About that Night

Chapter 14

 Our mouths go wide.

“Your joking-,”

“The baby’s name was Zara Massial Joon, and I told dad I had gotten Nessira pregnant, and her parents threw her out, so dad secretly had Nessira wait nine months and give birth to our dead baby. She died four days later due to what the doctor said was a premature mother, and then dad brought her to live with us.”

Talon shifts a little, not moving to slap Zaro because of Dori. “Zaro, you fucker! You guys have been f*****g and dating?!”

Nessira nods, burying herself in Zaro. Nessie’s speechless, so I am, but that has never stopped me from speaking.

“Zaro and Nessira, I get that we would have judged you at that time, but y’all should have told us at least when we moved out together! I mean, look at me, I got pregnant with a married man whose dead wife landed us here.”

“I didn’t want you guys to think I killed my baby when I didn’t mean to.” Nessira breaks down as Zaro embraces her.

We all join in.

“Never ever say that, Nessira.” I say softly.

At this point, we were all in one big group hug. The amount of stuff we didn’t know and how much we will learn is astonishing. Nessira is always so bubbly and happy, and I know that she got pregnant ten years ago, but she has such a fine body. I was always so jealous, and even more so after giving birth.

“My dad’s friend r***d me, and I got pregnant. He gave me two choices, abortion or adoption, and I chose adoption, so he took me on a ‘trip’ for three years, and I gave birth to my daughter, Hannelore. He gave me one month with her and took her away, only to get me pregnant again with a boy named Hazen, whom he also took away. I found out that he kept our children and is preventing me from seeing them because his wife is infertile, so I’ve only spent a month with my now two-year-old daughter and a month with my one-year-old son.”

We all turn and hug Nessie. Three years is not that far away, and with the way she’s been acting, I wouldn’t have known.

“Nessie, does Grayson know?”

Talon asks.

“No, everyone knows me as the tougher sibling, the one who takes no s**t. Imagine the surprise when I tell them that I got r***d two times!”

I shake my head. “No matter how strong you are, you still need to get that out and tell someone, even my dad got killed, and I saw him fight someone twice his size.” I giggle at the thought. Some guy was eyeing my mom, and dad beat the living hell out of him.

Nessie shakes her head. “My mom probably knows, but she won’t talk about it until I tell her, and my dad, I don’t want him to have a heart attack.”

Nessira sighs. “No, be glad your parents won’t judge you because mine did, and I haven’t seen them and my sisters in ten years.”

I place a hand on Nessie. “Nessie, if you tell your parents, you’ll be able to get your children back.”

Nessie lies on me and cries silently. We all do. Secrets came out in this small room, and there was nowhere to hide. We all just silently cry. It went on for hours on end, and then Dori woke up.

“No…” Talon pleads quietly while looking at me.

I sit next to her and Dori. “Hi, Dori, are you ok?” I whisper.

Dori looks around and buries his head back on Talon’s chest.

“Winston, he’s shaking.”

Nessira comes up and rubs his back. “Dori, you’re ok, and we’re all here.”

Dori shakes his head. “W-where’s daddy?” He cries.

“Baby, he’s at work.” Talon kisses him.

“Mommy, I’m scared! I don’t like darkness.”

Talon rocks him. “I’m here. Your aunts and uncle are here too. Don’t be afraid.”

Nessie takes her phone out of the mattress and hands it to Dori. “Why don’t you watch something? We’ll still be here, I promise.”

“P-promise?”

Nessie nods.

“We promise, buddy.” Zaro pitches in.

Dori takes the phone and starts watching Peppa Pig as Talon calms down.

“Where’s Grayson? He’s supposed to be here.”

Nessie shrugs and sighs. “I don’t know.”

“It’s been ten hours. Your phone’s not gonna last.” Zaro crosses his arms in annoyance.

Nessira rubs Zaro’s head as Nessie shrugs.

“Dori needs the phone, and if I call Grayson, the battery will run out faster. It was at 78% when I gave it to Dori, so let's wait another four hours? I think.”

