After taking a shower then getting dressed, I went down to the kitchen to find something to eat. I started to call or text Ava to see if she wanted me to order her something for dinner, but after thinking about it, I figured she more than likely had already eaten. Going quiet on me like this, I was sure was her way of trying to get my attention. But the shit wasn’t working because I really wasn’t fazed by what she was doing.
I ended up ordering a meat lover’s pizza from Lou Malnati’s. Thankfully, it didn’t take long to be delivered because I was starvin’ like Marvin. After eating, I stretched out on the sofa in the family room with plans of watching a little TV but ended up dozing off to sleep.
Waking up out of my sleep, I needed to use the washroom, so I headed to the bathroom to relieve myself. Checking the time on the stove in the kitchen as I walked by on my way to the half bathroom down the hall, I saw that it was a little past one in the morning. After using the bathroom, I went upstairs to check on Ava. I hadn’t heard her when she got in, and I was surprised she didn’t wake me up. Making it to our bedroom, I realized why she hadn’t woken me up. It was because she hadn’t made it home yet.
Being that it was a weeknight and she needed to be up in the morning for work, I couldn’t understand why she hadn’t made it in the house yet. Heading back downstairs, I grabbed my cellphone so that I could call her to see where she was. At this point, she was taking things too far, acting childishly by not coming home nor calling me or at least texting me to tell me that she wouldn’t be coming home was silly as hell.
Going to her number in my call log, I hit send, and the call went straight to voicemail. Hanging up, I tried calling her again, and just like before, the call went right to voicemail. Now she had me hot. Talk about putting a ten on a damn two! Sitting on the couch, I started to get worried that maybe something happened to her. I figured if that were the case, someone would have reached out to me by now. With me working for the fire department and Tate working as an EMT, we knew our co-workers’ families very well. With EMTs working alongside us on some calls, it was hard to not get to know one another. Most of us spent more time at work than with our families so while we were at work, that’s usually all we talked about.
The only person I could think to call was her friend Shane. I didn’t want to call her sister just yet because I assumed that she was one of the first people Ava called after I left this morning, and I knew her sister didn’t really care for me. I couldn’t even blame her for not liking me because Ava stayed on her sister’s main line telling her all types of fucked up shit about me with her insecure ass. I mean, yes, I did have a very bad habit of cheating on my wife, but she’d accuse me of cheating on her with a woman and that wasn’t the case. She never gloated and mentioned none of the positive shit I had going for myself though. That teacher aid or whatever she did up at the damn high school salary didn’t put a dent in our monthly budget. Ava lived comfortably because of me, she didn’t have to want for nothing but that ain’t good enough. And that damn sister of hers always got something slick to say but ain’t even got a man checking for her unless it’s to tap her ass. In my eyes, Ava goofy as hell to even take advice from someone that didn’t even have what we got. So, as far as I was concerned, the bullshit she told Dawn about me was just that… bullshit.
Her sister and I used to be cool, but when Ava and I went through our rough patch, she confided in Dawn. I felt like that was when Dawn’s feelings for me changed. I felt like she never really liked me again after all that had gone down between us and that she was just tolerating me because Ava loved me. She never stepped to me on some real shit and asked my side to shit. She just took what Ava told her as the end all be all never considering her sister had her ways about her too.
Even though Ava never really found out that I had cheated on her, and it was always proven that every time I’d leave the house and say I was at Tate’s, that was exactly where I was, I was still wrong in Dawn and Ava’s eyes because I still made Ava feel lonely. All that mattered to them was that I’d hurt her feelings for not giving her enough attention. Obviously, that wasmore than enough for her sister to change how she felt about me moving forward permanently and that made her lame to me.
The only other person I could call was Ava’s best friend, Shane. I knew that Ava also told Shane EVERYTHING that had gone on in our relationship for a fact because he would always tell me whenever he and I would talk or see each other. As bad as it made me feel to admit this, Shane and I had been messing around with each other for the last couple of months. I knew it was fucked up as hell for me to be sleeping around with my wife’s best friend, but he was just as wrong as I was. Hell, there were even times when I’d be at his house and he’d put his phone on speaker so that I could hear Ava crying the blues to him about me. It was some real fuck shit, that I know but what was done was now done.
Going to his number in my phone that was saved under S.B., I couldn’t save it under his real name because as insecure as Ava was, I didn’t want to risk her ever going through my phone and seeing his name in my phone. I decided to send him a text instead just in case Ava was over to his house. Hell, if he let me listen to her calls his sassy ass would probably do the same and let her listen to mine. Ain’t no telling what he would or wouldn’t do, all I know was I didn’t trust anyone because I couldn’t even trust myself.
Me: What good
S.B: In bed… you wanna join me
Me: You heard from Ava? Is she there?
S.B: Would I invite you over if she was?!?!?!?
I swear Shane was a handful when he wanted to be.
Me: I would hope not. Thought you were playing around tbh.
S.B: I’m horny as a goat and serious as a heart attack
Me: All you think about is sex. I ain’t crack yo back good enough last night or sum
S.B: Oh you cracked it a lil too good. You got that good dick and you work it well
He was making me blush but distracting me from the reason why I even reached out. I had to divert the conversation back to the task at hand cause he was tempting me in a sexual way.
Me: You talked to yo girl today
S.B: No, why? She not home?
Me: Didn’t I just ask if she was at your house
S.B: What done happened now
Me: She was tripping I made it home from your place this morning. Why you ain’t wake me up? You know I gotta leave at a reasonable time
S.B: Aht, aht! Don’t blame me for you not making curfew. I’m single and can mingle without having to answer to a damn soul. I ain’t the one that is married booski so check yo self
Me: I’m not blaming you for shit I’m just saying. You supposed to be looking out for me and Ava. She found a condom wrapper in my pocket
S.B: You big dummy!
Me: Whatever! I’ll hit you later. I need to find yo crazy ass friend.
S.B: You want me to call her
