What I Learned In L.A. (Sequel to What I learned at Hope Springs)

old friends, new habits

Jasmine

"So tell me something, you still with Chris crazy ass?" I was sitting in a dimly lit resteraunt. My date had his arm around me, we were both looking good together and all he could take about was my crazy boyfriend. "Aubrey, nigga I know you're not gay why are you so concerned with Chris?" "Well excuse me for wanting to protect us." "Daddy, you ain't gotta worry bout that." I told him kissing his cheek. He smiled, "okay." He said. I snuggled in closer to him, as we waited for our food. We ate, then we went back to his place. "You wanna drink?" He asked me. "Whatever you have is fine." I yelled towards the kitchen where he was. At this moment my phone rung. It was Chris. "Yes babe." "Who the fuck is Aubrey?" He yelled through the phone. 1.why are we acting crazy? 2.Who told him about Aubrey?

I sighed, "so trust is nothing?" I asked him. "I can't trust someone who's been sleeping with my best friend's boyfriend, so who the hell is Aubrey?" "A client." I heard him sigh in the other end. Chris was aggravated with me, but he would never leave. We had history, I could remember him telling me once that I helped him through his hard time and he appreciated that. "When you going home?" "I'll be there." I told him, as I hung up the phone.

Aubrey came back bringing me a drink. "You're in trouble?" "Never that." I said sipping from the glass he gave me.

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I rolled over in the bed grabbing my bra from the headboard. I slipped it on along with some sweats and a tee that I had packed. I slipped on my Nike slides and grabbed my cell and purse. I went home, Chris was waiting up with the baby. "Where you been?" He asked as he put Zion down on the couch surrounded by pillows. "I already told you." I said. "Yea but you lied." "Chris I'm tired." I sad trying to walk pass him. "Man, Jasmine don't fucking lie to me." He said through gritted teeth.

"Did your crazy ass take your medicine today?" I saw Chris shake his head slowly. Before I knew it, his hand was around my throat. "Get your shit and get out!" He was inches away from my face, I could feel the heat radiate from his body. I begin to gasp for breaths. "I want you out my fucking house!" His grip finally loosened from my neck. I dropped down to the floor gripping my neck and holding it. This was something far from ordinary behavior of Chris. I pulled my cell phone from my purse dialing the crisis hotline. He's not kicking me out, his ass is getting Baker Acted, fuck that.

Brittany

"Nope cause you would cry." Micheal told me. "I would not." "You a punk." I pushed him, "no I'm not." I argued back. We were discussing tattoos versus piercings. I had tattoos and I was thinking about either getting a bigger tattoo, or a piercing somewhere intimate. Either down there or my nipples, and Michael thought I couldn't do it. "Alright let's go." He said, "I'll pay for it." My phone rung, "hello." "This bitch had me Baker Acted." Was all I heard through the receiver. "Chris?" "She fucking got me sent to the Crisis Center." "Chris what happened?" "I just wanted her out the house, that's all. I knew she was lying about where she was, I just wanted her out the fucking house." "Sweetie what did you do?" He was crying and sniffling up snot and it sounded so gross. "I wasn't trying to kill her I swear, all I did was choke her." He confessed. "You gotta calm down. Did you take your pills today?" He continued to sniffles without giving me a response. "Sweetheart we need to take our medicine, we need it to function, you know that." He sighed, "Brittany go get my baby man, please." He said before hanging up.

I sighed picking up the keys. "What's up?" "Jasmine had Chris Baker Acted, I'm going to get Zion." He just stared at me. "You coming?" "Our business is our business, theirs is theirs." I rolled my eyes. "I'll be back." I said.

Micheal

I laid back down on the couch. Jasmine ass is sexy, and that ass, whoops! I knew I wasn't the only one she was fucking. I picked up my phone dialing her number. "Hey baby." She said. "What you doing?" I asked. "Nothing bout to hop in the shower." "Oh yea, you should meet me later on." "Oh yea, where you trying to meet at?" "Wherever, I just wanna taste that." I said. She purred in the phone. "Oh yea, whatever you want." A smile spread across my face. "I'll call you later." I said handing up the phone.