"𝐈- no, i'm sorry but this can't be possible. My brother Kamiri died in a drive by 3 years ago" Kafeyah shook her head.
" I knew i seen you from somewhere. He looks exactly like you" she clapped her hands.
" This can't be true" she mumbled to herself, Kafeyah knew and wouldn't believe her brother was alive after all these years. If he was he would contact her right?
" Are you sure is name is Kamiri? This can't be true! My brother died 3 years ago" she rambled completely lost.
" Yes i'm sure of that, he comes every two weeks to help me with the house when Ella's out working or with Jaymari"
" Princess?" Zymeir looked at her concerned as her chest moved up and down from stress, shook and surprise.
" I-i can't breathe" she blurted out, Kafeyah felt her whole world closing on her, she felt as if her whole life was a lie or a simulation that she's been trapped into.
" Shit" Zymeir cursed under his breath, he turned Kafeyah's chair toward him and picked her up before putting her on his lap.
" Focus on my breathing okay? Try to be in rhythm with me" he instructed as he rubbed her back.
Kafeyah did as told and focused on Zymeir's breathing, trying to follow the same path.
" Now how many fingers am i rubbing your back with?" he asked as he began rubbing her back with only two fingers.
As this precise moment, the both of them were like in their own bubble. Away from the world and from everyone's glares.
" 2" she answered before she rested her head on his shoulder.
" That's right. Now how many?" he asked as he rubbed her back with now all of his 5 fingers.
" 5" she coughed.
" Good job princess" he kissed her forehead, " Can you breathe now?" he asked, as he continued rubbing her back in circular motion.
" Yea a lil bit" she answered
" You wanna go back to your seat or you wanna stay on my lap?"
" Can i stay with you papa" she mumbled still feeling lost and betrayed.
" Hm Hm" he hummed before continuing to rub her back.
When he looked up, he saw Ella and both of his grandparents looking at them in awe. They were glad they found each other so well.
" Now i need you to explain this whole thing ta' me" Zymeir sighed speaking for Kafeyah, he knew she was still too shaken up to ask any questions, so he took the matter into his own hands.
" Well-he arrived over here bout' 3 years ago and was desperately looking for a job. And at that time Ella wasn't there, so we paid him to help around the house. Once he got enough money he got himself a lil apartment and took a job aside to pay the bills. But then Ella arrived to help us, so he didn't have to come here as often. But now that Ella is back working again and doing her own thing, he's still here to help us. He's supposed to be coming tomorrow to help me with these floors" she resumed.
" Are you sure he's from Lakewood Heights nana?" Ella asked confused as ever.
" Yes i'm sure, you can ask your papa"
" She's right, he also said that he once had a sister but that they got separated" Erik backed his wife up.
" I-i how? I don't understand" Kafeyah finally spoke up " Can-can you call him down here?" she asked unsure, Kafeyah needed explanation and she needed them as quick as possible. So waiting till the day after wasn't an option.
" Yea sure things sweetheart hold on" Cyan took out her phone before she sent him a quick text.
" Are you sure about this Kulture?" Ella asked concerned-she knew her bestfriends and knew she was bout to explode in the following minutes.
" Yea i'm sure" she dryly said, all the sadness Kafeyah endured during those past three years now turned into anger and disappointment. She was furious.
" He should be here in 10 minutes" Cyan informed as she shut down her phone. " Are you sure you want to do that sweets?" she asked
" Yes, i need closure and i won't wait till tomorrow to get it"
Everyone knew Kafeyah was pissed so they tried not to piss her off more by asking unnecessary questions.
Soon enough, they heard a key dangling from the outside of the front door. Kafeyah quickly hoped up from Zymeir's lap and stood up with her arms crossed and an obvious look of anger on her face.
" Nana! You said you needed me?" he entered the dinning room only to be face to face with Kafeyah's hard glare. " Awe shit" he cursed
" Awe shit? Really Kamiri. I can't believe you yo! So now what you magically back from the dead!" she exclaimed
" Mookie lemme explain" he tried to say before getting cut off
" Shut the fuck up ian' motherfuckin' finished talking!" she raised her voice shocking everyone including herself.
" You're supposed to be my brother, my blood! And i gotta find out from somebody else that yo' black ass is not dead but alive! Kamiri do you know how that makes me feel, i never grieved your fuckin' death stupid ass! You broke me like nobody else has, the day you 'died' a whole part of me died. And now i'm finding out from someone else that you're alive! KAMIRI WHAT THE FUCK!" she yelled the last part.
