*A/N: What's up, folks?! Just a warning, there is a mention of abuse in here. If you don't feel comfortable, don't read it. Skip over that part if you really have to. Remember to see all trigger warnings at the beginning of the story!

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"Carms, you fucked your own boss? Well, shit. Did you get a raise out of it?" I asked as a chuckle came from my lips. I mean, come on. You should at least get something out of it, right?

We were sitting on the couch and talking about our days. I just got off from my job for the local newspaper with the thought of leaving that place on my mind. My supervisor is a pain in my ass and continues to flirt with me as if I were into him. The life of a good-looking lesbian, huh?

"No. It just happened. It was something like I've never felt before. He touched me in all the right places, touched me softly, and didn't want to let me go. Jana, it set my soul on fire," Carmon said as she smiled to herself and leaned against the couch. Dude must have put her under some kind of love spell.

"Oh shit. Someone's in-"

"Hell no! Don't even say it! With that punk?! I don't think so. It was just a moment of sensual release. We can go on about our days and be professional again," Carmon interrupted with a small chuckle coming from under her breath...

I could see through her muse. She didn't want to believe what she said. She enjoyed being intimate with her boss and knew that.

"Carmon, sometimes, you don't know how to hide your feelings. You really care for this guy," I spoke as I took a sip of water from my water bottle.

Rolling her dark brown eyes in denial, she scuffed "Whatever, Jana. Anyway, Loraina needs me to drop off something. I'll be right-"

My hand fell over her breast and pushed her back onto the couch. While it was a slight turn on touching her like that, it was meant to block her from going over...there again.

By there, I mean Heath's house. She found every excuse in the book to keep going over there. As her friend, my job was to help and protect her. Keep her from anything that may harm her, you know?

"First of all, you will stay right here. He doesn't deserve whatever Loraina is trying to give him anyhow," I said as the drawing fell into my hands.

My mind wondered where Loraina was anyway. Usually, she comes in and interrupts our conversations for a glass of juice or has Carmon's panties on her head.

"Jana, that's still her father. He has every right to be in her life even if it means he gets just a picture from her. I'm going to go ge- I mean...I'm going to drop it off at his house," Carmon said as she sat up and looked at me.

"That's the thing, Carmon. He's not even trying to be in her life. You're forcing it on him. You know what? Since Jessica made it perfectly clear that YOU can't see him, I'll take it to him. You know you're not allowed to be over there," I said as my eyes landed on a beautifully drawn picture of Loraina and her parents.

She drew a sunset behind them as they all held hands. The words 'I love you' spread out across the drawn skyline and it made my heart hurt. Not just because Jess and I couldn't have children of our own, but because Loraina really loved her father. He just didn't care.

Annoyed at my statement, she rolled her eyes and sighed heavily. She knew what I said was true and that it was for her own safety. "Fine. Just let him know that Loraina has a parent teacher conference next week. I think it's on Thursday. Maybe he'll come to see how she's been doing in school. Tell him nicely and please don't make a scene," Carmon pleaded as she stood up and marched into her room while her heels hit the floor with each step.

"You must be referring to the other lesbian who lives here," I mentioned as my feet led me to my room and my eyes looked around for my keys. For some reason, my mind couldn't be taken off the whereabouts of Loraina and Jessica. Maybe she was with a new friend she met at school and Jessica was at her job. Wait...she didn't work today. Where the hell did she go?

As I'm searching for them, I thought about reconsidering my choice of going to Heath's house. He was terrifying enough. Being in his space would have made me choke. Maybe I could pretend Heath got the picture. Nah, because Carmon would have probably called Heath to make sure he got it. Damn it.

My entire mood was off. My vibe was unbalanced. This had to be fixed before my next gig at Club Jinx soon. Jess lifted her ban over working at clubs, but she had to know about them two weeks in advance. She had to go with me. This club is a gay club. What do I look like...

Never mind. I take that statement back. But what's a relationship with no trust, right? I believe that I've changed ever since my tongue had to go around each of her toes a while ago.

Speaking of that, she was turned on like a newly lit fire. Her toes curled up and shit as I moved up her legs and...

We'll stop there. Just know that we were both turned on and it turned into a whole sex scene we've never experienced before.

