Rivalry

kiara

it had been weeks since the whole me and Kentrell shit i had been so lost why would tilly tell my business i couldn't wait to see her. i walked in the halls of school before i was grabbed out of nowhere.

"You are not going to avoid me when you have my child in you," Kentrell snapped i huffed rolling my eyes 

"The baby is gone i don't know how many times i have to tell you this i got rid of it," i told him which was true i had finally faced my fears went and told Layla what happened, and we went to the nearest clinic i couldn't have a kid right now not with all this family drama already going on. 

"wow" was all he said before letting me go walking off in the other direction. this wasn't his decision to make. i should have a say in what i do with the rest of my life and being a baby mother was not on my agenda at all. the end of the day had come sooner than i was expecting i hopped in my car heading to miracle house i haven't talked to my Dave at all. i just couldn't believe everyone was right about him. 

i pulled up at miracle house i watched as she talked with someone before watching this guy leave, she looked as if she hasn't slept in weeks. i felt bad for miracle she wasn't bad at all and she didn't deserve all she was going through. i walked in the house it had a different feeling in it like death had just walked out of it i don't know it was just odd.

"If i didn't know better i would think you are trying move in here little girl," miracle chuckled i shrugged 

"Home just isn't somewhere i want to be right now," i told her 

"i get that i don't even know what home is anymore," miracle shrugged grabbing her bottle of wine. i watched as she downed the rest of the bottle before throwing it into the wall making the glass shatter. I've never seen her like this i didn't know what to do. "Till death do us part" she whispered before heading to her room. I cleaned up the glass while i waited on royal and Alina to finally arrive. 

miracle

it's true I've drowned the world out i haven't spoken to anyone i was getting publicly humiliated again. this wasn't just some private matter anymore this girl had gone and did an interview about parts of my life i didn't even know about. all of these outside opinion on my marriage a marriage i hadn't even began to end yet. everyone had their own thoughts on how i got Dave and about my son and how this is my karma.

most of the times you don't want the trolls to be right but in this case i couldn't help but feel guilty is this how Layla felt to have a woman to be just brought into your already struggling household with her baggage and a new baby. trying to stop loving a man that constantly hurts you. i ran my hands across the old bruises i still felt some of them. i felt like i failed as a woman as a mother. i sat in my room until the doorbell rang. 

i didn't know who that could be i drug myself out of bed heading to the door to see Alina royal Kiara and Layla to say i surprised was just an understatement. 

"What is this," i asked the kids 

"i think it's time for you all to let your hatred go and talk, i think even when you all tried to get along it was fake because you two never really talked about the elephant in the room... and by elephant i mean Dave." Kiara stated 

"Uhm wow," was all i could say "uhm come in" was all i could say before the kids ran off in different direction this was it the moment i had never thought i would truly get. i watched as Layla let out a deep breath before sitting down as well. i knew this wasn't easy for her just like it wasn't for me this was new and i wonder how this conversation would go. i know if Tay was here, we would probably be rolling on the floor by now fighting. 

"You don't look so good..." Layla stated 

"Well thanks I'm trying" i smiled weakly 

"I'm really sorry you are going through this i know this feeling all too well," she shrugged 

"We do need to talk Layla," i told her 

"that's what my daughter keeps telling me... i just want to know about what miracle the past is the past shit happened," 

"More than shit happened Layla i ruined your marriage Layla i know you are still upset about that," 

"You know what miracle i was mad at you for a long time i maybe still am a little bit but watching you go through what i went through i don't wish that on nobody." "i was just so busy being mad at you i never got the chance to actually be mad at Dave... and me and Dave made that for better or worse thing real. i wasn't a saint by far but i felt like it spiraled when you came back into the picture," she told me 

" i agree i played my part i can't deny that. i comment you for taking in royal when you did i know that had to be hard for you i know I've said it before, but it takes a strong woman to accept her husband other child." 

"It wasn't hard to care for royal he didn't ask for the situation he was born into nor did i ever blame him for it." " and i guess you are repaying the favor to me since Alina basically lives here now and i know she is a hand full" she laughed 

"Well, she is your daughter," i laughed 

"Dave really left some scars huh?"

"it's the ones i don't physically see that hurts the worst, and the funny thing is i keep hearing him apologize and it hurts every time he does,"

"Because every time he does it proves the girl that was screaming on the inside right. that little voice that was in the back of your head it just proves her right, and as right as she was, we really just hoped she was wrong about it. hell about him," layla shrugged 

"How did you get past it all," i asked 

"To be honest i never did it hurt every time he came home smelling like you. every time he apologized it hurt every time i seen you two co parent it hurt. having to watch the man you love and would have died for. love someone and give someone a piece of them it hurts. makes you wonder too." 

"And it took for me to be in your position to see where your hate for me came from," i cried "why did we hold on for so long though the red flags where there," i chuckled wiping my eyes 

"For me i wanted exactly what i didn't have growing up a two-parent home for my kids. i watched my mom struggle to raise me and my siblings by herself i told myself that when i get grown and married i wasn't going to be a single parent and me and my husband was going to live happily ever after... and to be honest i was willing to sacrifice anything just to not be a single parent my dignity, morals, everything. but God had different plans for me," 

"i think for me i stayed because i wanted to prove you wrong," i laughed to myself "i wanted to be everything he complained you wasn't. i didn't want to cheat back i just accepted everything just so he could be happy. I lost myself trying to be the wife he claimed you wasn't," i shrugged 

"wow" was all she could say i watched as tears dropped from her eyes i wiped her eyes before hugging her. and we both cried in each other arms 

authors note.... 

2 more chapters to go i came up with the perfect ending and chile yall just buckle your seatbelts. i dropped some gems in this chapter i hope yall caught them. 

how yall feeling about layla and miracle finally talking?? 

how yall think all this is going to end?? 

how yall feeling about kiara decision to get rid of the baby?? 

"was tilly wrong for tell kentrell??