by Angie Hayes
“What the fuck!” I said as we both froze.
I quickly got up and ran to the window to see who the hell threw the brick. All I saw was the tail end of a car screeching and turning the corner.
“Who the fuck was that”
“I don’t know. The car turned the corner before I could see who it was?” I answered while fixing my pants.
I bent down, picked up the brick, and looked at it.
“Who the hell would throw a brick in our fucking window like that?” I asked confused.
“I don’t know. What I wanna know is who would know that we’re here?”
“I have no idea. I think it’s best if you probably stay home for a while until we get a hold of this. I’m about to head home. I’ll talk to you later.” I stated as I grabbed my things and went out the door.
On my way home, my mind was going 100 m.p.h. because everything seemed to be slipping out of my control. First, my wife stepping out and now someone threw a brick through the window of my secluded spot. I had no idea what was going on. I knew I had to get my shit back in order or I stood a chance on losing everything.
CHAPTER 26
MICHELLE
I’ve been sitting in the doctor’s office for ten minutes now and I’m growing impatient. It’s bad enough that I was already feeling like I needed to throw up all over the floor.
“Hello Ms. Stanton, how are you today?” Dr. Phillips asked me as he finally came into the room.
“I feel like I need to throw up every single thing that’s in my body. So that’s just conformation that I already know I’m pregnant.” I said to the doctor.
I already knew I was pregnant and the fact that I have always had irregular periods made it easier.
“I’m sorry Ms. Stanton but you’re not pregnant. You’re HIV positive.” Dr. Phillips said.
I just sat there not hearing anything, but watching his lips say HIV.
“Wait, what did you say? That’s a mistake. You must have the wrong test results for me?” I said.
There was no way in hell I could be HIV Positive!
“No Ms. Stanton. We make sure to test thoroughly with all of our patients. Now having HIV doesn’t mean you don’t get to live a long normal life. From your results, it shows that your T-cells are a little low, which would explain why you have been feeling the way you do. I want to start you on your medicine right away. I also want to set you up with some counseling sessions.” The doctor explained.
I just sat there staring at him as I tried to take in everything he just said. I’m waiting for someone to come out and say that I’ve been punked. For the next forty minutes, Dr. Phillips and his nurse gave me instructions on how to take my pills and what to eat in order to maintain my health.
“Now Ms. Stanton, is there anyone else that you are sexually active with?” The doctor asked.
I instantly got lightheaded again. Oh my God Patrick! This mutha’fucka had to give this to me, or his wife could have given it to him then he passed it to me.
“Doctor Phillips I need to go home and digest all of this.” I said as I got up to leave.
“I know this is a life changing moment for you, but like I said earlier the medicine today has come a long way. All you have to do is take your medicine the way you’re supposed to and take care of your body. I also strongly advise you to tell your partner of your status.”
I just looked at Dr. Phillips a few seconds longer, and then I left the office. I made it my car and cried. How could I be fucking dying? This has to be some sick dream that I needed to wake up from. I didn’t know what to do from here. Do I tell Sevyn? Do I tell Patrick? Hell, do I even kill Patrick? Was this karma coming back on me for being involved with Patrick? What I did know was at that moment I needed to get home. Dr. Phillips told me that his nurse had already called in my prescription, but I wasn’t about to go to the pharmacy and pick up no fucking HIV medication.
Still in a daze, I somehow made it home safely. I went straight to my bedroom, took off my clothes, got under my covers, and cried. God was punishing me and I couldn’t take it. I know I have done some things in the past, but I don’t think I deserved this. How could Patrick do this to me? I cried even harder. I cried so much that I cried myself to sleep.
CHAPTER 27
SEVYN
Things have been really out of control lately. I can’t seem to stop fucking Adam, my marriage still seems to be in trouble, and Michelle has been very distance lately. I’ve been trying to stay focused on making things right with my household, but Hasan wasn’t making it easy for me. Yeah we were talking more, but he still was sleeping in the guestroom and we weren’t fucking. Not to mention he was back to coming home late again. Good thing he was home tonight because I had some stress I needed to relieve.
I got up and went into the living room where Hasan and Hope were watching a movie together. I told them that I was going by Michelle’s for a minute and that I would be back. That was a damn lie though. I got in my car and headed straight to Adam’s. When I pulled up to his house it was 6:30 p.m. I noticed all the lights were off but his truck was in the driveway. I rang the doorbell twice before he finally answered.
“I was just about to leave since you weren’t answering the door.” I said to him while he was standing there in the doorway in just his shorts with no shirt on.
I thought to myself, Damn this man is so fucking fine!
“I must have fallen asleep.” Adam said still blocking the doorway.
“Well can I come in or do you have company?” I asked.
He stepped aside and let me through the door. I took a seat on the living room couch and got comfortable. Adam closed the door, sat down on the recliner chair opposite of me, and was staring at the TV.
“So you’re just going to sit over there and not say anything?” I asked.
I didn’t have time to sit here and watch him pout. I needed to release this nut and head back home.
“What do you want Sevyn, some dick?” he asked me not taking his eyes off of the television.
“Uh duh, that’s why I’m here.”
