Love in New York [Under Construction].

XXI.

I put on my thin, black maxi dress, and gold accessories. I could hear the voices of Santiago, Luis and Valentina who were standing outside the door. "Lo digo en serio, no me gusta su (I'm serious, I don't like her). From the Spanish words I learned from Adam, I could tell she was talking about someone she didn't like just from the negatives. "Man, you never like any of the girls Adam dated." They were talking about me. What did I do to her? "Yeah, whatever." I walked out of my apartment, and Valentina stopped talking. "You look nice" Luis complemented.

"Thanks" I said dryly. 

Valentina rolled her eyes. She was dressed in a short, red dress with gold heels, her long brown hair highlighted with blond streaks was done in a long curly waves. "Let's get going" I said. We walked out of the apartment and onto the street. "Taxi!" I yelled, waving down a taxi-van. A van pulled over and we got into it. "2880 Broadway" I told the man the address to the American-Greek restaurant. "Now this is my type of city" Luis breathed as he looked at the tall skyscrapers. I laughed. "What, you don't like Los Angeles anymore?" I asked. "Don't get me wrong, L.A is nice and everything but New York is amazing, and the view isn't pretty bad either" he winked at me. I couldn't suppress my laugh, Adam was right. His cousin is a big flirt.

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"So are you going to tell me where Adam is?" Lyra asked. "Yeah, I want to know where he is too" Valentina added, snappy. "Well, when me and Adam were kissing and do other activities.." I trailed off. Lyra laughed at my blushing. "Priscilla ran in and started punching Adam, and crying for him to get off of me because she thought he was hurting me. I told her Adam wasn't hurting me, and she asked why does it hurt when Mr. Hughes does it to me?" 

Lyra and Valentina gasped. "Damn, are you serious?" Lyra asked. I nodded sadly. It really hadn't set in until now. "That's why she had been acting so differently the past month. Then Adam and I left to Atlanta, and we just left her here...I should have known" I cried, tears running down my face and ruining my makeup. Lyra hugged me. "It wasn't your fault, you didn't know." "Excuse me, sorry if I'm interrupting" a new voice entered. A dressed up middle aged man stood at the end of the table. "Hi, I'm Chris Tucker, CIO of Star Magazine, a small but steady growing magazine company, would you be interested in modeling?"

I shook my head. "I don't know, sometimes my schedule is very busy." "Well, our agency is very flexible. Here's a card with our number and address. We would be happy to have you on our team." I took the business call out his hand. "If you call or come by, just say that you talked to CIO, Chris Tucker." "Alright." And with that he walked away. "Come let's go fix your makeup" Lyra said, glaring at the man as he walked away. We went into the bathroom and I cleaned off my tear stained face. "I bet Adam has everything under control. He'll do what's right." I fixed my makeup again, and was going to walk out of the bathroom, when Lyra stopped me. "And stay away from Luis, he's seems like bad news." "Do you really think I'm going to cheat on Adam?" "I didn't say that, I'm just saying you know Adam wouldn't want you around Luis. I could see Luis drooling over you from a mile away!" I sighed, Luis and Star would be a great match. Well if they could resist the urge to not cheat on each other. "You're right," I admitted, "I'll keep my distance." "Good, now let's go eat!"

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"Hey ladies, how about you two let me buy you a drink?" a sexy lion brown man with blue eyes smiled. "Sure" Lyra and I smiled. We ordered our beverages and the bartender handed them off to us. Water for me a strawberry mai tai for Lyra. "Who are these sexy ladies?" his friend asked, coming up behind him. "I'm Aaliyah, and this is-" "Lyra" Jameel interjected angrily, now standing behind Lyra. Blue eyes and his friend got up and walked away just as our drinks came. "Why are you talking to other men, huh?" Lyra rolled her eyes. "Chill out Jameel, it was just talking." Jameel shook his head and stomped away, she chased after him. Luis took a seat next to me. "This night is going well.." Luis commented sarcastically. I took a sip of my cold ice water, and looked at my phone again, just waiting for Adam to call. "You still worried about Adam?" I nodded and just as I did the phone rang. I got up and walked into the bathroom. "Aaliyah?" "Hey boo," I answered, "how'd it go?" "Well, Mr. Hughes is in jail, turns out Priscilla wasn't the only child." I sighed. "I knew there was something off about him. What are you doing now?" "I just need a drink or something, where are you at?"

"The Lust, you know the club on Broadway-" I felt my stomach church. I ran into a stall and threw up my lunch. I could hear Adam calling my name. I wiped my mouth. "Ugh, sorry I just threw up." "Do you want me to come get you?" "Yeah, let me tell your cousins I'm leaving." "Okay, love you." "Love you too." I hung up my phone and went back into the club area. I found Santiago, Valentina, Lyra and Jameel sitting down. "Guys, I'm just going to head home." Lyra frowned, "but we haven't even got drunk yet!" "I just threw up, the last thing I want to do is drink." Her eyes widened. "Your pregnant!" Lyra exclaimed. A few heads turned towards our table. I face palmed. "I'm on my period, Lyra. I'm just a little nauseous. I'll just going wait for Adam to get here and then I'm going to go home" I replied taking a seat next to her.

Twenty minutes later,  Adam showed up. He looked tired and frustrated. Nobody said anything to him. "Let me get a drink before we go" he said. We walked over to the bar and Adam sat down and ordered a Bud light. I traced the screen of my phone out of boredom. Adam was visibly upset and didn't look like he wanted to be bothered. He hadn't even said anything about Priscilla so I didn't ask. "Hey, I see your friend left" Blue eyes said, sitting down next to me. "How about we head back to my place?" I cringed, knowing that Adam had heard him. "No thanks." "Come on, my bro is going to be there, are you down with threesomes-" "She said 'no'" Adam growled. Blue eyes shot him a look. "Look, I don't think I was talking to you. So anyway where were we?" he smirked, "you look like you could do some things with that mouth off yours-" A loud pop erupted as Adam's first collided with Blue eyes' cheek.

I tried to pull Adam away. "Come on Adam, let's just go." "Shut up." I grew angry. "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?! Let's just go!" "Get the fuck off of me!" he pushed me back roughly and I fell onto the hard, cold floor. "Aaliyah! Lyra screamed. She ran over to me. The crowd of people watching us. Adam stopped fighting and the twin fell onto the floor, clutching his stomach. "Adam! What the hell!" Adam leaned down, inspecting my red pinky finger, that had pain shooting through it. "Baby, I didn't mean to-" I moved away from him. "Don't touch me." My pinky finger on my left hand started turning a purplish color and I knew it was broken from how swollen it was becoming. Tears began to well in my eyes. Lyra helped me up. "Babe, please" he begged. I ignored him. I could feel Adam's eyes on me as I rushed out of the club with Lyra and Jameel.

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I stared down at the blue and gray finger splint on my numb pinky. "How long do I have to wear this?" "For about four weeks" he answered, "it won't be all that bad." "Dr. Kross, you're needed" a nurse interrupted. "I'll be right back." Lyra rubbed my leg. "I shouldn't have asked him to come pick me up..I should've just went home by myself" I pouted. Lyra frowned and I got off the exam table. We stood in silence as we waited for Dr. Kross to give me my prescription for the pain.

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