He Could Be The One

13

Sydney

I woke up feeling good and well rested. I go to the bathroom, do my hygiene then go downstairs. I see Damian sitting by the island on his laptop and Keyshawn cooking breakfast.

"Good morning baby" I say to Damian. He doesn't reply so I go and kiss him, but he moves his face"What's wrong?" I asked. He has no reason to act like this and he really messing up my mood.

"Nothing, leave me alone" he says lowly.

"Bae tell m-"

"f**k Sydney, didn't I say leave me alone? So damn annoying" he yells without looking up from his laptop.

I stare at him for awhile, then go in the kitchen and get my breakfast.

"Good morning babes" I say to Keyshawn

"Morning baby girl" he says kissing my forehead.

I go upstairs with my food and watch some tv. When I'm done, I take my plate downstairs and wash it. I go back upstairs to call Audrey. I need a girls day out.

"Wassup babes" she answered.

"Get dressed, and come over"

"Ok but I gotta be back by 8. Keyshawn taking me out"

"Ok, I'll just find something to do for the night"

"Go out with Damian"

" I rather stay home alone. He been acting funny lately and I don't know why"

"We'll talk when I get there."

As I told Audrey everything from me getting shot at to Damian behavior, she didn't interrupt once.

"Damn, ok well you know Keyshawn not gonna let anything happen to you. Damian, I don't know. He probably shaken up because he don't want to lose you or have anything happen to you again" she says.

"Yea whatever. He doesn't have to yell at me over dumb s**t and he don't have to ignore me AND he don't have to hurt my feelings."

"Hurt your feelings? How he doing that?" She asked.

"You know how I get when I'm yelled at. I can't stand that s**t plus I'm emotional amd sensitive."

"True" she say nodding her head agreeing.

After a few minutes of silence Keyshawn walk downstairs.

"Hey baby" Audrey say poking her lips out for a kiss.

"Wassup" he say kissing her. " You had breakfast?" he asked.

"No, I was going to Ihop when I leave here"

"Yea lets go" he say. Audrey get up and followed Keyshawn out while waving bye and blowing kisses to me.

"Great now I'm alone" I say out loud. I turned on the tv and started watching Real husbands of Hollywood. I was dying, Kevin Hart all types of funny.

Damian came downstairs on his phone talking loud. I know he see me watching tv. Rude ass.

"Yea I'm about to slide. "

...

"Alright we'll get to work when I get there."

I didn't feel like staying inside all day.

" Can I come please? I don't want to stay inside all day" I said looking at him walk towards the door. He looked at me for awhile then walked out.

I walked upstairs, laid down and fell asleep since It's obvious I'm not going anywhere. I was awakened by soft kisses to my face. I open my eyes to see Damian.

Ugh..

"What" I say with attitude.

"I want to apologize for how I been acting"

"Ok. Can you leave me alone. I'm trying to sleep" I really didn't feel like being bothered with him.

"I'm not going anywhere till you forgive me."

"Why were you acting like that?" I asked. I sat up and looked at him as he ran his hands down his face and sighed loudly.

"I don't want nothing to happen to you. I told you that I will protect you and after we got shot at, I was scared that something might happen to you again. I love you and I need you. I been trying to find out who shot at us, but can't find the van. I don't want you to leave this house till Keyshawn and I find it. I been getting frustrated and been taking it out on you. I'm sorry" he said looking at me.

"I love you too." was all I said. He smiled at me and I smiled back. Damian leaned in causing his lips to brush against mine sending chills through my body. Just as he was about to kiss me, Keyshawn walked in.

"Ok, enough of all that. We got business to handle" he said. Damian sat on my bed and pulled me into his lap.

"I know what the van looked like, and the license plate" I said. Keyshawn and Damian both looked at me.

"Why you ain't tell us this before ?"Keyshawn asked.

"Well I tried, but Damien wanted to act like he knew it all. The color is black and it has a huge crack in the front window. And the license plate number is 090272."

"Iight, Damian we gotta bounce" Keyshawn said calling someone.

"Iight, aye baby I'll call you in a bit to check up on you" Damian said kissing my lips and following Keyshawn. I laid back down and started thinking.

They shouldn't be the ones looking for Jordan. He hurt me so I gotta find him for some type of closure. I text the only females I know would be up for a man hunt. Ashanti and Raven.

Me: I got a job for y'all. Y'all down or what?

Ashanti: Hell yea. When, where, and how

Raven: Girl Yess, wait we gettin payed right?

Me: Duh I'm paying y'all and be dressed in something comfortable but cute and we'll meet over at Ashanti's for the rest of the details

Raven: Ok, I'll be there

Ashanti: Damn that mean I gotta clean but ok.

I hopped in the shower and did my hygiene before finding something to wear. I decided on ripped acid high waist jeans, with a white fitted crop top with the batman logo on it and some black sandles.

I sprayed on some love spell, grabbed my phone and keys and left. I hopped in my car and drove to Ashanti house, but not before stopping by McDonald's.

I knocked on Ashanti door, and Raven answered. "Took you long enough damn" she said.

"Well hi to you too." I said passing her the McDonald's bag. "Now down to business" I followed Raven in the living room where Ashanti was waiting. I explained everything to them from the Jordan trying to r**e me, to him kidnapping me. Saying they were pissed was an understatement.

"Where this bum bump lookin ass nigga at? I just wanna blow his brains out first and ask questions later" Ashanti said. I wanted to laugh cause that made no sense but now wasn't the time.

"I know the plate number and how the van look. It's no guarantee that we will find him but we will find whoever work for him and can go from there." I said. They both nodded in agreement. "But first thing's first. .. We have to stop by my moms place"

We all grabbed a .43 and loaded up in my car and headed to my moms. As we drove there, it was quite. That gave me time to think things through.

We pulled up, and all got out the car. I was in front and as I walked up to my moms front door I saw the front door was cracked. I took out my gun, Ashanti and Raven following. I opened the door with the gun still ahead of me and walked in slowly.

"The f**k is that smell?" Raven said.

"Girl shut up" Ashanti whisper yelled. We kept walking, I went upstairs, Raven in the basement and Ashanti downstairs.

I checked the bathroom which was the last door upstairs, then heard what sounded like Raven scream. I rushed downstairs towards the basement. "What did u scre-" I looked down at What Raven and Ashanti were looking at.

On the ground was my mom, laid out in a pool of blood. Her face was unrecognizable and has bruises all over. I bent down and just looked at her. I didn't know how to feel.

How do you feel about the women that gave birth to you and loved you, but chose a man over you? How do you feel when a mother puts you out at 16 because she thought you wanted her man? A few tears escaped my eyes but I quickly wiped them. I'm done crying.

I stood up and turned towards Ashanti and Raven. "We need to find that van, then go to the place I was taken when I was kidnapped"

"That's going to be dangerous. We're going to need more girls" Ashanti said.

"Yea you right. Call Shirley, Sam, Audrey and Talitha." I said.