Side Chic 2 (A Ratchet Mess)

by West, La'Tonya

  When I was done he asked if I wanted to talk about it. I shook my head no. “Are you sure?”

  “Yeah, I’m sure.” I said just above a whisper.

  “Aight, I bought some chicken if you want something to eat.”

  “I am kind of hungry.” I admitted. The two of us sat down at the little table in the corner of the room and ate while we talked. When we were done eating, he undressed down to his boxers and we got on the bed and watched TV.

  “Why are you still wearing that towel?” He looked over and asked me.

  “Because I don’t have anything else to change into.” I laughed. “I hadn’t planned on staying overnight when I left home.”

  He turned over so that he was facing me and ran his hand up my thigh. I had my head lying on his arm so he pulled me closer and covered my lips with his. He removed his hand from my thigh and then reached up and undid my towel. He caressed my breasts and played with my nipples.

  “Mmmm…I am going to really enjoy this.” He said to me between kisses. “I’ve wanted you so bad since the last time that we were together.” He moved down kissing a trail down neck, chest, and stomach until I felt his warm breath on my pussy. Next I felt his lips wrapped around my clit. I placed one of my hands on the back of his head while holding onto the sheet with the other one. He ate my pussy until I came two times back to back. Then he climbed between my thighs and fucked me until I came and yelled out shit that I didn’t understand. When he was done with me, I was so exhausted that I immediately fell asleep.

  The next morning, I was the first to wake up. Skeet was lying next to me snoring like a bear! I eased out of bed, went into the bathroom and washed up and brushed my teeth. I got dressed in the clothes that I’d worn the day before. When I went back out into the room, I woke up Skeet and told him to get dressed. Check out time was at 11:00am and it was already 10:27am.

  While he was in the bathroom, I took my charger out of my pocketbook and plugged in my phone so that I could check to see if I had any messages. I had six voicemails all from my mama asking where I was. I also had two text messages, both from Tre asking if we could meet somewhere and talk. I texted him back and told him that we could but it would have to be later that day.

  He texted me back a few seconds later: Okay well just text and let me know when.

  Me: Okay

  I stood up to gather my things just as Skeet came out of the bathroom pulling his shirt over his head. He walked over and kissed me wrapping his arms around my waist. He kissed me on my ear. “Am I going to get a chance to see you again soon?”

  “Maybe…” I didn’t want to make any promises. I wasn’t sure how things were going to go when I talked to Tre later.

  “Maybe?” He kissed my neck. “How can I change that maybe into a yes?” He kissed my neck again.

  “Okay…yes you will see me later. I’ll call you when I am done handling my business.”

  “Aight, that’ll work.”

  I gathered all of my things and he grabbed what he’d brought with him and we left. After I dropped the key off at the front desk I headed home.

  When I walked in the house, my ma was sitting in the living room watching her soaps. I spoke to her and then went down the hall to my room. I took off my clothes and then put on a big shirt. I plugged my phone up so that it could charge and then stretched out across the bed and closed my eyes. Skeet had really worked me out the night before. I was still tired! A few seconds later there was a knock on my door.

  “Come in.”

  My ma walked in with an evil look on her face. “First of all, where in the hell is your hair?”

  “I cut it. Why are you yelling?”

  “I’m not yelling yet. Why did you cut your hair?”

  I let out a frustrated breath. “Because I wanted to…and because I am grown…and it was mines!”

  She looked at me like she wanted to slap me but instead she said. “Okay, well why didn’t you call last night so that I would know that you were alright?”

  “I’m sorry, it slipped my mind.”

  “Don’t start acting like you don’t have no sense because of this mess that is going on with you and Tre! Remember that you are still a mother with two kids to raise!” She turned to leave the room but then stopped. “And another thing, I love my grandbabies to death and I don’t have any problem keeping them but I would appreciate it if you’d at least ask! Who said that I felt like getting out of my bed to get them dressed for school?” She left out of the room slamming the door.

