*slap*

Dominic was rudely awaken from his sleep by a hard slap to the face. Sitting up he searched his room for the perpetrator until his eyes landed on his sister standing next to the bed.

" WHAT THE FUCK !"

"I could ask you the same thing Cookie, you haven't left this place in two weeks we're worried about you"

Two weeks ...had it really only been two weeks since he'd quit his job? Swinging his legs over he got out of bed and stretched before getting up and heading to the kitchen to find something to eat with Devin hot on his tail.

"tell ma I'm fine . . . . and would you stop calling me that "

"it's not just ma that's worried and YOU know that….When was the last time you spoke to your boo bear?"

"Stop calling him that"

"I talked to him yesterday he hasn't heard from you since you quit, why do you feel the need to ruin everything for yourself? you need to talk to him"

"and say what Dev?"

"How about starting with ' I'm sorry ,I'm a selfish bastard' and finishing with 'Please forgive me baby' and cap it off with a hell of a lot of groveling"

He mindlessly searched the fridge to keep from looking at Devin's face….damn he needed to go grocery shopping. Giving up on his fruitless search he turned around and looked at Devin who stood there with her arms folded waiting for a response.

"what if he hates me because I cost him his job?"

"Cookie..He doesn't care about that,he found something worth more than a job..Dominic He loves you , you know that"

Dominic walked around her to the living room and sat on the couch putting his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. Devin wanted to whoop Eva's ass for what she did to her brother and Colby 's lives. She walked over and sat on the couch next to him and began rubbing his back. Devin wished she knew what to do she'd been speaking to Colby and she could tell this was hurting him. He didn't sound like himself when she talked to him yesterday,their mother had always said 'Dominic had so much book smarts that there wasn't any room for common sense' she had never understood that until this very moment the man was dense to say the least.

"I fucked up Dev"

Dominic mumbled into his hands finally breaking the silence , truthfully she agreed with him one hundred percent.

" Royally…...but, it's not too late to fix this call him…..you know you need your boo bear Cookie."

Dominic started to laugh for the first time in two weeks,as annoying as she was Devin had always had a knack for putting him in a better mood.

" I needed that" Dominic said with a slight chuckle in his voice.

"you NEED to call Colby" Devin said getting serious again

"I can't" Dominic said moving his hands from his face and looking at

"Wwwwhhhhyyyyy?" Devin whined shoving Dominic's shoulder and throwing a mini tantrum.

"I..uh...I have no earthly idea where my phone is "

Devin stopped and looked Dominic in the eye not believing what she was hearing . She picked up the pillow and hit him in the face with it.

"Are you fuckin kidding me?"

She then continued to hit him with it shouting obscenities the entire time . Dominic curled up in a ball trying cover up from her wrath.

"Devin stop" He pleaded and after few more hits she stopped and sat down catching her sat up and scooted far away from her hoping she didn't attack again. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone and began pushing buttons a look of concentration etched on his face.

"What are you doing?" Dominic asked his curiosity getting the better of him.

"minding my damn business and suggesting that you do the same" She responded matter of factly her eyes never leaving the screen.

"who are you texting?" Devin shot him a sideways glance before continuing her texts.A moment later she sat her phone down and looked over at her big brother.

"Go shower and get dressed we gotta go?"

"where?"

"to get you some groceries "

"Thank God" he got up and headed off to shower.

" And to get you a phone so you can call Colby and put the both of yall out of your misery" Devin mumbled to herself once Dominic was out of earshot.