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“She sleeps with other men.”
“She fucking doesn’t,” I snapped.
This wasn’t about Mom anymore. I saw myself in Dad, talking shit about Imani. And I knew that Imani wasn’t even fucking mine yet. She had every right to do what she wanted. I didn’t want myself to ever become like this with her.
“If you believe those lies that whore tells you, you’re going to let women walk all over you. They’re nothing but worthless pieces of shit. They all do the same fuckin’ thing. You’re better off without one.”
My phone buzzed in my back pocket. I pulled it from my jeans to see a message from João. Instead of reading it, I opened my Discord app and clicked on Imani’s messages. I couldn’t help myself. She’d changed her profile picture from one of her in sexy lingerie to one with her lips puckered, where you couldn’t see anything other than her pouty little mouth.
A green circle appeared next to her picture, and she started typing almost immediately. I waited and waited and waited for her to write her message, watching intently.
Rosy: Why’d you do it?
Why? I didn’t know why I had done it myself. When I had seen the first message last night, my throat had tightened, my mind going to one thing and one thing only, and I couldn’t stop myself from proving myself right, proving my thoughts right, proving Dad right.
Rosy: ???
My finger hovered over the Reply button. I wanted to message her back.
Rosy: All you had to do was tell me that it made you uncomfortable.
It wasn’t that easy. It couldn’t be that easy. It was never that easy.
Rosy: If you’re not going to respond to me, fine. Don’t fucking message me back.
Dad smacked me across the face, and the only thing I could think of was Imani hitting me in the hallway. There had been so much hurt on her face and in the slap, but it was nothing like Dad’s, who did it because he always had, because that was how he thought people deserved to be treated.
If Mom had let me, I would’ve killed that man by now.
“Look at me when I’m talking, boy,” he said. “Don’t think a woman could ever love someone as stupid and useless as you. Your mother can’t even love me. Nobody will want a no-good son of a bitch like you.”
