It was now a little after 2 a.m., Mykee was now completely done unpacking so she decided to take a shower. While gone she missed her bathroom that was connected to her room. She had hated having to walk over the cold floors in the hallways to get to the bathroom. She loved the warmth her bathroom gave her, the memories of her father coming in her room and banging on her bathroom door to get her to hurry up, she now had plenty of time to get ready. She now wished she could give it all back so she could just have her father again. She would turn the streets over to a bum just to have her father. She missed his warm presence that he always had towards her and her mother, the way when she was down her dad would be right there to cheer her up, the way that when her and Trey got into it he would go across the street and 'talk' to him. She wished it was in her power to go back to that day and reverse everything. To take back everything she had said that month better yet her whole life about him that was bad. She had understood why he did what he did but she was still upset she didn't get what she wanted. To some people she just seemed spoiled but actually she was as down to Earth that nobody would be able to tell she was a drug princess.

As she stepped in the shower all her memories she had of him in that house washed over her. At that moment she broke down and cried. She stood there in scolding hot water remembering the day her father died. She saw in her head the way he laid on the street with blood all around him with a bullet in his chest and head. She remembered he just standing there staring at him. She saw how he raised his hand to her and gave her his ring, whispered to her that he always would be with her. Told her to go inside and go in the safe and get the box that was marked 'happy sweet sixteen' and bring it to him. When she got back he told her 'happy birthday baby. I wish I could be here with you but my time has come. I'll always be here with you in your heart.' Then he kissed her on the cheek and died.

'Ding ding Dong dong'

When Mykee reached the door she saw Trey there with no shirt on. At this site she laughed.

"What's so funny shortie?" Trey said

"Nothing, besides the fact that it is about 57 degrees outside and you don't like weather below 75. But umm what do you want?"
"Trying to spend some time with my boo. Is that cool with you?"

"Sure but ya can't stay long I got business to handle tomorrow."

"Do I ever stay long?"

"Yea ya kind of do."

"What ever. Can I come in or not?"
"Sure"

While catching up with each other she remembered the time when life was simple. While listening to Trey she thought 'it is going to end so much sooner than ya think. I just hope ya understand why I got to do it. I truly do love ya Trey but…' she couldn't get the words straight. She knew she had to end it and soon. She knew since she was little that she loved Trey. She knew the minute she had kissed him that she wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. The only problem was she was a princess that had to pick a prince that would not only be loyal to her but to the streets as well. She had known Trey since she was six. She could never choose him without knowing if he was the right one.

"Trey….look…we gotta talk …" was all she got to say before her phone rang.

Girl I know your heart is breaking
And a thousand times I
Found myself asking, "Why? Why?"
Why am I taking so long to say this?
But trust me, girl I never
Meant to crush your world
And I never
Thought I would see the day we grew apart
And I wanna know

How do you let it go…

Listen to your heart
Girl you know,
We should be apart, baby I
I just can't do it
I, I just can't do it
Listen to your heart
Girl you know,
We should be apart, baby I
I just can't do it
And sometimes it makes me wanna cry
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Do you hear me crying?
Oh, oh, oh ..

"Hello?" "Yeah" "I'm going to have to let ya know but I hit ya up later." "K peace"

"Who was that?"

"Boy ya know to never ask me who I'm on the phone wit." She joked

"Where were we then?"

"Never mind."

Trey knew something was up because she had never been this quiet. Not even when her dad was killed. Not even when she thought she was pregnant with my kid. So something they had never experienced was coming.

"Hey are ya staying over tonight?" she asked Trey.

"Yeah"
"then ya know that y-"

"Yeah yeah I know go take a shower."

"Boy ya going to get enough of cutting me off." She grumbled

"Sure I am." He said sarcastically

When Trey got out of the shower he looked at the bed and saw the girl he planned to make his wifey. As he got in the bed she turned around turned around and kissed him.

"Hmm what was that about?" Trey said

"Let's just say that those are numbered." She said very low that Trey thought that he had misunderstood her.

As they talked and watched TV Mykee started to fall asleep. While Kee slept Trey whispered 'sleep tight wifey'

Around 3 p.m. Kee woke up and went to the kitchen to find her mom eating a sandwich.

"When did ya get in?" Kee asked her mother

"Around 4 a.m. how is Trey?"

"He sleep I didn't tell him yet but I plan on telling him once he wakes up."
"Don't make my mistakes-"

"Ma I'm not making your mistakes….I'm…..I'm making mine."

"Ya don't have to be alone to. Ya can have a man. Ya don't have to do the same things we did. Remember I was with your dad."

"Ma I gotta. I know my responsibility. I know that it would be easier to have no man at all."

"When we made the rule a very long time ago that no man could rule the streets along with us. It was put in place to keep the men in check and also because the men back then were snakes."

"Ma I hear what you're saying and I remember what I said when I was younger when I said I would be the one to change it but… that is not my place I am the one to help keep the streets in order and help in evolve-"

"Then do your job. Help it evolve into a royalty where men can be equals."

"Ma I would rather live alone than live…..live with regret. I love Trey and ya know it, but I know my place. I cannot take on the streets in a relationship that could put them in danger."

"So I would be a regret?" Trey said walking down the stairs. Once down the stairs he stood in front of Mykee he reached into his pocket and pulled out a red velvet box and threw it at her saying "Well if I would be regret then regret this"

"You're just going to let this happen. You just clearly told me that you love him. I may have been the dumb one but I had other sibling you don't your all the street has left. Your really going to let him walk out that door. I don't want ya to have the regrets I did. I don't ya to turn around one day and he be dead and ya sit there singing the should've would have could've. So in going to ask ya one more time are ya really going to let this happen?" her mother said.

"Yes because I would rather sing a song that I would eventually get over than sit back and have regrets that I would not be able to fix. I will not sit there and risk everything my family worked for. I am not you like you said you had siblings I don't. I know what I will do. I will not sit back and have a life like other kids. I would never. I am not you. I don't sit there and wish I was Cinderella. I don't want a price charming. I don't need a man to complete me like you did. All I need is myself. I am tired of you trying to relive your life through mine because as much as I miss dad I would not have chosen him" Mykee growled

Mykee walked over to Trey and kissed him then pushed him out the door and slammed it in his face when he tried to walk back towards her.