Him and I

Chapter 7

Tyrene Pov

I'm pissed. Dad is going to a conference for 4 days. He leaves today after school. I asked him if I could go. He made up this lame excuse that I had schoool. He's dropping me off at Uncle Antrez's house. I wanted to go to Anthony's, but he was busy. The bell rang. I stomped down the steps to his office. "Are you ready?" I nod. I don't want to talk to him. I know it's not his fault but I hate that he's leaving me.

The drive is quiet until he speaks. "Baby, I know you're upset, but it's gone be okay. I will be back in a few days." I still ignore him.

When we get to Antrez's house I get out the car before he even puts it in park. I run up to his door and knock. Dad walks up behind me with my suitcase. Uncle Antrez opens the door and I walk right pass him to the kitchen. "Girl you better get your ass over here and gimme a hug." I smiled. I run up to him and jumped in his arms. "Hi uncle Antrez." He squeezed me. I get down and walk back into the kitchen. I hear them talk. "She just mad because I'm leaving." Antrez Giggled. "I know but you have to go to the airport. Ty!" I come in the room. "Yes?" Antrez looked at me. "Go get in the car. We taking Dre to the airport." I nodded and went out the front door. When they come out Dad gets his bags out his car and puts them in Antrez's trunk. I climb in the back seat and wait for them to get in.

When we get to the airport I don't want to get out the car. I watch dad give Antrez a hug and turn to me. I turn away from him. He opened the door and reached for me. I pushed myself up against the car door, but he still was able to grab me. He is tickling my sides and I'm spazzing out. I'm laughing, screaming, and fighting him. "Now give me a hug." I smiled and wrapped my arms and legs around him. I'm still mad, but he's leaving. He pulled away and looked at me. "Look. I don't want to hear about you being disrespectful or misbehaving. Antrez can and will whoop you." Antrez co-signed. "Damn right. Tear that ass up." He looked back at me. "Okay, I love you. Be good." He kissed me on my head and walked away. He had never done that before. I shout at him. "Bye Daddy." He waves back. Antrez and I get in the car. I miss him already. Antrez stops by some fast food place and we head him to watch a movie.

2 days later

It's 3:47 and I'm bored. Antrez does not want to entertain me and I don't have my phone. But I do have my laptop. I log into me email to see if there's anything exciting. I doubt it. I see a few emails from Grace and Xavier. There's a party tonight and I'm going. I email Grace back and she responds almost immediately. We talk back and for for a while to get this plan together. We agree on her coming to get me at 10:30. I don't know how she getting her keys and I really don't care.

At 10:23 Antrez is sleep. I figured I can slip out the back door because it's quieter. I walk around to the front of the house and there Grace is waiting for me. When we get to the party it is live. There's liquor everywhere. Grace and I stick together before I start to hang with this boy. His name Lloyd. I end up spending most of my night with him. Before he leaves I give him my number. Even though I don't have a phone, I'll talk to him at some point. I search for Grace. I look for what feels like hours until I give up. It is then that I see people running out the house. The police were here. I decide that I should just run and pray Grace is at her car. She is. I get in the car and yell. "Drive!" She punches it. Whew. That was close. I lock at the clock on the dash. It was damn near 3 in the morning. I did not mean to stay out this late, but I hope Antrez is still sleep. Grace drops me off at home and I wave her goodbye. Antrez light was still off and the back door was unlocked. I go to the guess room and close the door behind me. I take a deep breath. I made it. I turn on the light and Antrez is sitting in my room. Fuck. I damn near died. I felt my heart jump out my chest. I don't say anything though. His face is resting in his hand. "Tyrene you have one minute to tell me where you were, who you were with, and why I shouldn't fuck you up right now." He is way scarier than dad. His voice is monotonous, but still laced with anger. I studdered to get my words out. " I was at a party-with friends-and because you love me." I tried to give a little smile. I pray he finds it in himself not to kill me tonight, this morning. He squints his eyes. When he made that face he looks exactly like dad. "Go to bed. We will talk about this in the morning." I release a breath. He walks past me and down the hall. Y'all I shall live for tonight. In the morning I'm dead.