Different (Starring You and Drake)

Chapter 10 pt.2

YN'S POV cont...

I quickly got up to my feet, sending the polish bottle off and spilling some pink on the ground before reaching out to stop it.

"TY! NO! STOP!"

She rushed inside my room & locked the door behind her just as I reached where she once stood.

"TY!" I banged on the door, but she ignored me & put the phone on speaker.

A deep voice spoke up and I froze.

"Is that her?"

"Yeah, ignore her & her childish a**. So yeah, what's goin on? I heard from a little grown bird that a little somethin' somethin' went down last week, huh?" I heard her trying to hold back a giggle.

Before I could start banging on the door again, Aubrey's voice cut me off.

"Oh, that?" There was a pause for a few seconds before he continued. "Honestly, that was nothing."

Huh?

"Wait, wait, wait. The f**k you mean it was nothing?"

"Wow. You're right. This IS childish as f**k. Are you tellin me that YN was too weak to face me on her own so she had her friend do it instead? Sh*t!" He started to chuckle. "Childish af."

Everything grew silent. 

"So...Is that it? Is that all you wanted to ask me? Cuz I've got more important things to do & way better places to be, so..."

The door slowly opened. Ty stood there looking apologetically at me, handing me the phone. 

I began to shake my head no, but quickly changed my mind and took the phone.

"A few more things. Don't ever set foot in that flower shop again. Delete my number. And I'll pay you your money back by the end of next week."

"I don't want the money bac--"

I curtly cut him off, "And I want nothing to do with you, so the end of next week."

With that, I hung up.

I looked back at Ty to see her still standing by my bedroom door with her mouth wide open.

"There. Ya happy?"

She suddenly became animated. "OMG, YN! I'm SOOOO sorry! I didn't mean for it to go like that! I swear! I was just tryna mess with you & see how you'd look if I made you talk to him out of  the blue! I swear, on my mama, I didn't mean to ruin things between y'all!"

Shaking my head from side to side & chuckling under my breath, I replied. "Ty, it's not your fault! He's just a douche! That's it! And I'm glad you called or else I would've been here, caught up on someone like him. Let's get back to our girl time!"

I smiled and Ty, giving me an uncertain look, began to walk back into the parlor. 

As soon as she turned her back to me, I let out a little sigh.

LATER THAT NIGHT

I slowly climbed out of bed and trudged over and out the back door of my apartment and onto the tiny balcony.

"Lord!" I groaned. "How am I supposed to come up with $9,000 by the end of next week? My rent's due at the end of THIS week & I'm already 2 months behind!"

My eyes started to water, but I willed the tears and thoughts away and let out a soft chuckle.

"What the heck, YN? You're acting like this is the first time life's thrown something huge at you? If life wants to make you it's clown, if others wanna make you their puppet, who they can just tug a few strings and make dance whenever they please just for the purposes of their entertainment, there's nothing you can do about it. Just suck it up like you always do and make do. You've done it before. You're no stranger to this..."

I nodded and took in a deep breath as my words began to sink in.

Soon, my face was streaked with tears and the front of my night shirt was partially wet. 

I know it's weak of me to cry, but, oh, it just feels so good sometimes... 

A warm breeze blew. I closed my eyes and just continued to do the only thing I felt I could bear at the moment.

Breath.