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Chapter 20

~The Next Morning~

•7:30 am •

<Chris P.O.V>

So about last night....You can say I met a new friend. I found out her name was Tiana. Imma keep it a stack, she got a nigga waking up hella early. I'm actually full of energy this morning, imma keep her as my "special friend". Damn I gotta tell Dave about this.

Around 8 is when the nurses pass out the meds so I was just waiting till they came to my room so I could hurry and go meet Dave in the common room. I was already dressed and ready for my day.

"Brown?"

The voice was all too familiar. I turned around to see my momma.

"Ma!" I ran over to her and hugged her.

She hugged me back "Did you forget that I work here?"

"You're one of the reasons why I chose to come here, I wanted you to help me get through this" I confessed.

She smiled "Of course. Around 8 you have to take your meds"

"I know, I know"

"Did you meet anyone here?"

I automatically thought about last night and grinned "Yeah I did....Actually I met 2 people, Dave and Tiana"

"I met Dave.....he has a good heart, he reminds me of you. And Tiana is a nice young lady"

Yeah she's nice alright.

"Ma do you know why Tiana is in here? She doesn't even look like she needs to be in here"

She chuckled "It's honestly ironic, you two are here for the same reason. She has a serious case of bipolar disorder, she's on heavy medication. But she doesn't have OCD like you."

"She seemed fine last night"

Fuck. I just snitched on myself, none of the patients are supposed to be out late at a certain time.

"Last night?" She looked confused, knowing nobody supposed to be out their rooms at night.

I chuckled nervously "I meant yesterday"

"No you didn't, so what happened last night?"

"Nothing" I lied.

But my momma couldn't know that I was fucking Tiana. She'd probably lose her mind especially knowing that I'm also trying to win Amani back. To be honest it's not any of her fucking business.

But anyways Tiana is different from Amani, I can relate to Tiana more than what I did with Amani. You know what, I told Amani to move on.... Well so should I. But what's getting to me is that Amani says she loves me but doesn't want to be with me.... Maybe I'm thinking too deep into this.

"Mmhmm, Anyways Amani was talking about you when you left yesterday"

Damn I honestly missed her. I started to feel bad that I messed around with Tiana.

"What she say?"

"She was mainly upset, she didn't want you to go and.."

I cut her off I ain't mean too but what I was hearing sounded like straight bullshit.

"She didn't want me to go?? Where was that energy when I was there? It seemed like she didn't even want to be with me. How you claim you love a person but don't wanna be with them or even help them"

"Chris your being a hypocrite, She tried to be there for you and help but you shut her out. How do you think that made that girl feel?"

I stayed silent and thought to myself.