Page 24 of Her Loyalty

Tiana

"What's up, little hoe?" She ended up saying to me, making me roll my eyes.

"Deja, bye. I'm not in the mood for your bullshit today." I admitted to her.

"We fought already, what more do you want? I'm not about to keep playing this back and forth game with you." I said to her, finishing up my food.

"Na', we ain't fight. I just beat your fucking ass."

"I see that eye finally cleared up." She went on and I put my eyes to the sky, mentally telling myself that she wasn't worth it.

"Whatever." I scoffed, shaking my head as she began to walk off.

"Yeah, that's what I thought." She kept going.

"Deja, bye! Why are you still going? You're so fucking fake." I couldn't help but to say. If anybody was on my side before any of this, it was her. She always liked me and treated me like family but ever since Dom and I got into it, she pretended as if that meant nothing.

"I'm fake?" She asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Na' you played my brother and you tried to beat on him because you knew he wasn't going to hit your goofy ass back. That's foul as fuck, Tiana and I can't respect it."

"So I ain't gon' respect you. Especially not in this crib." She scoffed.

"First of all, that was months ago." I ended up saying to her, pushing the empty plate away from me.

"And you're right I was wrong for what I did but why the fuck are you so invested?"

"If he can forgive me, why can't you?" I asked her, furrowing my eyebrows.

"Because I don't have to." She spat back at me and I shook my head, waving her off.

"Alright. Whatever, Deja."

"Have it your way." I simply stood to my feet, disposed of my plate and then walked directly passed her.

I wasn't here to please her, I was here to make things right and spend time with Dom so that's what I was going to do. Her energy wasn't needed in my life.

As I made my way into the living room, the door opened again and Dominic came walking through it.

"What's up? Where you going?" He furrowed his eyebrows, stepping in front of me to block my walkway.

"No where. I just needed to get away from her." I rolled my eyes and he knew I was referring to Dej as she came walking out of the dining room.

"Deja." He sighed deeply and she pretended to be innocent.

"Bro, I didn't do shit. She's just mad because I don't like her." She shrugged nonchalantly.

"I don't give a fuck if you like me." I bucked and she simply started laughing.

"Hm, where was this energy before Dom walked in though?" She bucked back and I simply waved her off.

"Fuck you." I said to her, tired of her presence all together.

"Fuck you too, bitch." She spat.

"That's exactly why I never liked your trifling ass."

"I never liked you either, you fake ass bitch." I spat back, simply making up things because I was upset.

The fighting abruptly stopped as Dom sighed deeply, closing his eyes.

"Both of y'all sit the fuck down." He pointed to the couch and I stood there my arms crossed while she did the same, scoffing.

"No." I told him in an overly spoiled manner.

"Fuck no, bro." She went on too, looking down at the floor.

"I ain't gon' ask again." He threatened as we both still stood there, not moving an inch.

His eyes then reverted to me as I stood there with my arms folded and my lips poked out.

"Tiana." He spoke sternly to me, looking me in the eyes.

"You wan' play with me?" He asked while I still stood there, challenging him. Our eyes never parted ways and I knew that I didn't want any problems with him but I was just being petty, just like she was.

"Sit the fuck down." He spoke sternly and I sighed deeply, finally sitting down on the couch.

"Dej-"

"No, I'm not sitting down with her."

"And you ain't about to make me. That little bitch the one scared of you, I ain't. You got me fucked up." She tried to walk passed but he roughly grabbed her.

"Deja, stop fuckin' playing with me yo." He spat to her, gripping her up.

"I'a really hurt you bro, on my moms." He said to her, putting it on their deceased mother and the look on her face was priceless.

"Sit the fuck down." He told her and I sat there in shock as she finally sat down beside me.

"You wildin' na', nigga. Don't ever put your hands on me again." She continued to go on and on and after a long round of threats and cursing him out about putting it on their mom, she finally shut the hell up.

"So I guess Dej finally finished with her bullshit?" He asked sarcastically since the room was finally silent.

"So na' I'm gon' tell y'all what the fuck about to happen." He spoke sternly, looking at the both of us as we sat with our bodies slanted away from each other.

"The both of y'all gon' sit here and talk."

"Na' I know y'all got into before but y'all gon' have to get over that shit."

"T, that's my sister." He looked over to me.

"She gon' always be around, no matter what. So you gon' make it right because that's the only way this shit ever gon' work for us."

"And Deja." He went on, turning to her.

"Me and T tryn' work on some shit again so you gon' have to chill out on her. No matter what the fuck we been through, if I decided to fuck with her again, you ain't got no choice but to respect it because I ain't gon' let you disrespect her. In front of me. Behind my back.."

"None of that shit." He went on and I tooted my lips as she rolled her eyes.

"So both of y'all need to make this shit right."

"Bro, she give you some pussy one time and you just take her back?" She scoffed, shaking her head.

"Did you forget about all the shit this bitch did to you?" She spoke up, making me turn my lip up.

"Deja, why are you even worried?!" I yelled out, tired of her being in our business anyway.

"If we're making it work, that's all that should matter." I explained to her, pointing between me and Dominic.

"That's the problem, she's always in our business." I went off as he sighed heavily, removing the blunt that was behind his ear and lighting it.

"That's my brother, his business is my business."

"But It's not though! Our business is our business." I spat to her.

"We don't talk about the many females you fuck all over this neighborhood and call them your girlfriends ."

"Watch your mouth, T." She warned making me scoff.

"Exactly. You don't want me to talk about your business but you want to be in ours."

"That's not right, Deja." I rolled my eyes as the room went silent.

It stayed silent like that for a while as I sat there watching Dominic smoke a blunt. The room was now filled with smoke and I could tell we were going to be here all day if we didn't work this out now.

That was obviously his plan.

"Look if he can forgive me, why can't you?" I spoke up, trying to put my pride aside and she scoffed.

"Na'.." She trailed off.

"He can forgive you all he want but I don't have to do shit." She pointed to herself.

"Yeah that's because your stubborn and you have trust issues. Not my fault." I scoffed with a shrug and she shot a look at me.

"No bitch, I don't fuck with you because you a hoe and you was fuckin' another nigga while you was with my brother."

"I didn't fuck-" I started but stopped, not even engaging into her dumb ass conversation. She already knew that what she was saying wasn't true. I didn't have to prove anything. She obviously just wanted to argue with me.

"And the only reason this nigga forgive you is because he wan' keep on fucking you." She scoffed and I sighed deeply, trying my hardest not to let her get to me.

"Like he ain't been fuckin' all them other bitches that's way badder than you." She spat, making my heart shatter into pieces while Dom blew smoke out of his nose, staring at her.

I looked at him while he sat there with a scowl on his face.

"Yo, stop fuckin' lying to her before you make me mad, Deja." He finally spat to her, easing my mind and she couldn't help but to laugh as she looked down.

"She's a fucking child, she can't even talk like a grown woman. Sitting here making up lies for what?"

"Tiana, just stop talking to me all together." She went onto say, not even looking at me.

"Fine then. I won't." I shrugged carelessly.

"Fuck you." I rolled my eyes.

"Fuck you too, goofy ass bitch." She spat back to me and Dominic just watched as the both of us went back and forth.

The room then went silent for another ten minutes before he finally spoke up.

"Y'all both stubborn as shit." He scoffed, standing to his feet.

"Only thing I know is, ain't nobody leavin' this living room until this shit is resolved." He went onto say, walking away from us.

"Well, I guess we'll be here all day." I shrugged as she sat there with a mug on her face.

"Coo." He said, jogging up the staircase.

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