3-Way

Chapter Fourteen

Prince has been working on the new album 1999 for awhile now. I just reached 8 months pregnant, so I wasn't moving around so much, especially if Prince was around. Since he's been working a lot more and out of the apartment, I decided to start reading pregnancy books to sort of keep myself busy and to educate myself on caring for myself and the baby. I was sitting in bed reading when I heard the front door being opened with a key. I smiled and knew it was Prince. He had come in alone which scared me. I carefully got out of bed which was almost impossible these days and he walked into the bedroom. "Hi, sweetie. Is everything by okay?" He had worry in his eyes and he was holding a letter in his hands. "I checked the P.O. Box today and we got a letter from Luna." I forgot that before my parents left that I gave them our new address to give to Selena in case she or Luna ever wanted to write us. "Oh? What's wrong?" He sat in the bed. "She said Selena's been really sick and that she's hearing stuff about her going to heaven." My heart sank. "Oh, no." I took the letter to read it. The handwriting was very messy, but it was definitely Luna's handwriting. The letter talked about her being excited about school and then it escalates to Selena being sick in bed a lot and how her other aunts and uncles don't want her around Selena because she's going to heaven, and that if she does go to heaven no one can look after her. I sighed. "Poor Luna. She doesn't have anyone but Selena." I handed the letter back to him. Prince stood up. "I want to see them. I wanna go." "Prince, we can't just go the doctor said I can't get on a plane." Prince rubbed his neck. "Then I'll go." That threw me for a loop. "Prince, you aren't going there alone. Are you crazy?!" He threw the letter on the bed. "Well, what do you want me to do?! You can't go anywhere and you don't want me to go alone?! I don't want Selena thinking we forgot about her!" Prince yelled. "She knows we haven't forgotten about her! I gave mom my address for her and Selena! She knows Prince...there's no way we can go!" He growled before going into the kitchen and I followed him. He was looking for pen and paper. "Prince...I'm sorry...I know you want to go..." He was writing a letter back while he was standing at the kitchen counter. He stopped writing. "I-I do wanna go. I don't want her being alone while this is happening around her." I think he saw her as himself years ago when he was little. I took his hand bringing him to the living room and sat him in the sofa getting in his lap. I knew this would be the easiest way he'd talk. "I just...I know she's scared because she knows what's happening. I remember being around my family when my parents died and I saw family fighting over what to do with me." I got comfortable in his lap laying my head on his shoulder listening to him. "My other family wanted to put me up for adoption because I was an orphan and then realized that no one would want a kid with a mental disorder. So, one of my aunts took me in with my cousins. And that's sort of where I ended up until I graduated. For years my family had been trying to sell the house my parents died in, but no one wanted it. They saw it as cursed, and I'm sure they still see it as that. So I bought it with all the money I made from making music and graduation to live in it. Honestly...I don't remember the first year I lived there." I stroked his jaw. "So, you think they'll try to send Luna to an orphanage?" Prince nodded. "Shady stuff goes down in orphanages and foster care places." I was thinking about his words and it was making me worry for Luna. "Prince...I want you to go see her." His eyes lit up. "Wh-What? Really?" I nodded. "Talk her family out of it. See how Selena really is and see if it really is bad. I'll be here when you get back." Prince kissed me. "Thank you." I could feel he was antsy so I moved over so he could get off the couch. He was headed to the bedroom. "Will you take the boys with you? Or, at least Matt and Mark?" Prince laughed in our room. "Dez wants to go back, so I'll take them and Dez with me. Bobby is staying here with you and the girls. In case something happens." I smiled and helped myself off the sofa to walk over to him in our room. "You think you can afford for you guys to go? It's a lot of money." Prince was throwing stuff in a bag. "Yeah I got it. I'll try to get a round trip or something. Matt will know what to do." I smiled. "Don't leave until Lisa, Wendy, and Bobby get here. I don't wanna be left alone here for too long. Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked him one last time. He turned around holding my face. "I need to do this or I won't be able to sleep. I'll call you when I get to Selena's." "Call me when you land is more like it. You know I won't sleep until I hear your voice." Prince kissed me.