Unchained Heart

Chapter 26

Waking up to the sound of water running in the kitchen. I sat up on the couch slowly and looked to find that Prince was gone.

  "Nelson?" I called. There was no answer.

Pulling the blanket off of my I stood from the couch and followed the sound of the water. It was coming from the upstairs bathroom. I ran up the steps and into the the steaming hot bathroom and sat on the sink. It was a relief that it was Prince and not my mom. The dead giveaway was his clothes laying on the floor as if he wanted to shower quickly before I woke up. I didn't make a sound as I waited for him to step out dripping wet and naked. I was beginning to think that this would turn into something sexual if I stayed. I slid down from the counter to the floor and tip toes across the hall to my room and laid on my bed reading a magazine with Cindy Lauper on the cover. The water had shut off and I heard the scraping of the shower curtain rings against the metal rod screwed into the wall. I kept my focus on the reading material in front of me and dared myself not to take a peek at his naked body before he wrapped his lower half in one of my mom's bath towels. I was focusing so hard that I didn't even realize that Prince was standing in the bedroom doorway.

  "I see you're awake." I heard him say in a deep voice.

Dropping the magazine on my lap I looked over  at him happy to see him.

  "I am! I thought you'd left!"

  "Now why would I do that when I told you I wasn't going anywhere?"

  "Because you fell asleep on my living room floor."

  "Oh yeah. Like that's ever stopped me before. I've slept in worse places."

  "Yeah? Name two?"

  "Your tree house and Andre's bedroom."

  "What's so bad about Andre's room?"

  "I don't think you wanna know. You'll never be able to look at him the same way again."

  "I've never looked at him in any way. Come on I'm sure it's not so bad tell me!"

Prince really didn't want to throw us best friend under the bus but he knew I was going to pressing the issue until I got him to tel me. He let out a sigh and went over to my closet with his clothes to put them back on.

  "You sure you wanna know?" He asked me.

  "Yes you ass I wanna know!" I replied.

  "Alright. You know when my dad put me out his mom was nice enough to let me stay there right?"

Nodding that I remembered I flopped myself down at the end of the bed as he continued is story while getting dressed.

  "Well I didn't have a place to sleep at first so he was nice enough to let me stay in his room with him. At one point his room was in the basement before it was given to me. He would sneak out the window on Friday nights and would ask me to cover for him he would always come back with a new 'girlfriend'. Andre and this girl would be going at it for hours."

  "You mean like arguing?" I asked even though that wasn't the answer.

  "Not at all mama. I mean how like me and you were going at it at The Avenue."

I felt like I was going to be sick.

  "Awwww Prince! And you had to listen to that all night?" I asked as I winced in disgust.

  "I had to have a little help getting to sleep mama." He said as he tossed his shirt on.

I had to really think about what he meant before I gave him my response. By then I was ready to just leave my room and gargle with bleach.