East Atlanta Love Letter

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Diamond Brown
+3 weeks

"I love you." She held on to Marcus. "Please don't leave me." She frowned holding on to him. "Baby...I gotta go to work." He chuckled.

"No you don't. You WANT to-" he cut her off. "Diamond please. I need to go to work." He laughed as he kissed her lips.

"I love you more. I'll be back before you know it." He spoke.

"Okay. I love you." She kissed his lips. "I love you too." He spoke before standing up. She stood up as well and followed him downstairs.

She hopped on his back and he held her tightly. "When we gon have some pretty chocolate babies?" He asked.

"Um very far in the future." She spoke. "Yeah right." He mumbled as she gif down. "Okay bye. See you later." She spoke. "Alright." He kissed her lips as they made it to the door.

"What you finna do?" He asked. "Probably just take a shower and go to bed." She spoke. He nodded. "If I can I'll call you in the morning." He spoke.
She nodded.

He walked out of the house and she shut and locked the door before going upstairs to do what she said she would.

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Diamond laid in Marcus' bed alone as she held on to his pillow and watched tv.

She yawned lowly before hearing noises. Before she sat up she seen the light cut on and Marcus stood there.

"What you doing back here?" She sat up with a smile. "They had enough firemen and I supposedly wasn't even on the schedule today." He shrugged.

"So they let me come home." He spoke. "Oh good." She smiled as he walked to the closet. Soon he walked out of the closet with barely anything on.

He walked over to her and kissed her. "I was thinking about you every minute since I left. Ion know why." He mumbled before kissing her again.

She smiled. "I'll make it quick. Please." He spoke. "Take your time." She spoke making him climb over her.

After the two finished making love and showering they laid in bed together and went to sleep.

The next morning they were up and talking. Diamond laid on his chest toying with his chin hairs as she stared and admired him.

"What you looking at?" He asked as he looked down at her and kissed her lips. "Nothing." She mumbled laying her head down.

"I love you so much Marcus. And I know you think I'm being dramatic but I reallyyy reallyyy love you. When I met you....well before I met you I was really planning to....well as crazy it sound, I was planning to take my life. I just wasnt happy. I learned about something called post incarceration syndrome. But when I met you, you were the only person keeping me happy and if I didn't meet you I don't think I'd be here. Even though I'm just now telling you that I love you, I've loved you for a long time now." She explained .

"Baby you know I've loved you for a while too. I don't believe God put me in ya life by mistake. I'm glad I met you, and I'm glad I saved you. I love you." He kissed her lips and smelt the small bit of alcohol on her breath which was probably why she was confessing everything. He knew his girlfriend was usually the secretive type.

"You had a drink?" He asked. "Just one." She shrugged. "One what?"

"Bottle. But that was last night." She spoke and he furrowed his eyebrows. He sat up and sighed.

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Diamond stared awkwardly as Niani cried on the bathroom floor with her mother next to her.

"You were only 15 Niani, you didn't need that baby anyways." Her mother spoke. Diamond stomach turned seeing the blood in the toilet.

"But I wanted my baby." She cried and diamond walked away to find her father.

She seen Thomas in the garage smoking a cigar. "Hey daddy." She sat down.

"Hey baby girl." He spoke. "How you been?" He asked. She nodded. "I'm just fine. You?" She asked.

"Oh I'm real good. Niani in there throwing a fit cuz she done lost that baby. I understand it's a lot of pain to lose a baby, but she gotta understand she only 15. Her body wasn't ready for that yet and she wasn't ready for it mentally either. she did all that hooping and hollering about not wanting the baby and know she won't get up." He shook his head.

Diamond nodded. "I agree. I don't think she was ready for a baby at all. I was so worried for that baby."