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“She’s breaking my heart. What should I do, Brianna?” She shrugged. Neeka interrupted with sarcasm. “You could give up.” “That’s not an option. That goes against my nature.”
He felt like kidnapping the bitch, if he were to be honest with his thoughts.
“I had to do it. My thirst is real.”
I’m not the nigga that gets the girl everybody wants and forgets she’s the girl that everybody wants. Trust me… I know what I have.”
I witnessed firsthand the way people stared at Denny, approached him with caution, if at all. Misjudged him… labeled him… feared him. To me, he was just Denny; to everyone else, he was a big, black scribbled on menace.
“Look… Neeka’s a smart girl. She challenges me in ways women twice her age are not capable of doing. You should give her more credit.”
If my tear represented a body I’m responsible for there’d be no more room on my fucking face, something inside of him whispered.
He was so passionate, sometimes too passionate.
“…but if you kill whatever is growing inside of you… which is mine, a part of me. I’m sure all of that love would vanish. And I will seriously hurt you… I will most likely murder you.”
At fifteen years old Denny was diagnosed with a special case of psychosis, blended of a mild form of schizophrenia and bipolar type 1 disease. He has also been declared at his adult screening as a sociopath. And hell, at one time they were even monitoring him for Dissociative Identity Disorder or more known as uh, split personalities,”
Denny, crazy? Shit, she knew that. But truly, truly crazy? Hell, she felt like the crazy one right about now.
“You gonna leave me now, right?”
Denny, you are still very much…” She seemed to search the air for the words. “...obsessed with Neeka. Your addictive personality has you using, let me correct myself… supplementing Neeka for your therapy. Before Neeka, it was what, the tattoos… the pain helped you relax, you were abusing that. But ever since meeting Neeka you have become fixated on her, addicted to the feeling that she creates within you. And while I did tell you in the beginning that a healthy relationship was possible and could even be beneficial, you seemed to take it to a new extreme, instead of allowing Neeka to become an
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“Neeka, I think you’re afraid to marry Denny and you’re using your father as an excuse.”
“I think you love Denny but deep down inside… you’re afraid of him. And you’re afraid of being trapped with him.”
you are aware that this is a man who has been tested and declared by various observations a sociopath, a psychopathic personality with criminal behavior who lacks moral responsibility or social conscious? A schizophrenic, with delusional tendencies who cannot always think clearly and have normal emotional responses. Not to mention, bipolar type 1 with manic full-blown outbursts, severe symptoms where he loses touch with reality. You are prepared to marry him, with all of that?”
do you love each other enough… to stop loving each other.”
I guess the deeper in love we fall, the scarier the thought of that love leaving us becomes.
