𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒

chapter sixteen

"I'm sorry" she laughed and he got off her and sat on the floor checking his phone

khalil😼
can you pick me up please.

Aubrey 😼
yea but why?

khalil😼
she's drinking again

Aubrey😼
I'm on the way

"Solai I got a family emergency" aubrey said putting his shoes on

"oh okay... is everything okay?" she asked seeing how fast he was rushing

"yea it will be imma call you when everything is good" he said putting his coat on

he held his arms out for a hug and she smiled softly before hugging him

"bye Solai" he said pulling away from the hug

"bye Aubrey" she watched him leave

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Aubrey pulled up to his moms house and saw khalil his ten year old brother at the front of the house with his five year old sister karine in his arms sleeping

"come on" Aubrey said walking up to them. Khalil stood up

Aubrey picked up the bag he had with him and they walked to the car

Aubrey put the bag in the back seat before taking karine out of khalils hand and put her in the car seat

Khalil got into the front seat

"you eaten something?" Aubrey asked starting the car

"no" khalil said

"what you want to eat?" He looked at khalil. Something was off But Aubrey wasn't going to force it out of him

"anything" he said

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"khalil what's wrong with you?" Aubrey asked khalil as he sat down and ate his food 

"nothing" he shrugged. Aubrey looked at karine

"kk what's wrong with khalil?" Aubrey looked at her look at khalil

Karine watched khalil signal to say she doesn't know

"I don't know" she mumbled. Aubrey nodded and turned back to khalil

"when you ready to talk you can" Aubrey got up and went into his room

he called Solai

"hey you actually called me" she smiled in the camera

"I told you I would" he laughed

"is everything okay tho? you left quite quickly" she asked concerned

"yeah just my siblings needed me to get them" he shrugged not trying to dwell on it

"okay cool... look what I got for the next time I see you" she held up a bag of weed

"damn you was serious huh?" He smiled

"hell yeah" there was a knock at aubreys bedroom door

"who is it?" Aubrey asked and khalil opened the door and walked in

"I'm ready to tell you" khalil said making Aubrey looked at his phone to solai

"Solai imma call you back" he said

"alright that's fine" she smiled and he ended the call

"wassup" Aubrey said

"mom said that I'm the reason dee died" khalil said to him making Aubrey take a deep breath

Dee was Aubreys older brother. Dee wasn't dead. He left and claimed he was never coming back. Everyone took it as he was killing himself because nobody had seen him since

a year ago Aubrey got a message from Dee that he was fine and well and Aubrey went off at him

They haven't contacted since

"it's not your fault. Dee was already sick there was nothing anyone could do" Aubrey said to him

Dee was battling a lot emotionally and mentally with seeing khalil almost die

khalil got in the middle of a driveby and he was shot in his stomach. Dee couldn't get it out of his head and eventually everything caught up to him

"are you sure?" Khalil asked

" Yea, Dee loved you more than he loved himself it will never be your fault" just as he said that

dee.
I'm back in the city can I see you

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