Houston, Texas

11:32 AM

November 15, Tuesday

I sighed as the doorbell rang and I got up to go get it.

When I went to the door and opened it, I saw a man standing there holding a bouquet of pink roses.

"Ooooh my god thank you so much!!"I exclaimed while grabbing the bouquet.

"Thank the buyer, you have two more I'll be back."he said before walking to the truck.

When he came back he help another bouquet of red roses and an edible arrangement.

"Thank you sir, have a nice day!"I said while grabbing both and going to sit them on my table.

I ran to grab my phone and I called Scarr.

"What's up love?"

"Did you just send me all of these beautiful flowers and this edible arrangement!?"

"Nah. Which one of them niggas in Houston got his eyes on you!?"he asked me and I widened my eyes.

"Alexander stop lying!"I said while trynna switch over to FaceTime.

We both switched and when he got on the camera, he was getting a tattoo.

"You see what I'm doing, what I gotta lie for?"he asked me while hitting his blunt.

"What are you getting tatted?"

"Something special."

"'Something special,' did you buy me these flowers and stuff or not!?"I mocked him.

"Oh yeah back to that, you trynna get one of them niggas killed?"he said in all seriousness.

"Okay bye because I don't know what you talking about and I have to get ready, I'm about to go out with Kayla since she's here in Houston."

"Oh Aight well I was just fucking with you about the flowers and shit."

"Mhm well I appreciate it baby, hopefully I'll be searching for two new vases the next time you call me."

"Aight well you do that and go get ready before you be late."

"Mmk baby, I love you."

"I love you more."

"Mmwah."I blew him a kiss.

He did it back and I heard Bk say something in the background.

"Nigga if you don't get yo sweet ass on somewhere!"he said and Scarr started laughing.

"Fuck you nigga with yo out of love ass."he said and I chuckled.

"Okay baby I'll talk to you later."I said before hanging up.

After I hung up, I heard upstairs to get ready.

I'm meeting up with Makayla since she's here in Houston again.

When I saw her at Scarr's house we didn't really vibe each other anymore and it kind of hurt my feelings.

Not only is she my cousin but Kayla and I were like best friend's.

We did everything together and for us to just act like complete strangers now it's really weird and fucked up to me.

Hopefully today we can revitalize our relationship.

It took me about an hour to get ready and when I was finished I headed to the restaurant that we were gonna be meeting at.

Heaven's at school so I have about three hours to spare before I go pick her up.

When I got to the restaurant, I went ahead and went inside to get a table.

She wasn't here yet so I just ordered myself a drink and some cheese sticks while I waited.

After about ten minutes she showed up.

"Hey."I said while standing up to hug her.

"Hey girl look at you."she said while hugging me back.

"No look at you."I said while sitting down.

She sat down in front of me while looking around.

"I went ahead and ordered an appetizer since I was waiting, so feel free to dig in."

"Thank you. How have you been though?"she asked me.

"I've been good. How about yourself?"I asked her.

"I've been doing good. How's your daughter, what's her name again?"

"Heaven, she's good. How is Kaylee?"I asked referring to her daughter.

"She's doing good I had to leave her in Atlanta with my mama."she said and I nodded.

"I understand, Heaven's at school right now. That's the only time I get time to myself."

"How are you and Scarr doing now that he's back home?"

"We're doing good, I didn't expect him to just pop up and be a whole rapper though."I said while sipping some of my water.

"Right not only him though 30, Shiesty, and Bk."

"That's so crazy and Scarr is so cocky about everything he just knew his time was coming.. No but I'm really glad that they're out of the streets and doing something that's actually legal."

"Right so how are you making your coin? I haven't seen you since you decided to leave the city, you just up and disappeared on me."

"I'm actually unemployed as of now and I apologized for disappearing and leaving you to have to deal with the business and granny's death alone. There was just so much going on at the time. Kobi had just got killed, Scarr got locked up, I had my baby, on top of that Jean and I were having our problems, and I just was depressed. Then I hadn't spoke to you in a while especially after Kobi's death so I had to leave, I had nobody but Heaven."

"Wow Kodi that's so selfish of you to say you had nobody when I was there the whole time."

"When before or after Kobi died?"I asked her as I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Both but you know that I was also coping with his death on my own, dealing with my relationship with Shiesty, and trynna keep up with our business after you just went ghost. The night Kobi died I literally got my ass beat by Shiesty because he thought that I set Kobi up to get killed. So you weren't the only one dealing with something around that time."

"Well did you set him up? I understand that you were going through it yourself and I took that into consideration but after a while you had me wondering. I mean you were there at the his funeral and wait but you didn't say anything to me and all! You still had my phone number and everything but you never called me or anything, you never showed up to the apartment we shared, did you even know about me being pregnant!?"

"Really Kodi!? You think I set him up!? Did you forget to check the nigga you were going with at the time!? I bet you didn't even know that he was the mastermind behind everything. Did you not see the signs!? How he would try to use all of those gifts and shit to make up to you and only get close to you so that he could kill Kobi!?"she says and at this point my whole face was wet.

"This isn't about Jean or Kobi Makayla. It's about you and I, about you not being there for me when I needed you the most! You weren't there Makayla and I forgive you but because of that I'm not sure if we can ever be as close as were before. There's no beef and we don't have to hate each other but I don't think this is gonna work out. Thank you for meeting with me today and I'm sorry if I wasted your time but I'm gonna go, you have a good day."I said while standing before I walked away.

I headed to my car and got inside before pulling off to a shopping center.

I'm just gonna shop to kill time because I needed it especially after that lil conversation.

I said what I said and it is what it is now that that's over, I don't have to deal with it anymore.