Faces of the Game (5 page)

Oh my goodness... 
Chelle thought to herself as Yuri continued to ease her discomfort.  Neese walked into the room and looked around; she decided to sit on the chair that was next to the table. As her therapist Nori came into the room, she told Neese to take her robe off and lay on the table face down.  Neese did as she was told, and the massages begin; she started with Neese’s shoulders and moved inwards continuously all the way down Neese’s back.  She was surprised with unexpected satisfaction, and she enjoyed each moment.  Her muscles were no longer tight; each kink was massaged out with Nori’s gentle but strong hands.  When the massage sessions were over, the young ladies weren’t ready to leave yet but since they had no choice, they packed the swimsuits in the plastic bags to take along with them, they left the bath robes where they found them and they put their clothes back on.  They all came to a mutual agreement that they wanted to go to Atlanta once a month for their Spa therapy.  Each of them made sure to get the name of the person who gave them their massages so they could go back to the same person each time.  They were so pleased with the Spa experience that they talked about it the entire ride back to the hotel.  “What goes on at the Spa stays at the Spa” Chelle said joking with the other girls.  “She’s serious, what happened in room 4?”  Neese said nudging Chelle on the arm.  “Whatever, that was such a good experience Yuri is my therapist every time we go back.”  Chelle responded.  “Man that was so relaxing I want to go back tomorrow.”  Ash said in a sincere voice.  “I know right, words can’t explain how thankful I am; that was the best idea ever.”  Tera added.  They continued to go on and on about the Spa until they arrived at the front doors of the hotel.  “Wait right here, were coming right back with our luggage”, Neese told Abdul as the girls climbed out of the limo.  The girls went up to their rooms, made sure everything was packed, and they were on their way downstairs with their luggage and bags.  On their way down to the lobby, the girls struggled with their luggage and bags but they managed to get it all to the limo in one trip.  They couldn’t engage in much conversation because they were concentrating on keeping their bags from falling.  Once they all got into the limo with all of their belongings, they were on their way to the airport.    On the ride to the airport, they all agreed that their favorite experience was now the Spa.  They all decided to take a break from talking to one another and call their guys to tell them they were on their way to the airport.  Neese called Ryan to tell him she was on her way to the airport.  He asked her why she wasn’t at home yet he knew that her flight was supposed to leave earlier.  Tera called Cory, he was glad nothing happened and she was just taking a later flight out.  They talked for a while, she was trying to talk to him and carry her luggage throughout the airport at the same time.  Ash called her boyfriend and he thought she would beat him home, so he was glad to hear from her he didn’t know what had happened.  Chelle called Chip and he told her he would meet her at the airport so they could go out for dinner when she got back.  She told him that her flight would arrive in Greensboro at about 9:15p.m.  The girls thanked Abdul once again for being a safe driver and for taking over where Frank had left off.  They paid their total balance plus a great tip, and were on their way into the airport.  “Damn those niggas were worried as hell, we cut our phones off for a few hours and they go crazy!”  Neese said laughing as they approached the baggage check.  “I know right” Tera agreed.  They checked their bags, went through security and sat at gate C6 which they were to depart from.  Shortly after, they began to board the plane.  Everything was flowing well, the flight was on time.  They boarded the airplane one by one, and once they hit the seats they were asleep in no time.  Before long, the airplane was landing at the PTI International Airport, and the girls were stretching and yawning preparing to get off of the airplane.  “Home sweet home”, Tera said as the girls stood up to exit the airplane.

