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Catrina tried to look around him. It enraged her that she knew that voice. Struggling to put the face with the voice, Catrina squinted against the pain, dizziness, and the poor street lighting.
    She recognized the girl walking towards them. Frowning, she took a step away from him.
    “What are you doing with her?” Sharde questioned nastily.
    David completely ignored her, studying Catrina, who now looked as if she was about to fall face first onto the concrete. It felt as if she were spinning and when she looked down at the sidewalk, it seemed as if it rushed up to meet her face.
    Her pain was intense enough to make her cry but it was the realization of what was happening inside her body that had the first tears rolling down her cheeks.
    “Chris!” she yelled.
    Can’t be angry. Have to get calm. Please get calm, Catrina.
    David made a move forward. “This is not what you think—”
    Catrina stepped away from him. “I don’t care,” she flagged. “This nigga is with this bitch and he act like I’m stupid,” she stated when she reached Chris.
    “You okay?” Chris asked as he slung a protective arm around her shoulders and pulled her with him. He shot his older brother a furious look for being caught again.
    “Trina!” David called her.
    “Please take me home,” she cried to Chris.
    “Catrina, let me take you home so I can explain,” David pleaded.
    “I don’t want you to take me anywhere. You’re so stupid!” she raged. She took a moment to wonder if her pain had stopped or if she was just too angry to feel it.
    “I’ll take her,” Chris told David.
    “David,” Sharde called from behind them, “what are you doing?”
    Catrina knew that Sharde was smart to remain where she was. She guessed Sharde figured the distance between them kept her safe. In this instance, she was correct. There was too much pain for her to take any type of action against the other girl. Although they were not friends, they lived in different hundreds of the same street and knew one another in passing. They were acquainted with one another enough that the girl knew that David was her boyfriend. Catrina would remember the girl’s betrayal. It did not affect her deeply as David’s did.
    “Chris, take me home,” she ordered. “And if I see that bitch on my block,” she spoke of Sharde knowing that she would, “I’ma beat her ass.”
    He had to fix this, David thought. “Yo, she don’t mean shit to me, Bey,” David stressed.
    “I don’t wanna fuckin’ hear it,” she yelled, instinctively going over to push David.
    Chris intervened by standing between his brother and Catrina. “I’ll take her,” he stated. “Give her a little time,” he pleaded with David as a crowd of people on 20 th and Susquehanna Ave. started to circle around them to watch.
    Catrina walked away before David could see the tears begin to stream down her face. “You gon’ be a’ight?” Chris questioned once he was seated beside her in his nineteen ninety Crown Victoria.
    Catrina couldn’t bring herself to speak so she just shook her head. She felt like she was losing everything. At that moment she stopped feeling completely. Then there was nothing, not the cramping or the ache in her heart, they both seemed to have disappeared.
    Casey
    The unexpected knock at her bedroom door had Casey stopping in the process of getting dressed.
    “Who is it?” she asked checking her appearance in the full length mirror attached to the back of her door. She admired the subtle curves of her body and hoped that someday Daemon would as well.
    “D,” the answer came.
    Knotting her the belt to her robe, Casey smiled and said, “Come in.”
    Daemon entered her bedroom wearing his reading glasses and the boxing shorts and white-tee that had become his pajamas. He cleared his throat after taking in her appearance. He glanced around the well lit room.
    The bedroom was all her. It was painted her favorite color; lilac. In the one corner she had named the wall of