Can't Be That Other Woman (12 page)

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Before I knew it, the next few hours had zoomed by. It was now dark outside and I was just about done with my shift. All I had to was fix the bins in the front, which I did immediately and I was out of there. Before fully leaving the store, I made sure that everything I had to do was complete. Once I was sure, I grabbed my purse and made my way outside of the mall.

              As I made my way out the door, I spotted Onijae’s truck waiting by the sidewalk. My heart started beating so fast that I thought that I was going to have a panic attack for sure. I don’t know why, because I’ve been alone with him before. Somehow, I knew this time was going to be different though. Him getting mad, because I didn’t want to answer him, but then turning around and picking me up, I know he was just trying to be territorial.

              “Hey little lady,” he said, getting out of the truck and opening my door for me. He moved in and placed a kiss on my cheek, before he stepped back and I got in, with him closing the door behind me. He then walked back over to his side and got in. I don’t know what he had in here, but it smelled good as hell. We gazed at each other, before I reached over and placed a kiss on his lips. I know I surprised him, because I surprised myself. I pushed back, preparing to sit back in my seat, only to have him pull me back. “Stop running from me, ma.”

              “I’m not running from you,” I mumbled against his lips, as we engaged in another kissing battle. He was kissing me so much that I almost couldn’t catch my breath, and when he finally did pull back, I didn’t want him to.

              “You ready to go home or you want to come with me?” he asked, looking at me with those gorgeous brown eyes of his. Of course, we both already knew the answer to that question, so I really didn’t know why he even asked it.

              “I’m coming with you, boo,” I said, which caused him to smile a huge grin.

              “Okay then,” he said, before he started the car and pulled off. Since I was not going home, I texted Daija to let her know. I sat back in the seat and waited to arrive wherever it was that we were going. Honestly, I was nervous as shit, but I was excited as well. I could not wait to see what he had in store for me.

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Chapter 15

Onijae

           I know Delaney was probably wondering what I was doing. Shit, truth be told, I was wondering what I was doing my damn self. You see, after I left the store earlier, I made it my business to come up with something to make it up to her. I was going to get her a gift or two, but then I thought about it. Gifts were not going to be enough. I really needed to show her that I wanted her. Therefore, I booked us a room, ordered some food, and still bought her a few gifts, so that I could make her feel special.

              When we pulled up to the hotel an hour later, shorty was fast asleep. She looked so peaceful sleeping there, that I hated to wake her up. I really hoped that she was not going to flip out on me because I took her so far, but I had to go somewhere where no one would notice us. Running into anyone and them going back and tell Bianca, would probably fuck with my chance of being with her, and I could not let that shit happen. I know I probably had a lot of work to do, but I was going to try like hell to get it together.

              After finding a parking spot, I pulled in and parked. Turning over, I lightly shook her, trying to get her to wake up. She did not wake up right away, so I shook her again. This time she sat up and looked around. I noticed the confused look on her face, so I spoke.

              “We’re at a hotel in Austin,” I slowly said, trying to gauge her reaction.

              “Okay, well why we are still sitting in the car then?” she asked, taking it much better than I thought she would.

              “Because we just got here, ma,” I said, smiling.

              “Well, let’s go,” she said, taking her seatbelt off. “Hold up, wait. Damn, I don’t even have any clothes to put on and I desperately need to take a bath.”

              “Don’t worry about all that,” I said, reaching into the backseat and I pulled out a purple and pink night bag. I sat it on her thighs and she began to open it. “While you were at work, I asked Tracy to do a little shopping for you. I hope you don’t mind, shorty.”

              “Aww, that’s so sweet of you, Onijae,” she replied, reaching over and kissing my lips. “Now come on and let’s go inside. I need a bath and a few hours of sleep.”

              “All right, come on,” I said, cutting the truck off and we got out. I opened up the back door to get my overnight bag and the food bag, along with two additional bags. When I had everything, I closed the door and activated the alarm behind me.

              “You need some help, boo?” she asked. Before I could respond, she removed my bag from my hand.

              ‘Thanks, ma.”

            “No problem,” she said, as we made our way into the hotel. We had to stop by the front desk to check in and get the keys to the room, so we did that. Once we were done, we rode the elevator to the floor and headed to our room, where I placed the bags on the table and took a seat.

              “I know your ass ain’t tired,” she joked.

              “Shit, you can laugh all you want, but I’m tired like fuck, shorty,” I said, lying back on the bed.

              “Uh huh, well I’m about to go take a bath,” she said, which made me to sit up.

