“No one is putting on.”
“Well, just give me a few minutes and I’ll be on my way.”
“You don’t have to do that. I told Justin that if he came back around here, I was gon’ call the police on him. I don’t think he wants that kind of pressure, so I’m good.”
“Mmmm…hmmm, all you had to say was Kevin is on his way back, and I’d get the picture,” I noted.
“You do too much, sissy! Kevin is not coming back over tonight. You need to focus on you and Troy instead of being all up in my Kool-Aid. Hold on for a second,” Ava said. I tried to listen to what she and Kevin were talking about, but I couldn’t hear anything. “Okay, I’m back. Whew that man there!” she said then continued. “So, what did y’all talk about on the way to your house?”
“How you just gon’ skip over your tea and ask about mine?”
“What you mean? I ain’t got no tea to spill.”
“What you get back on the phone talkin’ about ‘whew that man there’ for then?”
“Oh, girl it was nothing. For real, I would tell you if there was something to tell. Kevin is just very attractive is all.”
“Yeah, okay, if you say so. Nothing really happened with me and Troy. He let me know that he was interested in getting to know me, and we exchanged numbers. That’s all that happened because when I noticed Justin’s truck down at your house, I wasn’t really trying to hear what he was saying.”
“Lawd, well at least y’all exchanged numbers. I think you two make a cute couple.”
“Woah dere, lil’ sis, he and I are not a couple. Talk about going too far!”
“You need to lighten up a lil’ and give that man a chance.”
“I’ma talk to him and see where things go. But to say we a couple and all is doing too much,” I responded. “You sure you don’t want me to come spend the night?”
“I promise, I’m sure. My other line is ringing, and it’s Kevin. Call me in the morning. Love you, sissy, and thank you for all of your help today.”
“Love you, too, boo-boo. Tell Kevin hey. You know I can see your door from my house, so you won’t be able to hide it if he comes and spends the night.”
“Girl, bye, ain’t nobody coming to spend the night,” Ava responded as she laughed then clicked over to answer Kevin’s call.
Heading up to my bedroom, I stripped out of my clothes and went into the bathroom so that I could take a long, hot shower. Today had been a long day indeed. I couldn’t wait to get into bed and let sleep take over.
JUSTIN
Icouldn’t believe Ava. After all the years I sacrificed to make her happy just for her to turn around and leave me high and dry when I needed her the most was just downright wrong on all levels on her part. I got that she was upset when she found out about me and Shane and Tate. She had every right to be pissed off at me about my secrets. But, to just up and leave me, file for divorce, then block me from contacting her without allowing for me to explain myself was just plain unfair in my opinion. When she popped up at Shane’s house that day and caught me over there, the timing was all fucked up.
I never would’ve imagined that she was keeping tabs on me, nor did I think that she’d find me and pop up to where I was. Me leaving and not coming home wasn’t something that I felt that I did too much. Apparently, I had done it more than enough for her to start to have issues with it now. She’d complain every now and then about it, but eventually get over it, so I didn’t see anything wrong with what I was doing. Especially considering the fact that we had gotten into a bad argument. I
assumed that she assumed I would more than likely stay out late, so I was confused and baffled by her actions. Then she hadthe nerve to beat my ass. I ain’t never had a beating like that in my whole life!
Still to this day, I had no clue how she knew that I was over at Shane’s house. Shane claimed that he hadn’t told her about us, but I found it to be impossible for her to know that I was over there just on her own pretenses. According to her, she thought that I didn’t like Shane because of his lifestyle choices. So, how could she have known to come looking for me at his house if he wasn’t the one that ran off and told it?
I’m still currently in physical therapy recovering from the bad accident that I had. I didn’t think that Ava was going to show up to the hospital when I first got admitted after the accident, so I had the nurse call Tate as well, so that I wouldn’t have to go through surgery alone just in case Ava didn’t show. Tate, being the best friend that he was, came and sat with me until things went straight to hell.
He ended up leaving before I had the surgery thanks to Ava and her minion of a sister Dawn. When they came barging into my hospital room, I thought it was because Ava was there to put our differences aside and to be the supportive wife to me that she should have been. Boy was I wrong! Not only did she put her hands on me when I was at my most vulnerable and in a position unable to defend myself, but calling Shane and him revealing that he was HIV positive felt like a nuclear bomb.
Can you imagine, lying up in a hospital bed, weak and hurt, and your spouse, the person that was supposed to have your back when no one else did, comes barging into the room wreaking havoc? Then, for her to have Dawn of all people with her was like the nail in the coffin for me. She knew that Dawn and I hated each other’s guts, so for her to bring her to the hospital was downright disrespectful. To say that I was speechless would be an understatement.
The whole Shane debacle, my Lord! I had no fucking clue that Shane was walking around with that package. Had I known, there would’ve been no way in hell that I would’ve slept with him and risked my life like that. When he and I first started fucking around we always used a condom and he never, not one time, mentioned anything to me about having HIV. Thankfully, I never performed oral on him, unlike him. He always slobbered on my knob and allowed for me to bust down his throat.
But the day that Ava and I had gotten into it and I left our house, I went to Shane’s and we wound up fucking all night long and well into the next day without any protection, until Ava came knocking on his door. We had gotten caught up in the moment and I made a mistake that had now affected the rest of my life. So, when he revealed he was HIV positive, I was at a loss for words and instantly felt sick to my stomach.
Not only was I embarrassed to the depths of hell, but I knew by my reaction that Tate figured out that Shane was one of my lovers and that shit didn’t go over too well with him. Tate didn’t know that I was fucking around with Ava’s friend until that day. So, for him to be sitting there while Shane exploited us both was just too damn much. Tate cussed me out in front of Ava and her sister, throwing a full fit before he stormed out of my room, never returning to check for me after that.
After Ava damn near slapped me off the bed, stormed out, and I was left to myself to go through hip surgery all alone. Thankfully, the surgery went great and I was able to recover rather quickly because it sucked being alone in the hospital like that. I felt like Ava was wrong for what she did. Exposing all of my business like a TMZ news reporter because that wasn’t the time nor the place for her to come and confront me about a damn thing.
