Abused for Love [completed]

33 - Carre

I got off the phone with my mom, she sounds happy, healthy, and alive. I'm happy for her, but I dunno. I get a quick text:

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Can I come over, so we can choose colors? Raymond is working all the time now, we just want a small, simple wedding with nothing over the top, or too expensive.

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I smile and tell her that I'll ask, but it may be better to do it over coffee. My smile turns into a frown when I realize that Raymond might have to come too, no matter how much I want my mama happy, I will always want her to be happy with someone else. I hear Coyy and someone else arguing in the living room. I silently walk in there. "She's my plus one...I don't care, If you don't like it. So be it...Yes, I will come to the wedding but not on your welcome, but on your wife-to-be. Is that clear?" He's getting upset when you hear it, but you can also see it. He doesn't hide it.

"She's my girlfriend...and?... She will come, whether you like it or not...So? What does that have to do with me?... You're unreasonable...I may just not come at all... It's not like anyone else is going to go, you've screwed up so many times...Fine if you don't want me coming so be it..." They're still talking about it. I walk up behind him and rub his shoulders..., he smiles and pulls me forward. To his front in a hug.

What are you doing? He mouths, I shrug and give him a hug. "I can see if I can go...no, she'll kill me if I don't ...If you haven't noticed, my awesomeness is too good to go just yet. But she will kill me if I don't show." I nod, "Yeah...okay, I guess." He hangs up. I look up at him. He stifles a yawn, "it's only eight-thirty but, oh well." I push him to the bed, he falls face first and is immediately snoozing. I smile and go grab some ice cream. Being a girl sucks, having monthly pains hurt like helium, I think.