Protected
By Bebe Ernest
Episode 13 & 14
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JUSTICE.
I watch her sleep, she whimpers and smile in her sleep, so adorable, she rolls over into my che-st and her hair falls into her face.
I brush it out of the way and her she m0@n s, her hand goes to her stomach, she whimpers, i frown, what’s wrong?
I watch her for a while as she sleeps,
I think about what happened yesterday, after seeing Selene, I bec@m£ sick, I could not travel un-der that condition.
Seeing Selene always gets me like that, I mean I loved the girl for the better p@rt of 5 years.
I feel bile rise to my throat again at what she took from me, the bit-ch.
I feel my self getting worked up, so I rest back on the be-d, it won’t do me good to be sick again.
when she wakes, I instantly know, I close my eyes to see what she will do.
She sits up a little and pu-lls away, she goes to stand but I pu-ll her back, she squeals and turns as she falls on the be-d.
“Good morning”
I say and she winces, what? Was I that bad to her?
“Good morning sir”
I frown.
“Drop the sir thing, my name’s justice.”
Surprise flashes throu-gh her eyes , just as it does pain follows.
“What’s wrong?”
She shakes her head. “nothing”
“Don’t lie to me, itty bitty, what’s wrong”
She blus-hes and hides her face with her hair.
“I have cramps and my stomach is hurting me”
She says it in a rush, that it takes some seconds to un-derstand.
I wince, I know what a pain that could be, I always took care of julliet when she got her period.
“Lie back, give me some minutes.”
She does so while looking at Me like she is waiting for me to pounce on her, ok maybe I was really bad to her.
I stand from the be-d and I feel an headache Lance throu-gh my skull, I guess am not as ok as I thought.
I exit the room and walk downstairs to the kitchen, coughing all the way, I hate having the flu.
I open the fridge and I see some ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Rocky road, that’s julliet’s favorite, i dont know if she is one of those girls who feel better after they eat sugar, or if sugar makes her cramp more painful.
As I gr-ab this and some spoons I walk upstairs and a thought occurs to me.
She has never gone shopping, does she have sanitary pads?
I enter my room and I see her trying to make her escape.
“Thought I told you to stay on the be-d, itty bitty?”
She turns guilty eyes to me and clim-bs back on the be-d.
I climb in too, her eyes light up when she sees the ice cream, well I guess she is one of those girls that feels good after taking sugar.
I open the tub of ice cream and I hand her a spoon.
She takes a big bite and I feel it safe to ask.
“Do you have pads?”.
I should not have asked, I see that now, She starts choking on her ice cream and spew some everywhere.
Blood flows to her cheek in a severe blus-h as she cleans her mouth, I think she is shy.
She looks away.
“Well do you?”
She shakes her head no, I thought so.
“I was going to get yesterday, but…”
“You had to take care of me, has it started, I mean….”
I nod my head to the vicinity of her abd0m£n and she blus-hes again while shaking her head no.
I lean over her and gr-ab my cellphone, I scroll throu-gh my numbers and I see her looking lost while eating her ice cream, I gr-ab the remote for the big plasma in my room and I tune it to a telenovela.
She immediately starts watching, girls and this $h!t.
I dial my PA’s number.
“Good morning boss man”
Only Lydia can get away with talking to me like that, well seeing as she is 10 years older than me and I am a God father to both of her kids, I think she deserves some slack.
“I nee-d some pads lyddie”
I see magic glance at me.
I hear silence over the phone.
“Lydia?, Did you hear me?”
“Hear you loud and clear boss man, but am thinking if you nee-d some pad for writing or the girly kind?”
I like lyddie, I do, she is badas-s at her job and she takes $h!t from no b©dy, but right now she is getting on my last nerve.
“Lydia, get some tampons, pads, tissue, anything, I want it in my house in an hour”
I glance at magic when she tugs at my shi-t.
“Can she plea-se get the Always br@nd? and some pain relieve drug?”
I hear Lydia take in a de-ep breath on the other end of the phone.
“Boss man?……you have a woman with you? On a Saturday morning?”
I raise an eyebrow, what’s that supposed to mean?
“Lydia, just get the $h!t here, I know you heard her request”.