Good Times

As the girls arrived at the airport, they all went to their own separate cars.  Neese spotted her whip across the parking lot; she popped the trunk with the remote on her key ring and loaded her trunk.  She was so happy to be back at home; she just sat in the driver’s seat for a moment before calling Ryan back.  Chelle walked straight to her car, she popped her trunk to load it and called Chip at the same time.  “Hey I’m here where you at?”  She said as she called him.  “I’m here too; I am on my way to the long term parking lot A, right?”  He responded.  “Yep” she said ready to see him again.  Tera approached her car she opened her door and let her front seat up so she could put her luggage in the back seat.  Ash walked over to her car and popped the trunk to load her luggage, as soon as she dropped the first bag in the trunk her Lo was calling her, “Where you at?”  He yelled into the phone being silly.  “Stop yelling I can hear you, I just got back, and I’m putting my things in the trunk now.”  She said in an aggravated tone.  All four girls had parted for the evening planning to get up with their men.  Chelle and Chip ended up going to Arigato Japanese Steak House before they closed; they made it just in time for the last table of the night.  Chelle ordered the weekend special Filet Mignon, Shrimp and Crab legs and a glass of water with lemon and a watermelon martini to drink; Chip ordered the same minus the Crab legs and added Salmon.  They sat at the table and told each other what all they did in Atlanta.  Chelle told Chip that he and she should go to the Spa one day, but he said that the Spa was strictly for the ladies so she didn’t oppose.  Instead she changed the subject, “So did you enjoy the strip clubs?”  Chip looked at her as if she had two heads “Of course I did, I was drunk as hell” he responded.  “I’m glad you had a good time, I had a wonderful time myself” Chelle said smiling at him.  “I am just glad you finally gave me your number, I told B when I finally got you I wasn’t going to let you go no matter what and I am a man of my word.”  Chip said hoping to strike an endless conversation.  “So, how do you plan to keep me no matter what?”  Chelle asked leaning over and kissing him on the cheek.  “Whatever it takes; time, loyalty, honesty, finances… just whatever” Chip said kissing her back on her cheek.  They leaned on one another and watched the chef cook the food, the flame grasped their attention and they were silent for a few minutes before Chelle broke the silence.  “So who are you messing with right now?”  He looked at her with a blank expression, “Nobody we already went through this” he said as if he knew that she was aware of his current status.  “Oh really?  So what’s up with you and Kiki?”  She asked knowing that he and Kiki were in a relationship whether they were boyfriend and girlfriend or not.  “We cool.” Chip said in a slightly high pitched tone.  “What are you getting hype for?”  Chelle asked.  “No reason, but that’s not my girlfriend I hope you haven’t heard anything different.”  Chip said trying to sound nonchalant.  Chelle quickly changed the subject again, “So what are you doing for the rest of the night?”  Chelle asked surreptitiously inviting him to stay the rest of the day with her.  “Shit, what about you?”  Chip asked her hoping that she would say she was chilling with him.  “Nothing, you want to come over my house?”  She asked him while taking a bite of her food.  “Sure” he said in a sarcastic voice, excited that everything had fallen into place just as he planned.  They continued to eat and make small talk until the chef cleaned his area and cut the fan off over his grill.  They both clapped for him, and he took a bow and left the table.  Soon after, the waitress came over to give them to go boxes and the check.  Chip paid the check and left the change for a tip, and they were on their way to her house.  “Follow me” Chelle instructed as she got into her car.  Chip hopped into his car, cranked it up and followed closely behind her making sure she wouldn’t leave him. 
That looks like the same car that the runner drives, I saw it parked at Twan house one day when they came back from the A.  I hope she isn’t moving shit for us, she a good girl.
  Chip thought as he continued to let her lead the way. 

History 101

They both walked into the apartment got situated, Chip went back to her car to get her luggage out of the trunk while Chelle went into her bedroom and took off her clothes and slipped into a pair of boxers a tank top and her silk robe.  “Thank you sweetie” Chelle said as she took her luggage into her room and slid it into the walk-in closet.  The two of them sat in the living room and watched Jay Leno before getting tired.  Chip yawned, “Can I spend the night?”  “Yeah, as long as you don’t try me” Chelle replied.  “Na, I won’t I am just tired as hell” Chip assured her.  He slipped his Jordan’s off and neatly laid them along the side of the wall.  “No crazy dudes are going to come bursting in here are they?”  He said joking.  “I don’t know he might” Chelle said joking back with him.  Chip then took his jeans off, he had basketball shorts under them and he took his polo shirt off, he had a white tee under it.  “This was a set up, you had your pajamas under your clothes.”  Chelle said playfully pushing him.  “No I didn’t” he said laughing hard.  They both laughed and climbed into the bed.  “I like your apartment, it’s nice” Chip said as he propped his arm up on his pillow to support his head while he looked at Chelle.  “Thanks” Chelle said as she laid on her back and put both of her hands behind her head. 

