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This is the eleventh chapter.
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Chapter 11
Leona closes her door and tosses Briana's phone on the stand next to her phone. She still hadn't truly let today sink in yet and quite frankly she didn't want to. She just wanted to move on from this day, but she couldn't yet. Briana's words kept playing in her head. 'As long as Greg and Will are breathing, they will keep coming after you in some way'. Leona heads over to her bed and takes off her pants and shirts and puts on her favorite blue short pajamas on and remembered what Greg had said. The fact that he was in her room watching her sleep made her shiver, but she was not going to let him get the best of her. She crawls into bed and takes her phone off the dresser and dials the familiar number of her father. She pulls the covers over her legs as her father answers in that raspy voice.
"Hello. Leona?" He asked. "Is everything okay?"
Leona rubs her ribs remembered What Will did to her in her own home. "Yeah Dad. I'm okay." Leona said trying to stable her voice. "I just wanna if I can borrow the plane tomorrow?"
"Sure sweetie." He asked. "Where are you going?"
She raises her eyebrow at the sweetie comment. He never calls her that unless there are people around him. "Family house in California. We just need to get away for awhile." Leona said technically lying and telling the truth.
"Sure. What time are you going to be at the airport?" He asked.
"11:45." She said.
"Sure I'll get everyone on it." He said.
"Thanks for coming through for me Dad." Leona said.
"Anytime honey." He says.
"Alright. I'm gonna go." She says not wanting to talk to him long.
"Lee Lee wait." He says calling her by her childhood nickname.
"Yeah Dad?" She asked.
"I know I wasn't the best father to you and I know I didn't protect you like I should, but thanks for not cutting me out of your life." He says. "If you let me, I'd like for us to be closer."
"We're trying Dad." She says. "We'll see what happens."
"Just don't give up on me. Promise?" He asked.
"I promise Dad." She says putting the ice pack on her ribs.
"Okay." He says. "Now I have to go and be careful out there. Alright?"
"Okay Dad." Leona says. "I love you Dad." She surprised herself when she said that.
"I love you more." He said. "Bye."
"Bye." She hangs up her phone and hears a knock on her door. "Come in." She yells covering herself up just in case it was Jey or Roman. She relaxed a little bit when it was Jimmy. She was actually happy to see him and she let her smile show it. "Hey."
"Hello beautiful. How you feeling?" He asked.
"Okay." She says removing the ice now that her ribs are numb. "I called my Dad and we can get out of here by 11:45 in the morning."
"Really?" He asked.
"Yep. He letting use the plane." She says.
"How rich is your family?" He asked.
"See even that I don't know." She says waving her hand. "I just know we have a lot of homes, servants, planes, and vacation homes."
"You grew up blessed." Jimmy says.
"I know and I don't take it for granted, but it was also a curse as well." She said referring to the physical abuse of her father. "but that's a whole other thing we won't get into yet."
Jimmy didn't want to push any further especially not today when everyone is clearly on edge. "Okay. Well I'm gonna head off to bed. Are you sure you're okay?"
"Yep." Leona said turning on her side and covering herself. "Good night Jimmy."
She heard the door open. "Good night Leona." and he closes her door.
When he left she realized that she was all alone and she didn't want to be especially right now. She wanted to jump out of bed and go grab him but she didn't want to seem desperate for his attention. She grabs Briana's phone off the desk and is tempted to go through it but she didn't want to become paranoid about her even if she had her suspicions. She puts the phone back and grabs her own phone and opens up her twitter app. She tweets "Feeling lonely" and sets her phone back on the stand. She turns on her side and closes her eyes hoping to catch a little shut eye before they have to be up at six in the morning to pack everything and make it to the airport in time. Just as she was about to doze off to sleep she hears her door open. She turns over to see Jimmy walking towards her with a pair of basketball shorts and a gray tank top on.
"What's wrong Jimmy?" She asked.
"I should ask you that." He says pulling out his cellphone. "Feeling lonely."
Leona smiles at him. "I just don't want to be alone. Not right now."
Jimmy puts his cellphone on the desk and crawls into bed with her. He gently pulls her towards him and wraps his arms around her and watches as she falls asleep. He's never seen anyone more beautiful than her and he can't wait for the day that he can make her his. Forever.
