Arranged Marriage (Completed)

You're the one

Ally's point of view

I was so angry with Normani. How could she? This wasn't her. She stole my car to beat up my ex. How fucked up did that sound. I was furious at Dinah for provoking her. I needed space from both of them. I could not deal with all of this right now. Normani went to Megan's to get her hand checked out and bandaged. I went to Normani's house to pack my bag. I was going home. Normani had been texting and calling me all day, but I was ignoring them all. Finally I just shut my phone down. I heard the sound of Normani's front door open and closed. 

"Ally!" She yelled trying to find where I was at. I stayed quiet and continued to pack my bag. "Hey." She gave me a small smile relieved to finally have found me. She frowned when she realized what I was doing. "Why were you packing?" 

"I need space." I said, placing my neatly folded clothes into my suitcase. 

"You need space, or are you running away?" She sat down on the bed, watching as I packed. "You don't even want to talk about it? You just want to leave?" 

"Norma-" I was cut off by her doorbell.

We looked at each other silently asking if we were expecting anyone. Neither one of us was. 

"Hold that thought." Normani whispered. She stood up. We walked to the front door together. 

"Who is it?" I asked. 

"I have mail." A female voice said. 

She pushed past me to open up the door like an idiot. 

"Are you Normani Hamilton?" A young woman in a business suit looked at Normani with a white envelope in her hand. Her voice was shaky. She clearly knew who Normani was. 

"Yes." Normani took the envelope. 

"You've been served." The woman ran away as quickly as she could. 

Normani watched the woman drive off before opening up the envelope. Her eyebrows were furrowed at first, but then she smiled a wolfish smile as she finished reading. 

I wanted to know why she was smiling so big. It had to be some good news. "What's that?" I asked, trying to look over her shoulder to see the paper. 

She looked over her shoulder. "A restraining order from Dinah." 

My mouth popped open. Dinah was such a bitch. She has been provoking Normani this entire time. 

Normani's phone started ringing. She looked at the caller ID and laughed. "Keh, you will never believe what I just got." She burst out laughing even harder. "You got one too?! Is yours from Dinah too!" She walked away from me to go sit on her couch. I heard her gasp loudly. "It is from Camila?"

Seeing Normani happy about getting a restraining order made me mad. Did she understand how this could ruin her career? Did Kehlani understand how serious this was? They both were laughing and making jokes, and no one was being responsible. No one was thinking about the big picture. "You both should be ashamed of yourselves!" I snatched Normani's phone out of her hand. I put her on speaker phone. "What is wrong with both of you? Yall are the district attorney and assistant district attorney. Y'all should know better. This could end yall careers. Unlike me, you two get to do what you love. Don't throw it away because of Dinah and Camila." By the time my rant is over, Normani isn't smiling anymore. She clenched her Jaw because she knew that I was right. 

"You're right, Ally." Kehlani spoke up. "We should have taken the high road once again, but they have been playing in our faces for too long. They had it coming. Talking about disappointing, you have someone who loves and cares for you, yet you have been letting her get bullied. What have you done to stop any of the hate crimes Dinah has committed against Normani? If you would have grown a pair and told Dinah like it was a long time ago, her beat down probably wouldn't have been as severe. You should have your girl's back; not push her away. You played your part in letting this get out of hand. You and Dinah should have cleared the air a long time ago; instead, you ran away to Normani. You ignored Dinah, and now that bitch is demented. Give her some closure, so she can leave you and Normani alone. It's the truth and you know it.  We are all a bunch of disappointments, so get off of your high horse."