Looking for Something

Chapter 13

I'm here to catch you when you fall

I'm here to answer when you call

In the morning, in the evening, baby even in the afternoon

I got the strength and the nerve

Here to protect you and to serve

In the morning, in the evening, baby even in the afternoon

I'm your hero, hero, defender, protector for you

For you, for you!

I'm your hero, hero, defender, protector for you

For you, for you!

-Miguel; Hero

~~Dominic~~

"Did you just take a picture of me?" I laugh as I take another one. "You are not funny!"

"But babe, you're beautiful!" I scroll to the one where she is yelling at me and I die laughing.

"Delete iiittt!" I feel her crawl over my back to try and reach my phone.

"Uh uh, life long memories." I stretch my arm out further. I take my other arm and I pull her back a little.

"Let me go!" She still gets closer to my phone so I tuck my arm under my stomach and then I drop my phone into my pants. I pop both my hands up so she can see them.

"Oops, it's gone. My bad." She hits me and I laugh. I roll over under her so that I can look up at her.

"Where did you put it?"

"Somewhere." I bump my crotch on her ass.

"Tell me, asshole!"

"Nope, I refuse to." She pouts at me and leans down closer to me.

"But I thought you were my friend."

"I'm your best friend, which is why you will let me keep my pictures." I smile up at her. She smiles back as she leans down and kisses me. I feel her lay all the way on me, and our kiss grows more intense. I get myself lost in it as our tongues play around. When she pulls back, I almost want to pull her back, telling her not to break it.

"Thanks best friend!" She smiles and shows me my phone. Sneaky ass.

"Uh uh! Cheater!" She laughs.

"All is fair in love and war." She pecks my lips before she runs off the bed and out the room. I chase after her, and I follow her down the hall.

"Come on, Syd. Don't delete them." She laughs as she makes her way into Andie's backyard. She runs by the pool and holds my phone over it. Before she can even say anything I grab her ass and carry her away from it.

"Now you know I was not about to drop your phone. That is just cruel for any human being."

"Mhm, I believe you. Kind of." She gives me my phone back and I set it down on the table I am standing beside.

"Can you put me down now?" I shake my head no and I start walking to the edge of the pool. "Ugh, what are you doing?" When she sees me standing at the edge of the pool she starts trying to jump out of my arms.

"Dominic, NO!" I laugh.

"CANNON BALL!" I jump into the pool holding her, and once we hit the water she floats out of my arms. I come back up laughing.

"You are insane!!" I cannot stop laughing. She is going to be mad as hell at me. That should not be funny to me, since I hate when she is mad at me, but this time is different. "Aw, my hair!"

"I love you baby!" She is sitting on the edge of the pool with her feet still sticking in. When she flicks me off my grin grows. She is so mad. I swim over to her. "You mad?" She continues to wring her shirt out and doesn't even look at me.

I grab her hands and I stand in between her legs making her have no choice but to listen. I try to kiss her, but she dodges me. I try to kiss her again and I catch her cheek. I grab her chin and turn her to face me, but she swats my hand away with hers.

"Mickie move!" She is not mad. When she really is mad at me she calls me by my whole name.

"I love you! You don't love me no more?" I pout at her. She sneaks a glance at me and a smirk breaks out on her face. She mumbles a very quiet yes. "What? I couldn't hear you!"

"Yes!" She says it a little louder, but still quietly.

"You sure?" I try to kiss her again and she dodges me again. "Huh? You sure?" I keep leaning in for a kiss and she keeps trying to push me back by pushing on my chest. I make her fall back and I lay over her. "You still have not kissed me yet."

"You don't get a kiss for messing up my hair and clothes."

"Bet I do though!" She smiles up at me and shakes her head. I try to kiss her and again she dodges me. I will get my way, whether she likes it or not. "Guess I will just have to kiss your neck then, since your lips are off limits."

"No." I place a light one on her neck.

"Yes." I do it again. I start tickling her with my tongue.

"Stop, you know that tickles." She tries to push me back, but I grab her hands.

"You know how to make me stop. Kiss me."

"I'm supposed to be mad at you!"

"I know." I get closer to her face.

"Well, let me be mad."

"I don't like when you are mad at me though."

"So, get over it."

"But I won't. Kiss me." I am not even half of an inch away from her face. She gives me a quick peck on the lips.

"Can you let me up now?" I shake my head.

"No, you have to really kiss me." This time I close the space between us and I get my kiss. Told you I would get my way. So, now I have to be a mood breaker. I move my hands to her waist and I feel her arms wrap around my neck. Good. I lift up and fall back into the water again. When I come back up again, I get a mouth full of water. "Did you just splash me?"

"Maybe." She does it again.

"You really want to start this war?"

"Bring. It." She doesn't even know what she has started.

~

"Say cheese." I hold my camera up and point it at her while she is messing with her hair in the bathroom. She turns around and licks her tongue out. Aw, she cute. I upload it to my i********:. People have been nagging me to get one for months, now I finally made one and I got  a bunch of followers, but only two pictures. I am not for the whole, take a picture of every meal, everything I am doing, or everything outside kind of guy. Had a bunch of my boys with all the followers give me shout outs. I am working on 3k right now. I put the caption "My Woman" under her picture with a bunch of emojis and then upload it.

"Ugh!"

"What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know what to do with my hair!" She pouts at me. I look around my phone at her and see her big, poofy curly afro.

"Leave it like that."

"But it looks bad." She sits at the foot of the bed and grabs her phone.

