Prince POV
We were walking out of the doors when I noticed some guy caught Faith's eye. He looked rude as he looked at her with a menacing grin and a wink. She shuttered and looked the opposite direction.
"Faith, who was that?" I asked in concern.
"That's my ex boyfriend.." she says in a quiet timid voice.
"Oh, you alright?" I say, opening the passenger side door to her car.
"Uh uh pretty boy, you in the back." She says playfully shoving me toward the back of the car. "This is my best friends car." Faith giggles and gets into the driver seat.
"Damn, chill. Anyways you seemed scared when he looked at you like that. Did he…Hurt you?" I ask wondering.
"He..I'll tell you later alright?" She says sticking the key in the ignition and driving off.
Faith POV
As I began pulling in the driveway of my house, I see smoke from the corner of my eye. My neighbors house was on fire.
"Do y'all see that!?" Nana says slamming the door and crossing the street to get a better look.
"Well don't just stand there, call 911." I say dialing the phone.
"Hello Los Angeles City Police Department, what is your emergency?
"My neighbors house is on fire!"
"Okay, calm down. What's the address?"
I talked on the phone for a while with 911 and then got off. Within 3 minutes, 2 fire trucks arrived. I couldn't believe my eyes…That was one of my friends houses on fire. It was Kiki's house. Roc would be devastated if he found out anything happened to Ki'loni. She's his everything..Well I guess she can't be everything if he cheats on her with Nana.
"Isn't that Ki's house?" Nana asks covering her mouth as her and Prince walk over to me.
"Yea, hey call Roc and tell him to get down here." I say urgently to Prince.
After Roc came, we were all getting around to see what had happened and if they were home, a firefighter came up to us.
"Are you Roc Royal? Ki'loni's boyfriend?" the charred firefighter asks.
Roc has a scared look on his face as he asks the man, "Yes, why? Is everything alright?
"I'm sorry to tell you this but…"
"Roc I am so sorry!" I say hugging him.
He cries into my shoulder as he repeats the treacherous words the fire fighter had slipped out. Dead. She's gone. He has a tight grip on me. I can understand though. Losing someone like this has to be torture.
"Hey, Roc. I'm sorry about Ki'loni. Do you want me to drive you home?" Nana asks pulling me from his strong grip as he falls into her arms.
"I-I, I think. Yea." Roc sobs walking away with Nana.
"Hey, can I use your car? I left mines at the mall." Nana asks.
"Yea, Here." I say walking over to Prince after throwing Nana my keys.
"I can't believe she's gone. How come she's the only one who didn't make it out.." I say shaking my head.
"I…I don't know. I just hope Roc's alright. He was planning to break up with her soon. I bet he feels terrible." Prince says opening his arms to me for a hug.
I stood there hugging Prince and talking to him for…Well I'm not sure. It was quite a while though. Had to have been; All the emergency vehicles left already and the neighbors had all went back inside to cope with the loss of Ki'loni.
"Let's go inside. It's kinda cold out here." I say taking myself away from Prince's warm body.
Not to long after we were inside, Nana came back. She looked out of it. Like she'd just saw a ghost.
"Are you alright?" I ask, walking over to her.
"No, Roc is all upset from losing Ki'loni and his mom was yelling at me for being in her house after something like this. I just." She sighs "I don't think I'll be with Roc much longer.."
"Just give him some time. He just lost her. He's not gonna want to jump into your arms and start a new relationship already.." I say hugging her.
"I know. I'll give him his space." Nana sighs walking over to the couch, and plopping down.
I walk over and sit in between her and Prince, "Well I never said that. Just focus more on helping him heal and getting over her before you make him think of a new relationship."
"True. I guess we can wait."
"Hey uh, not to interrupt or anything but. Can you tell me what happened between you and that guy?" Prince says looking at me.
