"Why the fuck would you do that?" Sean was utterly confused by Pain telling him he brought another woman to their home.
"Bro I wasn't thinkin. I know I fucked up I just didn't know how bad." Pain shook his head.
"Nigga you just made it worse." Sean told him as they got in the car.
"It was just hard for me to see myself with her after Layla told me all that shit." Pain admitted.
"Yeah, but Layla ass was lyin. She was never yo girl bro." Sean told him as he drove.
"After all that shit, I started feel like maybe Joy was lyin." Pain explained.
"Bro if you only knew how mad you would be wit ya self right now. I'm tellin you ya was in love love. Like you chased her down, knocked her up, left her, y'all got together some crazy shit." Sean chuckled recalling it.
"What you mean?" Pain asked. He had never bothered to before. He was thinking if Sean told him that this was a regret he needed to know why.
"Bro the girl you brought back to y 'all's crib was her old friend. We went out one night, actually the night before Trey got out and y 'all met. Yo ass smashed and dashed on her ass and she found out she was pregnant." He explained.
"What she lookin for a come up?" Pain asked bluntly.
"Nigga, if I was her I'd leave to ass too." Sean paused and told him before he continued.
"No, she actually has a medical degree. She works at Emory out here. A doctor. So she makes good money. Greg's her boss. They always be meeting fa lunch and shit normally Kesha be wit em. Anyways she's on leave because y'all be stressing Kesean out." Sean told him.
"Kesean?" Pain asked.
"My Godson." He said proudly.
Pain laughed "We definitely not naming my son that shit."
"Nah bro fa real. Joy the truth. She loves yo weird ass. Anyways Layla knew Joy's friend Sarah. When you opened yo design firm Sarah extended an invite to Joy and that's how y'all reconnected. Yo ass didn't like Greg then either. Until he kept Joy safe from Montay." Sean told him as they pulled up to a house nearby one of their traps.
"Montay?" Pain asked.
"Look bro I can tell you all day but ima show you. Unlock ya phone." Sean told Pain who did.
"Yo ass was nonstop showin us the photos as if we didn't know the plan already. Look." Sean scrolled through his phone showing him the proofs of their maternity and engagement photos.
Pain couldn't help but smile seeing how happy she looked; How happy they looked together.
"Nigga that's not even it." Sean continued playing the video of him proposing.
Pain has to admit this was something no one could deny. Although he didn't know what love they had he could see it in their photos and videos.
He continued scrolling seeing pictures of Joy in his camera roll.
Sean interrupted him stopping him from scrolling and grabbing folders out of the backseat.
He passed him two folders of Joy's police reports.
The first folder was Joy's request for a restraining order from a 'Demontay Fowler'.
"Who the fuck is this?" Pain asked still unable to recall.
"Look at the photos then go to the next folder." Sean told him as Pain followed instructions.
He saw photos of Joy. Then they were close-up photos of her neck bruising. Some of her face and he assumed other parts of her body.
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Joy And Pain [COMPLETED]
RomantikThe first part in the 'sibling' series. Think of it like a telenovela or kdrama but with black people. Joy is tired of her boring life. All she does is work and go to class. So when a friend invites her for a night out to have some fun she signs on...