BOMAW Vol. 10-12 (169 page)

Angela took that moment to make a dash for the house with them and as soon as she got inside, starting calling for Mundo.

"No, the question of the day is, why are you here tripping like this? Further, they don't need to be around this, there was plenty enough of it when we were together!"

"Yeah, and uh, whose fault was that, huh?"

"Oh, here we go!" Crystal stood shaking her head, "Well you took care of that didn't you? You should be happy now, instead of coming here starting mess, we could be talking sensibly to work out time for you to visit your sons, if their closeness to someone else bother's you so much!"

"You know what, I'm not about to stand here, and argue with you in front of this prick, to my car, we need to talk, now!" Victor ordered her.

Crystal started laughing, finding nothing at all funny, "You have obviously gone through some type of trauma, causing you to lose your mind, talkin' to me like that! I think that you should go, calm down, regroup and come back at another time, when we can speak calmly, because this is all wrong!"

"Fuck that! I'm going no where! You still haven't fuckin' told me why he's crawling up your ass?!"

"Crystal! Go in the house, I'll deal with him, please!" Ben spoke from behind Victor.

"No Ben! Stay out of it, please, would you go inside?" She asked him gently.

By then, Victor was looking back and forth between them, growing so angry he was red.

"You think I'm leaving you here for him to talk to you that way?!" Ben objected.

"LOOK ASSHOLE - SHE'S MY FUCKIN' WIFE - STEP - THE FUCK - OFF!!" Victor shouted in Ben's face.

"FUCKIN' MAKE ME - PUSSY!"

"NO! Stop it right now!" Crystal jumped between them. "Ben please!"

"No way!"

She turned to Victor, "You have to go!"

"Bullshit! You're married to me, he has to go!" He growled in her face.

Ben and Crystal both looked at him as if he'd grown a second head, having overlooked his first referral about her being his wife.

"Married to you? Dude you on drugs or something?" Ben asked sarcastically.

Victor was shaking his head, "I'm starting to lose patience here, the only reason-..."

"No, I'm the one starting to lose patience! You made your choice! You left me, I didn't leave you! You-..."

"What choice?! We're separated remember, that's all! I haven't made any choices yet!" Victor corrected her.

"Man - you are crazy - as hell!" Ben shook his head in disbelief.

"Dude, listen, you keep going on and on, in our business, Shawn's son or not, you're gonna find my size 11's up your-..."

"Move Crystal!" Ben took hold of her upper arms to move her from between them.

"NO! Stop it Ben!"

"Get your hands off my wife!"

"I am not your wife!" Crystal yelled at the same time Ben yelled, "She is not your wife!" and added, "Funny thing about divorce, it alters things, like - being able to call her your wife!"

That seemed to pull Victor up, a blank look crossing his features, "Not my wife?" Victor repeated it, as if they were both crazy, looking down at Crystal, into her eyes, confused, "What the fuck is he talking about, divorce?"

Crystal stared up at him, "What do you think Victor? You wanted it - you signed the papers and took them in. Now you've got it, the days of me, being your wife, are over - long over. As of yesterday morning, 10:15am at the Mauston court house, the judge finalized it. You're free, you should be happy, which is why all of this, makes no sense."

All Victor could do was stare at her, his brows drew in crinkling over his nose, his mouth in a smirk, waiting for her make sense, because what she was saying sure didn't, not to his thinking, his memory bank. When she stood staring, making no effort to recant her statement, he felt a quickening in his stomach, his heart began beating out of sequence. "What are you talking about Crystal? What divorce? Quit bullshitting me."

"You know what - you are not gonna do this to me, playing these games! When you're ready to get serious, talk things out - come back then, but as for now, I'm done with this." She turned from him heading for the porch, catching sight of Mundo and Angela in the front window watching and listening to the whole thing. Her movement away from him, after dropping that bomb, froze him for a few seconds, but the distance between them shook him into motion, "Crystal wait, hold on, hold on here!" He rushed, grabbing her arm to spin her around. "I'm not the one playing games here, you are! And no one is moving from this fuckin' spot, until I get to the bottom of this!" He demanded, his grip tight on her arm.

"Let go of my arm, Victor." She asked gently.

"Hey man, you're going too far, hands off! Now, okay, I mean it! This is where I fuckin' draw the line!" Ben warned, right on him, grabbing his arm.

Furious, Victor turned and shoved him back.

