Blue POV
"Blue did you really eat all the damn leftovers?" Halle yelled out from the kitchen as I sat in the living taking my braids out because Lovie would be giving me a new style when she got home from school
I had been here for a while now and it's been way better than when I first got here. Now that everyone knew I wasn't a flight risk or snitch, they treated me better... well Halle and Lovie did.
Chloe was still the same old mean spirit as before, but she has stopped threatening me with her gun so that's a plus but it still sucks.
"Yeah I'm sorry, love said she's picking up pizzas when she gets back tho" I yelled back and I heard her groan in annoyance slamming the refrigerator aggressively like that would make any difference
She came into the living room changing the TV from my Anime to the news where my face was conveniently plastered all over the place.
It wasn't much new information since the last time I had watched the news. There was pulled footage from the home which showed my abduction, but since they wore gloves and masks plus them having no witnesses there was no way to identify Chloe or Halle in anyway.
After the call mama was strictly warned not to share any information that was given to her. Apparently the phone used to call my mom was their mothers old phone so it's not like authority's could trace it back to either girls anyway.
"If they know the car and phone belongs to Kiyana, why wouldn't her children be their first suspect? This is freaking dumb" i said shaking my head not wanting to see anymore of this nonsense
Anyone with any sense should've been able to figure this out by now, it didn't take a rocket scientist
"Nobody suspects two grieving girls with 4.3 GPA's and multiple full ride Ivy League scholarships." She laughed changing the TV back to what I was watching and I was stunned when I heard what she had just said.
"excuse me did I just hear that right?" I asked and she nodded shrugging like it wasn't a big deal when it was literally the biggest deal
"Never been in trouble a day in my life, thousands of community service hours, top of my class plus. Trust, I'm nobody's first suspect.." she told me and I just scrunched my face up not understanding her whatsoever
She's the top of her class and all these other amazing achievements yet she's completely ruining everything she accomplished by holding me hostage and blackmailing my mother. I didn't understand why she would do something so crazy
"How old are you again?" I asked her and she just laughed a bit looking at me. "16" she said and my jaw literally fell to the ground...
"no freaking way" I said mind blown, she was only 3 years older than me! She's a whole child herself, I couldn't believe it
"I don't look young to you?" She asked me and I nodded still trying to wrap my head around my new discovery.
"I mean yeah but it's unusual for kids to snatch up other kids... and isn't this your house? I didn't know 16 year olds could own their own homes" I said to her and this time she laughed even harder than the last
"You really think i could afford this nice ass house? Didn't you see the pictures of us literally homeless, living out of a car?" She asked me and I had to really think about it because i never really did before
I guess she could tell my next question because she answered before the words even left my mouth. "We're apart of this program with the state for underprivileged minority students who may be struggling with housing. As long as we are model students, we get to keep this home until we graduate college" Halle explained to me and I began to understand now
"So what I'm hearing is you have your entire life ahead of you and yet you're throwing it all away just by having me here?" I asked her putting a halt to her laughter causing her to go silent
I seen Chloe walk into the room with this dull expression on her face. It was clear that she had heard our conversation just by the look on her face, they both had the same dark look in their eyes like my question had hit a nerve
"Our mother was our entire life! Everything we worked for, all those academic achievements, don't mean shit anymore because we did that for her. Our life ended the moment Kiyana Bailey took her last breath" Chloe told me and as much as I wanted to understand that I just couldn't.
They had the opportunity to do big incredible things with their lives and they are just so stuck in grief it's ruining their judgment.
"That's stupid.." i said bluntly shaking my head at them. I couldn't sit silent on this, I just couldn't...
"The fuck did you just say?!" Chloe became defensive but I stood my ground like Halle's been teaching me these past few days. It was scary as hell testing chloe but eventually I would have to stick up for myself
"I said that's stupid.." I repeated as I finished taking down the last braid.
"Excuse me because I know I've never lost a parent before so I can't say I know what you're going through but y'all have the opportunity to do whatever you want in this world. There's no way you, in one breath can say I did all this for my mom and in the other say it doesn't matter anymore because I did it for my mom. It doesn't make sense" I explained to them
"You two are smart obviously, got big things ahead of you and I'm sure your mom knew that so why not continue to honor that? You know she's looking down on you both" I told them and it got incredibly silent in the house like extremely quiet
For a second I thought they would never say anything to respond but Halle just chuckled before getting up walking out the room.
I knew this time she for sure wasn't coming back. She did that a lot when i said something that basically provoked her, she would storm out or just walk away laughing to calm herself down. I didn't quite understand but whatever keeps her from pounding my face in, I was completely ok with
"How does it feel sitting here right now? Thousands of miles away from your family" I heard Chloe ask me and I sighed at her question
"It sucks! I hate it" i admitted truthfully answering her question and I seen pull out a rolling trey which reeked of marijuana.
"Imagine staying here for the rest of your life. Never ever seeing any of your family again, having nothing to your name but stupid piece of paper that says you're smart" she asked me lighting up a pre roll she had and I lowered my head not responding because I knew that wasn't really a choice right now
"You are so smart, you go through 4 years of school just to get a flimsy paper that says congratulations you did it but then you remember dang... I still have nothing even though i slaved and stressed for four whole years. Now what?..." she asked me as I remained silent
"Now you have to work long tiring hours at a job that's probably only gonna be enough to pay your rent so then you have to get another job to be able to pay for utilities and food because this economy is so fucked statistically even a person with every academic achievement known to man may still end up broke and lonely until the day they shrivel up and die" Chloe explained making me frown in disappointment at the way she was looking at this
"Just because there's a chance doesn't mean it's set in stone Chloe, you don't have to be a statistic! You could turn nothing into something, you know like those rappers" I told her optimistically standing up
At this moment I stopped looking at her as my captor and began looking at her as a friend... a really lost and broken friend who needed a little light in her life
My grandma always tells me that all things happen for a reason. Maybe this happening to me was for a reason, maybe god had sent me here to shed a ray of light onto these dark souls. To remind them that their life had a purpose, maybe I was meant to be here
"You know this is what I hate about you stupid little privileged nepo babies! You think the whole entire world is just rainbows and butterflies, and it's not! I've been turning nothing into something my whole entire life, I've been doing every thing I physically can to build stability for my family and you know what that led to? My mother is DEAD!" She yelled out standing directly in front of me getting in my face backing me into a wall
"You were blessed with loving family who is willing to do a nation wide man hunt to find you, your mom is about to go commit a crime just to bring you back home. You've already got everything, you can afford to have that preppy little attitude but we don't have anything!" Chloe slammed her hand over my head
"you have me.."
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Chapter 7!!!
Halle telling Blue more about them? Was it needed
Blue telling them what they were doing is stupid? Is she right or wrong?
Blue believing she was sent their for a reason?