Ever since Star and Shine were little, they believed their name were who they were. But I told them fame is a trip. It ain't love, like a lot of people think. Star and Shine don't listen to nobody but themselves.
Me and Star were face timing our Instagram friend Alex from Star's song we recorded a song that Alex wrote "I Can be" and it was tight
"Yo, that sounds crazy." Star said
"Curly frizz is right it is" Star just pushed me
"Think so? " she was writing in her song book
"for real it sound so good" I said
"Im not finished yet I have to add some stuff" she said
"What do you have to add" Star asked
"I have to add both of your vocals at the end." me and star smirked
"Oh, I get it Like a best for last sort of thing. " Alex rolled her eyes
"Look, we have to get y'all out here to New York." me and star scoffed I took the phone from Stars hand
"Right. Like us going to New York is gonna happen any time soon. Do you see this place? Can you see it? Look. Look, you see her? That's what meth'll do to you." Star took back the phone
"This is where we live" she said
"Well we have to figure something out this video chat thing is getting old" she said
"Okay, I get it. We should be in the same city if we're gonna do this for real. I'm telling you. First thing Were gonna do when we turn 18 is go get our sister. You're gonna love her. She has a voice almost as good as mine? Not quite?" I pushed star
"Hey bitch mine is better"I said smirking
"Wow okay" Alex chuckled our foster mother came out
"Hey. Get in here and do these dishes, now." Ugh why can't this fat bitch do it herself
"Ok we gotta go ursula's calling" Star said
"Nah she more of a white version of Presious's mom" I said alex laughed and hung up we went inside the house Star was on her phone while I was on my I phone 7 we stole both of them from the apple store
"Where'd you get that phones?" she asked as me and star looked at our screens we were thinking the same thing to say to this fat ass hole
"Obama" we said in unison
"Do them dishes now, smart asses " all i heard was my heartbeat my mind was blocking out all outside noise I looked at star with that look we knew its time for our dreams to become real we turned to our the hall way
"Where are you two going?"she said
"Social services"Star said grabbing my hand
"Oh no your not" Ursula said
"We are going to beg them to take process us out of here" I said
"Oh hell no" she screamed as we got our stuff from the room we shared Star had a black garbage bag I had a black leather back pac I stole from this bitch who was starting shit with me and star now we were done taking shit from this buffalo me and Star are going to social service to get simone back we went to Juanita but she was hesitant about giving us the location of Simone she said how we were criminals theifs how we would turn into our mother and no one talks about our mother we got into her face and she threatened to call the police but we convinced her that we would be best for Simone so we got her location in Harrisburg the bus ride was long let me tell you about myself
My name is Shine Davis My mother was Mary I was her second daughter i got two sisters as far as I know Star amd I are twins were 18 and Simone just turned 15 we all have different fathers Simone's father was this black guy that my mom hooked up with .Me and Star don't know our fathers we arrived at Simone's foster home the door was open so we let ourselves in
"Hello?" we entered the house I went up the stairs I heard some whisper "Daddy's Little Girl" I went to where I heard bedsprings squeaking I entered the room and I saw this man kiss Simone's Neck on top of her Rapeing her her eyes widened at me I shushed he I exited the room shaking Star nudged me to see what was wrong I gestured her to be quiet and pointed at the room she opens it and saw the horror I faced she the went down stairs I heard dishes clattering I was surprised this monster didn't hear it I saw star come up with a knife she went into the room and stab the man in the back Blood splattered on her face I started to feel sick Simone screamed
"You killed him" she sobbed "What the? oh my god I want I want mama"she sobbed
"Mama's dead Simone she's not coming back Me and Shine came for you ok where does he keep his keys?" simone said his back pocket she hugged me tight I hugged her too I told her to change her cloths and get her stuff I managed to take some of this ass's stuff he ad a hidden stash of weed and money and a gun I have a feeling were gonna be needing it we took his car keys and we drove I rolled up separate blunts for me and Simone and we smoked as we drove it was silent with Simone in the Back
"How long has he been doing that to you" she stood silent for a minute
"What if they come looking for us" she responded "they won't ok just put it out of your head" we asked her if she still sung which she did we even sang her that annoying ass song Waterfalls
"How we gonna be Stars fools?" she asked we told her we were gonna go to atlanta cause the music scene was hot their but really it was smart cause we had a go mother Miss carlotta I remember her when our mother died she hugged us so tight that day we decided to go get Alex after we changed the listens plates on the car we went to new york to a building called the sutton arms me and star got out the car in our pajamas looking like the homeless what?we drove all night
