She was already halfway down the hallway when I caught up to her.
“Toni,” I called.
She kept walkin’.
I reached forward and grabbed her arm to stop her.
She turned around quick. “What?”
I looked at her face for a second. “You still mad about all this shit,” I said.
“I’m not,” she replied fast.
She pushed her hair back over her shoulder but a strand fell across her face. I reached up and moved it out the way without thinkin’, slidin’ it behind her ear while I studied her expression.
“You say you fine, but you got a fuckin’ attitude.”
“I don’t have an attitude,” she muttered.
“You do though.”
She folded her arms.
“Toni,” I said, “if you knew you wasn’t really over that shit then why pretend like you was?”
Her eyes flashed. “Don’t flip this on me.”
“I’m not flippin’ nothin’. I’m just sayin’ you clearly still holdin’ onto it.”
“You the one that stuck yo’ dick in that bitch,” she snapped. “So don’t stand here actin’ confused about why it might still bother me.”
I went quiet for a second. Then I exhaled and shook my head. “Man… a’ight.”
“Exactly,” she said.
She turned and started walkin’ away again, and I stood there for a second, watchin’ her go, but I couldn’t just let her storm off like that. So I followed her again.
“Toni, stop,” I said, catchin’ her hand, but she yanked it back.
“Kay’Lo, leave me alone.”
“I’m not leavin’ you alone while you mad like this,” I replied, walkin’ beside her.
She tried to move past me and I grabbed her hand again, pullin’ her back toward me. She pulled away.
“Toni.”
“Kay’Lo.”
She tried to walk around me again so I stepped in front of her and pinned her against the wall so she would stop runnin’ around the house.
Her eyes widened immediately. “You pressin’ on my stomach.”
I shook my head and stepped back right away. “You know damn well I ain’t doin’ that,” I said.
Toni wasn’t stupid. She knew damn well I would never do nothin’ to hurt her or the baby. She just needed space and that was the easiest way to make me back up.
She slid past me the second I moved, and just like that she was walkin’ away again.
