In Love With a Thug✔️

Chapter 17

Looking into the mirror I look like shit. Hell, I honestly looked better than the way I actually felt. My eyes were swollen from all the crying last night. I woke up from a lot of text messages from Lisa asking where I was at. She said she heard everything last night. I didn't know what to say to her so I just didn't answer. I'll be sure to text her later.

I strip down to nothing and get in the shower. I really need this. I don't know what I'm going to do not being able to go home when Malique and I get into arguments. Now I'm stuck here and have to deal with him when we argue. It would be something that we both had to live with now I guess.

When I got out the shower I washed my face and looked into the mirror. I look way better than I did 40 minutes ago. However, I still felt like shit.

I walk out the bathroom and hear Malique yell my name from the living room.

"Yes?" I ask him, walking into the living room with my towel wrapped around my body.

"Get dressed, I'm taking you to get something to eat. Then I'm taking you to get your hair and nails done. And all that extra girly shit y'all like." he says and I laugh.

I guess that means I'll be getting cute today. And I was in desperate need of a fill in.

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After getting dressed Malique bought me breakfast. He also kept his word and took me to get my nails and hair done. Once I walked out of the hair shop and into the car with Malique he asked me where else I wanted to go. I looked at the time and saw that it was 4:00.

"You wanna eat?" I ask him and he nods his head and starts driving. I look at my freshly done nails and smile and then frown. I love getting my nails done but my mom made me feel bad because she's right, I used to not do this. I never got my nails done or put weave in my head because I could never afford it. But now that I have someone to take care of me she has a problem. He even takes care of the girls. Ever since me and Malique got together she hasn't had to pay for groceries or their clothes. All she has to do is pay the bills. Not saying that that's easy itself but it should be easier since Malique spent his money on groceries and their clothes.

Everytime I would go shopping for his house I would also go shopping for my house. Same whenever I would take the girls with me he always gave me money to get them things they needed, wanted and then some. He was good to them, along with me. I just didn't understand why she didn't like him.

My phone started ringing and I pulled it out from my back pocket to see a facetime call from Jasmine coming in.

"Hey bestie boo." I answer the phone.

"Hey Mani, where you going?" she asked when she saw that I was in the car.

"Me and Malique are going to eat."

"Awe okay, your hair is cute sis." She compliments, making me smile.

"Thanks sis." I say swinging my head back and forth. "Malique got it done for me, and my nails." I say flashing her my nails.

"Ohhh, okay sis. He's spoiling you today ain't he." She smiled through the camera and I nodded. I look next to me and look at Malique. How could I have gotten so lucky to get with someone like him. "Okay, sis. I'm gonna go. I'll come by the house later." she says, interrupting my thoughts about Malique.

"Um, yea. Jassy, about that." I pause and Malique looks at me briefly before putting his back on the road. "I don't live with momma anymore." I say and Jasmine looks at me, confusion laced all on her face.

"What do you mean?" she asks and I sniffle.

"Um, I really don't want to talk about it right now. But we'll talk later." I say

"But-"

"Bye Jassy, love you." I interrupt her before she can finish her sentence and hangup.

I sigh and Malique looks at me.

"You good babe?" he asked and I nodded my head.

The rest of the car ride was quiet. When we got into the restaurant I ended up ordering more than usual.

"Damn mamas." Malique says when we get our food. "What's up with you? You've been eating a lot lately." he states. I haven't really noticed but now that he's said it and I'm thinking, he's right. I just shrug it off, whatever. Me and Jasmine had been hitting the gym so it wasn't anything that I couldn't work off.

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When we got home, imagine my surprise when we pulled up and I saw a white 2016 Lexus IS 300 against the moonlight. "Malique whose car is that?" I ask and he ignores me getting out of the car. It was currently 10:00pm and we were just getting home. I don't know where the time went. After lunch we ended up going to see a movie. "Malique really, whose car is this?" I ask again while inspecting the beautiful car.

"It's yours." He casually admitted as he opened the drivers side door and grabbed the keys out of the glove box and dangled them in my face. I just look at him with a blank stare. I didn't know what to say.

"Why'd you get me a car?"

"Because I feel bad. I didn't get my shit out of your house in a timely manner and caused a mess between you and your moms. I know you pretty much had your moms car at your disposal and I didn't want you to have to worry about getting anywhere so while we were out I had my homeboy drop it off." He shrugged like it was nothing. This was a whole ass car. Yes Malique had me spoiled but I never expected a car from him.

"I work Malique, you didn't have to do this, eventually I would have been able to get myself a car." I explained to him. I loved what Malique did for me, but this was too much.

"Well now you can keep the money you were going to use to get you a car mamas. It's yours." He dropped the keys in my hands and kissed my forehead.

"Thank you baby." I sighed in his chest with gratitude. I was very thankful for my car, just surprised.

When we got into the house we went into the room to take a shower and change into comfortable clothes. While I changed my clothes Malique walked out of the room with just sweats on.

"You gonna scratch my back for me?" he asked the second I walked into the living room. I giggle and nod my head. The main reason I get my nails done is because Malique likes when I scratch his back.

I moved over to the couch and sat next to him and he immediately laid on top of me. His head on my boobs facing the tv and his arms around me protectively. Just like he wants I run my nails all along his back and he groans in satisfaction. I giggle at him. I love this man so much. I am so glad he came into my life.

"I love you mamas." Malique said in a tired voice, making me smile.

"I love you too daddy."