I'm A Gangsta, Ma' by Brea Isome (people reading books TXT) 📕

 
-Sophia-

I woke up on Monday morning scrambling to get ready. I had spent so much time last night thinking of 'him' that I forgot to pack anything. And my phone was hummingbird the hook.

I answered and placed it on speaker once I saw it was Casey.

I rushed into my closet. " what, bitch?"

She screamed. " I'm so excited! okay, so the bus will be at your house in an hour. We're picking you up last because I know you're not ready."

" shut up! I am ready."

" so, should we get you first?" She asked teasingly.

" shut up!" I pulled a pair of ripped jeans and a purple tank top from their desperate hangers and grabbed a pair of purple and grey Nike running shoes. I discarded the things on my bed and listened as Casey rambled on and on.I rushed back into the closet, picking out a zebra print bra and panty set and white footies." I have to go." I hung up the phone.

" Shower, brush your teeth, comb your hair." Thirty minutes later I was checking things off of my mental list. " You have to pack a bag!"

I rushed back into my closet and grabbed a hot pink suit case, only putting in two outfits and two pair of shoes not including my pj's accessories and toiletries.I dragged the bag down stairs and left it by the front door.

" would you like breakfast?" asked another housekeeper. Her name was Laina and she was so pretty. Sometimes I found myself wondering why she was a housekeeper. " I made scrambled eggs."

Scrambled eggs, that's kinda how my brain felt as I tried to remember everything i needed to grab.I made a disgusted face. " thanks but no thanks. For future reference, nobody in this house eats eggs."

I rushes back upstairs and picked out a bright yellow tote bag for today. Inside I put ny cell phone, my charger, my wallet, and anything else I thought I might need.I checked myself out in my full length mirror. I looked pretty nice, if I'd could say so myself.

Right when I was stepping outside the tour bus was pulling up.

I was glad my parents had already gone into work or else they would probably flip.The door of the bus opened and Marie sticker head out. " You coming or what Sophia?"

" yes!"The inside of the bus news so spacious and delicious. There was this brown color scheme going on.I placed my back in the back where there were two sets of bunk beds. Since i was the last one on the bus i got a bottom bunk, and it was right next to the bathroom. Great, I would get any sleep.

" so," Casey made googly eyes at me once I came back to sit up front on one of the two cushioned benches. " are you excited?"

I shook my head. " Yeah, I've never been to Detroit, I mean, neither have you. I think our parents would kill us if they knew."

" not about that, idiot."

" then about what?"

" to see your boyfriend." Raven chimed in.

I laughed. " You hoes! I don't even like Daniel like you think. We're friends, at the most."

" Yeah right, we saw how you were looking at his picture when he sent you that Facebook message yesterday."

Little did they know, I wasn't looking at Daniel, I was looking at his brother. But I didn't say that, actually I didn't say anything.We got to the spa ten minutes before our treatments were to start. We made sure to take lots and lots of pictures, some by myself, some with the girls, I changed robes once or twice so that when I sent pictures to my family they would think it was three completely different days. The girls entangling with it too, doing the same thing with their own phones for their parents.I sure hoped that was all it would take.

-Sophia-

Friday 9pm - Detroit

" wait, can you pull over?" I asked the bus driver and he complied. He had to be so pissed after five days and four nights on a bus with four teenagers. I know improbably would be.I pulled up Daniel's face book message and dialed the number that was at the end of it.

" who is this?" It was his number alright, and he sounded pissed.

" Daniel? It's Sophia, from the hospital. I-"

His voice was softer when he spoke next. " aww, shit, what's up? You Comin to the party or what?"

" Yeah, were actually pretty lost so-"

" we? Who is we?"Was he going to cut me off every time I tried to speak? If so, this whole conversation wasn't going to work.

" My best friends. It's okay that they come, right ?"

