A Dangerous Love 7: Smiling Faces Hide Lies

by J Peach

“I was trying to find out what happened to them. That little nigga in there said she saw her talking to Tish before she bounced out with Blake. Fuck!” I hit the dashboard, realizing my fuck up.

  “If she has Blake with her and she ran into Tish knowing everything we do, she probably took him somewhere safe,” King said.

  “Fuck!” Damn! My hand ran over my head. “Yo, Peach don’t know shit about this. I ain’t tell her shit. Damn, I fuck’d up!”

  “What the fuck you mean she don’t know shit? B, don’t tell me you got my sista running around this bitch blind?” King stopped at a light and turned to face me.

  “Fuck, I ain’t want her stressing so I didn’t tell her shit. I ain’t tell her nothing.” I didn’t think to keep Peaches informed because I never let them out the house or unprotected for that matter.”

  “OnStar her damn car,” King suggested.

  “Damn, I forgot all about that shit.” I grabbed my phone to pull up the tracker.

  “You lo-jacked her car?” he asked.

  “Hell n’all, I bugged both their phones.” I told him as I pulled up the GPS tracker.

  “That shit ain’t no good if the phone is off—”

  “King, shut the fuck up, nigga. I ain’t stupid. Nigga, don’t you think I know that? The fuckin’ thing ain’t in their phones. It’s a small fuckin chip on their sim card. So the phone don’t need to be on to track. Just shut the fuck up.” I pulled up Peaches phone on the GPS and immediately it put us in route of her location.

  The GPS took us on a fifteen minute drive to the mall where we found Peaches car. King parked behind her car and let out a relieved breath.

  It didn’t feel right to me, though. If she was at the mall why would she leave her phone in the car? I hopped out the truck and called her number again as I made my way to her car. I peeked inside hearing the tune play. Peaches’ phone sat on the front seat with her purse. I looked at the mall then pulled out my set of keys and unlocked her doors.

  The smell of cigarettes hit my nose. “Fuck!” I kicked the car hard, leaving a dent in the side. “Mothafuckas!” I was pissed with myself and the mothafucka who took her and my son. I turned on the lights to see if they dropped something. Once I leaned into the driver’s seat, I noticed the keys in the ignition.

  Seeing her keys eliminated the small hope of them being in the mall, shopping. Peaches leaving her phone in the car was possible but to leave the keys in the ignition and lock the doors wasn’t.

  King and I continued to search the car but ended up not finding anything.

  My hand rubbed my head as I tried to calm myself down. I was ready to tear the whole fuckin’ city up. I took a deep breath. I couldn’t think. My mind flashed with different terrible scenes of what could’ve happened to them. I couldn’t focus, all I saw was them dead.

  Those thoughts was fuckin’ with me bad. A helpless feeling filled my gut and I got even more pissed. I didn’t even know where the fuck Tish stayed, so I didn’t have a place to even start looking.

  “Fuck!” I punched at the steering wheel. I had no one to blame but myself if something was to happen to either of them. I should’ve told Peaches everything instead of keeping her in the dark.

  “Blaze, where Blake’s phone?” King poured everything out of Peaches’ purse.

  “What the fuck is you doing?” I wanted to punch his ass only because he was close to me. I needed to tear some shit up. I was gon’ fuck some shit up!

  King ignored me and pulled out his phone. He dialed numbers and held up his finger to me. He stood there as if he was listening for something. King hung up his phone. “Pop, the truck.” Hurriedly he put everything back in Peaches’ purse.

  I did as he asked and followed him to the back. “King, what the fuck you doing?”

  He tossed Peaches purse in the truck then grabbed the gas can from the back. “Track Blake’s phone. Come on.” He tossed the can in the hatchback then hopped in the driver’s seat.

  I locked up her car then jumped in his ride. With finding her purse and phone I forgot all about Blake’s cell.

  I pulled up the GPS location for Blake’s phone. Just like before it immediately found his device and put us in route to him. A new sense of hope formed in my gut as we left further from the mall.

  Somebody done fuck’d up.

  They better hope neither of them was hurt.

  “We gotda make a stop before we get there.” All I needed was my toys.