Anyway, she still didn't trust me and I blame this all on her past relationship with Leo. Plus, she had an absent mother and father. In fact, her whole family wasn't in her life besides Rena. Maybe I have a bit to do with this as well. She trusted me with her heart and I broke it many times.

So I finally found my keys and they were found in Jessica's panty drawer. Don't even ask me how they got in her underwear drawer. Hell, I don't even know how they got in there.

Grabbing my keys, I walked out of the room and out of the apartment. The drawing was in my back pocket while my key ring spun around my index finger. Spinning them around my finger usually calms me down, but this wasn't working for me today.

As I walked to my car, thoughts raced through my mind and my heart beat out of my chest. Heath isn't friendly to most women, especially Carmon and anyone associated with her. He couldn't possibly do anything to me, right? Last I checked, we were on good terms. Hopefully, this was going to be a quick visit.

****

Pulling into Heath's concrete driveway frightened me a bit. It stood alone, surrounded by many bushes and trees. A freshly painted white fence surrounded the house while the house itself stood tall with a light blue exterior. White panels fell over the exterior as well. The porch was covered with home furniture and plants. You wouldn't think this is a predator's house.

Sighing heavily, I exited out of my car and shut the door.

Did I really want to do this?

No.

Do you really want to help your friend?

Yes.

Carmon wanted me to do this. Plus, there could be a chance of him changing after seeing this beautiful picture that Raina made.

Once my feet found its way to the porch and in front of the door, I knocked on the door and turned my back. A burnt scent swiftly passed my nose as my head held down. What the hell was he cooking? No wonder Carmon dated this guy. They had many things in common. One of them was that they both can't cook.

Soon, the white front door opened and the strong fumes of something burning attacked my nose like a wild animal. There stood a grey-eyed Heath with a surprised face on. His shirt was off, exposing the tattooed top half of his body. Sleeves, chest, neck, and all. The only thing that wasn't tatted was his face. How the fuck did he get all of them damn tattoos?

A small smirk came over his face as he promptly took the blunt from his mouth. "What's up, Jay?" he said as he welcomed me into his house.

The last thing I wanted to do was enter his house because the vibe was off from the outside of the house. It was a hectic and cold feeling. At the same time, Carmon told me not to make a scene. Might as well go in.

As I walked into the house, my eyes landed on tons of alcohol/beer bottles on the floor. There were pizza boxes and unfinished food laying all over the place. Bags of unidentifiable substances laid all over the kitchen's island and on the living room table. Thongs, panties, bras, paper, condom wrappers, other miscellaneous clothing, unfinished blunts, and many other things laid in the mist of that house. It was a mess.

This is what Carmon wanted to be with? A carnivore that didn't know how to clean his own home? This is what she wanted Raina around? She wanted her in this type of environment? Is she crazy or is she just stupid?

"You gonna just stand there and look at my place or are you actually going to say something?" he spoke harshly and took me out of my thoughts.

"Look, I'm just here to give you this and let you know that Loraina has a parent teacher conference next week. Carmon says that you need to be there," my lips finally opened as he took the drawing and placed the blunt back between his small lips.

What got me so wound up was him calling Raina's name while he studied her picture. Why was he calling her name? She shouldn't even be here. He had to be high off some stupid shit.

Soon as he called her name, a dark brown-haired pigtailed Loraina came walking down the stairs with a white shirt under her overalls, Converse shoes, and an open condom in her hand. She played with it as if it were a balloon or some shit.

WHAT THE FUCK WAS SHE DOING HERE? How the hell did she get here?! Why did she have a condom in her hand? That could have been used!

"Yes, Daddy?" she said with a smile on her face. Her grey eyes fell on me and her smile grew wider as she watched me stand at the end of the stairs with anger filling my heart.

"Did you draw this for me?" Heath said as he let her see the picture. She nodded her head with a smile on her face. What the absolute hell?!

"Raina, what in the world are you doing here? How did you get here?" I screeched in surprise. Heath's eyes darted to me once I asked that question. Shit.

"Well, Daddy picked me up from school today. He said that Mommy was coming to get me soon," she said as she blew into the condom. I wanted to snatch that shit away from her but there was no telling what Heath was going to do if I did.

