Onyx and Starr 2

by Lady Lissa

  After the ceremony is over, Onyx races over to his parents who embrace their son. I’m sure they’re telling him how proud they are of him. He gets a hug from his brother, who’s not half bad. He actually just looks like an older version of Onyx. Then he turns to Starr and gives her a tight embrace before he plants his lips on hers and kisses her, right there in front of his parents, brother and the entire school. I can feel my blood boiling deep inside me and I just want to snatch that bitch by her fuckin’ hair, throw her on the ground and stomp on her. I am trying my best to control myself, but it’s not working. Self control was never one of my strong points and I can feel myself spiraling out of control really fast.

  “AAARRRGGGHHHH! YOU BITCH! GET YOUR HANDS AND THOSE FILTHY LIPS OFF MY MAN!” I find myself shouting from the stands.

  People are now staring at me crazily. I know I might sound like a crazy person, but I can’t help how I feel. I love him and I need him to know that I’m not giving up on us that easily.

  I can hear Onyx’s mom asking, “What’s going on here son?”

  “Mom I don’t know. She won’t leave me alone. She follows me everywhere and won’t let me be,” I hear him tell his mom as I get closer.

  “Little girl, how dare you make such a scene on one of the most important days of my son’s life. Just because you didn’t get to participate in your graduation, does not mean that I am going to allow you to ruin this night for my son,” his mom says.

  “Wow! You’re so protective of your son Mrs. Renee. I wonder if you would be just as protective if you knew that I was pregnant by him,” I say.

  She turns to Onyx with a surprised expression on her face and asks, “Onyx is this true? Did you get this girl pregnant?”

  “No he didn’t,” I hear Lucy say.

  “What the hell Lucy?” I ask her.

  “I just think Onyx and his family should know that you are not pregnant,” Lucy says.

  “She’s not pregnant?” Starr asks.

  “No, she’s not. Her pregnancy was false,” Lucy says.

  “She’s lying!” I cry looking at Lucy. I cannot believe she threw me under the bus like that. How can she do me that way when we’re blood relatives?

  “No, she’s been lying. The doctor says she had a false pregnancy and that’s why her hormones was sending her signals that she was pregnant,” Lucy continues to rat me out.

  “How could you?” I ask with tears in my eyes.

  “You gotta stop lying Mandy. Let him go so you can move on. He doesn’t want you,” Lucy says.

  “Fuck you Lucy! We are no longer cousins and if I never see you again, it’ll be too soon,” I say.

  “Fuck me? Fuck me? No, Mandy fuck you! You are too dumb to see when a man doesn’t want your ass. Fuck you,” she says.

  She certainly has a lot of nerve saying that shit to me. I don’t have time for this bullshit. I look at the crowd that has gathered around us and decide to get out of there. I didn’t intend to fly off the handle like that. If Onyx would just leave that bitch alone, everything would be great! It’s cool though because I got something for her ass. Oh yes, it’s about to go down.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  Luciana

  I knew Mandy was coming to our graduation to start some shit, so when I heard her screaming obscenities towards Starr and Onyx, I decide to insert myself in their business. Something told me that she was going to talk about that nonexistent baby she wants so badly. Gregory tries to pull me away from them so we can go to Onyx’s party spot, but I’m not going to leave all this shit going down with Onyx and not try to help him. He’s the one I really want and even though Gregory doesn’t know that, I feel like it’s my business to tell him.

  Mandy is my cousin but she is just too caught up in a man that don’t want her. At least I have Gregory to pass my time with. I want Onyx but I can’t just wait on him like that. A girl’s got needs and I need to be pampered, cuddled, made love to, I need things that Onyx just can’t give me right now. But soon he will. I’m sure he will be grateful to me for letting him know that old girl wasn’t pregnant and she was lying the whole time. I’m sure he’ll be grateful that I helped him dodge that bullet.

  “Wow! I can’t believe she was lying to you about a fake pregnancy,” Onyx’s mom says.

  “Yea, but I wasn’t going to tell you guys about it because I knew I had nothing to worry about. I knew she was lying from day one,” he says.

