With You

Four.

One week later.

"I'm going to call you remember don't call me!" I told Malachi as I got out of his car.

We've been hanging out almost everyday between his breaks from work. It was fun getting out of the house and not being locked away or bored. Rocky and Daina has their own lives and jobs to work. I couldn't be up under them all the time plus I knew I would annoy them.

I entered the house smiling and feeling jolly. Malachi and I have just been hanging out. Things don't get more intimate then a hug. Rocky was wrong about him just like she was wrong about Braden.

"Heather."

I paused in my steps. I didn't see Braden's car outside. I didn't even know he was home.

"Yeah babe?" I asked trying to play it off.

"Come here for a second." He called out to me.

I followed his voice and found him in the kitchen with Zain. Zain was finally out the hospital. His arm was stitched up and in a brace.

I smiled when I seen my boyfriend and I went up to hug him but he ain't hug me back.

"Who was that?" He asked me.

" I told you it's Rocky she had to get a new car." I lied to him. I smiled nervously and took one of his fries he had on the plate in front of him.

"Rocky came by earlier looking for you." Braden tells me.

I rolled my eyes. "No she didn't." Did she really come? I thought she was at work.

"Do i look like I'm playing with you?" Braden said dryly. He stared down at me with his eyes burning a hole in my head.

I was so nervous I could feel the hairs in the back of my neck raise up.

"I been trying to be real nice with ya ass man! I give you freedom and you wanna run around here being sneaky! Lying and shit bruh I don't have time to play games with you, Heather!!" He snapped. He smacked his Pepsi bottle off the table causing me to flinch.

I held my arm and looked down at the marble kitchen floor. "I'm not lying."

"Bullshit . Tell that nigga you my bitch and I'll kill that nigga with my own two hands. I swear to god I better not see that damn car again. Or find out that you been going behind my back with another Nigga." He snapped. He came up and pushed my head with his finger.

I slapped his hand away and stepped back from him. "Don't put your damn hands on me!"

"I ain't doing shit to you. But you ain't allowed out no more." He said snickering and going back to his food.

I rolled my eyes and started to head upstairs but I stopped in my tracks. "You can't tell me what to do! If I wanted to live with my father I would've. You don't own me!"

Zain and Braden looked at each other and laughed. Braden nodded his head and continued eating. I felt my eyes burning with tears but I refuse to let him see me cry. I wiped my eyes and went up to our bedroom.

Shit.

I took my phone out and sent Rocky a text, just to see if she really came by.

I could've swore she was at work. I don't know if Braden is lying or telling the truth but I was tired of him thinking he can control me.

Rocky sent me another text saying she never came by and I couldn't help but laugh. He's suspicious but he doesn't know shit.

I walked over to my vanity and noticed Malachi's card was back on it. "Yo am I tripping..." I said to myself .