SHAYLA ALVEZ
harlem, new york ; her apt.
[ 7:34 a.m ]

"god damn." shayla said softly to herself as she put a comb through her natural 4c hair. she was currently getting ready for the school day as dd was asleep on her floor. he didn't wanna sleep in her bed since he didn't want to make shayla uncomfortable, shayla didn't mind so she didn't press him.

she had just gotten out of the shower along with washing her hair so that meant her hair was no longer straightened and back to it's natural state.

the darkskin girl loved her hair but it's just the face she never had time to maintain it so she always got sew-ins, braids or straightening it. though she would try to make time for it now.

it was a good think that her hair was long but that meant more time doing it.

shayla sat on her vanity chair as she dragged the comb to the ends of her hair so hard she heard a crunch. shayla winced as she continued to straighten it out so it wouldn't be as hard.

unexpectedly shayla's perfume bottle fell on the floor which caused a a pretty loud noise. shayla closed her eyes, picking up the object hoping it didn't wake dd up but it was too late.

"babyyy why you makin all that noise." dd groaned quietly as he shuffled on the floor. shayla bit her lip, her cheeks heating up from the way dd called her the pet name. "sorry." she muttered as she leaned back into her chair.

the girl decided to do her hair in a simple way, a bun since her hair was long enough to make it puffy at the top with her edges done nicely.

shayla popped in one of her airpods in her ears so she didn't wake dd again but she couldn't not listen to music while getting ready. 'the worst' by jhené played softly in her ears as she finished doing her hair.

the darkskin was gonna go outside to get something to eat thid morning but she had completely forgotten dd does not live here. so he was gonna go to school with the same clothes and no shower? hell the fuck no.

shayla walked over to where dd was sleeping seeing him curled up like a ball under the covers that shayla had fortunately found for him to sleep with. "dd." she mumbled as she hits his knee.

dd groans softly, smacking his lips together. "hm?"

the darkskin girl smiled at how comfortable he looked and he wasn't even on a actual bed. "you needa get up take a shower and allat." shayla said more like a demand.

dd begins to sit up rubbing his eyes so he could see properly. he then realizes what she had said which made him do a double take, "you want me to take a shower in your bathroom?" he looks at her with a crazy expression. shayla tilted her head in confusion before nodding. dd the smiles widely, kicking off the covers. "say less."

dd literally runs out of shayla's room not even knowing where the bathroom was but who cares?

shayla let's out a soft laugh at the boys childish antics before walking over to her closet. she quickly throws on a pair of sweatpants and a crop top, it was may so it wasn't that cold to need a hoodie or sweater. the darkskin girl walks out of her room with her backpack slinging over her shoulder.

she then decides to make eggs since she had bought enough groceries in order to do that. she played her music back up so she didn't get distracted while she did it. shayla had cracked the eggs into the pan but had accidentally dropped a few eggshells and she hated her food not being perfect so she just threw the scarp out, restating again.

this time she put the temperature too hot that it started burning a bit. shayla groaned as she threw it out again. the girl looked back in the fridge to see she had no more eggs left which didn't make sense since she bought 6.

oh.

she used six. shayla frowned now that she had used all six of the eggs and she wasn't sure if she had anymore money to buy more groceries.

shayla wiped the sweat through her forehead, now she had nothing to eat or even give dd to eat. which was the only thing she really cared about because she had her mind set on giving him breakfast now she couldn't even do that.

the girl opened every cabinet looking for something to give the boy but it had seemed like everything was literally gone. she thought, who knows where she lives and took all of the food.

shayla pursed her lips as it finally clicked, her mom.

this wasn't the first time it had happened but each time it did it made her burst into tears. every single time shayla would use her own money to buy food for the house, the next day her mom would take all of it and leave with caro to someone's house.

it would be random men each time too.

the darkskin girl felt her eyes water up but she quickly began blinking when she heard dd walking towards her. "shayy i see why you always smell good ya soap smells mad good." he told her as he wipes his face with the towel.

shayla hums, sending him a fake smile but dd saw right through that. "wassup mama? why you look like dat." he walks over to her and cascades her in a bear hug.

"i'm good." she mumbles as she wraps her arms around him. dd kisses his teeth because from the tone he knew she was lying. "don't lie ta me shay. what's wrong?" he grabs her face so it made the two look at each other in the eye.  

dd frowns when he saw how teary her eyes looked. "why you look like you about to cry mama?" he states the obvious.

shayla let out a breath as she looked away. she was embarrassed that she was being so sensitive to something that wasn't such a big deal but she was just sensitive.

