Bully Me No More

32

*RAIN*

~~THE NEXT DAY~~

When I woke up the first thing I did was text Roc, but when he didn't respond I just went on with my day. My mom and I went shopping with Angie, and we also went to a chinese place for lunch. I was scared at first because she and my mom kept saying I looked different, and that I was "glowing" I didn't tell my mom, but I told Angie about what happened between Roc and I. She was relieved when I told her we used protection, oh noooo no babies any time soon.

During lunch she'd hint around that she knew what was up with me and my mom got aggravated, she wanted to know. I made her wait until after we dropped off Angie and came home.

"I can't believe you two slept together! Ewww my daughter...oh my gosh why did you tell me!? I can't do this just...eww!" She laughed. "But ya know Tyrell and I--"

I clamped my hands over my ears and repeated "Lalalalala." Until I saw my mom start to laugh. "Ma what goes on between you and your boyfriend is none of my buisness!"

"You got that right. Well he's ganna be here in a few miniutes."

"Can I go to Roc's?"

"I suppose.You spending the night?"

"Is he?"

"Yeah."

"Then yes."

I packed a change of clothes and texted Roc.

-My mom's boyfriend ugh, is coming. Sleepover?

I smiled when he replied, because all day he hadn't.

-If you want to.

-lol ? Of course I want to. R u home?

-yeah.

-ok I'm coming.

-k.

After my clothes were packed I packed my toothbrush, charger, wallet, and head phones. I put on a thin white crop top and faded blue high waisted shorts, then I put on my flip flops with white beading and walked to Roc's house. When I knocked on the door his mom let me in.

"He's upstairs." She said, frowning.

"O...ok."

I rushed up to his room and saw why she had frowned. Roc's eye was swollen and he was icing his left fist.

I ran to him in shock.

"Roc! Oh , my god are you ok?"

"Yeah yeah." He said lazily. "I'm fine."

"What happened!?"

"I beat the hell out of Ray."

"What why!?"

He stopped looking at his hand and looked up at me.

"Oh." I mumbled. I knew why...

I stood over him, looking down and feeling like a protective mother. I was glad he wanted to protect me, but he did get hurt in the process. I bent down and touched the bulge under his eye, he winced and shut it.

"Does it hurt?" I asked stupidly.

"A little, when you touch it."

I pulled my hand back and frowned. "Sorry."

He smiled and told me it was ok. I grabbed the other icepack that was on the floor in front of him and sat in his lap. I held the ice cold ziplock bag to his eye and he stared at my arm with his good eye.

"It still hurt?"

"Yeah knives can go pretty deep." I accidentally said too much.

"A knife...he cut you?"

I nodded slowly, knowing I'd regret this.

"You got stitches?" He asked.

I nodded again. He gently pushed me off him and I frowned.

"And why did he cut you?"

"He was mad. He said he and the guys missed you...but you're always with me."

He shook his head and closed both of his eyes.

"Ray was right. We spend too much time together, I'm ganna go."

I picked up my bag and started walking to the door, but he followed me.

"I don't want you to go. Rain I was never forced to be with you. I wanted to be."

I still felt guilty, like this all could've been prevented if Roc and I were never together...maybe it wasn't meant to be.

"I still should go. Maybe you need to go talk to them, find out what's going on. I never wanted to take your friends away."

"Well that can wait. I'm done talking to them for the day."

"If you say so." I said, still reaching for the knob of the front door.

"Rain didn't you hear me?"

"Yeah." I nodded, turnimg the door.

"I won't make you stay if you don't want to, but just know that I want you here."

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, not knowing what to do. If I go home I have to deal with my mom's jerk of a boyfriend, but if I stayed here I'd have to look at him and know his injuries are my fault. I sighed and figured he must have felt guilt towards me a lot, so I could endure it for a day. I shut the door and followed him back upstairs.

His room was comfortably cold due to his air conditioner, and I felt the need for a blanket. He put both his ice packs in the bathroom sink to melt and then he layed with me. Normally he would be on the outside of the bed, and me on the inside, but now it was the other way around. He rested his head on my shoulder to see the tv and played with my fingers.

I tried to pay attention to the music videos that MTV was counting down, but with him with me it was hard to focus. I shivered slightly and he held me closer to his chest.

"Too cold in here?" He asked.

"No, it's ok." I replied. It was such a big relief from the heat outside and in my own room at home.

"Well I'll keep you warm." He smiled.

I turned around to face him and not the tv. "You always do."

We smiled at each other and his eyes slowly shut. I layed, watching him sleep, studying jis features until slowly his opened again.

"Why am I so lucky!? I go to sleep and you're here, I wake up and you're still here."

All I did was smile and he grabbed my hand, playing with my fingers again. "You know what, let's go somewhere." He suggested.

"Like where?" I asked.

"We could see a movie, or go eat, maybe an arcade."

I touched under his eye, which was no longer swollen and smiled. "I'd like that."

"Me too..." He pulled me closer. "Or we could stay and have some fun."

I threw a pillow at his face and laughed. "Boy control yourself." I jumped from bed and started fixing my hair.

"So where to?" He asked me.

"The arcade would be nice, it's always cold in there."

"That's true, ok I'm just ganna change my shirt."

I watched him pull his shirt over his head and he laughed, quickly putting another shirt on.

"Don't drool it's not attractive." He joked.

I stuck out my tongue and then we walked downstairs, our hands intertwined.