“So are you ready for the big conversation?”  Chelle asked Chip.  “Yep, give me what you got.”  Chip responded.  “How many people have you had sex with?”  “I don’t know, like forty something.”  “How many serious relationships have you been in?”  “Two serious relationships.”  “How many children do you have?”  “Two, a son and daughter."  “How old do you want to be when you get married?”  “If I get married I want to be like, 36 or 37.”  “Have you ever had more than one girlfriend at a time?”  “Of course” he said sarcastically.  “Okay, have you ever had an STD?”  “I have had everything, I’m just playing; yeah but I was younger and I got rid of it.”  “Do you have anything that you can’t get rid of?”  “No.”  “How often do you go to the doctor?”  “I actually have to go twice a year just to make sure everything is okay because I had a cyst on one of my nuts and they want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”  Chip said as he chuckled slightly knowing that Chelle was probably thinking
“what the hell?”
  “Word little Tupac, hahaha okay I am done for right now, your turn.”  She told him after she drilled him.

              “Okay, Chelle how many people have you had sex with?”  “Four.”  “How many times have you been in love?”  “I guess you can say twice, I have had two serious long term boyfriends.”  “How old were you when you lost your virginity?” “Fifteen” “How many people have you gave head to?” “I’m not answering that!”  “You have to, you can’t just choose what to answer.”  “Two.”  “Have you ever messed with a girl?”  “Maybe.”  “Na, you have to answer yes or no.”  “No nigga.”  “You are lying.”  “Whatever, people think that about all girls continue.”  “Have you ever had anal sex?”  “Hell no!”  “Have you?”  Chelle asked dismayed.  “Yeah, but not on purpose it slipped.”  He responded.  “Whatever, keep going.”  “That’s all for right now.”  Chip said concluding his questioning. 

              Chip sat up and grabbed his jeans, took his reefer out and rolled a cigarillo.  “So, tell me about your past relationships that really mean a lot to you Chip.”  Chelle said as she sat up with him and leaned against her pillows.  “Umm, my first serious relationship was with my baby mama.  Everything was straight at first, we lived together, she had a good little job, I paid all the bills everything was good.  Then she started flipping out on me if I stayed out too late, she would slap me, punch me, dig her nails in my skin all types of shit.  I would be at the card house or something and I might stay out until 4 in the morning, but she would swear I was cheating on her which I actually wasn’t, and she would go crazy.  I started wondering why in the hell she was so crazy, and then later I found out that she was getting high.  That shit really bothered me up so I threatened to leave her over that shit and she promised that she would stop so I stayed with her.  After the arguing and everything that we went through, she got pregnant I was so happy that my first child was being born I just didn’t know what to do.  Then, when my child is born I ask her is he mine because everyone kept telling me to get a test and she spits on me, cries, tells me she can’t believe that I would play her like that.  I decided to get a blood test anyway because all of my homeboys had doubts for some reason, come to find out it was not my kid.  That shit hurt so bad I never saw myself trusting another female, I was faithful to her and she played the hell out of me.  To make it so bad my son was actually my homeboy’s child.”  Chip looked sort of sad after he told Chelle how bad Mo had hurt him.  He pulled the blunt long and hard, then he leaned back and stared in the mirror that faced them.  “Dang, I’m sorry I had no idea that you had to go through that with her.”  Chelle said laying her head on his chest.  “Na, it’s all good.”  Chip said nonchalantly.  “So anyway, we got back together after all of that and everything was going good I decided to call the boy mines his daddy was a sorry ass nigga anyway and it isn’t the little boy’s fault.  So she got pregnant again and since I had a trust issue, I got a blood test and it’s my little girl.  I found out that I can only have girls because I only have one nut.  Right after she had our daughter, she started bugging out again.  After that I just said fuck it, I still paid the bills but I couldn’t live with her crazy ass she was on drugs, she lost her job behind that shit and she was just a mess.  She was bad back in the day but if you know what she’s about she’s wack.”  “Chip, why did you go back to her after she lied to you about the baby?”  “Because I thought I loved her, she was pretty convincing until I realized that she wasn’t going to change for me, herself or anyone else.”  “Then there is Kiki, I am sure you know all about her you always seem to say slick shit when it’s convenient.”  “Yeah, so what is the problem with you two I would think she is happily in love with you the way she talks about you to people?”  Chelle said sitting up and leaning towards him as if he were about to tell her a secret.  “You are so silly, move” Chip said laughing.  “Okay, to be honest we were almost fully happy but I have a very hard time trusting her and she has a hard time trusting me.”  “Well I guess so, you are with someone else right now and I am sure her woman’s intuition tells her so.”  “Whatever, she still talks to her baby’s daddy and I know she still deals with him on a daily basis so I just can’t trust her 100%.”  “So, you still keep in touch with your baby’s mama but the two of you are over completely right?”  “Of course I would never ever talk to that psycho again, but Kiki on the other hand she still leads her baby’s daddy on.”  “Oh so you just don’t trust her.”  Chelle said as if she was accusing him of being insecure.  “Man plus she talks to this nigga Meek and he is a hater, she doesn’t think I know but I know all about that shit.”  “Really?”  Chelle thought to herself for a moment,
damn Meek talks to Mina I wonder if she knows about Kiki.  Oh well I am not going to be the bad news bearer, she will find out soon enough it’s a small world.  I wonder why Chip called Meek a hater.  Hmmm, guess it won’t be too much to ask him. 
