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“I’et out of the house like you asked me to,” I shot at her

Twinkle laughed while playfully rolling her eyes

“Hmmm,” was all she said before she stood up from her chair

Twinkle ran dohat ti else, and then she finally walked out of my office

I left about fifteenon At the sa to come up with one hundred different ways to tell her that I didn’t want to go I literally had no excuse My parents were on a church retreat, and they wouldn’t be back until toht

My older sister, Nao her first baby with her husband, Liao before my niece’s arrival, she looked like she was ready to pop any day So, hanging out with Nao she wanted to do was sit with her feet propped up, stuffing her face hatever pregnancy cravings she happened to be longing for at that moment Just like ave Liam cool points in our family

My daddy used to always tell us that ere old enough to start dating, we needed to get with soreed with that, but only to a certain extent because if God ever decided to stop holding e, he didn’t have to be a minister Of course, I would want him to know the Lord and to even have a relationship with Him, but to have his own church and be afor

My sister’s husband, Liam, we’d known hiether since the two of them were in elementary school That was another plus for hi off with a coer Liam attended our parents’ church, and we knew his family well

I just hoped I got lucky, and ht around His validation of anything I did meant a lot to me It would be awful to have an interest in someone, only for my parents not to like them I wasn’t really sure if that would be a dea

l-breaker for h It really would just all depend on what my parents, or should I just say my father, didn’t like about the person My ht around, as long as I got so Still, I felt that I had plenty of time because I wasn’t even thirty yet

Once I accepted that there was no excuse good enough for ive to Twinkle, I just accepted the fact that I would have ht I didn’t even have a club experience when I was in college because I was such a good girl and afraid that my daddy would pop out of the shadows and e to turn out, but for whatever reason, I wasn’t ready for it

9:00 PM

“Ding-Dong!”

My doorbell rang while I was inaton the counter, playing lowapp to make sure that it inkle at the front door It was This girl was there at exactly nine on the dot, just like she told ned to not leave ht’s rendezvous

I sighed because the closer it got to us getting out of the house and going to the club,to was King of Diao, and everything about that place just screa I didn’t want any parts in The strippers, the gang of people that would be huddled inside the club… just everything I didn’tfun, but this just wasn’t ood tih, because she definitely had a way ofme feel bad to the point that I was left with no choice but to just give in