|June 3, 1994|
Amayah

"Where were you?" Aaliyah asked as we walked down the hall. " I was with D." I answered she cocked her head to the side. "So.. you just decided to skip and not call?"

I sighed." I'm sorry, alright. Donald was at my house and he ate too much junk food and he felt sick. He wanted me to stay with him, so I stayed." I looked at her but she held look that told me that she wasn't convinced as she had her arms folded across her chest." I swear I wanted to call but I was too busy looking after Donald so I forgot." I shrugged as we still were walking down the hallway just a few steps away to making

She raised her brow." Look after him? What are you his babysitter?" She said before we stopped in front of our lockers to open them.

I shrugged as I was opening my locker." I'm not his babysitter but.. He is my boyfriend now, Li and I'm not ready to hear that is going to break up with me anytime soon."

She looked at me with a slight smirk." Oohh so it's like that, huh? Since when did you become Miss. Let me cater to my man?" She teased poking me on the side as I slightly jumped and pushed her hand away.

"Well you, Lisa and Tionne were always telling me how I need to take care if my man and how I need to cater to them and all that bullshit." I rolled my eyes before putting my books in my locker.

"Oh so you have been taking notes? Well just remember this. He isn't supposed to tell you or MAKE YOU take care of him. Y'know what im saying?" She said pursin her lips and pointed her finger at me. I nodded." Got it."

"So what you doing after this?" She asked smiling at me." Umm.. D is taking me somewhere." I said not looking at her but in the corner of my eye I see her smile slowly dropping and look away. "Oh."

I looked at her and frowned." Whats wrong?" I asked and she shook her head." Nothing its just.." she paused and I waited for her to continue." Don't get too attached to him.." She said. I furrowed my eyebrows wondering where is she going with this.

" I know you guys are already together but do you really know him?" She asked me me. I furrowed my eyebrows." We are still learning new things about eachother almost everyday." I said.

She nodded." Yeah I know I know but sometimes I feel like you are slowly forgetting me and Lisa." She said and I saw worry written on her face.

I laughed because I think she is being ridiculous." Will you stop worrying? I will not forget about you, guys." I took her hand in mines and assured her.

"Yeah right." She rolled her eyes." I won't." I reassured her before my phone started ringing."That's probably D calling me but i'll tell you what.. Tomorrow You, me and Lisa we gonna go to the movies, girls night. What do you think?" I excitedly clapped my hand together.

She nodded her head excitedly." But aye you promise you'll be there?" I nodded." I promise." I said before walking out of the school and sticking my hand inside my backpack and answered my phone on the way.

"Hello?"

"What took you so long to answer?" He said." I was talking with Aaliyah."

"Oh alright. I just wanted to call just to hear your beautiful voice." He said and I felt my cheeks slowly becoming hot." And I also called to tell you that I will be there to pick you up in about 20minutes. Just wait for me at the coffee shop."

"Alright." I said softly." Alright baby see you soon."

"D?" I said before we hung up.

"Yeah?"

"Your voice is beautiful too."

He chuckled." Thank you baby, now see you soon." We hung up and I started walking towards the coffee shop.

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I sat down behind one of the little round tables and just sat there watching people order something. I decided to take out my notebook and write something down just to kill time.

I hummed a little tune while writing and just blocked out everything that was happening around me. I really like the atmosphere, the smell of the pastries that just came out of the oven, the people just talking. Even though Im a person who likes silence when Im relaxing or just writing, I can't be fully comfortable without a little noise. I always turn on the tv just for a little backround sound.

I looked up for a moment and just to check if D is here but he is not here yet. I went back to minding my own business and started writing and thinking about life.

I want to be a singer. I should find a producer or a label so I can record a mixtape and release an album.. Or I could just find some great people to sing with and start a girl group. I want to perform in front of millions of people.. But do I have the balls to though, I want to-

"Is this seat taken?"

I looked up and saw a beautiful girl with beautiful baby blue eyes, straight shoulder length blonde hair and beautiful olive skin. I shook my head, letting her know that the seat is not taken.