“You know what? I’m done playing with yo’ ass Sevyn. Go back home and let your husband fuck you.” He said suddenly snapping at me.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” I asked matching his tone.
“What’s wrong with me is that I’m sick and tired of letting yo’ ass run this mutha’fuckin’ show! You call and come by here only when you wanna fuck. You answer my calls and return my text messages when you fucking feel like. Then you’re always dismissing my feelings when I’m being straight up with your ass. Now I do recall the last time that we hooked up you made it clear that you weren’t leaving your family, so again why the fuck are you here?”
This time Adam was looking at me with a serious expression on his face. All I wanted to do was come over here to have sex and leave. I didn’t want to have a deep ass conversation about why I didn’t want to be with him the way he wants me to be.
“Look Adam, how many times do we have to keep going in circles with this? This is the reason why I answer your calls and texts when I feel like it. Like I told you before, you knew what this was. I never promised you anything Adam. I thought we were on the same page.” I explained.
Lately I felt like I was always repeating the same thing over-and-over to him about us. I wasn’t dealing with this shit at home, so I surely wasn’t about to keep going through this with him.
“You know what Sevyn, you are one selfish ass bitch. You think you can just go around and play with a nigga’s feelings, and then go back home and live happily ever after with your husband? Well, that shit don’t work like that over here no more, I’ve got feelings too!”
Adam was now standing in front of me yelling. I’ve never seen him like this and it scared me.
“I see coming over here was a mistake so I’m just going to leave.” I said as I got up to go.
Suddenly Adam pushed me back down hard on the couch.
“Fuck that,
you ain’t going anywhere until I say so!”
“Adam you know I have to get home. Hasan will be looking for me soon.” I pleaded because I was now beyond scared.
“That’s not my problem. I told you I was tired of doing this shit on your terms!”
“Adam look, just let me go and we can talk about this later when you are calmed down.” I said to him as I tried to calm the situation.
All I wanted to do was get home and never see him again. Now, I was truly regretting ever being with him.
“Nah, you came over here to get fucked and that’s exactly what I’m a do, but this time I’m a give it to you the way I want.”
I tried to get up from the couch again and this time Adam slapped me so hard that my ears were ringing when I hit the couch. I went to scream but Adam put his hand over my mouth.
“If you make a noise in this bitch other than the sound of moans, I’ll break yo’ fucking neck! Do you hear me?” I nodded my head up and down as I cried.
I didn’t know what was to expect next. I started saying a silent prayer to God to please allow me to make it through whatever it was that Adam was about to do.
“Good, now turn that ass over.” Adam commanded.
I slowly turned over on my stomach. He wrapped his hand around my neck and began to choke me from behind.
“If you think about screaming I’ll squeeze your windpipe.” Adam whispered into my ear, and then licked it.
I nodded my head up and down again letting him know I understood.
“Good. Now you wanted this dick so take this shit!”
With his free hand, Adam pulled my shorts down, and then he ripped my panties off. Next thing I felt were my insides being ripped apart when Adam rammed his dick inside of my ass. I tried anal sex one time in college and I hated it. I vowed to never do it again even when Hasan suggested we do it. The fact that it was happening involuntarily made the feeling even worse. I couldn’t help but scream out in pain, and every time I did Adam would squeeze around my neck even tighter.
“I told yo’ ass you were fucking with the wrong one didn’t I?” Adam said through clenched teeth as he thrust in and out of my ass tearing it more. “I’m a show you what happens when you play with a nigga’s feelings and think it’s all good.”
The pain was so unbearable that I wished right then and there that he would just snap my neck so I could die.
“Bitch I’m a show you!” He pulled his dick out of my ass and I instantly felt warm liquid and feces going down my legs.
“Get yo’ ass up and go in the bathroom. You need to wash that shit off of you so I can fuck that pussy!” Adam instructed.
I slowly stood up and the pain shot through me instantly. I wanted to run out the door and have this bastard arrested, but I knew that wasn’t gonna happen. For one I couldn’t move at a fast pace. For two what would I tell the cops, that my lover who I was cheating on my husband with raped me? Then of course Hasan would have to find out and it would definitely be over between us.
“Hurry your ass up!” Adam yelled as he kicked me in my ass and made me hit the floor face first.
I screamed out in pain once again.
“I said get yo’ ass up!” Adam yelled again as he yanked me up by my hair and dragged me up the stairs.
Once we got inside the bathroom he ordered me to take off the rest of my clothes and get my ass in the shower. I was shaking badly from fear. When the water hit me it felt like I was being attacked by red ants. I started crying as the water continued to beat down on me.
“What are you crying for? You weren’t crying when you kept running yo’ mouth and telling me how this was just sex and that you weren’t leaving your husband for me. Do you remember that? You damn sure weren’t crying when I kept telling you how much I love yo’ ass! Now all of a sudden you wanna shed some tears cause a nigga finally showing you what time it is. Well you can suck those tears up! Hurry up and get the fuck out of this shower because I ain’t finish with yo’ ass!” He yelled in my face.