When Leona's alarm clock went off on her phone, she remembered that Jimmy slept in her bed last night. She loved the warmth he gave from his body and she didn't want to move, but she had to if they were going to get to the airport on time. She pulls herself out of Jimmy's hold and reaches over him to grab her cellphone to turn off the alarm. She crawls over him carefully trying not to wake him up yet. She places herself on the floor and notices how cute Jimmy looks when he's sleeping. She turns her cellphone camera on and snaps a quick picture of him before running off to wake the others up. She goes next door to Camille and Jey's room and knocks on the door and heard nothing. She opens the door slowly just in case they weren't decent. Thankfully they were fully clothed and just sleeping. She quickly walks over to Camille and shakes her awake.
"What the fuck?" She says rubbing her eyes. "What time is it?"
"6:30 am." Leona says smiling.
"What the ... Good night." Camille says snatching the covers over her head.
Leona snatches the covers off both of them. Camille throws a fit and Jey still doesn't move as he snores laying on his stomach. "No. Rise and shine. We have to be at the airport by 11:45 and I don't like being late. So ..." She pulls Camille out of bed. "you get up and ..." she reaches over and smacks Jey hard on the butt. "You get up." Jey still doesn't move so Leona smacks him on the butt again a little harder. "GET UP!"
Jey remains motionless for a minute before he finally stirs and wipes his eyes. "Good morning." He says and gets up off the bed to go the bathroom and puts his hand on his butt. "Why does my ass hurt?"
"I have no idea." Leona says walking out of the room to go wake up Roman and Briana. Heading out into the living room she sees Briana sleeping on the couch and she quickly remembers all the shit she put them through and suddenly has a change of heart and wants to help them. She goes over and nudges Briana who quickly awakens.
"Good Morning Leona." She says groggily.
"Morning. You better go get your stuff. We have to leave by eleven at the latest." She says not caring.
"I'm up. I'm going." She says getting up and stretching. "Can I have my phone back?"
"Not yet." Leona says. "Maybe when you get back."
Briana rolls her eyes and throws her sneakers on and runs out the door to gather her things.
Leona turns her attention to wake up the beast Roman. She knew that he slept like a rock and doesn't like to be woken up, but Leona didn't care. She just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. She opens the door and sees Roman sprawled out and face up in his bed in nothing but his boxers. The covers only hid half of his chiseled body. Leona will admit that he had a great body, but she liked Jimmy's body better even though she has yet to see him in at least his underwear. She walks over the snoring monster and taps him lightly before backing up as he wildly turns on his stomach and continues sleeping. Leona was glad she wasn't in bed with him because he is a dangerous wild sleeper and the fact that he was a huge man doesn't help.
"Roman." She tries tapping him again . "Roman!" She yells and still got nothing. The man sleeps like a rock. Then she decided to try something that worked on her mother when she was younger. She leans down a few inches away from his ear. "Roman." She whispers almost inaudible.
Roman then jumps up like he was being attacked. "Huh What! What's going on?"
"I never knew how and why that worked." Leona says with a smirk on her face. "But anyways, morning Roman."
Roman brushed his messy long hair out of his face. "What time is it?"
"6 something in the morning." Leona shrugged her shoulders. "Come on. If you're going with us you gotta get moving."
"Okay. I'm up." He stretched those big bulging muscles. "What about breakfast?"
"If you get it together in time you can eat on the plane. I'm pretty sure it's stocked." She said snatching the cover off of him revealing that he had morning wood. She throws the cover back over him. "Take care of that Roman." She says leaving him and heading back into the living room area where Lion sat patiently holding his bag of toys in his mouth. She goes over and takes the bag out of his mouth and scratches his ears. "Well it looks like you're the only one ready buddy."
Once everyone came back to the hotel room with their many suitcases and tossed them in the middle of the floor. Everyone was ready to go except Roman who hasn't returned yet.
"Where the hell is Roman?" Leona asked.
"He should be coming soon." Jey said as he brings in the last of Camille's suitcases.
Leona looks as her phone. "It's 10:30. I woke everyone up at 6 this morning. We need to get going in the next 20 minutes if we're going to make our flight."
"Calm down girl. Damn! We're gonna make it." Jey said.
"I just want to get out of here. NOW!" Leona said. "Where's my purse?"
"Right there." Jey said pointing over by the coffee table.
Leona goes over to coffee table an bends down to pick it up when she receives a hard smack on the butt causing her to fall to the ground. "Shit! Jey."
"That's for this morning." Jey says laughing and walking away.
"Fuck you Jey." She says trying get up but her butt hurt so much. "Help me up."
