I'm Yours (Original)

Safe

After closing Cori’s door she walked into Blue’s room. She was sound asleep. Bey closed the door and walked further down the hall to her and Jay’s room. Jay was sitting on the bed flipping through to TV channels.

“Jay.” Bey said.

“Yea?”

“Thanks for letting me bring home Cori.”

Jay just looked at Bey in a weird way.

“No not like that. You’re making it seem like I went to the store and came back with a child Jay. I meant it as in thank you for your consent.” She said.

“Well, I would say you’re welcome, but you would’ve done what you wanted to do anyway.” He said.

“Well” Bey said while climbing under the covers and laying her head on Jay’s chest, “that would be true in most circumstances, but this is different. This is a human being, a stranger, which we let in our house. If you would’ve said no I would have understood.” She added.

Jay turned down the TV almost to a mute and turned the lamp off.  He slid further into the cover while still having an arm around his beautiful wife. “You have a good heart Bey.” He kissed her on the forehead.

“Thanks.”

“I just hope she doesn’t put more of a strain on our marriage.” Jay added.

Bey sighed. “And whose fault is it that we have a strain on our marriage Jay?” she asked a little irritated.

“Mine. And I’ve apologized a million times Beyoncé. I don’t know what else to do. I told you that it was an accident.”

“It was an accident? Really?"

“Yes!”

“So you just “accidently” put your tongue in her mouth? You “accidently” put your dick in her vagina Jay?” Beyoncé said getting louder and more upset by the second.

“Look baby, I love you. But I’ve moved on from it. You need to move on too.”

“You could have told me you weren’t happy.”

“That’s not why I… Look. I’m not doing this with you tonight.”

“Whatever Jay.”

“Goodnight.”

“Goodnight.”

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“Stop it!” Cori screamed.

 “No please!” “Don’t do this!” She screamed.

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Beyoncé shot up in her bed.  She heard another scream. “Stop!” “Please!” “No,No!” She hit Jay on the shoulder and woke him up. He opened his eyes and asked “What time is it?” while sitting up.  

“Sshh. Listen.”

“Stop!” “I’m sorry! I won’t do it again! Just let me go! Please!” Cori screamed.

While Bey was getting out of the bed Jay grabbed his gun. Bey opened up the door to the room Cori was staying in but Jay pushed her back and he went in first. He saw Cori on the bed squirming and tossing from side to side, she was sweating and was breathing heavy. He put down his gun and took the bullets out before turning to Cori. Bey was trying to wake her up.

“Stop it Marcus!” Cori screamed again.

“Cori, Cori! Wake up. Cori!” Beyoncé said while shaking her.

Cori stopped screaming but was still breathing heavy. After her breathing slowed down Bey tried to wake her up again.

“Cori. Sweetie wake up.” Be said shaking her a bit.

Cori shot up in her bed, much like Beyoncé did a few minutes earlier. Cori started to breathe hard again.

“Calm down, breathe. You were just having a nightmare. Everything’s fine. We’re not going to hurt you. Just breathe.”

After a good 5 minutes of trying to soothe Cori by letting her know that she was safe, Jay finally spoke up. “Marcus is not coming back. He isn’t here Cori. He doesn’t know where you stay, he doesn’t know anything. You’re safe here. I promise. And I keep my promises.” He said to Cori. He looked at Bey when he said I keep my promises. Then he left the room.

“Are you okay?” Beyoncé asked her.

“Umm.  Yeah, I guess.”

“You guess?”

“I don’t really want to talk about it. I just want to eat. I’m starving. And what time is it?” Cori said standing up.

“It’s around 4 in the morning.”

“Oh.”

“You know where the kitchen is, if not you clearly know how to look for it.” Beyoncé said referring to yesterday when she found Cori in her studio.

Cori caught on. “Sorry about that.”

Bey smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”

Cori nodded and walked out of the room and down the stairs.

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Bey sat down on the guest bed and sighed. She said to herself, “There is no way I’m going to send this girl to a group home.”