“Ray-Ray, is that your daughter?” Esha, Red's cousin, asked.
“Yeah, that’s my baby.” he beamed with pride.
“She is so pretty. She must get it from her mama.” she giggled.
“Nah, she looks just like his ass.” another one of Red’s girls interjected.
“Yes she does.” Red nodded in agreement.
“That little girl got a bad ass shape on her!” Esha exclaimed.
“Girl, do she.” Red nodded once again.
“Look at these mannish ass boys eye balling her. Ray, you better watch that one.” another light-skinned chick spoke up.
“And he need to watch these grown ass men. They be watching her too.” Red laughed while shaking her head.
“Yeah, y’all got y’all’s hands full. She gonna be a little heart breaker if she aint already one.” the light skinned chick, said as she sipped out a cup.
“Main, these muthafuckas got me fucked up. I’ll spend life in prison first.” Ray-Ray blurted.
A part of me just knew that I was about to be busted. Jahrein and I had been doing our thing all summer long, and it was just a matter of time before we would be found out. I knew that I had the body of an older girl, and I figured it was due to my sexual activity. My bodyseemed to have matured overnight, and maybe that was going to be my dead giveaway.
I even caught a few of my daddy’s boys checking me out. I was not too thrilled about that shit. Jahrein was enjoying his party, but he was watching me at the corner of his eyes. He had forewarned me about my behavior, before we left our house. “Don’t be talking to no niggas. You know that I can’t really say shit to you on the spot, but don’t test me. And keep your t-shirt on too.”
I wasn’t listening to that nigga. Although, he tried like hell, he could not run me. I was going to do whatever I felt like doing. That is why I took off my t-shirt the minute we walked to the pool area. I hadn’t even gotten in the pool, because I was too busy showing off my fire red two-piece and pissing him off.
“Girl, come with me so that I can use the restroom.” Shell said as she pulled me towards the house. I had brought her, April, Le-Le, and Tiffany from the block with me to Jah’s party.
“Okay.” I nodded, as I let her lead me.
She found the restroom and told me to come in with her.
“Bitch, I need to change my tampon.” she sat on the toilet and pulled out a bloody stick from her coochie.
“Ugh. You walk around with that up your pussy all day?” I asked her in disgust.
“Hell yeah. How do you think that I can still walk around in this bathing suit?” she laughed as she wiped herself.
“Um umm.” I hunched my shoulders.
“What do you use?” she asked me.
“Pads.” I tried hold my breath. I don't know why she wasn't embarrassed about the odor her body was giving off.
“So, you been wearing pads all this summer? Even when your ass gets in the pool as you always do?”
I had to think about that. I could not recall having a cycle while living with my daddy. “I don’t think that I have had a period, since I’ve been living out here.”
“What? You haven’t started having periods yet?”
“Yeah. I’ve been having them since I was eleven.”
“But you haven’t had one since you moved with Ray-Ray?”
“Nope.” I told her. I didn't see what the big deal was. Any month without a period was a good month to me.
“Raven, are you sexually active?” she asked with a raised brow.
