"I like the walls." I said to Zara once she walked back in. Why I said it I have no idea I just didn't want to leave yet. The walls were a horrible yellow-greenish color. She narrowed her eyes at me like she saw right thru me.
"Mmm no you don't." She said laughing. It was so contagious I couldn't help but join her. "You right I don't"
"Yeah they're horrible. I want to paint em tho." She said and it gave me an idea.
"Maybe I could come over and help you." I decided to look everywhere but her after I said that. "Fa'sho if you sure it's not a problem." I tried so hard to suppress my smile after she said that but it got the best of me.
"Naw it's no problem." I said and then looked at the time on my phone. Shit. "Umm I gotta go kinda promised my brother and sister I would get ice cream. I'll text you about the walls tho right?" I asked.
"No problem and yeah." She said smiling. I could get used to that smile. I left her house and went outside and got in my car.
I went to the the store and then over my moms house. I hung with Niya and Davonte for a while before going back to my house. Once I got back my dad was sleep so I went downstairs and crashed.
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A few hours later I woke up to ringing coming from my phone. I reluctantly reached over to the stand on the side of my bed and grabbed it. I didn't bother looking at the person calling figuring that it was my mom calling me to say Niya wanted to talk.
"What happened now?" I asked once I answered the phone.
"What?" I heard the person say and it didn't sound nothing like my mother. I looked at the contact and saw that it was Zara.
"My bad I thought you were someone else."
"Oh my bad if I'm interrupting your sleep."
"Naw I was barely even sleep. Wassup?" I said trying to hide the sleepiness in my voice.
"Right. I just couldn't sleep I was wondering if maybe...you wanted to hang out?" She said and I immediately got up and threw a shirt on. I was so occupied with finding pants that I forgot to answer.
"Hello?"
"Yeah uhh give me 10 mins." I said pulling some pants on. I hung up and ran upstairs to get my keys. I was quiet enough to not wake my father up.
Once I got in the car I made my way to Zara's house. I saw her sitting in a chair on her porch waiting. After she got in I drove a lil down the street and stopped.
"Anywhere in particular you wanna go?" I asked because it was 2am and nothing was really open. "I don't actually. I just needed to get out the house." I thought of somewhere I could take her. Somewhere I knew was open this late. Got it.
"You hungry." I asked putting my car in drive and looking her way. She smiled and said, "I could eat." I took that as a good sign and started my way towards this food truck on Jazmin's side of town.
After about 30 mins I finally pull up in the parking lot. I see Zara look around and at the food truck raising an eyebrow but not saying anything. I smiled a lil and got out the car with her following behind me.
"A food truck?" She asked once we stepped into the line. I could tell she was a bit skeptic but once we get the food she gon be happy I brought her here. It wasn't many people here seeing as it was 2am only about 2 party's in front of us.
"Don't knock it till you try it." I said bumping her a lil. Once we ordered, well I ordered because she still was kinda suspicious about it, we sat down at a wooden table near the truck.
"So...bite it." I told her because she was looking at it like it was poison. She hesitantly picked it up and took a bite and once she did I saw her face glow.
"Good ain't it." I said laughed and taking a bite of my food. "I'll admit it's pretty good. How'd you find a place like this?" She asked.
"Oh we eat here basically ever other weekend." I told her and watched her face turn confused. "Me, Ray, JB and our friend Jazmin. Jaz lives on this side of town so when we visit her we come here to eat." I clarified.
"Oh." She said. We continued eating picking up in conversation every once in while. It was a comfortable silence most of the time and I was glad I chose to take her here instead of some 24/7 fast food place.
"So why were you expecting a call a 2am?" She asked once we threw our trash away and sat back down at the table with just our drinks.
"Oh sometimes my mom calls me because my little sister has nightmares or she can't sleep and the only person who she calms down for is me." I told her. I'm glad it was her that called instead.
"Your good big brother."
"Thanks. I'm glad it was you that called though." I said before I could stop myself. I found myself finding the table way more interesting and scared of what she would say.
"Well I'm glad I called." She said and I smiled but still not meeting her eyes. We stayed there for a couple more minutes before I decided it was time to get home.
"Thanks for this...sorry for keeping you out till 4am tho." She said once we pulled up to her house. Although I had to get up in less than 2 hours I wouldn't change my decision.
"It's fine fr...I'll see you later?"
"For sure." She said then left the car and went inside. After that I went home to try and get a little more sleep before I had to get up.
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A family emergency came up so imma just dump the whole story on y'all. Enjoy
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