Motive [Moh-tiv]

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Honey POV

After checking out of the hotel I slip fifty dollars to the clerk and leave

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After checking out of the hotel I slip fifty dollars to the clerk and leave. I get in my car and start it up. I put my hair in a messy bun and put on my shades. I head home.

I turn into the parking lot of my apartment and park. I get out of the car and grab my bags. Before I could get to the door my phone rings. I put my bag down and search through it for my phone. Once I found it I saw that an unknown number was calling.

"Hello?" I answer after hesitating for a bit. The person on the line was quiet but I could hear background noise.

"If nobody speaks i'm hanging up." I say firmly as I sling my bag over my shoulder and place the phone between my ear and shoulder. I walk up to the door and put my key in quietly.

"Ne, it's Kain." I hear and my heart drops. To hear his voice made me quiver inside. He could turn me right back into a fourteen year old with just three words. All while rendering my speechless.

"I-I told you don't call me anymore." I say putting my bags down and walking out of the apartment.

"I know but I just.. I just have to tell you something. See I'm taking a class to get early release and it's called healing. And I had to write a letter to someone who I hurt. I just wanna apologize." He said on the phone. He sounded so convincing. But I know it was all a lie, always has been.

"I don't want nothing from you." I say and then hang up on him. I sit on the top step and try to collect myself. 

Kain was my first best friend. We met in 7th grade and he was my first love. We were Best-friends and we shared everything. We couldn't be apart and would never let anything separate us. But when we started high school Kain decided the streets was more important. By the time we were sophomores he had dropped out and was in the streets full time. I left home at sixteen to live with him and it was the worst mistake of my life. The apartment was full of trouble, abuse and anger. But I stuck with him trying to keep him out of trouble. His greed made him a evil individual. With so much going on I failed out of school. My parents didn't wanna speak to me again after that. So any hope I had of leaving Kain was gone.

Then one night I woke up with the worst pain in my stomach. I called him over and over and he never answered. He had gotten into a shootout with the police who tried to stop him from robbing a store. He killed a cop, and now he's in jail for life. I was alone. Because I let him pull me away from my family I was all by myself. So I had to keep the apartment because I had no where to go. He left me here stranded and I can never forgive him for that.

I sigh and stand up from the top step and go inside my apartment. I shut the door behind me and take off all my clothes. I go to the kitchen and pour a large glass of red wine. I open my fridge and pull out a box of leftover pizza. I throw two pieces of pepperoni and pepper pizza on a plate and put it in the microwave. Once they finish warming I grab the plate and my wine and sit on my couch. I put in my favorite movie Poetic Justice and start watching. Before I knew it I fell asleep.

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