It's Always The Pretty Ones (16 page)

Chapter 15

      It had been on Romeo’s mind all day.
 
Why was it so hard for him to say that he loved Krystal?
 
He knew he had strong feelings for her; he had even thrown away his ‘Book of Champions’ with all his phone numbers in it.
 
He was serious about her, and made the decision that he was finally going to tell her how he felt…he was in love with her.
 
He stopped off at a florist and bought a bouquet of her favorite flowers on his way to pick her up from rehearsal.
 
His stomach was in knots as he walked up behind the stage and watched her rehearse from backstage.
 
He smiled when he saw her; she was so beautiful under the lights.
 
He had never felt this way about any woman before.
 
He knew it was love.      

“Hey sexy.”
 
Reina said from behind him.
 
“Are these for me?”
 
She grabbed the flowers from him, backing up, causing him to follow her.

“No, Reina, they are not for you.”
 
He whispered as he followed her trying to get the flowers back.

“Why not?”
 
She said continuing to lead him towards one of the empty dressing rooms.
 
“Don’t I deserve flowers too?”

“I’m sure you do, Reina.
 
You just won’t be getting them from me.”
 
He finally reached them and snatched them out of her hand.
 

“Wow, you are uptight!”
 
She said flirtatiously.

“I don’t have time for this.
 
I’m not here to see you.
 
Frankly, you need to check yourself.
 
Krystal is supposed to be your best friend.”
 
She pushed the door closed so it was still cracked a little.
 
“Whatever.
 
You may have her fooled that you are Mr. Faithful now, but not me.
 
She started to unbutton her shirt as she walked over to him.
 
He tried his best not to look, but his eyes were drawn to the perfect shape and size of her breasts.
 
“Mmm…I see you like, huh?”
 
She noticed his eyes locked.

“Yeah, they’re nice, but I’m not interested.”
 
It was taking everything in him not to grab one.

She walked up close to him and grabbed his hand placing it on one of her breasts.
 
“You like that?
 
That nipple is nice and hard isn’t it?”

He pulled his hand away.
 
“I have to go.
 
You are one desperate chick, you know that?
 
You don’t deserve Krystal as a friend.”
 
He tried to walk around her, but was blocked.

      “Oh, whatever.
 
She reached up and pulled him down into a very wet and passionate kiss.
 
The feel of her swirling tongue in his mouth, amazingly, did nothing for him.
 
He pushed her back from him.

      “Well, it’s nice to see that you two are getting along.”
 
Krystal said standing in the doorway, tears blinding her eyes, and choking her voice.
 
“I was starting to think you two didn’t like one another.”
 
She attempted to swallow the despair in her throat as she entered the room.

      “Krystal, please listen to me.”
 
Romeo pleaded pushing Reina out of the way.

      Listen to
what
?
 
‘It isn’t what it looks like?
 
It didn’t mean anything?’”

He reached out to grab her hand but it was forcefully yanked away.
 
“Don’t touch me!
 
Don’t you ever touch me!”
 
Her voice quivered.
 

Romeo stood with his face in his hands not knowing what to say.
 
“He walked over and picked up the flowers he bought for her and tried to hand them to her only to have them knocked down.
 
“Krystal please.
 
She lured me in here.
 
I was trying to get back out to you.”

She snickered.
 
“Yes, I saw how much of a hurry you were in.
 
I can’t believe I was so stupid.”

“Girl, I told you he was no good.”
 
Reina snickered buttoning up her shirt.
 

Fury almost choked her as she walked over to where Reina was standing, smiling.
 
“I guess it was no accident that you chose to do this in
my
dressing room?
 
You dirty scumbag slut!”

“Whoa!
 
You need to back up, Krystal.
 
I was only doing this to help you.”

Krystal laughed out loud.
 
“Help me?
 
How is this helping me?
 
Let’s be real Reina, we both know that all this was done on purpose.”

“Why would I do this on purpose, Krystal?”
 
She held Krystal’s hand in a phony attempt at sincerity.
 
“You’re my best friend.”

Krystal yanked her hand away.
 
“Please.
 
You are nothing but a hateful, spiteful, nasty ho and you always will be.
 
Get the fuck out of my office.”
 

“Whatever.”
 
She said as she put her hand up in Krystal’s face and left.
 

Krystal stood with her back to Romeo, not able to even look at him.
 

“Krystal.”
 
Romeo walked over to her and turned her around facing him.
 
“I love you.”

She slowly lifted her head to look at him and followed it with a slap.
 
“You love me?
 
