Pawns & Kings by D. D. Bridges

Author:D. D. Bridges [Bridges, D. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter XIX- D.J.

Sitting around our dinner table with my mother and sisters was a great reminder of everything that was truly important to me. I had come there hoping to find Darius just so that I would have the opportunity to go in for the kill, but as soon as I saw Dajah and Daniella all of those plans went away. I was really close with all of my siblings, but especially Daniella since we were closer in age. Seeing them for the first time in months reminded me that family was what really mattered.

Seeing my mother was like drinking a cold glass of water after spending days in a desert. Everything that I had done and experienced over the past few weeks had changed me in ways that I hadn’t even fully come to grips with yet. But being in my mother’s arms made me feel like the old me again. With her I was still that innocent, curly-haired little boy who could do no wrong. But I would never be able to let her know that her little boy was a scarred and broken man now, and that I could possibly never be repaired.

I looked up from my half eaten plate of lasagna as I listened to my baby sister talk a mile a minute about everything from her hair to her clothes to her friends and all the gossip going around at her school. This was typical behavior for Dajah. She always seemed to be talking non-stop about any and everything, and I normally found myself ignoring half of what she said. But she gained my full attention when she mentioned that she talked to Darius earlier that day.

“Wait a minute… Darius called you?” I asked.

“No, we were texting,” Dajah said as if my question had gotten on her last nerve. “We told you that he came by the other day. I can’t wait until you meet him because he is so cool.”

I hadn’t told my family that Darius and I had already become well acquainted, and I had no intention of telling them. But the last thing that I needed was my baby sister thinking that Darius was “cool”.

“Dajah, I don’t want you talking to him or texting him,” I told her seriously. Her whole expression changed as she became angry.

“Why not, D.J.? What is wrong with you two?” she asked, looking back and forth between Daniella and I. Daniella had been in a pretty sour mood the whole night, but I wasn’t surprised because I knew how she felt about all of this. Daniella and I were on the same page as far as our ire with Darius.

“Just trust me on this, baby girl,” I told Dajah. “Darius is not who you think he is.”

“What do you mean?” she asked genuinely confused.

“He destroyed our family, Dajah,” Daniella blurted out. “It’s because of him that mom and dad got a divorce and we had to move to Miami.” We all fell silent as the weight of her words settled on us.

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