“Grayson needs to run his ass over here. How was it that he f****d my sister so quickly without thinking, but now he can’t save her as fast as he cheated on Kiki with her?” Talon sneers.

Nessie scoffs. “Look, him rushing is what’s going to get him stuck in here too.”

I nod. “Plus, leaving Micah and Rosa by themselves could get them abducted too.” I add on.

“We understand your son’s life is in danger, but we have to think carefully,” Nessira says calmly.

Zaro looks at Nessira’s hair and takes something from it.

“What the-?”

“Look, Nessira! You smart asshole!” Zaro lifts up a pin Nessira had in her hair.

“Why did you take a pin out of my hair?! What the hell are you supposed to do with it?”

Zaro shushes Nessira. “I can pick the lock with this. I used to pick the locks on my brother’s room to get lunch money.”

Talon and I snicker. Oliver and Benjamin would always get so enraged when their money went missing but couldn’t find the culprit.

“Oh great, now you’re a stealer.” Nessira giggles.

“No, I was a broke student with brothers that had obese wallets; well, I can’t really say they were rich back then.”

Everyone laughs as Zaro picks the lock for about three minutes, and it clicks.

“Did it open?!” Talon gets up.

Zaro smiles. “Oh f**k yeah.” He pushes the door open.

We all celebrate quietly so they won’t hear us.

We walk across the hallway before Talon stops. “How the f**k did we forget?” She curses.

“What? Dori is right here.” I say.

“Nessie had a phone, and we didn’t call the police.”

“Oh s**t!” Nessie grabs her phone from Dori and apologizes. “f*****g three percent,” Nessie dials 911 and someone answers. “Yes! Hello?” Nessie pauses. “My friends and I have been kidnapped, we managed to get out, but we can’t get out of the house!” Nessie chews on her nails as we all anxiously look at her. “The address? 8754 Livings lane-,” Nessie looks at her phone and puts it back on her ear. “Hello?! s**t!”

“What?!” Nessira snatches the phone and groans.

Zaro leans in. “The phone is dead?! How in the f*****g fuckity f**k did that happen?!” I lean on the wall.

Where is Grayson?!

Before we can start moving, we hear footsteps. We hastily walk the other way, but Zac appears.

He smiles and opens his arms wide. “Wow, what did I do to find a bunch of hot girls in my hallway?!”

I sneer at him. “We’re women, and as you can see, there are two boys in here.”

Zaro hisses. “Bruh, why do I gotta be a boy? I’m a man.”

“Stop being ghetto, Zaro.”

Nessira rolls her eyes. “Look, rich white boy, we aren’t here to be your s*x toys, and I have a boyfriend.” Nessira pulls Zaro to her front.

Zac scoffs and laughs as his armed bodyguards come around him. “You know what, you seem like my sister’s type, if she doesn’t like you, she’ll f**k you anyway to get a body count, but these-,”

“Ho-ho-hold up, what the f**k did you just say? I know this motherfucker didn’t just say his sister would f**k me like I was gonna let her. I’m a f*****g college student, but I can get real ghetto!”

Zac sneers. “If we see any resistance, the little boy will be hurt.” Talon holds on to Dori as she scowls.

“Fine then, I’ll sleep with you.”

Everyone gasps and looks at her.

“Talon, no-,” I try to stop her, but she cuts me off.

“I’ll sleep with you if everyone here is escorted out of here.”

Zac smiles and rubs her arm. “Of course, but I want Winston too. How about it? A threesome?”

I scoff, but Talon’s face pleads with me. She wants to save her son from being hurt, and I would do the same, so I nod quietly. “Great! Get moving, guys; show the rest of them the door.”

“Oh hell no!” Zaro tries to fight back, but he’s thrown like a ragdoll. After they were taken out, Zac showed us to his room. “After you, my ladies.”

“There’ll be no need for them to take another step towards your room, perve.”