Yours Truly (bxb)

chapter six.

angel cortez

"It was so weird, Mani. He kept trying to hold my hand for some reason. Like if I move back once why keep reaching?" I asked Imani as we walked in the park with my little sister, Mac.

"He probably likes you."

"Well I don't feel the same way. I'm not trying to get involved with anyone." I stuffed my hands into my hoodie pockets.

"What about the other guy that was trying to talk to you? The white guy you were talking about." Imani mentioned.

"He's just a friend. I can't see myself being in a relationship with him."

"What's a lationship?" Mac asked, her little face bunched into curiosity as she mispronounced relationship.

I kneeled down infront of her, "Something that you, Aleace Mackenzie Cortez, won't be in until your forty-seven."

Imani nudged my shoulder, "Stop it."

"Okay, sorry. A relationship is when two people love each other so they decide to be together."

"L-Like Princes and Princesses?" She asked.

I nodded my head.

"Ohhhhh, so that's a lationship." She nodded her head, making me and Imani laugh.

"Why won't you get in a relationship? The last relationship you were in was with me, and that was middle school."

"Things get too complicated and you have to focus on the more important things."

I was thirteen when me and Imani were together, but that relationship was ended as soon as my uncles found out.

I had walked Imani home from school. Being that we stayed two houses from each other, it didn't take me long to get back home. When I got there, Tevin and Tray were waiting on me.

It was far from what I'd expected being that most uncles would be proud if their nephews, it was the exact opposite.

"So you got a little girlfriend now?" Tray asked as I removed my backpack.

"W-What are you t-talking about?" I tried to play dumb.

"Cut the bullshit. We saw you with that little nappyheaded girl." Tevin snatched me up by the collar of my shirt.

"I-I c-can explain." I was trembling. I didn't know what they were going to do to me, but I knew it wouldn't be good.

"Don't explain shit. Take your ass upstairs and be waiting for us." Tevin demanded, but I stood still, tears running down my cheeks.

"Please, d-don't make me do it. I-I won't talk to her again."

Tray's hand flew across my cheek with quickness, knocking me to the ground.

"Don't make him have to repeat himself. Now, go upstairs and wait for us."

I still didn't budge.