Thug Love

Chapter 05

The night of the rape, I cried to myself. Once again, I felt completely disgusted. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror. I heard my phone constantly ringing, but I didn't want to move. After ringing for a half hour straight, I finally reached for my phone. I saw Chres' picture displaying on my screen as he called me for the fifteenth time. I answered but said nothing.

When the phone connected, Chres heard sniffling.

"Bahja?" He heard soft cries.

"Ma, what's wrong?" His heart began racing.

"It happened again" she whispered.

Chres pressed the phone tightly against his ear, "Mami, I need you to speak louder. What happened?"

"It happened again Chres."

His heart stopped, "What happened again?"

"He raped me." With just saying those words, I burst into tears. He lost it, "WHO DID WHAT!?"

"Montae raped me" I was still whispering incase Montae was somewhere close.

Chres whipped his Benz around in the middle of an intersection, barely missing two passing cars. He raced to Bahja's house, which luckily was only around the corner. He just listened to her cry as he sped to her house. "Hold on baby girl, I'm coming for you."

Five minutes later, he illegally parked his car in front of Bahja's apartment building. He flew up the stairs to the second floor and pounded on the front door like he was the police. "Bahja, ma it's me, open the door please."

I was afraid to move. I felt straight up disgusting in every sense of the word. I was just getting over the first rape but now here I was, raped in the comfort of my own home. 

"Ma, please open the door."

I dragged myself out of my bed and to the front door. I wiped my swollen red face. As soon as I opened the door, I fell into Chres' arms and cried my heart out. Hearing my cries, Montae came out of my moms room and walked into the living room. Which made me hugged Chres tighter knowing Montae was in the room.

The way that Chres glared at Montae, if looks could kill, Montae would have dropped dead right where he stood.

"Muthafucka, I promise you, you gone wish you never did this to her!" Chres seethed through clenched teeth. He scooped me up like I was his bride, and carried me to the car. I cried silently the entire ride. Chres drove me straight to his home. I had a zombie like look on my face. Chres stripped me out of my clothes and placed me in the warm bath water. He felt me relax in the water and before he knew it, I was crying once again.

"Shh, bae, it's gonna be okay. I promise you, I'm gonna take care of you."

"I feel damaged. No one will ever want me. I'm broken no one wants a girl who has been raped not once but twice. I will never be loved. Larray didn't love me, Diamond didn't love me, my mother doesn't love me, and my piece of shit father doesn't love me. Only person that loves me is being held like a caged animal. If I'm all alone out here."

Chres' heart broke listening to Bahja cry. He also picked up on her saying she was raped twice, but figured he would question it later. A tear fell from his eye, he kissed Bahja's forehead. "I love you Bahja flaws and all. I wish I could've protected you from the things you've gone through. I may not have been there before, but I'm here now and I vow to protect you as long as you allow me too. It'll be me and you against the world baby girl. Give your all to me, ma. Hand your problems over to me and let me take care of them."