“So this dude Meek, why do you say he’s a hater?”  Chelle asked so she could get the inside scoop on this dude before she ever met him face to face; if she ever were to meet him while with Mina.  “He talks too much shit, trying to tally up my income and figure out what I’m worth.  He asks around about how much I move and all that shit, man he’s a hater why would you worry about what somebody else is doing.  I don’t like that, if I didn’t know any better I would be convinced that he might try to rob me one day.”  “So do you think he might try to?”  Chelle asked becoming disturbed.  “Na, he’s not a stick up kid he’s just a plain hater as far as I know.”  Chip said confident that Meek wasn’t that desperate.  “Oh, so how do you know that Kiki and Meek talk?”  “This is Winston man, I have heard that a couple of times.  It’s all good though I got who I want now, you just better not start dipping and dabbing on me every time I turn around.”  “Na, only if you do me wrong.”  Chelle said with a sneaky smirk on her face.  “Why you looking like that?”  Chip said with his guard already up.  “I’m just fucking with you damn you are so insecure.”  Chelle said laughing at him.  “Whatever, so tell me about your serious relationships although I don’t know how serious they could have been you are still a youngin.”  Chip said joking with Chelle.  “Whatever, shut up.”  Chelle said not finding his sarcastic comment funny at all.  “Well, J.C. was my first boyfriend, we started dating when I was twelve years old he was so good to me at first but then he started being crazy.  I lost my virginity to him and we didn’t have sex again until maybe two years later.  Well, after that he started flipping out trying to convince  Neese and my mother that I was cheating on him with this guy, the dude was just plain out psycho”  “Word up?”  Chip said inquisitive.  “Chip, still to this day I am scared of him it goes way beyond that.  When I first went to my new high school, he went there too and I made sweetheart court with this guy that I had never seen before, well he argued me down that I was messing with the guy and everyone knew except for him.  I tried to tell him that I didn’t even know this guy, but he wasn’t trying to hear that.  He saw me in the parking lot at school and he ran up on me and started choking me, slamming my head up against a van, cursing me out and everything.”  A few tears welled up in Chelle’s eyes but she didn’t cry she held her composure.  Chip allowed her a break seeing how hurt she was made him infuriated; he decided to ask a few questions.  “So who is this little dude anyway?”  “He’s my age, you don’t know him.”  “Who does he hang with that I might know?”  “Umm, Smalls do you know him?”  “Na, who else I might know the nigga is he doing anything out here?”  “I don’t know Chip, why?”  Chelle asked now afraid of Chip’s curiosity.  “Just asking, so what happened after her did all of that to you did anyone see y’all?”  “Yeah, Ash and she came over there to get him off of me.  I texted Neese right after it was over and she plotted on getting him jumped but I told her it wasn’t worth it.”  Chelle said in a guilty tone.  “What did Ash do?”  Chip was so anxious to know full details about this incident that Chelle wasn’t sure if she should tell him anything else about J.C.  “She just called his name and told him to get the fuck off of me, then she hugged me and asked me was I alright.  I couldn’t do anything but cry on her shoulder and it seems like every since that day we have been best friends.”  “Damn, that nigga was foul did he ever get his ass kicked?”  “No, everyone was so scared of him even when we broke up no one wanted to ask me out.”  “Damn so he was just a big ass bully huh?”  Chip said shaking his head.  “Yeah, he tortured me so many times before and after that I could write a book on a being a victim of domestic violence at the age of seventeen.”  Chelle said with tears streaming down her face visualizing all of the pain she went through as a young girl.  “Stop crying, come here.”  Chip said embracing her and kissing her on her forehead.  He drifted off into a slight daydream;
I should find out who this little nigga is and kill his ass.  What the hell makes him think he could just put his hands on Chelle like that man, fuck that I can’t kill him and risk my freedom over some bullshit she let him do it.  Damn I wonder if she really felt defenseless, I still want to get close to this mother fucker in case he ever crosses her again it’s a wrap.  I am going to put his ass in the intensive care unit.
