𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤, 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 - Chapter 9: Chapter 9

Tink
I wince harshly as I watched the blood drip onto the floor. Carefully sitting the blade down on the bathroom counter, I leaned back onto the wall and slid down it, breaking down all over again.
It's been about a week since Ke'Andre's death. I haven't been to school at all and I know i'm way behind on loads of work.
Here I am becoming the person that Dre never wanted me to be.
Dre walked into his best friend; Yazier bedroom with a walmart bag in his right hand. Dre and I were staying with him until he saved up enough money to get us our own place.
"Wassup Tinker Bell" Dre kisses my forehead as he sat beside me, handing me the walmart bag.
"Daila helped me..imma nigga ion kno bout pads or tampons" He nervously laughed. Daila was one of his female friends.
I smiled at him before playing with my fingers in my lap.
"Tink I been needing to talk to you.." His face became serious as I stared at him quietly "You know I love you right? And i'll never let anything happen to you..ever. If anything happen to me I want you to continue following your dreams. I want you to still grow up and be that famous artist you've always wanted to be. Just because i'm not here don't mean stop your life alright?" I nodded
"I don't want you to leave tho Dre...you have to be here forever. Why can't you just stop dealing drugs?" My voice cracked as I spoke softly. Tears were now streaming down my face.
"I have to make sure we eat and keep a roof over our head. Yazier isn't gonna let us stay for long." He sighs deeply before hugging me
"Just promise me that when i'm not here you won't turn into a depressed teen? Don't change who you are babygirl" He kisses my forehead as I nodded "I promise"
I lied to him...
Knock
Knock
Knock
I continued to lay in my bed, ignoring the knocking. Whoever it was needed to leave me alone.
"Tink I know your in there open up!" Myla's voice was heard from on the other side of the door "bitch cmon it's cold!"
"Why haven't you been at school? Everyone been talking about how you got locked up and shit. What's going on?" She walked inside quickly. I closed the door, locking it.
I only stared at her as my face turned red and I broke down again. This was starting to get annoying as hell! I'm not used to crying like this and I just wanted it all to stop.
"My brother was killed...Myla, h-he died in my arms! Right there!" I shouted while pointing to the spot that was once soaked in blood.
I was able to get the carpet replaced 2 days after the incident but it felt like I could still see the blood in the carpet.
Myla hugged me tightly while rubbing my back "I'm so sorry babes" She mumbled.
"Deontae asked about you..." She whispered as we sat on the couch. I shook my head while wiping my tears.
"Myla does it look like a give a fuck if he asked about me?! My blood fucking brother just died and you wanna sit here and bring up some irrelevant ass nigga?!" My body was now shaking hard and i'm pretty sure my face was turning red.
She sighed and stood up "Alright Tink you right i'm sorry"
For the rest of the day we watched movies and ate snacks. I couldn't focus on the movies..my mind would wonder off and think about DeAndre.
2 Tears slipped from my eyes as I pulled my knees up to my chest. Myla gave me a small smile before hugging me and rocked us softly.
"You should head home it's already late and I really don't want to lose anyone else" I spoke as my voice cracked. Myla was a suburban female and she defiantly didn't need to be on this side of town during the night.
She already drove an expensive car and wore expensive shit. She needed to leave now.
I walked her outside to her car with my strap tucked in my shorts as I checked our surroundings.
The only eyes I could feel on us was from the grown men that was sitting on the stairs smoking a black.
"Call me when you get home so I can know you made it safety" She nodded before giving me a quick hug and hopping inside her car.
After watching her car until I couldn't see it anymore I turned around on my heels and tried to past the men.
"Damn wassuh lil mama" One of them smirked at me while grabbing my wrist. I snatched my arm from him and rolled my eyes.
"Leave me alone" I tried to walk away again but this time one of his friends grabbed me by my hair.
I pulled my pistol out my shorts and pointed it at his head "let me go now!" I spoke through gritted teeth.
The man only stared at me with a smirk on his ugly ass lightskin face. Before I could pull the trigger someone snatched it out my hand from behind me.
I stood there shaking with tears running down my face now. What was I suppose to do now? There were 4 grown men and only me..a 17 year old.
I started to scream but the brownskin one with a beard covered my mouth and pulled me into the woods next to the complex.
"no please! Help!" He threw me in a pile of leaves as him and his friends gathered around me, unbuckling their pants.
My body was numb at this point. I laid there with my head in the leaves as they finally finished with me.
"Your stupid ass brother couldn't save you now" I heard one of the deep voice chuckle.
Once I was sure they were gone I looked around, getting dressed as my hands shook violently. There was blood dripping between my legs, leaving stains in my shorts.
I limped out of the woods as tears rolled down my face. As I made it to the stairs I seen a car pull up. The headlights were blinding me then...everything went black.
Deontae
I ran over to Tink's body before it hit the ground. She was all bloody and her clothes were torn. Nah don't think the worst Deontae.
I picked her up bridal style and jogged up the stairs before going into her apartment. I laid her down on the couch and went to lock the door before going into her bathroom and running her a hot bath.
Once the tub was full I turned the water off and made my way back into the living room to get Tink. Seeing her like this made my heart sink. My trigger finger was itching to put a hole in someone's head.
"Tink..wake up" I knew she was alive because I checked her pulse already. After shaking her a little bit more her eyes opened and she jumped up, gasping and crying hard.
This wasn't the Tink I knew..the Tink I knew woulda punched me in my shit for touching her or waking her up. She wasn't the scared typa female and for me to see her all scared and shaken up hurt me even more.
"It's me calm down" I reached for her arm and she flinched hard while staring at me with tearful eyes.
"Y-y-you weren't there for me..." She stuttered as more tears fell. My baby was hurting..bad.
"I'm sorry Tink but we needa get you cleaned up first and we'll talk about it in the morning okay?" I looked down at her while biting my lip slightly. She hesitated a nod before I picked her up and took her to the bathroom.
After getting her cleaned up we laid in her bed with my arms wrapped around her tightly and she laid close to me.
It was weird seeing her like this I'm used to her smiling or atleast hitting onna nigga.
"Tae..."
"hmmm?"
"Protect me..please " I could hear her voice crack. Saddest shit ever to hear man.
"I gotchu mama" I kissed her forehead and we fell asleep just like that.
Morning
Groaning loudly at the sound of my alarm. I grabbed my phone and turned it off before looking over Tink. She was sitting up, staring at the wall prolly zoned out.
I really needed to talk to her about what happened last night.
"Tiana" She continued to stare at the wall then I noticed tears drop from her eyes. I sighed and pulled her to my chest, hugging her tight as she broke down.
"Why me? Tae what am I gonna do now?" She sat up next to me, sitting cris cross with her hands in her lap.
"My brother was all I had and now..he's gone. I can't stay here...I have to get out of here Deontae" Her voice sounded so fragile as her body shook.
"Those men..they raped me Tae. They took me to the woods and they fucking violated me!" She cried "get out just get out"
I looked at her confused before pulling her into me again and held her as she cried herself to sleep. I texted King and told him I wasn't gonna come today and for him to pick up all my work.
Once she was asleep I laid her next to me and went into her bathroom, fixing my hygiene and shit like that. I walked back into her room and she was laying there with a frown on her face as she slept.
This shit was crazy bro...
Later once she woke up she went to her bathroom to take another shower and when she came out she was wearing a oversized hoodie that said "backwoods" and some sweatpants.
"this was DeAndre's favorite hoodie...it still smell like him" She smiled weakly before sitting on her bed and stared at me.