              “You want me to come in there with you? I mean, do you need some help or something?”

              “Nah, I don’t need any help,” she said, poking out her tongue and laughing. “Stay your hot ass out here. Besides, what I do need you to do is have me something to eat, because I’m starving.”

              “I’m two steps ahead of you, shorty,” I said, getting up from the bed. I walked over to the table where the bags were and picked up the one that contained our food. “See, I thought about your hungry ass already.”

              “That’s a good boy,” she said, clapping her hands together. “Now have that ready by the time I finish taking my shower, or we gon’ be up in here fighting.”

              “I’d love to tangle with you, ma,” I replied, as she made her way towards the bathroom. She stopped right in front the door, turned and blew me a kiss, before she proceeded into the bathroom, making sure that she closed and locked the door behind her.

          An hour and some change later, I finally heard her coming out of the bathroom. She’s lucky I wanted to be bothered with her, because I almost fell asleep on her ass. I know she probably did that shit on purpose, but I was going to make her ass pay for that.

              “Damn you feeling me like that?” she asked, once she walked into the room. I was momentary distracted by what she had on.
I gotta remember to thank my little sister for everything she’s done for me today
. Delaney stood there in a two-piece short Pink pajama set from Victoria’s Secret. “Umm, hello, I’m talking to you, Onijae.”
            I chuckled a bit, before looking around myself. There were a few teddy bears, candles, candies, flowers, food and gifts hanging all around the room. I couldn’t take credit for all of that though. It was Tracy who helped me do all of this, and who deserved the praise. I had rented another room, which was next door. She brought all of this when she went shopping for the clothes and stuff. She left it in the other room on the bed, so all I had to do was lay it out and hope that Delaney would like it. I spent almost a thousand dollars on her and I hadn’t even sniffed her pussy yet. So yeah, she can definitely say that I was feeling her.

              “You can say that, shorty,” I said, walking over to her. I wrapped my arms around her and placed a kiss on her forehead. “I’m not trying to do anything with you. I just want you to know that I’m serious about being with you. I didn’t bring you here to have sex with you or anything, but if it happens, then it happens.”

              “I know and I’m not worried about that. I’m just glad that we’re actually spending time with each other. As I said before, I’m not into being that other woman, so don’t make me feel like it. The minute I feel as if I’m being that, I will politely go about my business,” she said which made me squeeze her a little tighter. I gave her one a stern look, before I placed a kiss on her lips.

              “You gon’ make me hurt your little ass. Come on, so we can eat and get us some rest,” I told her as I grabbed her hand. We began walking over to the table when my phone began ringing. I waited until I had her seated at the table to go and check it. I already had an idea of who it was, but I wasn’t too sure. The minute I picked up the phone, my guess was right. Bianca was calling, as if I didn’t tell her that I was leaving. I know she was only calling to try to ask me where I was, which was why I didn’t bother answering the phone. I ignored her, placed the phone in my pocket and went back over to the table.

              “My bad, shorty,” I said sincerely.

              “It’s cool, boo,” she replied dryly. I know she was lying, but I didn’t push it. I wasn’t going to let Bianca spoil our night.

              “You want something to drink?” I asked her. We’d been sitting there eating for all of fifteen minutes in silence. I had no idea what was going on inside her head, and Lord knows how bad I wanted to know.

              “Nah, I’m straight.” She continued to eat her food. Placing my fork down, I got up and walked over to her. Grabbing her hand, I pulled her up from her seat, then sat down in the chair and pulled her on top of me.

              “Don’t act like that, shorty. If you got a problem, then speak on it. I don’t need you around her acting like somebody done stole your last piece of cake, and you faulting me for the shit,” I told her. I said that last part to try to get a quick laugh from out of her, but I didn’t get anything. She just sat there staring at me, without saying a thing. I turned her around preparing to go in on her, when my phone started to ring again. I felt her body stiffen, before she got up from my lap.

              “Answer your phone. It’s quite obvious that she needs you or something,” she said, before I heard the bathroom door slam behind her. I sat there with the ringing phone in my hand contemplating on whether I should answer it or not. I know this was why Delaney was acting the way she was acting. I don’t know why I didn’t put the shit on vibrate. Better yet, I could’ve just cut the shit completely off, then everything would’ve been fine. Now I got deal with this shit. I started to answer the phone in the room, but I know that wouldn’t have been the best thing for me to do, so I decided to take the call outside in the hallway.

              “Hello,” I said, answering the phone pissed.