I looked around the coffee shop to see if they were any empty seats she could've sat at but luckily I didn't see any.

"Poems?" She asked and my attention was on her." Huh?" She glanced at my notebook as she took her jacket off and hung it on the chair that she was sitting on." You write poems?"

I glanced down at my notebook and shook my head no. She nodded her head as I looked back down and continued writing and stopped when she spoke again." I know what you're writing?" She smirked and leaned closer to me as he propped her elbows on the woody table. I stayed quiet wondering why is she talking to me.

Nobody talks to me here.

"You writing songs." She said and grinned. I blinked fast." How do you know?" I furrowed my eyebrows looking at her suspiciously. She leaned back in her chair." I know that look from anywhere.. Eyebrows furrowed, pursed lips and your hands moving fast.. Thats a song writing face."

I raised my brow." Song writing what now?" She laughed." A song writing face!" She said excitedly." My ex used to have one of those."

"Your ex used to write songs?" I asked her as she got my curiosity. She nodded." Yup. Well he still does. He writes Love Ballads, sexy love making songs and other types of romantic shit."

"Oh thats cool." I nodded. She smiled and nodded." Mhmm and he used to have one of these 'private'." She air quoted." Listening parties at his friends basement."

"Him, his brother and two of his other friends started a boy band and now they're big."

I nodded with a cobfused look on my face." Yeahh, cool. May I ask why are you telling me this?" I asked and she laughed and I fought the urge to cringe at the sound.

"I just felt like telling you." She shrugged and smiled looking around the coffee shop as I focused back on my writing. She let out a satisfied sigh." It's nice in here, huh?" I looked back up at her again.

"Yeah." I said and looked back down at my notebook." I haven't been here in a long time.." she said. I didn't pay her no mind.

"You aren't much of a talker are you?" She asked as she cocked her head to the side.

Obviously, bit-

I shook my head. She nodded." Okay I won't talk then." She said sounding a little disappointed and threw her hands up in defence. I sighed before closing my note book and sticking it back to my backpack. Obviously she wants to talk to somebody.. and she picked me..

"Why haven't you came if you liked it here so much?" I asked her. She looked back up and I saw excitement in her eyes. I guess she was excited because I finally decided to talk to her.

"Well I had to move to another country for few years.. Just trying to start new life but then, things weren't working for me either.

"Oh what country was that?" I asked her.

"Ir-" She stopped talking as she looked past me. I furrowed my eyebrows. "You alright there?" I asked her.

She glanced at me before blinking quickly and she quickly put on her jacket and put on her hoodie."I-I need to go. It was nice meeting you." She said before quickly walked towards the exit. I watched her quickly walk away and run into D who was just walking. He got her before she could fall and she quickly snatched her hand away and walked out.

Weird....

Donald scanned around the shop before he spotted me and walked over to me. He had a puzzled look on his face. I stood up and got my jacket and put it on while staring at Donald who wasn't looking at me and was looking at the exit with his shades lowered I touched his face and made him look at me.

"You okay?" I asked him. He blinked fast." Yeah yeah I'm fine." He said and slid his shades back infront of his eyes before he grabbed my backpack and my hand and we both walked out of the coffee shop.

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"D.. Where are we?" I looked around. We are in front of some big venue. He parked the car and turned it off. " I want you to meet a few people." He said before getting out of the car and I got out too.

He grabbed my hand and lead me inside of the venue and I can hear music just booming inside. We walked in and I saw K-ci, Dalvin and Jojo singing as soon K-ci gave the band a sign to stop the music.

"DeVante why yo lanky ass always late?" He asked and D just ignored him as we walked towards them. "Oh. My.Gawd." K-Ci started slowly before he ran towards me and hugged me tightly. "I've never been so happy to hug my baby mama before. Now tell me.." He pulled away from the hug and stared at my face." Where the kids?" He asked before he was pulled away from me by Dalvin.

