by Lady Lissa
“I know mom. I can’t believe I’m finally done with high school. Talk about a great feeling and I can’t wait to start college. I am going to have the time of my life at GSU,” I tell her.
Truth is, I can’t wait to be around Onyx all the time again. I’m happy to be done with school, but I’m not happy that I won’t be seeing Onyx for the summer. I’m going to miss his smile and just being in his presence. I know that we’ll see each other from time to time, but it won’t be the same.
“Just remember that your studies come first. I expect great things from you Lucy and I know that you won’t let your dad and I down. I don’t want you playing around and partying your whole semester away. You hear me?” she asks.
“I know mom, but I am going to enjoy myself though. I know how to prioritize and stay on track with school,” I tell her.
“That’s good because your father and I are counting on you to make something of yourself,” she says.
“And I will.”
“So, what’s going on with you and Gregory?” she asks.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, are y’all still going to be together while you’re in school? Does he know you’re staying on campus?” she asks with raised eyebrows.
“Um, I’m thinking that maybe it’s time for the two of us to go our separate ways,” I say.
“What? When did you decide that?”
“Earlier today. I’m just tired of him and I don’t think that he and I will make it with me living on campus and all. I think that it would be best for me to start college fresh, no relationship, ya know?” I ask her.
“I know and you may be right about that. College is a wonderful experience and I don’t know if you will get the same enjoyment if you have a boyfriend at home. So did you talk to him about it yet?”
“I don’t think he’s going to care one way or the other. Besides, I’ve got my eyes on someone else anyway,” I say, thinking about Onyx.
“Oh yea? What’s his name and where’s he from?”
“He’s from here but I’ll keep his name a secret for now. I don’t want to jinx it, ya know? For now, I just want to enjoy this newfound dream of mine all on my own,” I say.
“Okay, but I wanna know who this young man is. He sounds pretty special,” she says.
“Oh he is. He’s very special,” I say, fluttering my eyes.
My phone beeps signaling a text message coming in. I look at the screen and it’s a message from Gregory.
Gregory: My wife put me out because of u…
Me: She put u out because u r a lying, cheating dirty dog…arf arf
Gregory: She put me out because u came to my house
Me: Stop texting me!! It’s over so you need to move on…
Gregory: U think ur gonna get away with this shit!
Me: Boy bye…find someone who gives a fuck!
I put him on my Mr. Number block list after that.
“Everything alright?” my mom asks.
“Everything is just fine mom,” I say.
“Something you wanna talk about?”
“Nope,” I say, placing my phone back on my nightstand.
“Okay, well I have a couple of things to do on the computer. I’ll be in my room if you need me,” she says.
“Okay,” I say as I stare at her retreating back while she walks out of my room.
I decide to text Onyx and pretend to be the caring friend.
Me: Hey Onyx, its Lucy…I was just wondering how Starr is doing?
It takes him a couple of minutes to text me back, but he does and I couldn’t be more excited.
Onyx: She’s still out of it but the doctors expect her to wake up any minute…thank u for asking
Me: Of course I’m going to ask…I care about u n she’s a part of u
Onyx: That’s sweet
Me: I’m sweet
Onyx: I c
Me: Well, I’ll check back with u later on
Onyx: OK…thanks again Lucy
Me: U r so welcome boo
Just that little exchange between us has me flying high. Oh my God! He likes me. He might even love me. Taking him from Starr might not be as hard as I thought it would be. Onyx will be mine and I didn’t even have to work that hard to get him.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Gregory
My wife has been blowing my phone up all afternoon. She knows when I’m at work I can’t take personal calls. And if it was an emergency, she would have had me paged. But whatever she’s calling about must be important to her because she’s already left three voicemail messages and three text messages.
1:47 I am trying to reach you so you need to call me back
2:34 Call me back Gregory
3:45 I know you can call me back if you want to. What the hell is taking so long? Call me back NOW!!
Damn. She’s tripping hard as fuck. I’ll call her on my next break.
It’s four o’clock in the afternoon and it’s time for my break. I get off in a couple of hours, so I make my way outside to call my wife. I only have fifteen minutes so I walk over to my truck and get in. I need to talk to Sharonda and find out what’s wrong with her. What the hell could be the emergency? I will feel so guilty if anything happened to my kids and I was unable to answer her calls.
She answers on the first ring, “Who the fuck is Lucy?”
Awww shit! What the fuck is she talking about and how the hell does she know about Lucy? Man, if I find out one of my boys ratted me out, I’m fucking that nigga up on sight. What goes on between me and my boys is supposed to be sacred. I will fuck somebody up, big time.
“What the hell are you talking about Sharonda? I don’t…” I begin but she cuts me off.
“DON’T YOU FUCKIN’ LIE TO ME, YOU BASTARD!” she screams into the telephone receiver.
I pull the phone back to make sure that I’m talking to my wife. She has never taken that tone with me before. Of course I would be lying if I said we never had any arguments or disagreements, so that’s not what I’m saying. But, I’ve never heard her like this. She has never been this upset with me before.
“I’m not lying to you and you need to watch your tone,” I tell her.