" First of all, you better change that tone" he warned
" Or fuckin' what? You gon disappear again and pop out three years later. You have no room to tell me how i should motherfuckin' talk" she said trough gritted teeth
" Look, i know i fucked up but this ain't how i wanted to do things. I was protecting you Kulture" he tried to reason her
" Protecting me from what Kamiri?" she sniffed
" From yourself. You see how you're acting right now, if i told you before you would have spazzed out"
" Well as i fuckin' should! How you think i'm going to react finding out that you faked your death huh? Jump back in your arms acting like nothing happened? No, it don't work like that" she shook her head
" I'm sorry mookie" he looked at her with sad eyes
" I don't give a fuck about ya' fuckin' sorry! You should've thought about that before faking your death! Kamiri you was my bestfriend why didn't you tell me?" she broke down
" I was protecting you mamas, the guys that were after me they wanted you too. So the best way i had to protect you was dying" he started " I did all this to protect you mookie and you know that. I'll never hurt you on purpose. Hurting you is like hurting me i would never. Now i know i did and i know you're mad at me but please don't turn your back on me" he pleaded " After all these years i need my twin back" he sighed trying to step close to her, but she stepped back.
" No, youn' need shit. If you really needed me you wouldn't have started what you did on the streets. You would've got a real job, like i did. But no, ya' stupid ass needed to be like everyone else doing shit that probably will get you killed. That's why you almost got you shit clapped! Dealing with things bigger than you Kamiri!" she rambled " What tells me that you still ain't doin' that right now as we speak huh?" she stepped closer to him.
" Because i wanted you to be proud of me the day i'll pop out. I did what we always talked about mookie. I'm an architect now" he weakly smiled.
At this precise moment, Kafeyah broke down completely. She didn't know what to feel, she was happy and proud of him for accomplishing his dreams and goals. But also mad and disappointed in him for not telling her and keeping her in the dark all those years.
" I-i'm proud of you" she weakly smiled, " But that doesn't change the fact that i'm still pissed off with you Kamiri" she sighed wiping her tears.
" I know, and you have every right to be, I know i fucked up and i'm sorry for that i promise" he sighed-Kamiri wished he told Kafeyah sooner, but he wanted to get his life straight before even thinking about reaching out to her.
" I don't know what to do" she mumbled completely lost.
" Let's start again aight?" he propose hoping that she would say yes.
" Well- i guess i'm sorry for cussing at you" she apologized-cussing was really not Kafeyah's cup of tea and she was already feeling bad about it.
" And i guess i'm sorry for faking my death and not reaching out to you" he apologized also.
" What we supposed to do now?" she asked confused
" This the part where i hug you and tell you that we gon figure this out"
Kafeyah shook her head and went to hug her brother. To say that she missed him was the least. It felt so good to her to finally be back in his arms.
" If this can help, you still my favorite person in the whole world" he smiled
" Shut up Kamiri" she pulled away
" Well that was intense" Ella blurted out making everybody look at her.
" What? Its true" she put her hands up.
Kafeyah turned her head and what met with Zymeir's hard glare and knew she was in trouble.
" Wait-papa i swear i didn't mean to-" she got cut off
" I should really beat yo ass, but i'm gon let you slide fa' this one since you have a valuable reason. But cuss again and that's yo ass" he warned-Zymeir didn't like Kafeyah cussing at all. She was the person keeping him sane and her soft and caring voice cussing didn't sit with him at all.
" I like him" Kamiri nodded " Who that?" he asked
" This my dear is my strong and healthy, gorgeous absolutely handsome, breathtaking black man aka Zymeir my boyfriend" she smiled as she saw everybody looking at her funny.
" You didn't have to do allat, but i appreciate it princess" he laughed
" Wassup man" they dapped each other up.
" Just to be understood man, if you pull sum shit like that again on my baby i'll really beat yo ass and ian' even playin'." he warned-Zymeir was still skeptical of him and wanted to make sure nothing will happen to his peace.
" Yea i gotchu" he nodded-Kamiri was quite happy that Kafeyah found someone to protect her when he couldn't.
Let's just hope he won't fuck up this time.
TO BE CONTINUED...
I know y'all giving me that "bitch wtf" look, but aye y'all know i like to bring folks back to life 😭😭
but two updates in a day who dat?
well this should be interesting
no song for this chapter cause ion feel like it, just a random title 😭✋🏾
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