Numbed

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Anthony is about to meet the man. When he sees a picture of him & Lamaya back when we're working together at his old bingo hall he takes it & sits on the couch he takes in a deep breath, he starts to remember the good times with her.

3 years ago

It's very busy at the bingo hall on Friday nights Lamaya is trying to serve everyone as fast she can "Ok Ms. Sanchez here is your bingo cards" she tells her "Thank you so much sweetie oh no here comes trouble" she tells referring to Anthony "Lemme help you" he says "Go right ahead" she tells him as she keeps doing her job "You 2 are gonna end up together I can feel it, then you both are love each other to the end no matter what happens" Ms. Sanchez says to them "Me with him yeah right ok is that before or after I start doing drugs" Lamaya says jokingly, Anthony rolls his eyes "Ok you both don't believe me I give it a couple years & you wait" she says to them.

"She's crazy I would never wanna end with you" she tells him "Why not? you act like your a prize?" he shot back "Boy please you dream about being with me, you know you love secretly love me I know you do, everyone in this damn bingo hall knows it" she tells him as she start taking out the money from the cash register placing it in a safe deposit box under neath it "Come in to my office I wanna talk to you about something" he asks her "Oh please boy no your nothing but a player & you like to use woman I'm not dumb, so don't even try it with me you can talk to yourself in your own office" she tells him as she walk away to attend some of the people playing bingo.

Anthony is about to go into his office when Ms. Sanchez follows him inside "I know you love that girl Anthony" she tells him "Ms. Sanchez she is just a girl who works here I can't be with someone who works here. I'm not tryna have people be all up in my personal relationships or whatever why aren't you out there playing bingo with everyone else?" he asks her "Because I know young love when I see it. I'll bet what ever I win tonight that you & Lamaya are gonna fall in love with each other one day & If I am wrong then you can keep it" she tells him "No Ms. Sanchez please go play your bingo before I shut it down" he tells her.

"Whatever you say Anthony you know I am right" she says

...

"She was right" he says to himself.

He puts the picture down & places his head in his hands "I'm so sorry Maya, I wanna make sure everything is good when I am gone. That way I could rest without having to worry about you struggling out here I wanna make sure you & my kids are set for life" he thinks to himself.

.........

Lamaya is cleaning the kitchen when Camilla walks in "Mommy can I call Daddy I really miss him" she says to her "Of course go use the house phone" she says as she keeps washing the dishes.

She goes to the living room & dials Anthony's number.

Anthony looks at his phone to see an unknown number "Who the.... hello?" He says "Hi daddy" she says with a big smile on her face. "Hi princess, daddy misses u a lot" he tells her & he can hear the sniffing & sobbing "I miss u too" she says trying to hold herself together "Princess don't cry, everything is gonna be ok alright how's mommy?" He asks "She's ok why can I see you, I miss u a lot daddy, I just wanna hug you daddy. Did I do something wrong?" She asks "No princess none of this is your fault at all. Daddy just did something very stupid & I didn't listen to mommy when I should have. Can you put mommy on the phone for me please" He asks "Ok... Daddy?" she says "Yeah princess?" he tells her "I love you" she says as she wipes the tears on her face "I love you so much more princess" he says to her.

She gives the phone to her mother "What did you tell her?" she says "Nothing why are you acting like I'm the worst person in the world?" he tells her "Anthony, I'm not acting like nothing. You wanna lie to me on our wedding day then lie to our daughter. You made a promise to me that you stop your bullshit, you went right back to your bullshit. Anthony after everything that we have been through, doesn't show you that you gotta put a stop to it but I guess your family isn't enough to prove that.

Anthony I don't know what to do anymore" she tells him as she is holding her belly "So what are you saying?" he asks "If you continue this type of lifestyle I don't know if we can stay together" she says as the tears fall from her eyes.

"What you gonna divorce me? Lamaya I love you we can get through this, I'm only doing this because I wanna make sure when I'm gone you & the kids are gonna be alright I don't have you worry about you needing money, baby I'm just doing this for us. I want us to be alright I never wanna see you struggle like how you used too. I wanna make sure that you & our kids have the best life possible.

Everything I do is for you & the kids, you know that I am not a bad person nor a bad father but you wanna leave then I understand just know I love you, I love Camilla & I love our son with everything I got Ma" he says to her trying to hold back his tears.

Lamaya is in tears "Anthony, I love you too the death of me but I just can't see you hurt or in jail I don't wanna put our babies through that. I had to beg you to leave & that didn't even work. Anthony I don't know what else to do. Ant I don't wanna leave but you pushing me away" she says crying "How am I pushing you away because of what I do? that's all I know how to do & I have tried getting an honest job Maya you know that & they always shot me down. Then you knew my living situation my moms kicked me out I needed to make fast money & now that I have it you wanna leave me too. You the only girl I go hard for each & every day I just don't want you to leave me" he says sniff as he realizes that he's crying.

"Then stop Anthony" she tells him "I can't" he says back "Then goodbye" she says as she hangs up the phone "Lamaya?" He says...

She places the phone on the counter crying hysterically she sits on the floor just crying & Camilla goes to her "It's Ok mommy I miss daddy too" she says as they both cry holding each other.

Anthony is just sitting on the couch looking into the phone "I gotta stop this..."