Armanis POV
I woke up with someone shaking me up. "Bro what the fuc-" I stopped myself when I saw it was dad. "Watch your mouth" he said. "What?" I said. "Get up" he said. "What do you want it's 6:42" I said rubbing my eyes. "Get dressed. Y'all finna come workout with me" dad said. "Dad" I said laying back down. He ripped the sheets off of me. "Get your ass up now. You have two minutes" he said. I huffed and he looked at me. "Get out" I said. "Don't fucken talk to me like that. And get the fuck up or we finna have a fucken problem" he said slamming the door. I threw a mini temper tantrum and got up and changed
I did my hair
I brushed my teeth and went downstairs. "After 12 minutes your finally finished" dad said. I rolled my eyes and huffed. Everleigh was half asleep and so was I. "Grab a basketball and go do drills. Imma be in the gym keeping an eye out for yall" dad said. "Oh my god it's too early for this" she said. "Don't start everleigh. I'm not in the mood for y'all's shit today. And get comfortable because I work out until 9" dad said. We faked cried as I grabbed a basketball. "Let's just get this over with" I said looking at her. She nodded and we got to work. We started doing basic drills just like dribbling and working on shooting.
"Armani why are you doing it wrong. Tuck your elbow" dad said yelling going back to the gym. I rolled my eyes. I'm so tired. I'm sweating a lot. Everleigh is literally on the verge of tear right now. "Is this how he is with you?!" She said whipping her face. "All the time" I said. "And I thought my dad was bad. Yours is worse" she said. "This is just the beginning. He's gonna make us do weights" I said. She covered her face as I wanted to sit down. She sat down but dad immediately yelled. "Everleigh get up" dad yelled. "Just for five minutes please. We've been doing drills since the sun was coming up" "I don't care. And no" he said. We kept running around doing drills and then he came over. "I'll give y'all a break for only five minutes. Go get water or do whatever you have to do because your next break is until half and hour" he said. We ran inside and I went to my room and locked my door. I don't want to do this anymore. I feel like my legs need to be chopped off. I I got up and grabbed a water bottle and then dad started banging on my door. "Armani it's time to go back outside" he said. "I'm not going anymore" I said. He kept banging on the door. "Open the door because If I open it it's gonna be bad" he threatened. I ran over and hid in cabinet in my closet. I heard the door open. "Armani I'm not fucken playing it's time to go back down" dad said. I heard him looking around but then he came into then closet. "Look I'm not gonna get you in trouble just come out" he said. He's lying. Parents always say that when they want you to think that so you come out and they beat your ass. He huffed. He then started looking around since my closet is pretty big
(Since I've never showed her room this is her room)
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I hid as he walked around as I just breathed. He then opened the mirror door and looked at me. "Found yo sneaky ass" he said pulling me up. I whined and he grabbed me by my ear and took me all the way outside. "Ow! Dad" I said holding my ear. "Shut the fuck up and get to work" he said. I huffed and kept playing. Everleigh was deadass crying. "Everleigh I don't care if you cry your dad said to do it so just do it" dad said. "Dad leave" I said. He walked away and she just sat down. "Look I just want to go home. If I have to get my ass beat I don't care I just want to go" she said. Mom then came through the door. "Good morning" she said. Me and everleigh ignored her. "I know y'all heard me" she said. We just inept shooting around and looked inside and saw it was 8:12. "I just want to go back to sleep" I said. "So do I" everleigh said. We looked over at my mom and dad. He waved at her and she turned around and walked back. He looked at her ass and bit his lip and I looked at everleigh to make sure I wasn't the only one to see that. We started shooting again and mom came over. "Are y'all mad at me" she said. We didn't even acknowledge her and just kept playing. "Armani" she said. "Everleigh" she said. We're not talking to her because she made dad get us in trouble. We were just defending ourselves but they don't get it. "Guys what are y'all mad for you guys did that to y'all self's" she said sitting down. We just kept playing for what felt like hours. "Armani everleigh come here" dad yelled. We dropped the basketballs and walked over to the gym. "Okay both of you grab those weight and start turning side to side with them" dad said. We huffed and grabbed some. "They more y'all complain the worse it's gonna get so if y'all want keep it up then" dad said. We started doing it but really slow. We're tired and just want to take an actual break. "Okay what are y'all so miserable when y'all do it?" He said. "Maybe because you woke us up at 6 and have been working out since with just a 5 minute break" everleigh said rolling her eyes. "Don't give me attitude because you did that to yourself" dad said. We kept doing
