What My Eyes Can't See (9 page)

“I did, but she didn’t answer her phone.”

“A’ight man, damn.” Going against my first mind, I made a U-turn and headed over to Erica’s.

Being at Erica’s house without Sacaria was awkward as fuck. Erica opened the door, right when my shoe hit the porch. As soon as I walked in, she was frantic and in tears. Then she grabbed me.

“Oh my gosh! I'm glad you came. I have a rodent running through here and I'm so scared.”

“I don't do mice, so let's call an exterminator.”
She called me over here for a rodent. Are you fucking kidding me?

“No, I don't want to kill it. Please just get it out.”

“Why didn’t you call Todd or Q’Mari to come and handle this shit for you?”
Turn on some loud music or Google the pied piper, shit. The fuck I look like? This bitch really don’t know that I will turn around and walk right up out if here. But wait, maybe I can use this as an opportunity for her to let her guard down.
I didn’t really get a feel for her or Taniyah at the function the other night. I need to get to know these so-called friends of Sacaria’s.

“Okay, where is it?” I asked reluctantly.

Erica went running and screaming out of the room. Damn! Now Erica wants to play games. I’m supposed to be at the gym and I don’t have time for this. I stood there irritated, and then hesitantly I called her name. The longer I stood there, made me wonder if I should just walk out.

“Erica! Erica! Where are you? You cool?”
I didn’t really want the answer to either one of those questions.

“No! I'm not coming out. I saw that little nasty little critter run past you.”

“Erica, I’m going to come and get you so you can show me where you saw it. A’ight?”

“Yes, but I'm only coming out with you.”

“Okay, I’m on my way.” After peeping through a few doorways, I slowly opened the room door to where Erica was hiding. Shit, I wasn’t trying to have a nasty mouse jump out on my ass either. When the door opened, Erica was standing there with no pants or panties on. She bent over and told me to fuck her. I was pissed!
This hoe is trying to set me up!

“Yo’ Erica, I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m not feeling this. Is this a joke? I'm not about to do this to Sacaria.” I was waiting on Sacaria to pop out from behind one of the doors.

“You won’t be doing it to her; you will be doing it to me. Who did you think that was the other night, Sacaria? Don't tell me that you didn't like it and you know you don't want Sacaria to find out, do you?”

Instantly I had a flashback. I hadn’t noticed, but even now, Erica smells like Sacaria. They wear the same perfume. That’s when I realized that Sacaria was nowhere around. I saw her fat ass clap together and I couldn't turn away. Damn! I am about to enter the gates of hell. I pulled down my pants and pushed myself inside of her.

“Yeah… just like that…you know you like it…” Erica moaned. She reached back, grabbed my hand and then dug her freshly painted nails into my skin.

She was right; I did like it. The way she threw it back had my head spinning. I was confused about the right thing to do, but for now, I all I could do was enjoy it. Even with that, she was still just a piece of ass, but a piece of ass that I could not turn down.

“Damn girl, you got some good stuff.”

“I know…” she moaned, as she pushed me down onto the bed and climbed on top of me.

I took her down with no rubber or nothing. I wanted to do it again, but my phone started vibrating. It was Q’Mari.

“Shay, where you at? We ‘bout to leave if you not coming,” Q’Mari hollered through the phone.

“I'm on my way right now. Stay there,” I said, with my other hand covering Erica’s mouth.

Everything was good, but I said fuck it and pushed Erica off me. When I started pulling my pants up, however, Erica became furious.

“So... you’re just going to push me off you and cut?”

“It’s not like that Erica. Well actually, it is like that. You was the one playing games in the first place. I don’t know about you, but I only see one rat in this room.” Erica reached up to slap my face, but I caught her hand. “Really?” I asked, with a smirk on my face.

“You could have said no!”

“But I didn’t and you knew what it was, when you started this shit. I’m not going to do you like that though. It’s good, but I gotta go. Hit me later.” Erica just stood there as if she didn’t believe that I was actually leaving her. I had to play it cool, before she ended up jumping on the phone to Sacaria.

