No Letting Go [Completed]

Eighty-Five

{Colin's POV}

I finally get back to the bay. My mom's staying with me to help me for a little bit until I can start doing stuff on my own. I haven't spoken to Aaliyah since she came to visit. That's not how I meant for things to go down, and I need her to know that, but she hasn't called or text me back.

"Colin, honey do you need anything?" My mom asks walking into my room.

"Nah, I'm okay. I'll let you know if I need anything."

"Okay, I'll be downstairs."

I send Aaliyah a text, hoping she'd reply.

Me: Can you bring the kids over, please.

I get a reply but about an hour later.

Aaliyah: I'll drop them off in soon.

Me: We need to talk.

Aaliyah: About?

Me: You know what we need to talk about.

Aaliyah: There's really nothing to discuss.

Me: Yes there is.

Aaliyah: No, there's not. I know where your head is at, and I'm okay with that.

"Fuck." I express out loud. We were making progress in terms of being civil around one another, and that has just been messed up, but I don't understand why. We aren't together because she didn't want to get back together. She initiated sex between us, but that was probably out of pity. So I don't understand why she's so mad.

About an hour later, I hear the door opening downstairs and I know she's gonna give my mom a quick hi and bye and try to dip, so I go downstairs and stop her before she leaves.

"Daddyyyy." Riley runs up to me and gives me a hug.

"Hey baby girl." I say wrapping my arm around her. "Hold on, I'm gonna go talk to mommy. I walk passed my mom who has Nate in her arms and walk out the door. "Aaliyah hold up." I say before she can get into the car. She shuts the door and leans against the door.

"Wow...you look like shit."

"That's what being doped up on meds will do to you." Immediately after that, she slaps me hard as hell. "What the hell was that for?"

"You really have to ask that?"

"Yes, I'm confused."

"Nothing, Colin.." She opens the door and I quickly shut it.

"Talk to me and help me understand this. I thought we were good."

"We were...we are."

"Oh, are we? Because slapping me doesn't make me feel at ease about our relationship."

"I've known about her all along, Colin." Damn, and all this time, I thought she didn't know. But I don't know how it got passed me because she's in the loop about certain stuff. "The last few weeks have really been good. You were slowly gaining back my trust. And I told myself.." She wipes away a tear that's about to roll down her face. "I told myself that if you were really serious about trying to get back with me, you'd dump her for good. But it seems like you've made that choice."

"How the hell I'm I suppose to know all that when you've done nothing to show that there's a chance for me."

"So giving myself to you wasn't a sign. Letting you sleep in bed with me and hold me like I was the only girl that mattered to you. And what did I tell you before we went to bed....I told you to prove it to me...breaking up with her and showing that you're serious about wanting me IS proving that to me."