Ratchet Bitches

by Tiece

  “I don’t know why Gail would do the things that she’s been doing lately,” He said like that would make her feel better.

  “Sounds like a woman scorned if you ask me,” Lauren uttered as she unlocked the doors to the car.

  “And I wonder who scorned her?” Jamal asked with sarcasm in his voice. “It wasn’t just me,” he said sounding like a man that was heading for destruction.

  Lauren smugly grinned. “Nigga don’t do me. It was your ratchet ass,” she responded with a roll of the neck. “Let’s not get it twisted. You played me for three years thinking you were single only to find out that your WIFE was across seas working for The National Security System as a Civil Engineer.” She grinned. “Hell, I wouldn’t have ever thought a woman that smart could end up with a man as stupid as you.” She opened her car door. “I should’ve left your ass when I found that fake ass card of endearment as if she was so excited that you had purchased her a house. That bitch knew what time it was all along. That was OUR HOUSE,” she said with emphasis shaking her head while thinking back at the card which exposed all of Jamal’s dirty secrets. “No wonder she said that she’d always known you had a mistress. It seems the woman keeps more tabs on me than you do and you think I wanna be with you?” She pushed him in the chest. “Hell No!”

  Jamal was hurt, but he deserved it. His intentions upon meeting Lauren was to lure her in like he was weak and vulnerable then make her love him. The first time he saw her was like love at first sight and all he wanted her to do was notice him. Once she was hooked he made sure that it would be hard for her to leave him. He was just like a loyal boyfriend that proved his love over and over again. He moved her out in the quiet part of the country inside a nice three bedroom house and since he drove nice whips, she did too. He fucked her mind, body, and soul every chance he got.

  “Don’t just stand there and look at me like I’m crazy.” She said, because Jamal was out of lies and his games were over. He knew that once she’d found out that he was married that she would leave him but he fought for her. He loved her more than his wife, but his wife took care of him, of them. Even after Gail had found out about Lauren she didn’t lose it. She allowed him to keep his lil fling since she was gone more than she was actually home. Their marriage was a strange one, but one that worked up until she’d gotten whiff that he and Lauren had conceived a son.

  He stood there with tears in his eyes thinking back at a time when he’d do anything to keep her. He knew that his wife would only let him play for so long, but he didn’t want to lose Lauren. So one day, he switched out her birth control pills with small sugar candy look-a-likes. Sadly, she didn’t even know the difference and not long after that she realized that she was pregnant.

  “Lauren, I know I’ve fucked up some kind of bad, but I love you,” he said while his thoughts were still trying to catch up to his words.

  “REALLY NIGGA!” The voice called out from the black BMW 750. It was Gail and she had run up on them so fast that neither saw her coming. “I knew that your ass was coming over here! Just can’t stay away from this bitch!” She yelled. Lauren was unafraid of the lil scarecrow looking heifer, but didn’t know what the psycho bitch would do after pushing her while she was holding her son.

  “I was just calling it off,” Jamal quickly said already knowing that his wife had a few screws missing. Even he couldn’t understand how a woman that smart could be so dumb.

  “I don’t want him no more anyway,” Lauren snapped while looking directly in Gail’s face. “A woman shouldn’t have to fight so hard to be with a man if he really wants to be with her. You can have him.” Lauren said then turning to get inside her car since her son had started putting up a fuss in the backseat.

  The cries from the baby caused Gail to look towards the baby in the car then back at Lauren. She shook her head. “You think I’m the stupid one don’t you?” She complacently asked. “I might have my issues, but he’s my husband so don’t tell me what I can have when he’s already mine. I allowed you time to play with him while I was gone.”

  Lauren frowned with a nonchalant grin. “You sound like a damn fool,” she told her.

  Gail raised an annoyed eyebrow as if she was offended. “No, you look like a damn fool because you’re not the first playmate I’ve allowed him to have. You’re just the ratchet ass bitch he fell in love with.” The look on Lauren’s face was of pure unexpected shock as she looked over at Jamal with tears in her eyes.

  “Guess he didn’t tell you that did he?” Gail boasted. “You’re just the crazy bitch that found out about his wife then got yourself knocked up.”

  “I didn’t get pregnant on purpose if that’s what you think.” She snapped back in her defense. “I was taking my birth control pills faithfully.”

  Gail paused for a moment. “Oh you were? Well, I wonder how that happened.” She said looking over at Jamal with a side eye. Lauren looked over at Jamal too. It didn’t dawn on her that he would do something that low but then again they were talking about Jamal; the world’s biggest liar.

  “Did you?” She asked then shook her head. “Did you do something underhandedly?” Jamal couldn’t even answer her because Gail was waiting for him to lie. Lauren dropped her head as her hands started anxiously trembling like her nerves were on edge. “Wow,” she whispered feeling like the dumbest person on earth.

  “Keep the car,” Gail unsympathetically said. “And don’t worry he’ll take care of his child, but you and him are over.” She looked over at Jamal like she wished he would, but he knew better. He wouldn’t.

