This is me because my book hit 1k and I finally got people voting kjgyubddssspppljv yaayyyyyyy. Anyways on with the story.

Alijah laid on the couch watching Fairly Oddparents eating a Dairy Queen strawberry sundae.

"Why you ain't with the girls?" Her father came downstairs. "Or better yet August?"

"The girls are busy and August and I are not talking right now."

Even though it was New Year's Eve Alijah really didn't want to do nothing except watch tv and sleep.

Her father came and sat down beside her and placed her feet in his lap.

"What happened?" He asked her watching the show along with her.

"We just not talking. Daddy I think I rushed things with August." Alijah said.

"What makes you say that babygirl?"

"Because I don't think I know him. August just came along and swept me up I don't even know why I got with him."

"Do you like him? Do you feel like he can be there for you? Can you cry on his shoulder? Can you trust him? Better yet...Do you love him?" Her father asked her.

Alijah sat up and looked down. "Daddy I don't know. I guess."

"Well your mother and I are going to watch the fireworks downtown later you can come if you want." He said getting up and going downstairs to the den.

"Ugh!" Alijah said laying back down.

"What's wrong with you ugly?" Jay said coming from the kitchen.

"You been in there the whole time?" Alijah asked.

"No I've been in the pool house doing somethings." Jay said.

Alijah sat up once again. "Doing what? Better yet...Doing who?"

"Man nobody is back there I was handling some business." Jay said going to sit on the couch.

"Mhmm." Alijah said laying down. "Massage my feet bro."

"Eww get them damn feet off me." Jay said.

"Fuck you my feet ain't nasty. August sucks on my toes." Alijah said laughing.

"Okay too much information. You going to the fireworks with mom and dad?"

"I might." She said.

"Okay well everybody else going so you mind as well go." Jay said.

"Is August gonna be there?" She asked.

Jay shrugged his shoulders. "Ion know I haven't talked to August ever since he found out Delilah tried to kill herself and she's in ICU in a coma."

Alijah looked at him. "Wh...what...?"

"Oh shit you didn't know. She tried to get him to talk to her it was around 1 something in the morning after Christmas night, but he refused to talk to her and she lost it and shot herself. Her mother found her and he feels like it's his fault that's probably why he haven't been talking to you." Jay said.

"Thanks a lot Jay." Alijah said getting up putting on her slides and grabbing her car keys leaving the house.

Laila covered her nose as she walked in the house. It smelled horrible.

"My grandma's house." She cried. "This was my childhood home."

Ming and the rest of the girls stepped over trash and whatever the rest of the disgusting things they saw.

"I can't believe my mother did this." Laila said.

"Sis oh my god." Tahim said walking in the house.

"Tahim we said stay in the car." Marie said.

"I'm about to be 14 years old you don't tell me what to do." Tahim said picking up a piece of paper.

"Put that down!" Laila yelled at him. "Go back to the car."

Tahim threw the paper down and went back outside.

"Who's this?" Ming said picking up a picture. "She looks just like you Lai."

Laila grabbed the picture from her.

"This is my mother before she got on the drugs and with Samson. She was beautiful." Laila said letting a tear drop.

Marie walked over to her rubbing her back. "Lai it's okay they'll find her."

"I hope so and not dead." Laila said going down the hall to her bedroom. She flipped the light switch seeing if the lights still worked. Her room still looked the same.

"How can something like this happen within a few months?" Di'anna said.

"Well when a pipe busts and water goes everywhere mold and mildew forms." Ming said.

"I'm not dumb bitch." Di'anna said.

Ming rolled her eyes.

"All my clothes are destroyed." Laila said looked through the clothes.

"Laila I hear something in the bedroom across from us." Marie said.

"Huh? It's probably an animal or something." Ming said.

Laila stopped what she was doing and went into her little brothers room. She flipped the light switch and saw her mother sitting a corner.

"Mommy?" Laila said walking over to her.

"Lai baby?" Her mother managed to say. She looked at Laila.

Laila started crying. "Yes mommy it's me. Call 911."

"Okay." Di'anna said.

"No just let me die."

"No mama no we gonna get you some help okay?" Laila said.

"Laila baby I don't deserve this. I wasn't a mother to you all just leave." Her mother said.

"Mama even though you let Samson rape and beat me and you did drugs around us and treated us like we were shit. You are still my mother at the end of the day." Laila said.

Her mother leaned over throwing up nothing but blood.

Ten minutes later the police and ambulance arrived taking her mother to the hospital.

Laila laid on Ming's shoulder crying her eyes out. "Seeing her like that is just- I can't believe it." Laila said. "I need Lucas. I can't believe he left me like this." She cried as the girls held her.

Laila needed to be strong but she didn't know how to be strong.

Alijah drove around just about all of Inglewood looking for August.

"Where the hell are you baby?" Alijah said to herself.

He wasn't home nor at the hospital with Delilah. He wasn't at Vonte's and not at Darion's either.

Alijah pulled over and parked her car for minute. She sat there and thought where he could be.

She put her car back in drive and got back on the road.

