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8.

Nicki

"Miss Nicki....Miss Nicki....Nicki Wen." Somebody called from the door.

"That's not my name no more." I groaned.

"Child get on the phone and speak with you father before he gets upset." she yelled ripping the covers off of me. She opened the curtains and the light beamed in my face.

"Tell him Im dead." I said putting pillow over my head.

"Don't test me little girl. Get on the phone." She tossed the phone at head but it hit my stomach. She slammed my door leaving me alone with the man who leaves his child alone with almost complete strangers for months at a time. I slowly put the phone up to my ear and I heard his steady breathing.

"I hope you have a good explanation as to why you do not want to talk to me." he said deeply.

"You know why." I sighed.

"I've been busy." he said.

"Apparently." I clear my throat. "I called you more than three times."

"I know. Im sorry. I'll be home shortly. And then we can have the conversation of you breaking the shit I paid for in that house. First your mirror in your bathroom and the the mirrors in the dance room. Including the stereo. Nicki do not expect to have any body over today do you understand me?" He was stern with his words like that had an effect on me.

"Yeah, sure, whatever. But if I fail this class then its not my fault." I hung up the phone and went to take a shower.

Once I got out and wrapped in my towel I walked out to go to my closet. I walked right past him. "Ray Ray. You gonna have to go somewhere else today. Im not in the mood."

"But I need to talk to you." He said leaning in my closet door frame. "Plus I like the view." He turned his head to the side so called getting a better look.

"Get out before my father come in here." I was about to push out of my room but I seen my father coming up the stairs. "Shit."

I pulled Ray Ray back. "Be quiet and stand still."

I closed the closet door just in time.

Ray Ray

I had to contain my laughter. I never in all my years had to hide in a girls closet. The hell is she doing? She was falling all over the place trying to put on her underwear and shit without taking her towel off.

"Nicki, why would you do that?" her father yelled through the door.

"Why do you care? Its not like you around here anyway. I might as well do as I please. Been doing it since she left any way." she yelled back.

"What the hell my job has to do with anything. I asked you why you breaking shit you didn't pay for." he said.

Nicki rolled her eyes while searching for some pants. "How long are you staying for this time? Huh? Im pretty sure your job will call you within the next hour begging you to fly some where else."

"This job pays for your cell phone and whatever the fuck else you have." he yelled.

"I never asked you for none of this shit!" She pulled down multiple things off the hangers. She found a plain white v neck and put it on. "You said that you would be here and where were you? Out doing who knows what. What the hell do you even do?" she practically screamed as she got dressed. I stayed near the back of the closet just in case he got the door open.

"Just know this job feeds you." he said.

"Do you even know when the last time I actually ate something?" she stood facing the door. Tears streaming down her face.

"Nicki, come out here, please." he jiggled the door knob.

I began to feel scared. I don't know what the hell her father look like but he sound big as hell. "Fuck out of my room. Come back think you run shit. You been gone five months. I could care less of what you thought you was going to do when you got here." she put on some sandals and got a shoe box off the lower shelf.

She opened it and it was another cell phone, some keys and some cash. Then she motioned for me to move and she pushed some clothes to the side. Behind them was a little door and she unlocked it with the key after punching in a code. She opened it and pointed for me to go in. I was skeptical about it at first but I didn't want to be in here when her father got in here.

I walked in and in a few more steps I fell going down a vent like thing. It was something off the movies. Only thing is I didn't land on anything I was stopped by another door. I tried to open it but there was another code you had to put in.

Nicki came tumbling down but somehow she was able to stop herself from hitting the door like I did. She put the code in and we were in the garage. You can tell nobody came in here but it was a brand new camero and a benz in here.

"Which one you wanna take?" She asked looking at me.

I raised my eyebrow. "What the hell? Nicki where we going?"

"Benz it is." she smiled and went to the back of it and got on the ground she grabbed what must have been the key and got in. I had no choice but to get in too.

She drove to the mountains and parked the car and got out. I didn't want to left so I followed her. We walked the whole trail before she even talked to me.

Nicki

"What happened to them?" I asked leaning over the railing wanting to jump. I felt him look at me before he answered.

"My brother Day Day was involved with some gang shit. He ended up doing some dirty and they came one day while I had Tay Tay with me. Me and him came back home and there was blood every where and my little sisters were laying in the living room. My mother was in the kitchen and they drowned my brother in the tub and shot him too." he took a deep breath and exhaled.

"Sorry I dragged you out here with me. Cherry and Masey don't do mountains." I looked at him and he was smiling. "Why you looking at me like that?"

"Taking me on this outting. What's up wit you and your father?" Ray Ray brought up the last thing on my mind.

"Nothing. He just never around enough for me. Whatever the fuck he does is more important than me." I sighed.

"Why you got all these escape doors in your room?" he leaned his back against the railing. Folding his hands against his chest.

"I don't really know. He said it was for emergencies only but when ever he decides he wants to pay attention to what hell Im doing I leave. I got three so unless he heard the garage door open I could still be in the house." I said bluntly.

"You know Tay Tay think you his girl because you call him cutie." he laughed.

I laughed. "He is a cutie. But he a little bit too young for me."

"You wanna go get him? He over Roc's house and we can go see Free Birds or some shit." I smiled at him. That was a nice gesture.