You Deserve Better

? CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

"You saw who? the feds? who's after you?" I put a hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down,

"The feds..." He mumbles in angst under his breath, he blinks slowly before speed walking to the kitchen. He swings the cupboards open until he gets a glass and goes straight to the sink to fill it with water,

I follow his every step, picking up whatever mess he creates so my lady doesn't see it when she comes in... which prompts me to look at my watch another time noticing how she isn't here yet...

Zeph gulps the water down like he hasnt drank in the past 10 years, i couldn't be more confused right now.

"Okay you need to start talking right now because i need to know if i need to call somebody-" He slams the glass on the counter, his head up to the ceiling as he breathes in and out

"You're gonna think i'm tripping... and i don't even care-" he hunches his body over the counter rubbing his forehead

"Eh, i already think you're crazy so..."

"Look, He's real and he's not some barney character or some fictional person who smiles all the time and let's people step all over him-"

"WHO?!" I exclaim with my hands slammed on the counter, he looks up to me, walking to my side. My heart beats when i see his face relax into a smile

"Jesus." I-

I say nothing... because there is no words- Zephaniah saying Jesus is real? I slap a hand to my lips to stop myself from the laugh that bursts out of my lips. His brows furrow when my laugh gets ten times stronger-

"IM SERIOUS! He is real, i saw him!"

"You need to get off that zaza boy-" I tap his shoulder twice, it's not about Jesus being real or not that makes me laugh, it's the fact that Zephaniah is the one saying this. I mean i would expect this from eden or my father but Zeph?

What is happening to everybody?

"I haven't been smoking. That's you and your fathers addiction you idiot-" He chuckles pushing past me,

"So you're telling me that YOU saw Jesus? As in Jesus who is in heaven... you saw him?" My tone is full of warranted confusion, this sounds like a mental disorder to me but i know better than to say that to Zeph,

"Look i know it sounds crazy but i know what i saw, i know what i heard." He says as he goes to the kitchen table and sits down, it looks like he is in a constant mode of reminiscing over whatever he thinks he saw.

"Okay, I'm interested... explain. You've got 5 minutes." I pull out the chair and sit on it backwards leaning over to brace myself for whatever crazy explanation im about to hear from this man.

"You know i have been staying with Joel and his wife for a while now... they have been waking me up to pray and fast and all that for weeks now-"

"Mmhhmm." I say with a raised brow, Joel taking people into his home is nothing short of his character so i can't predict where this conversation is going so far.

"At first i thought it was crap, i mean praying you know i don't care about all of that i only did it because i needed a place to hide out for a while and if that's what i had to put up with for a free crib then whatever-" He continues without taking a single breath between his words,