"Demanding." Jey says.
"HELP ME! YOU HURT ME!" She said.
"Okay." He runs over to her and picks up and tosses her over his shoulder. He starts to spin around really fast.
Leona laughs until his head starts to poke into her injured ribs. "Ow! My ribs Jey. Stop! Please."
Jey quickly puts her down. "I'm sorry. I forgot."
"It's okay. It's not your fault I'm hurt. It's that bastard Will's fault." She says snatching up her purse.
"Will's gonna get his." Jey said.
"I know he is and I'm gonna make sure of it." She says as Briana comes into the living room.
"Can I have my phone now?" She asked sounding like little kid.
"Oh. Yeah. Sure." Leona said running to her room leaving Jey and Briana alone.
Jey glides next to Briana. "So ... um ... You dating anybody?"
"No." She says.
"Fucking anybody?" He asked.
"What! NO!" She asked almost disgusted with Jey.
"Good." Jey says smirking at her. "So what do you think of my cousin Roman?"
"What?" She says.
"What do think about my cousin Roman? Can't you tell that he likes you?"
"He's good looking." She says pushing her black wavy hair behind her ear. "Seems genuine and honest. Great in bed."
"WHAT?!" Jey yells.
Briana laughs. "I knew I would get you with that."
"You and Leona man with these sex jokes." Jey said.
"But in all seriousness," She starts and leans into Jey. "thanks for sending me the message letting me know where you were staying. I really needed to talk to you guys and I needed to be around people. Plus I didn't want Leona to hate me anymore."
"No problem." Jey said. "and Leona will come around eventually."
"Do you think she'll ever trust me?" She asked.
"Eventually." He reiterated. "She'll warm up when she finds out you're true motives."
"Hey! I want them dead just as much as you guys." Briana lifts her right sleeve to reveal a line of stitches on her right arm. "Maybe this will convince her that I'm on her side."
"When did this happen?" Jey asked shocked.
"A couple of days ago. Will came over and told me that if I didn't help him then he would slit my throat. I told him no and he did this." She said gesturing her eyes at her wound. "I didn't know what to do. I hid in my house. I was scared to leave. This is the first time I've been out of my house and now I have a chance to get out of here."
"Here's your phone Briana." Leona said holding it out for her.
Briana quickly pulls her sleeve down and turns to Leona. "Oh. Thanks." She says taking her phone.
"Jey did you get all of Lion's stuff?" Leona asked knowing that he didn't.
"Oh shit!" He says running off to his room.
"I heard everything." Leona says to Briana who looks at her wide eyed. "Don't panic. It's okay. I trust you ... for now, but if you fuck up or pull some shit on me I swear ... it's going to be me and you. Get it?"
"Got it." Briana said.
"Good." Leona said.
When Briana was about to respond to Leona the door opens and in walks Roman wearing a crisp white suit with a black button up shirt that he paired it with a pair of all black alligator shoes and a black fedora hat. He has comes in carrying four suitcases. Briana smiles at him while Leona rolls her eyes knowing why he's so dressed up.
"Roman. Where the hell have you been?" Leona asked knowing he was use the excuse of I didn't have anything else to wear and this was all I could find.
"I couldn't find anything to wear." Roman said fixing his eyebrows.
"Really?" Leona said knowing all of Roman's excuses.
"I think he looks good." Briana said.
Leona tries not to laugh. "I'm packing the car." Leona said picking up two suitcases and leaving the two alone. "I can't even right now." She said laughing through her words.
Briana walks over to Roman. "I think you look great."
"Thank you." Roman said winking at her.
When they arrived at the airstrip, the luxury plane was waiting for them. Standing there waiting was one of the attendants to get their luggage from the car. They quickly abandon their vehicles for the plane and take their carry-ons with them. When they get on the plane everyone was in awe at what they saw except Leona of course.
"This is your plane?" Camille asked.
"My Dad's actually." Leona said.
"Leona. Your family is ballin' something big." Briana said.
Leona hated that people point out the fact that her father is rich. "My Dad is rich." She wasn't rich. She just got part of her inheritance.
"Either way." Briana said. "You got it made."
"Well right now, no one has it made." Leona points out. She looks around and sees someone missing. Two someones actually. "Where's Jey and Lion?"
Jimmy goes out to check and sees Jey struggling to pull Lion onto the stairs by his leash. "Need some help Uce." He asked.