  My body became jittery as excitement filled me.

  Somebody most definitely fuck’d up.

  Chapter 30

  Peaches

  A painful, muffled grunt left my mouth as I opened my eyes, blinking to clear my vision. The right side of my face was in so much pain. My eye felt swollen and my head throbbed. I was in a dazed state I wasn’t able to register anything around me.

  It wasn’t until I felt the stroke of fingers caressing my stomach that I became fully aware of what was happening. The cold hands made my belly tighten. I glanced down at Tishana sitting next to me. I saw her lips move but she was whispering so low I couldn’t hear her.

  I jerked my body and glared hard at her. “Bitch, don’t touch me!” I tried to yell forcefully but my mouth was taped.

  Tishana smiled at me before she punched me in the face. “You have to be the dumbest bitch I know. Do you not know I could kill you right now? Peaches, you’re smart, so you know this. But yet you continue to try and hurt me. Why?” She swiped her thumb over my eye. “You’re bleeding.”

  I jerked my head away from her.

  She grabbed my chin and held it tight. “Stop it. Why do you want to fight me?” She placed her ear by my mouth as if she was waiting to hear my reply.

  I looked away from her and my eyes landed on a large puddle of blood, then Blake immediately popped into mind. My eyes widened and I began to look around the basement franticly for him.

  My body jerked around and tears began to pour from my eyes. “Where is he?” I screamed the words loud in my mind but they only came out as mumbles to her. I tried to move my arms but they were taped against my side as were my legs.

  I tried to plead to her with my eyes but it didn’t seem to work.

  “I want to know what you’re trying to tell me so bad. But your mouth is very dangerous and it hurts me…” She stopped talking once she noticed I wasn’t paying her any attention after the first sentence. She followed the direction I was staring at and she waved her hand. “A big ass mess that little boy made. But I’ll just paint over it once we’re done here.”

  Tish’s words had a muffled sob leaving my mouth. My shoulders shook as my chest heaved up and down hard. I shook my head trying to convince myself it wasn’t true. The large pool of blood wasn’t helping my thoughts. My knees folded and I tried to pull myself up to somehow make my way over to the blood.

  It just couldn’t be Blake’s. My heart squeezed painfully and I fell to the floor crying. My nose became stuffed and I started to choke from my lack of oxygen.

  “Shit! It’s not that serious, Peaches. He wasn’t even your child. Lord, you are so dramatic.” She ripped the tape from my mouth.

  Immediately, I started to get sick.

  “Ugh, that’s so nasty.” Once I finished, she pulled me away from the vomit.

  “Tish, please tell me my son is okay. Please just tell me he’s not dead.” I begged her.

  Tish’s eyes rolled up in her head as she tore off another piece of duct tape.

  “Tishana, please!” I screamed for her to tell me.

  She simply ignored my request and put the tape over my lips again.

  “He’s not your son. Peaches, you didn’t need him.” She grabbed a crate and sat in front of me. Her hands came out and she rubbed my tears from my cheek. “I like you, really like you. And I meant what I said about apologizing. You have to know our friendship was real. You just got involved with some really bad people. I felt terrible about you losing your baby. I know how it feels to go through that and have to be
alone. I tried to reach out to you, Peaches, be there for you through it all. But you wouldn’t let me. I understood, though, because I went through it. Twice actually and both times almost killed me. Do you now understand why I had you pulled in the middle?” She asked me as her fingers continued to stroke my cheeks.

  My head reared back and I stared at her through tearfully squinted eyes. “Why?” I didn’t understand what she was talking about.

  “Why?” Her eyes cut into mean slits before she quickly composed herself and a faint smile came to her lips. “You asked why?”

  My head nodded before my eyes slid to the pool of blood again.

  Tish moved in front of my view so I could no longer look at it. “It’ll be better if you didn’t look at it. It’ll only remind you of him. So focus on me. Okay?”

  This bitch was fuckin’ nuts. “Why?” I wanted to understand what I did or the people I was involved with did to her that was so terrible.

  “Why? That’s what I want to know. Peaches, I’ve been trying to figure that out since I was sixteen but he never gave me a why. He just ignored me as if it never happened.” She shook her head.

