**** Y'all better stop leaving out of classes and stuff to cry over this book. Otherwise some of y'all gon be expelled in real life lol. But I love y'all, so stop saying because I did that to Aug in the last chapter it means I don't.
I promised a happy ending, but I didn't say it would be easy getting there loves. Keep the faith.
Dominic in m/m.
AUGUST P.O.V. –
I woke up to somebody softly kicking me with their foot. I opened my eyes looking around trying to see where I was at. I wiped my hand down my face and squinted through the light, at the sight of some nigga standing in front of me.
“I need to get behind here bruh.”
I looked to both sides of me and saw that I was sandwiched between two washing machines.
“My bad.” I stood up. My clothes that were so neat from earlier were obviously dishelved, and an empty bottle of Hennessey was at my foot.
“You aight bruh?” The dude asked me. I then realized it was the plumbing nigga.
“Ye…yeah I’m good.” I picked up the empty bottle.
“I thought you was dead for a minute.” He laughed. “I kept telling you to wake up and you didn’t.”
“What time is it?” I realized I didn’t have nothing on me. No phone. No keys. No nothing.
“Uhh about midnight.”
“Midnight? Damn. How long I been down here?”
“I just came down here. No clue bruh. No clue. ” He pushed the machine out so he could get to the back.
I felt a rumble in my stomach.
“You good?” He looked at me with furrowed eyebrows.
I threw up right on the floor where I was. I knew it was the whole bottle of Hennessey I drank.
“Ahh shit.” He looked at his pants leg that was covered with my throw up.
“My bad.” I said trying to catch my breath, but more came out.
“Nigga!” He stood up disgusted.
I held my stomach to make sure no more had to come out. It was mainly liquid because I hadn’t eaten anything all day. He went to a closet, got out some gloves, paper towels and cleaning solution.
“I ain’t the janitor bruh. You gon have to clean this up.”
I took it from him, got on my knees and started cleaning it up. He ran water in a sink in the laundry room, wet a towel and cleaned off his pants.
“You better be glad I ain’t got on no good shit. What the hell is wrong with you? Why you down here anyway?” He said cleaning off his pants.
“I can’t go home right now man.” I looked like a total bum. I had throw up all on my shirt and pants. My entire outfit was wrinkled. My hair was even a mess.
“Cheating?” He looked over at me.
“Why a nigga always gotta cheat? No. I don’t cheat on my girl.”
“She kicked you out?” He cut off the water and threw the towel in the trash.
I shook my head. “Nah.” I stopped cleaning and sat down with my knees up and put my arms over my knees.
“I got expelled from school man.”
“Damnnnnnnn. What you do?”
“The dentist I worked for lied on me to save her ass. So not only am I out of a job, I’m out of school too and I don’t know how to tell my girl.”
“It seem like she trust and support you. Just from the little interaction we had. She talked about you a lot.” He looked behind the washer machine he was working on.
“Yeah man.” I sighed. “But it’s like, ever since we met she’s always helping me fix my shit. Saving me. And I just get tired of always having to ask her to help me.”
“I see where you coming from bruh, but you in a relationship. She supposed to help you.”
“Well I tried to do it on my own this time and the shit got me expelled.”
“Like they didn’t know the lady lied?” He moved some chords around.
“I don’t know. When I walked in and saw it was a room full of niggas who didn’t look like me, that’s when I knew I lost. Nigga out the hood. Got it out the mud. They don’t respect that.”
“For real, for real.” He took a screw driver out his tool box.
“You gotta go home at some point tho bruh.”
“I know and I’m dreading that shit.” I scratched my head.
“She probably scared out her mind, wondering where you are?”
“Fuck. I ain’t even think about that.” I sighed and shook my head. “This entire day has just been fucked up man. I just wanna go under a rock, hide and not come out.”
“I wish I knew what to tell you bruh. I don’t even know.” He unscrewed something.
“It’s cool. It’s my own fault.” I finished cleaning up the mess.
He stopped and looked at me for a minute. “You wanna work? Buy you sometime until you tell her. That way she won’t get suspicious you just being in the house?”
I thought about that for a second. It did sound like a good plan.
“Working doing what?”
