I loved you when I didn't love myself. Said you love me But you only loved yourself You rocked me so hard You played all your cards right You played with my heart I might not be the same way- Myself × Layton Greene

Ming laid on the floor of her mom's office she didn't feel like going home after school today because she didn't want to see Keith.

"Ming baby hand me those papers."

Ming went to grabbed the papers for her mother when somebody opened the door bumping into her.

"Oh I'm sorry."

Ming looked up to see some boy looking down at her.

"Yasir you made it." Ming's mother said.

"Yeah my mom is next door getting some papers from your husband done." He said.

"Well good thing you did because I was about to close. Here you go."

"Thank you for doing this resume for me I really needed it." Yasir said.

"You are so welcome. Ming this is Yasir and Yasir this is Ming my daughter." Her mom said.

"Hi." Yasir said smiling at her.

Ming looked at him. "Hi." She said.

"Yasir's mother is one of my patients and he wants to be a marriage counselor just like me so I made him a resume for college."

"Oh well I hope she made you a good resume." Ming said going to sit down.

Yasir stared at her. She was beautiful he thought.

"Well thank you Mrs.Simmons see you later." Yasir said walking out closing the door behind him.

"Ming you are so rude." Her mother said popping her upside the head.

Ming rolled her eyes and just started scrolling on Instagram. She just wasn't in the mood and she didn't mean to come off rude. She looked up the name Yasir on search and his page came up. She scrolled through some of his pictures.

"Mmmm he is fine." Ming mumbled to herself.

"You said something?"

"No ma'am." Ming said as she continued to scroll down his page looking at pictures.

Ming walked in the house with her mother and father to see Keith and some girl taping up boxes.

"Good evening Keith and....?" Ming's father said.

"Oh sorry this is Sasha." Keith said introducing the girl that was standing beside him.

"Hello Sasha I'm Keith's boss and this is my wife Mora and daughter Ming." Her dad said.

"Nice to meet you." Sasha said. "Babe I'll go put these bags in the car."

Ming was held back when the girl said babe. Ming rushed upstairs to her room she slammed the door and started going crazy. She picked up the watch that Keith bought her and threw it. She started crying.

"I swear I hate him!" She screamed. She fell to the floor crying.

Keith walked in the room looking down at her on the floor. He shook his head.

Ming sat up wiping her face she quickly stood up and started hitting him in his chest.

"I told you not to play with me and you did. You took my youngness for a joke I hate you!" Ming yelled at him.

Keith pushed her off him. Ming hit the wall. "I'm telling my dad." Ming said trying to get past him while crying.

Keith quickly grabbed her. "I wouldn't do that if I was you. We'll both get in trouble if you do something stupid like that."

"You played me and made me like this." Ming said looking down at floor crying as tears fell down her face.

Keith closed her door and locked it. "Listen to me you're not a woman you hear me. You just seventeen I need something to hold me down. Go to college find somebody that loves you."

"I thought you loved me Keith you said you did!"

"When we were fucking Ming! Fucking! We weren't making love. You're seventeen I'm twenty fucking one! Get that through your damn head I told you." Keith yelled at her.

"You will regret this!" Ming said. "If you knew you didn't want me why did you fuck me then. You used me and now you with that bitch fuck you Keith and her get out of my parent's house and never come back."

"Promise me I won't I ain't got nothing holding me back anyway." He said unlocking the door.

"A job." Ming said standing there with no expression.

Keith stopped and turned around and started laughing. "You right but you not holding me back."

"Wrong again. My father is your boss and I can ruin you just like that. I was raped by Keith oh daddy he took advantage of me!" Ming faked her expressions.

"What do you want from me?" Keith said.

"That in your pants. I want that. So try to leave me and I will ruin you and make sure you never get hired at an office or hospital." Ming said. "Get out of my parents house!"

Keith opened the door and slammed it when he closed it.

Ming slid down the wall and started crying again. She didn't know why she was treated like some toy but now she had control of Keith and she was gonna take advantage of him just like he did her.

Alijah watched August walk back and forth in the foyer of her parent's house.

"Will you calm down please?" Alijah asked.

August stopped and looked at her. "How I look?"

