I'm Not Ok (MegYoncé)

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27 years ago.

Beyoncé wakes up to noises in the living room.

She's home sick, and nobody is supposed to be in the house, least of all her father, who works an hour away.

However, his voice is one of the two that Beyoncé hears.

She also hears a woman's voice.

Not her mother's. It's someone unfamiliar.

She groggily climbs out of the bed, still dazed by the flu medicine her mother gave her before she left for her job at the library.

She quietly and tiptoes to the door.

She walks out of the room silently walking to the living room where she sees her father having sex with their neighbor Mrs. Hunter.

He spots her immediately but doesn't stop.

"Gone back in the room!" He demands still fucking the lady.

Beyoncé goes back to her room.

She lays in the bed, her mind reeling as she fights the medication's pull.

Sleep is heavy on her but she's trying to figure out why her father is cheating on her mother in the middle of the day in their own home.

She finds herself being awakened by rough slaps to her face.

Not hard enough to really hurt but enough to jolt her out of her medication-induced sleep.

"Wake up, boy."

She opens her eyes to her father's scowling face.

"You didn't see nothing earlier, you hear me?" William says blowing cigarette smoke in her face.

She nods.

The smoke stings her eyes but that sting feels better than looking at the hate written all over her father's face as he angrily glares at her.

"Good. Fix me a sandwich right quick before I go back to work."

"I got the flu, daddy." She croaks out through her sore throat.

"Do I look like I give a damn about any of that shit?" William asks rhetorically.

He never gets sick. He hasn't had a runny nose in 30 years.

"Ham sandwich. Extra cheese." He says getting up.

Beyoncé makes her way to the kitchen where her father is waiting expectantly.

She makes the sandwich and her father takes it, walking out of the house.

She falls asleep at the kitchen table, unable to fight the medicine and the illness.

When they get home, Donna and the girls find Bey in the kitchen sleeping.

"Stop poking her, Solo." Michelle says shooing the 4 year old away.

"Bey?" Donna says shaking the ailing girl.

"Hm?" Beyoncé mumbles.

"Why are you in the kitchen?" She asks.

"Dad wanted a sandwich." She says groggily.

Donna furrows her brows in confusion.

William has been at work all day.

She places her hand on Bey's forehead.

She's burning up. Maybe her fever is making her have hallucinations.

"Y'all help your sister to bed while I start dinner." She sighs.

—A few hours later—

William comes into the house at the usual time.

He throws his shit on the floor and drags to the kitchen table, plopping down in his seat.

He looks around the table at his kids before looking at his wife.

It's too quiet.

Kelly and Michelle are eating with their heads down and Solange is just in her own little world.

Donna is trying to push down a quiet anger.

Dinner goes by silently and instead of the girls washing the dishes, Donna sends them to their rooms.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" William questions his wife.

"Where have you been today?" Donna asks him.

"Work." He says.

"You sure about that?" She wonders. "Because Beyoncé says she made you a sandwich earlier."

He grits his teeth angrily.

He told Beyoncè not to say shit.

"I came home because I left my wallet. She offered me a sandwich before I went back." He lies.

It's clear he's trying to get away with something because he never refers to Beyoncé as 'she'.

"Hmm. Why did I find Deborah Hunter's earring in the couch cushions?" She asks.

"I don't know. Looks like one of yours." He shrugs.

"I know this is her earring because I gave it to her for her birthday. I know it wasn't in the couch yesterday because I cleaned the couch yesterday..." She says pulling out her inner Whitney.

"Brian! Get in here." He yells.

Beyoncé comes into the kitchen quietly with tissue plugging her runny nose.

"Yes?" She asks.

"Tell your mother that I left my wallet here and I came back to get it." He says coaching her to answer appropriately.

Beyoncé looks between her parents for a moment before she speaks.

She spends several seconds trying to decide if she should tell her mother the truth.

She'll be in trouble either way so she decides to be honest.

"He was having sex with Mrs. Hunter." She tells her mother, looking down at the ground to avoid her father's angry gaze.

"You a piece of shit you know that?" He barks at Beyoncé before he socks her in the stomach causing her to throw up the soup she just ate, directly onto him.

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