All for Power

Chapter 5: The Morning After

(Trey Songz - What's Best For You)

(This Chapter Will Not Be From Anyone's POV & will shift between Maya & Jidenna's households. Philichar is pronounced 'Fee-Lee-Shar'.)

Maya hurried out of her uber and as quietly as possible turned her key into her house. As softly as she could she closed the door behind her. She could hear Philichar screaming and arguing with herself like she always did at her moments of anger. Maya  turned around to see Winnie looking as frantic as ever walking up to her. "Girl, you better run your ass upstairs because Philichar is on a gotdamn warpath in this house. She is pissed that you didn't call last night."  she whispered. "I didn't think it was that serious, I'm grown and can make my own decisions." Maya Whispered back. "Well I don't care if you had a dick appointment or not, but you know how Phi gets why didn't you just fucking call us. She thought something happened to you Maya." Maya was going to respond until she heard "Is that Maya?! Maya, get your ass over here NOW!" Philichar bellowed from the kitchen. Winnie looked at Maya's fearful face and held her hand as they slowly walked into the kitchen together. To see Philichar's permanent scowl plastered on her face with her arms crossed, prone to attacking her at any moment. Then she began to speak "Maya, this is going to be the part where you have to choose your words very carefully and not talk over me or lie. " "But lemme say that-" Winnie tried to interject. "I am talking Win, so these rules apply to you too." Winnie stood next to Maya in dead silence. "Do you understand how dangerous what you did last night was? The kind of distress you put both your sister and I went through not knowing where you were or if you were ok?" Maya stood there still silent. "I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, ANSWER ME!" Philichar screamed full of anger. "Look, I'm sorry, you're right. I should've called you. It was totally negligent on my part, please forgive me." Maya pleaded. "You ran off with a random guy doing God knows what with you, God knows where." Philichar continued. "You can't make reckless ass decisions like this Maya. It affects all of us, not just you." Maya lowered her head and sighed. "I didn't like the idea of random celebrities in our home because I didn't know who or what they would bring into this home, but you reassured me you would be safe & the one time I let my guard down you pull this shit." Philichar continued to rant. "Did you forget what happened with Nathan? What he did to you?" "Come on now Phi, you don't need to bring that up-" Philichar interrupted Winnie. "No, she needs to remember. Cause her good, cushy life here is making her forget the hell she put herself and this family through. How Nathan used to beat her down almost every everyday since they were engaged. How much money dad had to spend to keep him from killing you." "You think this nigga's any different? Do you? Or were you too busy whoring yourself for him last night that you couldn't tell the difference?" Maya lifted her head with tears rapidly swelling up in her eyes.

Winnie turned from Maya and gave a death stare to Philichar. "Okay, now you've gone too fucking far!" Winnie blared out. "You have no damn right to speak to her that! She said was sorry, no need to be disrespectful like that! Nathan is a piece of shit, never forget that! She doesn't deserve to be reminded of him. Yo we out, c'mon Maya." Winnie placed her arm around Maya's shoulder to comfort her. "Let's go upstairs, so we can talk." When Winnie and Maya entered Maya's room they both sat down and Winnie hugged Maya as she began to cry. "Look at me Maya." Winnie spoke, Maya still besides herself crying. "Maya, look at me." Winnie lifted Maya's head and looked her in the eyes. "What you went through with Nathan was not your fault, you hear me? You did not deserve to go through any part of that." Winnie wiped her tears and gave her a tight hug. "I don't get what her deal is, I know I messed up. But why would she say all that? I can't say I have feelings for Jidenna yet, but I really do enjoy his company and he is very intelligent and headstrong. I just wish Phi Phi would try to see him as I do." Maya said. Winnie placed her finger on her lips. "Hmm, maybe we can." Winnie responded. "What do you mean?" Maya looked confused. "Why don't you invite him over for dinner tonight? So we can get to know him better and Philichar will calm down, at least for a little while." She softly continued. "I don't know Winnie, I don't even know if I want a relationship with him. That could weird him out, I just started to remember him." "Remember him?! Where did you know his fine ass from?" Winnie spoke in her normal voice. "Remember I used to travel to Stanford from UCLA all the time to see Nathan?" Maya asked. "Yeah? Racking up daddy's mileage like a mad woman over that fool." She crossed her arms & legs. Maya sighed. "Well...apparently, Nathan wasn't the only one I was seeing over there." Maya laid halfway on her bed. Winnie was dumbfounded. "Wait, so y'all were smashing back then?!" Maya looked over at Winnie. "Girl, I don't even know if I did. We kissed at one point, that I saw in a pic he had." Winnie raised an eyebrow. "Girl! Did y'all smash last night though?!" Maya smirked and started giggling, then nodded. "Oh shit! Well I hope y'all nasty asses used a condom." Winnie got off the bed. "Now we really need to meet this man." She started to walk out the bedroom. "Where are you going?" Maya sat up. "I'm going to calm down hurricane Philichar, go call him set that up. Doesn't even have to be tonight. Just make sure he can come over whenever to meet us." Winnie walked out.  Maya pulled out her iPhone and called Jidenna's cell, it kept ringing to voicemail. Maya called several times with the exact same result, Maya became worried. "Why won't you pick up J?" she sighed as she rolled her eyes, got up & walked into the bathroom to take a shower.