chapter 15

Riani Nalani Brown | Riri

1:35pm

"Girl yes his girl got leaked. I wonder if they still together." I hear a girl next to me already knowing what there talking about because a lot of people are.

"Shiii I can take him." The other girl laughs.

I would say there nosy as fuck and needa mind their business but I am all up in their conversation but there really just loud as fuck next to me.

Honestly I feel like to many people gossiping about this like this is highschool or some shit but they have been together for a few years but damn.

Seeing class ended I headed back to my house and quickly get in the shower.

I throw on a skims white tank top and some oversized cargo gray sweat pants.

I was about to get in my bed when I thought about going over to Kiaris to check on him. Me and him are friends now and have been talking way more the last few weeks but I never been over to his house with just us and he never been over to mines.

But Kiari really has no friends that's girls and only have friends that boys and boys really never take anything serious and I know Kiari loved the girl so he probably needed someone to talk to.

Riani.

Wyd.

Kiari.

Ns chilling. Why wassup?

Riani.

Cause I'm coming over.

He read it then took a few more seconds to reply back then he just said "bet."

Looking in the mirror I just leave my braids down and replace my hoops with smaller heart shaped studs then put some lipgloss on.

I was thinking about taking my braids out but it's not like they were really looking old but I did have these in for a few weeks and that's all I really can do with knotless tbh.

I slip on my ugg slippers and grab my purse than make my way to his place.

Getting outside his place I turn my car off and walk up to his door. I knock on it and wait on him to open the door.

Rolling my eyes I was about to knock again when the door quickly opens making me stumble.

"What took you so long bro." I say walking past him and into his nice ass house.

"Don't worry about that." He gives me a look making me scrunch my face at him and he just laughs.

"You missed me already? It's only been what, about a few days since you last saw me." He says as I follow him up the stairs and into his room.

"Please Kiari, don't nobody miss you." I wave him off as we get to his room.

"Have you been smoking already." I open one of his windows.

"Last day I can until the season and it was just a small roach. Want to finish this one with me? Or  you don't smoke." He says sitting on the edge of his bed and rolling the blunt.

He looked good as hell the way he was rolling that blunt...the way he licked it and then looked right at me-

"I'll smoke with you." I shrugged. I honestly never smoked, I don't even really know why but I never had the time or opportunity to do so anyways.

"Have you ever." He side eyes me.

"Yes I have nigga now come on." I roll my eyes taking my shoes off than sitting next to him.

"Alright then here." He hands me the rolled blunt and the lighter.

I hesitantly took it from him then put it to my mouth and lit the blunt.

Ayy I'm already good at this shit.

I ain't even did shit yet.

"You take the first puff since it's yours." I shrug handing it to him and he looks at me weirdly.

"Real smokers wouldn't say no shit like that."

"Well Ian no smoker. I just did a few times than many." I shrug making him hum and I watch him as he took a puff and than exhaled it before handing it back to me.

"So why did you just randomly decide to come over again?"

"I can't just want to see my friend?" I ask offended cause what.

"No ian mean it like that Riani I just asked cause you never came over before." He shrugs.

"I did just want to come to over and I wanted to see how you were doing." I say looking at him.

"Doing with what?" He asked confused making me roll my eyes at how slow he is.

"With your breakup dumbass." I say in a duh tone.

"Ohhh. I don't give a fuck." He shrugs going back to smoking making me just blink at him.

"You don't give a fuck about a relationship you been in since highschool?" I trail off.

"Nah not really." He shrugs again as I hand him back the blunt.

"You know you can talk to me right?" I say making him glance over at me then back to what he was doing.

"Why would you want to know about my relationship problems?"

"Cause we're friends? And I know you wouldn't really have anyone else to really talk about it other than Kam but she don't even like aaliyah for a start. But if you don't want to talk about it then it's fine I won't pressure you or anything like that."

"I think this is starting to kick in." He laughs trying to hand it to me but I didn't want it.

"It is." I say back as he puts it out then rolls to his side to completely look at me making me laugh.

"What's funny?" He asks raising his eyebrow.

"I don't know." I shrug laying on my back then it went quiet.

"I don't really care that much because she's always breaking up with me over dumb things and most of them be of her accusing me of cheating." He says making me look at him and he was now on his back as well looking up at the ceiling so I turn to my side letting him know he now has my full attention.

"She accused you of cheating a lot? That should of been your first sign." I shake my head.