I disconnect, I know Lydia will either be here or she will s£nd a delivery guy, she is competent like that.
And also I pay her a ton of money for her to be at my beck and call even on weekends.
(Let me just say, arrogant much?-bebe)
I turn to magic and she is watching her show while eating her ice cream, I pu-ll her into Me as I settle back on the headboard, she stiffens but after a while relaxes.
I take my spoon and eat a bite of the feté, I grimace, how do girls stomach this $h!t?
She looks at my expression and giggles.
Ha, glad my plight looks funny to her.
After a while I feel rather than see her gather herself, as if she has something to say.
“What is it bitty?”
“What happened last night”
I tense, I don’t like talking about my weakness
. Selene.
“It’s ok if you don’t want to talk about it”
“I saw Selene on my way to the airport”
“Your girlfriend?”
I stiffen.
“That b**ch is not my girlfriend”
“Ok…..”
I sigh.
“Selene is my ex, when my sister julliet traveled to the states, I started d@t!ngher, I thought she was good, kind, wife material even”
She nods, I go on.
“I was wrong, i was so wrong”
“What did she do?”
I take a bite of the ice cream, I nee-d something Cold to clear the storm in my stomach.
“I found out she took money from my father”
She nods again.
“You see during that time, she told me she was pregnant, I was overjoyed, we were going to keep the baby, get married, but I had a crisis in my company at that time, I was just so busy, it looked like I might loose my company”
I feel her stiffen, she leans and place the tub of ice cream on the night stand, she turns her full attention to me.
“I think she thought I would loose the company too, I don’t know why she did it, her parents are very wealthy”
I feel pain run throu-gh me as I remember the day, the way I ran from the airport when I got the news from Lydia that Selene just left my father’s office and she seemed to be on her way to the hospital, and not for a check up.
Magic gr-abs my hand and I feel the pain fall back.
“Long story short, she took money from my dad, decided I wasn’t worth it, decided my baby wasn’t worth it so she ab-orted my seed.”
Tears fills Magic’s eyes , she clim-bs into my l@p and gives me a big hvg.
“I wanted that Baby with everything I had, she killed my child.”
I feel her tears soak my shi-t and I wonder, who is this girl that is crying for a child that is not hers?
Hurting for a man that was cruel to her.
“I channeled my anger into my company, a company my dad refused to help me salvage because it was left to me by my mother”
She shakes with great sobs.
“I am successful, I am great, I have everything now, any child of mine will never know suffer”
I stro-ke her head as she cries, I feel free, light even, I feel ok now that I have told someone about my Amelia, my baby girl.
Who is this girl?
This girl that gives of herself without wanting anything in return?
Who is this girl that has woken emotions inside me that I tried to ignore?
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MAGIC.
We spend all of Saturday and Sunday in be-d, only getting up to bath, eat or use the toilet.
We talked about everything and nothing.
How I want to go to school, my fashion designing dream, everything, he says he will look up some schools for me.
I didnt really hold that to mind, because it was at the same time
His PA brou-ght my stuff, I wanted to go get it but he st©pped me, saying something about gossipping and nosy as-s people.
It’s Monday, I have to wake up now, reality has set in, I wake up early and exit the be-d, before I leave he holds me back.
“Where are you going?”
He mumbled.
“I have to go and get re-ady for miss julliet and Mr Justin’s arrival”
“Miss and Mr, so cute…”
He says this sleepily and he turns letting me go.
I exit the room and just in time, because Alec bounds in as i step into the hallway.
“Magic!”
“Hey, Alec, how was your trip?”
“It was awesome!”
I nod as he pas-ses me.
I enter my room and quic-kly take my bath and I go down stairs.
As I prepare breakfast I think about what justice told me.
I can’t believe some women can be that despicable, throwing away your baby for money.
I feel anger on Justice’s behalf, I mean who does that.
I feel my self getting worked up so I make an effort to relax.
Well it was sh0t to hell when justice enters the kitchen.
“Good morning”
I greet, he nods, looks like we are back to master – slave interaction.
I sigh.
I turn to the toaster and in pu-ll out a loaf of bre-ad.
I turn to see him standing right behind me.
I squeak.
He k!sses my temple, am stunned motionless, what?
I turn to him.
“Did you hear me itty bitty?”
