“I need to get the stash. I can’t leave that shit. My uncle will kill me.” He said before he disappeared into the room. When he came back, I tried to grab his leg.
“Please, help me. Don’t do her- your daughter like this. She didn’t ask to be brought in our mess.” I cried out. For one second, I saw his face soften and saw the regret in his eyes.
“Jemar!” Tia yelled for him. He gave me one more look then ran out with her. Leaving me alone and in pain. What was taking my dad so long to come up?
∞∞∞
I slowly got up because I couldn’t stay down. I needed to get help. I needed my dad.
“Bre?” I heard a familiar voice say as he walked into the apartment.
“Ricardo!” I said, faintly. I was growing tired, and the pain was unbearable.
“Bre!” He shouted as he me “Why are you bleeding?”
“I’m bleeding?” I asked. I didn’t even notice or feel anything. The pain was too much.
“What happened?” He asked as he picked me up and headed towards the front door.
“Where’s my dad?” I asked.
“I saw him outside, and we started talking. He told me that you were moving out and asked if I could help. I told him I was already coming over to holla at Jemar. He should be coming up the steps.”
“Just save my baby, please. I don’t care what happens to me. Just save her.” I cried.
“I’m going to save you both. Don’t talk like that, okay? I got you. I got y’all.” He said as he kissed my forehead.
25. Wayne
*Trigger Warning Chapter*
“What?” I answered.
“Damn, you could at least say hi,” Aniyah said. I shook my head and blew out a breath of air. I wasn’t in the mood for her. My mother was tired of being the middle person, so I had to deal with her directly now.
“What?” I said again.
“Look, I know I fucked up, and you’re only talking to me because of our kids.”
“So if it’s not about the kids, you have no reason to call,” I said.
“Well, it kind of is.”
“Kind of?”
“I’m pregnant….”
“What!!!!” I shouted. Roon looked over at me with his eyebrow raised. I was chilling at his spot, smoking and drinking beers. I moved into my apartment last week, but my cable wouldn’t be on until tomorrow.
“It must’ve been when we slipped up at the hotel.”
“Slipped up? You told me I wore a condom and flushed it after we finished. And I bought you that Plan B.”
“I’m not sure if we used a condom.”
“No shit, Sherlock, that why I made you take that pill.”
“Those pills don’t always work.” She stated matter-of-factly.
“It doesn’t work if you were already pregnant,” I said. It was silent. “Wow, how low could you go?” I laughed.
“I don’t know what’s so funny.”
“You. You are funny. The fact that you’re really calling me about being pregnant after that one hookup shows me that you’re exactly whoI think you are. You ain’t shit!” I said then ended the call.
“Damn, bruh, she trying to trap you again,” Roon said as he handed me the blunt.
“This bitch needs to get a hobby. My slip was her way of making it into a blessing for her. She thinks I’m fucking stupid. She was probably already pregnant, and once we had sex, she figured she could pin it on me.”
“Wasn’t she drinking too?”
“Yeah, she was, but I wasn’t really watching her. She could have pretended to drink that shit. I was already faded by the time she came over.”
“Man, that’s crazy. But what if it’s yours, though?”
“I’ll do what I always do and take care of mine. But I have a strong feeling that it’s not mine....not this time.”
“Me either. You caught her about to have a train run on her, its probably one of those broke ass niggas and neither don’t want anything to do with her.”
“Facts,” I said as I took a pull from the blunt. Just then, Mikayla came out of her room.
“I didn’t know she was home,” I whispered to Roon.
“Me either. She probably been sleeping all day. She’s been sick.” He said as he took his phone out and tapped away.
“She’s good?” I asked, concerned. I can’t lie I’ve been avoiding her since I found out she was Roon’s sister. Although I didn’t know how to, I still had planned on telling Roon before he found out.
“I don’t know. She won’t really talk to me. She just stays in her room and occasionally comes out to eat. This guardian shit is hard, man. I don’t know what to do, and I feel like something is really bothering her. When we were little, she used to get like this every now and then when she missed our mother.” He shared while putting his phone down for a minute. I looked at Mikayla, and her eyes looked puffy like she’d been crying. Her hair was in a messy bun and she was fully dressed in an oversized sweatshirt and sweatpants. She didn’t look like the same Mikayla, I’ve grown to know and like.
“Hopefully, she’ll open up to you.”
“Yeah...me too.” He said then picked his phone back up. Mikayla had some snacks in her hands as she made her way back to her room and slammed her door.
“You hungry?” Roon asked.
“Hell yeah,” I said.
“Order us something from the carryout, and I’ll pick it up. I gotta make a run real quick.” He said as he got up from the couch and headed to the door.
“Orange chicken with fried rice, right?”
“Look at you. You know me so well.” He laughed.
“Fuck you. No homo. That’s the only thing yourass eat from there.”
“You damn right, it’s a classic.”
“Whatever,” I said as I picked up my phone.
“And get Kay something too.”
“Ight. I got her. Shrimp Lo Mein. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.” I joked.
“Yeah... I’ll be back.” He paused before walking out, then continued out of the door. After I placed the order. I got up to lock the