"Well, I was expecting your mother, but Jana will have to do," Heath noted as he looked at me up and down. He scanned my entire body with his grey eyes and a smirk came over his face.

"Well, sorry to disappoint you but I'm not available. Come on, Raina. We need to get you home," I spoke as my hand reached for Raina. My attempt to help Raina out of this hell hole failed as Heath pushed Raina back onto the stairs and blocked my hand. His rather large hand grabbed my wrist and my heart began to race.

My eyes shot up at Heath's confused look and he said "Woah there. What makes you think you can just come in my home and take my daughter without payment, baby?"

He did not just call me 'baby'. Shit.

This meant that he was turned on. The look of fear came over my face as he smirked and blew his smoke in my face. My eyes darted to Raina as she sat against the stair walls in fear. A knot formed in my throat as an evil smirk grew more across his face.

"I tell you what, doll. You can take her if you let me take something else," he growled lowly as he grabbed my neck and stood me up. The fear in my heart grew throughout my body and goosebumps fell all over my skin. I was scared as hell. It was like going back to my childhood. Why the hell did I decide to come here? Trying to help my friend and, here I am, putting myself in harm's way. Risking my life, or vagina in this case, for my friend. This is what I constantly do.

His lips were centimeters from mine as his large hand gripped my petite throat. He moved from my lips to my neck and he left soft kisses on my neck. My body shook at the touch of his lips. I wanted to cry so bad.

Suddenly, my ears heard a "Daddy, what are you doing? Auntie Jay is with Auntie Jess."

That's my girl. Loraina here to try and take his mind off of Auntie Jay. Sadly, that didn't work.

"Go upstairs, girl. I'm handling business," he said sternly as he turned to look at Raina.

She shook in fear and said "But Daddy-"

"MOVE UP THOSE STAIRS NOW!" he bellowed as he pulled a gun from his back pocket and aimed it at Raina. The black gun pointed at her and she just stood there with a shocking face. She just couldn't move. A frightened look came over her. My poor Raina.

"Daddy, please don't hurt Auntie Jay," she pleaded as tears fell from her sweet grey eyes. The hand on my neck grew hot as he aimed the gun towards the ceiling and shot upward.

"That was a fucking warning shot. Keep going and the next bullet is going through your head. Go upstairs, damn it!" he shouted in anger.

Raina sobbed as she struggled to run up the stairs. My heart dropped down to my feet and shattered like glass. I was pissed off for her.

"Now you don't have to talk to her like that. That's your daughter. Show a little more-"

"You really should not talk so much," he said as he tightened his grip around my neck. Nervousness and fear fell over my body. It shook all over again and tears fell from my eyes. He took the back of my neck and slammed me into the wall while pressing himself against my backside. Moaning and grunting in my ear, he rotated his pelvis against my backside and pulled my hair roughly.

This wasn't how this was supposed to happen. He was just supposed to get the drawing, know what Carmon told me, and I was supposed to leave. I seriously believed we were on good terms, but that wasn't what he thought.

Tears began to grow in my eyes as his hands traveled across my body painfully. He scratched my stomach and gripped onto my small chest roughly. My heart hurt so much as this reminded me of a time when my childhood was stripped away from me at a young age. Hoping that someone would save me from this, Heath spun me to face him and pushed me against the wall again.

There was no keeping my cool at this point. This brought back terrible memories of my childhood and I hate going back to those days. Talking would have made me break down in front of this monster. I just let the tears do the talking.

As he held my neck tightly with one hand, he used the other hand to snatch my leggings and underwear off. "You know what? I bet you're tighter than Carmon. Ready for your first rodeo with the dick?" he spoke as he pulled his pants down, exposing his large member.

Little did he know that this wasn't my first rodeo. My eyes closed as it slung around. It hurt my eyes just watching him smirk at me. Enjoying the pain I was going through. My heart was just pounding out of my chest because I was about to be abused once again. No one was here to save my ass. My attempt to save Raina my way failed. I had to do this his way. I guess it was worth it.

As soon as he was about to stick the head in, a random knock came to the door. Yes! A knock was here to save me!

