7 Mile

Chapter 9

Waking up was something I wasn't feeling this morning. For real I was certain Denaun jinxed me with telling work I was ill, cause man I felt it.
I could hear Denaun and Butter downstairs laughing, they was still here and not at work which meant I'd woke up earlier than I planned. 8:46am...

I had a bath, brushed my teeth and did the usual grooming before getting dressed. I needed to get myself together, and I needed to go by myself some meds to fix my shitty fucking body,

"Yo Marshall, your mom's at the door, I ain't know if I should let her in" Denaun came into my room while I sprayed my armpits,

"You kidding me right?" I frowned and followed him out of the room,

"No I ain't. Yo but we going to work now so catch you later my brother"

"Yea... See ya man" I walked out with him and Butter, man he wasn't fucking lying, there she was, stood by the side of her car,

"What do you want?" I barked, she looked fucked,

"Marshall... I need you to come home for a couple days starting tomorrow, to mind Nathan while I go to the hospital"

"Hospital? Why you gotta go the hospital for?"

"I'm... not well. And Nathan, he misses you"

"I miss him too, every fuckin' day... cause of you"

"You abandoned us!"

"You ain't give me no fuckin' choice!!"

"Marshall..." She backed down, fucking bitch kicked me out and wouldn't take me and Kim in when we needed a place to stay,

"Nathan can stay here"

"No. He doesn't need any more moving around"

"Yea well I fuckin' wish you'd of thought like that back when I was a kid"

"Will you look after him or not?" I didn't wanna pay her no favours but at the end of the day, he was my little brother and I loved him,

"Alright, fine"

"Thank you" she tiredly smiled,

"Yea well don't thank me, I'm doin' it for Nate, not you"

"I have to go at four-thirty, tomorrow afternoon"

"Yea. I'll be there" I stood my ground in the doorway, arms folded letting her know she wasn't invited to look around my new home. She nodded to herself and slowly crept back into her car, I was surprised that fucking thing was still going.

I locked up the crib and dove into my car. I needed to go do my creeping to Kim before going to work...

I bought the flowers and chocolates but unfortunately I'd forgot my fake ID, so the wine was a lost cause, man next year I'd finally be legal, shit I couldn't wait.
I sat nervously, parked up in front of her grandmothers house. Why the fuck was I here? Doing this? This was my option to final put an end to all our bullshit. But I'd taken bats to people's backs and bent over backwards for this girl, and was I ashamed about crawling back to her? Not if that's what I needed to do to get her back. I didn't want to give her a window of opportunity to get one over on me, I'd fucking lose my shit.

Alright, just get on up out the car and go talk to her dog.
I went around the back of the house and knocked a couple times,

"Marshall dear" her granny hugged me,

"Morning, Evelyn" I stepped through the door,

"What brings you here so early? Would you like coffee?"