Aura

Chapter Twenty-Three

Prince's Point Of View

It had been a week since I had talked to Lay. I called her phone every day about 30 times and it always went straight to voicemail. I called Ryanna and she had just told me that she hadn't heard from her which I knew was a lie because they had grown close and went to the same school.

My heart honestly felt broken. I just couldn't believe that I could allow myself to be that stupid. Laylani didn't deserve that... All she deserved was the truth because that was all she gave me. King was right when he compared the wrong I did to her to the wrong he did to Alora. And he was right when he said the reason I was afraid to tell her was because I was afraid to lose her. I was just to dumb enough to think about the fact that if I didn't tell her I would lose her.

I was just so confused. When Laylani came to my house she had looked like she had gotten into a fist fight and had been crying for hours on end. I wondered how she could have found out. I knew that she didn't know Pria. I had wondered if Tay had been the one she was fighting and ultimately spilled the news. I called Tay's phone a few times to but like Laylani, no answer.

I sat in my bedroom thinking about how fucking stupid I was. I missed my baby and I just wanted so desperately to talk to her. You truly don't realize what you have till you lose them. I knew Laylani was different from the jump but I never realized how dependent on her I became. She was my happiness, she made me smile without even trying. She was smart and her intellectual side just intrigued me more about her. When our skin touched it was just a different kind of feeling a unreplicable feeling.

A tear streamed down my face as I looked at my home screen at a picture of her and I that we had taken when we were shopping one day. That was my baby man. I felt like a bitch for crying but I just couldn't control it. I had never cried over a female before and I would never admit that I was if anyone asked. I didn't even cry over Pria, when I found out about Jamal. I was hurt and enraged but I didn't cry.

A knock on my door took me out of my thoughts and I quickly recollected myself, clearing my voice to remove the lump. King entered my room after I gave him the okay to come in and the look of Sympathy was all over his face. He had watched the whole encounter with Laylani and I knew that if anyone understood what I was going through right now King did.

"You good?" He asked as he came in my room and sat on the couch across from my bed. I nodded my head yeah and him and I both knew that I was lying.

"You were right," We said at the same time. He held up a hand insinuating that he wanted to go first.

"I fucked up one to many times. Alora really don't want nothing to do with me anymore." He started. I was surprised to see King admitting to his faults because normally he would blame Alora for all their arguments and falling outs, leaving out his own wrong doings. "I think she even got a new nigga honestly. She took down all of our pictures and won't even return my text anymore."

The sorrow in his voice was more than present and in my mind I couldn't help but ask myself what did he expect? I know I had my faults to but King continued to cheat and disrespect a girl who was genuinely only down for him. It was clear now though that it had sunk in that he had lost her forever and there was no turning back now.

"I miss her man," He continued. He looked down in his hands and I couldn't tell if he was going to break down or not. I had never seen King like this before. He had such a goofy personality that it was rare to see him mad even, but sad, on the verge of tears? A part of me didn't think that was possible. "Look man, don't give up on Laylani. Do what you got to do to get her to forgive you. And if she does, don't ever make her doubt you again because I see the way you look at her. I see the way you two interact and I'm telling you, you lose that and won't find it with anyone else." My younger brother spoke softly as he remained eye contact with me and his words really resinated with me.

A few hours later, I decided to go to Layman's house. She wasn't answering my calls and I was to my last resort. I stopped at a Flower shop by my house and picked up three dozen roses and a packet of sugar babies that I knew she loved. Her doorman let me in with no problem as he knew me from times I use to visit Tay and the time I came to meet Lay's parents.

"Somebodies in the dog house," The doorman said to me as I walked through. He laughed and I forced a small chuckle.

"Man you don't even know the half."

I waited for the elevator and when I got to her floor my heart started to pump. I'm sure she had told her dad what happened and I was expecting a punch in my face as soon as I walked through the door. Note To Self: Teach Kaymari how to treat women from a young age so he doesn't have to go through this shit.

I rang her doorbell and waited as I heard footsteps down the stairs. Laylani opened the door and my heart jumped at the sight of her. Her eyes were swollen like she'd been crying and she still had a little bit of a black eye from the last time I saw her. She wore pajamas and a oversized shirt. Even when she looked rough she still had such a raw beauty that just made my mouth water.

She attempted to shut the door and I pushed my foot through not allowing her too.

"Lay, please let me talk to you." I begged. She didn't say anything she just opened the door wider allowing me to come inside,

"What? What do you need to say Prince? I told you to just leave me--"

"Laylani, I love you. I messed up and I'm sorry bout that! Please, can we move past this because I love you and never meant to hurt you." We stood in the doorway and she turned around and walked up her stairs and I followed after her. It was clear nobody was home and it was a Saturday afternoon, I couldn't help but wonder where they were.

When we got inside her room she shut the door behind me and I turned around to continue my argument to see Laylani taking off her clothes. Shock filled my face as she came close to me and pressed her lips against mine.

"Laylani, what are you--"

"Prince please just... shut up," She continued to kiss me and I let her this time with no interruption. The kisses felt different more intense and heightened. I grabbed the back of her head and lead her to the bed. She sat down and spread her legs in front of me. My heart pumped as my boner rised and I wanted nothing more than to fuck Laylani at the moment.

I took down my pants and she did the same. I rubbed at her clit a bit but my penis longed to be inside her. I pushed myself through and her tight walls gripped around my penis. I stroked in and out and she grabbed at her breast as she looked up at the ceiling in lust. I leaned down and tried to kiss her and she moved her head so my face was positioned at her neck. I sucked on her neck passionately. She grabbed my dick and led me outside her and got up and flipped me around. I loved the control she was taking as she hovered over me. She grabbed my length and guided it inside her walls.

"Fuck," I said as her tight grip rapped around me. I looked into her eyes and saw a different look then I had ever seen before. It was a sadness but not a usual sadness a brokenness. She leaned down and placed her lips as mine pushing her tongue through to collide with mine.

When we both finally came she rolled over off of on top of me. She faced opposite me and when I tried to roll over and grab her in my embrace she got up from her spot on the bed.

"I...I... don't know what came over me." She began. I didn't know what came over her either but she seemed like she was on her last straw.

"Laylani--"

"I don't want to get back together Prince."