Dave #2
“What the fuck do you mean why? I’m two seconds off getting your bitch arrested for assault.
” Bianca’s words were muffled and I was sure that her lip was still swollen.
She’d sent me a bunch of photos last night like her condition would make me rush to her side but it only made me laugh.
Sylvia used to wrestle in high school so I knew that Bianca’s prissy ass would never stand a chance in a fight with my wife.
It had been kinda comical to see the two of them fighting.
I loved Sylvie and fucked with Bianca so I wasn’t rooting for either of them to get hurt.
“The fuck you mean? You ain’t hear JJ when he said he’d call the damn police?
We got caught fucking at school. I’m sure they got that shit on multiple occasions because your freaky ass just couldn’t get enough.
I’m not trying to end up on anyone’s registry behind some pussy.
” I was putting the blame on Bianca but I knew better.
I couldn’t lie like that it had been exciting to link up at school all over the place.
The thrill of doing something taboo with someone I shouldn’t have been with was a rush that had to be like a drug.
Shit, I probably was a sex addict or something.
Maybe that was the angle I could use to get Sylvie to stay off my back about my dick and keep our family together.
Shit, that might work. That nigga Eric Bennet did it and Sylvia ain’t no Halle Berry.
“Shut up. I didn’t see you turning me down. And why have you been ignoring me all night? Trying to get back in that bitch’s good graces? It’s never going to happen now.”
I wanted to kick my own ass for fucking around with Bianca for as long as I had.
She’d come on to me at school and I thought she was lookin for a fun time.
The pussy was good and I was cool with doing stuff here and there for her but she started to want more.
I wasn’t sure how all this shit spiraled the way it had but it did.
I’d ended up trickin’ off on her because I knew that Sylvia would take care of home.
I wasn’t crazy in thinking that Bianca was entertaining other niggas.
I had a whole wife and Bianca wasn’t the only pussy I’d dabbled in on the side.
She was the first and only person I’d dealt with from Beacon Grove and that proved to be my downfall.
“She ain’t even here.”
“She’s probably somewhere getting her lick back after what she found out yesterday.”
Bianca’s words gave me pause because I hadn’t thought about her getting it in with someone else.
“You’re full of shit. Nobody is looking at Sylvia that way.”
“You talk about her like you don’t even like her.
You might feel some type of way because of the situation you have at home, but your wife isn’t ugly.
When I first met her I was shocked because you kept saying how you weren’t getting what you needed from her.
I’m the better pick than she is, but she’s not an ugly woman.
” Leave it to Bianca to still be in a competition with my wife she’d never win.
“You don’t know what you’re talking about. Sylvia wouldn’t do that shit. She’s married.”
Bianca busted out laughing and I was trying to see what was so damn funny. “So are you, Dave. But I guess that’s about to change.”
She sounded so fucking smug I wished Sylvie had done more damage so she couldn’t be flapping her swollen lips at me right now.
“You outcho damn mind. Sylvie’s ass ain’t going no where else.”
“But she didn’t come home, did she?”
“How would you know that?”
“Because people have been reporting on the three of us all night. Everyone knows that I had to go to the hospital by myself because you weren’t man enough to come with me.
She was out at the bar and you went to your mama’s house like a lil boy instead of stepping up for us!
” She had the nerve to raise her voice like that was supposed to move me.
“Us? Who the fuck are you talking about?”
“Me and you, stupid! This backwoods ass town has the nerve to be looking down on me. Even at the hospital the nurses were gossiping about this shit. Do you know what it will look like if my family finds out?”
I hated to tell her that it was a sure thing that her people were going to find out but that wasn’t my business.
Her people were some kind of big deal in Atlanta or so she said whenever she talked shit about the people here in Beacon Grove.
She wanted me the same way I’d wanted her.
We were both a fun nut for each other because she told me that she wanted someone who could give her a high-class life.
That shit was a blow to my ego which was probably why I started spending my money on her.
She’d played me like I was a ho and I was going to pay to fuck her like she was one.
It had worked out for me up until now but I probably shouldn’t have been spending what little money I had on someone that wasn’t even a long-term thought besides the next nut.
