Disclosure

Baby Baby...

*That Same Night*
October 2
Beyoncé Knowles POV

3:03 am
I woke up out of my sleep to a small knock on my apartment door. In a neighborhood like this, this could only be the police or some niggas trying to come up, but the police definitely didn't knock like that. I sighed and got up carefully so I wouldn't wake Megan. My first instinct was to go and get Alex.

"Al?" I shook him awake after entering into his room unannounced. He and Amala were asleep in his bed. I probably should have knocked, but we didn't have time for that.

"Somebody's outside the door. Where's the gun?" I asked him.

"Nigga what?" He groggily responded. I rolled my eyes and opened his drawer to find it there, took it, and left. I then took a deep breath as I opened the door, unintentionally flashing the weapon at Onika as she squealed.

"It's me! It's me!" She screamed and cried from the dark foyer.

"Onika what the hell?" I pulled her inside the dark apartment. When I turned the lights on, I could see her face clearly and my heart shattered into pieces I couldn't quantify. All I could do was shake my head in confusion as I tried to come to terms with what I was seeing.

"Baby what happened? Tell me right now." I placed the gun on the table and grabbed her face gently. She didn't have to tell me for me to know, but still I hoped it wasn't what it looked like. I silently prayed for her to tell me she took a hard fall or something. Anything but what I was thinking right now.

"What's going on?" Megan came out of the room in just a big t shirt. Onika turned her head, possibly out of embarrassment or because she didn't want to see another woman come out of my room. Megan also seemed a little jealous. She had been questioning me about Onika since the little interaction at the gala. But then she did something I didn't really expect. She walked up to Onika and grabbed her hand, leading her to the kitchen. She then pulled out some random frozen item and applied it to Onika's face. I watched until Al and Amala came out of the room and startled me.

"What is going on?" Amala asked while rubbing sleep from her eyes. No one responded, just let them read the room eventually. Once it was apparent what had happened, Al came over to me immediately.

"He gone get his." He looked at me intensely, probably reading my mind. I had been stuck in the same spot for awhile contemplating what I would do to this man. I then grabbed the gun quickly before attempting to walk out the door until I felt Alex's arms restrain me.

"Who's she going to have if you go to jail?" He whispered to me, only angering me more.

"Do you see her face?!" I exploded and pushed him off me.

"You need to relax man. He gone get his but you need to be smart. All our energy need to go to helping her get through this. This not about you Bey." He spoke sense to me, forcing me to look at it from his perspective. After sitting the gun down, I walked over to where Amala and Megan were both comforting Onika.

"Busted lip and some bruising. It doesn't look too bad though." Megan told me before I sat on the counter in front of them and sighed.

"I'm thinking you should maybe go to the hospital." I told her softly.

"No.. no hospital. I just needed to get away from him." She refused.

"Onika the baby.." I reminded her. I had just outted her pregnancy to both the women but it was what it was. Megan looked at me cautiously and I knew she was thinking what everyone was probably thinking, but I couldn't deal with both of them right now.

"The baby's fine. I feel fine. I just needed somewhere safe to come to. I'm sorry I've disturbed all of you." She apologized.

"I really think you all have a lot to figure out right now so we're just gonna.." Megan started as she began gathering all her items that she could see. After she was done, she grabbed Amala's hand.