"For the 50th time tonight yes you look good and sexy and tasty." Alijah said before standing on her tippy toes and giving him a kiss.

Someone behind them cleared their throat making August quickly push Alijah off of him.

But it was just Jay.

"Y'all ugly as hell. Anyway dinner's ready and on the menu is August's head." Jay said laughing going back to the dining room.

"I hate him." Alijah said.

"I'm nervous as hell." August said.

"Baybeh come on if they say anything out of the way I got you I promise come on." Alijah said.

August reluctantly grabbed her hand and followed her to the dining room where her parents and brother sat.

"Mom and Dad this is August my boyfriend." Alijah said introducing him.

"Hi." August said.

Alijah's parents looked at him up and down.

"Well hello August we've heard a lot about you." Alijah's mother said. "I'm Kimberly and this is my husband Grant."

"Nice to meet you take a seat." Grant said.

"Okay you guys I cooked crispy lemon chicken, garlic butter asparagus with crispy parmesan, with some garlic parmesan cauliflower mac and cheese and red velvet cupcakes on the side." Kimberly said.

"Mama you went all out tonight." Alijah said.

"Go ahead and get you some." She said.

Alijah fixed August's plate for him then fixed hers. They all sat their having a good conversation and eating.

August's phone suddenly went off. When he pulled it out he had a text from Delilah.

He sat there texting her back and she was going crazy for some reason.

Alijah caught a glimpse of his text messages.

"You mind as well go." She said on the verge of tears.

"Baybeh she can wait." August said.

"Just go." She mumbled while her parents weren't looking.

"Ok. I'm 'sawry Mr. and Mrs. Evans. I have a family emergency." August said.

"Oh okay we was just about to eat dessert but since you have to go you can go ahead a get one." Kimberly said.

"No thank you." August said standing up along with Alijah.

She walked him to the front door and August tried to give her a kiss but she swerved.

"Why you gotta act like that? She is my baby mama." August said.

"She doesn't have any respect for our relationship August, but go since she's having heartburn." Alijah expressed closing the door in his face leaving August standing there shocked.

"Man fuck!" August yelled rushing to his car.

Alijah and Laila both sat on her bed while Laila cried her eyes out. Alijah looked at the digital clock on her wall and it was 3 in the morning and they had school in a few hours.

"Laila honey it's okay." Alijah said.

"No it's not I have no family to go to." Laila cried.

Her mother gave up on her brothers and with one of them being just 1 years old they all got taken by child protective services. Tahim called her the other day telling her, but he's staying with a friend.

Alijah knew she had to be there for her friend but this was an every night thing with her. She knew that she was going through something but Alijah was tired.

She got up and left the room leaving Laila crying. Alijah went in her brother's room.

"Jay...Jay....Jay?"

"Whaaaatttttt?" Jay whined waking up out of his sleep.

"Where's that cover I'm sleeping in here tonight." Alijah said.

"Here." Jay said throwing it at her and a pillow along with it.

Alijah went and got on Jay's couch that he had in his room and laid there trying to find sleep. August haven't called nor sent her a text since he left dinner with her parents. She prayed he was okay. She didn't want to seem like the type to be too controlling, but she felt like Delilah was taking advantage of August and she needed to talk to her about that.

August slowly sat up from Delilah's bed. No he did not cheat he was just helping her go to sleep since she was having trouble doing so.

He looked at his phone the brightness of it blinding him we he got control of his site he seen it was 5 in the morning. August got up out of the bed and slide on his shoes and grabbed his keys.

He quietly walked out of Delilah's room and out of the house. Good thing the front door locked on it own.

"Damn I can't win for losing with this girl." August said.

August unlocked his car about to get in.

"Aye you August?"

August turned around to see some boy with a hoodie on.

"Yeah who askin'?"

The boy pulled out a gun.

"Woah man who are you?" August said backing up into his car.

"So you think you just gonna hit me man then shoot my brother I'm pretty sure you rememba' me."

"Lil man put 'da gun down it was just business ya' don't kno what ya' doin' wit' dat." August said and before he could say anything else the boy pulled the trigger.

August slowly fell to ground holding his chest begging for help next thing you knkw everything went black.

"August....August.....Aug!"