  I turned over, got comfortable and went to sleep.

  Tre

  I moved around the house cleaning up, I’d gotten up early and threw on some seat pants, a t-shirt and a pair of old Tims. I had a lot on my mind. I wasn’t sure of what I was going to say to Kisha later on when we talked but I knew that I needed to make it good. Even if she didn’t agree to come back home, I could live with that. What I couldn’t live with was not seeing my boys. I knew that this situation had to have been very confusing for them because they’d never been away from me before. I hadn’t even talked to them since they’d left. I let out a sigh and continued wiping down the sink in the bathroom.

  I was vacuuming when the doorbell rang. I turned off the vacuum and went to see who was at the door. All the way to the door, I was hoping that it was Kisha but when I got to the door and looked through the peephole. I saw that it was Tamika. She’d been blowing me up all week and I’d told her that her little bullshit game was over because Kisha already knew. So the question running through my mind now was, why in the hell was she standing at my front door.

  I unlocked the door and opened it. “What are you doing here?” I asked standing in the doorway.

  “Can I come in?” She asked. Her eyes were red and a little puffy like she’d been crying. “I need to talk to you.”

  My heart began beating rapidly. Lord please, don’t let this bitch be here to tell me that she’s pregnant because I am sure as hell going to jail today! I thought to myself. “You can talk from right there.” I replied with my arms folding waiting to see what bullshit was about to slip from here lips.

  “Tre, please don’t act like this…” She pleaded looking up at me with tears in her eyes. “Can I please come in?”

  “Nah, you can say whatever it is that you have to say standing right there. You don’t need to come in!” She was beginning to get on my nerves and if she didn’t hurry up and spit out whatever it was that she’d come to say, she was going to be standing out there alone!

  She let out a sigh and wiped her eyes. Then she took a deep breath before starting, “Tre, I know that you may look at me as some horrible person and I know that you may think that I am the biggest whore to ever walk the earth but I’m really not like that.”

  I looked at her, eyebrows raised. Was this hoe serious? She was the same hoe who had been blackmailing me for dick for the past two and a half months and the same hoe who’d fucked over half of Southampton County! What in the hell was she talking about? I must think she is the biggest hoe that has ever walked the earth? Everyone who knew her thought that! I didn’t say what I was thinking. I let her continue to see where she was going with her little speech.

  “The reason why I blackmailed you and did what I did that night that you passed out on Casper’s sofa is because I really like you. I’ve liked you for a very long time Tre but you would never give me the time of day! You would always look at me like I wasn’t shit whenever you would come over to Casper’s house! I’d never had a problem with getting any man’s attention…except for yours.” She paused to tears that were streaming down her cheeks but it didn’t do any good because they were immediately replaced by fresh ones. “I know that I may have gone about things the wrong way but I didn’t know how else to get your attention. I’d tried everything else! So after I overheard and recorded your conversation with Casper and Skeet that day. I figured that I would use it to get you to deal with me. My plan was for things to start off that way but I figured that af
ter a while you would start to like me back and I wouldn’t have to hold your secret over your head anymore.” I waited for a few seconds to make sure that she was finished. “Say something…” I could hear the nervousness in her voice.

  I stood there for a few more seconds and then burst into laughter. I couldn’t stop laughing! This bitch was absolutely hilarious! “Hold…on” I held my stomach still laughing. I was trying to get myself together but I couldn’t stop laughing. This had to have been the funniest shit that I’d heard all year! I looked at her face and laughed even harder because she was wearing a confused, hurt expression! When I was finally able to pull myself together, I asked. “Are you fuckin’ serious? The reason I never paid you any attention was because you had been run through by every nigga in Boykins and the surrounding areas! Not only that, but Casper really likes your triflin’ ass!”

  “Fuck Casper!” She shouted stepping up closer in my face! “I don’t want his fat ass! I want you! Please Tre, we can still do our thing on the low if you want! Nobody even has to know!” She grabbed the bottom of my shirt and tried to pull me closer to her.