As if he'd landed on a spring, Ben bounced about on his feet, as if a boxer warming up for a fight, smiling, "Hey, it's all good - no more talk, step down." Ben invited him, readying himself.

"NO BEN! I MEAN IT! VICTOR DON'T YOU DARE!!" Crystal screamed at them both.

At full fury, Victor jabbed the air with his finger towards Ben, "My wife, is the last wife you're gonna fuck with Benny boy!" He snarled, trotting quickly down the step rushing up to Ben, who shuffled back, bent forward as if playing football and charged at him like a bull, hitting Victor low chest, knocking him off of his feet, to land hard on his back on the turf. Ben rose to throw a punch, but having fought a great deal, Victor was already twisting to avoid the punch, using his elbow, he caught Ben in the ribs, trying to force him over, by tumbling him from the side, but he was heavy, solid and not easy to move, forcing Victor to lock his arm around his torso to try and flip him over. They were like two mighty rams, grunting, elbowing, twisting on the grass, punching, dodging, rolling and hitting where they could.

"NOOOOOO STOP I-I-I-I-IT! STOP I-I-I-I-IT!!!" Crystal screamed at them.

Shawn and the men in his office had been laughing, talking, enjoying a beer, when they heard a strange noise from outside, Shawn stood from his chair walking from the office with the guys behind him following, just as Angela came running down the basement stairs, screaming, "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FI-I-IGHT - DA-A-AD - BEN AND VICTOR ARE FIGHTING! HURIEEE!"

"MUNDO! STOP'EM MUNDO!" Crystal screamed at her brother.

"How I'm supposed to stop'em? I ain't gettin' in the middle o'that shit! Hell wit'that!" He stood by shaking his head, "Ben! Victor! Ya'll need to stop - fo' somebody get kilt! Aaah hell!" It was obvious, he was more interested in the battle.

"MUNDO YOU WRONG! SORRY ASS!!!" Crystal screamed, punching her brother on the shoulder, trying to move in to grab one of them, but didn't want to get knocked down. "Girl you bes' move yo'ass out the way!" Mundo yelled at her.

Shawn and the guys in the basement ran out the front door and down the steps, "OUT OF THE WAY CRYSTAL! GET AWAY FROM THEM!!" Shawn shouted out her.

"MAKE'EM STOP!!" She cried out.

"BREAK IT UP, BREAK IT UP, BREAK IT UP!" Shawn shouted down at them, then pushed one of the men's arms away who was grabbing at Ben's arm, in an effort to break them up.

"NEVER GRAB SOMEONE IN A FIGHT!" He yelled at him, he wouldn't allow it, having been in enough fights, he knew doing that disabled the person you held, giving the other an advantage to hurt them, not to mention getting turned on as well. Turning back to them, his used his deepest, most authoritative voice, shouting down at them, "BEN! VICTOR! BACK OFF NOW! Fighting like fuckin' pussies, break it up! Get to your feet, fight like men! To your feet!" He got close to make sure they heard.

"NOOO, I don't want them fighting! Stop it now!" Crystal cried out at Shawn.

Making a face at her, Shawn yelled at her for the first time, "GET'IN THE HOUSE, NOW!"

"NO!" She shouted right back, "BREAK THEM UP!"

Ignoring her for the moment, "HEY! You hear me! Which one of you man enough to fight on your feet?!"

Breathing hard and deep, locked tightly on to the other, his words penetrated, neither willing to be the punk, turned loose at the same time and sprung to their feet, which is exactly what Shawn wanted them to do, that's when he got between them, a couple of the men, instantly catching on, did the same. Ben's nose ran blood, his face red in places from grip burns, which was also leading to a shiner below his left eye. Victor fought to breathe from Ben hitting his ribs hard, he also had a catch in his side, his bottom lip swollen, split and bleeding, he'd bitten his tongue and also had a shiner on the rise.

"Let us finish!" Ben blasted at Shawn, trying to get around him to Victor.

"You are finished!" Shawn returned, keeping him back.

"Ben, leave it alone!" Crystal shouted at him.

"Hey! I'm ready for round two, come on!" Victor shouted.

"Any time dude! You can't understand it, I'll beat it into you, she's not - your fuckin' wife - anymore!" Ben raged.

"LIES! She's lied to you! You lie to him!? Huh?" He turned to Crystal, breathing hard.

"What are you talking about Victor?! We - are - divorced! You signed the papers yourself! I have a copy, I know your signature!"

"YOU'RE INSANE! I NEVER DIVORCED YOU! WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? THAT'S BULLSHIT!!!"

