"Don't"

Chapter 6 - Fresh Start

|Alexus🌹|

My shift was over, but I decided to chill in the back room with Grandma Sugar and Kelly. She was playing in his long black hair, which he keeps in a ponytail most of the time.

I scrolled through Facebook on my phone, not really paying attention to the statuses and shared videos and pictures. I just needed to do something to occupy my time.

I heard Lauryn talking as she walked into the room. I didn't even bother to pick my head up and acknowledge her.

"What's going on with you baby, why are you looking all disgusted," I heard Grandma Sugar ask her. "Sapphire just threw up all over the place," Lauryn replied, sounding like she just witnessed the most nastiest thing ever.

Kelly started to laugh at her. "You're being so dramatic."

"Nobody asked you," she snapped on him.

Feeling the negativity in the room, I got up and gathered all my belongings. "Leaving so soon," Grandma Sugar asked me.

I gave her a smile as I walked over to her. "Yeah, I'm getting tired," I replied, leaning in for a hug. She accepted the embrace.

I looked at Kelly after. He gave me a smile showing off his braces. "Bye cuzzo," he told me. I gave him a smile and waved him off before leaving out of the room.

When I got home and opened the front door to see Corey waiting on me, I dropped everything at the door, ran into his arms, and hugged him.

I know he's put me through some shit, but that doesn't change the fact that I've been missing him like crazy.

"You missed me," he asked as he hugged me back. I didn't hesitate to tell him yes. I looked up and watched as he smile. "I missed you too," he confessed.

I examined the fresh clothes he had on and looked at how well taken care of he looked. He took notice in my wandering eyes.

"I been at my momma's house," he informed me. I shook my head hoping that he's telling the truth.

Everything I was ever mad at him for washed away. Even his recent infidelity I found out about through Diane.

Call me crazy, but that was the past and I just want a fresh start with him.

After my nightly routine, we ended up in bed together. It felt good to have his body next to mine and his arms wrapped around me.

It might not be the best love out there that we have, but it's the only love I know and that I'm comfortable with.

~*~

"Rise and shine, babe," I heard Corey yell in my half sleep. My eyelids went from dark to light after hearing the curtains slide open.

When I opened my eyes, I got up into a sitting position. He handed me a box of food from Denny's, then joined me on the bed with a box of his own.

"Thank you baby," I thanked him before getting up out of the bed, leaving the box behind. "Mmm-hmm," he replied as he started to roll up a J. He can't eat without smoking first.

I made my way to the bathroom and did my morning routine. I then entered the now smokey, weed smelling bedroom again. I climbed back into bed and proceeded to eat my breakfast.

"You want to hit," Corey offered as he moved the J towards me.

I swallowed the eggs in my mouth and grabbed it, accepting his offer. "Hit that shit baby girl," he said with a smile as I put it to my lips.

I inhaled the smoke and held it in for as long as I could before exhaling. I took another hit then passed it back to him. I started to eat my food again feeling peaceful.

"Babe, you ain't opened my gifts," he asked me. I looked at the gifts that I placed on a shelf in the closet, which was wide open. "I forgot all about those," I admitted as I stabbed my fork into my syrup covered pancakes.

I shoved some in my mouth as I watched him get up. He grabbed the Victoria's Secret bags from the top of the closet then made his way back to the bed. "I'll just open it for you."

I watched as he pulled out a matching sweat pants and sweater from PINK. He knows I love PINK and pretty much everything in the store. He pulled out three perfumes from another bag and then a gift card.

I wanted to question him on how he got the money to afford it when he's unemployed and relies on me for everything. That's when the drugs popped up in my head; how did he afford that too?

"I appreciate the gifts babe," I told him with a smile. He smiled back at me before putting the items back in the bag. He put them on the side of the bed, then continued to eat.

"I found that cocaine under the pillow," I informed him quickly. He stopped chewing, looking at me with worried on his face, "what are you doing on drugs, Corey?"

"The homies put me on that shit, Lexus. I know I ain't been the same since and I been fucking up with you, but I'm sorry lil momma. I'm willing to quit all that just to stay with you."

"I forgive you," I replied truthfully as I got up. I searched inside of the nightstand for the bag of cocaine I stored. After finding it, I threw it at him and he caught it, "if you mean what you say, get rid of it...now."

He got up from the bed and made his way over to me. With a grab of my hand and the movement of both of our feet, we ended up in the bathroom.

He opened the bag up, emptying the substance inside of the toilet. One flush and it was all gone. He looked at me and I looked at him.

"You don't have no more right," I asked him. He shook his head in the positives. "I swear I'm going to do right by you this time," he promised before leaving.

It felt good to hear that come out of his mouth. There's something about the way he said it this time that sounded like he was for real. I'm looking forward to our future.

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Opinions on Corey now?

I felt as if y'all needed a chapter to see how they act around each other.

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