It's Always The Pretty Ones (13 page)

“Mind your business, Romeo!”
 
Dazzy shouted.

“All you are doing is proving me right!
 
You are psycho!”
 
Anton was furious.

Romeo grabbed Dazzy’s arm and started to pull her away towards the door.
 
“Dazzy, I think you need to go.
 
This isn’t the place for all this.”

She yanked her arm away.
 
“Get off me!”

“You folks are going to have to take this outside.”
 
Said the owner of the bar.

“I’m sorry.
 
We were here minding our own business and she came in causing trouble.”
 
Anton said tending to Colbey holding her stinging face.

“You need to go before I call the police.”
 
The owner turned and looked at Dazzy pointing towards the door.

“Me?
 
He is in here hanging all over another bitch and I am the one that’s wrong?”
 
She started backing up towards the door.

“It’s either you get out of my bar right now, or I will have the police come and do it.”

“She looked around the owner to Anton sitting holding Colbey’s hand.
 
“Your
daughter
and I will be waiting for you at
home
.”

The owner backed Dazzy all the way out the door and walked back over to Anton.
 
“Do you want some ice?”

Colbey nodded ‘yes’ still holding her swelling cheek.

“I am so sorry you got caught up in this.”
 
Anton said feeling responsible.

“Are you kidding?”
 
She said as she took the bag of ice from the owner.
 
“How is this
your
fault?
 
She was crazy long before she met you.”

“Man, you really know how to pick ’em.
 
I know you told me she was crazy, but DAMN!”

“Thank you Romeo.”
 
Anton replied.
 

“I’m just saying.
 
You can get at least $50.00 from St. Andrews Asylum for dropping her ass off.”

Colbey laughed gently as not to disturb her cheek.
 
“You are crazy, Romeo.”

“Why don’t you let me take you home?”
 
Anton said with real concern in his eyes.

“No, I’m fine.
 
I can make it on my own.”
 
Colbey smiled as she stood up from the table.

“Come on.
 
I don’t mind.
 
At least let me do this.”
 
Anton insisted.
 

“Ok.
 
I guess it would be kinda hard to drive and squeal in pain at the same time.”
 
She joked.
 

“Great.
 
Let’s go.”
 
He grabbed her purse off the back of the chair.
 
“Romeo, I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Ok…wait.
 
Tomorrow is Saturday.
 
We have plans?”

Anton smiled.
 
“No, I’ll be over with my stuff.”

“And when did we agree to this?”
 

“Just now.”
 
He patted him on the shoulder as he headed towards the exit with Colbey.
 
“See you tomorrow, roomie!”
 

Dazzy knocked on Mrs. Wallace’s door trying her best to conceal her tears.
 

“Hey Dazzy.
 
Oh my God.
 
Are you, okay sweetie?
 
What happened?”
 
She stepped back to let her inside.

“I can’t believe he would do this to me.”
 
She sobbed as she sat down on the doily-covered couch.
 

Mrs. Wallace handed her a tissue.
 
“What honey?
 
What happened?”

“I went to meet Anton at work, you know, to surprise him.
 
We had had a pretty big blow out earlier and I wanted to try and apologize.
 
I get there and he is holed up with some little trinket from his office - and she even slapped me!”

“What?
 
I can’t believe it!
 
He always seemed like such a good boy!”

“I know.
 
Everybody thinks that.
 
He puts on such a good front.”

Mrs. Wallace sat down beside her on the couch.
 
“Honey, I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
 
She rubbed Dazzy’s back.

“He even called off our wedding.”
 
Dazzy spoke through her tears.
 
“I just don’t know what to do.
 
It was awful!”

Mrs. Wallace wrapped her arm around Dazzy as she cried into the tissue.
 
“Look, why don’t you and Angel stay over here tonight.
 
Mr. Wallace is working the late shift, and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind anyway.
 
You shouldn’t be alone.”

Dazzy stood up and grabbed Angel’s bag off the floor.
 
“No, we’ll be fine.
 
I think I just need to be alone, to figure things out.” She released the locks on the wheels of the bassinet and started to push it towards the door.

“Well, okay.
 
