onika
I woke up still laying on Bey. I couldn't have been asleep more than an hour or two, it was still bright outside.
"Are you awake?" Bey whispered, she was sitting up on her phone.
"Yeah, I just woke up. Is your little problem fixed?"
When I went to sleep her.. thing was still very hard. She said if we stopped talking about it, it would go down but that wasn't the case.
"I don't appreciate your use of the word little, I actually-"
"Okay, is your big problem fixed?"
That made her start smiling, "Yes."
"I have to make sure Imanis okay." I was about to get up but she stopped me.
"I just checked up on her without waking you up. She's still sleeping."
"Okay." I could feel myself starting to go back to sleep. I was going to take advantage of this situation, I never sleep with other people let alone cuddle with them in bed and I liked it.
Beys only rule was that I had to try and I was doing that. I was new to this, I've never been in a healthy adult relationship before.
In all the "adult relationships" I was in, I was a minor. August was right about what he said about me and older men but I didn't like them, they chased me. It shouldn't matter either way, it was wrong.
"Are you okay with Robyn coming over here? She-"
"Yeah. I'm going back to sleep, goodnight." I was so close to falling back asleep, I didn't want to talk.
I woke up on the living room couch. I don't know how I got here but Bey probably carried me down here.
Everyone was talking in the kitchen. Robyn was here now and Imani was awake. Even Amir got off the game for a second.
"So you're telling me you were in my moms room.. alone?"
"She was sleeping the entire time. Calm down before I make you run a lap."
"Bey stop lying, you know you-"
"There's a child present."
"I watch Disney Channel." Imani hates when people try to act like she's a baby.
I stretched and stood up, that was a really good nap.
I walked into the kitchen and Bey was holding Imani, Robyn was leaning against the kitchen island, and Amir was sitting on the counter.
As soon as he saw me he got down. He knew better, he was just trying to show out.
"Onika! Where have you been? I was calling you for hoursss!" Robyn was acting like she hasn't heard from me in months.
"My phone broke a little, sorry. It's only been a couple hours, you're so dramatic."
"Your phone broke a little? What happened?"
"I-"
"It broke when my daddy threw her. She probably has a couscous like last-"
"Imani." They called her a child now she's trying to be grown and put all my business out there.
"No no. Continue with what you were saying." Bey was already looking mad.
"No. Imani come here." I tried to take Imani out of her hands but she held Imani over her head.
Imani was just giggling from being lifted in the air.
"What's she talking about?" Amir had his arms crossed over his chest.
"Imani finish talking, I'll get you cookies."
"Imani I'm your mother, I get you cookies and ice cream all the time."
Imani was looking back and forth between us, she was probably so confused. Poor baby.
"Bey give me my daughter. I'm not playing."
"I'm not either? I just want Imani to finish her story. Imani if you tell me, we can hang out all day tomorrow when you get out of school."
Imani started whispering so I stormed off to my room and locked the door. I know that was immature but I didn't want to hear what she had to say after Imani told her. m
I should've given her more ice cream.
A minute later someone knocked on the door and I ignored it.
"Mom?" It was Amir, he doesn't even call me mom.
"Yes?"
"Can I come in please?"
"Not right now, I'm busy." I didn't trust it.
"Onika, it's Bey. Open the door." I knew it was a set up.
"No. Go home."
"Either you can open the door or I can knock it down. The choice is yours."
"Is Imani with you?"
"No."
"Eat a dick." I just wanted to make sure she wasn't here before I said a bad word.
"5... 4... 3..." She started counting and I got up to open the door. That didn't work on me but it would be a lot of work to get this door fixed.
I opened the door and rolled my eyes. Amir and Bey were standing in the doorway with the same mad expression.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Bey walked into the room and Amir left. She was obviously just using him to get inside.
"Mind your business."
"Onika if you're getting beat on that is my business!"
"And why is that?"
"Oni-"
"One of the rules was no yelling at me so lower your tone." She was yelling at me over something that was none of her business.
She took a deep breath, "Okay I'm sorry but still, why would you lie about how you got your concussion?"
"Why is it any of your business? What goes on between my ex husband and I is just that, between my ex husband and I."
I was on defense mode, I didn't like how I felt like she was cornering me.
"Onika if he's beating on you-"
"He doesn't "beat on me" it only happened twice and he didn't even actually hit me."
"You don't hear how that sounds? You sound like-"
"Like what? Bey just get out."
Robyn came into my room skipping and smiling with Amir. "Do you guys know what this means?"
"What?" Robyn has terrible timing, she's so dumb.
"We get to go beat Augusts ass now." She was still so excited she could barely stand still.
"You're not doing anything to him, sit down."
"Yes we are. Where does he live?" I can't believe Bey was going along with this.
"I'm not telling you, leave the situation alone." They'll only make it worse.
Amir spoke up, "I know his address."
His own "father"? Really?
"Amir-"
"Send me the address, we're leaving right now." Robyn skipped back out of the room.