“My nigga Camp, he a manager at the movie theater. If I call him up he can get you a job collecting tickets or doing concessions. I know it may seem beneath you, you being educated and all, but it’s the least I can do to help. On top of that, I saw how you fixed that sink in your bathroom so you can’t do what I do.” He chuckled a little.
“Yeah you right.” I gave a half smile. “Nah man, whatever. I ain’t complaining. I got a daughter so making extra money won’t hurt.”
“I’m sorry that had to happen to you bro. Your girl a lawyer right?”
“Yeah.”
“She any good?”
“What the fu…what you mean is my girl good? Hell yeah, she one of the best.”
“Just cause she a lawyer don’t mean she good.”
“Nigga, chill with that. My woman was one of the top lawyers in Georgia.”
“Why you didn’t ask her to help you then?”
“Like I told you not wanting to be a burden, and then she not licensed up here so she couldn’t help me if she tried.”
“Oh.” He shook his head understanding. “Well I’mma call him tomorrow, then I’ll hit you up.”
“Aight, cool.” I finished cleaning up and threw the paper towels away.
I washed my hands in the sink and put the cleaning materials back in the closet.
“What’s your name again?” I asked him.
“Dominic.”
“I’m Aug.”
He stood up.
“I appreciate this man.” I dapped him up.
“No problem bruh. What’s your number?” He pulled out his phone.
“404-256-4545.”
“Aight. You keep your head up.” He said putting my number in his phone.
We dapped one more time, I thanked him, then left out.
I found all my belongings on the front seat of my car, which I left unlocked. What the hell was I thinking?
I got them and made the slow walk to the apartment. I opened the door and saw Amber who had been crying, laid up in Stacy’s lap.
“Nigga where the hell were you?” Stacy sat Amber up and went over to me.
“Stac move man. I ain’t on that shit right na’.”
“You smell like throw up. Yuck.” She held her nose.
“We were worried about your dumbass you know that. Amb kept calling you. Then called us to saying she hadn’t seen you since this morning. Travis is in the car right now looking for you. I gave him a list of places to look. You better not have been with no bitch.”
“Stac move man.” I proceeded to take off my dress shirt.
Stacy called Travis to tell him they had found me.
“Where were you baby?” Amber wiped her eyes and looked at me.
I sat on the couch next to her.
“I wanted to surprise you that’s why I didn’t tell your earlier. But I did go on a job interview and I got the job.”
“Really?” She smiled.
I smiled. “Yeah.”
“Where at?”
“A dentist office uptown. He wanted to take me out for drinks afterward. We ended up getting pissy drunk, that’s why I look a mess.” I laughed.
“I’m so proud of you baby.” She clapped excitedly. “What I tell you?”
“You did tell me. I thank you for always believing in me.” I pecked her lips.
Stacy looked at me with a face I knew too well. She didn’t believe me. Not even a little bit. I tried to ignore her evil stares she was throwing my way.
“I got my job too baby.”
“Forreal?”
“Yeah. I think its going to be really good. I get a chance to help people in a major way.” Amb was so happy. Her face lit up.
“I’m proud of you.” I moved her hair out her face.
“I’ll run you a shower okay?” Amb kissed my forehead, then went in the room.
“You are a fucking liar.” Stac said real quiet, but stern enough in my ear.
“Get out my fuckin face.” I pushed her away and stood up.
“You fucking around on Amb?”
“Yeah and my side bitch pussy good too.” I took off my pants.
“I don’t know what you up to, but whatever it is, I have lost all respect for you.”
“I don’t live for your fucking respect.”
She gave me an angry look, her chest rapidly moving up and down. I knew she wanted to hit me, but instead she just shook her head.
“All Amber does for you. You disgust me.” She left out the apartment and slammed the door.
“What’s wrong with her?” Amber came in the doorway.
“Don’t know and don’t care.” I took off my beater.
“Well your shower is ready.” She took my dirty clothes.
“Take one with me.” I wrapped my arms around her waist and bent down and kissed her neck. “Let’s celebrate. Fertilize some of them old ass eggs.”
She sucked her teeth and I laughed.
“Just for that no.” She tried to push me off.
I pulled her closer into me.
I don’t know how long I can pull this off, but I’mma try for as long as possible.