" ay!" He said speaking to someone in the background." She got friends!"There was a lot of noise. So, I change my first assumption, he wasn't talking to just one person but a group of people.He came back to the phone, laughing,maybe at something that someone had said. " are they cute?"

I rolled my eyes and turned around to my girls who I found were hanging on to my every word. " you'll see if you us how to get to you. we're on the side of the express way lost, and so is the bus driver."

He was asking questions about signs and surroundings and after a few minutes said that he would come pick us up. He didn't even give me a chance to respond before he hung up.I asked the bus driver if he knew how to get to the hotel. Our hotel actually wasn't in Detroit but just outside of it. It was a nice four star hotel, not bad.

" sure do." He answered.

" okay, there are five rooms for us. Just take one. The name is Donovan." That was Raven' s last name since she did book and pay for the rooms.On out way we had stopped at the hotel and showered and changed. This trip was adding up. We had beds on the bus but no body really felt like sleeping on them every night. Because during the day we wanted to shop and at night sleep so we only drove like an hour a day in between until we found a decent hotel. It was horrible.I found it a bit out of the ordinary that we had to pay for the bus driver's room. But the company said it was an extra but very necessary expense if we wanted the "best". Plus, we called as a last minute thing.

I went to sit back in my seat.

" so," Casey prompted. " is he coming?"

" yes. I'll ask him to give us a ride back to the hotel after the party. I don't think it's fair to make the bus driver wait."

" who cares? he's getting paid six hundred dollars for this trip. God, he could be your next door neighbor."

" getting six hundred dollars?" Raven asked. " I highly doubt It, honey."

I rolled my eyes. " You bitches are money obsessed. You want to get money to spend it."

" what? And you aren't?"

" no!" I lifted my heels up so they could see. I hadn't put them on yet because I was about to walk around the bus in five inch pumps. Are you crazy. " I got these on sale, Half off!"

" how much were they originally?" Marie asked.

" fifteen hundred. See, I saved seven hundred and fifty dollars."

Casey rolled her eyes. " You saves it and a few untranslated you probably spent it on a dress."

I faked shock. " I did not!" I lied. Damnit, what are best friends for if not to call your bluffs?It took twenty minutes for Daniel to find us and we filed off the bus, in our designer dresses with matching bags and high heels. Yes honey!It was a bit colder than we were used to, no cold exactly but there was a draft. Oh, I was going told miss my California, at least until we arrived back home in the morning.We had to squeeze ourselves in the backseat of the Suv because Spade was sitting up front.

" Oh," Daniel said looking in his rearview mirror to check out my friends. " they are very very pretty."

Casey blushed but didn't say anything." Shouldn't you leave my friends alone and drive?"

" what? You brought them. And trust me. I'm not about to be the only one looking at them like this."

I rolled my eyes. " don't be a pervert." I learned into the front seat after he pulled off. " how is the shoulder?"

" fine, you know we, ain't nothin."

I looked at Spade and then back at Daniel. " I guess he doesn't talk much unless he's yelling, huh?"

" I talk." Spades' s voice boomed making me sit back. " just not to stuck up brats from California."

Maria raised her eyebrow. " Oh hell no! I'll have you know that the only one stuck up is you. You gave us attitude, not the other way around."

Casey shook her head. " the nerve of people these days."l think you can just talk to people abounding way."

Raven rolled her eyes. " I dare you to try it again."

It was quiet for a few moments before I fell out into a full on laugh. " I have body guards now?" 

Spade turned to stare us down. " please, you hoes wouldn't last two minutes against these females up here, let alone me."

" man, why don't you leave them alone?" Daniel asked.

" that bitch started it." nodding his head my way. "

" fuck you, asshole!" I said finally getting pissed. He turned to smile at me and that's when I realized that that's exactly what he wanted, for me to get upset and play into his hand. Shit! My temper! 

 
-Sophia-

" Oh." I said once the car was parked on a side street in front of a brown house that looked like it was falling completely apart. " this neighborhood is-