August sat on top of the abandoned building looking at the fireworks people were popping. It wasn't even New Years' yet and people were already shooting fireworks, guns and etc.

He kept thinking about Delilah and why would she do that to herself. She needed him and he ignored her. That's all that went through his mind. August took a pull from the blunt letting it sit in his lungs before exhaling it.

Alijah pulled up to the building and got out the car looking up seeing August sitting on top of the building. She rushed inside the building and climbed the stairs by the time she got to the top she was out of breath. Opening the door she saw August lighting another blunt.

"August?" She said.

He turned around to see her. "If you hea' to tell not to kill myself, I'm not dumb Lijah. I luv' my life." He said.

"I know that." Alijah said sitting by him. "You think it's your fault?"

"No, but then again yeah." He said. "She needed me and I told her no I called ha' a murderer." He said staring off into space.

"Aug look at me."

He looked at Alijah their eyes connected with each other.

"I love you." He said out of the blue.

Alijah felt her heart skip a beat. "I love you too."

August leaned over and they started kissing. Alijah heard fireworks then she felt fireworks also. She never felt like this when she kissed August.

Alijah pulled away wiping the lipgloss off his lips. "Come on let's go see her." She said.

"Nah I can't see her like that." August said.

"Okay but we have to go eventually." Alijah said.

"Can we just sit hea' and watch the fireworks baybeh please?"

Alijah looked at him. "Okay."

They sat there smoking a blunt and chilled for the rest of the night.

Ming stood by her parents and Laila watching the fireworks. It was 10 minutes to twelve and Ming was ready too. She felt like she needed to redeem herself from this year.

"Yasir!" Her mother yelled.

"Mr and Mrs.Simmons hey how you all doing?" He said approaching them.

Ming looked at him. She was about to speak but her mouth instantly got dry.

Yasir looked up and down at Ming. "Hey Ming."

"Hey Yasir." Ming said.

"How you been?" He asked her.

"Good."

"You look good." He said.

Ming felt her face get warm. "Can we talk?"

Yasir looked like he wanted to say no but instead he said.... "Yes."

They walked away and just walked somewhere that didn't have a lot of people.

"I'm sorry." Ming said. "Keith and I were messing around way before you came in the picture but that's over now. I was jealous and he was jealous too. I really do like you Yasir. I got a little bit of crazy in me, but Yasir I feel like I can be myself around you and that day you called me beautiful and when you kissed made me feel good inside and I know I hurt you when you heard Keith and I in my father's office I'm truly sorry."

Yasir looked down at her. "I really thought we were going somewhere Ming I never would've even thought that you and him were fucking around. When I first saw you, I thought you were stuck up and thought you could have any nigga you wanted and blah blah blah, but I got to know you and he really broke you inside and I was trying to fix that."

Ming felt a teardrop on her face. "I'm...I'm..so sorry Yasir please forgive me. Please. I really do like you and want to start over. He made me feel like I was something, he took my naive mind and started to put it back together then he just stopped and I was gone it's like I wasn't myself anymore. Yasir I'm scared."

Yasir looked away for a minute. "Scared of what?"

"Being hurt again." She said.

Yasir stepped closer to her. "You have nothing to worry about Ming. I'll be here for you. Through anything and you know that. I'm not like him. He used you and to be honest I don't even want that. I just want somebody to talk and chill with not fuck over and over again messing up their soul. So can I fix you please?"

Ming laughed a little making Yasir laugh too. "That was kinda cheesy." He said.

"It was." Ming said.

"5...4...3...2...1... Happy New Year's." People yelled around them and music began to play.

"Happy New Year's." Ming said before smashing her lips into Yasir. They shared a kiss as the clock went off.

Laila stood alone as the clock went off. All she could think about Lucas and how she lost everything last year. She slowly rubbed her stomach and took a deep breath. "New beginnings for us I guess baby boy." She said.

"You right babygirl."

Laila heard Lucas' voice and broke down crying. Ming's mother came and hugged her. "It's okay baby." Mora said.

Di'anna sat across from Marie as they ate pieces of cinnamon cheesecake that Marie's mother made the night before.

"Happy New Year's girl." Marie said.

"Same to you girl." Di'anna said laughing.

They were gonna go out in the crowd, but decided to stay inside and just watch the countdown on t.v. live from New York.

Di'anna's phone started ringing and it was an unknown number. She wasn't gonna answer it but she did anyway.

"Hello?"

"Yes may I ask who's speaking and why you are calling me so late at night?"

Di'anna felt her whole body freeze.

"Di'anna what's wrong?" Marie asked.

She hung up the phone and tried not to think the worst.

"God please don't let it be my dad please!" Di'anna yelled.

"Di what's going on?" Marie asked once again.

"I think my dad is dead. They need me to come identify a...a...a....body at the morgue." Di'anna couldn't barely breath.

"Okay calm down I'll call my mom and tell her we need to go." Marie said.

Di'anna tried to breath normally. Why would they need her to come identify a body? She had no other family.

She was praying it wasn't her father maybe one of her cousins maybe just maybe.

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