Deep by C. N. Phillips

Author:C. N. Phillips [Phillips, C. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Night had fallen by the time Ahli finally caught up to her sister. There were only a few places that she could have been. The first place she checked was the downtown bumpy slides, a place both of the girls found refuge in as kids. With some waxed paper and a ripped cardboard box they felt like superheroes gliding down the slides at what seemed like the speed of light. When she didn’t find her there she knew there was only one other place she could be. Ahli finally found her at an old park that their parents used to take them to when they were younger.

The creaking of the old swing interrupted the quiet around them. Rhonnie had her back to her as she swung low back and forth. Her hair was free from its ponytail and flowed freely in the wind with every swing. Ahli stood silently a few feet away on the pavement until Rhonnie slowed the swing. “I wondered how long it would take for you to find me.”

“I should have come here first,” Ahli said, walking up on her sister and taking a seat on the swing next to her. “I thought you would be at The Slides though.”

“Nah,” Rhonnie said, still looking straight ahead. “I didn’t have much of an appetite.”

“I guess there is a first for everything, right?” Ahli said, her voice bitter. She eyed Rhonnie’s side profile and shook her head. “You know you’re wrong, right?”

“Yup.”

“You don’t care?”

“Nope.”

Ahli closed her eyes and took a deep breath to keep herself from slapping her sister in the back of her head and knocking her off the swing. The smugness sprawled all over her face was making Ahli’s insides boil. Times like that it was hard to be the older sister. She wanted to fight her sister like she was a random chick off of the street.

“Listen, Rhonnie,” Ahli started, trying to keep her voice even. If Rhonnie said something out of turn she knew that she wouldn’t hesitate to lay hands on her. “I don’t give a fuck about how you feel toward Daddy right now, or the fact that you want your freedom. If I ever hear you talk to my father like that again I will beat the dog shit out of you.”

Rhonnie was shocked at first. Her sister had never talked to her like that before. Quickly regaining her composure, she turned to her sister with her lip turned up. She was about to open her mouth to get smart but Ahli gave her a deathly stare.

“Say something stupid and I’ma take off on you.” Ahli threw in the towel on keeping herself collected. “By disrespecting my father you disrespected me. Despite how you feel now about the jobs we’ve done, understand you still did them. Understand that you weren’t complaining back then, or when you were sitting your ass up in Gucci buying up the fucking store. So don’t you dare patronize my father about the things he has

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.