In a world where pain is a shared experience, two souls find themselves opposite sides of the divide. One seeks an escape, the other clings to hope. The lives of these two strangers collide, sparking unfore anseen connection. Will the journey ahead...
"Sup sis, long time no speak." My big brother Trevon spoke into the other side of the phone. Almost dropping the phone out of my hand, I pulled myself together and listened to the voice on the other end. I never spoke about having an older brother, due various reasons. He was now a distant relative. There was a time myself and Trevon were inseparable, however that was long before he decided to abandon me along with my mother and turn to the streets.
He would always crack jokes and refer to me as the 'Golden Child' all because I didn't turn out the way he did. I took the high road, went to college, got my degree and though it no longer means anything, I even got married. Meanwhile he had been running around town, sleeping with every whore he could get his hands on. Making multiple babies and getting a bad rap for being a deadbeat.
The last memory I had of my big brother was watching my mother leave me on my grandmothers wooden porch and walking away with Trevon. The day that I knew I meant nothing to my mother. My big brother never came back for me, even after my nana passed away. I was forced to go into the foster care system, moving from home to home. Enduring sexual abuse, molestation and daily beatings. I eventually became labeled as a runaway, as I escaped every home they had ever placed me in.
Meanwhile my mother was out roaming the streets high off whatever drug she could get her hands on, and Trevon was somewhere probably distributing the very drug she got high on. Neither of them meant nothing to me, their absence haunted me like a bad dream that I couldn't escape.
Without saying a word, I hung up my phone and immediately blocked the number he called me from. I didn't care to talk to him or see him ever again in life. Pulling myself back together, I stuffed my face with the little bit of food I had left and clocked back in from my lunch break.
What a fucking day, I thought.
"I'm about this close to getting a restraining order on your weird ass. You got my husband and now you're probably carrying Malakai's child. What more do you want from me Zola?! You want my clothes too?!" I snapped.
I didn't even care who was listening or who watched. I was at my wits end with this bitches shenanigans.
"Maya, she didn't come here for that. She just want to talk." A familiar voice came from around the corner.
Getting on my work phone, I prompted for security to have bitch one and bitch two escorted off of the premises.
"Tae you got a lot of nerves, you were supposed to be my best friend—." Unable to finish my sentence, every bit of food I had just consumed started to come up. Running into a nearby bathroom, I released the digestive discomfort.
Today was going to shits and I just wanted to run away be all alone. Only person I wanted to be around at this very moment was Malakai. He always seemed to have the right words to say at every turning moment.
"Maya—."
"Tae respectfully fuck you. You sat in my face and knew exactly what that man was doing behind my back the entire time. Then you have the audacity to come up to my job with this bitch. I'll be lucky if I even have a job to come back to tomorrow. You dead wrong and I don't want to have anything else to do with you. You and your bum ass cousin need to leave me the fuck alone." I fought back tears.
Storming off, I watched security take both Tae and Zola away. My supervisor watched disappointed in the distance.
𝑨𝒎𝒊𝒓
"You should have seen the look on that bitches face." As she scarfed down two tacos back to back.
Disgusted was the only way I could describe the way I felt about her in this very moment. She giggled at the fact that she harassed Maya over a man who wanted nothing to do with her.
"You think that shit cool? If so, you need some fucking help. That man don't want nothing to do with your blow fish looking ass anymore. He moved on, learn to accept that shit and shut the fuck up." I huffed before storming off into the next room.
Pacing around the room, I found myself angry at myself for letting Maya slip into the arms of someone else. Yes, judge me and tell me to let it go. The only way I knew how to win her back was to change completely, all that started with getting rid of Zola and this baby. The only woman I've ever imagine sharing my seed with was Maya. Now there she was at a distance, loving someone else the way she could have simply been loving me.
I needed both him and his this bitch in my house out the picture before I could make my next move. The best way to do that was to distract Maya. Recently I bumped into her oldest brother Trey. Most people didn't know about Maya's big brother, only me. We exchanged contacts and agreed to stay in touch. Just the other day he expressed to me that he wanted to mend things with her and how he was in a different place in his life and had been a changed man.
Eventually giving him Maya's number, I prayed and hoped that my plan to get her back would work. Until then I needed Zola off my back and gone for good, right along with that nigga Micha or Michael. Hell whatever his name was, homeboy had to go.
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𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒏 - 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚟𝚎
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Zola and Tae messy asffff, my girl is just trying to love on Malakai in peace
