Blood Ties

BT 1

Nyla Turner 
November 14, 2018
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   Nyla's alarm from her phone awakens her from her slumber. "Man, I hate this shit," rubbing her eyes and getting out of bed, going to the bathroom to do her hygiene stuff. When she's done, she heads into the kitchen smelling breakfast being made.

"Good morning, baby," she heard her mom say.

"I don't know about the Good part but morning mama" she chuckles a lil. "Now why isn't today a good day? Every day should be a good day because we are alive on this earth. Go upstairs and wake your sister and brother up so y'all can eat and he can drive y'all to school".

"You know if you and dad could just get me a car I wouldn't have to ask you guys to take me anywhere I could just go anywhere I please," she tries to butter up her parents again. "Girl, go upstairs and wake your brother and sister up," she sighs, getting up from the table and heading to her brother's room first.

"It was worth a try," she mumbles, walking to her brother's room. This has been the fifth time her parents had turned her down when she asked for a car, they have been giving her every excuse in the world "Oh your not ready yet", "Will think about it", "When your grades come up will talk" she heard 'em all.

She goes inside her brother's room and throws a pair of socks she sees on the floor at him. "Wake up". "Give me 5 more minutes man" he turns over to the other side of the bed, trying to go back to sleep. Nyla jumps onto his bed. "Mama said wake yo big headed ass up now," she laughs after seeing how startled he got from her jumping on the bed.

"Man, shut yo tree branch looking ass up before you don't have a ride," he said, trying to calm down before getting out of bed and heading to the bathroom. "Yeah yeah get dressed" she gets up from his bed and heads to her sister's room next.

As she enters her sister's room, she sees her sister doing the finishing touches on her hair. "Hey sis mama said come downstairs to eat breakfast before we leave". "Hey sis and tell her I'm coming" "Alright" she leaves her sister's room and heads back downstairs to the kitchen "they should be coming down now mama" "alright thank you baby" her mom hands her a plate of food. "Thanks mama" she grabs her fork and digs into her food as her siblings come down the steps going inside the kitchen.

"Oh snaps ma you done cooked a whole feast" Nick said while rubbing his hands together, smiling ear to ear, causing all 3 of the girls to laugh. As everyone started finishing their breakfast, their father came down "Good morning my beautiful family" He hugged Nyla and Naomi and Dapped Nick up, He walked to the other side of the table and gave his wife a kiss turning back around to his children.

"Nick, Nyla, meet me in the living room we gotta talk" Taking a sip from his coffee that his wife just gave him. Hearing that caused Nyla to think about what her father wanted to tell her. Was it something wrong?, did something go down at the trap?, did money come up missing? Hearing Nick get up and head into the living room knocked her out of her thoughts, causing her to get out of her seat and following Nick.

As they waited for their dad to come, Nick broke the silence. "Aye, what you think dad called us in her for" looking at Nyla even though he didn't show it, she could feel that he was just a lil scared.

"I don't even know, I just hope it ain't nothing bad". Before Nick could respond, their father walked in and sat on the couch across from them.