New Beginnings

No coming in between

Deanna POV

Me, Justine, Bria and the boys took the RV back while Ryan took a plane back with Will and Aaliyah earlier than planned. I feel bad for her, this was HER fresh start and that dick just had to ruin it. That's all Q does...he ruins shit especially in Ryan's life, when all she's ever done was love him.

The ride back home was silent, filled with sadness mostly from Quincy's part but we all felt for him and Ryan. If nobody could see the love he had for her before they could definitely see it now, it's as if he feels her pain. We've been back a week already and Ryan hasn't shown up to classes and Aaliyah says all she does is sleep, bathe, listen to music and doesn't eat much.

Quincy wanted to speak to her as soon as we got back but we felt like we all needed to give her a little bit of time.

I just wish that my Ry could be herself again.

Ryan POV

Knock knock

"Aaliyah can you get that?" I ask from under the covers

Knock knock

"Aaliyah..."

Knock knock knock

"Aaliyah!" I take the blankets off my head to see Aaliyah nowhere in sight but I did notice a letter on my night stand.

Going to the library, I'll be back by 10 & can you please eat!
- liyah

Knock knock

"How many times are you gonna knock person?!" I said to myself

I swung the door open to be face to face with Quincy. I wasn't ready to see him, to see the hurt in his eyes...

"Can I come in?" He asked with his head off to the side.

"Huh? Oh yeah uh..sure" I said.

"How have you been? Are you okay? I would've checked on you sooner but I wanted you to have time alone" he admitted.

There's that one question I loathed the most when I went through my depression the first time "are you okay?"

"No, actually...I'm not" I never really spoke to anyone about what happened and how I felt, the only person that knows what REALLY happened is Aaliyah. But Quincy is someone I love, someone I wanna share my future with.

So, it's time, time to tell him what really went down 2 years ago.

Quincy POV

I saw Ryan take a deep breath.

"It was my...my uh, my Junior year and Q and I had been dating since Freshman year, I was so in love with that boy you couldn't tell me nothing, we'd stay on FaceTime talking about how it'd be once we graduate and all that stuff...*sigh* On the night of homecoming I planned on having sex with him, my very first time with the only man I thought I'd ever love, so we slept together...unprotected, yeah I know stupid right? Evidently I ended up getting pregnant... I have no idea what Q expected, two drunk irresponsible teens having unprotected sex pretty much equaled baby" she said.

Once she looked up at me I realized that tears we starting to well up in her eyes.

"You don't have to-" I reached  out to hold her. 

She pulled away, "ple- please just let me finish, I need to" she said sniffling

"I...um, well once I found out I immediately told Q, and his reaction was far more different than what I had expected...he accused me of cheating, stating that the baby couldn't be his he called me all sorts of names, but he knew! He knew he was my first...He denied me, and he denied my- his baby" she got up and started pacing.

"He realized how absurd it was to accuse me of cheating and realized he was he was the father, but he still wasn't willing to own up and be in his unborn child's life...for months he tried getting me to abort the child, but I wasn't going to give up on my baby...I went to every doctors appointment by myself or with Aaliyah, rumours were starting to fly about me getting pregnant but nobody could really get proof because I wasn't really showing at 6 months and Q wasn't going to admit to anything. Besides that...Everyday I'd have a doctors appointment was a day that I'd be ecstatic about, just to hear my little baby's heartbeat"

She paused again this time was longer than the others.

"I...I was walking to the doctors, going straight from school when these girls pulled up in some black jeep...I only recognized one girls face, some girl that said she was sleeping with Q back in our sophomore years...there were about 4 of them and that one girl I recognized looked at me with a baseball bat in hand and said "my baby Q said you've been causing problems, I'm here to make sure you won't no more" and...the- they jumped me...they beat me and they killed my baby, all because that jackass didn't wanna own up to being a dad...and he has the audacity to look me in my face and talk about our baby?! OURS?! He got one of his hoes to beat me up on the side or the road just because he did not want me to have his baby..." she punched the wall and slid down to the floor.

I sat beside her and held her tight, though she may not have wanted it, I knew she needed it..I let her cry.

"It's okay baby.." I whispered to her.

"I woke up in the hospital, Aliyah, Will the girls and my parents were there...I saw the disappointment in there eyes because by the time I was awake they had found out about the baby...I never let anyone in on who jumped me or who was responsible, I guess at the time I didn't even wanna believe he was behind it. Once out of the hospital, I convinced my parents to have me change schools and that's it." she said looking me in my eyes.

I was overwhelmed with so many emotions, one being anger, I was angry that I wasn't there to help her during this rough time, angry that Q was, and still is such a lame excuse of a man.

"I'm happy, that you could trust me with this...you were able to share your darkest tale with me, baby girl I just want you to know that I would never do you wrong like that...Q is a pig and a bitch ass nigga and next time I see his ass he better be ready to catch a fade" I said looking her dead in her watery eyes.

"I'm here to protect you, to be the best man I can be to you, to prove to you that I ain't going nowhere, aight?" I let her know.

She nodded her head and said those three words "I love you Quincy".

I didn't answer right away, cause I just had to take it in..I guess that worried her a bit cause she looked up at me again.

"I love you too Ryan" I said finally with a warm smile.

Nobody can come between me and my girl.

Author's note
Chapter 11 is up! Hope you like it, again thank you all for reading and have an amazing rest of the week...LOVE YOU GUYS ❤️✨