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Nicole
Me and Sabrina walked through the mall, doing some shopping before Aria go out of school. I was supposed to be at work but Bri basically begged me to take off.
I do anything for my any sister.
Today she seemed different though. Spaced out. Constantly zoning out when I'm talking to her. I know she didn't invite me to go shopping with her for no reason.
It's something serious going on with her.
"Let's go in this kid store for Aria." I said to her.
She simply nodded and turned in the direction that I pointed to.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
"I'm fine. Why?"
"You just seem out of it today. What's going on? You pregnant or something?"
"Hell no. I'm just....tired, that's all."
"Tired?"
"Yeah, that a problem?"
"Nope...so Chris plays for the Clippers now."
"Yup."
"I know you're excited. You don't have to move all the way over to Miami."
"Very excited." She said sarcastically.
"Wait wait, pause. This vibe I'm getting from you is not cool. Are you and Chris still mad at each other."
"We're fine."
"You're lying. You've never been secretive with me Sabrina. Why change now?"
She took a deep breath. "Nicki I wanted to come shopping to get away from all the craziness. Please don't add on to it."
"I'm worried about you. You don't seem happy lately, it even look like you're losing weight."
Her face balled her up and her eyes turned red.
"Okay you're scaring me now." I said pulling her out the store. "Sabrina what's going on? Talk to me." We sat on a bench in the middle of the mall.
"There's nothing to talk about, I'm fine. I'll be okay."
"Why are you being so secretive now? We used to tell each other everything. You always used to run to me and tell me things, what changed?"
"I'm older now, some things I just feel like people don't need to know."
I took a deep breath. "I just want to make sure that you're okay. That's all."
"I promise I'm okay, just a little stressed. But everything is just fine."
"Alright, even though I know you're lying but ok. Can I ask you one last question?"
She nodded.
"Why are there bruises on your arm?"
Sabrina quickly looked down. She had make up covering it but it was smearing on her shirt. The marks were dark purple and looked like fingers.
"So he's abusive?" I asked.
"His temper is just a little out of control." She stood up. "I gotta go, I'm not feeling too well."
"Sabrina."
"I'll call you later Nicki." She grabbed her bags and rushed out the mall.
Shaking my head I pulled my phone out of my purse and dialed Chris.
"Hello." He answered.
"Hey C, you busy?"
"Naw, just left practice."
"You think you can meet me somewhere. We need to talk."
"Uh, sure. Where?"
"Meet me at the Applebees in the mall parking lot." I said.
"Alright, I'll see you in a minute."
"Okay." I hung up the phone and tossed it back in my purse, gathered my things and headed out to my car. Once everything was in my trunk I got in and headed over to the restaurant.
It took him at least 20 minutes to finally pull up. Grabbing my purse I got out. He walked over to me.
"Wassup Nicki."
We hugged.
"Hey Chris, nice truck."
"Thanks, it's your sisters but she won't drive it."
I smirked. "Let's go eat, I'm hungry."
We headed inside and in no time we were seated at a both near the back. A few people noticed who Chris was, so I guess a booth in the back was a good idea.
After the waitress took our drink orders, we just sat there.
"So wassup, I know you didn't ask me here for no reason." Chris said.
"You're right I didn't. Everything okay with you and my sister?"
"Yeah, from what I know everything is okay."
"You wouldn't lie to me right."
"We had a disagreement back in Miami but I think we're over that."
"So the bruises on her arms, where did that come from?"
He scratched his head and started messing with his phone.
"I'm waiting for an answer." I sipped on my lemonade while glancing at him.
"I didn't mean to. My anger just gets the best of me at times. I'm a very territorial person, I don't like to share what's mine."
"What you mean by that?"
"She hasn't told you about the guy from her computer class that she likes to hang out with now?"
"No, she hasn't."
"Well there's this dude named Ronnie that she goes painting with and I can tell just by the way that he looks at her that he's feeling her. It's the same way I look at her and I'm not cool with that. I tell Sabrina to leave him alone and she tells me no and that I'm overreacting. I just can sense that this is going to end bad."
"My, how the tables have turned."
He put his head down. "So what you saying this Karma for the shit that I've done back in high school?"
"Looks like it to me. You played my sister and now you're afraid that she's going to play you for this Ronnie guy."
Chris didn't say anything, he just played with the straw in his cup.
