'Til We Meet Again Book 2

Chapter 66

It's now summertime in Michigan but the weather has been cold and rainy, not your typical summer. Hopefully, it'll be sunny cause I want to go down to this lake that Marshall has been raving about. Three weeks ago, I flew out to see Kristy graduate high school. It was a memorable moment, I recorded the whole thing. Mom and Shanice flew out as well to see her. Kristy is spending her summer break in Europe before she starts college with Chase. They are becoming serious but Chase is not going to college, he's getting a full-time job down at this plaza. He doesn't want to follow in Phillips's footsteps in becoming a prosecutor.

I'm doing the dishes after the girls had breakfast, Kim picked them up shortly after Marshall left for the studio since Paul called him up telling him he wants Marshall to meet someone at the studio. At first, Marshall declined because he wanted to spend the day with the girls and I but the meeting was important so he left. Ten minutes later, Kim came by to pick the girls up without telling Marshall the night before and she didn't mention to me why she picked them up.

My phone buzzes on the coffee table as I'm drying my hands with a towel. I rush over to my flip phone and check the called ID 'Nancy' I flip open my phone and answer the phone call "Hey" I plop down on the sofa, my intention wasn't to sound as distant as I'm being but I haven't heard from her in months and she is calling me up now "Amanda, I'm so sorry we haven't spoken in months, I was going through a lot with Phillip and Chase" Nancy gets straight to the point "Fill me in" I'm interested to know what happened while I haven't heard from her "Phillip got another job as a prosecutor in a different firm, he's getting good pay and doesn't work past his shift plus his boss really likes him, she claims he's the best at what he does. He's prosecuted already three" I know Nancy is smiling right now

"But Chase, don't even get me started with him, he's exactly like his biological father. He doesn't want to go to college and we got into a heated argument because I don't want him to flush his life down the toilet. He told me I'm only Dre's assistant, I won't get further than that in my career" I shake my head "He's being so unfair" I say "I don't know what's going on with him, I don't know anything about him because he doesn't tell me, I just know that he loves Kristy. I know he got into this huge fight over a month ago, he came home with a black eye and a busted lip" Nancy sounds worried "Have you tried taking him to shrink?" I ask Nancy "Phillip and I spoke about it after graduation and we agreed to tell Chase after he comes back home from Europe to see if he wants to but I doubt he will" Nancy sighs "You have to try, it's not right what's going on, it sounds like he's progressively getting worse and it will hurt you" I warn her

"It's hurting me, he's my son and I love him" I feel so bad for Nancy, I wish there was more I can do to help "I'm sorry" I sigh "I'm sorry too, what's been going on with you?" I explain to her everything thats happened over the last few months. We talk for twenty more minutes and I hear Marshalls car "Marshall's home, I have to go now" I tell Nancy as I look at the door "I have to get back to work" Nancy hangs up the phone and the door swings open.

I see Marshall walk inside and take off his shoes "Hey, where are the girls?" Marshall asks me as he scans the room, I get up and walk over to him "Kim came by after you left and took the girls home" I tell Marshall and furrows his brows "Did she say why?" He asks me "She didn't but Marshall I'm worried, she looked sickly pale, and when I asked her what was going on all she said it was nothing and I shouldn't have to worry" I've never seen Kim look so sick the way she looked this morning "I'mma call her" Marshall grabs his phone and calls her up.

He walks over to the sofa and sits down "You took the girls without telling me?...... NO, I don't want to hear an fucking excuse, Kim... HEY, I was supposed to have the girls for the weekend that was the agreement...... Amanda said you looked sickly pale..... don't call her a bitch" Marshall yells "She isn't fucking half of Michigan like you are....... I swear to God Kim if you are lying to me, I'll fucking bury you alive, you understand me" I see his face go blank "You're WHAT?" Marshall screams and hangs up the phone, he throws the phone against the wall and it shatters

"What happened?" I ask Marshall as he runs his hands over his head and bangs the coffee table "Marshall" I sit down next to him "Leave me the fuck alone, Amanda" Marshall gets up "Don't talk to me that way" I raise my voice at him "Now tell me what happened?" He looks infuriated, fire in his eyes, and his fists are clenched "Kim's two months pregnant" He relaxes and looks broken in a way "I'- I'm so sorry" I don't know what to say to him to make him better.

All of a sudden, Marshall pulls me in for a deep, heated kiss. I can feel his anger reflecting off of him as he roughly rips off my t-shirt, he forcefully pushes me against the wall without breaking the kiss and lifts my knee up to his waist. He moves his kiss down to my neck as he moves in closer to me, closing the space between us "Are you su-" He cuts me off by placing his hand over my mouth, continuing to kiss my neck "Shhh" is all he says. He pulls off my sweatpants and everything with it and aggressively turns me around, I feel him enter me, and starts off rough. His grip on my waist is strong and he is digging his nails into my skin. He's hurting me "Marshall stop, you're hurting me" I don't know if I'm crying because I'm in pain or because I'm in pleasure. A little bit of both.

He stops after five minutes and leaves, he heads to the studio without saying a single word. This is the second time he's made me feel used. I run up to our room in tears and slam the door shut. I don't have anywhere to go, Shanice is at work at Daycare and my mom is at work as well. I took a day off from work today, in hopes I would get some time to myself and relax but I haven't yet and right now I'm not in the mood to.

Not even an hour passed, and I hear the door open and close. I hear his footsteps getting closer to the bed and I feel a heavy pressure on the bed, he lays down and wraps his arm around me "I'm sorry" Marshall sounds regretful for what he did "This is the second time you made me feel used" I turn over to meet his eyes "I know, I know I'm a terrible fucking boyfriend" Marshall sighs "But you don't understand-" I cut him off "I do understand, I understand a part of you is heartbroken that Kim is having another baby, I understand that you love her and always wanted a big family with her so please spare me because I understand more than you think" I glare at him "It hurts, Amanda" I place my hand on his cheek "I know it's hurting you, you should have told me instead of making me feel used"

I love him, I do but his angry sex and temper tantrums need to stop because I'm not the kind of girl he can just fuck whenever he's angry and leaves. I'm in it for the long ride "You still love me?" Marshall asks me with hope in his eyes "Of course I do but you hurt me" I admit "I promise I won't do it again" He kisses my forehead "Have a little faith in me" Kim didn't have much faith in him during the relationship "I have faith in you but if you do it again, I'm leaving you" I warn him and he nods "So what happened at the studio?" I ask him lighting the mood since we both feel gloomy and hurt

"Me and Paul talked with this director Curtis Hansen about a new upcoming movie he wants me to star in" Marshall says "There isn't a title, it's just called Untitled Detroit Project, it's a movie based on my life before the fame, it takes place in 1995" Marshall continues "Do you wanna shoot the movie?" I ask Marshall "Yeah, I read over the script and it sounds good, I play Jimmy Smith JR, Deshaun and Obie will also be in the movie" Marshall smiles at me "When do you start shooting?" I ask him "August" Marshall says "Can I come see you onset?" I hope he will, I would love to meet all the cast in the movie and see him act "Of course you can" Marshall smiles "You're gonna have fun" I'm looking forward to seeing him starr in his first movie, this is going to be exciting.