Orelia Foster never thought that she would escape.
She never thought that one day, someone would come and take her away from the man who's had her most of her life.
Who only cares about the money he can make off of her.
That's how most foster par...
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✦ 𝑅 𝑂 𝐺 𝑈 𝐸 ✦ (In My Head - Bedroom)
Leon watches me from his spot on the couch as I storm inside, my anger like a fuse waiting for someone to make it finally go off.
No one better to do it than him.
"What's the matter with you?" His voice makes my hands, which are already shaking, shake more.
I want to strangle him until his last breath. I want him to hurt like he hurt Orelia. I want him to hurt like he made me hurt for all those years.
So I pause on the steps, waiting for him to say something else.
"Are you fucking deaf?" He says and I hear him sit up from the couch.
I close my eyes, trying to get my breathing to calm down. Trying to get the shaking of my hands to stop but they won't. They won't stop and the only person who has ever made them stop isn't here right now because she hates me.
And I want to blame Leon for everything. He is responsible more than me. But if I wasn't dumb enough to ask her—if I wasn't stupid enough to lie to her and keep lying everything would be fine.
He stands up and he's coming towards me. I can hear his footsteps. They sound magnified for some reason.
"Maybe you are deaf, boy. Maybe that girl has made you too bold for my liking. I don't know what's going on between the two of you but we made a deal-"
Before I can stop myself, I have him against the wall, my hands tight around his throat. His eyes bulge out of his head as he tries to get my hands off of him.
"Deal?" I stare at him as if he's gone crazy. "Deal, Leon? I'm not the one who broke that deal. You said you wouldn't tell Orelia what happened."
He pats my hands and I loosen the grip I have on his throat just enough so he can talk. He takes in a big gulp of air. "I...I didn't tell her...what happened!" He shouts in between each breath.
"You called her mother here. I know you did."
"I had to! Y'all were getting too buddy buddy. You broke the deal first when you started getting a little of her pussy-"
I tighten my hands back around his throat. "Don't you ever speak about her like that, Leon. I swear to God I'll kill you right here."
The fear that passes over his eyes shouldn't be as satisfying as it is. It shouldn't bring me joy but it does but then I think about how if I killed him I'd without a doubt go to prison and I would never let Leon take another thing from me.
