Chapter 48

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**** For those looking for the video, check the teamaugustalsinanation IG. It's the video of Big T sitting on the couch. I tried looking for his barber's page, but it seemed like he either deleted his IG or changed his name and I don't know what it is. 

And Can I just say that I love y’all. I say it all the time, but man, ya’ll don’t just make my day, y’all make my life. I am forever grateful for every comment, every vote and each person that reaches out to me. It’s like I love y’all so much that if I go a long time without an update I feel guilty. Really man I do.

Like Aug don’t want to disappoint Amb, I never want to disappoint y’all. Thank you guys for sticking with me! Enjoy ****

A WEEK LATER

Aug P.O.V. -

“Tell your daddy to get his big-head ass up.” Travis looked at Sata and she clapped both her hands against his face, giggling.

“Don’t curse in front of her like that.” I looked up at him. I was lying in the bed, which has been my primary home since Amb left me a week ago.

She only sent me text every so often asking about Sata. When it came to me, she never picked up my calls or returned my text.

“You know this is all your fault right.”

“Trav just go.”

“No because that’s the stupidest shit I’ve heard.”

I sighed and scratched my head, salty.

“On top of that, this apartment looks a mess. You haven’t washed a dish. No clothes. Ain’t even washed yo ass. I’m surprised Sata clean.” He smelled her butt, and she farted in his face and started giggling.

“Sata that wasn’t funny.” Travis mean mugged her.

She let out the cutest sigh looking at him innocently.

“She ain’t even talked to me in a whole week.  Ain’t asked how I was doing, nothing. Not baby I miss you. I’m thinking about you. I love you. Nothing. She just went ghost.”

“She went ghost for yo ass.”

“How long it take to send a text saying , “baby I love you. Or baby I miss you.” Two fucking seconds. I send her that shit every day and she never responds.”

I adjusted my pillow and laid my head back down. I scrolled through my phone looking to see if I missed anything.

“If I’m ya man, you don’t do that shit.”

“Maybe she got a new man who ain’t as trifling as you?”

I gave him a look, and went back to scrolling through my phone.

I noticed Amb liked a photo on Stacy IG. It looked like a pic they took in a hotel room.

“When did Stac and Amb take this?” I showed Trav my phone.

He sighed and sat on the end of the bed. “Yesterday.”

“Yesterday?” I furrowed my eyebrows.

“Yeah. When we went to go visit her.”

“We? Who the fuck is we?”

“Me and Stac. We been checking on her all week and took Sata a few times when you asked us to keep her.”

 “Where she at?” I tucked my lip fucking pissed.

“She told us not to tell you.”

“Trav don’t fuck with me?” I sat up. “Where my wife at?”

“The W.”

“Hotel?”

“Yeah.”

“What’s her room number?”

“Nigga would just chill and let her do her job with distractions.”

“Without distractions? I’m a distraction, but y’all niggas ain’t!?”

“You the reason she in this mess.”

I got up and went in the bathroom to take a shower. When I came out Trav was in the living room. I put on my clothes.

“What’s her room number?” I came out the room when I got dressed.

“513.”

“You and Stac keep Sata for me. I don’t know if I’m gon be back tonight.”

“Aug. Respect what she said.”

I ignored him and headed out the door to go see Amb.

AMBER P.O.V. –

“Amb. Amb.” Daniel held me as I cried.

“I have tried everything Daniel. Can’t you talk to them again?”

“I tried babe. They’re intent on the decision. They told me unless you have new evidence, it’s pointless to re-open the case seeing as it’s beyond the two month deadline.”

I had went up to the school every day this week and tried everything I could to re-open his case, but they wouldn’t budge.

“What am I going to tell him?” I sat up.

“I wish I could tell you.”

“There has to be some way.”

“Amb, it’s around thanksgiving time, the board is restless. They’re really not trying to hear anything until after the holiday. I’ll try again then.”

“That’s like a whole nother week.”

“I know, but it doesn’t hurt to try. Besides you need a break. Look at you. You got these bags under your eyes.” He rubbed his thumbs under my eyes.

“There more from crying than, not getting any sleep. I just don’t know why he wouldn’t tell me. That makes me so fucking angry!” I closed my fist in frustration and punched the air.

“That’s how men are sometime Amb. No man, I don’t care what age feels good about his woman constantly fighting his battles. Try to understand his side of it.”

“I can’t because his side is stupid. And it is stressing me out. Like literarily I am losing my hair over this. I went to comb my hair this morning and a whole chunk of hair fell out.”

“You can’t let it get to you that bad.”

