15. Baby #2
I was so anxious, I leaped out before Kenny could put the car in park.
“Leah?” I called out, running to the back room.
I heard music coming from under her door, and knocked before I realized she wouldn’t be able to hear me. I twisted the knob just to see if it’s locked and the metal twisted open. Leah never leaves her door unlocked, so she must’ve been in a rush when she came home.
Sticking my head in, the first thing I noticed was the bed moving hard. My eyes almost popped outta my head. She was having sex here when she knows one of us could show up anytime.
“Yessss, daddy!” she moaned.
I had enough eavesdropping and was about to close the door behind me when I heard a grunt that made my blood run cold. I knew that voice. I knew it so well, I could pick it out of a lineup with a blindfold on.
Ain’t nobody else in the world doing back-to-back grunts at the peak of pleasure, but one muthafucka.
Taking long strides over to the bed, I pulled the covers back and screamed. This is who my sister spending her Valentine’s Day with?!
“T.K!”
Despite everything she could do to me, I never expected her to be with a nigga I went to jail behind.
All I saw was red flashing before my eyes when I dragged her from the bed, butt ass naked.
She tried to get me off her, but I held strong, throwing her skinny behind towards the closet like a rag doll.
I turned my attention to T.K next. Running up on him, I threw punch after punch towards his face, not concerned about the pain shooting up my arm.
“Get the fuck up off my man!” Leah rushed over and hit me hard.
I backed up and glared at her. Her man? Obviously, this shit must’ve gone on for a long time for her to feel comfortable saying it.
“Are you serious, Leah? This is how you do me? I went to jail for you,” I spat, pointing a finger at her. Waving her hand in the air, she sucked her teeth.
“Baby, I didn’t tell you to do that. You made your own decisions.”
It shocked me that she had the audacity to stand here and say something like that. Tears stained my cheeks, and I must’ve looked a hot mess with my hair all over the place, but I didn’t care.
“What the hell is going on in here?” Auntie barged in, looking around frantically before landing on T.K.
She gasped, narrowing her eyes in disgust at Leah. “What the fuck did you do?”
“She laid here and got dicked down by a child molester,” I told her, out of breath. “Leah, that man was going to rape you. How could you be with him after what he did?” My voice cracked from all the yelling.
“He ain’t do shit to me, Baby.” With her hand on her hip, she said with an attitude, “You walked in and made assumptions.”
Looking at her with a curious expression, I frowned. “What do you mean by that?”
“What you think I mean, hoe? Before you barged in, I was about to get some dick,” she spat, walking towards him. “He was my man then, and he’s my man now!”
I was enraged by the whole thing, but what pissed me off most was her lack of remorse. I didn’t utter a word before I slammed her to the ground. Once I got her good in the eye, I felt arms around my waist.
“Get the fuck off her!” T.K snapped.
She threw punches at me, but I ate them bitches, hitting her in the nose.
“She pregnant, Baby!” he blurted out.
My hand stalled mid-air, my body growing limp in his hold. Did he just say she was pregnant?
Even with all the other people here, I couldn’t take my eyes off of Leah. I didn’t recognize her anymore. My sister would never betray me like this.
“Is it true? Are you pregnant, Leah?” I asked with tears in my eyes. My chin quivered, and I found it hard to breathe. A part of me already knew she was. The way she had been avoiding me lately, I knew she was hiding something.
“Yeah, and it’s his,” she admitted, cupping her stomach protectively.
I was lost for words. I had nothing to say. I had always defended my sister and took her side over everybody. Even when Jayda told me I needed to watch my back, I didn’t want to listen. Look how that shit came back to bite me in the ass.
My heart dropped in the pit of my stomach.
I lost years of my life in prison because I did what I thought was right.
Protecting a muthafucka that ain’t wanna be protected in the first place.
She could’ve told me the truth when I had that baseball bat in my hands, but she chose to let me go to jail. That’s unforgivable.
“He gone fuck you over just like he did me.” She rolled her eyes at my comment. “And when that happens, it ain’t nowhere for you to run this time, because I’m done saving you. You on your own now.”
I walked pass my Auntie, who stood there shaking her head at Leah.
When I got into my room, I leaned my back against the wall and sobbed hard against the door.
This shit couldn't be happening to me. It felt like my heart was being ripped in half. My own sister choice a man over me. It’s a hell of a thing to realize your life was a lie.
The whole time I was inside, I made peace with my decision and told myself I did the right thing.
It was the only way I could make it through without breaking, so to find out it had all been for nothing left me broken inside.
She ruined my life, and she didn’t give one fuck about it.
A minute later, there was a small knock on my door. I didn’t want to move, but I knew it was my auntie. I stood up to let her in, immediately breaking down when I saw her standing on the other side. She pulled me into her arms, rubbing her hand up and down my back soothingly.
“I’m so sorry about this, Baby.” She leaned back to study my face. Pulling on my arms, she tugged me towards the bed and sat me down In the last few hours, my life has spiraled out of control in ways I never imagined.
“Auntie, did you know about them?” I hated that I had to ask, but I was not sure what’s real or fake in my life anymore.
Her head reared back as if I offended her, but she must see this from my point of view.
“Girl, no. She knows not to bring that trifling mess into my house. Leah dead wrong, Baby.” She huffed, crossing one leg over the other.
“And if she thinks she gone stay up in here after what she did, she got another thing coming.”
I didn’t need her doing anything for my benefit, no matter how much I couldn’t stand being around her. “You don’t need to do that Auntie, she’s pregnant.”
“She is. But if she’s grown enough to get pregnant, she’s grown enough to make it on her own. If she did this to her own sister, Lord knows what she can do to me,” she said, her voice filled with uncertainty. “I don’t trust her ass as far as I can throw her.”
Her head rocked back and forth in disbelief. “This is madness.”
I leaned my head on her shoulder. “I feel so fucking stupid. All this time, she knew what really happened and still let me go to prison.” I sniffed back tears, but they wouldn’t stop coming. “How could she do that to me, auntie?”
She took ahold of my hand and squeezed. “None of this is on you, Baby. You love and trusted Leah, that ain’t a crime.”
“It is if you go to jail for it,” I added, tilting my head to look up at her.
She rolled her eyes. “You know what I mean, and I know it’s hard to see right now, but things will get better for you, Baby. God knows your heart, and when he blesses you, you won’t even see it coming.”
I gave her a small smile. “Thanks Auntie.”
She squeezed my hand one more time before letting go and standing up. I was mentally exhausted from all the shit that happened. All I wanted to do at this point was sleep.
Before she walked out, she paused with her hand on the knob and faced me. “I want you to know whatever happened at that restaurant tonight, you can always talk to me about it.”
I appreciated her for wanting to be there for me, but the fact that I couldn’t talk about it, was my problem. How could I save Love without drowning myself in the process?