Sour or Sweet

five.

Omniscient

Dallas, Texas
2020

Kailani looked at Bri in disbelief while Keria shook her head. "So, you mean to tell us, it's been a week since you've replied?"

It had been a couple days since Brielle bumped into Cameron at the pop-up shop. Yes, you guessed it. That was who she bumped into on her way out of the bathroom.

Somehow, he had managed to get a conversation out her. Which was not only shocking to her, but to her sisters as well. He asked for her ten but instead of giving out her personal number, she gave him her business line. Brielle told him to only contact her during her business hours. Which was no use, because they talked from sunup to sundown.

She learned that he is twenty-three years of age, attends the same school as her, and that he is the star wide receiver majoring in Architectural Engineering with an emphasis in Real Estate.

As their conversing progressed, Cameron asked her on a date. That was a week ago and she has yet to reply. She wouldn't be surprised if he didn't want anything to do with her.

Little did Bri know, her sisters were hot on her tail. "Bri bitch, you not making sense to me. You are always hollering you want somebody but do not give anybody a chance. You and this sour ass attitude got to go."

Bri looked at her sister Kailani with a jaded expression on her face.

"You do know everybody is not Tylan right?" Keria looked at Bri with a soft expression. Keria knew what the issue at hand was because she knew her sister like the back of her hand. Bri chuckled slowly.

"I know that." Bri shook her head on the verge of tears. If only her sisters knew.

"So why won't you give Cameron or anybody a chance?"

Bri shook her head and her tears eventually rolled."Because I'm fucking traumatized and scared okay! Tylan didn't just cheat on me."

Bri chuckled and licked her now salty lips from her tears. "He raped me. Ok?! He raped me. He fucking raped me!"

Kailani and Za'Keria watched their sister scream out in terror.

"I know every nigga is not the same, but I can't process the thought. I am traumatized to the point where niggas make me uncomfortable! I do not like being around niggas longer than I have to. Tylan took a piece of me the night he took my innocence away from me." Bri wiped her face but the tears just kept rolling.

"Every guy that I have encounter, I pushed them away because I'm scared. I have built my guard up around me and I don't know how to let it down. I want to but I am scared you guys. I am scared. So, excuse me for my sour ass attitude." She looked up at her sisters with a clouded vision.

Kailani stormed out of the room and Za'Keria slowly climbed in the bed and took her big sister into her embrace. Keria wiped Bri face. "That's why you're so mean to every guy you come across. I am so sorry you had to go through that mamas. I'm so sorry."

Keria rocked her back and forth, soothing her. All you heard throughout the room was Bri's sob and Keria's sniffling. Bri's crying eventually stopped and she was slowly on her way to sleep. Keria wiped Bri's face and positioned her body to the point that her head was in her chest.

Kailani finally walked back in the room all red in the face with puffy eyes. "Bri."

"Shh. She's sleep." Keria shushed Kailani as she climbed into the bed, laying her head on Bri's thigh.

"I just put a price on Tylan's head."

Keria's eyes went wide as she whispered-yelled so she wouldn't wake Bri. "You did what?!"