Forever and a Day

by Jasmine Barber

  "We need to change the subject." She said.

  "Cool with me, what you doing?"

  "Cleaning up and about to watch TV"

  "Ooooh ok, you want some company?" he asked.

  "Not really up for company tonight. I just want to catch up on some sleep"

  "Okay. Can I take you out on Sunday? I haven't seen you all week," he said.

  " Sunday it is," she said.

  “Okay, I’ll talk to you later love," he said.

  "Goodbye Kris. I'll talk to you later," she replied.

  ~~~~~

  Brielle sat in her living room laughing at Basketball wives. She couldn't believe Evelyn just said Tami was a non-motherfucking factor. She knew if somebody ever called her that in public, she would quickly show them just how much of a factor she was. Just as she was about to rewind it her phone rung and by the ringtone she knew it was Kiyan.

  "Hey Kiy, wassup?" Brielle laughed.

  "What you laughing at Bri?" Kiyan asked.

  "I'm up here watching Basketball Wives and its about to go down"

  "Why do you even watch that shit, that shit for the birds"

  "Oh shut up it's entertainment but what you up to?"

  "I was about to stop through there, do you wanna watch a movie and get pizza?"

  "Sure why not, we watching something here or you want to pick up a movie?"

  "I'll pick something up because I swear if I watch Love & Basketball or Just Wright one more time imma go fucking crazy"

  "Stop the shit boy, you be all into these movies so don't start now" Brielle laughed.

  "Yeah right, I bet you we be watching some funny shit tonight"

  "Yeah right, we'll see just hurry up. I'm about to order the pizza"

  "Iight I'll be there in a half." Kiyan hung up the phone.

  ~~~~~

  About twenty minutes later Kiyan pulled up in Brielle's driveway with the movies. He stepped out the car and thought about the relationship him and Bri had. Their friendship was something that shocked everybody including himself. He really loved their relationship, it felt like him and Bri had known each other all their lives. Kiyan loved the type of person Brielle was. She worked extra hard to get everything she wanted and he admired that. He respected her demanding career. Working as an image consultant required a lot of Brielle’s time and he supported her with what ever she needed. Sometimes she left work stressed and all she wanted to do was just vent. Anytime she wanted to vent, Kiyan always gave her his full attention. When she worked through lunch, Kiyan would always stop by and bring her lunch. Kiyan began to look forward to their weekly movie nights at her house because it always gave them a chance to catch up.

  "Kiyan what the hell are you doing just standing there?" Brielle said interrupting his thoughts. Kiyan walked up to the porch and gave Brielle a kiss on the cheek and a hug.

  "I missed you, haven't seen your spoiled ass all week" Kiyan said.

  "I know, I’ve been busy. The basketball season is about to start and everybody needs my attention right now." Brielle sighed.

  "I kind of figured that, that's why I was stopping by."

  "Wait hold up, you knew you were coming here before you called me. How you know I didn't have company," Brielle smiled.

  "I didn't give a fuck if you did, we all would have been watching these damn movies." Kiyan laughed.

  "Your so damn silly, come on. The pizza should be on it's way what did you bring?" she asked.

  "I couldn't decide between like four movies so I bought all four of them. I have Bad Boys 2 because that's my shit. I have Kevin Hart's new comedy, Brown Sugar, and 21 Jump Street"

  "Damn that's hard to choose from, um let's watch Brown Sugar and then the rest." Brielle said. As she walked in the kitchen, the bell rung and she yelled, "Kiy get the bell, that should be the pizza."

  Brielle walked in the hall to see if Kiyan needed help and heard Kiyan going off on the young boy at the door.

  "Kiyan why the hell you yelling at this boy." Brielle asked confused.

  "Because I open the door and this nigga all stretching his fucking neck to look at your ass," Kiyan yelled.

  "Oh lord, just pay the boy." Brielle laughed.

  "B you laughing because you think this shit is a game, but it's not. He better watch his fucking eyes. That's your tip, so get the fuck off this porch," Kiyan laughed as he watched the delivery boy trip over the step. Brielle couldn't help but laugh feeling bad for that young boy.

  "Kiyan you are wrong for that," Brielle continued laughing.

