Erica
I parked my car in the driveway and got out walking to the front door. I knocked and waited patiently. Seconds later, Ms. Gail opened it. She had her hand on her hip.
"Let you talk to you before you go up there to my daughter." I nodded weirdly and sat down on the steps.
"Whatcha' need Ms. G?" I said looking up her standing above me now with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Do you love my daughter?" I nodded because I am low-key catching feelings for Valery. "Well the hell would you go fuck Wendy?!" She yelled.
"Ms. Gail I was drunk! I didn't mean to any of that. I'm here this morning to apologize to her. I care for her, alot." I said. She sighed.
"Valery is a very sweet woman. She barely goes out. I beg her all the time to go out with her friends and go have fun. She just wants to just always have Bella with her. And when she came home this morning, she was just crying and crying."
"I want to go in there and talk to her. What she doing?"
"Ion know she never came out ever since she came back home." She said walking up the steps passing me. "Come on if you going up there before I close this door."
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I knocked on the door and heard sniffing and the bed shuffling. The door opened and Valery was on the other side. She was wearing a oversized shirt with knee high socks. Her hair was in a messy bun and strains was also out. You could tell she didn't care how she had it.
"Va --" She went to close the door but I held it open. "I'm just here to talk, please." I begged.
"Why should I let you in my room? You done fucking Wendy and thought you could come and fuck me? Is that what it is?" She asked. Her voice was all cracked. She been crying for a while.
"Valery just open the door shit!" The door flew open and I almost fell due to me leaning on the door. "Damn.."
"Shh! Bella's sleeping." I looked at the bed seeing Bella sleeping in the bed. I nodded sitting at the foot of the bed and Valery got back in the bed snuggling close to Bella. "So what do you want?"
"Okay first off, I want to apologize for what I said,"
"Thought you were drunk." She rolled her eyes.
"I was! I just see videos and getting tagged alot by people on Instagram and shit. I wasn't in my right stage of mind. I'm sorry Valery, I really am. I care about you, alot and I'll do whatever it takes to make you forgive me." I said looking her deeply in the eyes wanting her to forgive me.
"Just answer this, did you and Wendy have sex after I left this morning?"
I looked away then looked back at her, "No, I kicked her ass out." I lied. I didn't want to lie but if I told her the truth, I had a feelin she was going to be even more mad at me. "So .. do you forgive me?" I asked.
She looked away and shrugged. "Oh come on, you know you want to smile. Let me see that pretty smile Valery." I said rubbing her leg.
She blushed moving my hand.
"Don't get carried away." She said. I got up and took off my shoes and shirt leaving myself in my jeans and grey sports bra. "Woah, whatchu doing?"
I laughed. "Just getting comfortbale, chillout." I got in the bed and scotted next to Bella so that she was now between us. I miss when my kids were small like this. They were so adorable.
"Why you staring at her like that?"
"No reason, she's just cute. But can I ask you something?" Since we're already on the subject with Bella being cute and everything, I want to ask her about the baby daddy thing that Wendy told me about.
Just to be sure about things.
"Ask away." She said waving her hand out and kissed Bella.
"Are you and your baby daddy ... you know ...."
"Messing around?" She questioned and I nodded. "Why would yoy think that? I am not messing around with Bella's father!"
"Okay okay no need to get mad. I just wanted to know because --"
"Wendy told you huh?"
"Yea but I --"
"WHY WOULD YOU --" Bella jumped in her sleep. "Oh, sorry baby girl." She looked back at me. "Why would you believe her? She's nothing but a lying dirty hoe and you believed her." She scoffed looking away.
"I mean you have been MIA for a week and she told me it was that week that --"
"Whatever Erica just stop talking please. I don't want my baby daddy. In that case , it didn't make sense for me to even break up with him."
"Why you never want to talk about him then? You know I wouldn't judge you Valery."
"Because I'm just not comfortable talking about him yet okay? Can you just please understand that?"
"But it's killing me alive Valery. You can tell me, I won't tell anybody." I grabbed her hand and she looked at me. "I care about you. What be said between us, stays between us."
Valery
Talking about Frank isn't a easy piece of cake for me. I still get nightmares to this day about my past with him. And when I talk about it, it makes me uncomfortable.
But Erica is really making me feel like I can trust her. I think I can. She trusts me because she told me about her life, so why can't I trust her?
I don't want to hold this from her for long anyways.
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"His name is Franklin, Frank for short. He sells weed and he --"
"Hollup Hollup, what you said his name was again?"
I looked at her, "Franklin. Do you know him?"
She looked away at the ceiling for a little bit then stared at Bella the back at me. "U-Um .. no I don't think I do. Listen if you don't want to, you don't have to continue about him."
"Well long story short, he made me do things that I didn't feel comfortable doing and he almost made me kill Bella..." I started crying thinking back to those long nights. "I had to run away just to save our lives."
She got up, walking to the other side of the bed and hugged me.
"Push over," I scotted Bella over to the other end and Erica got in the bed behind me and put her arm around me. I snuggled close to her letting my tears fall. "Shh, it's okay."
I sniffed. For Wendy to tell Erica that I'm messing with Frank knowing my situation with him is really petty and she going to get Karma. Trust me, and she's such a bitch.
Erica
I see why she doesn't like talking about him. What I do hope is that she's not talking about the same Franklin that I know about.
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How Do Erica Know Frank?
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