"You are not going to stress me out! I can't believe you came here like this! Starting a fight, for whatever reason!"

"CRYSTAL! Godalmighty!!" Victor thought he would pull his hair out, at the height of frustration, "Where the hell is this coming from!? I never sighed any papers! Especially not any papers, divorcing you! I swear to God! Crystal, I love you - why in the world would I divorce you!? All I want, is you! I came here, to get you Crystal, my boys, to take you home! Our home, I don't know what this divorce shit is about!"

Crystal stood stunned, staring at him, everyone's eyes were on them, "Your mother, told me - she said - she gave them to you - and you signed them-..."

"Sighed what?!"

"THE DIVORCE - PAPERS!!!" She screamed shaking. "I thought, maybe - just maybe - filing for divorce would shake you! Wake you up! Make you see what was happening to us! I called your mother, told her, asked her to give them to you. I thought - it would make you come to me - but instead - you signed them, took them in. Said you wanted it over. Well, now it is - it's over. I only called you - to work out visitations with your boys, that's all. All of this - you could have saved us this! Now, seems we can't even work that out! So, I'm going to leave it to Mundo to bring you the boys. As for me, stay out of my life - I am not - your wife - anymore!" She was breathing hard, no idea tears rolled from her eyes. Inside, she felt conflicting emotions going riot - mainly because - of the look on his face.

"You - you - ah come on Crystal? I never saw - I never knew Crystal! Crystal I swear, I never knew it! I never saw them Crystal, I swear to you, I never saw them! Why didn't you come to me with them Crystal? Why not me?"

"So you can hurt me some more? Make me feel like it was all my fault? Like I'm the crazy one who needs help? Yeah, well maybe I do - but, I'm not the only one! You didn't even love me Victor! Admit it! You never once - not one time - fought for me Victor!"

"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING NOW?!"

"I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT LIKE THIS! THIS - is you - playing Tarzan! Caveman! My woman! You get back! This is all macho, ownership, my possession bullshit! You're only willing - to fight the people, the guys, who don't matter!"

Ben felt kicked in the stomach and stormed past everyone and into the house. She never saw him, her eyes intent on Victor.

"You only fight guys Victor because it's all about you! How you look! Not once, have you ever, fought anyone about ME!" She felt as if she would cry, and stopped to get her emotions in check.

"Crystal, please ... that's not true!"

"It is true! It is! You let your mother, treat me like shit! Not once, have you ever stood up to her for me! You act like a man - ashamed of his black wife!"

The other men moved away as well now, leaving them alone, they headed across the road.

"I'm not ashamed Crystal - my mother wanted me to divorce you in the beginning, but I wouldn't! I told her, I love you."

"And that's where it ended Victor! How many family reunions with your family, have you taken me to? Who, on your side of the family, besides your parents, brother and sisters, know me? Have met me? Hm? How many vacations, with your side of the family, have we attended, gone on together? Hm? How many? How many dinners? Barbecues? Any kind of get together with them, have you taken me to, Victor? How many?"

"I - I just - didn't want you to - feel uncomfortable, that's all."

"No! You didn't want to feel uncomfortable! You didn't want to make your mother, feel uncomfortable! You didn't want to embarrass your family with me! That's why! But you took our sons, you took them! Because they look the part!" She wiped at her tears, "You left me out of your life, made me feel like you were doing me a favor. At no time Victor, have you ever listened to me, encouraged me, believed in me. But you love to fuck me, and even that, was tainted, because - you cheated on me with that Jeanine - whom your mother told me, you were happy with - moving in with! You call that love? I tried with all I could to love you - but my reward was to feel more and more, like shit!" She moved away from him then, backing towards the house.

"Wait Crystal, wait!"

"Go away Victor, go away! We should have never married, been together. Mundo will bring your boys to you." She turned from him rushing toward the house.

"Crystal no! Wait! I'm sorry Crystal! I'm sorry, for whatever I did! I didn't mean it! Crystal, God - I'm not divorcing you! You hear me?! I'm not letting it end here!" He rushed to close the distance between them, "CRYSTAL!!" He bellowed her name about to step on the porch.

Shawn grabbed his arm, "I think it's time for you to go."

Victor snatched his arm away, "You did this! I fuckin' know you did! I called, you wouldn't let me talk to her!" He accused Shawn.

"Look - might I suggest you go wash your face? Calm down and then, go talk to your mother. She's the one who did this - and you young man - let her. Now go."