With winter break approaching fast Raven was spending most of her time studying for finals and making sure her program was perfect and would run exactly how she needed it to. While Stephen could hardly concentrate on his technical writing paper.

He couldn't stop thinking about Raven. The way he made her toes curl and how sexy her sex faces looked to him. He loved the way she would smile in between kisses and the way she would hide in his chest when he stared at her. The way she laughed when he would tell her corny jokes and how she would pout and get upset when he wouldn't let her win a game that they were playing. How she would sneak food off his plate or out of his bag when they would go out for food and the way she would hum a song and do a little sway dance when they would have chocolate chip cookies and Vanilla Ice cream.

Everything about her made his heart heavy and he felt like he couldn't live without her. He wanted to take her home with him for the break but he didn't know how she would feel. The topic had come up a few times but it got pushed off because she had become so busy making sure her grades looked perfect.

His phone began to ring and he smiled wide seeing the photo of him and Raven appear.

"Wussup baby girl?"

"Nothing, I miss you. Come over and keep me company?"

"I'll be there soon, you hungry?"

"Um no Gracie's mom ordered me pizza since I couldn't go out with them tonight."

"Finals killing my baby."

She rolls her eyes and focuses back on her laptop. Brent Faiyaz - Gang Over Luv plays just loud enough for her to concentrate in the background.

"Ight, I'll be there in ten have the door open and don't leave the room."

"I'm washing and I haven't had any problems lately."

"I know."

He fumbles around his bed tossing his binders and laptop into he backpack before slipping on his Tommy slides and grabbing his windbreaker from the hook by the door and heading out.

When he reaches her building he parks in the front making his way up with his friend Dee. They talk for a while and a few girls eye him while he stands in front of his boys room talking.

"Hey Slim."

He eyes her while the guys laugh and she attempts to touch his arm.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. He not too cool on shawtys being disrespectful."

"Nobody asked you Brehon."

Shortly after Raven finds her way into the hallway with her pink laundry basket, headphones, and tigger bobble head slippers.

"Go back in the room and puts pants on."

"It's fine, I'm washing."

He grabs her waist and pulls her into him taking in her scent. He loved how she always smelled like bath and body works and the new fragrance she had been wearing made him always think of winter.

And if looks could kill Raven would definitely be two hundred and twenty feet deep. Every female on her floor envied her. What made her so special? Why did he have to choose her? Out of all the girls basically throwing themselves at him, he chose the one nobody even bothered to look at.

"I'll go get them. You'll take my bag to the room?"

She nods and he passes her his phone too so that she can stop it from vibrating.

"It's your mom."

"It's for you, she knew I was coming over."

She answers and his mom squeals when she sees her face. She's grown fond of Raven and wants to finally meet her instead of FaceTiming her.

Michelle knew that her son wasn't always this good boy, but he always did what needed to be done to make things work in his favor. Despite her son's temper and choice of work when he was home she loved everything about him. But now that Raven was in his life he had become more subtle and didn't pop off as often. He would call her and talk to her for hours about how he felt, which she loved. Stephen had never been big on talking to her especially about girls, but the way he would sit and pour his heart out about Raven made her know that she was the one for him.

"Hey Mrs.Ace."

"Hey princess, I told you to call me Maryland. How have you been tho? Those girls still giving you problems?"

She shakes her head no opening Stephens bag and setting up his stuff in the corner of the bed beside her.

"No everything's been fine since he told people to leave me alone."

"That's good."

Grace storms into the room and Raven finally hears all the yelling and commotion in the hallway.

"What's going on Grace."

"We need to like get out of here now, Stephen, Terrance and a group of boys are going at it and it looks pretty serious."

"Wait what? Mrs. Maryland I'll call you back."

"Ok baby."

She hangs up and rushes out the door behind Grace and down the stairs to the parking lot behind the building. She spots Terrance holding Stephan back and a group of guys standing around while him and some guy attempt to get at each other throats.

"I'll fuckin kill you yo, I put that shit on bro."

"Fuck yo bro."

Stephen breaks loose and gets a hold of the guy while Raven stares in awe at how vicious he can become. She's snapped out of and screams his name making him stop punching the guy. His face softens while the boy lays there covering his face as his boys watch.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing..... Um come on we going back to my place I don't want you here anymore."

He grabs her hand and goes to walk away. But as we all know things can never be that simple. The boy finally gets up and calls behind Stephen antagonizing him.

"You fighting over a bitch everybody already fucked. You gone learn the truth. A hoe gone always be a hoe."

He turns around walking up on the guy again and swings hard once knocking him out.

"Tell that bitch to watch his back."

Raven keeps her head down as he drags her through her building and packs her things and his before dragging her back down to his car.

Furious would be an understatement at this point and she knew he was heated so she wouldn't talk. She didn't want to try and touch him because she didn't know how the situation would play out. Terrance sit in the back seat trying to talk down his anger but nothing was working. Stephen wanted to know the truth behind all the shit that was being talked while he was trying to get her clothes from the dryer.