"But besides that, you need to get your temper together. My sister shouldn't be walking around with a big ass bruise on her arm that she attempted to cover with make up. I used to hear all the time about you two fighting but I never knew that it was this serious."
"It's not that serious, I just got beside myself."
"You're jealous and I understand that. But like I said you gotta control that temper. You're like a brother to me but Sabrina is my blood sister and I DO NOT play about her. That's something that you already know. I don't want to kill you Chris."
"It won't happen again. I'm really sorry."
"And with this new career of yours, don't you think the last think the last thing you need is a domestic violence charge?"
He looked at me confused. "Are you threatening to call the police on me?"
"If I ever see my sister bruised up because you had another temper tantrum, it's going to be a problem."
Chris laughed. "Okay Nicole."
"What's funny?"
"You are, if you calling the police on me make sure you call them on your sister too because she's the violent one. I'm not beating her, I don't even put my hands on her until she punches or slaps me or sometimes both. And it's never me hitting her back, it's me trying to get her to stop. I'm not a woman beater. That's not how I get down. I grabbed Sabrina too hard and that's why she has the bruise. It wasn't intentional. You ain't gotta try to threaten me with the cops or threaten to ruin my career."
"All I'm saying is don't grab her and control your anger. You should be so confident that my sister would never cheat on you that things won't even get as far as they did. If she tells you that she doesn't want him then that's the end of that."
"It ain't her I'm worried about."
"Alright."
"Now if you'll excuse me, I got somewhere to be." He stood up and pulled out his wallet then tossed a 100 on the table. "Have a nice day Nicole."
"You too Christopher."
He walked away and I just watched him to the door.
I'm starting to not like that nigga.
Sabrina
Sitting at a canvas, my paintbrush slow ran down it. 10,000 Hours by Ella Mai blasted through my earbuds.
I've been in my zone ever since I got home from shopping with Nicki. This is my 3rd painting.
I didn't mean to rush out the mall earlier but I just know she would've kept asking questions now that she saw these bruises on my arm. I don't want her thinking that Chris is beating my ass because that's not the case.
If anything I'm more violent than him.
Our tempers are just the same, I mean we both are Taurus.
I'm not condoning the violence I just don't want people thinking it's something that it's not.
My phone buzzed in my lap. I glanced down and it was a text from Ronnie. I wanted to respond but I don't need anymore drama right now.
It's just something about Ronnie's vibe that's just so peaceful to me. He doesn't seem confrontational, he just laughs everything off. We have so much in common it's crazy. When I'm around him there's not a moment when I'm not smiling. I enjoy that.
Maybe more than I should.
A bouquet of roses came in view, breaking me away from my thoughts. I turned off my music then turned to see Chris standing behind me.
"Hey gorgeous." He kissed my cheek.
"Hey." I took the flowers from him. "Thank you."
"No problem, can we talk?"
"Sure, let me just put these in water."
He nodded then walked over to our bedroom. I got up and went into the kitchen and found an empty vase and filled up with water. After snipping the stem off each flower I put them in the vase then put it on the counter.
I love roses. I can't wait until we get a house because I'm most definitely growing some.
I walked into the room and sat next to Chris, who was now rolling up.
"Do you think that's a good idea? Doesn't the NBA do frequent drug testing?" I questioned.
"Oh yeah." He placed everything on the dresser then turned to me. "Do you think I'm abusive?"
"Not physically, sometimes verbally. Why?"
"You know that I didn't mean to put that bruise on your arm. I wasn't even aware that I had you that tight."
"Where's all this coming from?"
"Baby why would you make your sister think that I'm abusing you?"
"Chris I didn't. Did she come talk to you?"
"Yeah, I met her at Applebee's after practice."
I took a deep breath. "I told her I was okay. She knows that you're not abusive to me. This the first bruise I've gotten from you. She did that on her own, just trying to be overprotective."
"I'm sorry about my reaction the other day. My temper got the best of me. I just don't want to lose you and it feels like Im getting ready to." He gripped my chin. "Sabrina I want you to be honest with me. Do you like this Ronnie dude?"
Yes.
"No Chris." I said.
"Please don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying."
"Baby, please. Just tell me."
"I don't Chris. I only want you."
Chris exhaled while standing up. "I'm about to jump in the shower. Maybe we can go house hunting."
I nodded, he kissed my forehead and walked away.
It was like when I asked him if he was sleeping with Krista, but this time the roles were switched.