"No it doesn't." She just blows at me and lays down on the bed.

"I will braid your hair for you." I lay down on the bed by her head and I start picking up pieces of her hair. Lord knows I don't know how to even comb a black woman's hair. How am I going to braid it?

"You don't know how to braid."

"Yea, you right. There is a first time for everything though."

"Not on my head." She swats my hand away and I just laugh and mess with her hair. I'm not going to screw her up like that. I pick up my phone and roll my eyes.

"Remind me to never post a picture of you on my i********: again." I just lay my phone down from all the damn notifications.

"Why?" She looks up at me.

"All these notifications blowing up on my phone just because 'you're so gorgeous' or 'OMG, she is so pretty' is nerve wrecking." She hits my arm and laughs at me.

"No need to be jealous. At the end of the day you have the real copy." She pokes my cheek and I just smile at her. "Are you hungry?"

"Yea, you making us go swimming has me craving a little something." She hits my arm again and I just laugh. She gets up off the bed.

"Now you know, it was your crazy ass that jumped in the pool, with us both!" She walks towards the door.

"No proof!" She licks her tongue out at me before she leaves the room. I just lay on the bed messing with my phone. Syd's phone keeps vibrating, so after the fourth time I just pick it up to see who it is. I pick up her phone and all the messages are from the same unknown number. What the hell?

I slide the unlock button, put in her password, and go straight to her messages. I press the unknown number and start reading the messages.

Syd, I don't know why you won't answer me. All I have been doing is showing you how much I love you, and all you are doing is ignoring me. I don't want to be mad at you. I consider you my best friend.

YOU ARE A SELFISH b***h AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I EVER LOVED YOU!

I'm sorry, I should not have raised my voice like that. It is so rude of me. I just care about you so much, and it is breaking my heart that you won't even talk to me. Plus, where are you? I have not seen you come from your house, or go in your house for about two weeks now. Are you ok? I am worried about you.

SYDNEY SERENITY WILLIAMS I...I...I miss you :'( I need you to come back. Chicago is boring as fuuuuck without you here to keep me company...

I've had enough. That last text just really threw me over the cliff. She told me this had stopped. She lied to me. I don't understand why. How am I supposed to help her with s**t like this if she won't even come tell me about what is happening? I am now sitting up hunched over the phone.

"Babe, Andie wants to know what you want from that little Japanese restaurant up the street. Her treat since it is our last night here." I don't even answer her. Forget food right now.

"You told me this had stopped."

"What?"

"I turn to look at her."

"The messages, Syd. Why didn't you tell me they were still being sent?" I walk up to her and I hand her her phone and she doesn't even grab it from me. She just looks up at me.

"Look Dominic, I can explain."

"I'm listening."

"I just didn't want to worry you about it! They are never going to try anything. They too much of a punk, besides I would have said something if things got out of hand."

"Syd, I don't need to know when things get out of hand, I need to know before so that I can expect anything! What if you get snatched, how am I supposed to know that is what happened if I don't even know that you are being stalked by some psychopath. I just think that everything has stopped and that you are okay, but NO it's not okay because you are still being bothered and I don't know s**t!"

"Okay, I'm sorry. I was not thinking straight, okay? Please just calm down. This is exactly why I was afraid to tell you in the first place."

"No, I can't calm down, because I'm upset now. This is not cool, I cannot believe you didn't tell me. I thought we told each other everything! But apparently not. This is no small thing I can just pass over. How do you know whether they are dangerous or not? Have you read their messages? They are watching you, Syd. You and your family."

She comes up and hugs me, and I know I am pissed at her, but I hug back anyways. "Never again alright? Never again. From now on you will know about every text, and if things start changing up, you will get whatever happens between me and this person. Just don't stay mad at me." But I am still mad. Her head is just so thick sometimes! Can't tell her anything! I kiss her forehead to calm her down some.

"Come on, lets go get some food." We walk out of the room and into the kitchen. The smell reminds me how hungry I am. I grab a plate and dig in. We all sit around in the living room and while everybody else is talking, I just eat. I don't have much to say. This whole stalker s**t is already messing with my head. I need to calm down. It's hard to focus on anything else.

"Aye, look y'all see you in the morning. We are going to bed early, goodnight." Everybody goes silent as I get up and grab Syd's hand and pull her towards our room. Yea, I am still mad, but she should know why.

She doesn't protest when I pull her into the room and she goes and sits on the bed as I shut the door. I go and sit beside her.

"Syd, yea I am mad. But only because this is serious, and I feel like I am here to protect you. Ya know? And anything that stops me from doing that makes me mad. I'd die for you girl, you don't even know how serious I am when I say that. The fact that somebody is out there messing with you just makes me even more mad, and they do not want me to find them first. You understand?" She looks at me and gives me a kiss.

"Yea, I get it and I really am sorry. I just hate to see you worrying all the time. You know I care about you too, and I thought I was just looking out for you. I want to protect you too, ya know? You don't have to be the only strong one." She starts picking at her fingernails and all of a sudden I feel all bad. Ugh, Syd don't do this to me.

I pull her onto my lap and make her face me. "Okay, baby I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry more." She looks at me. I just shake my head.

"What am I going to do with you girl?"

"Lock me in your basement and never let me go?"

"Sounds more and more tempting every time you offer." She just snorts at me. "Aye, look at me." She looks up and I mouth 'I love you' to her. She grins and mouths it back.

I love her hard headed ass.

I really do, but I'm scared. Scared I'm going to go to jail for murder because someone is messing with my baby.