  "Man whatever, I bet you his ass will keep his eyes on the person paying him next time," he replied sure of himself.

  "Come on crazy ass." Brielle said taking the boxes and putting them on the table.

  Brielle and Kiyan sat down and started watching their movies while eating their pizza. Brielle thought out loud, "I could get use to this. Movie night without all the stress."

  "What's going on Bri, why you stressing?" Kiyan turned to her seriously.

  "You know how work is. I can never find a moment to just breathe, she replied, I need to go to the damn Spa.”

  "Come here let me show you something," Kiyan said. Brielle moved closer to Kiyan as she waited for him to show her whatever it is he wanted. Kiyan turned her back towards him and began to massage her shoulders. Brielle closed her eyes as she began to let go of all the stress from work this week. Kiyan felt her tensed shoulders loosing up and then when Brielle really got into it, Kiyan stopped. Before Brielle could open up her eyes, Kiyan was tickling her making her laugh.

  "Oh my god, leave me alone," Brielle choking on her laughter.

  "Nope," Kiyan laughed as he continued to tickle her. He knew her laughing and having fun would make all the stress and worries from the week go away.

  "Kiyan, I'm going to hurt you fool. Stop it," Brielle said.

  "Ok, I'm done. Do you feel better?" he asked as he stopped tickling her.

  "Yeah I do, but you don't, Brielle said smacking him upside his head, you caught me off guard punk."

  "I made you feel better so instead of smacking me, your ass should be thanking me." Kiyan said.

  Brielle turned around and before Kiyan knew it she was giving him the biggest hug ever. "Thank you Kiy, for everything."

  Kiyan grabbed Brielle into a bear hug and looked into her eyes and kissed her forehead. Then he said, "As long as we're friends, you got that shit forever."

  "And a day" Brielle added before turning back to watch their movie. She loved this part of their friendship. She hoped it wouldn't end anytime soon. Kiyan and Brielle watched movies until they fell asleep on the couch. This was definitely what the doctor prescribed for Brielle.

  Chapter 21

  “I'm not stressing it. It's over. I'm better than that.” -Chloe

  Shanice walked into her and Alonzo's house and she instantly began to miss her girls. She hadn't heard from none of them in close to two weeks and that wasn't normal.

  She grabbed her phone and sent out a group text that said: "I don't care what the hell you got planned tonight, but you better cancel it because we are going out." As she walked around the house to find and tell Alonzo she was there, she bumped into Kiyan, Cameron, and Tyrese in the kitchen making a mess and laughing.

  "Damn shame, y'all asses always in this kitchen," she laughed as the crew jump at her voice.

  "Yo ma, you can't be doing shit like that," Cameron said getting up to hug her,.

  "Yeah right, what was you going to do?" she asked.

  "Keep sneaking up on a nigga and you will find out," he joked.

  "Wassup lil sis, you good?" Kiyan and Tyrese hugged her and asked.

  "You know the shit," she laughed.

  "Hey babe, wassup?" Alonzo said kissing her.

  "Hey you. I came in here to say wassup and to let you know I'm canceling tonight." she said.

  "What you mean you canceling tonight? Where the hell you think you going?"

  "It's girls night out and I'm out of here," Sha repl
ied.

  "Well I hope girls night out don't include Danielle because her ass not going." Cameron said seriously.

  "Yes she is, watch you get a phone call within 5 minutes," she laughed.

  "Yeah iight," Cameron said as his boys laughed. They knew the girls were thick as thieves so if Shanice said that Danielle was going to cancel, then that was exactly what was going to happen. Three minutes into the small talk with the boys, Cam's phone rung.

  "Told ya," Shanice laughed as she walked out the kitchen.

  "Yo," Cam answered.

  "Eww nigga, you don't answer your phone like that." Danielle seriously said.

  "Man whatever, wassup?"

  "Well I was calling to tell ya ass that I'm going out with the girls so I wasn't coming over. Now I'm happy I'm not coming over because somebody has an attitude."

  "I already knew the shit, Sha was just in my face telling me about your little plans."

  "Oh iight, well bye. I'll talk to you when you fix your damn attitude," she said hanging up.

  "Fellas I'm out, I gotta go find Danielle stubborn ass before I fuck her up." Cam joked and got up to leave.