  “I didn’t know Mandy was that desperate to keep a man,” his mom says.

  “You have no idea all the stuff we have been going through with her,” Onyx says.

  He turns to me and says, “Thanks for letting me know what was up Lucy.”

  “Yea, sure. No problem,” I say, trying to act unbothered that he is speaking to me.

  “C’mon babe, let’s get outta here. Congratulations Onyx, right?” Gregory says.

  “Yea, man. Y’all coming to the party?” Onyx asks us.

  “We wouldn’t miss it,” I say.

  “Okay, well see y’all there. There will be plenty of food and drinks,” Onyx says.

  “Drinks?” I ask.

  “Yes, non-alcoholic drinks,” Onyx’s dad says.

  “Oh okay,” Gregory says.

  We say our good byes and leave the gymnasium. When we get to Gregory’s car, I’m noticing that he seems to have a little attitude. I’m wondering who the hell shit in his bowl.

  “So what’s wrong with you?” I ask once we’re in the car.

  “I’m just wondering why you stuck your nose in your cousin’s business like that. That didn’t have anything to do with you Lucy and she’s your cousin. How could you put her business out there like that in front of all those people?” he asks.

  “What? I can’t believe you of all people are asking me this. You’re always so big on honesty, yet you’re wondering why I was honest with Onyx about Mandy lying to him. How would you like it if some chick lied to you about a pregnancy? Wouldn’t you wanna know?” I ask him.

  “Yea, of course I’d wanna know. But it’s something about the way you did it that seems malicious,” he says.

  “Malicious? Are you fuckin’ serious right now?” I ask. I really can’t believe he’s coming at me like this. I mean, have I been showing my true feelings for Onyx in any way? I don’t think so. How could he call me malicious?

  “Yes I’m serious. You just jumped in their business and called your cousin a liar. I always thought loyalties lie with family first. But I guess that’s my bad,” he says.

  “Can you take me home please?” I ask.

  “What? I thought we were going to the party,” he says with a confused look on his face.

  “We were but now, I just wanna go home. If you think I am such a malicious person, they we do not have to be together. If that’s how you feel about me, you can just go by your damn self,” I say.

  I am very pissed off. For him to come at me like that and say some shit like that to me, but it’s cool. Every dog has his day. Besides, I didn’t really wanna go to the party with him anyway. The fact that he chose those particular words, makes me feel like he doesn’t know me at all. For him to say that to me, after two years, makes me think he doesn’t care as much as I thought he did.

  “Are you really that mad that you don’t want to celebrate your graduation?” he asks.

  Oh wow! He has me fucked up. You only graduate from high school once so if he thinks I’m not going to celebrate such a milestone in my life, he must be out his fucking mind. I do plan to celebrate my graduation, just not with him. And I do plan on going to Onyx’s party, just not with him. That party has been the most talked about party since Beyonce and Jay Z announced their marriage. It’s been all over social media as one of the biggest events of the season. I heard his dad even got Lil Wayne to come through and perform with Nicky Minaj. I assume that’s why Onyx’s party has gotten so much publicity. So yea, for him to think I wouldn’t be celebrating my graduation or attending that party is ludicrous.

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sp; “Oh, I’m celebrating my graduation and I don’t need you to do that. I can celebrate my graduation with my friends; the ones who don’t consider me malicious,” I tell him.

  “Well maybe malicious wasn’t the right word for me to use since you’re obviously taking it to heart like that. Maybe a better word would have been careless. You more than likely just made a careless mistake when it came to your cousin and her business,” he says, “Either way, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings like that.”

  Oh now he’s sorry. Before I was malicious this and malicious that but now that I wanna go out by myself, he’s sorry and maybe I was just careless. I still don’t like the word careless because it makes me seem like I didn’t think before I spoke and I definitely did do that. I thought about what I was going to say as soon as I found out she wasn’t pregnant. I would have texted Onyx that night if I would have had his phone number.

  “So now you’re sorry. Are you really sorry or are you just saying that so you can come out with me and I don’t have to go by myself?” I ask.

  “I’m really sorry. If you don’t want me to go to the party with you, fine, I won’t go. But I am sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings or make you feel like that,” he says.