I sigh and turn toward him, "His name is Shaun. He, as I've said before, was my ex boyfriend. Well we just started to explore each other. And he, took it too far. I told him to stop. He just, wouldn't." I continue tearing up, "He ripped all my clothes off and held me down. I couldn't understand what was going on. All I knew is that this is wrong…And that it hurt. All of a sudden, I had pain all over my body and he was pounding into me. I screamed for help but we were the only ones home." I paused for a second to catch my breath, "As soon as he was…Finished, he threw my clothes at me and made me walk home in my tattered clothes." I finish crying and trembling.
"Oh…Oh my God. I am so sorry!" Prince says, hugging me and kissing my cheek. "Now I understand why you looked like that seeing him. You're safe with me."
I wipe my tears and lay my head into his chest, "I…I know."
Just then, my little brother comes down the stairs.
Prince POV
I never realized she was that hurt. That damaged. Why would anyone do something like that to her? She's beautiful and amazing. I was kinda surprised she told me all of that.
"Faith, can I ask you something?" I say caressing her hair.
"Yea, what is it?" She says lifting her tear soaked face from my now wet chest.
"Did you ever…"
Before I could finish my question, Faith's brother came running down the stairs. 'Does he know about Ki'loni?' I wondered. He probably already knew about what happened to his sister..
"Hey, are you guys alright? Who are you?" Zavier asks.
"Not really, you didn't hear the sirens?" Faith says back in a sob.
"What sirens? I was upstairs playing X-Box"
Faith takes a big breath and sighs, "Ki'loni's house caught on fire."
"What do you mean? Is she okay?!" Zavier pouts as he sits on the arm of the chair.
"She's..She's gone!" Faith weeps as she falls back into my chest.
He's frozen. stunned by the news of his babysitters passing. I couldn't imagine being in his position; Faith's position seems worse. Such a terrible tragedy, and Faith decides to turn to me. A stranger. Someone who knows so much more about her than he thought he would in a day. Odd that the stranger is me.
We all just sit there, crying for about an hour. I started crying as I was holding Faith in my arms again for about 20 minutes. It's so silent here now though. No loud crying, as apposed to about 40 minutes before.
I couldn't help but think what was going to happen to Roc. I know he loved her. Just couldn't keep his hands away from Nana. She was crying also, but she was holding Zavier.
"Hey, Faith?" I ask rubbing her back.
"Y-yea?" She sniffles.
"I was going to ask you something earlier. About, you know, what…happened to you." I say in a calm, teary voice.
"Oh, yea. You were huh. Well…What is it? She asks tightening her grip on me.
"Well, I was just wondering…If you told anyone what happened. Like the police, or your mom.." I sigh, stroking her soft hair.
"I've only told 4 people. Counting you. I told my brother, Nana, Ki'loni, and you," She takes a long breath, " I never thought I'd say this but…I trust you for some reason…"
I stopped myself from saying it. It would creep her out. I don't want to scare her away by saying when I saw her, it was love at first sight.
"Oh, well I won't tell anyone. I promise."
Faith POV
I lie in Prince's arms crying. I'm a mess…I felt sort of weird for telling him everything I did. But then again, it felt good to get it off my chest again. I knew he would just keep asking if I didn't tell him so I just did.
Just as we were all almost done crying, there's a knock on the door. I get up to answer it, and to my surprise, it's Roc.
"Roc, are you alright?" I say welcoming him in as I wipe my tears.
"You!" Roc screams, walking toward Nana. "I need you babe, I can't function in my house right now. I need you." He pleads to her.
"Roc, c'mere..." She says letting go of Zavier, rushing up to Roc for a hug.
"Well, you guys can just stay here for the night. If you want to." I offer to everyone. I didn't really want to be alone, so why not have them stay. "Prince, can you stay?" I ask, hoping he can.
"Maybe, let me have my aunt to ask my mom." He says taking out his phone.
He was on the phone for a while and then he hangs up in a slam.
"So? Can you?" I ask, kind of timidly.
"No, my mom says I can't stay with you. Probably because we just met…And you're a girl." He says in a huff.
"Oh, oh yea, we did just meet huh. Seems like we've been friends for a while" I laugh. Wow, my first laugh since the news. I feel bad for laughing after all that's happened..