Page 24 of Her Loyalty

As I was about to finally speak, the doorbell rang over and over, making me sigh in both defeat and relief. At least I had a little more time to get prepare myself.

"Hol' on, baby." He sighed, making his way over to the door to see who it was.

"What's up, nigga?" One of his friends, Leek, came in with his other friend, Zay, right behind him.

"Ain't shit, what y'all want?"

"Where Dej at?" They asked as he now made his way back over to me.

"She upstairs." He told them and they made their way up there while Dom took a seat directly across from me.

"Aight, go ahead. You got all my attention na', baby." He went onto say, removing the already rolled blunt from behind his ear and patting his pockets for a lighter.

Realizing this might be easier if he was high, I waited a while for him to find it then watched as he sparked it when he finally did. He then took a long pull from it, watching me the entire time.

"So I'm guessing whatever you about to say to me got you scared.." He trailed off, blowing the smoke out.

"What do you mean? Why you say that?" I asked stalling with questions and secretly hoping Dej didn't already tell him.

"Because you still ain't said a word, T." He spoke softly.

"That's because I'm just trying to find the right words." I admitted and he just looked into my eyes.

The room went quiet again as he looked at me and I looked down at my hands.

"Lemme ask you this.." He spoke up, taking another long pull.

"Did I slip up and put a baby in you?" He went onto ask, throwing me all the way off.

"Wait, huh?"

"Is you gon' have my baby?" He asked and I couldn't help to laugh at how wrong he was and he ended up doing the same.

"Look I'm just asking, bae. That's the only thing I can think of that would have you scared like this." He said as the guys came flying back downstairs with Dej right behind them.

"Yo, Dom. The bros and the hoes about to slide." Dej interrupted, making him furrow his eyebrows.

"Hol' on, ma."

"What?" He asked, turning around to look at her.

"You heard her. We bout' to have a orgy in this bitch." Leek joked, making everybody laugh.

"Nah. We just about to chill out and fuck with these hoes for a minute."

"Na', I ain't feeling that. T here.." Dom trailed off, turning back around to look at me.

"Tiana ain't no damn baby. She already know how we get down in this household." She joked before they all walked outside and he angrily licked his lips

"Come on, baby. We gon' upstairs to talk." He nodded his head toward the staircase and I simply nodded, just buying myself more time.

As we made our way upstairs, I became more and more nervous to tell him anything. I could feel myself chickening out. I really couldn't do this. I was beginning to think of all the things that could happen after I told him and I just wasn't ready for any of it. But, I knew holding onto the information came with more and more consequences the longer I held it in.

I was simply stuck in the middle.

We finally made it to his room and he closed the door behind us as we walked in. Walking over to the bed, I sat down and blurted out the first thing that came to my mind.

"Babe, my mom doesn't want us to be together." I told him, sitting on the both of my hands from nervousness.

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