MORE THAN FRIENDS

Kyra

               Kyra walked through her door to see her mother pinned up to the wall helplessly while her father punched her in her face. Another punch after another punch landed on Patricia's face before Kyra grew tired and rush over to them. She started punching her father in his back while screaming for him to stop the vicious beating. "Daddy stop... I'm tired of this I'm tired of you hitting mommy... stop" she screamed. But before she knew it he had turned around with  quickness and smacked her across her face causing her to slid across the floor.
"Oh my goodness Ronald Nooo" Patricia screamed as she rushed to her daughter's aid. When Kyra looked up in her mother bloody face her heart broke. What happened to their family, everything use to be so good???
"You wanna be hot in ya ass and keep coming through my doors when you feel like it... I want you out of my house"Ronald yelled as he paced the floor.
"Ronald Please" Patricia begged as she sat on the floor next to her confused daughter.
Ronald's eyes darted towards Patricia "Don't you tell me shit... I want her out my house now and if you say one more thing about it I will beat your ass again". Kyra put two and two together and realized that once again her mother had paid for her actions. Everytime she did something he wasn't pleased with he took it out on Patricia. "Mama we gotta leave... we can go together you don't need to keep dealing with this"Kyra whispered as Ronald stopped in her bedroom and began chunking her clothes and stuff out.

Patricia began to sob harder because she didn't want her daughter to go, but most importantly because she couldn't leave with her. Kyra continued to beg her mother to leave with her, but when she noticed her mother hadn't moved a muscle let alone stop him from what he was doing. Ronald was on a rampage as he continued to throw Kyra's belonging out the door onto the porch.
"Mama"?
"Kyra baby I can't leave".  Kyra frowned her face as she stood to her feet "Why"?
Patricia sniffed and looked away as she blinked out a few tears "I just can't baby... But I want you to go stay with Meme where I know your safe till  deal with this" she said in a low voice.
"Mama it's nothing to deal with he keeps beating on you... and every chance he gets he slaps me around. You have to go with me"Kyra began to beg again as she grabbed her mother by the hand to pull her up.
When Patricia snatched away from Kyra she lowered her eyes at her and instantly came to realization. Her mother was choosing her father over her, her own flesh and blood over a man who beat them ever chance he got.

Kyra mugged her with tears in her eyes "Fine... but don't cry wolf when this nigga almost kills you again" and with that she stormed out the house and on the porch where she started bagging her stuff up. Her heart ached at what had just occurred, but what made matters worse was when her father slammed the door on her face. After she gathered up as much stuff as she could she called Blue's phone. After it going to voicemail three times she gave up and made her way to Jamel's house with a book bag on her and one in her hand filled with her stuff. She cried the whole ten minute walk to his house after she got off the bus, this was too much to deal with in one night. To top it off her father never showed up to her graduation or once said he was proud of her, but her mother came and then rushed home before he could have a chance to get mad.
By the time she walked up on his porch her feet and legs ached so bad and her eyes burned from all the crying even though more tears had tempted to build up especially because her friends were about to find out her embarressing secret. She gave the door a hard knock and waited for a few seconds before Jamel answered the door. Soon as he saw her face he opened the door wider and took the bags from her hands. He didn't know what had happened, but he was soon to find out. "Meme" he called out upstairs from the living room where him and Kyra stood waiting. Meme climbed out of bed and came rushing to the steps at the urgent sound in his voice. Peeking over the balcony she saw Kyra standing there crying and Jamel next to her with bags in his hand. "Ky what happened"?
"I need a friend right now"Kyra said as she began to sob hard.
She took off running down the steps and grabbed Kyra into her arms without hesitation. Kyra let it all out until she couldn't shed another tear, her head was pounding and her eyes were as sore as a open cut.

"What happened Kyra"? Kabron asked as he sat in front of her on Jamel's coffee table. Jamel and Meme stood side by side a few feet away waiting for her to let it out. The waterworks had began once again, but she refused to talk until everyone was there which is how they all were when it came to shit. They never spoke without them all being present and it had been like that since they were younger. Now that Kabron had got there, they were all ready for answers.
Kyra sat there playing with her fingers for a minute before she finally looked up with glossy eyes "For a few years now my father has been beating on my mother. Not too long ago when I was at the hospital for all them days and I told y'all I was sick... I lied. He had beat my mother so bad he almost killed her, but of course she dropped the charges and let him come back home. Lately the beats she was taking had became more and more vicious for her and then she told me that he would beat her for multiple reasons... one of the reasons was because of me" She told them as tears dropped to her lap.
"What the fuck man"? Kabron said upset. That was one thing he didn't tolerate was a man beating his woman, let alone any woman. He didn't play that shit and as pissed as he was he was ready to go back over to Kyra's house and beat the living shit out of her pops.
"Kyra why was he beating her for you"? Meme asked.
"For crazy things if I wasn't home on time or if he found out I was dating Wallace" she rolled her eyes up in her head as she wiped away tears " I don't know ... crazy shit forreal... and that's the real reason I broke it off with Wallace.. I couldn't keep letting him beat my mom like that".

"Did he ever hit you"? Jamel asked. Even though he felt sorry for Patricia He loved Kyra like a sister and anything involving her involved him.. period.
Kyra nodded her head "Yeah a few times".
"Why didn't you didn't tell us"? Meme asked.  Kyra looked up at her with the saddest face "Because I was too embarressed Meme".
"You don't ever gotta be embarressed to tell us nothing Ky you know that we here for you always believe that" Kabron said.
"You staying here with us Ky"Jamel more like told her instead of asking.
"And you know my crib is always open too Ky" Kabron stated. You couldn't ask for better friends then them, they all stuck together no matter what.
Kyra nodded her head at them "Thank y'all and I love you guys" she cried.
"We love you too" They all told her back at once. Meme walked over and sat on the couch next to Kyra before gently pulling Ky's head down on her shoulder.
"We got you Ky ... don't worry"Meme said.

           Trina sat on the balcony with a glass filled with wine and heavy tears in her eyes. Her daughter still hadn't talked to her and it's been months now since they held a decent conversation. Lately if she even heard from her it was only a three minute conversation and that was it. She missed her baby, that was her first and only daughter and here she hated them with a passion. It had never been like this with thier family issues, and that was if they even had issues at all. Samuel came out and joined his wife as they both glanced at the city view in front of them. He knew his wife was hurt and couldn't help, but to blame himself for the pain she was feeling. Had he never cheated in the first place they wouldn't be going through this and Meona would still be here with them. He didn't regret Sade at all, he just regretted how she got here.
"I'm so sorry baby" He said as he held Trina's hand into his.
She nodded her head as she looked striaght ahead "I know you are Sam" she looked at him and wiped the tears away with her free hand "I forgave you a long time ago, I just wish that Meona understood why we did what we did".
"She will... eventually she will forgive us, but until she does I want you to remain the strong woman that you were when I first met you. Seeing you strong makes me strong I need you Trina I really do" he said as he blinked away a few tears.
She leaned in and planted a kiss on his lips before wiping away his tears. "I got your back baby forever".
He looked up and nodded his head because he knew that was nothing,but truth coming from her lips.