  “I don’t need him to do anything for my son besides leave us the hell alone,” Lauren responded as the tears started to fall. She was indeed hurt that Jamal had lied to her over and over again like he was leaving his wife. When all along she had him wrapped around her finger so tight that he could barely breathe; he couldn’t leave.

  “I suggest you say your good-byes and let’s go,” Gail sternly ordered then walked off. She didn’t care to hear what they had to say at that point because she’d dropped enough salt on Jamal that no woman in their right mind would want to stay; child or no child.

  “We have nothing else to discuss,” Lauren said, but she stood there as if her feet were glued to the ground because she wanted to leave, but she couldn’t. This man had hurt her to the core and she was partly to blame for staying in something so unreal. Her lips parted but nothing came out as she begin to think back at how his wife had disrespected her with her son and how he’d played her to unimaginable lengths. Before he knew it, she had slapped the spit from his mouth catching him totally off guard as he grabbed his jaw. She then turned her back to him and got inside her car, but before leaving she let the window so she could stare the lying bastard in the face. “And to think you actually loved me,” she said. “You lying son of bitch! Stay away from me or I will take out a restraining order on you and your controlling wife.” Jamal didn’t say a word as he watched her leave him standing there feeling like the lowest scum in the world.

  Chapter10

  Thanksgiving morning was upon the Ware family before they knew it. They’d had a peaceful night together since Bianca only drank wine and chopped it up with her their parent’s, Kerry, ShaKita, Janay and the kids. Lauren never showed up, but called with some lame excuses about her pies falling as she exited her house and that just killed her entire mood for the night. She did promise to show up the next day once she’d cooked more pies to bring.

  Lauren, without a doubt, was one of the funny sisters, so her presence was certainly missed. However, so much cooking, dancing, old story telling, loud laughing and playing around with the kids and ShaKita as taste testers, of course, was so much fun. Meanwhile, Lauren was still at home basking in her heartbreak.

  Janay didn’t want to think much about her husband being in Marietta with his smothering mother. So she tried her best to tune him out during the times they weren’t sneaking in a conversation over text or phone. She enjoyed the many jokes and laughs with he
r siblings, though. It was always cute and refreshing to see their mom and dad treat each other like they’d just met; it was straight priceless. Just watching this made Janay even that more determined to hold on to her husband.

  Kerry enjoyed her night just as much any everybody else did, but she especially enjoyed kicking it with Bianca. The girls hadn’t laughed and talked like that in quite some time and it felt good. In between spending time with her family, Justin kept calling with his see through game, but Kerry was already on it. For some reason the conversation felt different and for a change he was actually considered likable. Even though he wasn’t her favorite person walking, she still enjoyed his corny jokes and sensible acts of kindness that they shared.

  ShaKita danced the evening away then made up an excuse to dip out early. She’d had fun with her family and even more fun once she’d gotten back home. She woke up happy as hell as she licked her lips and smiled at her baby. She’d left Coco in a trembled daze after putting a licking so good on that kitty that she didn’t even want the dildo afterwards. She didn’t feel like she’d been taught to eat pussy but more like born to eat pussy. There was no way Coco was leaving her with a magical tongue that good.

  Bianca hadn’t sat with the family in a long time like that. She was the wild card and no one ever knew what plans she had. She felt that the night was nice spending time with her children; especially the baby girl. She reminded her so much of father and she missed him like crazy. She knew that Kory was an enabler, but that’s because he loved her and just wanted to see her happy. He had plans for them though and that was to get their shit together. He wasn’t a big drug user but he’d drink the hell out of some beer. She knew that she was his bad habit even though everyone thought he was hers. The man seriously wanted to marry her and that’s all she ever wanted, but even now that seemed unattainable.

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  Lauren sat on her couch still hurt over the pain that Jamal had caused her. She couldn’t believe how much denial she’d been over the years. She’d been in some no good ass relationships with niggas, but nothing like what she experienced with Jamal. He was a pathological liar that sucked her in from the moment they met.

  She knew that her family was having their annual Thanksgiving Feasting and it was to take place later that evening but she wasn’t up to it. Her facial expression and body language would automatically alert them that something was going on with her.

  She sighed, looking around the quiet apartment then resting her head back on the couch. Moments later, her cell phone rang. Once she saw the name on the caller ID she answered it.

  “Happy Thanksgiving Sis,” she spoke trying to sound enthused.

  “Happy Thanksgiving to you too Sis,” Bianca spoke back then cleared her throat. “What happened to you last night?”

  “Wow, you don’t waste any time.” Lauren responded.

  “That’s because I know you and something happened besides you dropping some damn pies that stopped you from coming here. Now what happened?” Bianca wasn’t the least bit interested in sugar coating the situation. She wanted it raw and she wanted it right now. Lauren cleared her throat wanting to tell all, but she was unsure with Bianca.

  “You may as well gon’ and tell me. I know you ain’t holding back because you think I’m gonna tell it.” Lauren sat quiet, because it wasn’t that. It was just that Bianca was the type that would throw it back in her face as a low blow to get under her skin.

  “No, it’s not that,” Lauren responded.

  “Good, because that would be Mr. and Mrs. Ware’s middle child that talks like that,” Bianca grinned to lighten the situation.

