A Story To Tell | Book 2

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:::VANESSA:::

"You did what?!"

My ears perked up as I laid in bed, snuggled up under my covers, watching an episode of Scandal. I wasn't into it as much as I used to be, but I didn't have anything better to do in order to get me out of the house.

Hearing Raymond's voice, it sent fear in my heart. I jumped as he burst into the bedroom with papers in his hands, flailing them around with rage in his eyes. I jumped up from the bed, damn near about to piss on myself.

"I know you didn't have an abortion with my baby!" Raymond shouted as he walked further into the room. I was trying to keep myself together and force myself not to be afraid of him because he couldn't do anything to me. We're not together anymore.

"I told you to leave the key outside!" I shouted.

"I don't give a fuck what you told me to do. Why in the fuck are there abortion papers on the table in the kitchen, Vanessa?!" Raymond shouted as he walked up on me, throwing the papers somewhere around the room.

"Get out!" I shouted, pushing him away from me and running out of the room.

I'd had enough of Raymond and I meant what I'd said when I wanted him out of my life. It was starting to become too much for me and I just wasn't with the lifestyle he was trying to live. It's like he doesn't care about what I say. And if I would've known then what I know now about Raymond, I would've shied away from him a long time ago.

"So, I come here and find some shit like this and you expect for me to just up and walk out without an explanation, man? You stuck on stupid!" Raymond shouted as he came rushing out of the room behind me.

"If you would've never brought your ass in here and left the key under the mat like I'd told you so that I could collect it, it wouldn't be having this conversation. Now leave!" I shouted, running to the kitchen to where I'd left my phone.

As I ran into the kitchen, in a panic, my heart dropping to my stomach, I saw that my phone wasn't there where I'd left it. Turning around, I saw Raymond behind me with my phone in his hand.

The evil look on his face expressed exactly what he wanted to do to me. I shook my head and he held his hand back, throwing the phone into the kitchen wall. I watched in awe as it shattered all over the floor. I screamed out because the phone was my lifeline and he'd basically killed it.

"Raymond, get your crazy ass out of here before I go file for a restraining order against you! I'm sick of this!" I shouted, trying to regain my self-control. But Raymond knew me too damn well. He knew my motives and it scared the shit out of me.

"You think I give a fuck about a restraining order? I should kill your stupid ass for what you did!"

"Raymond, I want you to leave!" I screamed.

"Why'd you do it, Vanessa?! Huh?!"He argued.

"Because, I don't want to be tied to you anymore! I wanted what we had to be over and done with! You're mean, you're nasty, you're abusive, and you're no man!" I shouted back, knowing that I'd crossed the line.

"I ain't a man, huh?!" He shouted angrily. "I'm not a man?!"He came over to me and wrapped his right hand around my neck, pushing me up against the kitchen wall.

I started panicking and screaming, wanting him to let me go as I tried beating his hand away. But Raymond didn't care about pain. He lived for pain. Nothing hurt him and it scared me.

"You didn't think I'd find the shit out?!" His grip got tighter on my neck, forcing my air to cut off. I panicked even more because I just knew that he was going to kill me for killing his child. But this was one of the reasons why I did it.