Bey started to slowly creep out of the room. "Bey. Don't."
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you." She covered her ears and ran out of the bathroom.
"Amir don't send them the address. I'm so serious."
"I already sent it and I just heard them leave." Be folded his lips in and shrugged. "He deserves it, he shouldn't have been putting his hands on you. I would help them but that's technically my dad."
He was being calmer than I thought. I don't trust this.
I groaned and left the room to get my keys. Imani was on the couch watching a Disney Channel and eating the food Bey bought for her earlier.
"Amir where are my keys?!" I looked everywhere for them but I couldn't find them.
He came downstairs smiling. "We hid them."
"Why are you being so calm?"
"I know Coaches have it handled. Plus I'm almost an adult, I know me being angry wouldn't help. I'm screaming on the inside."
"Give me my keys then."
"I can't do that, sorry. He deserves what's coming to him."
"Amir.." I sniffled, I was about to start fake crying in a second. Imani definitely got it from me. "I'm your mother- please don't do this to me. I've been though so much-" I got fake chocked up and covered my mouth.
"Fine, here." He dropped my keys on the table and I quickly grabbed them before he noticed it was fake.
I wiped my fake tears and smiled. "Thank you. Stay here and watch your sister."
I ran to my car and started speeding to Augusts house. I wasn't going to get there before them but maybe I could get there in time to stop them from doing anything.
When I got there, Beys car was parked in the front and the door was slightly open. I rushed out of my car and into his house.
I was wrong.
Bey was holding an already bloody August by his shirt collar. She punched him and he barely reacted, it didn't look like he could stand up on his own either.
Robyn was standing there drinking a slushee and enjoying the show. They really stopped for food?
"Bey stop!" I tried to pry his shirt out of her arms so she would let him go but she was too strong.
She pushed August into the closest wall harder than he did to me. "That's what you did to her? Hurts like hell, doesn't it?"
"Bey please..."
"Onika just let it happen." Robyn was leaning against a different wall eating fries.
Bey dragged August over to us. "I would love it if you would apologize to her, I won't hit you again." Even when she's beating someone up, she's overly nice.
Instead of apologizing, August spit blood in Beys face.
Bey didn't react right away. She didn't move at all besides her twitching eye. I was scared, I didn't know what she was going to do.
"You good Bey?"
"I'm just figuring out how to react. I wouldn't survive in prison, they would probably put me with the men and I do squats, they would have a field day with me."
She's right, she is pretty thick. She's so nice she would probably let them too.
"Then let him go. Seriously." They don't even understand they're making everything so much worse.
"No. How about you guys step outside and I'll come out in five minutes."
I didn't have a choice because Robyn started pulling me out the door. I hate her right now.
"Onika stop crying, it's okay."
I didn't even realize I was crying. These were definitely angry tears.
I could hear Bey yelling from inside. I don't know why she waited until we were out here to start doing all that.
A couple minutes later she came outside and immediately started throwing up in Augusts yard.
"What happened?" Robyn rushed over to Bey to hold her hair back. Bey couldn't talk because of how much she was throwing up.
She eventually stopped and wiped her mouth. "He.. he fucking spit on me! Oh my God!" She bent back down and gagged.
"Bey-"
"I- I need to get tested right now, where's the closest clinic?! I need a full body disinfection, I can't breathe!"
She was freaking out, Robyn was rubbing her back and trying to calm her down.
"I'm going home." There was no point in me coming here in the first place, I didn't stop anything.
"You were crying?" Bey stood all the way back up and turned to me. "Are you mad at me?"
"I don't know."
I really didn't know. She just made everything so much worse. This situation is so complicated especially since kids are involved.
Men, especially August, care about their ego and pride more than anything. The fact that he got beat up by a woman who is also dating his ex wife isn't going to set well with him and he's going to retaliate.
He's already threatened to take Imani from me and other stuff with his lawyers, and he could if he wanted to. He might do it just to spite Bey because Imani likes her so much.
He's so unpredictable, he might actually do something to Bey. He probably slashed her tires so he knows where she lives.
I'm more worried about what could happen to everyone else and not me. It wasn't the first time a man put his hands on me and it probably won't me the last.
Lord knows August needed to get his ass beat and Bey looked good doing it. Especially when she pushed him into the wall the same way he did to me.
It was nice to see him all bloody like that. Now he knows how it feels.
"I understand you thought you were defending me or whatever but I asked you not to. You don't know our situation so you don't know what you just did and how much you just messed things up for me. But I appreciate the thought."
"I'm sorry. I would kiss you but I would probably throw up in your mouth, I'm so disgusted right now. I've been holding it in so I could listen to you but-"
She went back to throwing up and I got in my car and drove home.
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Bey?
Onika?
Imani finally telling Bey what August did to Onika?
Bey beating August up?
August spitting on Bey and Bey freaking out?
Onikas reasons for why she didn't want Bey to do anything to August?
Is that a valid reason or is she just overthinking?
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