Chapter Fifteen

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Trey

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Trey

I walked back downstairs to see all of our house guests except for Aunt Sandy sitting in the living room watching TV silently.

"Everybody good now?" I asked looking around.

"Trey, I'm sorry that I disrespected you and Cyn's house by cursing my aunt out..." Hen started.

I held up my hand up interrupting her, "Hen, you live here too. If you feel like she was out of pocket, then that's what it is. You ain't gotta apologize to me."

She nodded, "I appreciate you saying that."

"Do we need to have a private conversation? Cause I do want to know what all of that was about." I admitted.

She held her head back and fanned her eyes to keep herself from crying.

"We'll just give yall a minute." Rebecca, one of their cousins from NYC that was visiting said standing up.

"Right," my mama said getting up too, "we'll be outside if you need us."

Everyone else in the room followed suit and followed them outside leaving me, Hennessy, and Bully.

Hen sighed, "So where should I start? What exactly do you wanna know?"

"Clearly both of you have an issue with your father. What's up with that?" I asked.

She shook her head and laughed weakly, "Where do I even start?"

She took a few moments to get herself together before she explained how abusive her father was to her, Cyn, and their mother growing up.

Their parents were unhappily married for thirteen years.  Hen said her dad was a heroin addict as well as an alcoholic who made their lives hell. Most of their smaller childhood years, he only abused the mother, occasionally choking her out to where she almost died, blacking her eyes, even breaking her jaw one time because he assumed she was messing around on him.

The story was awful but it got worse when she started to speak about the things he started to do to them the older they got. She told me about the time he beat Cyn with a two by four when she made her first B in school. Then she told me about the time he had slapped her unconscious when he found out she'd kissed a boy for the first time.  To top it all off, she mentioned that one night, he'd come home high and drunk and sexually assaulted Cyn, thinking that she was their mother after walking in the wrong bedroom. It was that night that their mom decided to leave and moved in with Aunt Sandy. After being at Sandy's for a week, the mom came home from work and found the dad in bed with her, so at that point they moved into a women's shelter for a month before she was able to afford a place of her own. Although their mom ended up forgiving Sandy and dealing with her occasionally, she never forgave him and placed an indefinite restraining order on him.

Since that day he'd basically made Cyn have sex with him, the girls had never seen him again...until today.

As she spoke, I got more and more pissed, livid even. My entire body was shaking at the mere thought of him forcing himself on her.

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