Keith and I

Chapter 2- Aaliyah

"Hey, bitches where are you guys at?"

"Oh hey, we took the subway we'll be home in probably five minutes plus."

"Oh okay on your way please pick up noodles from Lee's," Lena said.

"Well ok-"

"No! We're having properly cooked dinner that you're supposed to cook so go out and get groceries and start prepping dinner." Blake shouts at the phone and Lena who ought to have started preparing dinner.

"But today's a perfect day for noodles, I even checked my horoscope even though its a noodle day." Lena lied smoothly.

"There's no such thing." Blake scoffs.

"Well, you wouldn't know that you're proud Leo," Lena said scoffing.

"Anyways A, please get noodles on your way back, Love you." She says hurriedly ending the call before I could even say a thing.

"We're not getting noodles you know right?" Blake said looking at me with her eyes shining with suspicion.

"Sure we'll stop at the grocery store and get some groceries my bath scrub is almost finished even so I need a new one."

"Good."

We get off the subway and I turn to Blake "See nothing bad happened."

"Oh please." She said whilst rolling her eyes at me.

We then walk to a Jamaican store first to get my scrub because it's apparently "unavailable" in the grocery store in our area and begin to walk to the grocery store.

"What do you think we should have for dinner today?" Blake asks waving a basket around.

"I was thinking we should not have salad for the third time in a row."

"Right? I don't know whether Lena's a rabbit or a gym body vegetables and protein powder every day and when you ask her to cook she just stirs fries and vegetables and gives with brown rice that's not real food A"

"And that's why we'll shop so we'll get real ingredients for her to unleash her inner Bobby Flay"

We moved around the grocery store buying some spices, chicken, and some pasta.

"Let's not make things hard for her, she can do a pasta salad that's easy enough and has vegetables"

We walk to get the cash register.

"I would like to pay for these items please," Blake said stretching out her card.

"Alright then. Everything's thirty dollars and fifty cents."

"Input your pin here and then we're all good to go please."

I waited as Blake paid for the items looking around the store for anything interesting and then I found the security guard looking at me weirdly.

I glanced away not wanting to bring any attention to myself waiting patiently for Blake and as soon as she was issued the receipt we were about to leave when the guard stopped us.

"Excuse me, ma'am. please can you step backward?"

"Me?"

"Yes, we have been told to search you because of some suspicious actions of yours."

"Suspicious actions?" I said my voice raising a pitch higher.

"Please cooperate with us." He said grabbing my arm tightly.

"Let me go. Don't touch me. If a search is to be conducted, I would like a female guard please."

"She didn't take anything and you know it or is there an underlying issue here?" Blake said stepping forward.

"Just security precautions ma'am." He answered Blake still holding my arm tightly.

"I didn't see you doing those on other shoppers or me. What makes her any different?" Blake's voice began to rise alerting other shoppers looking in our direction.

The officer began to redden. "My apologies ma'am. I was just following proto-"

He let go of me as I pulled Blake away to leave.

"I can't believe that happened." She says angrily, huffing and puffing.

"People are so rude and condescending." She said.

"It's fine. Don't think about it too much. He's just another dumb human."I said bumping our shoulders together.

"Swear you won't tell Lena what happened," Blake said sighing.

"I swear. She's going to possibly beat the guard up." I said.

"Not like it's a bad thing." She murmured.

We laughed our way home. We walk to our apartment and ring the doorbell waiting for Lena to reduce the rock metal playing and open the door.

Finally, she does and she looks at the bags at our hands and is not happy.

"You said you were getting noodles"

"Well, you didn't give me the chance to say anything," I said.

She groaned as she saw the contents of the bags.

"Unlock your inner Bobby Flay muscle Mommy"

We all laughed at Blake's nickname for Lena.

Then Blake begins to chirp about all the cute guys she had met that day in different classes and how she saw a particularly hung one but he stepped on her foot.

"So because he stepped on your foot you didn't take his number anymore?" Lena asked.

"Yes he stepped on it and he didn't apologize."

"Maybe he was running to another class and you were in the way?"I said.

"Maybe that's the case." Lena also said.

"Even though it was mean," Blake said.

"Well work was hectic as usual a delicate case came in today a man had killed her wife because he found out she was doing bad things to their kids and some others in the neighborhood."

"Oh that's terrible he's a good person"

"Well while he was saving the world a man in a coffee shop decided to be dumb and I gave it right back, "I say recounting what happened at the coffee shop to them.

"Someone's going to sleep in jail for some weeks," Lena says jokingly but we all know she isn't lying.

"Calm down it wasn't that serious he said some hurtful words but I'm sure he isn't going to be there for much longer."

"Did you see him today?" Lena asks.

I shake my head and she sighs.

"Okay, girls dinner is ready."

After we had dinner, I headed in for an early night because I had class the next day.

I take a long hot shower and I prep for bed. I lay on my bed my head recounting details of the day and I fall into a deep slumber.