Because I Can :) *5*

When I got home Ro was already there watchin TV in the lving room.

" You home early." I asked as I shut the door behind me.

" Yea, something wrong with that?" he asked deffinsevly.

" No, I was just askin." I said sitting my bag down on the kitchen table. I fixed me something to drink then went in my room. I had homework to do but I didn't feel like doing it so I was glad that my friend, Lamar called me.

We had already been on the phone for awhile and I was starting to get sleepy. I heard a knock at my door.

" Yo' can I come in?" Ro asked.

" Yea." I said and told Lamar to call me back. He came in and took a deep breath before taking at seat at the edge of my bed.

" We need to talk." he began.

" Yea, I know." I said drawing my kness to my chest.

" Ok first, what in the hell were you thinking when you brought that nigga in here?!" he exclaimed as if it were about to burst out of him.

" I mean I was thinking that since he was my boyfriend that we could..." I said and he looked at me crazily.

" I wouldn't give a fuck Keke. Boyfriend or no boyfriend that still don't tell me why he was fuckin in here to start with!" he yelled.

" Ro' I wanted him to come up here but I really wasn't expecting you to walk in on us." I said.

" Ke'lya boys don't respect you when you do shit like that." he said shaking his head.

" What you tryna say Romon? You have already called me a hoe damn." I said throwing my head back.

"...and you know I was just mad when I said that Keke, but no matter how yo take it sis I ant gone sit her and let you fuck everybody in the goddamn world and act like its all good. My sista ant gone be no muthafuckin hoe you hear me." he said seriously. What the hell does he know? I thought then soon the word followed.

" I'm NOT!" I said getting fustrated, "...and who the hell says I fuck everybody in the world. You work all the damn time, how the hell you know what's going on with me?" I said louder.

" I work to take of our both of our asses. I care more about than yo do yo'self Keke." he said.

" Man whatever. You don't give a shit about me. I mean what did I do to have to hear my own goddamn brother call me hoe. Please." I said rolling my eyes at him now getting upset at how unfair he was being. I mean I am 16 years old. shit happens, teenagers fuck.

" How can you say that shit with a straight face? I could out in the streets grindin and take care of my own but I choose to do the right thing and make sure you get you get yo' lil ass out of the hood." he said.

" Well, if that's what you want to do Ro go ahead and leave me." I said hurtfully. He took another deep breath in fustration and there was a moment of silence. I was so mad at him right now.

" I'm not leaving you ok." he said. I was forcing back tears now. I turned my head to avoid him from seeing the ones that were already escaping.

" Keke, I didn't mean it like that. I'm just saying how you think I felt when I came home and seen some nigga fuckin my sister in my own apartment." he said in more aggresive tone. (Ro has a flashback of ewhen he found them)

" I should have fuckin killed his ass." he muttered but I still heard him.

" It was my boyfriend." I said.

" And you think he was worth us arguing like this over." he asked. I didn't think about it was but I hated the fact of how Tyrone had caused me and the only real family I had to turn on me like this. It hurt to hear the words come from his mouth. Hearing in the streets or at school was way different form hearin it from Ro. It hurt so much.

" Ro, I'm sorry ok." I said sniffing.

" Come on now don't cry." he said. I looked at him and saw that same protective/care gleam in his eye. He put his arm around me.

" You too good for all them niggas. You don't need them." he said shaking his head.

" The only nigga you need is me and the only girl I need is you cause in the end sis that's all we really have." he said. I smiled. My mama used to say that after dad left and before she passed. " Yall are my babies and the only person you need in yo' life is me and the only people I need is you two and in the end that's all we really have." I said aloud reminescing.

"I miss her too." Ro said and I feel asleeep in his arms. I never seen Ro cry not even at Mama funeral. He said that crying wasn't gone help his problems so he never did. I never knew how he did it and to this day I still don't.