It. Then we looked and saw it was 8:56. I felt happy inside knowing we were almost done. "Guys give me 20 pushups and then do 20 curl ups" he said. I started doing them and so did everleigh. I felt my leg starting to stiff up and it kinda started hurting. "Come one two more Armani" he said. After I was done I was breathing hard. Then we started doing the curl ups. After we were done it was finally 9. We dropped to the floor and we were breathing hard. "You guys are done but Armani stay here and everleigh you can go" he told her. "What" I said. He smacked me in the cheek. I looked at him and he looked pissed. "Look don't ever do shit like that again because next time you do that ima beat your fucken ass Armani" he said. "What are you talking about?" I said being confused. "When you tried to hide to not come back out" he said. "Because I'm tired-" "I don't care. Now get outta my face before I beat your ass" he said. I kissed my teeth and walked away. "Catch attitude again and see what happens" he said going back to work out. I rolled my eyes. "Dumb ass nigga" I said looking at him under a whisper. I walked in and everleigh was laying across the couch and it looked like a truck ran her over multiple times. "Are you that tired" I asked. "Yes! But I know if I go home dads gonna beat my ass. What happened to your cheek it's mad red" she said. "Dad slapped me because I didn't want to come back out like I'm tired and I just wanted and still want to go to sleep" I said frustrated. "Don't complain. My dad will full on beat my ass" she said. Then dad walked in and flicked everleigh in the head. "And you need to watch your mouth" he said. She rolled her eyes.
3 days later
Me and everleigh are in the kitchen eating when we hear a knock on the door. We heard talking and then someone walked in. "Everleigh Simmons" I heard someone say. We looked up and saw her dad Ben. She looked so scared. "H-Hey dad" she said. He just glared at her. Dad and and uncle ben sat in front of them. "So we came to a decision and we are talking yall on a trip to LA" dad said. "But not because you guys are being good. That's far from why we are talking y'all". "And since we have y'all's phone we will like to go through them so unlock them we can see" uncle Ben said. "What?! No" everleigh said. I have nothing to hide but still no. That's my privacy. "No. How about we go through y'all's huh?" I said. "No that's not how that works" dad said. "But still no" she said. "Go get your stuff we're leaving" Ben said. She looked upset and went upstairs. "Come one Nini your better than this" Ben said. I looked down and everleigh came over and gave me a hug. "See you in la" she said. I nodded and they lefter. "You come I need to talk to you" he said. We walked upstairs to his room and we sat on his bed. "Look, I know your upset that your in trouble, but I've told you this before. You can't keep doing this. Armani you just don't listen almost all the time mama and that not okay" he said. I started playing with my fingers and he slapped my hands lightly. "Look I still love you, just disappointed that had to happened" he said. "I just can't control my anger" I said looking at him. "I know that, that's why imma start taking you to therapy. You started acting weird since what happened that's how I've noticed" he said. I hugged him and tried not to cry about it. "Don't cry" he said rubbing my back. I cried and he held me in my arms. Devin. "Baby look, don't worry. I got you and I'll never say anything like that to you ever again" he said. I hugged him tightly as I started shaking of what happened. "Calm down" he said kissing my cheek. I slowly stopped crying and shaking and just sat on his lap. He picked me up and went over to play 2k. He sat down and i just laid my head on his chest As he played.
2 days later
"Armani get your things let's go!" Dad yelled. I grabbed my stuff and went downstairs. We leave to la today and I just want to stay home. We got in the car and drove to the airport. "Is this necessary?" I said. He nodded. When we got there we were flying private once again. We got out and grabbed our bags. "Dad I don't want to go" I said. "Sorry. You did this" he said I rolled my eyes got on the jet. I sat on the seats and laid down. "Imma just give you a rundown of what we're gonna do. So the reason we're taking y'all is because we have made a appointment for a private practice with a great NBA coach, Phil Jackson" he said. "The dude who coached the bulls in the 90's" I said. He nodded. "And he's gonna give y'all hell" he said. "We're all gonna do it but it's easier for me and Ben. For y'all, y'all not used to it" dad said. I rubbed my hands over my face. "Your gonna be fine" he said sitting besides me. I almost cried and he just laughed. "Too late to cry" he said.
We finally got to la and I'm tired. Dad carried me to the car. I laid on him as we made our way to the house we have here. Once we made it, it felt weird because we haven't been here since covid started. "Wow it's been and long time" I said. "Yup" he said. We went inside and it looked the same of how we left it before lockdown. "This is weird" he said. I looked around and it felt different. "Go change cause we are gonna have to leave for the work out" he said. Oh boy.....