Hold U Down

Chapter 5|Numb

Chapter Five
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I step into my room and close the door, shrugging off my jacket in the process. I step out of my shoes and slip off my skirt, my shirt came off shortly after. I throw my clothes into my clothes hamper and walk into my closet to find something comfy to wear. I throw on a white sports bra, some black and white basketball shorts and slip into my Jordan slides.

I run my fingers through my hair and pull it up into a bun on top of my head. I grab my phone and slip it into my shorts pocket. I leave my room and make my way down to the kitchen. I grab a pepsi from the fridge and look through the pantry and grab a packet of popcorn, I open it up and put it into the microwave.

I sit up on a bar stool and grab my phone from my shorts pocket , I see that I had gotten a text from Keira;

Keira(4:15pm)- Hey girl, call me.

I smile and dial her number, I place the phone to my ear and wait for her to answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey babe, wassuh?" I ask.

 "Nothin much, just chillin, how about you?"

 "Just got home, girl let me tell you about this bitch at McDonald's..." I tell her the whole story and by the end of it she's laughing so hard and loud I have to pull the phone away from my ear.

I chuckle and hop off the barstool when the microwave beeps, signaling that my popcorn is ready. I place the phone back to my ear and hold it between my shoulder and ear. I open up the microwave and grab the popcorn bag, it's hot as shit and I almost drop it.

I sit the bag on the counter and rummage the cabinet for the salt and hot sauce. I fix my popcorn up while Keira tells me about everything I've missed since I'd left N.O.L.A.

"Damn, all that happened?" I ask, grabbing my popcorn and Pepsi and heading back up the spiral staircase.

Once inside my room, I close my door and kick off my Jordan slides, before sitting on my bed.

"Yeah... and that's not the worst part.." She trails off.

I frown.

 "What you mean?" I ask, grabbing the remote from my side table and surfing the 'On demand' channel.

"Uhh... Tye's been looking for you..."

I drop the remote and sit there, frozen. I haven't heard from him since I left N.O.L.A. Tye is the one that started it all.. all the drug dealing and sneaking around and lying to my grams about where I suddenly got all my money. He got me into a lot of trouble.

I shake my head and clear my throat.

 "Oh word?" I say, flipping through the movies list. I peep 'Poetic Justice' and click on it, this movie is everything.

"Yeah.. he's there Mel. He's there in Atlanta, and he's not gonna leave until he finds you."

"Look I gotta go aight." I say before hanging up, not even giving her a chance to say anything else.

I sigh and press play on the movie, leaning back into my pillows and getting comfortable.

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I woke to a loud knocking at the front door, who the hell? It can't be Jennifer because she has a key, and it can't be grams because she's in therapy with Mrs Ericka. I sigh and grab my phone from under my pillow, I check the time and its 8:40pm, damn I slept that long?

I sit up and rub the sleep from my eyes, who could be here? I let out a yawn and get out of my bed. As I'm stretching I feel my phone vibrate in my hand. I look down and see I got a text from August.