Chapter 12
Cooper opened the door to the room he rented above Kelly's. He looked around the room as he threw his duffel bag on the bed; it was small but still comfortable. As he started to unpack, his thoughts drifted to Maxie, as they had been doing a lot lately. He thought about her wanting to know where she fit in with him having a girlfriend, she deserved to know where she fit in with everything that was going on between them.
Cooper picked up the phone and started dialing her number pretty much knowing what the first words out of his mouth would be.
"Did you get the money?" She asked curiously, as she picked up the phone.
Cooper rolled his eyes.
"No Alex, I didn't,"
"Then why are you calling me?" Alex asked quickly becoming hostile.
"I'm breaking off our agreement or whatever the heck you want to refer to it as," Cooper explained.
Alex answered without hesitation.
"That's fine with me,"
Without even saying goodbye, they hung up but Cooper wasn't surprised because what they had wasn't really considered a relationship. Not giving Alex another thought, he picked up the phone and called Maxie.
"You said you wanted to talk to me and it was important, what was it?" Maxie asked once she sat down at the table.
"You remember those conversations we had where you said you wanted to know where you fit in before we took it any further."
"Yeah," Maxie replied.
"I broke things off with my girlfriend,"
"You did? How did she---" Maxie was cut off by the voice of a girl that looked to be about the age of fifteen or sixteen walking up to there table.
"Cooper," the girl said with very little emotion in her voice.
"Chasity," Cooper replied.
Maxie glanced up at Cooper hoping he'd give her any indication of what was going on.
"Who are you?" Maxie asked.
"I'm his sister,"