"That's what my friends said but like I didn't take her as a cheater especially since we been together for so long you know?" He says and I nod.

"At first are relationship was good and all but we was talking for a while before we did in the relationship but after like a few weeks she just randomly started getting all toxic and insecure kept breaking up with me then trying to get back with me..." he rolls his eyes at the thought.

"But the more she started to do it the more my feelings was just going away like I get you probably get a little jealous when I talk to a girl but I tried talking to her but she didn't want to listen and even I stopped talking to girls all together but her ass just took it as I was cheating on the low and still kept breaking up with me." He shakes his head.

"You seemed like a good boyfriend to her, she probably just thought she could keep breaking up with you no matter how many times and you would always take her back regardless so she just kept it as a cycle out of habit maybe." I say trying to see from her pov but I really couldn't see shit other than her making it a habit since she knew he would always take her back.

"You probably right to but it's like I tried breaking up with her many times but it was hard since she would just keep coming to my house crying or fucking stalking me from her car outside my house, randomly showing up wherever I was at?" He says making me widen my eyes.

"Oh you bout to have a real crazy ex."

"Nah she probably gone for good now since she knew she fucked up. But I just really wanted to make our relationship work because of how long we've been together so I just tried ignoring everything."

"And that's exactly where you kept fucking up at Kiari."

"I know, I know but what she did really threw me all the way off like she dead blocked. Then she did that shit with an opp? Nah." He shakes his head seeming genuinely deadass.

"So you done with relationships now?" I laugh and he nods.

"Shit dead to me. But I would make an exception for you." He grins at me making me smack my teeth as he started laughing.

"Maybe you should heal first." I pat his head.

"Give me one good week."

Something I did start to notice about Kiari was his flirting jokes now that were friends but Isaiah be doing the same damn thing so I'm just used to it by now...but something seems different about kiaris but I don't know what and it's pissing me off.

"What you gone do if she come over here? Even if you think she ain't."

"I told her I'll kill her. And I'm so deadass." He says making my mouth fall open.

"Kill her with what." I raise my eyebrow cause I could not take him as no killing type but then again I don't even know.

"With my gun nigga duh." He says like it's obvious.

"I know you didn't just say you gone kill someone with a gun, then duh at the end of your sentence? Sassy ass mf." I shake my head at him cause what.

"Nothing sassy about me." He shrugs.

"I want a pink glock then I want to decorate it with gems." I start smiling because that would be so cute, like niggas could be killed in style.

"Glock? You not even old enough to get one...you still a teenager." He says making me turn to face him.

"Stop playing. Teenager years are over at 18."

"Teen years ends at twenty. Even at nineteen you still a teenager." He says that teen word extra hard for me to hear.

"Ok? Once I turn nineteen I'm officially not a teenager so I don't care what you say." I shrug.

"What you doing for your birthday?" He asks.

"I'm just going to go out." I say and he hums.

"I'm sleepy." Kiari mumbles.

"Then go to sleep?"

"I sleep naked so." I hear him start moving around then see him taking his hooodie off.

"Kiari don't play with me." I say but he just ignores me and goes to now take off his shirt.

"Kiari lay your ass down." I pull his arm and yank him on the bed.

"On you?" He raises his brow smiling making me take a deep breath cause he worse then Isaiah. Isaiah would stop after one good joke, but nah Kiari just keeps going on and on.

"Lay down." I pull the cover up for him to go under.

"Yes ma'ma." He goes under as I do as well.

"You need a retwist." I stare at his head as he was laying on the pillow. It wasn't bad forreal like he still looked good without a retwist but that retwist plus haircut combo? Whewww.

"My hairstylist booked for the rest of the month." He says looking at me.

"I know how to retwist." I shrug.

"Deadass?" He ask.

"Yeah I did my brother hair everytime growing up and even sometimes now that he moved out." I shrugged.

I even use to did my friends hair like wigs, braids and stuff and they told me to be a hairstylist because I was good but i just didn't want to do it full time cause I was to focused in highschool to worry about coming home to do someone hair so that's why I just did some of my friends, family and my brother and that was it.

"Do mines then." He says sleepily.

"Imma have to wash it to." I say moving his dreads around and inspecting his scalp and hair. He had some healthy dreads.

"Do whatever and whenever you free." He says as I see him closing his eyes.

"Ok Kiari go to sleep." I move my hands from his head but he moves them back.