Because Of You

Chapter 5

Torian

My eyes fluttered open slowly, out of reflex my hand went to move my curls from my face.

"For real T? You just gon' slap me in my face with your hair?" I heard Josh's voice from under me.

I smiled and looked down at our legs that were intertwined together. My head was laying on his chest and his right arm was wrapped around my torso. I had no clue how we ended up in this position but I wasn't complaining, I was comfortable.

"Sorry." I giggled lowly. "So I'm guessing you didn't go to that party?" I asked, remembering we were suppose to go.

"I came back from my shower and yo ass was slumped." Josh explained laughing. "So I was like, fuck it, I didn't want to wake you up so I decided to just stay and hop my ass in bed too." He shrugged.

I laughed and shook my head, hearing my phone vibrate on the nightstand, I turned over and reached for it, feeling my shirt rise up and a slight breeze on my skin.

"Yo shit been blowing up all morning." Josh said, turning to me. "You got a nigga I don't know about?" He squinted his eyes at me, causing me to laugh at his goofy ass.

"It ain't nobody but Sa or my sister." I looked down at myself, noticing I only had on a T-shirt and my underwear, which I know for a fact I didn't fall asleep in. I smirked and looked over at Josh knowing he was the culprit. "You did this?" I changed the subject, throwing the covers back.

He didn't say anything, instead he nodded and smirked at me.

I smiled and shook my head at him, going straight into my text messages seeing a numerous amount from Sa and one from my sister.

I stretched my legs across Josh stomach and laid back onto the bed, my head near the edge as I tapped on Sa's messages, reading hers first.

AceBoonCoon 💁🏾💅🏾 : Torian...

AceBoonCoon 💁🏾💅🏾 : Torian Noelle...

AceBoonCoon 💁🏾💅🏾 : Torian Noelle Anderson!

I laughed out loud and composed a reply message.

Me : Yes??

I sent it and laughed again knowing she was going to curse my ass out.

"What you laughin' at?" Josh asked looking at me with low eyes.

Instead of answering him, I Ignored him just to annoy him.

Scrolling through my messages again, I replied to my sisters text letting her know that I spent the night at Josh's and that I would be back in a little bit.
I wasn't in a rush to leave at the moment, but still I wasn't trying to stay all that long either because I had some stuff I wanted to get done today.

While looking through my inbox, my eyes landed on a newly sent message from my mom. My eyes nearly popped out of my head at that and the sudden realization that I couldn't run from her for forever, sunk in.

I low key didn't want to read it but I knew if I didn't it would bite me in the ass later so I clicked on the message.

Samiyra 🙅🏾💔 : So you think you can just run off with your sister and I wouldn't find out? Y'all better bring y'all asses back here Torian and I'm not playing. If y'all ain't back by the end of today, I'm reporting y'all asses missing!

I mentally rolled my eyes at her being melodramatic as fuck. This the shit I be talking about. This is what I hate about her. Not only did she threaten us but she expected us to come back to that piece of shit household. Tuh, she thought like fuck. She was going to have to report us missing because I promise, me and my sister ain't going back.