When they arrive at his building he practically drags her out of the car. Terrance grabbing their bags for him and bringing them up while Stephan storms in the room slamming the door.

"Baby what's wrong talk to me."

She grabs his face and feels it's soften a little while trying to get him to just focus on her. His eyes finally meet hers and he takes a deep breath before pulling her onto his lap.

"I know I'm not the first person you've had sex with but I need to know that I'm the only one that you've been having sex with since we started talking."

"Of course you are, what would make you think you weren't."

"Them niggas was talking about how you were fucking with some nigga named Corey and you fucked him and his best friend and let them record you and some more shit."

"That was like three years ago. You have to stop letting little shit bother you. If a bitch told me about every bitch you had sex with I'd probably be expelled by now."

He laughs and places small kisses on her forehead before placing one on her lips. She attempts to turn it into more seeing how stressed he and she both had been the past couple of days. But he wasn't having it.

"Imma go get our stuff so we can get these papers out the way."

"Oh.....um.... ok I'm sorry if I was pushing it."

"You straight."

She sighs knowing that this is going to be on his mind for the rest of the week , but she's not going to let his attitude stop her from getting the grades she wants on her finals.

When he comes back into the room she grabs her bag from him and gets settled in the far left corner of his bed before beginning to finish her COMP II exam. Stephen flops beside her laying his head in her lap.

"I want you to come home with me for a couple days during winter break and I'm not taking no for an answer."

She saves her progress before closing her laptop and stroking his face gently.

"Only way I'm going to go is if you talk to me."

He sighs not really wanting to talk about the situation anymore. Just the thought of another guy penetrating her, making her toes curl, making her moan, or anything of the sort made him furious. Raven was his and only his, everything about her was his, her body was his, her smile was his, her mind was his. He was the reason for her happiness, her pleasure, her healthy weight gain, and nobody would be able to change that.

"That shits' over with Ray."

"You won't even fucking touch me E so it's not over."

"What do you want me to say "Niggas keep telling me you got around.". I'm a hundred percent sure you don't want to hear that shit come out of my mouth, especially when I'm starting to believe it since I'm hearing it so frequently."

"So what? Niggas got you thinking I'm a hoe now? The shit happened in high school E, I was young, yeah I made mistakes and let them record me but it shouldn't still be a big deal. But then again i forgot that its different for guys, y'all can fuck as many people and record as many females as y'all please no problem. But as soon as a female starts to act the same she's a hoe or a slut and that shit lives with her forever."

"To make the shit even worst the niggas go here and you expect me to think that them niggas don't be hitting you up still?"

"THE SHIT HAPPENED IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL! WHAT PART OF THAT SHIT NOT GOING THROUGH YOUR THICK ASS SKULL?! OVER! FUCKIN DONE WITH!"

Raven begins to pack her things and he snatches her book bag from her hands tossing it in the corner of his room before grabbing her hands and keeping her still long enough to get her attention.

Stephen sighs knowing that he fucked up by not letting the situation go but he couldn't help but let it bother him. Usually things like this wouldn't bother him but this whole situation was and he didn't like it at all. Everything bad about Raven made him upset because he only saw the good in her, he saw the side that most people didn't see, he knew the pain she had went through. All the hours and late nights they stayed up pouring their hearts and problems out to each other made him see her as someone that not everyone got to see her as.

She had just became comfortable with her natural hair but she still enjoyed wearing braids and the occasional quick weave, she was just now enjoying her weight something she struggled with since she was younger, and she was still not into makeup but she would occasionally mess around with it and he loved how subtle it looked on her face.

"Look baby I'm sorry, you know I don't mean to upset you, but you also know that I hate the fact that another nigga was touching you before me. You're mine now and that's all that matters so can we put this all behind us please? I apologize Ray, I wont let it happen again."

She nods wrapping her arms around his neck and planting small kisses along his jawline while he smiled and pulled her onto his lap. She hated how frustrated he would become at the thought of other guys liking her or being attracted to her. His attitude would skyrocket and she would spend too much time trying to calm him and reassuring to him that she was only his.

Little did Raven know that this would only be the beginning of Stephen and her problems. When he would tell her that she was his she would giggle and agree with him because she knew how happy she made him. But little did she know that he meant it in every way possible. She was his property, he didn't want anyone looking at her, breathing in her direction, texting her, trying to see her, being around her, and he was working on getting her out of her dorm room so that she would be closer to him at all times.

"I'll come home with you but only for two days, I have to go home to my parents too."

He nodded in agreement but he wasn't going to let her stay with her parents all break. Raven was staying with him and that was final. He would take her home to her parents but just to visit and so that he could meet them but he didn't want her far from him.

"You still wanna have sex?"

She looks at him slyly and shakes her head no grabbing her laptop back out and finishing her paper.