The Group Chat 2 [Slow Updates]

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Avery

'Baby -'

'What the hell is going on Avery ?! What are you doing ? It's been like three hours and I'm worried about you .'

'Listen.' I started off, watching the rain gradually put out the fire that heavily kindled in the trash can. 'I'm a be at cho house in a minute a'ight.'

'Can you at least tell me where you are ? ' Erin asked, sounding as if she was concerned.

'A'int no need for that. I'll be there in a bit.'

'Avery I don't like being here by myself anymore.' She admitted. 'I wanna go to your house.'

'I'm finna come and pick you up. Pack some stuff a'ight. ' I told her, taking my phone off of speaker and putting it to my ear.

'Matter of fact get all yo shit packed. I want chu to move in with me.'

'You're not gonna ask ?' She asked with an attitude.

'Do I need to ?'

There was silence for a little while on her end but she eventually answered me.

'No.' She chuckled.

'Coo.'

'I love you Avery.' Pausing for a second I had to think before speaking. That was the first time I had heard her say that to me, and it definitely doesn't roll off of our tongues easily. So I know that she meant it.

'I love you too.' I responded with a smirk on my face.

I hung up and looked down through the alleyway I was standing in one last time before I started to make my way to my car.

Dope

'Fuck is you doin here ?'

'Can we just talk Angelo I don't wanna argue.'

I stopped for a second and scoffed, leaning against my front doorway and looking Zi down in disappointment.

'Don't chu think that it's weird that you come to us all beat up and bruised with this suspicious ass vibe to yourself right before yo former nigha tries to come and kill my friend ?'

'I was warning you, you're lucky that she's alive right now !' She snapped.

'A'ight but what happened to you ?! You just let that nigha beat on you and shit ?'

'It wasn't like that .' She started to cry. 'He been doin it for years Angelo and I-I didn't know how to get away.'

'You could've told me.'

'No I couldn't have.' She shook her head.

'So you just lied to me and let him do you like that ? AND you almost got Niya killed ?!'

She stayed quiet with her head down and I saw a tear fall from her eyes.

'Ange-'

'Thas not fuckin coo Zi ! You could've prevented this if you would've just said sum'n before all this shit happened !' I stressed, angry with little control of it.

'I couldn't have, how many times do I have to tell you that !?'

'Why ? Cause of him ? You could've said sum'n ta me and we could've handled that.' I said, pointing to myself.

'I wasn't risking getting you hurt Angelo.'

'But my friend almost got hurt !'

'But she didn't !'

I stopped and bit down on my bottom lip, suppressing myself from myself from saying anything else.

'Just- h-how do think this is makin you look Zi ?' I asked and she scoffed.

'I'm sorry if this is making me look some type of way Angelo. And I'm sorry that I couldn't be of any assistance to you and your friends, I was kinda busy getting abused and threatened.' She sarcastically snapped.

'But I can see how all of this was hard for YOU.'

She turned around and started to walk away without giving me any time to speak. I looked down at nothing in particular, started to feel bad and regretted this whole conversation.

'Zi ..' I spoke out lowly and she stopped in her tracks, turning around.

'C'mere.'

Meech

'I'm jus happy you ain't hurt baby.' Nyier told me as we both laid in bed with the twins in our arms.

'Ain't nobody hurtin me.' I chuckled.

'Don't jus laugh that off Demetrius.' Nyier said, kissing her teeth . 'I don't want chu to go around jinxing yourself.'

'Nyier.' I called and she looked at me. 'I'm good.' I told her, leaning in for a kiss which she gave to me .

'I know.'

'Plus I got chu and the twins to come home to everyday. I ain't got the time to be in no shit.' I told her.

'You know I love you right ?' I asked and she nodded.

'I know we been having problems and all but I know.'

'Yea but I jus think that we need to do better. Cause what if sum'n actually does happen ta me ? If my life had to flash before my eyes for some reason, then I would like for it to be the moments I shared with my wife and two kids.' I smirked.

'Yea I know.' Nyier spoke, biting down on her bottom lip. 'Because I know that before all of this shit happened we were great. And I know we didn't lose that, we just put it on pause.'

'Press play then.' I said and she smirked.

'Okay.'

'So you gon start talkin ta me ?' I asked her, looking down and seeing that Milo was fully sleep.

'Yes.' She started off. 'Cause I know if my life had to flash before my eyes for some terrible reason then I'd want it to mostly be of moments like this.' She spoke, giving me a slow kiss afterwards.

'I know .'

Niya

'What's yo fuckin problem man you think this shit is cute Kenny ?!'

'If you'd just let me explain-' I stressed, sitting at the edge of the bed while Niya stood in front of me with her arms rested on her head.

'No.' She cut me off. 'You not finna try to explain shit to me.'

Niya started to pace the floor and it made me feel bad because she wasn't supposed to be this stressed out.

'Get out.'

'Hol up.' I stood up. 'Can we jus talk about this baby ?'

'No, fuck you.' She spat, leaving out of the room and downstairs to the front door with me right behind her.

'Niya please.'

'Leave me alone.' She said, grabbing her coat and leaving out the front door.

I watched her get into her car and drive, feeling nothing but ashamed of myself.

'Fuck.'