"Get her out Santiago. I don't care how you do it but do it",my dad said nearly yelling at me downstairs.

"Honey let her stay for the night. She's no harm to us here",my mom said.

"No. I don't need no family drama in my family. Next thing you know, her mom is going to call us & cuss us out for letting her daughter spend the night."

"Dad, Khia and I are grown."

"That you are. So you can wake her up and go buy yourselves a night at the hotel. You AND her can leave. If you do not like my rules, then your free to leave."

I grew a lot of hatred for my dad for quite some time now and tonight would be the night I was gonna explode cause he being real insensitive to khia's situation.

"What's your problem Dad?"

"My problem? My problem is you. You are my problem. I put you in school all these years for what? For a girl to brainwash you? Make you do things you shouldn't do?"

"You still on that? I got locked up a month ago and your still holding on to that?"

"Hijo, lower your voice she's sleeping",my mom told me. I couldn't stand the way my father was actin right now. Giving me heat for no reason. His feelings of Khia ain't matter to me, I could deal with him not liking her but he's going too far with this shxt. I walked outside to the back yard and smoked a blunt. While smoking it, I looked at the night sky and saw the shooting stars. I'm a grown man still living in my parent's house, only way I'll gain my dad's respect is to move out and make things happen on my own.

"Hey",i turned around and Khia was standing in her pajamas barefoot on the grass.

"Bae i thought you was sleeping",I told her while trashing the blunt. She hated when I smoke.

"How could i? You guys was arguing downstairs."

"How much of that did you hear?",I asked her. She walked towards me while rubbing her eyes.

"Enough. I knew coming here would be a bad idea",she said. I took a seat on the dry grass and she sat in front of me.

"We gonna Get out this situation soon. Don't worry about it babe."

"I walked downstairs and I could feel his eyes staring at me like he wanted to say so much but spared my feelings."

"I don't know why he acting out."

"He has a reason to."

"No he don't babe. You ain't done nothing to him."

"Not to him but to you."

I looked at her and shook my head.

"You ain't did nothing to me either but be an amazing girlfriend."

"I try to be babe. Don't stress about it, we'll find a place soon",she said and kissed me.

"This apartment is on the 3rd floor with a clear view of the city in the living room and bedroom depending on where you want the bedroom to be. The floors have carpet which makes it easier not to hear noise from your neighbors as much. The kitchen counters are granite, that's a piece that I know Khia might like",the realtor said.

"Although this is a two bedroom, it's a lot of floor space. There is a walk in closet in both bedroom but only the master bedroom has a walk in bathroom. The other bathroom is out in the hall",she said continuing to show us the house.

"What do you think babe?",i said looking at Khia as she admired the big bathroom with the nice rectangular mirror and two sinks for his and hers.

"Our of all the apartments, this is is the best so far."

"Ight bae. So could we install blinds in these windows for the sake of privacy or would we have to go through your company and have you guys put it on our bill?",I asked the realtor.

"You can have it installed yourself with no charge on our side. One of the mistakes they did was not to add blinds to the windows so you can if you would like."

"Is this the biggest square footage for a two bedroom that they have?"

"Yes this is the biggest."

"Alright."

This was the third apartment on our list of apartments and I was liking this one. I asked for square footage because I know my fam gonna be coming down but I don't know how long they staying and the way my father acting, I won't be staying in the house for long. I was pretty much sold on this house.

"Babe what do you think?",Khia said snapping me out of my thoughts.

"It's nice. I like this one if you do."

"I'm actually in love with it babe."

"Let me ask you this, is this apartment ready to move in within the next two weeks?",I asked the realtor.

"Yeah. You can literally move in now if you'd like."

"Alright. So I'll stop by and we can get the application process started tomorrow."

"Yeah How sure are you that you'll get approved?",she asked.

"1000% sure."

"Okay that's good. This apartment is a little pricey. We can look at others if you'd like."

"No we want this one. We can definitely afford it",I said.

"No no not because of that. It's just that this apartment complex is top of the line safe and over the top as far as elevators, personal parking lots, maintenance quality, etc."

"That's fine."

"Okay and are you looking to move in with her or it's just gonna be one bedroom."

"Two bedrooms."

Khia looked at me and smiled. I loved seeing her happy and if that meant me living with her, then I'll do that.

Khia

Soon as tiago dropped me off at home, I was so happy and first thing I did was started packing. Ebony knocked on my door and I told her she can come in but she'll have to watch her step.

"So your really getting that busted up apartment with the crackheads?",she said watching me.

"No. We found another apartment in Beverly."

"We? So he's moving in with you?"

"Yeah."

"Beverly sounds white and rich."

"Somethin like that",i said laughing cause she was definitely stereotyping not realizing that I'm actually black. Haitian to be exact.

"Well I'm glad you guys are good now. You told him about your job?"

"No not yet. I'm kinda scared to."

"You know he's gonna find out sooner or later so you might as well tell him."

Eb was right but I'll let it play out when it does. I'm not trying to get on his bad side especially now that he finally decided to move in with me.