“You grown as fuck, why do you care about what they think?”
“Because that type of embarrassment in the circle we run in isn’t tolerated. I’m not trying to be shunned and labeled a side chick!”
I chuckled at the way she was talking and needed to bring her down a few pegs. “But you are.”
“Fuck you, Dave! You keep talking like I’m the one who’s wrong here. It takes two and you weren’t refusing anything I offered you.”
I frowned at my phone because she sounded dumb as hell. “What man turns down some ass from a bitch?”
“A married one but it’s clear that you don’t believe that.”
“Whatever man. I got shit to do around here and ain’t got time to be sitting on the phone with you.”
“Yeah I know you gotta figure out where the hell your wife’s been all night. Sucks that you don’t even know.”
“Stop worrying about my fucking family and worry about yourself. You ain’t got shit else to do with all that free time.” I hung up not wanting to give her a chance to say shit else.
She was right though. I needed to get on the good foot and look like a man who wanted his family. My mama would just have to be mad about her kitchen because I wasn’t going to waste my time cleaning up. I fixed my plate with renewed energy because I had a lot to accomplish today.
I pulled up to Sylvie’s oldest brother’s house because I wanted the kids to come home.
It was clear that her father had a hand in ensuring that they were up and ready for school so that I didn’t have access to them.
I’d thought about going up to the school to get them but I was sure that JJ’s ass had trespassed me from the property.
He’d let being principal go to his head like he hadn’t been the fat boy his whole life.
Nigga got the slightest bit in shape and he was trying to act like he was somebody now.
I stepped out of the truck and before I could shut the door of my truck Marion, her oldest brother was heading out of the house.
Everyone in their family had nice ass houses since they were one of the founding members of the town.
They’d been lawyers for as far as anyone could remember so they were considered affluent.
Marion was a lawyer and was a partner in their family’s law firm.
“You got some nerve to bring your Black ass to my house after the shit you pulled yesterday. School been out a minute but you just now showing up here? You should’ve been here first thing this morning.”
He stood with arms folded at the top of the steps like he was daring me to run up.
All of Sylvia’s people were tall and broad.
Their physique had allowed all four to go to college on scholarship and two played professionally in the NFL.
“Now ain’t the time for you to be getting in me and Sylvie’s business.
I know the kids are home from school. Go ahead and call them down so that I can get them home. ”
“I ain’t releasing the kids into your custody until my sister says that she’s okay with that.” He was saying that shit like he was setting up a case for something but I knew Sylvia wouldn’t refuse to let me be a father.
I waved behind him so I could get a chance to talk to my wife while I was here. “Then go inside and tell her to let them out.”
The smirk on his face had my stomach coiling. When he crossed his arms and didn’t holler back into the screen porch for Sylvie, I was worried about what the hell was going on.
“I can’t holler for her because she ain’t here.”
“She spent the night here though, right?” The look on his face showed he knew I was reaching and I didn’t like that he was holding all the cards.
“I don’t know. Did she?”
“She was with one of the five of y’all so I ain’t worried.” Between her parents and her four brothers’ houses in the country I knew she hadn’t been laid up with someone else.
Marion rubbed his beard that same sly look on his face. “Maybe you should be. You have no idea how much shit you’ve put our sister through. We’ve stayed on the side watching because she wanted to handle her business herself. But make no mistake we’re coming’ for your ass just ass soon as we can.”
“And I’ll own this muthafucka if you think about putting a hand on me.”
He bellowed out a laugh like my threat didn’t hold any weight. “Our father is the fucking judge in this town. Who do you think is going to put us in jail?”
“Y’all ain’t untouchable.”
“You want to find out if that’s true or not.”
I was wasting time with this nigga because he wasn’t going to give me the information I needed anyway.
I could tell he was enjoying the way I was basically begging him for information about my bitch and I didn’t like it.
She’d probably told them to play dumb when I came by.
Just thinking about her sitting somewhere watching me up here from a camera got me pissed off all over again.
“That’s cool. Y’all can think what you want. But I know Sylvie loves me and we’re gon’ get through this.”