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XVII

Atlanta, Georgia
The next morning

"When will we get there?" Desire asked, finally speaking up after driving with him for the past five hours without speaking to him.

Von cleared his throat as he sat up from the slouching position he was in. "Soon." He said lowly, staring at the road straight ahead. Just tapping his thumb on the steering wheel.

He knew Desire was mad at him so he didn't want to talk and it turn into an argument. He was more mad at himself than anything.

"Okay..." Desire said slowly turning her head towards him. Watching as he held his bottom lip hard between his teeth as he drove. She just wanted to kiss him so badly but she had to restrain herself.

Feeling her phone vibrate, she quickly picked it up seeing Asian was calling her back so she quickly clicked the green button.

"Y'all still not there yet?" Asian chuckled putting her face in the camera, seeing that she was still in the car.

Desire shook her head huffing loudly. "He said we'll be there soon. What did you have to ask me earlier?" She asked, smiling as Asian smiled at her making her slouch in her seat.

"Um... oh yeah, did you get your medicine?" She asked seeing her nod.

"Mhmm. Von got it for me right after we left." Desire said before covering her mouth seeing Asian's smile fade. "I'm sorry..." Desire said lowly as she just nodded.

Asian hated Von the most right now but she didn't want to take it out on Desire and make her feel bad for saying anything that involved him.

"It's okay, baby." Asian chuckled seeing how scared she looked. "Remember I set up an appointment for your therapy session?" She asked as Desire's screen went on pause.

The car now stopped by the red light, Von looked over at Desire with a straight face after hearing her say sorry for saying his name. It replayed over and over in his head as his heart broke every time it did.

"Ye-yes?" Desire asked looking over at him with a a small pout on her face. Clearing her throat as her palms started getting sweaty.

"You hate me?" He asked placing his hand on her thigh, hearing her voice hitch.

Desire slowly looked down as he squeezed her thigh lightly. "...A little bit." She said in her regular tone, her voice clear and soft.

Von just nodded moving his hand back to the wheel. "You still love me though, right?" He asked as he continued to tap his thumb against the wheel. Staring straight ahead of the road again.

"Mhmm." She hummed looking back at her phone seeing Asian's screen was now facing the ceiling.

Von licked his lips as he nodded his head slowly. "Now all of a sudden you can't speak? Use your words, ma I don't understand that humming shit." He said smacking his lips feeling her gaze on him.

"Yes." She said making eye contact with him for a little moment to let him know she was being serious. She just hated him a little bit because of what he did to Asian.

"Alright... Alright cool." He said nodding his head with a smirk on her face."Listen, I didn't mean to scare you. I just blacked out and let my emotions get the best of me-" He was about to finish but was cut off.

"Desire?" Asian called out only because she didn't want to hear his voice anymore. She called to talk to Desire. Not to listen to him.

Desire switched her gaze back down to her phone quickly picking it up to her face.

"Yes? I- I'm sorry momma, he was saying something to me." She said putting her face back in the camera.

Asian rolled her eyes seeing the corner of Von's face. "You heard me? I was just reminding you that your therapy session is in two days... let him know to." She said lowly as her heart sank trying not to say his name.

"Do I have to go? I hate them people, all they do is question you and judge you." Desire said smacking her lips.

When she was in the psych ward they got in a therapy group circle and the nurses made them reveal at least one deep secret about themselves and she decided to tell them that she had a boyfriend who was coming to get her tomorrow and they just laughed at it for five minutes straight.

She felt so humiliated and never wanted to talk to them again. No one ever believed her when she said it either and she wished Von had picked her up in front of all of them so they could finally believe her.

"No they won't... imma make sure that won't happen okay?" Asian said softly making Desire feel a little better.

She nodded her head slowly watching as Asian's camera faced the ceiling again. "What you doing?" She asked seeing her shadow shuffle around the room.

"Getting ready to run some errands." Asian said picking her phone back up. Chuckling at Desire's confused face.

"Where?" Desire asked as her smile dropped seeing the short pink cropped top she wore that showed a lot of cleavage with her true religion jeans.

Asian put her camera down more showing her the rest of her outfit. "To the studio, the mall and probably the club or something... I'm just tryna get out the house." She shrugged putting the camera back up to her face.

"You not gon cheat on me is you?" She said making eye contact with her through the screen.

Asian chuckled seeing how serious she got. "No, baby... quit saying stuff like that." She said frowning at her.

"I'm sorry, it's just... every time you go out when I'm not with you I think about that girl who was sitting on the porch." Desire said truthfully shrugging her shoulders, hearing Von chuckle.

Asian smacked her lips getting an image of Destiny and what happened that night in her head. "Oh my gosh why would you remind me of that shit man." She chuckled shaking her head.

"See look... you smiling while you think about her." Desire shook her head seeing the visible smirk on her face.

"Desire come on bro. It's not even like that." Asian smacked her lips seeing the sad expression on her face as she put her camera down.

Von looked over taking a peek of her phone. Seeing a little piece of what Asian was wearing making him shake his head. But he didn't have a say because she was already mad at him.

"Stop calling me bro... I'll call you when we get here." Desire said lowly making Asian feel bad and wish she was in her presence.

"Okay baby, I'm sorry." Asian said kissing her camera as if she was actually there. "I love you." She said watching as a small smirk formed on her face.

"Love you too." Desire said lowly before hanging up the phone.

She turned to the window seeing that they were surrounded by nothing but trees. "I have to go to the bathroom..." She said turning to Von as he just nodded.

"You could hold it for just a little bit longer?" He asked biting the inside of his cheek, remembering he hasn't ate anything since they left the doctor's office.

Desire just shook her head looking back out the window as she rested her arms in her lap.

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