  My head titled to the side showing my confusion.

  “Blaze.” She bit into her lower lip as she tried to contain her smile. Tish’s eyes seemed to glaze over as she stared passed me.

  Now I was even more confused for the simple fact she encouraged me to give him a chance and not to give up on him. Why would she do that? I didn’t understand. “What?”

  She looked at me. “Hm?” She hummed in a questioning manner.

  My eyes squinted in a confused manner.

  She snapped her fingers. “Oh, I got you. You didn’t know about Blaze and I. No one knew,” Tish shrugged her shoulders. “I was young and he wanted to keep it a secret from everyone. Especially since him and Sam are best friends. It used to piss me off at first until one night…” her smile widen.

  My eyes cut at her hard. This psychotic bitch was doing this because she was crazy about Blaze? That didn’t explain why she encouraged me not to give up on him.

  “I was staying with Sam for a little while. Blaze crashed at the house after one of their drunk nights. You know how they get. Anyway, that night he told me how he felt. He told me that he loved me.” She let out a giggle.

  I was so confused. I was sure the blank look showed on my face.

  She caught it and rolled her eyes. “What you think? You’re the first woman he ever loved?” The attitude in her was very noticeable.

  I didn’t respond but I’m sure my face gave away my true thoughts with its blank stare.

  She saw it and jumped up, kicking the crate. “Well, you wasn’t. He loved me. He may have not said it with his mouth but his body told me he did. Blaze was in love with me and I loved him. That whole night he let me take full control of us.” She smiled again. “I knew he loved it. His eyes stayed closed the entire time as he groaned. He let me do whatever I wanted without stopping me.” Her teeth sunk into her bottom lip and again she seemed to daze off.

  My brows raised as I played the many different times Blaze and I had sex. He never once let me be in full control of us nor were his eyes ever closed. Blaze, loved to watch me as we had sex or made love.

  I stared at Tish with a tilted head. I hummed to get her attention. It just didn’t make sense to me. The way she was describing her experience just didn’t seem real. Hell, it didn’t fit Blaze, period.

  My lips wiggled for her to remove the tape.

  Tish rolled her eyes and walked to me. “If you bite me or do anything stupid, I’m going to kill you.”

  She ripped the tape from my lips.

  I glared at her. “I’m sure your night was special, Tishana, but are you sure it was with Blaze—”

  Her hand shot out and she slapped the shit out of me. “What are you trying to say?” She pulled me up, getting in my face. “I know who I gave myself to! Blaze was the first man to ever touch me. Yes, I’m positive it was him.” She pushed me into the wall then fixed her shirt. “We spent the whole night together. I held him all night long until I had to sneak out of his room the next morning.”

  She held Blaze all night? I don’t know who the hell she was with but it damn sure couldn’t have been Blaze.

  “What happened after that?” I asked her curiously.

  “I don’t know. That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out. What did I do wrong? The next morning he completely ignored what we did. I thought he was going to talk to Sam about us being together but he didn’t. I tried talking to him but for some reason I couldn’t catch up with him. Everything went back to how it was. I was just Tishana, his best friend’s sister. Nothing else and that hurt me. Blaze was my first and he played me. But I guess he didn’t want to ruin his friendship with Sam. After that, we barely talked but that wasn’t nothing new to me. Blaze was never talkative when he was around me anyways. But then after a few months had gone by, I found out I was pregnant.” Her hand went to her flat stomach.

  “Blaze was your baby’s father?”

  “Yes, he was. Peaches you wasn’t his first everything. He loved me first. He had a baby with me first. Hell, you didn’t even make baby momma number two. Bitch, you’re number three. I was here way before you.” She snapped at me. Her chest heaved up and down as she panted, pissed off.

  “I knew he loved you. I could tell from the way he looked at you and how he picked on you. I knew that, but why did you push me to make things work with him?” I was going to play this game with her. It was obvious Tish wasn’t dealing with a full deck and I was tied up, there was no telling what she would do.

  She let out a depressing sigh and then sat next to me. “I seriously thought I was the only one who noticed the way he teased me at times.” Tish let out a laugh.