"Come on mann. I wanna hug her too." Dalvin said before giving me a warm hug. Then came Jojo and he gave me a hug too. "Aight yall niggas better back off of my girl." D pushed all of them away and I giggled because they all were acting so cute to me.

K-Ci held his hands up in defense." It ain't my fault she fine." He winked at me and that made Devante kiss his teeth. He turned to me and gave me a kiss." I need to rehearse, baby. If you get tired just tell me and i'll take you home alright?" I nodded as he stared at me in the eyes, as he softly caressed my chin before leaning in and our lips touch. Kissing me passionately my knees almost buckle but he held me close. I was gripping his leather jacket and before our kiss could've got intense...

"Amay- Thats just foul mann. How come you never kiss me like that?" I heard K-ci say and I immediately broke the kiss and and hid my face, feeling my cheeks flush.

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Sitting in the audience alone, just watching them perform, DeVante showing the band how to play and taking control, telling K-ci and Jojo how to sing a certain part in a song and he plays piano very beautifully, K-ci and DeVante fussing a little bit, Dalvin just laughing at everything and etc.

As I was watching them about 4 girls walked on the stage over to DeVante. They wore baggy clothes and high ponytails. One who was heavyset looked over at me before whispering to the other girls.

"Is that her?" I heard one of them ask." You sure thats her?" They whispered amongst eachother before DeVante walked over to me with them.

"Baby I want to introduce you to some people." He said as they stood now in front of me. "This is Melissa but we call her Missy, Lashawn, Shai and Shawna." They all said Hi.

I waved to them shyly." Girl you real pretty." The light skin girl who im guessing is Lashawn smiled at me." Thank you. All of you guys pretty too."

They smiled at me and said a little thank you except one who had her arms folded and held a mean mug and slowly chewed on her gum.

"You sing, right?" Missy asked, pointing at me. My head snapped to DeVante, he laughed." You think I forgot the time you suprised me?"

"Girl can we hear you sing?" Lashawn begged." Yeah can you sing for us?" The girls started to beg. I wanted to open my mouth to say something but nothing came out.

Suddenly my throat felt dry and I couldn't breathe, I felt like my stomach was doing flips and not in a good way."I-I umm.." I started and then looked at Donald and the smirk he had on slowly turned into a frown as he saw how uncomfortable I started to get.

"Umm ladies I need to talk to her for a minute." He said. They nodded understanding, except for the one who rolled her eyes and walked away with them. Donald took a seat next to me and held my hands.

"You alright?" He studied my face. I breathed out." I'm fine.. It's just, I get so nervous and I don't know how to act.I'm sorry." I apologized

"Nahh it's not your fault.." he sighed disappointingly." I kind of pressured you to do this and I don't want you to feel like that. Sorry." He apologized and covered his face with his hand.

I touched his back." Don't blame yourself for this. You didn't do anything wrong." I told him. He snapped his head to me and I was a slight taken a back by the look in his eyes. His eyes were red and glossy all of a sudden. "Yes, I do!" He raised his voice before looking around to see if anybody was looking at him because of his sudden outburst. Only his brother Dalvin was staring at him.

He spoke again but this time in a lower tone." Some way I always end up fucking up everything." He said not looking at me in the eyes. I took his face in my hands. "Hey look at me." He looked everywhere but me." D, look at me." He finally looked at me straight in the eyes.

"It's not your fault, alright? Stop beating yourself up because if this.." His eyes softened as he stared at me." It's not your fault, okay?" He nodded and I smiled before pecking his lips and caressing his face.

Everytime i'm with Donald he has his little moments where he just feels like lashing out. I have only seen a little bit of anger and I always get him to calm down but I feel like digging deeper. I want to know where does this behaviour come from.

While Amayah was calming Donald, she didn't notice that Dalvin was staring at Donalds behaviour and the way Amayah was handling him.

"Odd.."He said to himself.
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Im so sorry I haven't been updating. I just wrote this chapter quickly and is not proof read. I haven't been updating because I have been sick. Im going to try to update again this Saturday or next week.

This was boring but what did you guys think?🔥