.RED. // Jerrie ~ BOOK 2 #Wattys2017 (Completed)

Chapter 11

Leigh's POV

"Andre, I'm sorry okay? I'm just so tired..I already picked up Leila (LAY-LAH) and forgot the food. So what? Can't you just cook tonight?" I said, whimpering a bit. "No! Leigh! Don't you understand?? I'm the MAN of the house, I do all the work! You're the WOMAN! You just cook and pick up the child from school!"

"Andre, please not tonight at least. Leila is already asleep and I don't want her waking up to me. It's unfair to her and to-" "You shut your mouth." He said, after slapping me once more. "Don't make me slap you." He said. I just nodded my head in silence, letting my tears run down my face.

"Go make me something, like a sandwich. You know what I want on a sandwich." I rose up off of the ground, and walked into the kitchen. Tears still streaming down my face, I cut the bread..then I realized..I need to get out out of this relationship before it becomes brutal. I looked over at him slowly and saw that he was asleep.

Whenever he would go over to the couch, he would always fall asleep and wake up hours later. This was my only time, my only time to take Leila out of the house and rush somewhere. We moved to California, but we were in LA. It's always busy so I were to rush out, I had to know where I was going.

I tiptoed out of the kitchen and walked upstairs. I walked in Leila's room and shook her gently, "Leila honey, you have to wake up. Mommy is going to take you somewhere, okay?" She opened her eyes softly, I hated doing this to her but I had no choice this time. "Leila, are you awake?" "Huh?" She said, rubbing her eyes and grabbing a hold of her teddy bear.

"What's happening mommy?" She said a little loud, so I shushed her. "Daddy is asleep and we're gonna go for a...ride. We're gonna go somewhere and have fun." "Really?" "Yes honey, so grab your blanket and a pillow and we're gonna go." I said, in a rush-y voice.

5 minutes later

We had already gotten out of the house and it was the most nerve racking thing I've ever done. I knew a hotel that was a bit further away from the house.

I parked the car in one of the areas and began to wake up Leila. "Leila honey, we have to go outside. Can you wake up?" She woke up almost immediately but was rubbing her eyes. "Where are we mommy?" "We are...at grandmas house.." Shit, why did I say that?

"Oh, can we say hi to grandma?" "Not right now, she's asleep...in the morning you can but grandma is going somewhere very early." "Where is she going?" "To go see grandpa." My dad passed away a couple months ago and it's been very hard on all of us.

Leila doesn't know much but she does know that grandpa Pinnock isn't with us. I took her out of her car seat and we walked in. She fell asleep on my shoulder and I was okay with that. I asked for a room and they gave me a key. It was on the third story though, thank god they had an elevator.

Then my phone buzzed, it was a DM on Instagram.

itzmejade: Hey Leigh, it's been a while. How are things?