“Who the fuck is Lucy? And I need you to tell me the truth,” she says.
I will do no such thing. I am not about to tell her shit about Lucy, but I would like to know how she found out about her. I was very careful when it came to fucking with Lucy. That’s why she didn’t even know I had a wife the entire two years we were together.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say.
“You can play dumb if you want to, but this shit ain’t going away,” she says, hanging the phone up in my face.
“Sharonda! Sharonda!” I call out. I pull the phone back because I can’t believe she hung up on me. She hasn’t done that shit in years.
Now, I will be the first to admit that no marriage is perfect, but ours was almost perfect. I know you’re probably saying, how can our marriage have been near perfect if I was cheating on my wife? It’s simple; what she didn’t know, wouldn’t hurt her. She didn’t know that I was cheating on her, at all.
When Sharonda and I were together, I was the perfect husband and father. Sharonda and I have been together for seven years and we have two children; our daughter Maddie is six and our son, Joshua is four. I started cheating on Sharonda after she had our son. I’m not sure why but I think it’s because after she gave birth to our second child, she didn’t want to have sex as much as she used to.
It’s like one minute we were fucking like rabbits and then she doesn’t want to even do it like turtles. She claimed it was because she ran behind the kids all the time and was always tired. That may be, but as a wife, she was still expected to have sex with me on a regular basis. Once a week doesn’t count? That ain’t enough for a man like me.
You know that old saying, ‘What one won’t do, another one will’? That is definitely the case here, because while she didn’t want to
have sex that much anymore, someone else did.
Lucy wasn’t the first chick I cheated on my wife with. Before her, I cheated with a chick named Mercy or Marcy, some shit like that. She and I fooled around for about nine months until she got pregnant. I was pissed the fuck off when I found out she was pregnant, so I stopped fucking with her. She swore the kid was mine, but I wasn’t buying it. We weren’t in any exclusive relationship and on more than one occasion when I contacted her to hang out, she was busy.
I managed to keep her quiet about her pregnancy until after she gave birth to the little girl. Once she had the baby, I immediately paid for a DNA test because I had to know if she was mine. We had to wait two weeks for the results, but when they came back, I was the happiest man alive. The kid wasn’t mine. Once I found that little bit of information out, I immediately told Mercy or Marcy that I was done with her ass again. This time for good and I meant it.
She threatened to tell my wife that we were messing around, but since the child wasn’t mine, she didn’t have a leg to stand on. It would have just been her word against mine and seeing as how I never cheated on my wife, I knew she would believe me. Once Mercy and I had that last blow out, I didn’t hear from her again. I breathed a sigh of relief and thanked God because I dodged a bullet with her trifling ass. I promised if I wasn’t Mercy’s baby’s daddy that I would behave from that point on.
I kept that promise for three months until I met Lucy. Lucy is sexy and she has a lot of sass, fire and attitude. Every time I’m around her, I feel sparks flying in my loins, even when I’m mad at her. When we first met, I had no intentions on dating her, especially after the shit that went down with Mercy. All I wanted from Lucy was sex and boy did she give me lots of it. Her sexual appetite was almost as potent as my own. I found myself wanting to be with her all the time.
Once Lucy and I got together, I couldn’t get her or our sexual rendezvous off my mind. I didn’t even care if Sharonda wanted to have sex anymore. I wasn’t even trying to sleep with my wife. Lucy was the only one I wanted. The fact that she was a few years younger than me and still in high school didn’t deter my feelings either. It just made for a better time with her.
She’s young, vivacious and knows how to make me feel like the luckiest man in the world. Her cousin, Mandy is a cheerleader and apparently, she’s been showing Lucy some tricks in the bedroom because damn, she definitely has my nose wide open.
I contacted Lucy soon after we exchanged phone numbers and we went out on our first date. I took her out to eat and we talked for hours that night, just getting to know each other. I enjoyed talking to her and I learned a lot about her. Everything I learned, I liked so I asked her out again and again. By the fourth date, I was head over heels for her.
Over time though, my feelings for her began to lose its luster. I started getting bored with her and she started acting differently and childish. I thought that she and I would be together for longer than two years because in the beginning, things between us were so good. The whole time Lucy and I were together, my wife didn’t hear anything about the two of us. But now that we’ve gone our separate ways, now my wife is asking me questions about Lucy.
I don’t know who been running their damn mouth, but Lucy better hope she didn’t say anything to Sharonda. If I find out that Lucy did or said anything to my wife, I am coming for her ass. This shit just makes no damn sense. I walk back inside the facility and head back to my work station. I am anxiously awaiting six o’clock so I can go home and find out what’s going on with my wife.
The next couple of hours go by smoothly. I work as a mechanical engineer for a big oil company. My job is pretty demanding but I wouldn’t change it for nothing. The money I make is very good and I’m always able to afford vacations for my family and the nicer things money has to offer. On a busy day like today, I welcome all distractions to keep my mind off my wife.
At six o’clock, I head for the time clock and punch my card. On the way to the parking lot, my best friend Gabe catches up to me.
