Second Chance

Chapter Twenty-Seven : "Don't Give Up On Me."

Zoë Elliot

In life, things happen that you have no control of. You just have to acknowledge it and keep on moving with your life. Life's never been easy for me since I was a little child.

I've never wanted for anything but as I've mentioned before, I've had trouble with finding myself and finding myself attractive.

My very first boyfriend help me do that and now I'm scared. He's brought happiness to my life and I just don't want that happiness to leave once we depart our ways. I know I'm only moving five hours away, but that's far as hell to me. Hopefully this long distance relationship works out.

It was four days before I'm leaving for Georgia and a day before Tamir and I go on the trip I mentioned to him. I've managed to spend enough time with my brother, Deia, 12tH Street, and every one else that will be staying in Mississippi. I've finally got a chance to link up with my very first friend who's been missing in action since the beginning of school, Duke.

"Where have you been, man? I haven't seen you in so long." I hugged him once I opened the door for him.

"You're fake as hell, shawty. You haven't contacted me in damn near a year."

"That's a lie. I contacted you but it was the wrong number and you're never on social media's, Duke." I watched as he took a seat on the couch.

"I got arrested when I went to Tennessee." He brushed his tongue over his bottom lip.

"What did you do?"

"I was falsely accused of raping a young girl," he stated which caused me to widen my eyes. "Before you even think, it's not true and I put that on my pops, man."

"So what happen?"

"I was at this college party with a couple of my cousins who are in college. Aight so this shawty came up to me trying to dance but I blew her off because I wasn't in the mood at that moment. She left then I'll say an hour later she came back over to me asking can she talk to me,"

"At that point, I was high and had a little buzz from drinking. So I followed her upstairs to a bedroom which was the dumbest mistake I've ever did. She instantly started attacking me with her lips and I pushed her off,"

"She then begged me to let her give me head. Now, I'm not the type of nigga to turn down some head but right then with her didn't feel right and I felt like some was up. I told her nah, I thought we were suppose to be talking. To make a long story short, she kept trying to persuade me into having sex with her. When I tried to leave, a couple of officers where at the bedroom door. That's when she started screaming rape and begin fake crying, bro. Come to find out she was fucking fourteen. That shit fucked my whole life up, man." He shook his head and let out a breath.

"Wow. That's foul. How long did you stay in jail?"

"For like three weeks. The girl finally told the truth and they dropped the charges along with having that on my record."

"That's good as hell because that would have been with you for the rest of your life. Can't believe she did that."

"I wouldn't have been able to live," he leaned up from the couch and plastered a smirk on his face. "So what have you been up to, cuteness?"