Or was it?

Please don't tell me this wasn't any of his friends come to run a train on me.

My tears came down faster as Heath let me go and went to answer the door. As soon as he opened it, a special voice came through with "Where's Jay at?"

It was my baby girl! It was Jess! Although it was her angry voice, it was Jess' voice. I know her voice anywhere and was nothing but grateful for her tracking me down!

"She's not-"

"Boy please. I tracked her down here. There's a tracking device in her foot. Now move," she said as she pushed him to the side and walked in.

Did she really put a tracking device in my foot? No wonder my left foot itches at night. Every time at midnight, there's a massive itch that comes to my foot and I just stay up scratching it until one in the morning.

She looked him up and down, realizing that he was naked. She scrunched her cute little nose up and looked around the house. With a look of disgust, she said "You know what? You should really invest in a maid around here. This makes no sense."

Her eyes fell over my way and they widened. She was not happy with the way I looked at that moment. Teary eyed, halfway naked, and just exhausted.

"What the hell is going on here?" she asked as she looked between Heath and me.

My heart jumped as soon as I saw Heath's hand reach down to get his gun from the floor.

"Jess, move! Go upstairs!" I shouted as my hands pushed her towards the stairs.

Gun shots fired throughout the house as we raced upstairs to Raina's room. We opened her door and slammed it behind us. Jess locked the door as I looked around her room. Her walls were painted purple, but there were only a few books that laid around the room floor. An air mattress sat in the corner with a small pillow and a throw blanket on it. There were about three toys sitting around the floor, but the room practically looked empty. Raina looked up at us with tears in her eyes and said, "Auntie Jay, what's going on?"

"That's what I want to know! Why is Raina here?! Why are YOU here, Jana?! Why are you halfway naked?! We're about to fucking die!" Jess cursed in anger and fear.

"Raina, right now is just not the time to explain. We have to get out of here," I spoke as my legs kneeled to her. My eyes fell over a closed window that led to the side of the house. It was the only way out and the closest window to our cars. That was it!

"You can't explain now before we die?! I'd like to know why my girl was about to fuck around with my best friend's ex before I die!" Jess shouted in anger as a banging noise came to the room door. It frightened all of us.

"Jess, we'll talk about it later. We need to escape from that window. I'll go first. You bring Raina down next and you come out last. Got it?" I explained the plan as I walked over to the window and my hands flung the window open. This was the only chance for freedom.

As Raina continued crying in Jess' arms, Heath continued to kick against the door and shot at it. "Come on out, baby! We aren't done playing yet!" he spoke loudly as he beat on the door again. Raina screamed as my body made its way over the window seal and fell into a bunch of bushes.

My heart relaxed and my eyes watched as Raina was being pushed out of the window. She held onto the panel and shook her head.

"Raina, you have to fall. It's okay. We're just trying to save you," Jessica persuaded as she kissed Raina on the forehead.

I got up from the bushes and held my arms out to catch Raina in my arms. Once Raina let go, she fell on top of me and we both fell to the ground. Luckily, I didn't black out this time. Jessica, on the other hand, was used to this type of thing. She landed right on her feet and helped us up off the ground. My eyes looked up at the sky and just thanked goodness that we were safe. We escaped from the arms of the devil.

As Jess and I ran to our cars with Raina in hand, we heard Heath finally bust the door open and look through the window. I buckled Raina in Jess' car and she whined "Are we going to be okay?"

"We'll be just fine, honey. Take her home, Jess," I smiled with victory as my lips touched Jess' forehead. Rushing to my car, I entered and cut on the car so fast. Heath was coming out from the front door and shooting at our cars while we drove off. That was so close.

Something had to be done about this guy as he could have killed all three of us. Three people that were very important to Carmon. She doesn't understand that she put us all in danger and she would have been crying if we were all dead. I just hope and pray that this teaches her to leave this guy alone.

Suddenly, I got a video call from none other than Tiffany. Her nosey ass was the last person I wanted to talk to, but she was the only person I could talk to. Rena wasn't home, Jess was driving Raina home, and I definitely didn't want to speak to Carmon at the moment. Maybe she could bring my mood down for this gig coming up in...now one hour!