Retributed

Chapter 15

Retributed: Chapter 15

~Nelle Bells P.O.V.~

I woke up early the next morning after a terrible night's sleep. I wouldn't even call it sleep, it was just thirty minutes of my eyes closed and then I couldn't close them again so I started my day at six in the morning when the sun was peeking over the hills. I anxiously made my bed, setting up the pillows neatly and then getting in the shower to pass time.

As of now I was sitting outside on the back porch in one of the lounge chairs while Nala was out looking for a spot to go to the bathroom, this was a usual routine but I had kept calling Lexis' phone. You'd think after the first call with it going straight to voicemail I'd just stop but no. I kept calling and calling till finally it got to where it was breaking my heart that I couldn't get a hold of him.

'Hey Lexis, I know we had gotten into that big fight before you left and I thought about it a lot, I don't want to hold a grudge and I learned you're going to be out there for longer than intended so I just wanted to talk to you but your phone is off. Anyways, there's some things that happened over here that I wanted to let you in on but it'll have to wait. When you get this message, please give me a call back, okay? I love you, bye.'

Hanging up the phone, I let out a deep sigh and rested my head in my hand that was propped up on the arm rest of the lounge chair. With the air smelling like fresh rain, it was nice to inhale that scent along with feeling the few rays of sun hitting my skin given the storm we had earlier on in the morning. Something about hearing they were going to be out there longer than expected just didn't sit well with me. At first, I was glad to have Lexis gone because he had been pissing me off with the way he's been pushing this gang on Ivanna and then hearing her view point just made me feel like a terrible Mother for not noticing and putting my foot down about it. With some other minor things on top that he and I had been going through but now I hold guilt for the fight and being as cold as I was when he was trying to say goodbye to me.

Do I just stay put here? Do I go to Houston? I don't see a reason as to why I would need to go there aside from settling a guilt conscious and being able to apologize to him in person but even in the background on the phone, it didn't sound like a trap at all. Lexis has called plenty of times from the trap here or in Detroit when he goes and the background noise is always tall telling but this one... it was more of like an echo from Arlie's end, like in a big building with some other unfamiliar noises.

Nala had come walking up to me, a slight wag of her tail and a big stretch of her legs before she plopped her big head on my lap, looking up at me with those big brown eyes. "You ready for breakfast, huh?" The subtle movements of her facial muscles above her eyes- I guess I'd call those her eyebrows made me a laugh as I got up and she backed up, following me right inside and sitting next to her bowl patiently.

"Good morning, Mom." Trey said as he came down in just his boxers and socks, from which I could see the wounds he escaped out of that nonsense with.

"Hi Trey, how are you feeling?" Dropping the kibble into her bowl, she went right for it and I left her be, walking over to Trey to give him a hug that he didn't fight.

"I'm real sore but good nonetheless. I'm thinkin' about seein' a doctor for the leg hole." He said pointing down to his calf where I saw the small hole. "LJ's passed out like as if nothing that happened yesterday actually happened." He said with an amused laugh that got me to roll my eyes and shake my head.

"That doesn't surprise me. He's too much like you when you were his age and if there's anything I learned the first time around with you, I have no control because you always ended up doing whatever it was that you wanted by any means. I'd sit and say no gang war and you'd already have conspired a way to get there with Breezy."