Page 62 of Her Loyalty

"And even then I feel this way, I just try my hardest not to because I know that you don't feel the same." I expressed and he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

"I don't feel no ways about it. I can talk to you like the homie and feel completely normal." He said and though it's been four months, I had to admit hearing those words hurt me.

"Shit cool for me." He went on, making me roll my eyes.

"Yeah, you've stated that plenty of times."

"I know that you no longer feel anything for me on a relationship level.." I trailed off, tired of his nonchalant attitude when it came to this subject.

"But that doesn't change the way I feel. You asked formyfeelings so let's not make it about you." I rolled my eyes, looking away from him.

"Whatchu gettin' mad for though?" He knitted his eyebrows as I sat back in the seat, sighing.

"It ain't even that deep, T." He went on.

"I'm not getting mad. I jus-"

"Nothing, lets just drop it, Dominic. I'm not in the mood for this conversation."

"Today's going good, let's keep it that way." I dismissed him.

"Aight, coo." He said and I scoffed to myself, looking down at my hands again.

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2am

"Stop." I drunkly ran away from Dominic as I held the bottle of Hennessy in my hand.

We were supposedly having a graduation party back at his place but it oddly ended up being just me and him. And this bottle of Hennessy of course, that I was currently on a mission to finish to completion.

"Give me the fuckin' bottle, Tiana. You had enough." He spat at me as I ran away from him.

"No." I whined playfully. I hadn't even had that many shots but he figured since his scrawny ass got drunk quick that I was a light drinker too.

"Why should I even give it you? You've had way more than me." I joked and he couldn't help but to laugh.

"You can't be trusted with it either." I continued to run away from him.

"Man, Tiana.."

"Give me the damn bottle, ma." He laughed hard as I finally plopped down onto the couch, tired of running and he ended up doing the same.

"See now I'm tired because you want to play all night." I joked with him as he smirked, looking up at the ceiling.

We sat there in silence for a while as my mind drifted off to the good times before all of the bullshit went down. I was sure his mind was on something completely different, considering he had no feelings toward me anymore.

"I missed you, T." He ended up blurting out and I furrowed my eyebrows, not sure if it was the drink talking or him.

"You missed me?" I asked again, just to make sure he was serious and he nodded slowly.

"I missed you, T." He said again seriously, looking over into my eyes.

"I missed you too." I admitted, looking into his eyes as well for a moment before we both turned our heads back toward the ceiling.

Saying nothing else, we sat like that for at least thirty minutes. Just staring up at the ceiling as if it would talk to us and give us the answers to all of our problems.

Breaking me away from my daze, I felt Dom's hand on top of mine. He didn't say anything or break his daze with the ceiling while he did but I ended up looking down and attaching my hand to his.

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