Kenzlee Wilson
Six Months Ago
“Come on. Come on. Answer your phone,” I mumbled as I huffed.
I had been trying to get in contact with my boyfriend, Jonathan, since I left work for lunch. What the hell was his problem anyway? For the past week, he’d been blowing me off, which was something I didn’t like. We’d been having so many arguments lately that my head hurt thinking about it. I wanted to fix our relationship, but he became distant, which was something I didn’t need from him. I needed Johnathan to bethere for me, but that seemed like something he didn’t want to do.
With another huff, I shoved the phone back in my purse and jerked the door open to Dunk’s Wings. I peered around and wasn’t surprised to see how packed it was. Hopefully, I would be able to get my food and leave quickly. I would be eating in the park since it was a lovely day today. It was the middle of March, and the weather had changed a bit. I could feel spring in the air. That was a good thing since it had been a frigid winter. As I scanned the restaurant, my eyes fell on a lot of familiar faces I knew around Skyeville. My eyes doubled in size when they landed on a couple at the back of the restaurant. The man looked too much like Jonathan, the same man I had tried calling just minutes before seeing him now.
This had to be some kind of joke. No way was that him. My eyes were deceiving me. Although we stayed together, we hadn’t been sleeping in the same bed lately. Gosh, this was so messed up. I had to be losing my mind to think that my man would cheat on me. When the man threw his head back and laughed, my heart stopped as I gasped so loud I coughed. A tear slipped out of my eye when I witnessed him reach out and touch the woman’s stomach before he kissed her cheek.
He must’ve felt my eyes on him because he turned his head in my direction. His eyes widened before he opened and closed his mouth. As much as I wanted to cause a scene, I knew it was best I didn’t. Without ordering my food, I turned around and headed out the door with tears streaming down my face. Before I could make it to my Toyota Camry, I was jerked back by my arm. I swirled around and slapped the piss out of Jonathan with all the strength I had.
“Don’t ever in your life put your hands on me again,” I growled as my chest heaved up and down. I shot daggers at him, wanting to punch him in the face that time. “Do you want toexplain to me what I just saw?” I probed, even though it was plain for me to see.
My man of three years was with another woman. From the way he caressed her stomach, you’d think she was expecting a baby. That thought had a foul taste in my mouth and made me very nauseous. I pressed a hand to my stomach and took more steps away from him.
“Is she pregnant?” I whispered.
He dropped his head to his chest. “Look, Kenzlee, we can talk about this when I come home.”
I scoffed with a roll of my eyes. “Come home? You think I’m about to let you set foot in my house after seeing you with another woman? How long have you been seeing her?” That was a painful question to ask him, but I had to know.
Jonathan turned angry eyes on me as if I had done something wrong. “How the hell are you going to get mad at me for seeking attention elsewhere when you haven’t been handling your business in our relationship? If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be with another woman. It’s your fault. You’re so concerned about your dead parents that you don’t even realize we grew apart. You’ve spent all your time crying and going to their grave, not spending time with me. You don’t think I needed you too? They’ve been gone for over a year now. Why the hell are you not over it yet? I fell out of love with you.”
My heart shattered into a million pieces at his words. If Jonathan wanted to kill me, all he had to do was drive a knife straight through my heart. Was he even sorry for being caught? I had never felt this type of betrayal before. I gave this man my all, and he did me like this.
“You knew how much my parents meant to me. I’m their only child. They were the only family I had. You knew this when we dated, so now it’s a problem?” I asked it as a question and tilted my head to the side. “You’re with another woman in frontof people when you know they’ve seen us together. How the hell does that look? You’re trifling!” I laughed bitterly.
Johnathan wasn’t worth my time. What hurt the most was me giving this man my all, and he betrayed me with another woman. Not to mention, he brought my deceased parents into this.
My parents died in a car crash on their way home from a date night. My parents were so in love with each other that they did nothing without the other. When one was sick, the other felt down too. Their relationship used to sicken me until I met Jonathan through my job. He brought his dog in, and we hit it off. Once we started dating, his dog and my cat, Pinks, learned to get along. I thought we’d grow to love each other the way my parents loved one another. Truthfully, I thought we were happy with each other, but I was wrong. I never expected him to hurt me like he did.
I dropped my head to my chest and shook it. “You caressed her stomach... Do you want to explain that?”
When I had asked him that before, he hadn’t answered. Instead, he’d turned it around on me. This time, I wasn’t about to let that happen.
“Is she pregnant?” I growled, touching my stomach as that nauseated feeling returned.
If Jonathan told me she was pregnant, that would crush my already broken heart. I’d never had to fight in my life, but right now, I wanted to lay my hands on Jonathan. I boiled with fury as I balled my fists at my side. Although I was hurt, I was also fighting mad. My nose flared as I waited for him to answer me.
“Man, it don?—”
“Answer me!” I shouted, unable to hold it in any longer.
It took everything not to sock Johnathan in the mouth. Why was it so hard for him to tell me if the woman was pregnant or not? If he said nothing, I knew she was. His silence showed thatshe was. The news did something to my heart and made me so sad. I had put my all into a relationship only for a man to do me wrong. I never would have thought Jonathan would do me the way he did. Plus, he had the nerve to bring up my parents. That was a low blow. Whatever we had was over. He could kiss my ass. He had shattered my heart and broken me into pieces, and I bet he didn’t even care.
“Yes. She’s pregnant.”
That was all Jonathan had to say before I drew my fist back and punched him in the face, causing him to stumble back.
“Ahh, shit!” He hissed, holding his eye.
I knew I had no business putting my hands on him, but what else was I to do? This man cheated on me and got another woman pregnant while staying under the same roof as me. He ate my food, and I washed his dirty ass draws. How could he do this to me?
Tear after tear rolled down my face as I tried to hold in the sob that wanted to escape from my lips.
“You’re dead to me!” I spat before I raced to my car and got in.
