☆Miesha★ (Editing)

*Chapter 16*

~ Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Because I'm happy. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.~

*2 months later*

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Destiny I'm worried. He haven't been back in 4 months. 4 MONTHS!" I haven't heard from him in a long time and I'm scared. I looked in my purse and grabbed a bag of weed. "Miesha no. We are not going through this again." I rolled one and grabbed my lighter but my mom's words went through my head. "Don't do this. Don't be like me. I did the same thing and look at me. Dead. I want you to live your life. Don't live it like this baby." I went in the bathroom and flushed the joint down the toilet with the rest of the weed.

"Good job baby. Good job." I walked out and Destiny was eating some hot fries and laying in the bed. "We need to go shopping. I still have the money and I need a car that Rayjon was suppose to buy me." The doorbell rang. I went to go answer it. "Sup lil mama." I rolled my eyes and was about to close the door but he put his foot in it. "Talveyion I ain't got shit to say to you." "Ok then I guess I can take back the black Ford Fiesta that I got you." I opened the door. "You got me what?" He held up the keys and started laughing. I screamed and gave him a hug. "Thank you so much." "To say I'm sorry for everything and can we be friends?" "Yes." We pulled away and I got the keys.

"Where's Rayjon?" I shrugged my shoulders. "I haven't seen him in 4 months. And I've been out the hospital for 2 months." His smiled dropped. "What happened?" I sighed. "I almost ODed from worrying where Rayjon was. I stayed in the hospital for 2 months and come back and he's still not back." He shook his head. "I hope he come back and if you need me imma phone call away." He gave me a peace. "Thanks. Oh and again thank you for the car." He smiled. "You're welcome."

He walked off and I closed the door. Destiny came down the stairs. "I gotta go. Take care and I'll call." I hugged her and she walked out the door. I went upstairs and in the room. I put the keys in my purse and cleaned up the room. I heard the door open and close and footsteps come up the stairs. The door opened and Rayjon stood there. "Where the hell you been?" I put my hands on my hip. "Don't worry about it." "I'm finna worry about it because you been gone for 4 months."

He smacked his lips. "So." "So, you didn't call or anything." He came up to me. "Get off my ass about it. Damn Miesha I ain't come back to hear yo bullshit so do me a favor and shut the hell up." I slapped him across the face. He held where I slapped him and turned his face and clenched his jaws and slapped me to the ground. "You did not just slap me bitch." He kept hitting me. "You go learn." He took off his belt and started hitting me with it.

Rayjon walked out and my body was burning. I wanted my mama. "MAMA!! MAMA What do I do?!" I didn't hear anything. "MAMA PLEASE TELL ME WHAT TO DO?!" I was crying my heart out. "MAMA!! MAMA!!" "Baby stop your crying." I looked around. "MAMA?!" A lady was standing in front of me with her hand out. "MAMA!" I got up and hugged her. She rubbed my back. "Stop your crying Miesha." "He hurt me. I don't know what to do."

She pulled me away and wiped my tears. "Talveyion gave you keys right?" I shook my head yea. She went in my purse and handed them to me. "You know how to drive right?" "Yea but what does all this have to do with helping me?" She sighed. "You get that slowness from your daddy. Since you don't wanna break up with him, take them keys and your stuff and leave this house." Mama got a suitcase and packed all my stuff in it. She got another one and put the rest of my stuff in it and got a bag and went in the bathroom and grabbed my hygiene products and jewelry and put her hands on her hip.

"Done. Now it's time for you to get in that car and drive off." "Where imma go?" Mama walked towards the door. "Time to do some apologizing." My mama opened the door and walked out. I looked down and looked at the keys in my hands. I grabbed the suitcases and bag and purse and my school stuff and walked out the house.

I put the stuff in the trunk and started it up and drove out the driveway and drove towards the direction of my dad's house. I drove up to the gate and put the code in and watched the gates open. I drove through and parked beside my dad car. I took a breath in and slowly let it out. I got out and got my stuff from the trunk and walked up the steps.

I knocked on the door and heard footsteps. The door opened and my dad stood there in his Wal-Mart uniform. "Miesha?" "Dad hear me out. I am so sorry for everything I have done. I let Rayjon control my life and it almost let me to ODing. I went down the wrong path and I wanna change. I want my old life back. I want to be the Miesha Harvard who used to get straight A's, listened to her father, goes to school, cares about her church. I wanna be that Miesha. Not the one who robs people for money, sell crack, gets abused or do drugs. Dad I want my life back." Tears fell from my eyes.

"You hurt me and it also hurt me to see my daughter pull a gun on me. It tore me to pieces. Seeing you on Oprah just made me realize that I had lost my lil angel just like I lost your mother." I hugged him. "You haven't lost me daddy. I'm right here." We pulled away. "Well come on in. Your room is still the same way you left it. I gotta go." I grabbed my stuff and walked in and felt back at home. "Great to be back at home."