  Lauren laughed. “Oh you got jokes now,” she said knowing that she was that middle child who Bianca was referring to. “Okay, I’ll tell you.”

  “Le’me first guess,” Bianca teased. “It had something to do with Jamal’s old grimy, ratchet ass.”

  “Haha,” Lauren said with sarcasm. “You’re really on one today aren’t you?”

  “Yep, now do tell.” She said eagerly listening.

  “So me and your nephew are leaving the crib to head over that way and guess who comes pulling up directly in front of us?”

  Bianca’s lips tooted up. “Jamal,” she quickly answered.

  “Yes, but you know that I don’t want anything to do with him so I kept walking. B, this nigga gets out the car and follows me to my car. You know I ain’t have time to hear his I’m so sorry bullshit so I strapped my baby in and was getting ready to leave when this nigga’s crazy ass wife pulls up out the blue.”

  “Say what now?” Bianca asked attentively listening at this point. “That bitch ain’t touch you did she?”

  “Oh, nah she didn’t even act like she wanted too, because I would’ve been ready for that bitch. I had my keys in my hand too.” She arrogantly stated. “I would’ve keyed that bitch face so bad Jamal would’ve had to call his insurance company to get that shit fixed.”

  Bianca laughed. “That’s right,” she responded knowing that all of her sister’s had buck in them. It just took a different amount of shit for each one to get heated enough to strike back. “Well, what did her scarecrow looking ass say?”

  “Too much,” Lauren said with an unbelievable shake in her head.

  “Damn,” Bianca responded already figuring that it must’ve been bad; especially to make her miss out on their family gathering.

  “It was bad, B.” She admitted. “When Gail, as he called her, walked up to us, this nigga straight up told her that he was breaking things off with me as if I hadn’t already left his ratchet ass a couple of months ago.” She hissed. “He was the one that kept coming around me, not the other way around.”

  “He act like that ugly bitch run him?”

  Lauren shook her head as if Bianca had to be present to see it. “B, the man is a straight pussy.” She said still feeling like a fool. “Can you believe that since his wife works months, even years out of the country or state that she allows him to date other women here,” she confessed. “She said that I wasn’t his only play toy but that I was the one dumb enough to get pregnant by him.” Bianca sat quiet, because she also thought that her sister was crazy to get pregnant by a nigga that she’d just found out lied to her for years.

  “B,” she called out since she hadn’t answered. “Bianca, I know you’re not thinking the same thing?”

  “Well, did you?” Bianca asked with no hesitation.

  “No, I didn’t and I’m appalled that you would think I did.”

  “Hell, I didn’t know what to think,” she said just being honest. “Well, if you didn’t get pregnant on purpose then what happened?”

  Lauren sat there feeling like a straight fool after thinking back. “He switched out my pills,” she said.

  Bianca frowned with confusion. “He did what?” She pondered.

  “I could remember catching him with my pills before but he claimed that he was making sure that I’d been taking them because he felt like I was trying to get pregnant by him. Well, he said it like a joke and we laughed about it then let it go. Needless to say, I got pregnant soon after. So somehow the muthafucka switched them out, because I was faithfully taking them.”

  “Damn, that nigga is ratchet as fuck for doing some hoe shit like that,” Bianca said with her mouth partly open from the information.

  “Same thing I said, Sis. How the fuck could I get caught up with somebody like that?”

  “I don’t know, but that’s just how it is sometimes. The ones we love and will do whatever in the fuck for are the ones that shit on us in the end.” She said then thought about her baby daddy. “But not my Kory,” she said. “Un-uh, we were gonna get clean and he was going to help me get better.”

  “Aww Bianca,” Lauren said feeling sorry for her sister. Here she was talking about a no good ass snake still walking around to hurt more women when Bianca’s love was now gone for good.

  “I try to imagine him being out of town or across seas fighting war or someth
ing; anything except believing he’s completely gone.” She sadly said. She missed him so much and every time she looked in her baby girl’s face, she saw him.

  “We deal with losses the best way we know how, B. So whatever makes you feel better,” she said. “Think what you have too to get through.”

  “Thanks Sis,” Bianca said. “Well, I hope that you’re coming over today. You better not sit home and let that nigga ruin your life. If I can get through Kory’s death then you should be able to get past that grimy ass nigga.”

  Lauren thought about it. “You’re right, Sis. I’m not letting this nigga run my life like his ugly ass wife is running his,” she said. “I’m about to cook some fresh pies and I’ll be over later.”

  “That’s what I wanted to hear,” Bianca said. “Love you, Lolo.”

  “Love you back, B.” She responded and they ended their call.

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  Kerry woke up to see that it was still early morning hours as she looked over at her alarm clock. She rolled over and screamed in her pillow after hearing the doorbell ring. She sighed while thinking that with the children still being with Justin that she could sleep in a later. Unfortunately, that wasn’t going to happen since the doorbell was ringing again. She dragged herself out of bed still feeling the Patron shots that they’d taken that night then slipped on her pink robe and her bedroom shoes. The wooden floor was much too cold to walk on it barefoot that early in the morning.