is it misogynist??" Amy drops the pad on the couch and stretched her lean pale white arm to the snack of chips that Ben generously provided for them when he found out they were going at it.One thing was that Ben knew better than to come between them when they were all competitive when they were playing games, and as for the providing snacks part...well he knows his baby and he knows his weakness and his place of unluckiness, and that was Amy.Amy and Ricky have been friends longer than he has come to know Ricky and then Amy, if he didn't know better, he would have said that Ricky and A
"Ricky, go.." Amy said and he immediately wanted to protect before he remembered their agreement and flipped her off with the middle finger.He strolls to the door and swings it open not bothering to ask who was behind the door, but the person he saw made him wish he asked."Araceli??" Ricky said. It sounded more like a question than an actual statement like he couldn't believe she was standing right in front of him, he studied what she was wearing, she definitely didn't look like she slept the night in the hospital with the black flowy blouse she wore and a white pencil trouser that was disturbingly white. You could see the extra money spent on the clothes from the color it gave, she ended it with a pencil black his with simple traps across her toes and upper foot which were decorated with glittery ornaments that decorated the straps.He could here the slight chatter of Amy as she said, "what the fuck was she doing here," because he was equally wondering why she was here. Her hair
"We are worried about you girl...I mean we know you haven't seen Yandel and we haven't too, we heard he was still in coma and you are trying too hard to keep it together and it's breaking you.." Ricky said with so much compassion that Ben almost believed that's what they all were thinking at that moment."Do you love him..??" Ricky asked with so much genuineness in his voice. He kept steady eye contact with Rachel looking at her every reaction and emotions that zapped across her face. He realized she wasn't trying to hide anything and she came here bare to them.Call it an intuition or a super power but He didn't think she came here with any ill reason towards them. Ever since he was little he could always tell when some had a good or bad intention towards him. He didn't know how to describe it but it had a lot to do with Aura. Whenever he asked someone a question of the heart and not of the mind, he always used that to measure the kind of intentions they had towards him or Yandel i