THE STRUGGLE

Rough place

   -NIA
"Bitch didn't I tell you to have my food warmed up by the time I made it home." I heard my mom's boyfriend yell from downstairs. "I'm sorry, I had fell asleep and forgot all about it."  My mom said. " well Vee, don't let it happen again, I'm tired of you not doing as I say."
"Yea, I know it's not gonna happen anymore." She said going downstairs and fixing his food.

I think my mom wants to get out of this relationship with Brian but she knows that the money he brings in, is the only way we are able to keep this house right now with only 2 bedrooms.
Me, personally, thinks she should leave,  but you know how parents are doesn't want to listen to anything.

I get up and go downstairs to the kitchen to where they are to fix me something to eat.
"What the fuck you think you doing" Brian says to me as I get some lunch meat and bread out, fixing me a sandwich.
"Finna eat, fuck it look like" I say to him
"Watch your mouth lil girl"
"Watch how you talk to me then." I say grabbing the big bag of barbecue chips.
"You need to learn how to respect the people that's helping you out and providing you a place to lay your head" he says
"I do respect the lady that's taking care of me and providing a roof over my head, you not my dad and definitely not my mama, remember that."
"Go back upstairs, for I say some you don't want me to say"
"I ain't my mama, you not gonna tell me what to do"
"Nia, that's enough, go back upstairs" my mom says eyeing me, as I take my stuff and walk back up the stairs.

I be so tired of him constantly trying to demand me what to do. He might've pulled that with other females kids but he definitely is not about to pull it with Vee's child.

The door bell rings and my mom calls me to go get it, while I'm way up stairs. I get up and walk down and say, "why couldn't y'all just get it, I was way upstairs"
"Its probably for you anyways, it's probably that lil girl you be hanging with" my mom says
I ignore her then peep through the door to see who it is. I open the door once I see who it is and tell them to come on in.
  "Where my dad at?" He says looking at me.
"In the kitchen, don't come in here on no bullshit either." I tell him as he goes in the kitchen.
Dorian is Brian's son, despite the fact I don't like his father, me and Dorian gets along pretty well because he knows how his Dad is and isn't too fond of his ways.
I go into the kitchen where all of them are just to be nosey and see what they're talking about.
"Man it's only gon be for a month tops, please I don't got no where else to go. My mama tripping cause her dude just got out of jail and me and him got into it". Dorian says as I think in my head, here he comes with the bull shit.
  "Ok, you can stay, just don't cause no problems" Brian says, as my mom says, "where is he gonna sleep, there's only two bedrooms". Which was the same thing I was thinking. 
"He can sleep in Nia's room, y'all can take turns, so Nia you sleep on the couch for two days, then rotate it."
"Um no, I'm sleeping in my room, I'm not sharing it with him"
"We'll see about that, Dorian go put yo stuff up there in her room" he says as Dorian walks up there and I follow.
  "You not sleeping in here" I say to him as we walk to my room
"I'm not gon sleep in here, I'm just finna put my stuff right here for now and ima sleep on the couch, you know I'm not gonna try to take over yo shit." He says as I nod.
  "Yo lil friend ain't over here today" he says as I roll my eyes
"Me and Teetee  ain't talking right  now and she don't want you" I say
"She does, she been texting me nonstop ever since I gave her my number and why y'all not talking"
"I guess and cause she on some other shit, she running around telling people I'm broke and all type of shit, ever since her people and her came up on some money she don't wanna be around me, but it's cool cause she was just in my place a few weeks ago and when I come up she gon wanna come back around cause that lil money they got right now is not gonna last that long."
  "Oh, I think y'all gonna get back cool eventually" he says
  "I guess, I don't care though, people come and go, it's life."
"You wanna make some money." He says to me.
"Make some money how" I ask.
"Me and my homeboy was finna go make this move real quick, no lie it's on some drugs type of shit so if you not with it, I understand."
"Dorian I wanna make some money but I never been in a situation like that, what if I get shot or some."
"I'm not gon put you out in the field wide open, I just want you to drive the car for me just in case some shit go down, ima need somebody to be behind the wheel so we can get outta there faster." He says.
"Ok I'm in" I say
"Ok, cool, put on so black shit and be ready by 8:30, I'm about to go hop in the shower" he says walking out my room.