  "Yeah man I'm out too, I dropped Brielle off at the hair salon & I have to pick her ass up," Kiyan added.

  "I gotta go anyway, I need to pick up my shorty and then we going home," Tyrese chimed in.

  "Iight man, let me go see where this girl at. If she think she going out before giving me some and cooking, she got another thing coming," Alonzo joked.

  "Word, I feel you man," Kiyan laughed as they walked through Alonzo's front door.

  ~~~~~

  "Girl, Cam is a fool. He really don't take your shit," Brielle laughed as Danielle was telling them what happened earlier with Cam.

  "Girl yes, this fool showed up at the gym going crazy. Everybody was looking all scared. The funniest part is this nigga was like I'm only gone say this shit one time and you better listen. I was scared after that. Y'all know my mouth but I was like damn he might drag my ass out this damn gym," Danielle said still laughing at Cam crazy ass.

  "I knew Cam was going to go crazy, definitely when I told him your ass was going out," Shanice said.

  "Girl you know Cameron ass is crazy, I don't even know why you be trying him," Chloe added.

  "It adds spice to their relationship. If she says yes all the time, he will expect her to do everything he says. Shit let Hakeem ask me some shit I always say no.” Sabriya laughed.

  “I know. But that’s a good thing. I would hate to be with somebody who I tell what to do and his ass jumps. That gets boring. Cam is crazy as hell, but he’s my crazy ass boyfriend.” Danielle smiled.

  “WOW,” Brielle said.

  “Wow what?” Danielle asked.

  “Who would of thought, stubborn ass Danielle would be head over heels over a nigga. Every time you say his name you glow." Brielle smiled.

  "Whatever, don't worry about what I do. What's going on with y'all and y'all relationships," Danielle joked and asked.

  "Me & Hakeem doing good. Can't even complain this time," Sabriya joked.

  "Yeah, Alonzo and I are doing better than I ever expected. Between planning his party and living together, I'm always with his ass." Shanice added.

  "Well, y'all know I’ve been dating Kris for a while, he been cool since the whole aggravating me thing, but I'm still not letting my guard down too much. Besides how much I been working and hanging with Kiy, I haven't really had any time to entertain his nonsense." Brielle said.

  "Speaking of Kiyan, how is he and have you met his new girlfriend?" Chloe asked.

  "Samara? New Girlfriend?" Brielle replied.

  “No, I know you met Samara. I’m talking about some new girl.”

  “Kiyan doesn't have a new girlfriend,” Brielle said confidently.

  "Oh, I seen him at the mall with a girl like 4 days ago, I just thought he had a new girl by now." Chloe said.

  "Kiyan is good and I don't know anything about a new girl, he hasn't said anything about a girlfriend so I'm not sweating it. But what is up with you & Tyrese? How have y'all been?" Brielle said changing the subject.

  "There is no Tyrese & I. I haven't spoken to him in a couple of weeks. I texted him, called him, and he just hasn't answered me so I counted it as a lost. I haven’t even seen him since before Shanice’s birthday dinner since he didn’t come. We made plans to go out after that but he never called. Now thinking about it every time we made plans to go out, he would have to cancel because something important came up," Chloe sighed.

  "Oh wow, why didn't you say anything?" Danielle asked.

  "Because like I said I just counted it as a lost. I am not trying to chase no nigga that don't want to be caught. I mean I wanted to have a relationship with him, but not enough to keep chasing him around, " Chloe responded.

  "It's crazy because when I was in the house with them earlier, I could of sworn I heard Tyrese saying something about going to get his shorty and going home. I thought his ass was talking about you," Shanice frowned.

  "Nope. He wasn't talking about me, so now y'all have the answer. He has a new girl, that's why he doesn't answer my texts," Chloe said getting mad inside.

  "That's messed up, I would of never thought Tyrese would be the type to do that. I think he owes you an explanation," Brielle added

  "Yeah, he has to come better than that. He can't be trying to get with you one day & then the next be living happy with some bitch," Danielle added, the drinks they were having was kicking in.

  "It doesn't matter y'all, I'm not stressing it. It's over. I'm better than that. Tyrese has been extra secretive lately, " she added.

  "Well I still say, you need to go over there and get some damn answers and find out some of those secrets," Sabriya said and all the other girls agreed.

