Toxic paradise

Chapter 4

Ashton led me to his hot ride and opened the passenger door for me. Guess he wanted to be a gentleman tonight. While Ashton turned the engine on, I couldn't help but take a good look at him. Ashton was one finee, light skin boy with much swag. Yes, I was definitely checkin a nigga out. "You see somethin you like?", He said. I thought he didn't notice.
"The only thing I like is this car", I lied. he chuckled. "And that's it?"
"Yup", I said looking out the window. He smirked and kept driving.

When we arrived at the movie theater, my phone rang. It was jakeel. Damn. I let it go to voicemail. Jakeel was definitely gonna kill me. "You okay?", Ashton asked noticing my silence. "Yeah. I'm cool. What movie we watching?", I said changing the subject. "Beyond the bright light somethin like that or world war z", Ashton said. I laughed. "You mean beyond the lights?"
"Shidd, I don't know. All I know is y'all girls be crazy over that movie", I said looking at him sideways. He smiled. Sometimes I get the feeling that when I'm with Ashton, I feel relaxed. We decided to watch world war z.

During the movie, at some point, I got scared at the zombies and jumped up. Ashton was laughing at me. He did the oldest move in the book and yawned trying to place his arm around me. I took his arm and positioned it back to hisself. Nice try. I smiled and brought my attention back to the movie.

After the movies, we stopped by Applebees to get something to eat and then stopped by his house. He led me up to his room. I hope this nigga has no intentions of doing something. "Make yourself comfortable. I don't bite", he said taking his shirt off. "Im guessing this is your way of making yourself comfortable", I said checking out his body. "Yeah. you could say that. When you in my room, you won't ever see me with a shirt on. Too hot for that", he said opening his window for some cool air. "Ya'll don't got a/c?", I asked.
"Yeah but it's broken. We getting someone to fix it tomorrow."
"Oh okay."
My phone rang again, it was Jay. Before I had time to decide whether I was gonna answer it or not, Ashton took my phone and held it. "You're with me now. so ima need your attention."
"For what? I'm not your girl Ashton. So give me my phone, I said trying to reach for it. He pinned me against the wall and we had a moment. "Listen. Im tryna talk to you", he said letting me go. I stood in front of him, arms crossed, waiting on him to speak. "It's obvious I'm feelin you but I never actually got to share my feelings with you."
I laughed sitting next to him on his bed."Feelings? You have feelings? Funny man."
"Course I got feelings girl. Stop playin. Im tryna keep it real though. All jokes aside. You a gorgeous girl and I wouldn't mind being your man. I'm tryna down talk jakeel but a girl like you can do better than his punk behind."
"So basically you want me to be your girl".
"Hell yeah."
"But you know I got a boyfriend. I'm not gonna cheat on him with you."

"I know but can you just give it a thought?"
I sighed and said," You askin for too much of a girl who's already in a relationship with someone else."
"I gotta go", I said gettin my phone back and leaving. he followed behind me. "Running from the situation isn't gonna help."
"Right . cause right now, you are my situation", I said leaving.

Ashton and nicki's house was a good walking distance. Once I arrived at nicki's house, she wasn't home because no one answered. Crap. so I turned around and waited on a bus since I had some money in my pocket. I looked up and down the street to see when the bus was going to come to a stop. It was really late and there's no telling what goes on at night. I refused to find out. Just then, a car pulled up in front of me. It looked familiar . Damn. It was Jay .

He got out the car. "Where the hell you been?!", He yelled at me. I wanted to run but my legs would not allow me. It's as if my world turned pitch black when he slapped me causing me to fall to the ground. Every Time I wanted to open my eyes, I see his fist coming towards me. Jay got on top of me and continued punching me.

I managed to push him off of me. Running towards me, I Kicked him in his manhood and heard him yell to his pain. Reaching in his back pocket, he threw a pocket knife my way but missed me. I took my heels off and began running in the direction of Nikki's house. I'm hoping she's home by now.

Every thing was just crazy and happening so fast. I know sooner or later Jay would catch up to me. I couldn't out run a car. I kept looking back and bumped into what felt like someone. I felt it hard. "Whoa. slow down shorty. What's wrong?", Ashton said. I was all out of breath. Ashton was with nicki's brothers. they all looked at me like I'm crazy. Jay pulled up. suddenly, Ashton understood what was going on.

"Aye. take her to Nicole house. I'll handle this", he said loading his gun. "Ashton, don't do nothing crazy please", I told him. he ignored me and walked towards jay. "Aye man look. I don't want no problems", Ashton said. "Don't start none. won't be none", Jay said. "where my girl at?"

I looked back and before things got out of hand, I ordered nicki's brothers to let go of me and walked towards jay's car. "Is the car door open?", I asked in my calm voice. "the car door open", he said. I got in the car and have Ashton the look that I'll be okay. "Don't let me see you out here in these streets nigga or its gonna be me and you", Jay told Ashton while getting in the car. "Nigga I run these streets. I'll be waiting for your punk ass", Ashton said.

"Can you drop me home?", I asked Jay while he was driving. "Nah. you coming home with me."

I haven't been home in 3 days. I know my mom is worried sick about me.