Curved Line

Chapter 42- Confrontation

Ziare

"Why do you keep following me? You think I don't see you ? Leave me alone!" I yelled to him.

I was on my way to the gym to do a few workouts until I seen him from the corner of my eye. He was just following me. Every turn I made he was ten steps behind me.

I turned left, he was there.

I turned right, he was there.

I hit busy streets, alleys anywhere I thought I'd loose him ... But he was still there.

I figured since I was going to go work out I might as well walk considering the work out facility was only six blocks away. I actually liked walking, but now that I'm thinking of it that was a bad idea. I should've took the car like Trevis told me to but I wanted to be hard headed as usual.

I had to have been on main street because this street was the quitest out of all of them. There were people walking around going about their day but they didn't make much noise. Getting tired of every where I went he followed me. I couldn't stand being watched anymore, so that's why I decided to confront his dirty ass, a man that rapes and beats somebody for no reason was a coward and bitch at heart in my prerogative.

He stood in front of me with a grim look in his eyes before responding to my demand. "Yours gone come, just wait! You may think the rain comes before the storm but it's coming in full force bitch." He spat loudly with anger edged in his voice. "Leave me alone and stop following me. I wish your ass was dead." I yelled angrily causing some people to look at me with a look of disgust on their face.

"Careful what you wish for, I won't be the one dying." He finished before disappearing into an alley.

What the hell did that mean?

Hurriedly dialing my dads number and speed walking back to the house. He picked up on the third ring.

"You doing okay baby? How's your work outs doing?" He asked sincerely. "D-dad h-he ..." I cried frantically. "What's going on what's wrong? Talk slowly. What happened?" He asked a bit louder sounding alerted. "Zaytrion was following me again a-and I told him to leave me alone and I wished he died a-and he told me mine was gone come and to be careful what I wished for and he wouldn't be the one dying." I stuttered as I wailed loudly not being able to handle the events that had just taken place not too long ago. "He said what? Didn't I tell you stay away from him? Hurry up and come home I got something in store for his ass." He said angrily over the phone before hanging up.

"Are you okay? Did he touch you?" Trevis asked frantically.

I had just gotten done re-telling the story that I'd told my father to Trevis and he was beyond pissed.

"I guess I'm okay for now, he didn't touch me or anything. I don't know why he hates me so much. I mean the way he spoke to me was out of pure anger and I've never done anything to him. I mean I should be the one angry! Not him." My voice cracked a little bit as I began to get worked up all over again. "Don't even worry about dude ass, fuck him and his feelings. I don't even know why you so worried about him baby, let me and your dad handle him. All you have to worry about is Zayveon to be honest." He spoke as he ran his hand down my hair.

"No son. Your not about to get involved with this situation this time around-" My dad was saying before Trevis cut him off. " I ain't even trying to hear what you saying pops, he fucked up and I'd be damned if I let him get away with this. Ain't you tired of motherfuckers popping up whenever they want to threatening to kill either one of us? That shit stops now!" Trevis spoke loudly out of anger as he paced the living room rug.

Up and down, around and around nonstop. I was beginning to get dizzy the more I stared at him.

"I hear what you saying b-" Trevis cut off my dad again. If he kept doing that my dad was soon to get irritated. "I apologize for cutting you off again but yeah you hear me, but are you listening?" My dad nodded. "I'm just ready to kill anybody that got something to do with all this sick shit." Trevis finished as he sat down on the couch pushing me towards him. "Don't you think I know this? Look I don't care what you saying but I don't want you neither ZaCari in this. Don't you think if they trying to kill my baby that they won't kill anybody that's close to her? Meaning you, Cari, Zay, Rolo, ReZay and Jaleecia? So that's not even going down this time around. I'll handle this one way or another." My dad said sternly.

Once he said something his mind was made up and he wasn't changing anything.

"So what if they kill you Daddy? I-I don't want you to get killed! That can't happen, I'm tired of losing people a-and you just came back in my life. No!" I yelled as my voice cracked with each word I spoke. "You know I love you, I can't make any promises but I'm here to protect my family and if I die while doing it than that's just how it is." He said sincerely. Trevis held me even tighter.

"But I don't wanna lose you either." I spoke a little above a whisper putting my head down. "Shit I don't want to lose me either." He chuckled. "But if I gotta protect my family one way or another than that's exactly what I'm going to do. I just want y'all to have a normal life with out having to look over your shoulders every time you turn the corner. That's just not how I imagined my kids lives to be like." He said seriously. I nodded my head in defeat, I couldn't change his decision and I did want to live a normal life too. I'm tired of all this silly ass drama going on.

"Come here." My dad said. Getting up and walking towards him he held his arms up and gave me a big hug and kissed my forehead. "I love you ugly." He laughed. "I love you too." I said lowly.

"Hey, hey you guys I have a joke." Zay yelled running down the stairs and stopping in front of us. "What is it?" Trevis smiled as he sat up on the couch showing Zay he had his full attention. "Right." Me and my dad both agreed looking at Zay smirk.

"Okay so what do you call a gay drive by shooting?" He asked laughing.

What the hell?

"Shit I don't even know, what is it?" My dad asked. " Can I get a drumroll?" Zay asked and Trevis began doing a drumroll. "A Fruit Roll Up!" He yelled causing all of us to die out in a fit of laughter.

He always seemed to brighten our day even when we thought it couldn't get any more darker. I loved my little brother so much.

"You need to stop getting on social media, who'd you hear that from anyways?" My dad chuckled. "I got if off Snapchat this girl named lalasizahands89 ... Said it, y'all need to go add her she is hilarious." My brother continued.

What did he know about Snapchat?

"What is snapshot?" My dad asked causing all of us to roll our eyes and get up and walk away leaving him in the living room alone.

"I'm for real what is snapshot? I might just make me one." He yelled out to us.

"HELL NAH, TO DA NAW NAW NAW, HELL TO DA NAWWW." Trevis sang loudly.