Addiction

Fourteen

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Fantasia

"Tasia.. Fantasia?" I woke up startled as Taraji looked at me.

"Hey you ok?"

"Yea, I-uh I'm fine."

"You don't look it. Talk time, what's up?" She sat up giving me her undivided attention.

"I had a bad dream honestly. Kendall he uh kidnapped my mother and beat her. The only way he was willing to set her free was if I married him."

"Lemme guess you agreed."

"Yes, you showed up and you weren't to happy. Almost like you became jealous, you asked was I getting married and I told you yes. It was like your heart broke in your eyes, I seen it and I immediately felt bad."

She looked at me with an unrecognizable expression. She backed up a bit getting out the bed fully.

"Hopefully that doesn't happen."

"Who you telling, I wouldn't know what to do honestly."

"Me either.. ima go ahead and shower, then head to check on Janet." He body language and demeanor changed almost instantly

"Taraji, you ok?"

"Yea, ima be fine." I tried to pulled her into me for a hug but she was stiff.

"Taraji, something is wrong with you." I said with a slight attitude.

"Look I'm just not feeling hearing that you was willing to marry him."

"To save my mom, yes."

"But you know he was probably bluffing."

"Raji, you're acting like we're together. I mean it was literally a dream. I'm not in control of what happened."

"You maybe right but still it's a dream that got a chance of coming true. Ian wanna witness that, so let's just stop this all together." This Heffa was tripping, like laced blunt tripping.

"Raji?"

"I'm for real Tasia, we should've never got this started."

"Don't do that, don't cause you could've been pulled away. You came on to me."

"Tasia, we came on to each other we ain't got to blame one another."

"Taraji, just chill out. Nothings gonna happen. Why you tripping?"

"Ian tripping."

"Yes you are."

"I'm not!"

"For Christ sake you are! You wanna stop fucking with me because of dream?! You're grown as shit and that's the best excuse you can come up with!" I stood up looking at her like the fool she was.

"I don't wanna stop fucking with you at all. In fact I wanna be the one to save you, love you, make love to you. I wanna free you of this mess, but I also don't wanna be caught in the crossfire especially if you choosing him over me."

"I— Taraji..."

"Look it seems foolish to fall almost completely in love with someone in a matter of days. Yet somehow you've managed to reel me in a love so true, something I was afraid to feel again; but you, you made it so easy."

We shared a moment of silence before she spoke again. "I'm not sure if it's lust or true love that's driving me this way. All I know is that you.. damnit my backs against the wall when it comes to you."

"It doesn't have to be.. let's start over and truly get to know each other then maybe you'll be able to tell the difference. Yea?"

"Yea."