Treacherous Love

Stop The Madness

"Ray.. you've been scooting that food back and forth across that plate for the past 15 minutes. what's up?" I chuckled and ate a forkful. "Im just.... I guess I'm not as hungry as I thought I was." Malik reached across the table and felt my forehead. "Nah it's not hot, but you must be sick cuz you passing up the chance to take advantage of this all you can eat pancakes stack is really not like you." I burst out laughing "So you trying to say I'm greedy Mr. Dontelli?" He put a large piece of pancake in his mouth and took a swig of his coffee before he responded "You the same woman that scarf down two stacks and talk the waiter into letting you take another one to go, all on a half an hour lunch break! You wasn't even pregnant then." I poured more syrup on my pecan pancake and ate another piece. "Whatever. You are such an over exaggerator, that was in the middle of finals and I was working full-time and caused myself on this tone up workout program." Covering his mouth with a napkin "Oh so that's what we call it nowadays huh?" and he looked at me and raised both eyebrows "What?" I grabbed my cup and took a long drink. Smacking his teeth "listen you were trying to gain muscle so you could try to pump up your little ass." I nodded my head and put my hands up "Ok,ok so what! Like you aren't the same man that was trying to pump up your chest and pecs so you'd look swole in your clothes you used to model." He mocked me by putting his hands up the same way I did "Dang so we going to go there Rai? I thought we were cool." My cell phone went off. Looking at the caller ID I rolled my eyes and put the phone down on the table. It continue to ring and vibrate."You going to get that?" Malik asked before turning his Focus back to his plate. I cleared my throat "Nah" I simply stated and focused on my plate as well "Wow! you want to talk about it?" I really wanted to, but I hated putting people in my business. I spoke with my mom for almost an hour this morning and the topic was Maurice, I was all talked out for the moment about that situation. Until I had an end game for the problem the only thing I accomplished is wasting boxes of Kleenex. "That's the third time I seen you ignore his call. everything okay?" I signaled for the waitress, grabbed my purse and told him I'm about to use the bathroom and then we can go. "Can you get me a stack to go please?" he looked surprised.

Riding in the car there was complete silence for a few minutes (except for my phone ringing and my message alert chiming). "This that s***!" Malik broke the Silence by turning the music up. I love driving with windows down and air blowing in my face. Mary J Blige with singing You Remind Me "Oh Lord Malik, you suck." he was bobbing his head and singing loudly. "Man old school is the best." I close my eyes and for the first time in the past few days I felt relaxed. "Simone was very active tonight, I rubbed my stomach and followed when she was moving. When the car stopped I was reluctant to get out but as it is it was like 3 a.m. and I needed to go to bed. This was my last night on schedule for another week so Malik decided to take me out for breakfast since I had not eaten all day. He knew me well enough to know that something was up, but respected the fact that I'm a private person. He waited until I got in my car and then sped off. As soon as I started the car my phone ring again. I put the system on Bluetooth mode and begin driving out the pharmacy parking lot, it immediately rang again "Hello" I had another 20 minutes to drive so I figured I'd get this over with so I could go straight to bed when I got home. "Where you been Rai?" the sound of his voice annoyed me. Is there something I can do for you Mr. Chambers?" I asked completely ignoring his question. "You can explain to me why it is that it's going on 4 in the morning and my pregnant fiance is still in the streets." I licked my lips and gripped the steering wheel, taking a deep breath before I responded "I'm on my way now Maurice" I stopped at the red light and I was thinking if I wasn't so damn tired I wouldn't come home right now. "That doesn't answer my question." am I not a grown ass woman, like how the hell does he think he's in the position to question me about anything. "I said I'm on my way home. I'm tired right now okay?" I heard music in the background he must have had a session going, then again if he was recording he wouldn't have been able to call me and text so much. "Yo it's not okay. If you would have come home right after work you wouldn't be as tired as you are now. I sighed and rolled my eyes. Here we go with this bs. "I've been calling you for the past 3 hours why didn't you answer me? where you been? who were you with?" maybe I should have waited till I got home. He is going to flip if I tell him that Malik took me for breakfast, especially this late at night. We just decided to go out and get a bite to eat after work because we were so busy that we didn't have time to eat during the shift." I bit my lip after I said it. I hate lying because it never stops at 1 it's like you have to build a whole situation in your mind and then remember it. "You're still not telling me who Rai. I know you're not telling me that you and that n**** went out on a date this late at night." I ran my hands through my hair "Look we all went to eat and it's not like I was out with someone accidentally getting pregnant so chill out okay." I don't know why he even brought it to this point, he set himself up for that one. "I told you I made a mistake. At least I was man enough to admit it, at this moment we're talkin about you and the way to justify your actions is to bring up my transgressions. Grow the f**** up and woman up." Wow, so I'm just supposed to take the fact that he got a woman pregnant and just act like that s*** never happened. He's been lying to me for months but now, but because his dirty laundry finally hit the fan I'm supposed to just let that rock and woman up up. "All I did is get something to eat after my shift. If it wasn't for the fact that we didn't leave till almost 12:30 this wouldn't be an issue because I would have been home. All actions have consequences, there's no way that you can expect to f*** up that bad and completely be free of any backlash just because you apologized "That's b******* and you know it! when was the last time you pulled some s*** like this? I know when go on break, how many people and who you're working with, what you ate and when you're about to clock out any other day. You plan to f*** up tonight because you didn't call me or text me all day and you didn't answer my call the last 3 hours. Say I'm lying." I regret even going now. I should have told him I would go tomorrow for lunch or something. How the hell does he have the right to be upset with me over one night and he's had a whole other relationship for months now." I did text you back when you text me and I left my phone in the car when we were eating." I was turning down our street and I wondered if I should just park up here and finish the conversation by phone, but that would add fuel to the fire because he's expecting me to pull up any minute. "When do you even leave your phone for any reason? you take your phone to the f****** bathroom. So you just going to tell me bold face lies now!" I pulled into the driveway and put my head on the steering wheel "Maurice!" I practically yelled into the phone. when I walked into the house I slammed the front door. I know he heard that I was home and the phone hung up. I stood there trying to decide if I should go in my room or go to the guest room to sleep. Maurice didn't like going to bed upset so every issue we had he tried to deal with it before we went to sleep, but I honestly wasn't in the mood. I put the bag of leftovers in the refrigerator and started up the stairs. Before my foot could step down on the landing "Come here" he was demanding. I had slept in the guest room for the past two nights, but I guess as long as I was coming in the house at my usual time he was fine with that. I shook my head and rolled my eyes. He was sitting in his recliner watching television. "I heard music in the background and I thought maybe you were working on a track or something." He raise one eyebrow and tightened his lips "I need complete silence and concentration. You f***** that up with your lying ass!" I huffed shook my head and cross my arms he got up and reach for my purse and sweater. It was normal for him to do that but after spending two days without access to my keys and wallet the last time we had a disagreement I hesitated. "F*** out of here man." He growled angrily, basically snatching the purse from me. "Ain't nobody trying to hold you hostage. You were exhausted and refused to rest. I was looking out for Simone safety." After placing it on the hook he walked over to the bed and motioned  for me to come to him. I chuckled and put my head down. I bit my bottom lip and let it slowly slide out from between my teeth. "Not tonight ok. I'm tired, I'm...." putting his hand up he interrupted me. "I said come here." He seemed calm and collected. "Maurice look...." This time I was stunned to silence when I saw what he had in his hand.