The next few days went by without Aliyah showing up an trying to stir some form of trouble for herself and dragging us with her. It was awfully quiet and I liked it. I liked the peace; Keith and I spent more time together. “Princess come here,” Keith said from the bed. I turned around on his desk chair to face him. We were at his place and he was on his bed scrolling through his phone while I was at his desk trying to study and then work on my homework. Now that I thought about it, I had never seen Keith study once or even hand in his homework yet he was always one of the few people that actually scored higher on all the tests we wrote, especially on the sciences and English. “No, I’m studying,” I replied with a sigh. I wasn’t understanding how Ms. Fisher had solved the binominal equati