  Should I let him celebrate with me? Should I just forgive him? I decide to forgive him and let him come out with me simply because he’s always been good to me. We have never had a real argument before. We’ve always gotten along wonderfully. I’m sure he got me a good gift also and if I don’t let him come out with me, I’ll never get it.

  He reaches behind my seat and brings out a beautiful, floral gift bag. I begin smiling immediately because I just know that there is going to be a great gift in this bag. I can’t wait to see what’s in the bag.

  “Can I open it now?” I ask.

  “Of course you can,” he says.

  “What is it?”

  “Just open it,” he says smiling brightly.

  I notice a small box amongst the tissue in the bag. I pull it out and pop it open. Inside, amongst the pretty black velvet is a beautiful, pear shaped, diamond pendant on a gold chain. My hand flies to my mouth because the necklace is so pretty. I’ve never gotten anything this beautiful. My parents gave me five hundred dollars as a gift. I was hoping for something more personal from them because everybody in the family gave money. Gregory is the only one that actually took the time to go out and get me something specifically meant for me.

  “Do you like it?” he asks.

  “Are you kidding? What’s not to like? It’s absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much,” I say as I lean over to give him a kiss on the cheek. Considering the fact that he is still driving, we don’t need any distractions that will send us into a tree or a ditch.

  “You’re welcome baby. As soon as I saw it, I immediately thought of you,” he says.

  “How did this make you think of me?” I ask.

  “Because of how beautiful it is.”

  “Awww baby! You always know just what to say to put a smile on my face,” I tell him.

  “I want you to put it on me as soon as we get to the party,” I say.

  He smiles as he continues to drive in the direction of the party. When we get to the party spot, the parking lot is packed. Gregory puts the beautiful necklace around my neck and of course, I give him a passionate smooch for thinking of me. See? It’s gifts like these that keep Gregory around. I don’t know what Onyx would have gotten me, but I do know that Gregory gives the best gifts and trinkets. We walk towards the entrance hand in hand and I am so excited to get started on celebrating my graduating high school. I know this is a party for Onyx, but I’m sure I won’t be the only senior celebrating at his party. When we walk in, the crowd is so huge and when we walk in, the party is in full swing.

  Silento’s song, Watch Me Nae Nae comes on and the crowd goes wild, chanting the lyrics of his song and doing the Nae Nae. As bad as I wanna hit the dance floor, I have to see who’s here. As I’m looking around in my quest to see who’s here, I notice our entire graduating class is here, even the white kids, Hispanics and the three Asians. Shhhiiiddd, if the Asians are here, then everybody is in this building. To top it off, they are actually getting down to Silento’s hit single. I am at a loss for words at the sight because Asian kids have no rhythm whatsoever. So the sight of them dancing to that song has me dying laughing.

  “Do you see Pipa? Oh my God, that’s two funny,” I speak into Gregory’s ear.

  “Who’s Pipa?” he asks, trying to figure out what’s so funny it has me in tears.

  “That little Asian chick right there,” I say as I point her out on the dance floor.

  “Oh yea! Man, she has no type of rhythm but you gotta love them for trying though,” he says as we crack up.

  Nicky Minaj’s song Truffle Butter featuring Drake & Lil Wayne begins to play and it takes us a while to realize that these three are actually in the building and singing the song live. When they walk up on the stage, the crowd goes wild. I heard rumors that Nicky and Lil Wayne would make an appearance but I definitely didn’t expect to see Drake also. This is slamming!

  The three of them perform five other songs together before expressing their congratulations to Onyx and the rest of the senior class. Oh my God! This was equivalent to a concert at the Toyota Center or the Georgia Dome, except we didn’t have to pay for it. I’m excited about seeing them perform together. Leave it to Onyx to make some shit like that happen. Just one more thing that he has up over Gregory.

  Once the trio leaves, Onyx’s cake is brought out and it is a huge basketball cake that says ‘Congratulations Onyx’. His parents are standing next to him and Starr and you can see how proud they are of their son. Onyx’s older brother is also standing with him. I never noticed how handsome Junior is until now. He is an older version of Onyx and a younger version of their father. They are a great looking family and I’m so envious of Starr right now. If I had played my cards right, that could have been me standing there. But unfortunately, Mandy got to him first.

