Page 14 of The Road to You
That was wild as hell. Cece looked like she might implode at any second. “Fuck all of you. I got something for y’all.”
She stormed off with her herd of hos behind her. “She’s gonna keep playing with me, and I’m gonna have to help her initiate her own death. She clearly wants to commit suicide, so I’m willing to assist.”
We stayed for a little while longer before we parted ways. My baby worked that night, so I planned to see her in the morning at the gym. One of my favorite activities was working out with her. Couple workouts were sexy as fuck. Her little personal trainer came over one day to ask her if she hired someone else. I didn’t have to say shit because my woman took care of it. When the time came, I planned to work her ass out on a mattress.
When I got home,I took a shower, ate some of the leftovers in my fridge, then chilled on my couch. The movie that was on the screen was watching me at that point. My mind was so consumed with Bruq and what was going on with her.Something had to give. My phone vibrated against my leg where it sat on the couch next to me. I picked it up to see what the notification was.IG.
Someone tagged me in something. I didn’t recognize the page name. When I read the caption, I didn’t need to recognize shit because I knew who it was.When you think your bitch is bad but she’s MJ’s lil’ cousin.
“What the fuck is this?” It looked like a bathroom. Yeah, it was the bathroom in the gym.Why the fuck would she tape the empty bathro?—
A woman stepped out of the shower with a towel around her body. She looked familiar as hell.Wait, it’s Bruqlyn.She looked different though. I watched silently as she pulled on her clothes carefully before she removed her towel. She then took a bag out of her duffel and laid the contents on the counter. I watched her put makeup on her face and shoulders.
Was that the reason her ass didn’t want to spend the night? I just knew that couldn’t be the fucking reason. “Yeah, she’s got me fucked up. I bet her ass is spending the night tonight.”
I got up, grabbed what I needed, then left to go to Norma and Grant’s place to pick up Casper. I met them a couple of weeks ago when they told Bruqlyn to invite me over for a cookout. They were parent figures in her life. I knew that my baby’s mother passed, but she never spoke about her father. I didn’t want to touch on that shit too soon.
It didn’t take me long to get to the RV park from my house. Casper was outside with Majesty playing. He knew who I was when I pulled up. “What’s up, boy!” I bent down to pet him when he zoomed over to me.
“Euri! What are you doing here?” Majesty asked. She was the cutest little girl. Her mother did a great job at homeschooling her. When I was there for the cookout, I engaged inconversations with her that made me forget she was a ten-year-old.
My warm smile greeted her. “Hey, pretty. I’m here to get my boy. He’s going to spend the night with me tonight.”
“Oh, Bruqlyn didn’t tell us that you were coming to get him,” Grant interrupted my and his daughter’s little conversation. He had a strong accent that tripped me out. The protectiveness that he showed over my baby was heartfelt and appreciated.
I stood to my feet. “Yeah, she doesn’t know. I want to surprise her.”
His skeptical stare held for a moment before a smile broke through. “That’s nice of you. She deserves all the good surprises the world has to offer her. Euri, I know I’m not her biological father, but that makes her no less my daughter. Just like I will kill behind that one,”—he pointed toward Majesty, who sat with his wife—“I’ll kill behind Bruqlyn with the same intensity.”
“I respect that. You’ll never have to worry about me intentionally hurting her. Hurting her is like hurting me. I would never do anything to hurt myself. That’s backward as hell,” I told him.
He nodded. “Alright, well, y’all have a good night. Casper, be a good boy.”
Casper walked over to Grant with a wagging tail. After a head rub and pat, Casper was behind me to get into my SUV. My main man Casper loved to ride out with me. Some days when Bruq, as I nicknamed her, was at work, I picked Casper up from day care, and he chilled with me. His mama had an attitude when I paid his day care bill ahead. That was crazy to me because she had no issue when I added her to my gym membership.
There were still a few hours before my baby got off, so I went home to chill for a little while longer. While I sat on my couch, I couldn’t stop watching the social media video. Based on the comments, it had the opposite results of what Cece’s dumb assanticipated. Ninety-eight percent of the comments talked about how beautiful my girl was. A skin disorder that Cece intended for people to tease, they actually found alluring and gorgeous.So fucking gorgeous.
It saddened me that Bruqlyn felt she had to cover her skin with makeup. She must have spent a lot of money on her makeup because it was the perfect shade and didn’t transfer. She’d laid her head on my shirt, and I’d touched her face multiple times. It suddenly dawned on me that she always wore long sleeves. I never thought anything about it, because of how thin the material was. She claimed she was cold-natured.
I took time to research her condition. I knew the name, but not much about it. By the time I was ready to leave to go to my baby’s job, Casper was on his back, laid out on the bed I purchased him. All I could do was shake my damn head. On the drive there, I prepared my spirit for the pushback that I would get when I told Bruq that she would spend the night with me. Since I felt like I knew thewhybehind the no, I had a fighting chance.
Back To The Present…
“Is this the reason that you don’t want to spend the night?”
I handed the phone to Bruqlyn. She took the phone from me with her beautiful face twisted into a scowl. When a single tear fell from her eye, I wanted to tear some shit up. “Where did you get this?”
“That dumb bitch Cece posted it on IG and tagged me.” I shifted my body to face her again. “Bruq, be real with me. Is this why you don’t want to spend the night with me?”
Her attention was still on the video. It was a pretty lengthy video that started from the point that she got out of the shower until she was fully dressed. Her eyes closed, and she mumbled, “I’m going to kill that bitch.” She set the phone down on the table. “I can’t deal with this.”
Before I could say anything, she shot up from her seat and took off toward the back of the restaurant.This girl.I sat there in my thoughts until I saw my baby with her things, headed toward the front door. I jumped up to run after her. I wouldn’t say that I was a track star, but I was fast as fuck, boy. I grabbed her van’s driver’s side door just as she was about to close it. “Where you going, Bruq?”
“I just need to go,” she blurted with a trembling voice. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” Tears fell down her cheeks freely.
I moved my body to block her from closing the door. “Okay, that’s fine. How about this, you come to my house and we talk? You don’t have to spend the night, but we need to have this conversation, love. I’m your nigga, not just some stranger who doesn’t give a fuck.”
Her stare didn’t break from mine. She sniffled before she dropped her face into her hands. With one hand on her thigh, I used the other to rub her back. After a moment of whimpering, she glanced at me. “We can go to your house.”