              “Oh, so
now
you want to answer the fucking phone. Where the fuck you at, because we need to talk, Onijae?” Bianca asked, yelling so loud that I had to take the phone from my ear.

              “First of all, you need to lower your muthafucking tone when you’re talking to me, Bianca. I’m not your child, so remember that fucking shit,” I spoke through gritted teeth. “Secondly, I want to know what the fuck are you calling me back to back for? I know damn well you ain’t dead. So why the fuck you just blowing my damn phone up like this?”

              “Like I said when you answered the phone, we need to talk. Now where the fuck you at?” she asked, yelling again.

              “Is that what you’re calling me for, Bianca? I already told you that I had some business to take care of for my father, which was out of town. So tell me why the fuck you calling me with this bullshit now?” I said, silently counting to ten in my head. I don’t know why she was acting like this. “Besides, it wasn’t like I didn’t ask you if you wanted to come, you said no, so I went about my business. What do you need to talk about?”

              “Fuck you, Onijae. You know damn well you’re not doing a damn thing for your father, but you’d better listen to me when I say this. If I find out that you’re out there up to no good, I’m going to make you and whatever bitch’s life a miserable one. You’re not about to leave me, so you might as well get that shit up out of your head, because you’re about to be stuck to me, whether you want to or not. So be sure you tell that bitch that wifey said hello and welcome to the muthafucking team, nigga,” she said, all in one breath. I opened my mouth to blow her ear off, when I heard a beeping sound in my ear. I pulled the phone from my ear and noticed that the bitch had hung up.

              “Ain’t this about a bitch!” I said, as I pulled up my messages and decided to send her a text. I didn’t care about anything at this moment. I went straight duff on her stupid ass. I don’t know and don’t care to know why this bitch was acting the way she was acting, but she needed to get herself together and quick. What she didn’t know was that she had one foot already out the door, with the other not too far behind it. All she had to do was keep acting the way she was acting now and she was going to make me being with Delaney easier. Speaking of Delaney, I know shorty was probably mad as fuck right now. Truth be told, I really can’t blame her neither. If that had been me, I would’ve been feeling the same way.

              Once I was through going off on Bianca, I powered my phone off and placed it in my back pocket. Now that this shit was out of the way, it was time for me to go and apologize to Delaney. I’m praying she would accept my apology and not treat a nigga like he wasn’t shit, because everything I had planned would really be irrelevant. I needed to be on her good side. I didn’t care if I had to beg and plead. I was going to do just that and then some. Then tomorrow, I would be satisfied knowing that I had put a smile on her face.

              Entering the room, I noticed that the food that was once on the table was gone. I didn’t see Delaney anywhere, but I heard noise coming from the bathroom. I wanted to go and check on her, but I knew better. We weren’t at that level yet and I didn’t want to overstep my boundaries. Instead, I took a seat on the bed and waited for her to come out. I used that time to think about everything that was going on in my life. Financially, I was doing great. The shop was making money as usual, the garage wasn’t doing badly, and the store that I was trying to put together was coming along great. The only thing that was going wrong was my love life. As I had mentioned before, I still had love for Bianca, but I wasn’t in love with her anymore. Lately, she’s been becoming this person that I didn’t care to want anymore. She didn’t know it, but she was the one who was pushing me to be with Delaney. That and I still couldn’t get over the fact that she cheated on me. I know some people would say that I was singing the same old tune, but it was what it was. That was something I couldn’t get over or change. I thought that by us getting back together that we could get over it, but now I know that we just can’t. Now the only thing left for me to do was to break the news to her, hoping that she doesn’t flip out.

              “What are you over there thinking about?” Delaney asked me. I looked up and noticed her standing there watching me. She now had on a pair of sweats and a t-shirt.

              “What’s going on? Where are you going? Are you leaving?” I asked one question after another. I got up from the bed and walked over to her. “Don’t leave, ma, I promise that I’m going to make things better. I’m leaving her, but I just need some time to do so.”

              “You don’t have to lie to me, Onijae, I’m not going anywhere. I just need to take a walk and get some fresh air,” she said, rolling her eyes.

              “But I’m not lying to you, Delaney. Whether or not it’s with you or someone else, I can’t be with Bianca anymore. I can’t trust her anymore and it’s obvious that she can’t trust me, even though I didn’t give her a reason not to. She’s only on my tail, because of what she did to me. I can’t be faulted for what she did, and I won’t,” I said, being honest. “I didn’t know how tired I was until tonight. I didn’t know why I kept trying to make up excuses and reasons for why I kept Bianca around, but I’m through with that.”