  I smacked her hand off of me! “I don’t want you! I never wanted you! I only fucked with you to keep you from telling Kisha about Lala but now that she knows…you and I are done! As a matter of fact, I have shit to do so can you get out of my yard?”

  “Oh it’s like that? You wasn’t saying that when I was sending your babymama $200.00 every week!” She fumed.

  “Nah, I sure wasn’t! You can continue to do that if you’d like!” I laughed.

  “Nigga that shit ain’t funny! So you are just going to play me just like that, right?”

  “You played your own damn self! What type of woman blackmails a nigga to get him to fuck her praying that he will catch feeling for her? You can’t be 100% sane! I believe your ass has a few screws loose!”

  “How else was I supposed to get you to fuck with me? You had your head stuck so far up Kisha and that other girl’s ass that you couldn’t see me!”

  I was sick of listening to her ignorant ass. “I saw you! I just wasn’t paying your ass no mind!” I stepped back into the house and closed the door in her face. She screamed and banged on the door for several minutes before leaving. After she left she started calling my phone back to back and sending text messages.

  One of her messages said: Fuck you then, I’m going to tell Casper and Kisha about you and me!

  I messaged her back: Bitch tell them whatever you want! I’ve already lost my girl and my boys so I have nothing else to lose! In this situation you will be the one losing because he takes care of your triflin’ ass! Stop texting my phone!

  She sent several messages cursing me out after that but I just ignored them all. I couldn’t turn off my phone because I was waiting for Kisha’s text. I finished cleaning up and then took a shower and got dressed. I’d gone out and bought some new clothes and a few pairs of shoes since Kisha had destroyed most of my other stuff.

  When I was finished getting dressed, I went over to my parent’s house. I needed to talk to my dad and tell him about what was going on and ask him to tell me what I should do. I wanted my family back. When I got to my parent’s house, my ma opened the door.

  “Hey baby.” She greeted me.

  I gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. “Hey ma.”

  “Come on in here.” I walked in and she closed the door behind me. I took a seat on the sofa. My dad was lying back in the recliner watching TV.

  “What’s up pops?”

  “Nothing much, just watching this old Western movie. Where are the two munchkins?”

  “They’re with their mama.”

  “Oh, I can’t believe that you managed to get away from those two.”

  I figured now was as good of time as any to tell them what was going on. Initially, I’d only planned to tell my dad but I didn’t see any reason not to go ahead and tell my ma as well. She would eventually find out anyways. “I need to talk to you two about something.” I told them.

  My ma took a seat at the other end of the sofa. “Okay, what is it?”

  “Kisha left, she and the boys have been staying at her mama’s house.” I blurted.

  My dad sat the recliner up. “She left?” He sounded concerned. “Why?”

  “What in the world did you do Tremaine?” My ma asked.

  “I got another girl pregnant and she told Kisha about it a few days ago.” I dropped my head. I felt ashamed sitting there telling my parents what I’d done.

  “Oh my God, Tremaine. What on earth were you thinking?” My ma had her hand over her chest and she was shaking her head. “Poor Kisha, I know she must be a wreck!” She looked over at me with disappointment in her eyes.

  “Yeah she is.” I admitted. “I don’t know what to do. I’ve been telling Kisha that Lala is lying about me being the father of her kids…”

  “Kids?” My dad yelled. “What do you mean kids? You got her pregnant more than once?”

  “Nah…” I shook my head. “She has twin girls…well we have twin girls.” I paused and thought about the day that the girls were born. Images of their little faces danced in my head. “Man…I’ve really been messing up!” I let my head drop in my hands. For the first time in a long time, since I was a kid, I wanted to cry!

  “So are these two babies by this other girl yours? I mean, do you know that for a fact?” My dad asked.

  I lifted my head up running my hand over the hair on my face. “Yeah, they’re mine. I’ve been telling Kisha that they’re not but they are.”

