New Beginning

CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR

Raya

"Raya, it's 8:31 in the morning please call that man and stop worrying me," Naomi fussed. Her voice was groggy and hoarse, I guess she didn't have a good rest last night. I didn't really either. I tossed and turned all night because I couldn't get my mind off of Chris. I don't have a problem sleeping along any day, but with knowing he and I weren't on good terms at the moment it was messing with my mental. I didn't like that. I didn't like this. Which is why when I dropped the twins off to school this morning, I had to get it off my chest on how I was feeling. Naomi was unfortunately my victim that had to hear about it. 

"He could've at least sent me a good night text or something. He didn't even look at my Instagram stories yesterday. Being in my close friends and not viewing my shit is completely diabolical."

It was quiet on the phone. "Hellooo? Naomi? You fell sleep??"

"I'm sorry, who is this?"

"What," I asked confused taking a look at my phone.

"Oh, my bad. I thought I was talking to Danielle or something with how damn childish this conversation is sounding."

I smacked my lips, growing irritated with her lack of sensitivity right now. "Naomi, stop trying to be funny bro. You're going to make me mad."

"Bitch you done already made me mad! You complaining on my phone when you could've simply just reached out to the man. You say you miss him? Call him! You say you love him? Then stop dragging out this petty conversation and talk to him!

"Bye Naomi! Go to sleep," I hung up abruptly. She and this pregnancy attitude was not going to worry me. 

When I pulled up to the house I sat outside my car just thinking about everything. Maybe I was doing too much. It's just my feelings were so hurt from what Chris said. Maybe we can talk now, in a clearer space. I think the emotions were just a little too high to have that type of discussion then. It doesn't help that my temper is so quick. I sighed. I need to work on that. Without a second thought, I pressed Chris's contact and waited for the phone to ring. To my disappointment it never did. Straight to voicemail. Clearly, that was a mistake so I tried again.. again.. and one more time for good measure. 

"I know this nigga didn't," I said to myself. "I know this mf didn't!!" 

I was trying to keep my composure when I got a call from the gym.

"Hello," I answered with an attitude.

"Uhh, good morning Ms. Raya. This is Josh with Fit Life. I was calling to let you know that Chris has cancelled you all's session for today. I apologize for any inconvenience. Would you like to schedule for any other day this week?"

I stared at my phone once again. The way I looked at it, you would think it physically grew a mouth and a nose. "Hell naw, I don't want to reschedule! Matter fact tell him I said FUCK YOU! He won't have to worry about me again," I shouted before hanging up. I'm sorry Josh had to be the one to take the heat, but this man truly had me fucked up. Blocking me was the worst mistake that nigga could've made then to sum it up, he's moving weird too. Cancelling our session? Ok. Bet. He's about to see really quickly how Raya Simone Lee gets down! 

Chris 

5:48 AM

I let out the biggest sigh of relief when my head hit the pillow. I forgot how tiring taking care of a sick child could be. Fortunately, Royalty hasn't been ill for a good while. We found out that my baby had the stomach flu. We got out of urgent care so late that we couldn't pick up the antibiotics prescribed to her until later this morning. I told Nia she and Royalty could just spend the night at my house. We were a lot closer to my place than hers. She was tired. I was tired. Royalty was tired. It made more sense to let them rest over here. Sadly, Royalty went from throwing up to having diarrhea all night. Nia and I stayed up with her to comfort her because we could tell it was a lot on her. She finally settled down a little after 4:30. Nia slept in her room with her and I went to mine to take a shower and get my body prepared to lay down too. I really hadn't been attentive to my phone, so I checked it just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. Nope. Nothing from the person that mattered. Alright then. Guess she's still mad, I thought. I was way too exhausted to even worry myself about it at the moment. That's something to handle when I wake up.  I texted Josh to cancel all of my appointments for today because I wasn't coming, then I rolled over on my side and let out a breath of air. What a day. I didn't want to be bothered this morning so I decided to set an alarm to wake up at 9:00 to get to the pharmacy. I also put my phone on Do Not Disturb. I needed some shut eye, uninterrupted. A nigga was wore out.