"What about a cookout or something? Her birthday is in the summer." Landon suggested as we looked over options for Ava's first birthday.

I shook my head, "we're doing a cookout for graduation. I want more for her birthday. It's her first birthday."

Landon sighed as he shook his head scrolling through on his laptop as he sat on the floor as I did the same except I sat on the couch. We had been really good lately, we still weren't together and the talk of getting back together wasn't on my mind. However he was doing everything in his power to let me know he wasn't dealing with anyone else without making it too obvious he wanted me to know.

"Can't we do like Chuck e Cheese or some shit?" He questioned as he looked up at me.

I shook my head no as I scrolled through pinterest seeing some really cute birthday ideas. "Look at this, it's so cute! And then we can get her like a little mermaid outfit." I turned my laptop so he could see.

Landon rolled his eyes, "you don't need me for this shit. You need your girls."

"I mean you're paying for it so I do." I fake smiled as a knock came through on the door. He removed the laptop off his lap as he got up, "I'll get it."

"No! I can get it." I quickly got up already knowing how it would look if he opened the door.

I quickly got to the door with Landon not too far behind me as Kennedy stood there with a smile. "Hey girl hey!" She walked in as I closed and locked the door. As soon as I turned around she had a smirk on her face as she looked between the two of us.

"Where's Ava?" she questioned.

"With my mom," Landon responded as he placed his hands in his pocket.

"Mmm, interesting." Kennedy stated as she walked towards the living room.

"We're planning her birthday party, so try again." I stated as I walked behind her already knowing where her mind was.

"Well you've been MIA to me, but I see you've been in Landon's presence."

I rolled my eyes as I chuckled and Landon did too, we had been together a lot but it wasn't like that. We had a daughter and were working through the new world of co-parenting. "You're reaching right now." I sat back down on the couch as I closed my laptop and sat it on the table.

"What's up though?" I questioned.

She sighed, "so did you guys hear?"

Landon took a seat on the smaller couch opposed to sitting back on the floor. "Hear what?" I questioned with confusion.

"About Chris."

"Oh." I nodded. Mink had told me, but moreso was telling me about the fight that her and Kira got into.

Landon brought in his eyebrows, "what happened?"

I quickly looked over at him wide eyed, with a 'really?' look. He shrugged as if he really didn't know.

Kennedy rolled her eyes, "your nigga is trash. Played the fuck out of me."

"Got it." Landon stated already knowing where it was going.

Kennedy sighed, "you talk it out with Kira?" I questioned.

She slightly rolled her eyes, "yeah. She popped up. Still not fucking with her like that though."

I nodded, "Good. Shouldn't have been fucking with her like that from the start."

Kennedy tilted her head, "so you felt some type of way about me fucking with her?"

I squinted my eyes, "it was clear she didn't fuck with Mink, someone you claim as your best friend. So yeah, I thought it was a little weird."

"Well I'm going to head out," Landon stated as he stood up, clearly deciding to let us have our girl time as he was no longer interested in our conversation. "Be easy," he said to Kennedy before looking my way. "You want me to keep Ava tonight?"

I took a pause in Kennedy and I's conversation, "if you want to. You can bring her here though."

He nodded, "Okay. I'll get at you later" he grabbed his laptop before he exited. Once the door closed I got up locking it as Kennedy started back on the conversation. "So you think I was wrong for befriending her?"

I sighed, "only in the sense that she didn't fuck with your best friend, like I said, that's weird as fuck and you know that. And then you even went as far as to still hear this girl out after her and Mink fought. C'mon Ken, what's up with you?"

Kennedy ruffled her hair as she brought her eyebrows in, "you think she was mad about that? Did she tell you she was?"

Mink had definitely told me she didn't fuck with that and I didn't blame her. "Would you be mad if Mink was rolling and kicking it with Sarai after all that shit she talked behind Chris?"

"I was fucking with Chris though."

"Then that makes it even worse because Mink isn't even fucking with Jodie, yet Kira talked all that shit behind Jodie and you friends with her."

Kennedy sighed, "Okay I get it." She paused for a moment. "I really haven't seen Mink in like a week, she's been ignoring my calls and text. She has to be mad at me."

"Y'all live together, what you mean you ain't seen her?"

"She must be coming home late and leaving early or she staying somewhere else. Ever since everything went down I ain't really seen her." Kennedy went silent for a moment, "damn she really not fucking with me right now."

The wheels in my head started turning, if Mink wasn't staying at home where the fuck was she staying? I grabbed my phone as I sent her a quick text.

You ain't been staying at home?

She quickly responded. What?

Ken said she hasn't seen you in like a week.

Lol, I been at home.

"Kira keeps calling me." Kennedy stated pulling me from my phone.

"Why?" I questioned as I locked my phone, my eyes going to her phone that was ringing.

She shrugged, "I been ignoring them shits. But I'm about to see. What?" She questioned as she answered the phone. I tried to read her face as her facial expressions changed. "Say that again," Kennedy stated as she quickly put it on speaker phone.

Kira sounded as if she was crying as she got the statement out again, "I know you hate me," she stated in between sniffles "but Jodie," she said as she cried harder, "broke up with me," she cried out again. "And you're the only person who really knew what was going on."

What was really going on? I looked at Kennedy with confusion, "what does she mean by that?" I mouthed to her.

She took her off of speaker as she got up telling me to hold on as she walked outside. As she did that my text tone went off as Landon's name popped up.

Casey popped up at my mom's.