Labyrinth's Maze

By the end of the first semester of college, Labyrinth was feeling a part of school if not of Center City. The classes kept her busy and she did book-keeping for her father, Jesse's, company. She and Jesse were growing closer, but he wasn't easy to know, and he was watchful. Alexandra, her aunt and Jesse's sister was very ingratiating, but both allowed no negativity about Cinnamon, her birth mother. The relationship with Cinnamon was tenuous, mostly because for three months Cinnamon and Malcolm had traveled extensively, and Cinnamon was writing a book and publishing another. When they met it was usually at Cinnamon's childhood home. There was conversation and Cinnamon was open to questions, but she was still wary. Labyrinth was closest to Muhammad, though Aura and her had dinner or lunch at least weekly. She had been on a few dates but nothing worth her time. Earline, her aunt had returned to California and most nights she was lonely. It was time to mix and mingle. Messiah, who broke up with his girlfriend had penned a song, If You Were My Woman that shot up the charts and was having a release party Friday night and she planned to be there. Messiah intrigued her.