Player (A Bryshere Gray Story)

Chapter 29: War

4 weeks later

I walked in my grandmother's house looking at the new floors. My mother paid to get all the floors re-done. All the furniture was gone except the kitchen table I liked. I finally made up mind that I would move in here in a few months. It was time to live in a house and have more space and room. I just needed to figure out what colors I would paint the rooms. It still feels kind of weird that I'll be living in my grandmother's house. Having relations in her house, my grandma probably would still turn in her grave. Once I peeked at the floors I made my way to practice. My nerves were bad Kai had a game tonight and I wanted them to win.

Tionne

"Wow so what made you want to reck his things? She asked. Today was my 5th counseling session and this was the one I needed the most. I haven't been feeling myself for months. I'm not talking to Rashad nor my mother and its weighing me down deep down no matter how hard I try to cover it up.

"I just wanted to get him where it hurts. I didn't plan on it when I walked in his room that was the first thing I saw. It just reminded of what he took more seriously than me and I mean that in a sense that.... if it wasn't basketball related he didn't care like my feelings. So I threw them and 4 of them broke" I explained.

"Hmm interesting.. I get it. So what happened after that? She asked. I sat there twiddling my thumbs. "I - just told him how I felt ... I screamed at him and called him out his name and threw a few more things. I was so angry I couldn't control myself" I said

"Did you hit him? She asked. "Yes, he called me a bitter baby mother or something like that and I smacked him" I said.

"It felt good" I said

"So you being violent made him hear you out? She asked. "I ask this because majority of the time when your screaming and having an episode the person on the other side zones out what your saying" she explained

"Ohh I know he grasped what I felt. It was so much emotion because I usually keep everything inside and just like you said. I exploded"

"Are you two talking now? She asked. "No we got into another incident and I pulled a knife out on him. He wouldn't leave and I felt threatened. and I'm not talking to my mother.. its just so much" I said covering my face. She took off her glasses.

"How did this altercation happen? She asked.

I sighed "I told our son about our relationship and how cheated on me. I figured he needed to know and Rashad got mad at me because our son confronted him about it" I explained

"He has a right to know... So I'm glad you told your ex and your mother how you feel. How you went about it may not have brung a resolution because you are under a lot of stress. So now that you've told them how you felt. Maybe we can try to communicate without the anger" she explained.

"I want you and your ex to eventually meet common grounds because you have a child involved" she said

"He won't even say sorry.. I'm not kissing his ass to get along with him. I refuse... I did enough of that.. every time he would do something I backed out of me being mad because I didn't want him to be mad at me

"Tionne when you're an adult you can't always prove a point sometimes you have to be a bigger person" she said

"I don't mind communicating with him but I'm not apologizing for what I said or did. When he hasn't apologized for what he did. Flora there's so much damage you don't even know. Do you know he wouldn't even walk with me sometimes to class because he was embarrassed that I was pregnant? Or how he would never defend me-