Destinee:
As I sat on the hood of my mother's car and looked around, i seen all of the snotty nose kids running around, teenagers walking around with their booty hanging out of their pants.
This is not the life I want. Living in the projects is not for me, I'm more tamed and quiet than the rest of these girls my age.
Their out here getting pimped by these older guys, and their mother doesn't even care. Half of their mothers' doesn't even know. Im happy that my mother cares about me.
My mother peeked her head out of the door. "Get in the house Destinee, it's getting dark"
I got off of the hood of the car and walked into the house. My mother stepped aside letting me in, I walked past her and went straight into the kitchen, my mother just went grocery shopping with the food stamps she got this month, I already knew these snacks weren't going to last long in this house.
I opened the fridge and grabbed a water bottle, nothing expensive just the regular Dollar General water.
I went into my room and sat down on my bed. I had a simple twin sized bed, and a little box tv. But I made it work, I know my struggle so I try not to get things too expensive.
I opened my water and took a sip of it. I looked around my boring, empty room. There has to be a better way out..
I will graduate high school, I will get me and my mother from out of the projects. I told myself.
My mother use to have money, she use to mess with this older dude and he'd pay her for having sex with him. Until one day, she decided to stop having sex with him, she said that's not something she wants to do. She didn't want me thinking that it was okay for me to have sex with a guy for money, I'm way better than that.
I promise my mother everyday that we'll both make it out of this. Wealthy & healthy.
My mother walked into my room. "Kierra is downstairs"
I nodded my head and got up off of my bed, I followed my mother downstairs and saw my best friend Kierra, sitting on the couch, typing away on her iPhone 8 Plus.
Kierra has it all, she could get anything she wants. She lives in the suburbs, in a nice house. Her mother and her father are both wealthy, so Kierra doesn't have to worry about a thing. Kierra gives me and my mother money from time to time, but my mother stopped accepting it, she didn't want Kierra using all of her money on us.
"Hey" I greeted Kierra, sitting down next to her.
"Why were you not answering your phone?! I've been calling you for the past three days Des"
"My phone isn't on anymore, I couldn't afford the bill"
"You could've came to me and you know I would've had the money waiting for you. I don't understand why you won't just let me buy you the iPhone you want and I'll keep your phone on"
I sighed. "I'm thankful for your help, but that phone is literally a thousand dollars Kierra. That's expensive as heck"
"So? It doesn't matter to me"
"I can't be walking around here with an expensive phone, but look busted as heck"
"The mall is only ten minutes away"
"Kierra I don't want you spending all of your money on me! I have to work to be successful, not depend on other people!"
"I'm just trying to help.."
"I understand that, but I have a job. At least let me try and if I need you, I'll come to you. Okay?"
She nodded her head. "I hear you Destinee"
