Tell Me No Lies
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I had a good mind to rev my engine and mow both their asses down. How dare Aric add insult to injury? My whole body shook as I looked on. My hands gripped the steering wheel, and I couldn’t stand the sight of them anymore. The thing that pissed me off the most was when Aric took April’s hand, then started to lead her into my house. And I could be wrong, but I swear it was like Aric had looked down the street at me before he closed the door.
Before I knew what I was doing, I put my foot on the gas and drove like a wild woman to my old place. I didn’t even take the keys out of the ignition after I parked the car on the side of the street. I hopped out, stormed up to the door. I twisted the knob to find it hadn’t been locked, and then I shoved the door open. There April was, on her knees between Aric’s legs, with his dick in her mouth. She had be anxious, because it didn’t take her any time to get it going.
“Really, April? I try to help again, and this is what you do?”
Aric sat there like a king, with both his arms propped up on the back of the sofa, his legs wide, with his eyes on me. There was a smirk on his face that let me know that what I’d suspected was right. He’d seen me sitting there. I had no words for him, was too afraid to hit him like I wanted to, because I knew he would hit back. Obviously, he was on a mission to hurt me by any means necessary. April lurched back when she realized it was me. The back of her hand came up to wipe the saliva from her mouth as she leaned back on one of her legs.
“You guys aren’t even together anymore, so why don’t you just let it go?” she had the audacity to ask.
All I could do was close my eyes to calm my breathing. When Aric stood, he used the shirt that April had pulled off to wipe his long, thick chocolate manhood, then tossed it back on the sofa. He tucked himself, with some trouble, back into his dress slacks, then looked down at me.
“I’ll let you handle this,” he said, like he didn’t care one way or the other. “April, call me when you get time for me,” he then said to April.
I would not fall into the snare he was trying to trap me in, because what he failed to realize was that my heart was with Jamie, not him. Jamie had my heart, and he was the only man who could hurt me the way Aric was trying to do at that moment. I didn’t even dignify his presence with a response.
“April, you get your things and you get out of my house,” I ordered. “This is the last time I help you with anything.”
Tears stung my eyes, and I knew she thought it was because of her, but it was because I could hear Jamie’s voice in my head when he told me not to trust her. I heard Aric’s truck door slam, and then he pulled out of the driveway.
“Whatever, Chyanne,” she huffed as she waved me off like I was a fly. “Don’t you have a man at home? I can’t understand why you’re still worried about where the fuck Aric sticks his dick.”
I couldn’t say I was shocked at her response.
“You just don’t get it do you, April? That’s why you have nowhere to live now, and that’s why Jo-Jo wants nothing to do with you and why your other sons live with their father,” I yelled at her.
I was so damn angry, I had a good mind to punch her dead in her mouth.
“You leave my sons out of this,” she snapped, like she wanted to square up with me.
April had no idea how close she was to me picking up that glass vase and cracking her damn skull with it. I wouldn’t hit her because she’d betrayed me once again. I wouldn’t even hit her because she was stupid. I would hit her because after dealing with all the BS with her and Aric, I would still have to go home to find that Jamie wasn’t there. I would bust that heffa upside her head because the only man that had ever loved me truly had left me. Then I would stomp her lights out because it was my fault that Jamie was no longer mine. April had no idea how close she was to becoming a victim of circumstance.
“You have ten minutes to get out of my house. If you’re not out in ten minutes, I’m going to help you out, and I promise you that is not what you want,” I told her.
With that, I turned and walked out. April was out of my house in exactly ten minutes. She didn’t have much to take with her, anyway. I didn’t even go behind her to see if she had done any damage to my house. I just locked the doors, then prepared to drive back home.
The rest of my night was unsettling. I slept fitfully. All I did was toss and turn all night. AJ slept in bed with me, while Kay slept in a guest room downstairs and my mother in her room on the other side of the house. I even tried calling Jamie. He wouldn’t answer. So I tried texting.
Jamie, please talk to me. You didn’t have to do what you did today, I texted.
I laid my phone next to my pillow in hopes that he would text me back. After twenty minutes with no response, I just finally fell asleep.
Epilogue
As time went on, I would get used to the notion that there would never be a me and Jamie ever again. While he would do what was needed for our child, he and I would never have that kind of relationship again. It would hurt like hell. There would be moments I would laugh. There would be moments I would cry. Then there would be those moments when I would just come to accept my fate. Jamie would eventually come by to remove all his stuff from the house. His lawyers would bring by papers for me, showing that he had signed the house over to me. He would come by to help my mother set up the nursery for the baby but would make sure he was gone before I got home.
AJ didn’t get to spend much time with Jamie, because Aric was strictly enforcing my weekend-only visitation clause. The times he did get to spend with AJ, he would ask my mother to meet him at Starr Park in Forest Park to do so. I wouldn’t talk to April again for a long while. She wouldn’t speak to her son Jo-Jo for a long while, either. He would start to tell me that he didn’t have a mother and that I should stop insisting that he did.
Gabe and I would talk from time to time, but both of us knew that what had happened between us was pure lust and nothing more. Strangely enough, we didn’t even attempt to explore those options again, but that was more so because of me. I just couldn’t do it, couldn’t even think of sex . . . unless it involved Jamie. When it would be time for me to have my and Jamie’s child, Jamie would be there, along with my mother and Kay. He would hold my hand every step of the way because I would be scared to death. I remembered nothing of delivering AJ, so in essence, it would be like the first time for me. I would get to the hospital too late for any medicinal help with the pain, so it would be an all-natural birth, and Jamie would love that idea.
We had a beautiful seven-pound, six-ounce baby girl, who he would name Lelani. She was a beautiful caramel blended version of Jamie and me. Not even that, though, could get me and Jamie back together. I’d lost him, but at least I had him in my life because of the children. It would be my punishment for the pain I’d caused him. I would have to live with seeing him happy . . . with someone else.
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