A Story To Tell | Book 2

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:::CHRIS:::

"What you giggling at?"

I laughed as I picked Yasmin up from the floor and tickled her in the air. She was giggling so hard that she started drooling. She was just too damn adorable. I just couldn't help myself. At the same time, I was trying to distract myself away from the situation going on between Vanessa and Keira right now. I tried calling Vanessa back about twenty minutes ago, but she didn't answer. I just pray to God that nothing out of the way happened. I did go behind Keira's back and ask Vanessa to take her in. Ain't no telling how Keira's going to return.

At the thought of her, I heard the front door open and slam shut, causing for me to look from a giggling Yasmin to Keira's pissed off unit which had confirmed that she was pissed off. I pinched my lips together and looked from one side of the room to the other.

"Before you go out and embarrass me and make it seem like I don't have shit, come to me first to make sure it's cool to humiliate me!" Keira shouted as she tossed my keys onto the couch behind me.

"Are you serious, Keira? Those keys could've hit Yasmin." I say to her .

"Don't be fucking funny to get the heat off of you Chris! Why'd you ask Vanessa to take me in without running this by me first?" She stood there with her arms crossed. I let Yasmin go and stood up from the floor and brushed the undetectable dust from off of my clothes. "If I wanted to stay with Vanessa while you're gone then I'd ask her my damn self, Chris! Don't ever go behind my back and do some foul shit like that ever again!"

"Whoa! Keira, calm the fuck down. I only did it because I wanted to make sure you were taken care of before I leave. I don't want to just leave and you have nowhere to stay. That's why I did what I did." I try to explain to her as I walked over towards her.

"Take another step, and I swear my fist will connect with your fucking jaw!" Keira threatened me. I stopped in my steps because I know my history with fights never ended too well. And right now, I didn't want to fight with the girl that I love and possibly get my ass beat. "Do you know how humiliating that shit is to have her come to me and tell me that she had some time to think about it and she decided to take me in? Like I'm some fucking homeless bitch who can't take care of her own child?!" She shouted, tears falling from her eyes. She wiped them away before they fell any further. At that moment, I started feeling horrible for going behind her back. But it was all for a good cause.

"Baby, I'm sorry. I did it for you and Yasmin." I try to explain more.

"I don't care who you did it for. It's respect to come to me and ask me how I feel about it before you go and do it! I don't know Vanessa like that to be living with her!" I sigh and shake my head.

"Please believe me when I said it's for a good cause." I respond.

"I don't care what fucking cause it was for! I'd appreciate it if you don't try and control what happens in my life! It's my life! And if I want to move in with Vanessa, then I will, but I'm not." She shook her head out of frustration and walked into the kitchen. I watched her every move wondering what was in that kitchen for her to get. "I can never live with her due to the fact that y'all two once had something. I just can't live in her house knowing that." She leaned against the counter and looked away from me.

"I'm sorry." I say to her, praying everything was okay now.

"Don't even say shit else to me, don't even talk to me. I don't wanna hear your voice right now." She walked out of the kitchen and walked towards the bathroom. "Just don't try to control my life." She walked into the bathroom and slammed the door shut.

"Keira, I'm not trying to control your life!" I shout as I walk to the bathroom door. "Keira!" I call her name. "Baby, I'm sorry!" I say to her but she didn't respond. "Will you at least talk to me, Keira?"