You have the gall to say that to me now?
 
You don’t love anybody but yourself, Romeo.
 
Get out!”

“Krystal.”
 
He said trying to get her to listen.

“Get out!”
 
she shouted, tears streaming down her face.

His face was bleak with sorrow and regret as he backed away from her and left the room.

Colbey arrived at Romeo’s house at 7:00 P.M. to talk to Anton, just as they had planned.
 
She took a deep breath as she knocked on the door.
 
He opened the door with a smile and invited her in.
 
“So what’s up?
 
He asked.

She sat down in the chair, her thin manicured fingers tensed in her lap.
 
“This really hard for me to say this.”

Romeo sat on the table directly in front of her.
 
“What?
 
What’s wrong?”
 

“Dazzy came by my apartment this morning and…”

“What!
 
How come you didn’t call me, or even better, the police?”
 
He interrupted.
 
“How did she even know where you lived?”

“That’s not what I’m here about…”

Anton’s phone rang and it was Dazzy’s ringtone.
 
“Oh shit!
 
I am so sorry; can you hold on for one second?”

“Fine.”
 
She sighed.

“Dazzy, where the hell have you been and why have you been ignoring my calls?”
 
He said irritated.

“Anton, you have to get over here, now!
 
Angel has a really high fever and I can’t get it to go down!”
 
Dazzy said with pure fear in her voice.

“
What
?
 
I’m on my way!”
 
Anton slammed the phone shut and made a mad dash into his room to get some shoes on.

“What’s wrong?”
 
Colbey asked, seeing the sheer panic on his face.

“Dazzy said that Angel has a really high fever.
 
I have to get to her, right now!”
 

“Oh no.
 
You go ahead, we’ll talk later.”
 
She held the door as he open as he flew past her and down the hall to the elevators.

Chapter 16

      Romeo put on his most suave smile as Tandy, one of his past booty calls opened her door.
 

      “Tandy, what’s up girl?”
 
He smiled as she sashayed inside.

      “Umm, Romeo what are you doing here?”
 
She stood with her hand on her hip, still holding the door open.

He chuckled as he walked over and shut the door.
 
“You know why I’m here.
 
I missed you.”

      “Oh really?”
 
She walked over to her couch.
 
“From what I hear, you found you a new ‘boo’ and were trying to fly the straight and narrow.”

He walked over to her and wrapped his hands around her curvy waist.
 
“Now, you should know not to believe everything you hear.”
 
He tried to move in closer and kiss her.
 

She moved her head back, avoiding his kiss.
 
“What happened?”

“Nothing yet.”
 
He smiled.
 
“We are about to fix that though.”
 
He smiled as he started to untie the traps of her silk nightie.
 

She grabbed his hand before he could completely untie it.
 
“You were into this girl, hard.
 
So hard that you told me not to call anymore, remember?”

“Well, I’m here now, so how about we get this thing moving?”
 
He kissed her neck.

She pushed him off again.
 
“Romeo.”
 
She looked him straight in his eyes.
 
“What happened?”

He rolled his eyes in his head.
 
“Look, are you gonna come up off the pussy or not?”

She tilted her head to the side and looked at him as if he was insane.
 
“See, now I know something is wrong with you because you are
not
in my house talking to me like that.”

He waved her off and headed for the door.
 
“Whatever.
 
I can just go somewhere else.”

She rushed in front of him so he couldn’t leave.
 
“Romeo.”
 
She looked him straight in his eyes once more.
 
“What happened?”

He let out a loud sigh as he turned and went to the couch.
 
“Destiny is what happened.”

“Okay, let’s not be melodramatic here.”
 
She laughed.
 
“Destiny happened?”

“I am destined to be a player for the rest of my life.
 
I tried the ‘straight and narrow’ and look what happened.
 
I just need to stick to what works.”

“Well, from the looks of it this girl means a lot to you.”
 
She laid her hand on top of his.

“I mean she’s okay.”
 
He tried to put on a tough shell, but she knew better.

“Romeo, I know it was a very hard thing for you to change your behavior and give up so much of what you’re used to in order to be with her.
 
Therefore, she must be special.
 
You can try to play Mr. Tough Guy all you want, but you know I can see straight through that.”

He just looked down at the floor.
 
“I love her, Tandy.”

“Whoa!
 
Did I just hear the 4-letter word come from Romeo’s mouth?”
 
She laughed.

“I know, right?
 
He laughed.
 
“It took me a while to finally get up the balls to say it, then…”

“Then what?”

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
 
“She caught her best friend and I kissing.”