With Pain Comes Pleasure

Thirteen

Christian

We got to my place, and Angel followed me inside. We headed to the kitchen to find Cortez making himself a drink. I glanced over at Angel seeing her stand awkwardly to the side. Tez glanced at her but made no effort to approach her.

"We got you some food," I announced breaking the silence. Tez turned and looked at me before his eyes drifted over to Angel. "Thanks." He said grabbing his food. "Yeah, it was actually Angel's idea," I said pushing her forward towards him.

"I assume you two talked, and everything's cleared up," Tez said as he looked down at her. "Yeah," she said with a nod of her head. "That's good." He spoke before kissing her cheek. "Thanks again for the food." He said to her before walking around her. I rolled my eyes as he walked past me and upstairs to his room.

Angel turned to me with a small pout on her face. "Don't pout, mamas. Just go talk to him like you did with me." I told her. She nodded her head before turning around staring down the hall. I stood behind her kissing her neck before giving her a slight nudge.

She slowly walked down the hall before heading up the stairs sending me a look that I couldn't help but laugh at. "You'll be fine. He won't bit—you'll be fine." I said laughing as she gave me the finger.

Angelica

I stood at Tez's door for a second before I knocked. "Who is it?" he called. I opened the door to see him sitting on the end of the bed flipping through the channels.

He turned and looked at me before he turned back to the tv. I walked in and closed the door. "Can we talk?" I asked. "Angel—," "Please?" I asked as I went to stand in front of him.

He stared at my stomach before I went to caress the nape of his neck. "Do you blame us—," "No," I said interrupting him. He raised his head looking up at me. He pulled me into him, so I was straddling him. "I'll tell you the same thing I told Christian and my brothers. I was already in a bad place mentally before but towards the end of our relationship, it just got worse. No one is to blame for what happened." I said as I looked at him.

"You did nothing wrong, okay?" I said grabbing his face. He gave me a slight nod. "Well, you were annoying at times but you were still my baby," I said as I kissed his cheek. "That wasn't even necessary." He said with a smack of his lips. I chuckled.

"What else is bothering you?" I asked him as he moved me so I was tucked into him perfectly. "Why do you want to be with us?" he asked. "What?" I asked. "Why do you want to be with us? I mean being with the two of us isn't easy. Your brothers hate us. People will be judging—"

"I don't care about what other people have to say about our relationship." I interrupted.

"My concerns for other people's opinion are very little. I want to be with you and Christian because you two make me happy. And I want to be clear that I don't mean you two are my happiness because obviously, that's not healthy." I paused. "I mean that you two balance me out. Christian can rile me up and egg me on in a way most people can't. He pulls me out of my shell and makes me try things I usually wouldn't." I explained.

"While you Tez, you're so gentle with me," I said as I looked up at him. "You are so kind and compassionate with me, and I absolutely love that about you," I explained. "I love my brothers, and their opinions hold a lot of weight to me. However, they don't know you two in the way that I do. They think because everything happened after we broke up it was your fault. Which it wasn't." I said.

"I promise that I'm fine," I told him. "You're fine now, but that could change." He stated. "Yeah, maybe but if it does, I'll let you and Christian know. I really don't want to be treated like I'll break at any minute. I already went through that, and I don't want to experience it again." I said.