  “Well, where are these children at?” My ma wanted to know.

  “In Danville, VA, Lala moved up there when she found out that she was pregnant.”

  My dad looked confused. “Why?”

  I sat there and told them the whole entire story from the beginning so that they wouldn’t be confused. When I was done I waited for their reactions.

  My dad was the first to speak. “Two years? You were with that girl for two years behind Kisha’s back?”

  “Yes sir.” I answered.

  “And you can’t understand why she may have told Kisha about those children?” My dad asked but didn’t give me a chance to answer. “Son, you didn’t just go out and mess around, you had a relationship with that woman. You allowed her to develop feelings for you and I am sure that you showed some type of feelings for her as well. She loved you so much that she left everything that she knew to protect you. I’m not taking up for her in anyway because she knew what she was getting herself into dealing with a man that already had someone but I can’t overlook the fact that she did try to do the right thing. From what you just sat here and told us, all she wanted was for you to be there for your children. She’s asking you to do what you should be doing anyways! I imagine that she’s scared to death, having a sick baby with a heart condition. I don’t think she told Kisha because she wanted to break y’all up. I believe she told her because she was angry and fed up with how you have been neglecting your responsibilities! You sat here and continuously repeated how you’d kept those other babies a secret because you didn’t want to lose your family. They’re your family too and one of them is very sick. You say that you know for a fact they are your babies. So don’t you feel like you should be there when that child has surgery on her heart?”

  “Your daddy is right, Tremaine.” My mama added. “What if that little girl doesn’t make it through that surgery? You will have to live with the fact that you weren’t there for the rest of your life. That’s not something that you want to have to live with, I’m sure.”

  “No ma’am.” I agreed letting out a sigh. Hearing them explain it made it sound different. I knew that they had no hidden agenda and I also knew that they’d never tell me anything wrong. “So what do I do now?”

  “You start by telling Kisha the truth.” My dad told me.

  “That’s right these lies have got to stop.” My ma added. “You also need to call that girl, Lala and ask her the day and time of
that baby’s surgery because if that is my grandbaby I want to be there and you should want to as well. Also I am going to need some pictures and some clothes sizes! Ooooh! I got two more grandbabies!” She squealed. “I can’t wait to spoil them!” She stood up and walked over to me and smacked me upside the head! “My grandbabies are two months old and I’ve never even seen them!”

  “I’m sorry ma.”

  “Mmmmhmmm…just fix this mess.” She replied. “I have to go and fix some lunch.” She left the living room and went into the kitchen.

  “Everything is going to be alright son. You just have to start making some better choices and stop playing with people’s feelings. You are not getting any younger. You are getting older and you have four children now. You need to start trying to set an example for them, give them someone that they can look up to.” He explained.

  “You’re right.” I agreed. “I’m going to step outside for a minute.”

  “Alright.”

  I got up and walked outside. When I got outside, I lit a cigarette and then pulled out my phone. I dialed Lala’s number and waited for her to answer.

  When she did I heard crying in the background. “Hello.” She answered. She sounded extremely busy.

  “Are you busy?” I asked. “I could call back in a few.”

  “Nah, I have my Bluetooth in so I’m good. What do you want? I sent you the information about the blood test so what else do you need?”

  “I called because I wanted to talk to you. I have some things that I need to say.” The baby was still crying. “Is she alright?”

  “Yeah, Ms. Laila hates bath time.” Lala laughed. “Lola loves to take a bath.”

  “Oh…” I smiled. I realized that I didn’t know anything about them except their names and that Lola had a heart murmur. “Lala, I called to apologize to you for how I’ve been treating you. You were right. I’ve been walking around blaming you and everyone else for this entire situation when I really should be blaming myself. I was really pissed at you for telling Kisha…well Kisha and everyone on my Facebook page…about the babies but I should’ve been told her. So I called to apologize to you. I hope that you will accept my apology.”