Chapter 11: Chapter 11

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"What's wrong?" I asked and she turned around groaning.

"I think they're out." She said and glanced at her phone again.

"And I'm running so damned late."

"Language Vee." Aerin said boringly.

Navaeh rolled her eyes and then looked up at me.

"Would you guys be okay staying at home till I come?" She asked and Aelin shook her head negative.

"I can't stay home alone. I'm too scared." She said.

"You're scared?" I asked almost laughing.

"Yeah? I'm just Five." She replied.

"Right." I said snorting.

"What do you mean by right?" She asked and I smiled at her patting her head.

"I'm not a child. Don't rub my head."

"You're not a child? You just said you're Five." I argued.

"And?"

"Five means you're a child, Aelin."

"Vee." She called and her sister only pinched her nose bridge.

"Apologize to him Aelin." Aerin said nudging her sister.

Aelin blinked at her and then looked up at Heaven who was glaring down at her.

I saw her gulp at her glare and then looked down at her feet.

"I'm sorry, Quinnel." She apologized and I pursed my lips looking at Heaven and then back at her.

"It's fine, Aelin." I said with a smile.

"How do you even differentiate between us?" Aerin asked looking at me.

"I don't know. I just do and Aelin has a... difference compared to you." I said and she nodded her head in understanding.

"The difference is..." She looked at Aelin and then grinned at her obviously scared to say the difference we all knew.

"I can help you take care of them you know? Bring them with me to my house till you're done with work." I said and Heaven looked up at me.

"Nah... I don't want to burden you." She said shaking her head.

"Well do you have another choice? Cause I don't see neither do I hear one." I replied.

She scoffed and looked down at her sisters. They looked back up at her and shrugged.

"Do you girls promise to behave?" She asked and they nodded their head at her.

"When do we ever not?" Aerin asked and I smiled.

"Never." Aelin replied and they did an high five grinning at each other.

"Fine." She said with a sigh.

"I'll come fetch you guys as soon as I'm done with work. Alright?"

"Kay." They answered simultaneously.

"Thanks Quinnel. I owe you one. I'll find a way to repay you, I promise." She said looking at me.

"I'll hold you on that promise. Come on girls." I said and they walked to the car.

"They're coming with us?" Caspian asked with glee in his voice.

"Yeah." I replied and he smiled.

"Sweet!" He said pushing his head back in.

I faced Heaven and she smiled at something. Turning my head back, her sisters were already in the car.

Tilting my head I turned back to her. She was now looking at me.

Her phone rang again and she cussed before she took to her heels.

"Bye girls! Bye Caspian. Thank you and Bye, Quinnel!" She yelled and like that she was gone.

"See you later, Heaven!" I yelled after her and she replied by waving her hand over her head without looking back.

I sighed before turning to the twins.

"Let's go then."

Navaeh.

Getting off the bus, I ran into the bowling place where I worked.

Bunny's Bowling was written in red with knocked down pins and almost knocked down pins in it's background was it's logo.

"Took you long enough." Koa snapped as soon as I stepped into the locker room.

"Geez Koa! Let me breathe." I said taking my seat and heaving heavily catching my breath.

"Girl did you run a marathon race?" Bennie asked handing an opened bottle of water.

"Ask Fucking Koa. Dude called me and scared the shit out of me. I had to run over here." I said taking a long swig of water.

"Well, in my defense, I was just looking out for you." He said and I rolled my eyes.

Bennie slapped his back lightly and he paused staring at her.

"What? You gon beat me or what?" She asked. She was black as well so she liked me more.

"Never." He said and ran out of the locker room the door swinging for a while before it shut.

I shook my head at the door.

"I'm gon beat that white boy reals bad one day." She said taking a seat beside me.

"Thank you." I said and drank the water to it's half.

"Hold on, don't go drinking all my water girl. Do you know how much I bought that little bottle?" She asked with a thick black accent.

"No ma'am. Here you go ma'am." I said giving her the bottle.

"That's right. Thank you." She replied snatching it from me.

I stood up from the chair and walked to my locker opening it.

"You looking smokin hot but the way." She said and I leaned away from inside my locker.

"Am I?" I asked twirling around.

"You do!" She said shaking her body.

"Why, thank you!" I said laughing at her.

"You're welcome. Let me go back to the counter. That little boy might be chasing away customers." She said and walked away.

"Oh God!" I said shaking my head. Poor Koa.

Taking my cloth from my locker, I threw it on over the tank top and walked out of the locker room.

"Hey Koa." I said and waved at me.

Taking my space beside him, we started work.

"So how was school today?" He asked and I rolled my eyes.

"Same as ever. Lengthy and stressful." I replied polishing the shoe in my hand.

"Thought you liked school?" He asked resting his head on his hand that he had propped up so his arm was resting on his elbow and palm facing up.

"Yeah,well... Don't anymore." I replied shrugging as I turned around to the shelves of shoes looking for size 6.

I found it and pushed it into the available space.

"How was your school?" I asked him and he snorted.

"Same as always. They let us go early though." He said and I nodded my head.

"Why?" I asked.

"Don't know. Don't care." He rushed.

I turned to him to see why he was rushing and I saw a couple coming.

"Welcome to Bunny's Bowling! " We greeted and they smiled at us.

"What size are you?" I asked and the man looked at his girlfriend or maybe his wife before he looked back at me.

"I use size 8." He said finally.

"What about you ma'am?" I asked.

"Size 7." She said and I nodded my head and turned around looking for the shoe while Koa looked for an alley for them.

"Okay, you have Alley 5." He said and they nodded accepting the shoes from me.

They then walked hand in hand to the alley. After about an hour or two, I sighed and sat down on the stool provided to us incase we were less busy. I always thought of the chair as an act of laziness but today, I'm so fucking grateful.

"Tired are you?" Koa teased.

"Very." I said truthfully.