BOOT STRAPS

Heated Arguments

"Her mom doesn't even know half of the story or half of who her daughter was." He pressed his palms into his eyes, he looked really tired and pale.

"You don't say !" I eyed him as I took a seat in one of the stools by the counter.

"She was my girlfriend, in fact I had plans for her, I saw her as my future wife because she wasn't like the other girls well that's what I thought." He now had a sad look on his face as he rested his elbows on the counter.

"She was fooling around with other guys in school but pretended to be a saint to me. I didn't know anything about her lifestyle because my mind was still on my brother's death..." He trailed his hands through his head and looked at me with pain in his eyes.

"She was there for me all the time, when I lost my dad and my brother,she was always the shoulder for me to cry on but all that was fake, she only dated me for the cash,she wanted a rich husband to hold on to after college." He stood up from the table and walked towards the kitchen sink and washed off Mike's blood from his knuckles.

I kept mute as he told the story, I didn't want to interrupt him, I wanted to know every bit about him and why he would do that to a lady.

"I was paying less attention to her because my brother just died and my mom was devastated,they had to take her to a rehab... things were just so messed up but she felt she was losing me." He paused as she stretched for a napkin to dry his hands.

"So she tried to pin me down with a pregnancy, she tried so hard to make me sleep with her but I wasn't going to be that stupid." He said as he wiped his hands dry, he threw the napkin on the counter and started walking towards me.

"When she came to me with her belly protruding, I was disappointed and mad but I decided to still take her in because I loved her a lot that until she had to lie to the her parents I forced myself on her and got her pregnant." He stopped right in front of me and looked straight into my eyes with a straight face.

"Authorities came for me, they wanted to put me in trial well thanks to my uncle, I escaped that." He rolled his eyes as he took a seat by my side.

"So how did she die ?" I asked him in a calm voice, I was now calm and cold because of what he was telling me.

"She realized her plan won't work,got an abortion from a local health centre,contracted an infection and she died but no matter what happened her mom doesn't believe the truth." I stood up from my stool and walked up to him.

"I'm sorry for judging you, I was just.." I apologized as I had my face down.

"Skai, you could have risked your life all because of an assumption. Why do you act so stubborn at times ?" He had a scowl on his face as he scolded me.

"You can't totally blame me, I trusted you so much and I was thinking that something was ....." I stopped talking because Drake was laughing as I spoke.

"Is that the way you treat people you trust ?" He was now smirking at me.

"Well..." I was out of words as because he was right, I should have demanded an explanation earlier.

"Skai, you really hurt me." He was now serious and he had a stern look.

"Just because of a bad assumption you had of me, you ran off and left me and you came back with another guy." He stood up from his seat pointing at his chest.

"No I went to see my brother and it was late, Mike had to come get me." I tried explaining to him but he was shook his head at me.

"Doesn't change the way you treated him right in front of me, Skai I'm not dumb." I gave him a clueless look as he walked away from me heading towards the door.

"Why does it bother you if I'm nice and caring towards Mike or if he cares about me ?" I asked him as I trailed behind him.

"That's because I'm supposed to be that guy, I'm the only one who should care and protect you not done Mike dude."He turned around swiftly and looked me in the eye with so much anger.

"Why does it have to be only you ?" I asked him as I took a step forward.

"That's because.... because..." He looked away from me and walked backwards.

"No you're not going to leave your words unfinished again, why ?! " I threw questions at him as I followed behind him.

"Skai it's not necessary." He said as he walked out of the kitchen.

"Drake Why do care so much ? Why did you put out so much outburst on Mike and why do you act ...." I was cut short by the shattering of a flower vase that was smashed on the floor by Drake.

"That's because I have feelings for you ! Yes I freaking admire you and care about you so much !" He ran upstairs after he spat those words at me.

I was stunned and shocked at what he said, yes I might have gotten hints earlier that there's a probability he felt that way but I never expected it to be true.

I stood there with my eyes wide open and I let out a gasp as I sat there on the floor thinking about how a lot of events unfolded in one day.