Soon as I heard that my heart was beating so fast I thought it was going to jump out of my chest. All I wanted to do was go home and never look back. At this point, I didn’t care who found out about Adam and me. I just needed to get away from him. I cleaned myself up like he told me to and got out of the shower. Adam stood guard the whole time. He was watching me with nothing but pure evil in his eyes. I didn’t know who this person was standing here in front of me.
“Get yo’ ass in the room and lay on the bed.”
I slowly walked into the bedroom and lay down on. My backside was in so much pain until it felt numb. Adam walked over to the bed, got on top of me, and thrust his hard dick inside of me. Normally I would be enjoying every minute of this but not this time. I was being raped by a man who I was cheating on my husband with. Suddenly I felt a hard blow to my face.
“You stupid bitch! You’re making me do this. I told yo’ ass not to keep playing with my feelings but you wouldn’t listen.”
With every word he was saying, there was a blow that landed on my face for it.
“Adam please stop! I’m sorry, just please stop it!” I pleaded.
I was crying while trying to block his blows at the same time, but it fell on deaf ears as he kept beating me. My eyes were now shut and felt heavy so that I couldn’t open them. My head felt like someone was drilling a hole in it. I thought the beating was never going to end. Finally, it stopped but I felt like death was knocking at my door.
“You made me be that nigga that I was trying so hard not to be anymore! My momma left me, and now yo’ ass trying to leave me too.”
Suddenly I felt a sharp blow and all I saw was darkness.
CHAPTER 28
MICHELLE
I’ve taken a leave of absence from work and have been held up inside of my condo. I still haven’t picked up my medication nor was I answering any calls. All I wanted to do was lie in my bed and rot away. My phone started ringing again and when I looked at the caller id I saw that it was Dante. He’s been calling me back-to-back for the past two days. He has been leaving me messages saying I need to call him back and that it’s urgent, but I wasn’t up for hearing his shit. My stomach was growling due to the fact that I haven’t eaten a thing for the past two days. I was only drinking water.
I didn’t have an appetite so I just continued to ignore it. I got up to go to the bathroom when my phone started ringing again. It was Dante calling again. I don’t know why but I answered this time.
“What do you want Dante?” I asked as I answered the phone.
“I’ve been calling you. I really need to talk to you.” Dante said hastily into the phone.
“I get that Dante. What is it? If this is about your chick calling me up I don’t want to hear it.”
“No listen, she went to the doctor and was diagnosed HIV positive. I went and got tested and I was positive. I’m telling you because I know we have been fucking around with each other for the longest so you need to get tested too Michelle. I’m so sorry. I really am.”
I just held the phone to my ear with my hands shaking. All this time I thought that Patrick was the one that passed it to me. I never really considered Dante.
“Hello, Michelle are you there?” Dante asked into the phone.
I hung up without answering him. I stood in the bathroom looking at myself in the mirror and all I saw staring back at me was death. Suddenly there was banging on my front door. I went to the door and looked through the peep hole to see who it was.
“Patrick what are you doing here?” I asked as I let him inside and wondered why he didn’t use his key.
He also had been calling me, but I was avoiding him as well. I thought he was the one who had infected me.
“Look there’s something I need to tell you!” Patrick said to me in a panic.
Before I could respond my front door opened up again.
“Elaine what are you doing here?” I asked shocked to see her here as well.
“Oh don’t
look surprised! I’m here to see what my husband has to say to you now that I know everything.”
“Patrick what’s going on?” I asked.
“Oh so you call him by his middle name?” Elaine said laughing.
“I always knew you were a hoe Michelle, but when the private detective I hired showed me the pictures of you two it just confirmed it.” Elaine said.
“Detective?” Patrick asked.
“Yes detective. I also know about the other little affair you’re having.” Elaine said again laughing.
I looked over at him with a look as to what she was talking about.
“Oh you look so shock Michelle. You thought you were the only side piece? Well this will really make you laugh. I also found out this mutha’fucka has been sticking his dick inside of Hasan, Sevyn’s husband.”
I instantly felt my knees buckling. It felt like everything was hitting me all at once. From finding out I have HIV, to knowing it was Dante that could have given it to me, and now hearing that Patrick was not only sleeping with me but also sleeping with Hasan. This was all just too much!
”Elaine please calm down and let’s talk about this.” Patrick pleaded.
“Talk? Talk about what you nasty mutha’fucka!” Elaine yelled as she pulled a gun out of her coat.
I started backing up towards my bedroom so I could call for help.
“Bitch you stay your ass right there. You wanted my husband so bad. Now you stay here and take this shit with him.” She said pointing the gun at me.
I stopped moving and stood there because I was afraid that she was going to shoot me.
“Now you, since you wanna talk, let’s talk.” She said looking at Patrick and pointing the gun in his direction. “Let’s talk about the fact that I have been nothing but a loving, faithful, devoted wife to your ass all these years. Let’s talk about how I’ve always turned the blind eye every time I caught you cheating on me. Let’s talk about how you always tried to make me feel like I was over exaggerating when I would confront you about it. But most importantly, let’s talk how I got called back into my doctor’s office after I had a recent visit I had there once I found out you were being fucked in the ass and how I found out that I have HIV.” Elaine was now crying and shaking with the gun still aimed at us.
