Chapter 26: Everybody Go CollectThursday, 10:30pm. After approximately forty-eight hours of ‘surveillance’ from the hospital, and Ryan and Marcus’s in and out of the hospital almost every hour, she was finally free to go. Compared to the look of fatigue she had on just a couple days before, you’d think she’d become Morbius overnight the way she was just ‘on point’. “Are you sure you cannot afford to just leave her in the hospital for a few more hours? It’s pretty dark outside, you know?”“Haven’t you people eaten enough money from our pockets in the last couple hours?” Ryan joked, signing some documents.“Come on sir” the doctor replied with a smile. “It is pretty dark outside. That’s the only reason I’m conc—”“Well. Thanks for your concern doc—” he dropped the documents in doctor’s hand, paying little to no attention to the professional in white at this point, “And thanks for saving my mom. Really appreciate it, but we’ll take it from here.”“Come on Mom. Let’s go.” Marcus careful
Chapter 27: To Spit or to Swallow“Yo man. We finally have the chance to talk, now that Miss. Ayesha ain’t come for class.” Devon tapped his shoulder. “Couldn’t hep but notice you weren’t in school yesterday. Marcus? Nigga are you sleeping? Marcus!” He jolted into full consciousness, looking around like he was stranded. “What?” he looked around, then looked back at Devon. “What is it?”“You sure you okay man? You’ve been sleeping all day.”“I’m good. I’m good. What? What do you want?” he said, his pitch-black eyes looking pretty weary.“I was saying, you weren’t in school yesterday, and the day before. Is everything good?”“Yeah… yeah. It’s been resolved now so it’s cool, I guess. Any other que—”“You sure you don’t want to go and chill in the library for a sec?”“Nah. I’m good.”“You sure? Maths next man. And we all know he won’t allow you sleep in his class.”“Fuck, you’re right. You know what, I’ll just go chill in the library” he slid off his desk and his books accidentally clatt
Chapter 28: Her"Y…yeah. I mean right. I mean, of course. Of course. I should umm…I should go.""Yeah you should" she leaned back, "Because you've been staring at me for a while now" she smiled. "Acting like you've never–" she stopped in her tracks like something finally made sense now. "Wait. You have… you know… before, right?""Sorry?" He said, playing dumb. Like he didn't know what she was talking about. Anybody would've known what she was talking about by now. "You're a virgin, right?" So much for being indirect."What? What'd make you think that?" He said, feeling a little offended now. "Well. For starters" she looked further down. Not knowing what she was looking at, he too looked down and then realized what she was talking about."Oh…that." He said, a little too red-faced for a black guy. "Yeah. That." She smiled, exiting the tab on her computer, then setting it to sleep. "Secondly" she continued, just as her computer slept, "you've been staring at my bra like it's the firs
Chapter 29: I’ll Teach You Things You Never Thought Were PossibleYou'd think she was a cougar or something, cause her experience was just on a different level. Her pose, her look, the way her eyes made his heart skip a beat. Everything was perfect about her, almost too perfect, he felt like backing out at a point. "No. I'm not sure this the right–""Marcus" she held him back just as he was about to make his way to the door. "Don't you think it's time to stop running?" She said, as if she was referring to something way deeper than what was about to happen. She looked into his eyes and started walking around him like a predator circling it prey, then she started. "You need to understand the first rule, is…" she whispered into his ears, "every moment is special. Or at least make it feel that way" she pecked his neck, sending shivers down his spine, forcing goosebumps out his skin."You need to create a mist Marcus. A mist that doesn't allow your victim see anything other than this mome
Chapter 30: Sinista“There he is” Ryan said, a tad frustrated. “Yo… did they tell you I’ve been looking for—”“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I was busy with some stuff. It won’t… I’ll try not to make it happen again.”“Wait. What?” Ryan replied, kind of confused.“I said I’m sorry. I’ll try not to make allow it happen again” he said, as humbly as ever, opening the front door.“Wow. Umm Okay. Get in. Let’s—”“Hey. Wait up.” It was Alicia, gradually galloping to the car. Maybe she wanted to annoy Marcus, maybe not. But he wasn’t the slightest bit bothered. In fact, he helped open the door until she got close enough to the car, then slid into the backseat. Even Alicia was stunned. Ryan couldn’t believe his eyes.“Well that’s definitely new” Ryan muttered under his breath. “Come on Alicia, hop in” he said tapping the hood of the car. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….“So umm… you’re coming tomorrow right?“For the stuff… yeah. I’m coming. Hopefully it’s gonna be… you
Chapter 31: Yeah…sureTEN MINUTES TO SEVEN (6:50pm)“Are you still trying to figure out what color of tie to wear?”“I’m trying to concentrate Marcus. I’ll be down in a second. Just… just let me finish this color combination up first.”“That’s what you said ten minutes ago” Marcus smiled, leaning on the door of Ryan’s room. “Okay. What do you think?” He turned back. “Wait why are you in shorts—you know what, doesn’t matter” he said, arranging his tux. “What do you think? Should I go with black, or light purple? I mean black looks good and all, but purple is kind of different, you feel me? So, it might surprise her a little, but at the same time, impress her, you know? So, which one should I go with?""Hmm" he leaned off the door, "I think you should go with neither" he looked bluntly at Ryan. "What? You know what, I don't need your help. I'll figure this out myself.""This is a fucking dinner bro. And it's not your birthday if I remember correctly, it's mom's. Why you trying to put
Chapter 32: The Birds Pt. 1He didn't look like himself anymore. Almost looked like was sad and sulking. His hypnotizing red eyes looked like they had lost their effect. He was drained. Physically, mentally and emotionally. The ladies were in truth, never ever his strong point. And the fact that he couldn’t anything about that was…was probably what made him sad. He had everything. Right? The eyes, the brains, the body, the voice, everything was there. So, it just didn't make sense why he found it hard actually talking, conversating and generally having a good time when it was just him and a girl, nobody else. Maybe he just wasn't ready for another phase of 'love' or some shit like that yet. After all, he did put a lot work into making him and Vanessa work out, and look at how that turned out. Yeah. Maybe that was it. He just… wasn't ready to take the next step forward. Maybe he just… wasn't over her yet. Can't blame him though "Yo Ryan you good?" Marcus asked, walking into the kitch
Chapter 33: Such is LifePeace. Now this quote might have been said by some other important, renowned mind, but this is my way of putting it. Peace, Inner peace, is sometimes pretty hard to find. Not because chaos is most times inevitable, but really harnessing all possible emotions that could tip the scale, not being anxious, not being scared, not feeling guilty, not feeling alone, all at the same time is a very difficult task. Even for the strongest minds. Like his. He was right when he said he didn't know where he was going. He really didn't. Wasn't sure of what do with life at this point. Nothing made sense, nothing. And as he walked on the pavement while cars zoomed past, he fell deeper into the hands of his biggest predators. His mind. His thoughts, himself. "Everything was so supposed to be perfect you know?" He said, subject to his own soliloquy. "The perfect girl. Met her the perfect way. Had an almost perfect relationship. It should've ended better. Way better" he said. "