Her Keeper

Chapter 69

--Geovanni Parris--

"Thanks Unc'." I said as I left his place.  I asked him to hold the kids a little while longer and he agreed. Julliet did not return home at all last night and I did not get any sleep. Everytime I called her, it went to straight voicemail and I knew something had went down.

This morning, I received a call from the hospital, telling me that my wife was brought in early this morning and is currently getting her stomach pumped and tests are being ran on her for any sexually transmitted diseases and infections.

That's right, my wife was drugged and raped and you know who wasn't around when she was found? That's right, Skylar. She didn't even attempt to look for her, because she was found in an alleyway behind the very club they went to.

I am trying my best not to lose my mind at the moment. I hadn't even told Julliet's folks where she was. I haven't even been to see her as yet. I've been sitting and talking to myself all damn morning. I was trying to stay calm and not go off on her as soon as I see her.

I pulled into the hospital's parking and found a spot, parked my car and just sat there for a few minutes. I then slouched over the steering wheel, hanging my head down. My emotions we're all over the fucking place.

My fucking wife was laid up in a hospital bed all because of her defiance. I could be taking that macroeconomics test that I had today, but here I am in a fucking hospital. I'm about to fail an entire course of my business studies thanks to my wife and her defiance. I had to wait almost a month to know for sure whether or not my wife is S.T.D/ S.T.I free, thanks to her defiance. If she turns up pregnant between now and two weeks, we're going to have the stress of not knowing for sure if I'm the father, thanks to her defiance.

A billion thoughts were running through my mind and I really just wanted to turn around and go home. She chose this for herself. I tried to stop her from going in harm's way, but Julliet always has to do her own fucking thing. I could feel my blood pressure rising by the fucking second.

I finally decided to get out of the car and head into the building.

"I'm looking for a Julliet Parris." I told the lady at the desk. She looked up and smiled at me before nodding.

"Room three o' four." She beamed.

"Thanks." I nodded as I made my way to her room.

When I walked in, she was watching the television and as soon as she saw me, she began fiddling with her fingers and kept her eyes on them.

"I'm surprised you came." She mumbled, but I still heard her.

"So am I." I shrugged.

"Don't you have an exam today?" She asked.

"Shouldn't you have been safely home last night if you had listened to me?" I retorted.

"I'm sorry—"

"I don't wanna fucking hear it."  I snarled, shutting her up. "What the hell your doctor say?"

"I was consumed a date rape drug and as of now, I'm showing no signs of STDs nor STIs, but I need another test in two weeks to make sure." She mumbled.

"So you were positively raped huh?" I asked to which she nodded. "Where was your little friend?" I asked.

"I don't know." She shrugged as tears fell from her eyes.

"Nah, don't cry. You wasn't crying when you were talking back to me last night. You weren't crying then, so don't fucking cry." I gritted.

"You don't have to be that harsh, Geo." She pleaded.

"You didn't have to be here. I didn't have to be here either, but here we are, Julliet." I gritted.

"I wanted to have fun for once."

"I stop you from doing that?" I asked as I pointed to myself.

"No, but I take care of our kids and everything else and I barely have time to myself anymore—"

"You barely have time?" I questioned in disbelief. "Julliet, I'm the one up at night trying to do these online classes to get my degree, which isn't looking so hot right now, because I have an exam right row and and here I am. I'm the one up at six every morning so I could go get ready for work and manage all three of our businesses. I'm the one running around paying the bills everytime they're due. I'm the one making sure to pay our employees. I'm always making sure that our finances are straight and you could have the life you're used to. If you don't want to take care of the kids at all, I could pay your grandmother to do it and let you do whatever the fuck you feel like you need to do."

"I'm not asking for that, Geo—"

"I'm not asking you to be a prisoner if you feel like one. Tell me right now, what the hell do you think you deserve that I'm not giving to you, Julliet." I demanded.

"Nothing." She whispered.

"Maybe that's exactly what I should give to you and see just how much you like it." I gritted. "if you want to have fun, you could ask me to go out with you. You got Thalia to go out with you. You got Amber. You even got Elliott. What about them?" I asked.

"You're doing enough, I didn't want to bother you—"

"And yet it seems like I'm not doing enough huh, because here we are." I pointed out again. Her silent tears became sniffles and I was too damn aggravated to care. "I think we need some time alone. Away from each other." I stated. "You need to go run your own business like your Daddy wants and actually pay bills for once."

"That's not what I want, Geo—"

"Nah, that's exactly what you need."

"You can't just leave me alone like this." She begged. "You didn't even ask how I felt about what happened. You just came in here and started attacking me, I still have feelings, Geo. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You're an amazing provider and support system, but you suck at sentiments." She tried to argue.

"You know damn well I care about your ass. Sentiment? You want me to be sentimental? Should I go home and go take my fucking exam that I studied so goddamn hard for and show you just how fucking unsentimental I could get?" I spewed.

"Then go." She shrugged. "Go ahead, Geo." She continued. "Go."

"Shut the fuck up talking to me like you stupid."

"You came here to argue with me when I'm already feeling bad about myself?" She yelled. "You don't think I feel stupid by now? You don't think I realize that somebody violated me and I don't even know who. I don't even know if it's just one person, Geo! You don't think I know that there are better things that you could've been doing right now? I didn't expect you to come in the first place, because that's just how you are. Yes, I make a mistake and was irrational and brought this on myself, but Jesus Christ, Geo, I'm hurt." She bawled.

Getting in the bed beside her, I pulled her into myself. I was upset and I had every right to be, but at the end of the day, I'm just grateful that she's alive.

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Umm... Yeah.

~Dolly