  “It’s okay now, he doesn’t bother me anymore.  I have seen him a few times but he hasn’t tried me.”  Chelle said noticing the deranged look in Chip’s eyes.  “I don’t even want to hear anything else about this J.C. cat, what side is he from though?”  Chip had to ask one last question.  “He is from the South Side, but he hangs with people who went to school with us usually.”  Chelle couldn’t imagine telling him that she later found out that J.C. was also a stick up kid; she had a strong vendetta against robbers which disgusted her even more.  “Alright” Chip said satisfied that he could find out anything else he needed to know about the dude.  “Your other serious boyfriend” Chip said as if he was back to the regular program.  “Well, I dated J.J. too, Menlo’s little brother.”  Chelle said almost embarrassed because Chip and Menlo were cool.  “Yeah, I already know.”  Chip said with a smirk on his face.  “What happened why did y’all break up?”  “First because his mother hated me so bad it was scary.”  “Why did she hate you?”  “At first I couldn’t figure it out, but then I later found out that his dad use to date my aunt Tera’s mother, I look exactly like her mom.”  Chelle said in an exaggerated tone.  “Word up?”  Chip said wanting her to continue.  “Yeah, but besides that he had sex with one of my closest friends little sister; then he turned around and had sex with my cousin Neese’s best friend!”  Chelle said as if she were astounded by J.J’s actions.  “Whaaat?”  Chip said as if he were stunned that the younger generation was so ruthless.  “Damn, he was getting it in huh?”  Chip asked.  “Yeah, a little too much not to mention he cheated on me with several other girls that I knew of, I can’t imagine how many more.  To make that long story short I was fed up with his childish mother and his insignificant ways.”  Chelle said with her nose slightly turned up.  “Damn, that’s a bit much I can’t believe he dealt with people so close to you more than once.  I guess I can’t talk, I did it with Kiki’s best friend but she still doesn’t know about that.  I tried to tell her that those females around her were trifling without telling on myself.”  Chip said confessing, realizing how bad it sounds when he actually heard the same situation from a females point of view.  “Who Precious?”  Chelle asked Chip.  “Damn, you know everything, yeah her.”  “Man, Kiki tells all of her business without ever thinking twice about it, I have a few friends that have drilled her, she is so easy.”  Chelle said laughing.  “I didn’t want to fuck Precious but she threw it at me, she pretended like she wanted to plan something for Kiki’s birthday and then she started coming on to me, she gave me head and everything.”  Chip said shrugging his shoulders as if he had nothing to do with it.  “Damn, that’s trifling.”  Chelle said shaking her head.  “You better not do it with any of my friends or cousins!”  Chelle said playfully pointing her finger in his face.  “I wouldn’t dare do you like that, if it were up to me I wouldn’t have done Kiki like that either.”  He said again reassuring himself that it wasn’t his fault at all.  “Niggas” Chelle said shaking her head again.  Chip looked at his blunt and dropped it into the ash tray.  “Damn, I am too honest with you what have you done to me?”  Chip said feeling completely content with Chelle.  She smiled at him and laid her head back on his chest.  “Oh, I shake myself to sleep sometimes like this.”  Chip said while shaking his foot.  “I don’t want you to think I’m crazy.”  He said and they both busted out laughing.  “I do too.”  Chelle said laughing even harder because she knew what he meant.  Chelle laid on his chest, Chip held her in his arms and rocked her to sleep by shaking his foot; soon they were both fast asleep.