I shake my head no.
“I can’t have breakfast, I have work at the office, I have to go, just c@m£ in to tell you”
He c@m£ in to tell me???
Since when?
I nod, his other words get throu-gh to me so i tug on his shi-t, he turns to me.
“You were sick, can’t you take today off?”
He shakes his head and stro-kes my hair out of the way.
“Can’t baby, but will be back early”..
Baby, I feel tingles run throu-gh me.
Oh boy.
I nod and he gr-abs a greasy bacon with a serviette and exits.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
I set the table and I see everyone is pres£nt except Mr Justin and master justice, of course.
I ask about Mr Justin and miss julliet says he isnt back yet from where ever he went.
I nod.
“So how was your trip?”
I ask and julliet turns to me away from Mr sage.
There’s something about their relationsh!pnow, it seems dee-per in a way.
“It was awesome, Sage’s mother got me this br@celet”.
She holds out her hand and I admire.
“It looks good”
She beams, I turn to Alec and I wipe grease off his face.
He beams.
“So how was your weekend? I heard justice was around,”
I choke on my jui-ce, did he say something? Is she angry?
I nod.
“My weekend was fine, it was ok”
I don’t look at her but I feel her looking at me speculatively, I hear Mr sage say .
“Jackpot”
What does that mean?
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MAGIC.
It’s the afternoon, am trying to mow the lawn, so I don’t hear Mr Justin calls over the sound.
I squeal when someone taps me.
I jump a little.
“Calm down little one, it’s just me”
I clutch at my che-st as I bend to off the mower.
“Good afternoon sir, you are back”
“Yes Magic, I am, I have some good news”
I dust my hand and wait for the news.
“We found your bag and everything seems to be intact”
I squeal .
“Where is it?”
He points to in the direction of the house and I take off running, I hear him following me.
When I enter, i see julliet poking at to the bag with her feet and looking suspiciously at it.
I almost laugh, I guess it does look out of place in the granduer of this house.
“Is this yours?”
She asks, I nod as I kneel and open it looking for something specifically.
I squeal as I see the phone kelechi gave me.
I turn around and I throw myself at Justin.
I k!sshis cheek as he spins me around.
“Thank you, oh thank you so much”
I laugh, when he st©ps spinning me I see justice standing at the door way looking indifferent.
Oh sh0t.
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Justice.
All day at work, I could not function, I thought of her, magic.
Lydia c@m£ in and tried to make me talk but I just told her to stay out of my buisness.
She let’s off.
I glance at the clock and I see its past two.
Might as well close up shop, am not getting anything done as I sit down here mooning over a girl like a puppy.
I exit my office with my briefcase and I about heard Lydia’s mouth hit the floor in surprise.
“Boss man you are going home?”
“Seems so, forward all calls to my pri-vate phone”
I walk towards the door, I st©p at her words.
“Who ever she is boss man, keep her, she is good this time I can tell,”
I don’t respond just exit..
On my way home I pas-s a mall and i pu-ll into their parking lot.
I exit and walk inside.
I go to the confectioneries aisle and I get some Rocky road ice cream, seems she liked it on Saturday, I get some Hershey’s k!sses chocolate and a some milky way chocolate.
As I walk to the cashier I pas-s a phone aisle.
I peruse the various br@nds and I settle on an iPhone, I get it and make my way to the cashier.
She nee-ds a phone, I get it .
I pay and I exit.
I drive home.
I feel good about this.
Imagine my surprise when I got to my house and I see my stupid brother who has a death wish by the way, spinning her around.
And the woman seems to be k!ss!nghim right back.
What the ever loving hell?
I know she had a little bit of a crush on my brother, it was obvious, I expected nothing less seeing that he saved her.
But I thought julliet put her on the right track.
Justin is Sandra’s.
She sees me and she st©p, taking a step away from Justin.
Good at least subconsciously she knows I don’t like that $h!t.
“Good afternoon Justy”
I k!ssjulliet on the head as she makes her way to me.
“What do you have there? Are they for me?”
I shake my head no, I walk to magic and I hand the bag to her.
I walk out of the room and into the Hallway.
Am pissed.
As I leave I hear julliet ask.
“So what the hell really happened during the weekend?”
Tbc
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