Bitter Ex's - Be Careful Who You Dump

Chapter 4

At the table, there is me, Naomi, Adrianna, the man across from us, and Ebba is just taking her seat across from Adrianna. Nothing seems to be happening, so I take the chance to examine my surroundings. The room is rather large and simple. The walls are painted an auburn color and there are no windows. It feels like a giant box. There is a single chandelier in the middle of the room, it's huge so lighting is no problem in the room. Although it is a bit dim, we can see in every corner of the room. The table is made of mahogany wood and in any other situation, I would say that it was beautiful. However, in this alternation world, nothing is easy to find beautiful.

"Greetings, my guests." The man rises and begins to speak. "The rest of our guests will arrive momentarily. I will return before they get here. Excuse me." He walks out the doors. When the doors close everything goes black, then I'm back at my house and Naomi is still laying on my chest but she is awake.

"Well," I say and Naomi shifts uncomfortably. She must not have known I was up. "That wasn't very eventful." I shift to sit up and I check my phone. I got 20 missed calls from Jamal.SHIT! It's 10:30 and I was supposed to be at Jamal's house. "Babe, I have to go. Jamal is probably getting jumped by a bunch of girls." Naomi doesn't say anything or even move. I look at her face and it's not Naomi. This random girl rises up into the air and everything in the room starts do the same. The room spins really fast. I can't move my body because of the speed that the room is spinning. The girl opens her eyes and they are a glowing, pure white.

"This is a warning message." The girl's voice is demonic but, also feminine at the same time. It is a bit intimidating. ""Your first battle will be a week from now. Your opponents will be Adrianna Woods and Ebba Rivera." The girl get in my face and says "Be ready." Before she covers my face and everything calms down. When my vision comes back, I see Naomi laying on me again and the room is as if nothing happened. It's still 10:30.

"Nay?" I say hoping to see the worse.

"Yea?" Naomi looks up at me and I'm relieved to see it's her. She is even more adorable when she just wakes up. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah. I just have to get to Jamal's house before he gets jumped." Naomi looks confused. "I'll explain on the way there"

"I'm not walking. You have to carry me." Naomi says when I stand up. She lifts her arms up for me to lift her. I grab her easily and hold her up by her back. She wraps her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist. Before I walk out the door, she buries her head into my chest to use to body heat for warmth. When I get to the car, Naomi already fell back asleep, so i put her in the car myself. When I get in the car, she looks up and says "I love you so much," then she grabs my hand.

"I love you too." I drive away, listening to only Naomi's quiet breathing.

When I get to Jamal's house, there a long row of cars. Strangely, I can recognize all these cars and each one belongs to one of Jamal's ex-girlfriends. This isn't going to be fun, at least for him it won't.

I find a spot in front of Jamal's house. When Naomi and I step out the car, Jamal is darting out the house. Before he realizes us standing there, someone from inside throws a high heel that hit Jamal in the side of the face. We bust out laughing and Jamal looks up while hold his eye. He sticks up the middle finger before ducking more heels and running to my car.

"Dude get me out of here." He pleads.

"Fine. Hurry up and get in before they throw more heels." I say just as all the girls get outside and they start charging at him.

" Shotgun!" Jamal runs to the passenger seat and sits in the car.  Naomi has the most annoyed face I have ever seen. The girls are getting close to the car so Naomi and I get in the car and I back down the street to avoid getting my window bashed in.

"I'm hungry." Naomi says. "Babe, can we go to Denny's?"

Before I say anything Jamal blurts, "No! We are going to Applebee's"

"Excuse Me!?" Naomi yells. "You aren't going to tell us where we are going. You know what your problem is? You..."

"STOP!" I cut them both off before it gets to heated. "We are going to Denny's. End of discussion." Jamal blows his breath and looks out the window. Naomi kiss my cheek from the back seat and then looks at her phone.

While I'm driving, it's quiet and I don't like the fact that it's so quiet. "So Jamal why did you invite all those girls to your house, knowing you might get jumped?" I say to break the silence.

"Because girls can't fight and I knew I would be fine no matter what happened." Jamal replies and I see Naomi's face in the rear view mirror. Her eyes are wide and she looks as if she will smack the hell out of him. "I mean, you don't see Naomi starting fights with me, do you? Because she know she won't win." Jamal turns his face to look at Naomi and it was the dumbest decision of his life. Naomi punches him right in the nose. "Owww! Fuck! I think she broke my nose!" I break into laughter and Naomi looks so prideful that it's adorable, despite the fact she just punched my uncle in the face.

I look over at Jamal and he has his hands on his face but, I can see the blood all over his hands. He reaches into the glove compartment and grabs some tissue. He stuffs his nose with tissue to stop the bleeding. By the time we get to Denny's, his nose has stopped bleeding

"Are you coming or do I have to punch you again?" Naomi say when we get out the car.

"Easy, babe." I say. I put my arm on Naomi's shoulders and she pulls me closer to her. Before we start walking, I look at the car and I see Jamal hasn't moved. "Dude, are you really that embarrassed?"

"I don't think he's embarrassed..." Naomi's voice is distant as if she's afraid of a ghost or something. Ghost... Fuck! I whip my head around to see Anna Chiola standing 15 feet away from us.