Arvonti's

21.| She Has No Light

Arvonti sat by Messiah as she slept in the bed. A few days went past and he refused to leave her side unless it had something to do with Reyes and Prince. She was looking like her self now but she was still bruised up on her face and on her ribs. He ribs wasn't broken or anything but they were a bit swollen.

They bandaged her ribs her so they could hell and placed ice on it every now and then. After she tried to drown herself he was to scared to leave her side. After that day he watched the video Jose sent of her rape it, it was sent around the same time he was still locked up in the basement.

Carlos has been acting weird lately and he didn't like it. He literally knocked him out and chained up in the basement to go get Messiah, it just didn't seem right. He watched Messiah turn around in the bed as her eyebrows furrowed. She been having bad dreams lately, usually when she had them he'd hold her against his body but she wouldn't let him touch her.

"Stop." Messiah said as she kicked her leg a little. He shook her up. "Baby, wake up." He said. She turned her head again as she scrunched her face up. "No, move." She said still asleep. "Messi." He said still shaking her. She sat up looking at him. "It's not real anymore." He said. She looked at him showing no form on expression on her face. "Why you won't get out?" She asked.

"Cause I love you." He said as he looked her in her eyes then at her hand. "Can I hold your hand." She shook her head no. "Messi." "Vonti I don't want you touching me." She said as she pulled her legs up to her. "I know but I wanna comfort you. Lemme help you." "I don't need help I wanna be left alone!"

"You can't be alone like this. "Why not?" "Cause you didn't leave me alone when I was low and I'm not gonna leave you alone. You need to talk to someone." "I don't need to talk to anybody." "You won't even let your son come in here Messi, some random nigga took you and kicked your son and you'on wanna see him?" He asked rhetorically.

"Baby I get it, you're hurt, you're traumatized but you need to let someone in, I don't care if it's Tez, Amir, Jay, baby just talk to one of us." He said. "I wanna talk to myself." She said softly. "I don't wanna look at you either so can you please leave me alone." Arvonti sighed as he nodded. "I gotchu some honeydew." He said as he looked at the nightstand as he walked out.

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"I need to tell you something." Carlos said as he looked at Tez. "What?" "When we went to Jose's I had a conversation wit him, I told him I wanna leave Arvonti's side to keep Yeli and Paris safe." Tez furrowed his eyebrows together as he stood up. "Are you stupid?" He yelled. "No, shut up and listen."

Carlos said as he pulled him back down at the table. "I did it to get in on what he's doin. We needed somebody on the inside who he wouldn't kill Incase they got caught, I put myself in." "So you doin what I did?" Tez asked. Carlos nodded his head. "But we can't tell anyone,

Jose knows us better than anybody, facial expressions and all. I need everything to be real from emotions to faces to body movement." "So you not playing us?" "No nigga get real I'm the one who was wit Arvonti on killing him, you know I neva liked his ass." And that was the honest to God truth, Carlos never'd liked Jose since day one. He just tolerated him.

Tez nodded knowing he was right. "You know Arvonti's gonna beat yo ass." "Why would I do that?" Arvonti asked as he walked into the kitchen wit his jaw clenched. "For knocking you out wit a baseball bat and chaining you up in the basement." Tez said. "Oh yeah I did already." He said. "No you didn't." They said simultaneously.