Safe in His Arms is a well written entertainment piece about a couple, Tyran and Julian, and their plight to be with one another.
Excerpt
Tyran recalled sitting at home one Friday night, watching old episodes of Girlfriends on BET. Julian knocked on her door and from the moment he entered, his persona was different. Ty was a very observant person, she had to be with her profession, and had immediately noticed something was wrong. She paused her DVR, “Hey bay,” (Ty would often take the second “b” out of baby when using this term of endearment), “What’s wrong?” she’d asked, concerned.
Julian cautiously glanced up from the beige carpet he’d been staring at since he’d entered her condo. “We need to talk,” he stated hesitantly. Not knowing whether Tyran would start tossing frying pans and glass picture frames in his direction after he finished his explanation, Julian decided he’d remain standing for this conversation. Though he’d never known Ty to be violent, he was cautious with all women, because he knew when provoked, they had a way of flipping the script.
Ty sat the remote control down and gave Julian her undivided attention. “Ok…” she said, still sensing something was wrong. “What’s up?”
Julian stalled, looking at everything except Ty’s eyes. In this moment, as random as it seemed, he noticed how well decorated his lady’s condo was. Everything appeared to be in its proper place. Artwork and huge picture frames covered with family and friends decorated the walls. To someone who didn’t know Tyran, they’d think she’d hired a professional decorator; but Julian knew all too well this was Tyran’s work, because she’d decorated his single family Stucco home in Missouri City, with his permission of course.
Knowing he couldn’t delay this conversation any longer and that Tyran would eventually run out of patience, he looked her in her eyes.
“Ty, what we have is really nice. It’s real cool,” he began. “You’ve been the best girlfriend a man could ever have, but…I can’t see this relationship going any further than this.”
Copyright 2010 Tierra Allen. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.
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