  Chloe wanted the conversation to be over. She would never let her girls know that she really was hurt behind Tyrese starting something with her and then ending it to be with somebody else. She thought he was better than that, but obviously he wasn't. She didn't know if it was the drinks that she consumed tonight at Dave & Busters, but she felt like going over to Tyrese house to see why he thought she was the one to try to play.

  Brielle was in deep thought as well, she knew Kiyan better not have another girlfriend. Last time she checked he was still with Samara. If he did have another one, then when did he find time to be with her since he was always either out with her or in the studio with his boys. Shit, he spent the night last night at her house. She knew this would be another test on their friendship, but she was definitely going to ask him about this mystery girl Chloe seen him with. She didn’t know why she was mad they were only friends.

  Chapter 22

  “I'm not about to have this conversation with you just so you won't remember this in the morning.” -Tyrese

  Chloe didn't know why she was in route to Tyrese's house this late, but she needed answers and she wasn't going home until she got them. She opened up to Tyrese and he tried to play her like a sideline. At this point she was pretty sure that Tyrese lied about everything he told her. She was ready to give his ass the business. As soon as she reached his block, she checked her watch and noticed it was close to two in the morning but all the lights were on in the house. As she got out the car, she started rethinking her decision to confront him tonight. She thought to herself, shit I came this far I might as well get it over with. She reached the door and rung the bell, and waited for Tyrese to answer the door. She secretly hoped that a woman would answer the door.

  Tyrese looked through the window and saw Chloe standing on his porch and he was confused. What was she doing here this late? He hoped Kiyan and Cam didn't get into any shit that would have him wilding out tonight. He opened the door and said, "Wassup ma, why you here so late?"

  Chloe looked at him and came straight out with it, "why did you think you could play me?"

  "Play you? How the hell did I play you?" Tyrese asked confused.

  "Don't play stupid. Here I am t
hinking I did something wrong, but no it was you. You got a new chick and never thought to inform me about it," Chloe liquor had officially kicked in.

  "Ma, are you drunk? I'm not about to have this conversation with you just so you won't remember this in the morning. Come go to sleep." Tyrese said pulling her in the house.

  "I'm not drunk and I'm not sleeping here because I don't feel like fighting your new chick if she decides to stop by," Chloe said.

  "You can keep that shit to yourself, I'm not in the mood to have this conversation. Let me take you to the guest room because you need to take your ass to sleep before you get your ass into something you can't get out of," Tyrese said.

  "Whatever, I'm not staying here." Chloe said taking her car keys out of her Michael Kors bag.

  "Like I said you not going no where when your ass is drunk, Tyrese said snatching the keys from her, so you can either walk up these damn stairs on your own or I'll carry your ass up them."

  Chloe stood in the same spot and the next thing she knew Tyrese was grabbing her and picking her up. She didn't have the energy to scream and complain. She saw the look on his face and she decided that he definitely wasn't in the mood for her to be fighting with him. Once Tyrese bought her to the guest room, he left out and quickly came back with one of his t-shirts.

  "Take your clothes off and put this on," he said trying to give her the shirt.

  "No, I'm good," she refused as she sat on the bed.

  Tyrese whispered under his breath, "stubborn ass girl" as he walked over to her and pulled her shirt over her head and putting his shirt on her. "You gone take your pants off or do I have to do that too?" he asked. She still refused to talk, so he leaned her back and unbuttoned her pants so he could slide them off. Tyrese couldn't help but notice that Chloe had a crazy ass body shape. Her butt made him think about that stupid ass club song these little ass kids be singing, "her booty too fat it's like a donkey on her back." She had to be the envy of all the females and caught the attention of all the men. He didn't pay attention to her body shape when he seen her at the club or when he met her for lunch since she was already sitting down and she had to stay at the restaurant for a meeting. The only thing he remembered was her beautiful greenish mixed with grey eyes. He loved her eyes, when he looked up at her he pulled her close to him and kissed her. When he bought her upstairs he had no intentions to take it there with her, but when he looked at her body and her eyes he lost control. He was kissing her like he didn't have any control.