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“Nina why you ain’t call me.” Preacher asked me.
”You have your own life. You told me you don’t have time to keep saving me all the time remember.” I said.
”Athena you know I ain’t mean that shit. You know you’re all I got. I would drop the whole world for you.” Preach said but I ignored him.
I walked away and went into the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror . I knew I was better than this. I knew I deserved better than this but when a man is powerful it’s hard to step away. Kole really did a number on me this time. When I first met Kole he was everything I wasted in a man. He wanted to take care of me he wanted to make sure I was good. After a year the cheating started and the first time I left and made him work to get me back. That just made him do shit more slicker. It was years before I found out about the first baby by the time I met Tripp he had four kids on me by four different woman. Now here I was number five and it made me sick. Kole has been putting his hands on me the last three years. I told him about me and Tripp during a heated argument. It was like after that he turned into a demon. It started by him grabbing me up. Then it turned into hits and then he was drugging me to rape me. I swear I felt like it was hell. Lately he had me locked up in a dog cage and burned me with cigarettes. When I didn’t listen to him he whooped my ass with a belt and that was on a good day.
“When you catch Kole I wanna be there.” I said from the bathroom. I turned off the light and preacher was still sitting there on my bed.
Preacher was like my big bother. The things we went through as kids should’ve killed us but we found a way out but lately he’s been letting his little wife get between us. I loved that he was able to keep his faith because even I was on the border line. Some days I felt like it was something out there and then other days I feel like god has punished me for being born. His wife hated me and she made it known but lately he hasn’t been speaking up about it. We got into one day and he said some real hurtful shit so I let him do him. Live his life with his little church wife.
”I can’t let you do anything. Let Tripp take care of it. Let him take care of you.” Preacher said.
“He was suppose to save me the first time.” I said laying back in the bed.
”Just let him do things please. It’s you over everyone.” He said putting his hand out. We did our handshake and he left. I closed my eyes and I let sleep find me for a while.
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