Sitting in the lobby waiting for the lawyer they call trey to enter into his office so we could see about khia's case. I put my arms around her cause she looked kinda nervous. I wanted to make sure that I would always be there with her until the end of it. Trey walked by and noticed us waiting by his office.

"Hi come in",he told us. I had to put a fake face in front of this nigga even though I couldn't stand him one bit.

"So what's goin on with the case. We haven't heard nothin from you",I told him. He looked at me for a good minute and then Khia and smirked.

"She may not have to appear in court at all. We got enough evidence to just lock him up but he won't be locked up for life. My estimation of his sentence would be 5-10 years."

"Why?",she asks him.

"Khia your grown now. He's not harassing you anymore is he?"

"Trey, I'm staying at ebony house for a reason",Khia said with a attitude.

"So what y'all waiting for? For him to rape me and then I kill him out of self defense so I can go to jail?",Khia said. I squeezed her thigh hoping that would make her relax a bit.

"It's not gonna come to that Khia. I promise you it won't."

"Don't make another promise to her that you can't keep nigga. She's had enough of your broken promises",I said.

"I promise on everything I love, it won't come to that",he reiterated himself to Khia.

"So how would you like to proceed? You want to appear in court or handle this civilly and want me to get a warrant out for his arrest?",trey asked her.

"You talkin like you the cop",I said laughing at this joker.

"I got a cop friend I know."

"Pussy",I said under my breath. Khia looked at me and rolled her eyes but I didn't care. Trey didn't even catch what I called him cause he making googly eyes to

My girl.

"Can you stop?",Khia said to him.

"Stop what",he said.

"Never mind",she said rolling her eyes. I could tell she couldn't stand neither one of us right now.

After walking her out to the car, I drove her home and she was mute the whole way there.

"Wasup?",I asked her at the red light.

"Why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Get defensive around him."

"You saw the way he looked at you?"

"Yea and I told him to stop but you called him Pussy. For what. That's immature tiago. Your better than that."

"I honestly just want a round 2 with that nigga."

"Why you hate his guts so bad?"

"Cause he feenin' over you and ion like that."

"So your gonna fight anyone that likes me?"

"If I could, I would."

"Your ridiculous Tiago",she said getting out the car and closing the door. As I was pulling out the driveway I saw another all black suv car pull up. I ain't never seen that car before so I was skeptical but maybe I was just trippin. I turned the block and as I was driving on my way to work, I just didn't have a good feeling about the car. I knew ebony ain't had no suv so idk who the car would be. I just had a bad feeling but maybe it's me being paranoid so I dismissed the thought again.

Khia

Taking off my blazer and laying it in the living room couch, I searched the room for ebony.

"Eb?",I called out. She must've been at work. I was in the mood for some pancakes and bacon so I tied my hair up and tried to find a bowl and a skillet. Suddenly, I heard the door open as if someone was coming inside. It has to be ebony.

"Hey girl im so glad your here. Tiago is trippin",I said stiring the pancake mix facing the stove.

"Oh word?",I heard a deep voice said. I dropped the spoon on the floor by accident and slowly turned around. Standing in the middle of the kitchen, it was my dad with a knife in his hand.

I gasped and instantly got scared. My phone was in the living room so I couldn't go to get it.

"You didn't think you could get away from me could you babygirl?",he said getting closer. I wanted to scream but he covered my mouth.

"You yell, you die. I killed my own nephew , you think I won't kill you?",he said. He played with the end of my hair and I could feel his hand running down my back. With my free hand, I tried to open the drawer and grab a knife to defend myself but he caught on and smiled.

"Where's your little boyfriends? Trey and what's that other boy name? The one you claim you really love",he whispered. His eyes met mine and I could feel my eyes getting watery.

"Your mom was a beautiful woman. But you was just gorgeous. Grew into that body you got now, now you don't know how to act. You can't give that body to him, he don't love you. I love you babygirl",he said touching my face. I kicked him in the balls and tried to run but he grabbed my leg causing me to fall and laid up on top of me.

"Heard you wanna lock me up. Now why would you wanna do that to me huh? Your first love",he said touching my thigh. I closed my eyes and prayed to God that he helps me from this. I opened my eyes and found him pulling his manhood out. I was so disgusted and looked away. Ready to deal with whatever he was about to do, I closed my eyes and tears filled my eyes. He pinned my arms down so I couldn't move.

"You scream, and I'll kill you lil b....",he said waving the sharp part of the knife running it down my neck. I shook my head in understanding and just kept asking God to help me while I cried silently. I cried a pond of tears as he grabbed my breasts and waited for this whole thing to be over. I opened my eyes and looked towards the door from my view. And I saw Santiago with his gun. He put his index finger to his mouth telling me to be quiet so he could handle this situation. Ebony was behind him and I knew her heart ached for me because she cried silently behind Santiago. He mouthed to me to stay still. I looked at my dad who was about to go in me and closed my eyes. Suddenly, Santiago's bullet hit him hard to the head with force and it's as if I felt it. My face was splattered with my father's dark red blood and Santiago pulled me from up under him.

"It's gonna be okay baby. Cops are on their way, I told you I got you",he said wiping my tears.

I looked at him and was so thankful. I looked at my father's lifelessness on the kitchen floor and cried even more.

I didn't know which hurt more. Him raping me or him dying.

"Get her cleaned up eb. I'll wait here for the cops to show up",Santiago told her while holding his gun in his hand. I could see on his face too that my father getting shot by him hurt his heart.

He sat on the ground with the dead body in the pool of blood and looked at it. Ebony helped me up and hugged me tight.

She helped me up the stairs because my entire body felt so numb and I didn't have the energy to move. Ebony went a warm towel and cleaned my face up. She didn't engage in any conversation with me because she knew I didn't even have the energy to talk either. She brushed my hair and changed my clothes. I just kept replaying the incident over and over again because I was still in shock. Ebony sat next to me and hugged me sideways. I stared at the wall and tried to let everything sink in.