Christiana Jones
Compton
"Let me know some do yall know god?" Pastor Carter said as he paced the stage and dabbed his wet sweaty forehead. a few people nodded others stood and clapped and declared their love for god including my parents and sister Alexia. Me? I sat their just listening never understood why we had to prove the love we have for god I'm pretty sure he knows.
"levantarse." my mom said as she pinched me and I mumbled under my breath I stood up and I smoothed my dress out and my papa winked at me and put his arm around me pulling me into a tight hug and I laughed.
"The god I know doesn't let his children suffer so when you think all hope is lost for your child you look up and tell god I put faith in you!" pastor carter screamed.
The service was over and we were now speaking to everyone in the church. my mom's courtesy's of course.
"that service was remarkable pastor." my mama said and he pulled her into a tight hug.
"thank you sister isys." he said and he looked at me and smiled.
"Christiana what grade are you in now?" he asked.
"I'm a junior this year pastor." I said.
"you should consider leading the youth church camp Hendrix misses you." he said
"yeah he's told me I just been busy." I said with a small smile.
"she has not next summer she will be here." my mom said while nudging me lightly and he laughed.
"look at you littlest j." he said caressing my sister cheek and she smiled ear to ear and I pulled her close and put my arms around her, his smile shifted into a frown.
"I should talk to reverend good speaking to you all." he said shaking my papa's hand and my mom looked at me.
"Christiana that is our pastor do you have to be rude to him every time we come here?" she semi yelled.
"you don't think it's weird how he's so perverted to the women and little kids here." I said and my papa sighed and my mom looked around in embarrassment.
"Alexia come with me." my papa said cowardly and Alexia took his hand without questions and they walked out of the church.
"Chris you can not make accusations like that it's dangerous." she said and I looked around and nodded.
"I understand I apologize mama." I said and she nodded and rubbed her hands through my curly hair and we walked to the car. later that day we played a couple board games and then my mom was off to making dinner it was the first day of school tomorrow and she wanted us to enjoy our last day of summer with our favorite meal.
I knocked on alexia's door gently.
"come in!" she shouted loud enough for me to hear her I smiled gently and walked inside her room and closed the door behind me she was sitting their at her desk and I stood over her she put her marker down and held the picture up so I can see.
"that's a pretty blob." I said and she looked up at me and scrunched her nose up.
"its not a blob it's the ocean." she said smartly and I laughed and sat at the edge of her bed.
"Alexia." I said.
"huh."
"come here." I said and she pushed her chair out and walked over to me and I pulled her in front of me.
"do you the difference between good person and a bad person?" I asked her.
"I think so." she shrugged.
"okay a good person is a person who is always good to others they don't like to see other people hurt if they do hurt another person they try their best to fix it and prevent it from happening again or to another person."
"so like you?" she said as she tilted her head and I laughed and sniffed .
"no sweetie I'm not a good person." I said.
"you are because I'm a good person and everything I do I've gotten from you." she said innocently and I hugged her tight.
" a bad person does harm to other because they can they don't want to stop they like being that way they don't reflect or try to fix it they just move on." I said as my voice cracked I let go of her and looked at her.
"whose the bad person?" she asked. everything in me wanted to tell her like someone should've told me but I didn't have to because no one would ever hurt her like he did me I wouldn't let it happen no matter what.
"no one sweets just making sure you're ready for sixth grade." I said while nudging her and she laughed.
"Girls dinners ready!" mama called from downstairs.
"go I'll be down." I whispered and she skipped away I walked into my room and shut the door and took my shirt off and had a glance out the window to see three boys fooling around outside I walked up to it and looked down by the looks of it they were only just moving in but only one caught my eye he was light skin with his hair braided down nicely with baggy clothing and a fitted hat his eyes caught mines also and he nudges his brothers I'm assuming and they looked up at me and waved and I gasped and moved away from the window. I made my way down stairs and my mama was talking to a familiar voice I turned the corner and saw hendrix and I sighed lowly, I didn't say much at dinner, and I didn't make much eye contact with Hendrix either even though every two seconds my ma tried to spark up a conversation between us. I swear she tries to live her dream of teenage fantasies through me I can't wait until Alexia gets to age so she can start meddling into her business and stay out of mines.
"So hendrix how has football been going?" my dad asked and I sipped my water.
"great I think chs has a chance this year especially with me on varsity." he joked and my mama and dad laughed.
"that's great Hendrix you know Chris is trying out for cheer this year." my mom said.
"mom stop hendrix doesn't care about that." I said as I played with my food on my plate.
"girl hush of course I do besides it'll be nice to have a cheerleader on my arm." he said while slyly smiling and my dad chuckled and I rolled my eyes.
"then it's settled mi amor you and ez will go on a date this week." my mom said and I looked at my dad and he shrugged and hendrix was smiling ear to ear.
"no puedes hacerme ir." I whined and my mom hushed me and I sat back. not that anything was wrong with hendrix I've just spent my whole life with him in that church I wanted to venture out this year since I'm no longer voted most ugliest freshmen. I'm pretty finally I feel pretty at least. Hendrix has a brown reflection with dreads he reminds me of a wet mop but with a durable face he was cute but I feel like I'd know if I wanted to be more than friends with him but I feel nothing more than a friendship.
"Chris?" Hendrix asked me.
"Huh?" I asked my mom insisted I walk him to his car which I didn't know he had I didn't hang around the church as much as I used to.
"I asked was dinner good?" he asked.
"well I mean it is my mama's cooking so yeah." I said as I crossed my arms.
"no Chris I mean is dinner good for our date." he said while laughing and I shut my eyes and laughed also.
"damn girl what's been going on with you I haven't heard from you all summer." he said as he leaned on his car.
"nothing I just needed a break from the church." I shrugged.
"I see you changed a few things about yourself also." he said picking at my clothes.
"oh yeah im trying this new thing with baggy clothes you know." I said.
"you look good." he said and I snickered.
"nice ride." I said looking at his car , it wasn't anything extravagant just an older bmw.
"yeah it was my moms she was going to sell this beauty but I convinced her it'll do me sum good." he said rubbing the car and I nodded with a small smile.
"well thanks for coming to dinner you should be heading home it's late." I said
"yeah you're right." he said and wrapped his arms around me and I just stood there my insides were screaming at him to get the hell off of me but it was hendrix I knew him. I'm safe with him. so I patted his back gently I watched him drive off.
"nigga gotta nice ride." a voice said from behind me and I jumped and turned around, It was the boy who caught me looking at him from my window and he was even more attractive in person he had on a baggy long sleeve tan shirt with a black graphic tee over it with baggy khaki pants with some sort of high rise 1s with a different fitted hat on, he also had a gold chain hanging low. he blew smoke out of his mouth and I saw the shiny grill I couldn't say anything I was taken back. he waved his hand in my face while snapping his fingers.
"who are you?" I asked and he chuckled.
"you don't need to know I was just taking out the trash.. lil mama you don't need to be out this late go ahead inside." he said in a suggesting tone and I walked passed him looking back at him every two seconds and he watched me go inside the house I closed the door softly and locked it as I leaned on it.
"what's wrong Chris?" Alexia asked concerned.
"I think I just met my person Alexia." I said and she furrowed her eyebrows and I walked to my room .
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hey my babies I'm back and better I had to take a break from wattpad and let my creativity come back. this story is different from all my other ones the next couple chapters are graphic and I suggest if you are sensitive to skip those parts! i hope you enjoy make sure you comment and vote! 💜