One night I had over a couple of people over for drinks. My ex stopped by, we went into my bedroom he was trying to be all over me, but all I could think about was a year ago when he called his self punching on me because someone had told him that I had got into a fight and I didn’t hit back, so I started punching him.
He saw he wasn’t getting anything so he left. An hour or two went by my TV started going on and off on its own. Everybody looked at everybody, I searched for the remote control thinking someone maybe be sitting on it, but it was on the floor beside no one. We all started freaking out. One by one everybody starts to leave. I know I’m not going to be able to stay here by myself so I walked to my mother’s house.
Talking to myself as I walk down the road, “As soon I get to my mom’s house I’m going to bed.” As soon as I reached my mom’s back door, I wonder who could be up Baker’s house so I kept going through the path in my mom’s backyard. At baker’s he cook for to sale, shoot pool, drink, & play cards.
When I reached Baker’s house Veta, Paul, Baker and a couple more people was there. Veta and I had been seeing each other for a couple of days now. “What was he doing after he leave Baker’s” house, I asked. “Paul and I was just chilling,” he replied. “Would yall like to come to my house to chill,” forgetting about what happened earlier that night with the TV. “Let me go ask Paul what he want to do, see can you get one of your friend for him” Veta said. I used Baker’s phone trying to call someone, but no one wanted to come over to be with Paul.
Veta came back to me “Did you get anybody?” He asked No, I told him. Paul asked Veta to ask me to hold his dope until we get to the village. He said they didn’t’ want to drop it in the woods and since earlier the police was searching every black guy they saw because some thing happened earlier that day, and since I was a female they wasn’t going to mess with me. The only thing was on my mind was that I was going to get laid, so I said yes. Here is my keys just in case yall get there before me. They went one way, I went the other.
While I was walking back to my house I kept checking my pants to make sure the dope was still in place. I reached the village, before I went to my house I stopped off by my cousin’s house to see what they was up to. They wasn’t doing nothing so I decided to go home still feeling nice from drinking I opened my front door, Paul was in the living room Veta was in the kitchen looking for something to eat. I went to give Paul his dope, it’s gone. “Wait,” I checked again. It’s not here. Veta and Paul looks at each other. “Where did you go,” they both asks me. When I left Baker’s house I went through my mom’s yard, over my cousin, and then I came home. “Let’s go back track, Kim please don’t be trying to play with my money” Paul replied. I made sure I didn’t drop it I kept checking, I told Paul.
We arrived over my cousin, Knock, knock, knock, my cousin’s mom came the door.” Hi, have you seen any dope in here I asked. “No, but you can go look if you want to.” After we left there Paul and I went back to my house, but Paul sent Veta down to my mom’s house to see if he could find his dope. When we got back to my house Paul and I had a conversation about how much the dope was worth. $500, he said that’s a lot of money, I said, I kept going on about how I don’t see how I lost the dope because I kept checking and it was there. V
Veta walked in, tell Paul he didn’t see nothing. Paul looked at me ” Kimberly stop playing I want my stuff and I ‘m going to fuck you up until you give me my shit” Tears starts falling from my face in a shaky voice I reply, “I don’t got your stuff, let me call my brother he would give you your $500 back”. Veta then said wait,” I’ll go search again, as soon as Veta closed my front door, Paul started walking for me, I started walking for my bedroom trying to go in my bathroom and lock him out , but he burst through my bathroom door and started choking me. I broke my mirror trying to let the neighbor know something isn’t right call the police.
Paul pulled me from the bathroom threw me to my bed and started choking me some more. Trying to steal some air, I can’t breathe, SOMEBOBODY HELP ME(!!!) is all I all I can’t scream. I can’t move, I the only thing I see my ceiling lights. Paul saw I wasn’t responding, he starts to shake me, then he gave me a big slap.
I grabbed my throat and scream “Why you do that to me,” I ask. Are you okay, Paul asks me. All I can is cry” $500 dollars I can’t believe you was going to take my life over $500, I’m hurt because I thought Paul was my freind.Veta finally came back into the house, “I found it” he replied. I started for my kitchen looking for the biggest knife I own, I ran back into my living room where Veta and Paul was, I charged at Paul , he ran the only thing that saved him from getting stabbed in his back with my knife was that he ran in my bedroom and close the door. “Get out my house,” I screamed.
15 min. after they left I heard a knock at the door, it was my cousin. “How you doing”, she asked. “Veta came by and he was like let me go give Paul his dope before he kill that girl,” my cousin told me. My heart dropped, Veta let me take the fall for something he wanted to steal from his friend.
I knew then I had to leave Abbeville before I end up dead.
Kimberly Jackson is the mother of one and a licensed hair-stylist. This is her first published story. She is a resident of Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