"What do you want?" the man asked bitterly
"Its ok" alexandra walked toward us with her suit case
"Good morning Alexandra" he helped her with her bag in the trunk star was commenting on her Vouge dress I looked at Simone she didn't really like Alex cause her high ass is writing Bitch while looking at Alex hey I'm high but not that high we drove to atlanta and stopped by a motel on the we bonded a little talked Simone listen to Alex's track while me and star talked to alex and we connected the next day we arrived in Atlanta and went to good's Blessings Miss Carlotta's hair salon
"Stay in the car me and Star are going in to figure out whats going on give us two minutes" i said
"Im coming with you" Simone said with a blunt in her hand
"two minutes Simone" Star said
Me and her entered the hair Salon it went silent all eyes were on us
"Is Carlotta her?" Star asked the women at the front desk
"You found us on Groupon or something" I scoffed
"Y'all would be lucky to get on Groupon" I said
"Carlotta my mama, she aint here" the woman said
"She's at church" the woman said working on her client
"Oh ok well when will she be back" Star asked
"Why you wanna know" the counter woman said tilting her head me and star gave her the letters from Carlotta who sent letters to social services the person next to the woman at the desk looked at one of the letters
"Oh Mary's girls. Baby Carllota about to gag honey. She's been looking for you two and your sister for a long time" she looked at Star "You need your roots done honey ASAP" she looked at me" you need to get your weave done" I just looked at her like 'bitch what'
"Okay its nice to meet you too" Star said sarcastically then she turned to Carlotta's daughter
"She like that every day" star said
"Girls she can't help it she ugly" we laughed and then went to the church where Carlotta was singing
she saw us and hugged all three of us it brought me back to that day the day our lives changed the day Mama died I remember them taking her body away i will never forget
We went out side to eat" Good singing sure makes me hungry" Said Miss Carlotta
"My arteries are clogging up looking at it" ok miss thang ill eat your food
"Girl you to young to have arteries I'm surprised you never set foot in a church before" she said
"Nothing wrong with being an atheist" here come the lighting
"Whats up Miss C" A really hot boy came
"You gonna burn" yep thats a fact
"Now, I know you came by for the food, 'cause I certainly ain't seen you in service." Miss Carlotta said the boy looked at me I smirked
"You knew we was busy today with the activism thing. Come on. How y'all doing, ladies? I'm Derek. I live next door to Miss Carlotta." he said smiling at us but mostly me
"And he always activating about something. What is it this time?" she said losing her patience with the attractive light skin boy
"Racial inequality in the criminal justice system. This weekend we're having this rally, and I really need your help. Let the church folk know I'm good people."He passed us the papers for his rally
"I'll see what I can do." Miss carlotta said getting ready to take a bite of her chicken
"Miss C, this is me you're talking to. You know how hard we worked for this. - Miss C, please. - " he begged
"Okay, boy. Get out of here." she said annoyed
"Well, it's much appreciated." he looked at me a smiled I smiled back "Y'all ladies have a nice day." he said
"Bye" Star said she looked at me
"Say bye Dereck" she said to me I just laughed
"So you're like our new mother now? " Simone said Me and star just continued on with our food we were too old for mothers and soon Simone will realize she is too
"Your foster parents treating you all right?"
"Yeah. Simone Star and I got real lucky." I said eating my chicken
"And what kind of foster care you come from?" she asked Alex
"I'm actually not from a foster family. My parents just think traveling is a real learning experience." Miss Carlotta knew that was a lie so Star changed the subject
"And we heard the music scene in Atlanta was crazy. And we're a girl group." Star said Miss Carlotta sighs
"Me and your mother had a group before y'all were born. - We even had a song hit the charts. "
"What? "Alex asked
"That's crazy." Star said
"What was the name of the group?" I asked
" Was she pretty?" Simone asked
"Look, y'all want to sing. Why don't you come sing with me in Church?"Miss Carlotta asked look I love Jesus just as much as the next girl but i want to Shine
"Church"?Alex said in disgust
"Yes, you little witch. Church. Look, why are y'all really here? You looking to stay with me? "Simone smiled
"Yes. "Miss Carlotta smiled
"Okay, then. Well, let's get home. We got a busy week ahead of us"she said getting up
"What does that mean? "Star asked
"You want to stay with me, you got to contribute. My shampoo girl got pregnant and quit again. You know how to shampoo hair?" she asked
"She do." I pointed at Alex Common girl with your no weave self
"Grab my keys." Carlotta said Simone did I went to the table to get more food for the way home so miss Carlotta gave me Star and Alex her wav room luckily i cleaned it up replaced the sheets and cleared out the closet