Dear Darius remember the first time we baked a cake together. fun times, fun times, everything is better when I do it with you.
KYAWO TILLER | ATLANTA, GEORGIA
@KYAWOTILLER 27 secs ago
WONDERING AROUND IN the store was Darius and kyawo, the two we're looking for ingredients, they were gonna have a cake baking contest. It was all kyawo's idea and Darius just went along with it because if that's what she wanted to do, he didn't mind doing it.
"Darius I'm not finna play witchu" kyawo said as she saw Darius place the black icing into the cart.
He looked at her before saying "mane watch out, don't worry bout what icing I got"
She laughed at him because she already had a feeling that his cake was gonna be the nastiest. The two continued to grab more things for their cakes and then they went to go pay for it.
On their way out the store, darius noticed an older black lady struggling to load her groceries into her car. He approached her and said, "Excuse me ma'am, let me help you out with that."
The lady moved aside and said in a soft, sweet voice, "You don't have to."
"It's cool, I got you," Darius replied. He took the groceries out of the basket and placed them all in the trunk of her car.
"Thank you so much, young man," she said smiling, she thought that was very nice of him to come over and help her.
"your welcome anytime" darius walked off as the lady got into her car.
Kyawo was still standing by the car, waiting for Darius to finish helping the lady so that he could unlock his car.
"you know what I like about you?"
"Whatchu like about me kyawo?" Darius says as he opens the car door placing the small bag of items in the back seat.
"how sweet you can be" she asked, coming closer to him and wrapping her arms around his neck.
"funny thing is I've always been like this, since I was a little kid"
Living in his grandmothers house hold he was taught to always help out & to respect your elders. He was also taught on how you we're supposed to treat women, his grandma was big on that, but she always reminded him that every one makes mistakes so he couldn't portray yourself as perfect even if he wanted to be.
"well keep being like that" Kyawo said, reaching up on her tiptoes to kiss him.
As the two of them pulled away from the kiss, Darius said "Ight lil nigga let's get out this damn parking lot"
Kyawo laughed as she walked over to get into the passenger seat.
Standing in the kitchen was both Darius and kyawo the two were mixing up the batter. They had entered it into a pan and placed it into the already preheated oven.
now they were just waiting for it to finish baking as they waited kyawo went upstairs to lay in her bed while Darius stayed down stairs and played the game with her brother.
as time continued to fly by eventually kyawo's timer on her phone hand rung meaning it was time for her to go get the cakes from out the oven.
Heading downstairs, she walked into the kitchen and took the cakes out of the oven. She couldn't help but laugh at Darius and Othay arguing over the game.
"Don't be mad at me cause you suck, nigga," Darius said as he got up and came towards the kitchen.
"What happened?" Kyawo asked, laughing.
"Othay's ass gone ask me to play the boxing game with him, and I beat him every round & he keep saying I'm cheating. How the fuck?"
"Nigga, cause how the fuck you know all the moves suddenly, and you said you never played before," Othay shook his head, coming into the kitchen to get something to drink from the fridge.
"I'm just him" Darius lifted his hands up
"mane shut that shit up" othay laughed drinking the orange juice.
Darius grabbed the black frosting from off the counter and began to decorate his cupcakes. Kyawo scrunched up her face as she watched him actually use the black frosting. She wished he had picked any other color then black.
She continued to do the same with her cake except she had pink frosting on hers, she was gonna add the sprinkles next to add the finishing touches as she waited for Darius to do the same.
After a few minutes Darius had finally finished decorating his cup cakes, he took a step back and said "mane my shit fye, fuck you talking about"
He's shooed kyawo off because she had been talking about the frosting choice all day long. "You should of done blue or green"
"nah black fye, you should of done blue or green fuck that pink shit"
Coming into the kitchen once again was othay, this time he wanted to see who had the better looking cakes. "I ain't gone lie Darius, yo shit look nasty"
"you still gone try it tho"
"damn right"
They were all going to try Darius's cup cakes first, biting into it was them all. "Ight, Ight it's not so bad" othay said
"it ain't bad but it ain't better then mines" kyawo said joking cause she didn't even know what hers tasted like yet
"I coulda done my best shit, it's alright" Darius said putting his own cupcake down. It wasn't nasty too him he just had finally admitted that it was the black icing he choose.
"it coulda used the blue or green icing" he said honestly making kyawo smiled since he finally admitted that her advice was right.
"I told yo ass, but you wanna be different so bad" she said to him handing him a plate of her cake then handing her brother a plate also.
"if you listen to kyawo yo life will go better"
"Othay don't be saying shit now" kyayo eyed him down, she knew he was joking.
"I can't hype my sister up? This what I get fa being nice" he said as everyone laughed
Trying out kyawo's cake which was actually good everyone of them seemed to like it, even kyawo herself she didn't know she could bake something like that, it was her first time.
"So, how'd I do?" Kyawo asked Darius as she walked over to him, now face to face.
"Yo, shit good, mama," he said, kissing her and making her smile in embarrassment because her brother was right there
"might need you to bake my cake for my birthday"
"For real?"
"Hell yeah"
"mane I hate niggas who be in love" othay said munching on his cake
"that's gone be you some day nigga" Darius said
"Manee if a girl even manage to get me like that I'd be surprised, been played with my whole life"
"One who played you? Two it seem like you be the player & three if you don't just let somebody love you othay" kyawo sighed
she knew how hard it was for othay to open up to certain people, knowing that he may see a future with them, but it was hard for him. it was also hard for her but she got past it especially when she met Darius, he was making her realize how to open up more and more everyday even if it was just the littlest things.
"you might be right, but it's hard when you be expecting another person to hurt you each time"
"You can't let that fear of hurt prevent you from finding your happiness, trust me I know" kyawo said thinking back on how she used to be
"I think you deserve to be loved & I think you deserve to love someone also, so stop being a punk and try it out cause I know you want to" kyawo's said to him as he nodded his head at her, his sister just gave him some advice, it wasn't nothing new tho but this one was gonna stick with him.
"listen to kyawo huh?" Darius said mick mocking othays joke from earlier
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