  She was so lucky I was tied up. As soon as I got lose, I was going to kill that bitch. I was going to kill her over and over again. “What happened when he found out you was pregnant?”

  Tishana’s smile quickly left and she let out a laugh. “What happened was he accused me of messing around with some dude. He told me I needed to leave these niggas alone and focus on school. Then he gave me a stack. He gave me a thousand dollars to get rid of it.” Angry tears fell from her eyes. “He thought I came to him to get an abortion. I wasn’t going to do that, though. I was going to keep our baby, but he didn’t want to have nothing to do with me. I was so stressed out during the pregnancy I had a miscarriage. Do you know he didn’t show up at the hospital?”

  “Are you sure Blaze knew the baby was his? Hell, did he even know y’all had sex? Are you sure he wasn’t sleep? You said he was drunk, Tishana. He could’ve been passed out but his body could have still reacted to you. That just doesn’t seem like something he would do. Especially if it’s his baby.” I glanced around at the sound of a door opening. Immediately, I recognized the female.

  What the hell was really going on?

  “It was his baby. Do you seriously think I would have sex with him while he’s asleep? Point of the matter is he wasn’t there when I needed him!” She yelled at me.

  I couldn’t help but roll my eyes up in my head this time. “You know, Tish, whatever your problem is or was with Blaze should have died years ago. I don’t see what the fuck I have to do with anything. Or why the fuck this bitch is here at all.” I glared hard at the female standing next to her.

  “I need you to hurt just like I had by the hands of Blaze, twice. When Blaze threw me away, I started to make plans. You were truly collateral damage. You see, I wanted Blaze to feel the exact same pain he made me feel when we were together. But I couldn’t for the simple fact the nigga didn’t care for shit once we stopped messing around.”

  My head tilted to the side. Was she serious right now? After hearing her story, I didn’t once get the impression they were fucking around. This stupid bitch took her own gotdamn virginity and used Blaze’s real, stupid drunk ass to do it.

  The dumb bitch should’ve gotten an abort
ion and none of this would be happening. Tishana was in a whole relationship with Blaze and he didn’t even know it.

  “Tish, I don’t understand what you mean.” I once again glanced at the woman beside her.

  “Because hurting you would hurt him. Killing his baby would kill a part of him. Killing you would have killed him. But I actually like you and believe me, I had no idea you were pregnant at the time. It wouldn’t have changed what I had Le’Ron do but I felt bad. I wish I would have known about his first bastard child. I wouldn’t have needed you if I did. Then again, I would have still needed you seeing as Blaze made me lose two babies. His child and my baby I had with Blue. Who you never got the chance to meet because Blaze killed him. Now are you starting to understand your role in all this?”

  I was over her dramatics. This bitch was simply crazy and whatever her deal was with Blaze should have died by now. She better hope she killed me before I got loose somehow. I didn’t care to hear another word she had to say to me. To show her that, I focused my attention on the second female.

  “What is your whole thing in this? I know damn well you’re not going to tell me you started plotting because Jerron gave me oral sex almost ten years ago? Please tell me you haven’t held onto that shit? Then again, you are friends with this psychotic bitch who done had a whole ass relationship with a man that didn’t even know he was taken.” I looked directly at Tish.

  “I know what Blaze and I had was real. Peaches, your words can’t hurt me.” She smiled, walking closer to me. “But I can crush you again. All I have to do is kill your soul and you’re dead. I have already taken one baby from you. No, wait. I’ve taken one and a stepchild. Do you want me to continue to break you?” Tishana dug her nails deep into the flesh of my stomach.

  I bit hard into my lip to keep myself from making any threats.

  “Now apologize for hurting my feelings.” She dug her nails into my skin even harder as she yanked my head to the side.

  I let out a deep breath. “I’m sorry, Tishana. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.” I was tight having to say any of that bullshit. “Tish, can I please see Blake?” I pleaded with her, this time sincerely. I wasn’t going to believe he was dead until I saw him. She couldn’t take him from me. I would never forgive myself if he was gone. And I don’t think I would be able to forgive Blaze for bringing us back here.