"Nope!" He says scooping Lion up in his arms and carries him up the steps and onto the plane. "I got it."
When he puts him down Lion tucks his tail down and starts to whimper. He was so scared of the being on the plane. He goes over Roman who was sitting on the couch and jumps into his lap.
"Don't shit on me! I'm wearing white." He tells Lion like he could understand him. Lion licks his face and leans on him like he was a scared little kid. "Okay. You can stay here."
Briana comes over and sits closely next to Roman and pets Lion on the head. "Poor baby."
Camille sits down on the opposite side of them. "You guys are so cute."
Roman rubs his hand over his face clearly embarrassed. "Camille stop it."
"What?" Camille asked laying down on the couch trying to go to sleep.
The pilot comes out of the cockpit to tell them that they will be next for take off and to buckle up. "Is everyone here?"
"Yes! Yes! Everyone is here on the plane. We're ready to go now. No one more than me." Leona says anxiously sitting in her father's special chair.
"Calm down." Jimmy says.
"I will be calm when we are off the ground and away from here." Leona says pulling out a bar of chocolate from her carry on.
"I thought you don't each chocolate?" Camille asked.
"Comfort food. I'm not comfortable with flights." She says stuffing her mouth with the chocolate.
Jimmy wraps his arms around her and kisses her cheek. "It's okay. I'm here." He said taking his seat on the couch and buckling himself in.
"So are you two together or what?" Jey asked sitting between Briana and Camille buckling his seat belt.
The couple doesn't answer and the awkwardness in the air could be felt. They didn't even know what their relationship was so they couldn't really tell anyone else what it is.
"Just answer the question." Jey said.
Leona starts to slowly grab at the air. "I can just feel the awkward." Which causes Jimmy to laugh.
"I don't care. You guys are together." Jey says as they hear the plane start up. "You can't fool me."
"Um. Jey?" Leona raising her eyebrow at him.
"That was junior year and we said we weren't gonna mention it ever again." Jey says buckling up Camille who had quickly fallen asleep.
"What did I miss?" Jimmy asked.
Leona chuckles to herself. "Oh I just convinced him that dry sh-,"
"HA BLAH WHAT WAIT! NO!" Jey stammers over his words. "Stop Lion!"
The dog raises his head with sad eyes thinking Jey was talking to him telling him that he was doing something wrong.
"You're scaring Lion." Leona said.
Jey looks at Lion. "Sorry little buddy not you." He turns back to Leona and Jimmy. "but she convinced me to do something embarrassing and that's all we're gonna say."
"Okay Jey. I'll respect that." Leona says not wanting to embarrass him in front of everybody.
"But wait?" Roman chimes in. "I wanna know what happened."
"The only way you'll know is if Jey tells you himself." Leona said. She wasn't gonna tell anyone that she convinced Jey to dry shave himself because it would make him run faster in football and that shaving cream was not healthy for private areas.
Roman turns to Jey and reaches behind Briana and starts poking his shoulder."Tell me."
"No." He says.
"Tell me."
"No."
"Tell me man."
"NO!"
"I can do this for hours and you know that Jey. Tell me." Roman said continuing to poke him.
Jey smacks Roman's hand away. "Quit it Roman!"
"Nope." He says continuing to poke at him. It was just like they were children again. "Tell me."
"Quit it!" Jey says unemotional.
Roman looks at Lion who was looked like he was falling asleep. "Do you think Jey should tell me?" Lion looks up at him and gets up and barks once. "I think that means yes." He says as Lion puts his head down and whimpers.
"What's wrong Lion?" Roman asked.
Just as he said that Lion heaves and throws up all over Roman's lap and onto his white pants.
"Shit!" Roman yells startling Camille. "Lion! Why?"
"Excuse me folks we are ready for take off please make sure to buckle up and please remain seated." The captain said over the intercom.
"Well. Looks like you're stuck for a while." Jey said covering his nose from the smell. "My poor Lion."
"That's disgusting." Briana says pulling her shirt over her nose.
"That's just funny!" Leona said smiling at the situation not even bothered by the smell of the dog's spew.
"My pants." Roman says. "It's not funny Leona."
"You're right. It's not funny. It's damn near hilarious." She says as the plane finally starts to leave the ground. All Leona could think was ... 'Thank God! California? HERE WE COME!'
There it is. The eleventh chapter! It was kind of lighthearted.
Roman in an all white suit is a sexy sight. Yes ... I had to ruin it! LOL!
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