Paved the Way

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Zion Maurice Mitchell

Sliding a hand down my face, home had been tense as of late. Pops was in a funk and mama didn't want to be bothered as she was focused on a healthy pregnancy, if it wasn't good news she didn't want to hear it. So we left her alone, tryna keep the peace.

Being the second oldest, I was trying my best to keep shit together for the simple fact that the twins still needed help with homework and since I was the only other male figure, I had to hold shit down while pops was gone and had to handle his work outside of home.

"Hey, you okay?" I looked to the side of me as Keira was leaned against the lockers, holding two text books in her arms. I simply shrugged, bending down to peck her lips. "You gotta talk about it, Zi."

"Right now, I don't." I sighed, dropping my shoulders as I stood at my regular height, closing my locker. "So wassup, you gon be my Valentine or what?" I smirked, grabbing the books from her hold so I could carry them.

Valentine's Day was only three days away, some normalcy in the air since shit had been weird.

"You already know that answer." She smiled, nudging my chin. "What you have planned for us?"

"What I look like telling you the plans? Just know ima be picking you up around seven, so be ready." I threw my arm over her shoulders, pulling her closer to me as we walked down the hall. "Wear sumn nice, aight?"

"Mhm, your dad finna let you drive one of his cars?" She perked a brow, causing me to suck my teeth. I was in the works of getting my license, but since I was still fifteen, it slowed down the process. I've been driving though. "That's a no."

"You know that man ain't finna let me, but ima be driving Ro's which she agreed to." I shrugged, looking up as we stopped in front of her physics class shortly after. "Ima hit you later, aight?"

"Ok, Zi." She stood on the tips of her toes, kissing the corner of my mouth. "Have a good practice."

Nodding, I slid a hand down her waist to her butt and palmed it before giving it a gentle squeeze, causing her to push at my chest and point at me. She eventually took the books I held for her out of my hold.

"What? I can't help that you got a fatty." I smirked, she rolled her eyes waving her hand. "Forreal though, ima go before coach gets on my ass."

"You the one who keeps playing." Keira chuckled, stepping back and waving. "I'll see you, though."

I nodded before I turned to walk off towards the gym. Practice kept me occupied, not thinking about the shit that was going on at home. I feel like me and pops gon have to have a one on one soon, our convos always been a favorite pastime of mine. That's my dawg, and being in a house full of women we get to escape in his man cave and just talk.

But I'm cool off going in his man cave after what him and mama did in there, that's how she got pregnant anyways.

"Hey brother." I heard from behind me, causing me to perk a brow. "How's dad?"

I stopped in my tracks, turning to look at her.

"Claudette fuck outta here, you ain't my sister." I chuckled bitterly, this bitch think she had the upper hand, but don't. "I'm real respectful towards women, but you acting the way you do is bird behavior."

"I'm a bird? Ha, ok, but ya daddy the one who left my moms in the dark while she was pregnant. That's bitch behavior."

Here she go thinking she knows the whole story.

"You and your mama don't even know who your father really is." I shrugged, the tone in my voice a plain one. "Your mother left, so take that shit up with her."