Just remember that I am right next door if you need me okay?”
 
Mrs. Wallace gave her a tight hug before she opened the door for her to exit.

“I sure will.
 
Thanks again, Mrs. Wallace.”
 
She smiled deceitfully as she walked out and towards her apartment.

Chapter 12

Anton placed Colbey’s purse on her couch once they entered her apartment.
 

“Thanks again for bringing me home, Anton.”

“It was the least I could do.
 
I still cannot believe she flipped out like that!”

“You know, in the past, she and I would have been on the floor going at it after she hit me, but I just realized she wasn’t worth it.”
 
She stepped out of her shoes and went to her closet to find a towel so she could put ice on her face.

“Well, you’re bigger than I am.
 
I would have had her in a head lock.”
 
He laughed.

“Trust me, I was close.”
 
She laughed as she went to the freezer.
 
“One question, though.”

“Shoot.”
 
He walked over near her in the kitchen.

“What are you going to do about the baby?
 
Someone that unstable should not be around children.”

“I know.”
 
He sighed.
 
“The one thing I am sure of about Dazzy is she loves Angel and would never hurt her.”

“Well, that’s good to know.”
 
She flinched when she put the ice against her cheek.

“Here.”
 
Anton grabbed the ice pack from her.
 
“This brings up a funny memory.”
 
He chuckled.

“What?”

“Remember when we were playing softball and you mistook my face for the ball?”

She squinted.
 
“Oh my God, yes!
 
Do you still have the tooth you lost?”

“I actually do.”
 
He laughed.
 
“I still have a lot of things from our time together.”

“Do you?”
 
She asked looking into his eyes like she was hypnotized.
 
She had forgotten how deep and brown his eyes were.
 

“I always keep things that are important to me.”
 
His mouth curved into a sexy, flirtatious smile as he used his other hand to push her hair behind her ear.
 
“Have I told you how glad I am that you’re back?”
 
Softly his breath fanned her face.

She smiled, but didn’t answer.
 

Slowly, he pulled her face closer to his until their lips met.
 
His kiss was one that she always remembered; soft, moist, and hot.
 
He put the ice pack down on the counter and wrapped his hands around her waist, pulling her body tight against his.
 

“Wait.”
 
She said reluctantly pulling her lips away from his.
   

“What?”
 
His lips brushed against her as he spoke.

“We can’t do this.”
 

“Yes we can.”
 
He said planting kisses between each word.

She pushed his body back away from hers.
 
“No, we can’t.”
 

“What’s wrong?
 
I could tell you wanted it.”
 
He tried to get close to her again, but she put her hand up on his chest to stop him.
 

“Although it would be so good to get that close to you like that again, the timing is all wrong.”

“How is that?
 
I’m single.”
 
He smiled and tried to get close to her again, only to be held back again.

“Yes, newly single.
 
You just broke up with Dazzy today.
 
Your emotions are all over the place.
 
If we ever get together like that again, I want it to be Dazzy-free, okay?”
 
She smiled at him and gave him a small peck.
 

“Are you serious?”
 
He said as she began to shovel him towards the door.

“Very.”
 
She smiled as she opened the door and gently pushed him into the hallway.
 
“I’ll see you later, okay?”

“Colbey.”
 

 
“Bye.” She playfully smiled at him as she slowly shut the door.

Colbey.”
 
He whined as he touched the door.
 
“Damn.”

Romeo walked into the auditorium where he was planning on picking Krystal up from her rehearsal.
 
He waved to her standing on the stage talking to the director.
 
He smiled at how beautiful she was under the lights.
 

“Hey Romeo.”
 
Reina said from behind him.

“Oh, hey Reina, what’s up?”

“Nothing much.”
 
He hand slowly glided along his backside as she came around in front of him.
 

He quickly batted her hand away.
 
“What are you doing?”
 
He whispered.
 
“Do you want Krystal to see you?”

She smiled flirtatiously.
 
“Oh, she’s too busy being the star of the show.”

“Wow, you sound jealous.”
 
He smiled.

“Oh, never that.
 
She’s my best friend.
 
I couldn’t be happier for her.”