“Wassup man? You look like you got a lot on your mind,” he says.
“Yea man, that’s an understatement,” I say.
“What’s going on? Trouble in paradise or with your little cupcake?” Gabe asks.
Gabe and I have been the best of friends since middle school. He was the best man at my wedding and he’s Maddie’s godfather. I trust Gabe with my life and there’s nothing I can’t tell him. This man has had my back ever since the first day we met and vice versa.
Of course when I got involved in my affairs, he was the first person I told. I just had to tell someone because keeping that to myself was eating me up. It surprised me how much Gabe understood my situation. As it turns out, he has a lil honey on the side too. Gabe has a fiancée and they are planning their wedding for the end of this year.
“Sharonda called me earlier, trippin’ about Lucy.”
“Wait a minute. How does Ronda know about Lucy?” he asks.
“I have no fuckin’ idea. All I know is she called me earlier and left three voicemails; all shouting and screaming about me cheating on her. Her text messages were also in pissed off mode. When I finally called her back on my break, she starts talking about how I’m cheating on her with Lucy and I better not lie to her,” I say, shaking my head.
“Well, did you leave any evidence of your relationship out in the open by accident? Maybe bought something for Lucy on your credit card and she found the statement. Something must have happened to tip her off,” he says.
“No kidding. I don’t know what could have happened and the only thing I can think of is that Lucy paid my wife a visit,” I say.
“Nah, she doesn’t strike me as that kind of chick. She seems to have her shit together and knows how to keep her business to herself. At least that’s the impression I got about her when we all hung out,” Gabe says.
“Yea, I’ve been trying to think that but the more I think about it, the more it takes me back to her. I don’t know of anyone else who would wanna hurt me like that. I mean, she was pretty pissed when she found out about my wife so maybe she did tell her. So help me God if she did say something,” I say.
“Don’t go talkin’ crazy man. You don’t know what Ronda knows and you don’t know if Lucy had anything to do with it. Just calm down and go talk to your wife,” he says.
“Yea, that’s what I’m gonna do right now. But if I find out Lucy had anything to do with my wife’s sudden change of attitude, you will hear about it on the news. I’m telling you,” I say as I get in my truck and head home.
I wonder what’s really going on with Sharonda and if she knows something or is she just fishing. I suppose I’ll find out soon enough. I pull into the driveway and unlock the door to find suitcases sitting by the front door. Sharonda exits the back room with another smaller bag, looking angry as fuck and puts the bag next to the other ones.
“Are you going somewhere?” I ask her because right now, I am one confused dude.
“No muthafucka! You are,” she says, her voice dripping with venom.
“What the hell are you talking about?” I ask her.
“You were cheating on me huh? This whole time, I’m walking around thinking that everything between us is peachy and you were fucking someone else. How could you do that to me?”
Tears are running down her cheeks and I’ve never felt so bad about cheating in my life. I never meant to hurt my wife. Regardless of what my actions have shown, I love her. I didn’t want her to find out about my affair. I would have never wanted to hurt her this way. Seeing the pained look on her face has me feeling lower than scum. I just need to know how she found out though. When I left for work this morning, I kissed her good bye on her soft lips and was out the door. We were in a good place when I left, so what the hell happened?
“Babe, what are you talking about? I’m not cheating on you,” I say, trying to defend myself even though I am spitting lies.
“Oh no, I know you aren’t cheating anymore becau
se your little side bitch told me y’all broke up a few nights ago. How could you do that to us, to our kids?” she asks.
“I didn’t do anything to you and I certainly didn’t do anything to our kids. You know how much I love y’all,” I say.
“You did do something to us! You hurt us! You hurt me and you hurt our family!”
“I didn’t do anything!”
“You know what? Your little bitch came here to see me today! I think she came to check me out because she wanted to see what the competition looked like,” she cries.
“I don’t have a lil bitch! I’m trying to tell you that. Somebody must be trying to break us up,” I say.
“LIAR! I saw her! I SAW THE PICTURES OF THE TWO OF YOU, ALL HUGGED UP AND KISSING AND SHIT!” she yelled.
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” I ask.
“JUST GET OUT! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE AND STAY AWAY FROM ME AND OUR KIDS!” she yells.
“This is my house too and you can’t keep me from our kids. And I’m not leaving until we talk about this,” I tell her. I decide to lower my voice because the two of us screaming at each other isn’t going to get us anywhere.
I need for her to calm down and talk to me so we can get to the bottom of this shit. I love my wife and I know that Lucy wasn’t stupid enough to come over here. I know damn well she didn’t do this shit. So help me God if she did fuck up my marriage.
“I don’t have anything to say to and I want you out. Go back to your little bitch because we are done,” she says.
“I promise you babe, I am not cheating on you.”
“For someone who claims they want to work things out, it ain’t gonna happen with you lying to me like that,” she says.
“Okay, I did have an affair but I broke it off with her. I don’t want to lose my family and I never meant to hurt you. I love you and I love our family,” I say.
“Have you been sleeping with a bitch that has sexually transmitted diseases?”
“What? Hell nawl!” I tell her.