"Naveah!" I hear my mom yell from downstairs. "Naveah!!" She yells even louder. "Mom?" She doesn't say anything so I go downstairs to know why she's yelling my name.
"What is this?" She looks angry, holding a white envelope in her hands. "What?" How does she expect me to know? "You got a B in Biology, and you skipped 3 days of school?" She says squeezing the envelope in her hands. She's really angry.
The last time she was this angry it really didn't go well. For me at least.
"Mom I'm trying my best and...." She cuts me off slamming her hand on the counter. "Bullshit. It's because of that boy right? If you continue this way you're going to end up stupid and useless like your father. If I ever see anyone in this house again you're not going to like it." She yells, throws the envelope in my face and storms off.
I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. Why is she always like this. I run up to my room, lock the door and slid on my back to the floor, bawling my eyes out.
Don't I ever do enough to please her? It's like no matter what effort I make, how hard I try she never sees it. She's too busy in her stuck up head to notice. She doesn't love me, that's why she's that way. Dad doesn't love me, that's why he left. He didn't even think about how it would affect mom, affect me.
I cried till my throat hurt. I got up and headed for the bathroom. I look like shit.
My hair's all messy, my eyes are bloodshot and swollen, lips are swollen. So pretty.....note the sarcasm.
I take a really hot shower and go to bed. It's only 2pm but that's all I can think about right now. Sleep
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"Wake up"
"Wake up."
"Get the fuck up Veah" Nathaniel yells in my ear. Wait, what's he doing here? "Get the fuck out of my house" I say really not minding if that came out as rude. "Wow, someone's grumpy today." He takes a seat beside me and kisses my cheek.
If I wasn't so sad already I would've blushed so hard. "What're you doing here king? You need to leave, right now" I say sitting up. "I was thinking about you so I came here"
"Well, you can't be here" I say "why not?" He gets up from the bed. "Mum's orders" he looks at me. "Bullshit" he rolls his eyes. "Look, I don't want my mom finding out you're here, She's going to kick both of our asses"
"Anyway, I came in earlier and found out you didn't have any cupcakes, none in the fridge or here so I went out and got you some" he pulls up an bag and drops it in front of me. I didn't realize how hungry I was until I saw the cupcakes.
"Thank you" I simply say "but you still need to leave though" I say taking a bite out of one of the chocolate cupcakes. "I'm not leaving" he says as he flops into my chair.
"It's Saturday, don't you need to be with your family or something? Friend? Brittany??" He looks at me confused. "Brittany? Why would you think I'd want to be with her?"
"Aren't y'all like close and shit, isn't she your girlfriend or something?" I ask. He bursts out laughing from nowhere. "Me? Nathaniel King? Have a girlfriend?? Most importantly, Brittany??" He doubled over with laughter. He looks up at me and sees he's the only one laughing. "Oh, you're serious?"
"Well I don't do girlfriends, I cannot involve myself in that shit. It's useless and a waste of time" he says "wow, you sound like my mother". "Well she's a very smart woman" I just roll my eyes. "You really thought I was dating Brittany huh? I can never date.. or love anyone cupcake, never." "Oh that's good, at least we've found something in common. My detest for anything called love".
Love is disgusting. It's fake. It's not real.
Don't fall in love kids. You're going to end up breaking your heart, soul and mind. Don't do it.
Nathaniel walks over to the bed and gets in. He moves closer to me. I turn around to face him. We just stare at each other. His honey colored eyes are just so amazing. Staring at him made me realize that there are a lot of things I still don't know about King but I'm still eager to find out. His eyes hold so much mystery that it's beautiful. I wonder what it'll look like when it hits sunlight. Magical.
"Veahh" he thumps my forehead. "What do you want now?" I roll my eyes. "Since you're in a bad mood, my mission today is to make you happy" he says grinning. "Wow, that's a first, I've never seen you smile like that. You should smile more"
"Yeah yeah, uhm, what about ice cream? Let's go out for ice cream" he says shaking my arm "there's ice cream in the fridge" I say turning, so my back would face him. "Cupcake, I don't want your plain old fridge ice cream" he gets out of bed and walks to the other side and sits beside me. He grabs my face and squished my cheeks. "Pretty please cupcake?" He makes kissy faces as he squishes my face even harder "sure sure I'll go" I managed to say. "Yayyy"
I walk to the bathroom. Washed my face changed out of the trash I wore into a big black sweatshirt and grey sweats. I tie my hair up in a really messy bun and put on my crocs. I open the door to see Nathaniel tapping away on his phone.
"I feel like shit" I say as I look for my sunglasses. "Oh, you look like it too cupcake" I glare at him and flip him off. I finally found my Chanel sunglasses. I took a glance in the mirror, I look like trash but that's what im going for.
"You're driving btw" he says as he tosses his car keys to me. "You CAN drive right??" He asks. "Pffftttt.....yeahhh, sureeee, I'm great at it" I'm not lying. I can drive but I'm really not great at it. He just looks at me strangely and goes back to his phone. "Dude, are we going or not"
"Oh yeah...ice cream.... Yeah" He stands and walks towards my direction. I move towards the door. "Btw you can't use the front door. My mom's going to see you. Then she'll prosecute you, then prosecute me so your only option is to use the window" I smile sweetly at him,
There's a tree next to my balcony. He rolls his eyes and uses the tree to go down. I lock the balcony and use the front door. I see Racheal on the couch watching real house wives. "Where're you going looking like that?" She asks.
"Um, I'm just going to get ice cream, I'll be back soon." I say "you better" I roll my eyes and walk out the front door. I see Nathaniel a block away in front of his Tesla. I walk over to him and he opens the door for me and jogs around the car to take his seat. "Wow, how gentlemanly" I roll my eyes and he chuckles.
Rich flex by Drake and 21 Savage starts playing through the radio. I rap everything word for word because I mean, the song is catchy.
I drive really slowly, hitting the breaks anytime I see a car come in my direction. "Can you move any faster grandma?" I can't even reply because I'm too focused on the road to care about him at the moment.
I took us an hour but we finally got there. "Finally" King breathes out as he comes out of the car. We walk in and sit at the booth at the corner of the ice cream shop, where no one's gonna recognize me.
"Mint and chocolate with coconut flakes sprinkled on top and those chocolate stick thingys. I put 6 dollars on the table and move it in his direction. He doesn't take it. He pushed it back to me and goes up to get our ice cream. I have no problem with him paying. I mean free ice cream right??
He comes back with our ice cream and he gets vanilla? "Don't tell me you got vanilla" I say face palming "yeah, what's wrong with vanilla?" He says taking a huge spoon of ice cream. I just roll my eyes and focus on my ice cream.
Nathaniel talks about a whole lot of things. He talked about school, we made fun of people walking by on the road. There was a crack on the side wall and it was fun seeing people trip and almost break their teeth.
He made me laugh, me made me forget about whatever shit that happened today and that's so sweet. He went out of his Mr. Grumpy head nature just to cheer me up.
We talk for a while and I see someone walk to our table. She's wearing hot pink booty shorts and a pink cropped hoodie. Anyone could spot her from a mile away. Brittany.
She walks over to me "you bitch" she screams and her hand collided with my cheek. She slapped me. This bitch fucking slapped me.
She has no idea what she's gotten herself into.
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