Explaining the Unexplainable

Truth

I can't believe this. Why am I always the one getting in some 'coincidental' type of situations? I should text his ass and let him know that he is foul as hell. I believe if a man is bisexual or GAY AS HELL, he should tell the female at first hand. Give me the opportunity to dub your ass when you tell me a man has been blowing them booty walls down. Ugh! The phone rings up front and me and Tiana lock eyes. I do a slight jog to catch it on its third ring.

"Hello, thank you for calling Salon Dimension this is Aisha."

"Ya, is Raven there?" A familiar voice asks. I can almost recognize it but it sounds like they are disguising it in a certain way. At first I thought it was Tye but his crazy ass wouldn't hide his voice.

"I'm sorry sir, she is not. Can I take a message?"

The phone hangs up. I move my ear back from the phone and look at it before putting it back on the charger dock.

"Who was it?" Tiana asks as she looks at my puzzled face.

"Idk...they asked for Raven and when I said she wasn't here they hung up."

Tiana does a light shrug before scratching her back with her right hand. The sound of her bra strap hitting her skin echoes through the silent salon.

"What are y'all doing tonight?" I say with a mischievous smirk.

"I have to do laundry tonight. Im on some ratchet shit today!" Tiana pulls the right side of her leggings down exposing the top of her rainbow cheetah print bikini bottoms. The struggle is real when you are wearing your bathing suit as drawls.

I burst into laughter. "Damn Girl!!" I look over at Gaston for his response, but he's all into his phone. My eyes roll in my soul.

"Why you ask?" Tiana says scratching her hair in a middle part sew in. The honey blonde ombré looks wonderful on her skin tone.

"Ehhh..just trying to find a move." I really need a night out. After that shit with David I really need to have a good time. "I'm thinking ab—"

The salon glass door bursts open and Raven jogs in with her hair looking frazzled and her clothes discombobulated. You can tell she rushed from wherever she was because of the white 'Taco Me out' H&M crop that's overly wrinkled and her ashy black high waisted distressed jeans. She alwaysss comes to work dressed professional, hair on point, black and white fitted clothing with black and gold coach flats. Smelling boooombbb!

"Take me to my sisters house and stay on the clock!" Raven says to me out of breath tired as hell with two tote bags on her shoulder.

Im so startled I do a weird two blinks and this beetle juice neck roll before replying. "Okay." I grab her bags and follow behind her to Macy's. Trailing behind her has to be the worst feeling ever. I have never seen her so distressed. I sigh as I promise myself not to say anything until we get in the car. As we walk really fast to Macy's she looks at her surroundings every ten seconds making sure whoever she's looking for isn't around. I hope it's not Tye's ass again.

We finally get in my car and close our doors in unison. Raven sighs and lays her head back between the seat and the car door. Now is the time.

"You know we aren't leaving this parking garage until you tell me what the hell is going on." I say calmly.

Silence hits the air. Naw! It's taking too long to respond. I turn and look at Raven and make my eyes big as we make eye contact at the same time.

"I can't stay at my place anymore.." she sighs again. "Tye—" she swallows hard then looks at me in my eyes. "Tye has kept me at my house since the day after you spent the night. Every time he goes to work he locks me in my bathroom for eight hours with nothing but three sandwiches a gallon of water and an IPod. There's a camera he watches me on that sits on the vanity. Every time that light turns green I know he's watching..." Hazel zones out for thirty seconds. "You know that time you met David?"

My throat knots up. How the fuck? He must've told her.

"I was there...before you came Ty had both of my arms pinned back with one hand talking..." The sound of her arm hitting against the door
from turning her head away just made me jerk a little. "I prayed for you..he locked me in his bathroom before walking out to speak to you... I prayed for you!!" Raven yells before crying the hardest I've ever seen her cry. "Ahhhhhh!!!" She screams as she punches my dash board three times.

I start the car ignoring her break down. "Put your sister's address in the gps." I say pointing to her phone. Raven looks up at me with eyes of pain. Nahhh. I grab my phone and unlock it before handing it to her on the gps app. I stare at her replaying 'I prayed for you' over and over in my head. What does she mean? Maybe David was a little loco..

We finally start driving letting Siri control the destiny.
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Three hours pass and my leg is falling asleep. I can't believe she's going all the way to Savannah, Georgia. "So....what did you mean by you prayed for me?"

Raven takes a deep breath. "David and Tye have raped me three times. Like on some run a train type shit. When I heard your voice I cried so hard Aisha. I knew I'd blame myself if it happened." She reads the confused look on my face before continuing. "God works in mysterious ways. I happened to be on the bar stool behind David while he was messaging you on Tinder. He would talk to Tye about you for hours saying you are the type he keeps in the house and never lets anyone catch a glimpse."

I can feel my heart palpitate. Why the hell would this girl put up with this shit for so long and not report these clowns to the authorities?!
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We finally arrive to C-Port and all I want is some Carey Hilliard's and a nap.

"How long do you plan on staying here? You can't run away forever.."

"I'm not sure to be honest."

"What are you doing about the shop?" I say as I park the car in her sister's driveway.

"That's what I want to talk to you about...." She takes her seatbelt off and looks at me in the eye. "Would you be interested in a manager position? Instead of 50/50 commission I will pay you 25 an hour and plus your tips. I finally feel like I can breathe. I can't go back anytime soon." Here she goes running again. Honestly I don't know what I'd do if I was in a situation like her. I've been in an abusive relationship twice and I will say mentally it's hard getting out. You stay in thinking that you can change them or hope that when they say they will never do it again, they are sticking to their word. But we all have a breaking point. I've had some myself! Mine ended up being me fighting one, and threatening to kill his family. I would never do that but I had to put some type of fear in his heart. The other one was in middle school. A teacher saw him beating my ass by the orchestra room and ended up telling my parents. My aunt worked for the school system so you KNOW shit wasn't sweet.

"I'll let you know." I say reaching for a hug. Instead Raven kisses me on the lips before giving me the tightest hug she's ever given me.

"Deal."
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After chilling at Carey Hilliard's for an hour I finally get on the road to go back. My eyes start getting heavy as it hits 9pm. Just before I doze off my phone starts to ring from Facebook messenger. I grab my phone to see 'Larry D' pop up on my screen. My throat knots up as I open my eyes like I just popped three beans.