"okay so i was makin eggs for you and me to eat for breakfast then i messed up so i took another two eggs but then i messed up again. so i looked in the fridge and there was no fuckin more. i looked for something else to give you to atleast eat but there was nothing, i'm sorry."

if was silent between the two before dd started smiling cheekily at the girl, wrapping his whole arms around her head, rocking her back and forth whole hugs her. "yo pretty ass ain't gotta cry for that mama." he softly laughs.

shayla buried her face into dd's chest, a lil embarrassed that she was being all emotional for no reason. like it was never that serious but she hated disappointing people, even herself.

"is that all tho? nothin else?" dd doubled check on the girl, holding her cheeks while shayla smiles nodding even though she was completely lying. "aight lemme go get ma backpack then we could go get dunkin' or sum shi that good?" shayla nodded with his question.

dd smiles at the girl before walking back to shayla's room.

the darkskin girl started cursing herself silently cause she was being so dramatic it annoyed even herself.

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shayla walked into her 2nd period class, sipping the drink that dd had bought for her earlier while milani had her arm draped around her shoulder as she blabbed on about something.

"omg— we should totally have a sleepover! we haven't had one in like 30 years."

"lani we haven't even been alive for 30 years."

milani kisses her teeth. "that don't even matter fr. but we havin a sleepover i'm so boreddd." she whined.

shayla nodded since today she was pulled out of working at the salon and had the rest of the day after school alll to herself. "ion know about you but this shi mad good." milani says as she takes a sip out of the strawberry milked drink shayla has in her hands.

"lani." shayla smacks milani's chest, seeing that she had gulped down almost the whole drink. "ew this is your class, have fun in math baby." milani snickers as she runs away from shayla probably skipping.

shayla groaned silently. she didn't mind her math teacher it was just that she sucked at math. even if she was in ap classes it didn't mean shit since she never really knew what was going on.

and math was like the only normal, non advanced class she had since she was that bad at math.

the girl walked in class. automatically making her way to the back of the room where her seat is. "shay? i ain't kno you was in this class." dd smiled at her as he put his phone down on the table, giving shayla his attention almost immediately.

the darkskin girl looked at him and waved with a warm smile on her face. "me either actually."

there conversation was cut short when the teacher started speaking about well something. shayla didn't even know what the woman was talking about she just acted like she knew what she was talking about.

the teacher started passing paperwork around. shayla noticed everybody start talkin and the teacher didn't even care but her on the other hand? if she didn't complete this worksheet she might failll.

shayla looked around to see if anybody was actually working and was also just as clueless as her but no, nobody was, even dd he was working on it with his eyebrows raising up and down so it seemed like to shayla that she was the only one not knowing what's going on.

"dd." she mumbles not so loudly but dd always seemed to hear her so he turns his head back. "wassup?"— "what the fuck are we doing?"

dd stops for a second before getting up, dragging his desk and chair to he could sit directly next to shayla. the two were so close that their knees were touching and shayla was paying way to much attention to that.

"aight what you need help wit?" dd rubbed his hands together as he looked at shayla in the eye who eyed throughout the worksheet. "the first question, that don't even make sense won't that be x?"

dd shook his head, taking shayla's hand and pointing at the numbers with the pencil in her hand. "aii so this is 80 right? so you would have to find the value of x and the measure of each missing angle in the triangle." dd said doing the math on the paper correctly.

"so if this side is 3x-6 you have to calculate it feel me?" dd states the obvious but it sounded like the most smartest thing to shayla who nodded.

"aight so afta that you calculate this side along with this one then you gettt.. b." dd circled the b option out of the multiple options. "not you bein smart dd." shayla snickered as she felt dd interlock their fingers.

shayla honestly admired the way dd spoke so clearly and softly to her because he would hear him speak to his friends with the most meanest mug on his face, yelling most of the time. she liked how he would act with her.

and it made her happy on how he knew what he was doing in class at least sometimes. it just showed to her how he had some of his priorities straight just like her.

it kinda makes her feel like she had somebody who cared about her like that. but she promises herself that dd was just a friend, a flirty friend at that.

dd nods , loving the way shayla complimented him like that. "keep talkin ta me like that you gon make me.. mmcht aight."

shayla gasps as she knew what the boy was referring to, shaking her hand away from his. "oh my god dd have some fuckin decorum." dd frowned upon at the fact his hand had lost the warm feeling it had when shayla's hand was in it. "noo i'm sorry babyyy. gimme a hug." he smiles cheekily.

the darkskin girl looked at him like he was crazy, smacking her lips together. "if you be good i'll give ya two later." she offers to the boy who nodded frantically as he looked at her with the most affectionate eyes.

"can i get a kiss?"

"dd, bro. no."

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NOTE— WHY AM I STARTING TO LIKE THIS BOOOKKKKKKK. anyways while ya here go ready idgaf my ddot book 😇. anyways se ya later pookies 🤗🤗.
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