Love Game

Love Game Pt.²

Alexis

(Recap)

"You obviously know that your father had physically abused your mother on more than one occasion, but you don't know when and why it started. " I sat all the way back and focused on what she was saying. I don't know why she's bringing any of this up anyway, Jose is in jail and Serenity is somewhere in Miami most likely living the good life as if she never had any kids. She hasn't checked up on us at all since we've been gone. "Okay....?"

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"I remember once upon a time your mother thought that her relationship with your father was perfect. Well, that all changed a little before your fifteenth birthday, when your mother found out your father had gotten two other women pregnant around the same time as her. "

My eyebrows arched at the mention of my father having more kids, that I never knew about, but I still didn't say a word. My eyes shifted around the room and landed on Alisha, who had came in to sit sometime earlier in the story. She looked lost, and almost as if she didn't want to hear "how it happened". We made firm eye contact and in a swift movement she was sitting right next to me. I grabbed her hand and squeezed it before tuning into the story again. "Your mother didn't take the news lightly and threatened to leave him . By your mother being so beautiful, it wouldn't have been too hard to pack her shit up and get a new man, Jose knew that so he figured that if she was ugly she couldn't leave. That's really when the physical abuse started, and for a while she took it, but then...On your fifteenth birthday, she finally made up her mind and got caught telling Alisha about moving to a new home. "

Right then, something in my head clicked, is that why he hit Alisha more than he did me? I looked over at Alisha for a minute wondering why she never told me about that little piece of information. It wasn't serious, but it could've been a piece to a puzzle or something I don't know. I just felt like I should've known. She looked back at me with a blank facial expression. I could tell that she didn't want to be here. I broke our stare down and looked at momma who was looking at Alisha also. "Alisha, are you okay? " "Yeah, I'm cool. I just don't care. They're a figment of my past that I really don't want to bring up. What's the point anyways?" I understood where she was coming from and it had me wondering whether or not I wanted to know 'how it happened'. "Well, there was originally something else that I wanted to talk to you guys about... and since y'all don't wanna know, I can skip ahead. We're all adults here so I want you guys to let me finish without any interruptions. I'll answer questions at the end." I then started to ask myself what she wanted to talk to us about. I was starting to get irritated and I don't even know why. I nodded my head signaling for her to continue; she did.

"I'm not gone sugar coat nothing, you girls have two brothers on your daddy's side that go by the names of Brandon and Christopher. Alexis your younger, and Alisha your older brother Brandon, got shot a couple days ago. He, he uh he didn't make it. He died last night from internal bleeding . " My eyes watered as I thought about the guy that Eric shot yesterday. I still couldn't get his face out of my head. It was stuck, and it was so weird considering that people can't normally feel for strangers. Maybe it was the way that he looked at me, like I should have did something. "Alexis?" Alisha and Lily called in unison. Alisha kissed my hand that was still connected to hers and asked the question that I wanted to know. "When will we meet our other brother?" And for the first time today I saw her smile. "You know him... We all know him. " Erfff? I rested my arms on my knees waiting for her to get to it already. I hated when people dance around the subject when they could've just spit it out already. "Who is he?" I asked impatiently. Lily gave me a look that told me to shut up, before continuing. "Damn y'all! I said Christopher I thought that would ring a couple of bells but I guess not. I need a drink." she said, before standing up to go to the kitchen. I licked my lips once I felt my blood pressure rising. She couldn't have told us this shit sooner? Got me feeling all stupid. Did she think telling us like that was gone be okay? I shook my head and stood up with my keys. I couldn't take this. I was under so much stress these past days and it wasn't good for me. "Where you going?" Alisha asked, standing also. "Ima head home ight? I can't take this bullshit. Too much is going on and on top of all that I watched a innocent man get killed and I did absolutely nothing! I could've prevented his death, but I didn't! I cheated on my boyfriend already with Michael! I graduate in three fucking days, I need a job! and I've known my brother since I was in high-school but nobody felt the need to tell me who he actually was. Buuut! I guess I'm fine! " I yelled, while tears threatened to fall from my eyes. I couldn't see anything, but I was sure that it was Alisha who had wrapped me into a huge, needed, suffocating hug. "Alexis....Do you think the man was, um do you think he was Brandon? " I sighed and shrugged. Thats been on my mind for the past fifteen minutes, the thought scared me honestly. I felt terrible it seems like I've been doing

stupid stuff all week. What's happening to me? "I don't know. Alisha I have to go." I wiped my tears and gently pushed her away from me."Okay boo, we not done talking about this though. I'm supposed to know this kind of stuff!" I attempted to smile, then walked out of the house. I pulled out my phone and texted Chris.

Me- we need to talk.. ASAP.

I didn't want to be alone, but I didn't want to be bothered either. I figured it wouldn't be a good idea to be by myself though so after texting Chris, I texted Tristan telling him that I was on my way.

Sorry for the short chapter, I've had the worst writers block ever!