Toxic paradise

Chapter 7

It was already 8:27 p.m and I was just doing the easy part of Kira's hair, putting the beads on. The part that took the longest was the braids for sure. Just then, Alez came in my room with jasmine crying. "Hey, can you watch her? Malik outside. I gotta go," she said placing her in my arms. I didn't even get a chance to say yes or no. Honestly, that's why I hated being home. Alez always going somewhere with Malik. she claims he's her close friend but I doubt it. luckily, I was done with Kira's hair. Walking downstairs with a crying jasmine in my arms, I fixed her some milk. "okay jazzy. Be good for cece", I said placing her in her chair. It didn't take 10 mins until I found jasmine sound asleep in her chair. The bell rings. walking to go answer it, it was Ashton. "Hey, come in," I said. we hugged and he took a seat on the living room sofa. I signaled him to be quiet because jasmine was asleep. Picking jasmine up, I laid her in her crib in Alez's room and left the door open, just to hear if she starts to cry. "it's almost 10, why'd you come so late?", I asked Ashton while giving him a beer. "I had some business to take care of." I laughed cause he sounded just like Jay right now. " I didn't know you was so eager to see me", he said. "Don't get ahead of yourself. I wasn't", I said laying on the couch. he allowed me to lay my head on his lap. " I was really looking foward to going to sixflags with you this summer", he said stroking my hair with his hands. " I was too. but Jay not letting me", I said telling him the truth. "Why? He think ima steal his girl?", he said laughing. "well aren't you?", I said laughing. "shid that's the plan." The doorbell rang. " you expectin someone?", Ashton asked me. "uh nah. If anything, my sister but she just left like a min ago." Standing up to answer the door. As I opened it slowly, I wish I never did. Jay stood before me. It took him no time to invite himself in and he saw Ashton sitting on the couch, undisturbed he payed Jay no attention while being on his phone. " What this clown doing here?", He asked me. "He was just uh..." "leavin bro. I was just payin her a visit", Ashton said to him. "You gonna be okay?", Ashton asked me. "Yeah. My sister should be here soon." "Alright", Ashton said and left. "Why you got this nigga here?",jay yelled at me. "Jay shh. jasmine sleeping and Kira is upstairs."
"Don't shush me. why must I tell you over and over again that I don't want to see you with this nigga", he yelled again. "Look, if you gonna sit here and yell after I told you not to, you can definitely get out. there's the door", I said crossing my arms. he laughed excessively. "You done lost your mind talking to me like that", he said and charged at me full force. he pushed me causing me to fall on the couch and he punched me over and over again. I reached for a pillow to block his punches but I couldn't. "Cece! Cece!", Kira cried from watching the scene when she came downstairs. Jay took the pillow from my hand and suffocated me. My head began to turn dizzy and all my surroundings faded away and all I managed to see last was Ashton busting the door down to help me but it was too late. My vision was blurry and pitch black.