Unspoken Words ( Norminah )

Eight

I walked into my house after a long joyful night with the biggest smile I think I have ever formed before on my face.

I slipped my shoes off by the door while pushing it shut softly, I placed my thin jacket onto the coat hook before proceeding on my way up the stairs. As soon as I walked by the living room entrance I felt someone grab my arm startling me, I closed my eyes tightly before slightly turning to face the intruder just to see it was my mother with an unpleasant look on her face " Who do you think you are Normani " she tighten her grip on my arm stepping closer towards me " Do you see what time it is or are you blind too now? " I looked at her double blinking while trying to hold my emotions under wraps. She would be the one to tear me down right after having Dinah spend the whole entire day building me up.

I pulled my arm towards me gently thinking that would cue her to to let my arm go but all it did was make her grip onto it harder causing me to close my eyes for a second or two before opening them back up to see her looking directly at me " You think you somebody cause you got somebody that claims they like you " I look at her weirdly not understanding how she knew about Dinah " You think cause you're deaf I'm dumb huh, well I'm not you were such in a rush to leave earlier you left your laptop opened with your emails up " she spoke fast not really caring if I caught what she was saying or not.

I just looked at her not really feeling hurt because I was numb to all the insults and threats due to the fact she's done that my whole entire life especially after my dad died.

Me zoning out into my own thoughts caused her to grow angrier, she gripped onto my arm tighter this time causing me to hiss lowly under my breath " This stops right now I don't won't to hear nor see anything else about this Diana Or whatever her name is character again, I make the decisions around here you'll be with who I want you to be with and that's that " she spoke forcefully throwing my arm down. I stood there and watched her walk away while rubbing on my arm for what seemed like the eighth time this month.

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" You gonna tell me what happened " I looked at Normani as she sat across the small diner table with her arms crossed.

I reached over and touched her hand just for her to yank it away and look towards the window. It had been three days since I had seen her and all my emails had went unanswered and I just knew deep down within how we left off that night that everyday after was going to be prefect but boy was I wrong.

I watched her just look out the window with not an ounce of emotion on her face, I couldn't take just sitting there with her not talking to me any longer so I got up from my sit and walked over to her side of the table.

Her eyes never once left the one spot she was staring in, I kneeled down in front of her taking one of her soft hands into my own.

She finally brought her eyes down meeting mines and just stared, she slipped her hand out of mines and began fiddling with her fingers while chewing on her bottom lip letting me know something was on her mind " We can't see each other anymore " she finally picked her hands up out of her lap signing causing my heart rate to increase " Why not? " I asked trying my hardest to keep my eyes on hers.

She just looked at me trying not to blink scared that the tears that may fall down her face will ruin her hard exterior she was trying to keep, I dropped fully to my knees starting to feel undefeated like all my hard work was starting to go to waste.

I casted my eyes down to her lap not really sure where I had went wrong, I was starting to get up not wanting to look how I felt which was like a fool. Until I felt a pair of smaller hands on both sides of my face causing me to look up.

Normani looked at me with the softest pair eyes while rubbing her thumb against my cheek " I'm not doing it to hurt you I'm doing it to protect you " she removed her hands from my face signing " My mother is a very powerful and possessive woman " she paused chewing on her bottom lip " My mother already haves my life planned out for me in about another year or two I'll be married off to a rich doctors son " she zoned out looking straight ahead.

I could tell by the look on her face she was thinking about how unhappy she would be when that time came. I watched her fiddle around with her fingers again until I took both of her hands into mines and intertwined our fingers in between each other causing her to look back at me " I don't really care what anyone say I'm not letting you go " I stopped taking a deep breath.

" We're in this for the long run I mean I'm not kin to any rich doctors or anything but I am the daughter of a middle class mechanic " I spoke slowly smirking at the last part causing her to do the same.

I wasn't really into track or field or anything but it wasn't one hurdle I wouldn't jump over for her and I was willing to do everything in my power to get her to see that. Even if it meant getting hurt in the process.

I'm glad you called the search off because I was getting ready to put your picture on every milk carton across the land 😂😂😂😂 I called myself using the best picture of you I could find. You didn't have your hair done in none of them sooo 🤷🏽‍♀️😩😂😂😂