Save Me ( Keith Powers)

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Omniscient
Things with Ashly and Keith aren't all the way good but they're also not as bad as they were last week. They're able to have a civilized conversation and not argue as must as they used to. Ashly is still convincing herself & others that she is not pregnant and everyone else believes her except Keith. But to keep them from arguing he doesn't bring it up.

Right now they were currently at Keith's house. He was playing 2k while Ashly was sitting on him and singing Still by Tamia.

Every time Keith would move to one side to see the tv she would move to the same side and block his view.

"The question everybody ask
Is how we make it last
I tell em
I still, he still, we still

Now I still smile in the morning
When I realized I'm still in his arms
We know everything about each other
But we still keep holding on (yeah)"

"Ashly, I love you baby. I really do." He told as she gave him kisses all over his face and he tried to move his head to see the tv.

"But I can't focus on my game. And you're about to make me... lose."He said defeatedly as his team lost.

Ashly gave him a sympathetic look and spoke in a baby voice.

"You wanna a hug?"

Keith huffed loudly and leaned into her chest as she patted his back and rubbed his head.

"I don't wanna a hug but I do want something else though." He replied quickly as he put Ashly on her back making her laugh and scream.

Keith was tickling her and giving her kisses all over her face as she laughed uncontrollably.

She tried to get the words I quit out but she couldn't fully get them out due to her laughing.

"Huh? What was that? What you say?"

"I said I quit." She laughed out.

"You quit?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to interrupt my game time?"

He stopped tickling her for a second so she could answer. She had the word yes on her tongue but when she saw his hands coming towards her she quickly changed it and said no repeatedly.

After their tickling and laughing fit, they laid on the couch together and watched Jason's Lyric. Four minutes into the movie and Keith's phone started ringing. He pulled the phone out of his pocket and looked at the name across the screen.

Renee

He mentally rolled his eyes and told Ashly to raise up so he could get up. He went upstairs and called her back.

"Hello."

"Keith, c- um." She inhaled a deep breath then exhaled.

"Can you come over here, please."

"Is there something wrong?"

"No but um I just want to talk to you."

"Alright. I'll um be over there in a minute."

Renee nodded her head and said okay.

Once they ended their call, Keith came downstairs and told Ashly he had to meet Dominique and Darius at the studio. Ashly said okay and to tell Dom and Darius she said hey and he responded by saying okay and walked out the door.

Not in the mood to finish Jason's Lyric, she went to the recordings and watched the last episode of Star- A House Divided. She laid out on the couch and resumed to where she stopped the last time, which was Noah, Andy, Angel & Take 3 at the radio station for their interview.

"Andy with the manager you and Angel got y'all are not going to win anything but a trip to y'all house because Take 3 got this." She said to the tv screen.

As she continued to watch the show and get fully into it, her phone dinged with text messages. She glanced down at her phone and saw that Candace texted her and then she placed it on the table and continued to watch the show.

Candace texted her again & again and Ashly continued to ignore. This time instead of texting, she called and Ashly groaned and ignored her. Then she FaceTime'd her. Ashly paused STAR and looked down at her phone with a mug on her face. She answered the call and soon as it connected Candace started talking and questioning her nonstop.

"What's wrong with your phone that you can't answer calls and texts?"

"Why do I have to be an annoying girlfriend and double and quadruple text and call you?"

"What is more important than my calls and texts?"

"Why didn't you pick you? I could've been dead or injured."

Before she ask another question Ashly interrupted her.

"Can you breathe first before you utter out another question? As for that last statement you can't be too injured and you're obviously not dead because your mouth is going at 100 miles per hour."

She laughed and Candace gave her a sarcastic laugh.

"Did you get those screenshots I sent you?"

"If you sent them to my iMessage then duh I got them."

"Well duh read them."

Ashly rolled her eyes and laughed as she put Candace on pause and went to her messages. She went to Candace's thread and saw that the screenshots were from TheShadeRoom. She didn't even fully look at them before she exited out of the thread and shook her head.

"Uh uh Candace I'm not reading that mess."

"Why not?"

"Because its from TheShadeRoom and you know all they do is keep up mess. I only go on there when they're posting something positive."

"Ashly look at the screenshots."

"Candace no I am not-"

"Ashly! Look at the screenshots." Candace spoke. Ashly huffed and reluctantly went to the thread to read them.

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When Keith arrived to her house, he got out of his truck and walked up to her door. He knocked the first time and didn't get an answer so he knocked the second time and he heard her say coming.

He stood there outside with his hands in pockets and waited until she opened the door.

Renee took a deep breath and then she opened the door to see Keith standing on the other side of it. When she opened the door wider to let him in he was surprised to see what was in front of him.

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Okay, as always it's short. I know and I apologize but I didn't want to put everything that's going to happen in this chapter, I wanted to put in the next chapter.