“Dan I can’t just not be concerned. Nobody  but me understands how hard he’s worked. How long he suffered, just for everything to be taken away over someone lying on him. The last time I was this stressed out over a case, was when I was defending his brother’s killer.”

“You what?”

“It’s a long story. I didn’t know him at the time tho. It was my first case and just, he doesn’t understand how deep my love runs for him Daniel. He really doesn’t.” I broke-down.

“I’m sure he knows.”

“I don’t think so because if he did, he would’ve came to me.”

“Did you ever think he didn’t come to you because he did love you? That’s why he probably didn’t tell you for so long. He didn’t want you to be disappointed.”

“I just wanna go somewhere and disappear. And come back and someone please tell me this nightmare is over.”

“You’ve been praying Amb. I know for a fact God hears you. You’ll get a break-through. I don’t know when, but you will. Evil may win for a short time, but it never prevails. And I’m going to keep trying and you keep trying. Okay?”

I shook my head.

He wrapped his arms around me in a hug and kissed my forehead. I heard my hotel door open. And saw August starring back at me.

I quickly got from under Dan’s embrace.

“August.” I stood up.

“This the reason you couldn’t call me?” He tucked his lip and looked at me side-ways.

“Uh… I better go.” Dan got up.

“No, Daniel you stay.”

“No bruh I think you need to leave if you know what’s best for you.” August came in and let the door slam behind him.

I stood between Dan and August, facing August. Daniel was a few inches taller than August and August was tall already so you can imagine what this looked like. A little person between two bean stalks.

August looked down at me his nostrils flaring and his chest going up and down rapidly, looking in my eyes.

“This what we on?” His voice cracked.

“Daniel is my boss, who happens to be a member of the board. He wasn’t there for your hearing.”

His face softened and his breathing slowed down. He looked away.

“He’s helping me to get you back in school. Daniel this is August. August this is Daniel.”

Daniel extended his hand, August shook it still looking down in shame.

“Sorry bout that.” August said.

“If I had a woman like Amb I’d probably be the same way.” Dan made a joke.  “She loves you man. You got nothing to worry about.” He patted Aug on the back and waved by to me as he left.

I turned my attention to August. “What are you doing here?”

“You couldn’t speak to me for a week.”

“August, I have been trying to focus.” I cleared up some of my papers and books that were everywhere.

“A text take two fucking seconds Amb.” He said angry.

“And it took that much for you to tell me!” I screamed. “August…August.” I softly grabbed the collar of his jacket wanting to choke him.

Instead I just rested my head in chest and cried yet again. Damn I was so sick of crying.

He wrapped his arms around me. “Why didn’t you just tell me baby? Why?”

“It’s no big deal baby. If it ain’t meant for me, it ain’t meant for me.”

“No.” I whipped my head up and poked him in the chest.

“No, it’s meant for you and I’m going to figure it out.” I walked back to my computer that was on the desk in the hotel room. “You gotta go.”

“Babe, can I just stay with you tonight?” He said sweetly, sitting on the edge of the bed.

I sighed and rested my head in my hands.

How could I deny that sweet voice. “Yeah August.”

He took off his jacket and shoes and laid on the bed.

“Lay with me just for tonight babe.” He patted the empty space on the bed next to him.

I reluctantly got up and laid on his chest. He wrapped his arms around me.

“Don’t do this again.”

“I won’t.”

“I don’t know what we’re going to do about thanksgiving. Your fam is coming up here. I invited somebody from work and it’s coming up next week.” I said thinking of all the shit I had to do.

“Don’t worry bout it I got it.” He kissed the top of my head. “Me, Stac and Trav will handle cooking and everything else.”

There was a moment of silence as he just rubbed my head.

“I missed you so much.” I admitted to him.

“I thought I was the only one who felt that way.” He let out a chuckle.

“No baby, it was the hardest thing to not pick up the phone. I was just so angry, then trying to focus. But you were always on my mind. I’d say things in my head like – “oh it’s ten, so Aug is probably taking a shower now. Or oh it’s 8 in the morning, he’s probably working out. I got like your whole schedule in my head.” I laughed at how ridiculous, but true that was.

“I learned something.”

“What?” I laid on his pillow next to him and kissed his cheek.

“I better never fuck up, because if you leave me, I’d die.” He looked at me and pecked my lips.

I nestled my head in the crook of his neck. “That’s sad. Cause I think I’d live.”

He sucked his teeth and I laughed.

“I love you baby.” I kissed his neck.

“Love you more.”

We drifted off to sleep in each other’s arms.  

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