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"Syiah, my mama said take me to get ice cream."
"Alright, let me get dressed." I said standing up from my bed. I glanced at my dresser to the picture of my mother and made a cross over my chest before getting dressed and walking out my room.
"Good morning Mesyiah, can you get that sage from the kitchen for me and light it?" my aunt Maxine asked me.
"Good morning auntie." I grabbed a lighter off the bowl on the living room table and the thick roll of sage lighting the tip and watching the greenery turn black, then gray before blowing it out and moving it around my body and the house. "Muhammad come here."
He ran up to me and I went around his body with the smoke. "Bring me some chicken wings back." My aunt said trying to give me money.
"I got it." I pushed her hand back softly. "We'll be back, come on Amber!"
"I'm coming." I opened the door letting Muhammad run out the door and I followed going to my aunts car. "You got some ice cream money nigga?"
"No but I know you do." he said snapping his seat belt. I chuckled shaking my head.
"You need a haircut, M." I said rubbing over his curls.
"Okay, I'm ready." Amber said getting in the passenger seat. "Where we going?"
I shrugged. "Muhammad wants some ice cream and my auntie needs some shit from the grocery store, and I'm going to get a haircut with M."
"Can you do me a favor?" I looked over at her. "Since tomorrow is the first day of school, I need you to take me to my hair appointment."
"Amber..." I groaned.
"Syiah please, please. I can't start my senior year looking tore up, I'ma sit with you through your haircut." she grabbed my arm as I slowed down at the red light. "Syiah please."
"Nigga alright." I said shrugging her off me. "Always want some shit. Where this shit at?"
"It's in Decatur." I shook my head. "It's called Crowned."
"You make me sick." she chuckled kissing my cheek, I wiped it off.
"I love you too stupid."
"You remember that party I had told you I was going to?" I asked her.
"Mhm."
"It was a whole domestic violence case in the middle of the party, right in front of me." I said making her chuckle.
"What happened?"
"I don't know I was talking to this girl about her best friend that's not really her best friend, I could tell, and this big ugly nigga came and snatched her ass up." I explained. "She was real life scared too and this nigga was yelling at her and shit, made me think about my mama."
