Page 27 of Her Loyalty

Now laying in the bed, I felt completely calm as I looked up at the ceiling.

I was just waiting for Dom to get out of the shower so that we could relax and have another one of our many midnight talks.

I just hoped that he wasn't too much in his feelings about the little game I played on him earlier.

Brushing me away from my thoughts, I heard one of our phones vibrating on the dresser. I listened as it vibrated twice and then started to ring.

"Ugh." I complained, rolling out of the bed since I figured it was my mom or one of my friend's from school calling.

Making my way over to the dresser, I quickly realized it wasn't my phone, it's was Dom's.

"Oh." I said to myself, watching it ring with the contact Diamond ?? plastered across the screen.

I furrowed my eyebrows, wondering who Diamond could be and I almost answered the phone out of curiosity but I quickly decided against it. I figured I'd just ask him about it since we were supposed to be building a new fond relationship built upon trust .

Letting it ring until it stopped, I made my way back over to the bed. As I laid there, I tried my hardest to focus on other positive things like finding a nice apartment and having a great job soon but I was way too throwed off by the call. It was doing something to me, I really needed to know.

About twenty minutes later, Dom came into the room with a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Hey." I said to him, letting him know that I was still awake, even though all the lights were out.

"What's up?" He spoke lowly, making me laugh.

"Oh you're still being a cry baby?" I asked as I watched him get dressed.

"I'm chillin'. I took that shit in the chin and handled it like a real nigga." He hyped hisself up, making me laugh.

"Oh shut up and come over here so we can cuddle." I told him and he chuckled, making his way over to the bed.

He got in bed beside me and he pulled me toward him, wrapping his arm around my waist. As he did, I began to wonder how I was about to bring this up. I couldn't just ask him who the girl was, I needed to gradually move toward the topic.

"I've been thinking, T." He ended blurting out.

"Yeah?" I asked as I laid my head on his chest.

"I think I wan' go to college too." He spoke, making me pull back to look at his face.

"What?" I asked in complete shock and I watched as he smirked.

"Yeah, ma. I been thinking about it since you graduated." He admitted and I couldn't contain my happiness.

"You really inspire me, T."

Hearing those words warmed my heart. More so because Dom was a firm believer of not going to college when we graduated high school. He thought it was too expensive and a waste of time. He could just make real money doing "street shit."

"Baby, you-" I started but stopped myself, catching my words.

"I mean Dom."

"You really want to go?" I asked and he just looked at me for a while before nodding his head.

"Oh my god." I whined, making him smile.

"But it's just a thought right now. I ain't officially make up my mind yet, ma."

"I know, I know. It's just exciting." I couldn't help to smile. Thinking about him as a little school boy was something I could've never imagined.

Oh my god, he would look so cute with his little glasses on . I thought to myself, chuckling at the thought.

"But when I make my final decision, I'm gon' tell you first and you can help me out with all the shit I need?"

"Okay." I nodded happily. This was really good news for me and now I wouldn't even be able to stop thinking about it the entire night.

We sat there in silence for a while as I continued to think about him being a little school boy. I couldn't help it, it just made me so happy that he wanted to go.

"Go to sleep, ma." He chuckled lowly as I now sat up against the headboard and he laid on my chest with his arm wrapped around my waist.

"I'm not tired, I'm too happy." I admitted as his phone ringing on the dresser ripped me away from my happy thoughts.

I'd completely forgotten about the girl calling.

"That's my shit?" He asked and I nodded slowly as he let me go and got out of the bed.

"Who the fuck callin' my phone at this time?" He asked himself and I couldn't help but to think the same thing.

I watched as he walked over to it, awaiting his reaction to the call. But his reaction never came, he just looked blankly down at it and pressed ignore.

"Who was that?" I asked as he got back into bed and wrapped his arm around my waist again. He didn't say anything as he laid his head on my chest and I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Dominic." I called seriously, making him sigh deeply.

"You gon' wan' argue and I don't feel like it, T." He blurted out and I furrowed my eyebrows.

"What is there to argue about?" I asked him as he abruptly let me go and sat up too.

"The phone already showed me that the bitch called while I was in the shower too, so I know you seen her name flash across my screen."

"Okay, so who is she?" I asked, not even about to give him the run around.

"Nobody." He shrugged and I raised my eyebrows.

"Oh, nobody?" I asked, getting out of the bed.

"Tiana." He spoke sternly as I stood to my feet, just looking at him.

"Who is she, Dominic?" I asked for the final time as he looked down, staying silent.

"Um, hello?" I asked as he sat there saying nothing.

"Oh you can't hear now?"

"Fine." I scoffed, looking for my dress.

"Sit the fuck down, you ain't gon' no where at this time of night." He spat to me as I searched the room.

"Then tell me who she is!" I screamed, starting to believe that everything that he'd been saying these past couple of months were complete lies.

Maybe he's really trying to make me suffer. I thought, my mind playing tricks on me.

"It's the bitch you saw before, T." He finally blurted out as I stopped in my tracks.

"What?"

"Shawty you saw me come out the house with a couple months back.." He trailed off.

"That's who callin' me."