  Thankfully, I haven’t seen my crazy cousin yet. I have a feeling that she’s lurking around here somewhere but she hasn’t shown her face yet. It’s sad how she acts. I just don’t understand how she has completely lost her mind over Onyx. I guess his dick is the bomb.com. I wish I would get a chance to find out but I don’t think that’s gonna be possible the way he and Starr are connected at the fucking hips.

  Once the cake is cut, his parents disappear. I’m sure they are worn out after such a long day. They are probably on their way home to get some rest. Gregory and I make our way to the cake table to get a slice. We haven’t even eaten yet, but Onyx is near the cake table and I wanna take the opportunity to tell him what a great party this is and we’re glad to be a part of it.

  “Hello,” I say to Onyx and Starr.

  If the truth be told, I could care less about Starr’s ass. All I care about is Onyx but since she’s standing next to him, I have to play nice.

  “Hi, um Luciana right?” Starr asks.

  “Yea, but all my friends call me Lucy,” I say.

  “Hey Lucy, glad y’all could make it,” Onyx says to me.

  “Onyx, this party is so fresh! I mean, I can’t believe you got Nicky, Drake and Lil Wayne to perform,” I gush.

  “That was all my dad. He has all the connections and he made this possible but I’m glad you enjoyed the concert. Oh, this is my boyfriend Gregory,” I say. I didn’t mean to seem rude but I didn’t really want to introduce Gregory to Onyx. But, it would have seemed suspicious on my part if I didn’t make the introductions, so I did.

  “Wassup man? This is a great party. Definitely a great send off for your high school graduation,” Greg tells Onyx.

  “Thanks man, I’m glad y’all are enjoying yourselves,” Onyx responds.

  “Yea, it’s the best party I have been to all year,” I continue to gush. I’m sure all my teeth are showing because my jaws are beginning to hurt. I am just so happy to be in On
yx’s presence.

  “Well y’all enjoy the party. I need to take my girl on the dance floor so I can hold her tight for a few. Thanks for coming,” Onyx says, dismissing us.

  I see him heading to the deejay booth and talk to the deejay. Soon Slow Motion by Trey Songz comes on and I watch as Starr and Onyx walk on the dance floor hand in hand. I watch as they embrace each other and begin to slow dance. UGH! They look so fucking happy. Why does it have to be this way?

  “You wanna dance bae?” Gregory asks.

  “Huh?” I ask as he snaps me out of my reverie.

  “I see you looking at all the couples dancing on the floor. You wanna dance with me?” he asks again.

  “Yea, sure.”

  I didn’t want to dance with Gregory. I wanted to be in Onyx’s arms right now, but unfortunately, I have to deal with the hand I was dealt. So, if that means I have to allow Gregory to take me in his arms and whisper sweet nothings in my ear, so be it. I don’t know when my feelings for Onyx started to surface full throttle, but they have and I can’t fight them any longer. I can’t pretend something with Gregory that I don’t feel anymore. I know what I want and that’s Onyx and no amount of time with any other nigga is going to make that feeling go away.

  I think tonight is the night I am going to have to break it off with Gregory. No sense in dragging this shit on all the way to college. I might as well end it so that I can go off to college with a clean slate; single and free. I don’t want to end it with Gregory. I like all he has to offer me and I’m sure going off to college, being with him can continue to be very beneficial for me. But, I’m tired living this lie. No one should have to live a lie, especially when it has to do with someone’s feelings and emotions. But I have to do this for my sanity.

  The party begins to wind down around 2:30 a.m. Gregory has been begging me to leave for the past two hours, claiming he has to work in the morning. That ain’t my fault. He should have requested off if he was planning to escort me to celebrate my graduation. That’s what a good boyfriend would have done. When he first asked me to leave at midnight, I looked at him like he was crazy. Midnight? Really? The party was just beginning to pick up the pace and I was definitely enjoying myself.