I didn’t know how to get away from Erica fast enough. Erica’s fine and all that shit, but I needed this time with my boys more than anything. Furthermore, I needed to take in the fact that she obviously drugged me at the party and took the dick.
What the fuck kind of crazy bitch does that?
If I drugged her and took the pussy, I would be sitting behind bars by now. As much as I wanted to run home and tell Sacaria how trifling her friend is, I couldn’t; because right now, I’m trifling too. I wanted to run in the house and tell like a little bitch, but this point I can’t tell Sacaria anything. If the sex wasn’t good, best believe I would have come up with a punishment for that crime. I might have to get Sasha on board for this one, just in case. No bitch is about to have me by the balls, puppeting me around. Right now though, I need to go chill with my boys. This dilemma will have to wait.

I
felt nervous about my secret, the entire way to the gym, which was a new experience for me. I rarely felt nervous or guilty about anything. I just kept thinking that no matter how I handled the situation, if Sacaria found out, it would kill her. I’m not accustomed to worrying about getting caught up by any female. That is some stressful shit. I have seen niggas up close, tripping after they cheat. My advice was always to say fuck it and let that bitch find out if she wants. That is what she deserves if she goes around playing detective. Why couldn’t females just shut the fuck up and be happy? Shit, if I come home tonight, then that means I’m yours; if I don’t come home, well then, consider it a done deal. Take it or leave it. I am at a fucked up place, where I realize that those days are over for me. The good thing was that I could take a shower at the gym to cover up. The cold part about it is that I’m back to being an “I ain’t shit” nigga. I need to know if Todd is hitting that too. I can't have him and Sacaria trying to kill me. To be honest, though, Todd probably won’t care either way.

Todd and Q’Mari are so damn ghetto. I walk into the gym, mind you; an indoor court and they are in there blowing loud. “You niggas is crazy. Y’all don’t see them old ass white people in there getting ready to call the po-po on us?” I shook my head and laughed to myself.

“Shit nigga, they prolly smoke too,” Q’Mari said.

“Don’t nobody give a fuck about them old ass people. What the fuck is up? Got us out here waiting like bitches and shit. What happened, did you have to beg wifey to let you come out and play?” Todd asked sarcastically. I knew he was serious though.

Oh, these fools had jokes
. “Y’all ain’t funny. I had to make a run right quick, but I’m here now though. Y’all know better than to leave before daddy spank that ass on this court,” I boasted and shot a three-pointer. After I said that, they went in on me. I wasn’t tripping though. I was too busy thinking about the whole Erica situation. “So Todd, what’s up with you and Erica?” I asked.

“She cool, but I ain’t had time for that though. She’s too bougie for my taste. I been hitting this lil thang that stay around the corner from Kim and nem. Why what’s up, did she ask about your boy?”

“Yep, Sacaria say she’s been asking,” I lied.

Q’Mari threw his hands in the air and gave me his all-dimples smile. “Nope, Taniyah didn’t ask about your trifling ass.” I laughed.

“Fuck that bitch. Her pussy was garbage anyway,” Q’Mari said.

“You hit?”

“I been hit that the first night we double-dated.”

“That was a triple date, dumb ass,” Todd commented.

“Why yo’ ass always trying to correct somebody?” Q’Mari asked.

“I didn’t know you hit that,” I interrupted, because they was both wrong

“Y’all didn’t waste no time, huh?”

“Hell yeah, and she was garbage. Head game was weak as fuck too. That’s why I stick with ghetto bitches. They know how to knock a nigga down and then feed you a grill cheese sammich,” Q’Mari said, as serious as hell.

After hooping and catching up on business details with my boys, I sent Sacaria a text to see what she was up to. Sacaria replied that she and Taniyah were out having lunch. She seemed so happy to hear from me and although I was happy to see her response, I was still feeling messed up about Erica though.

For the next two weeks, Taniyah started coming over to visit Sacaria. At one point, it was hard to tell whether she was visiting or had moved in. On the flip side, Erica kept texting me like crazy. It was crazy because I swear, every time Erica texted me, Taniyah would be texting Sacaria or at our house. I wonder if Taniyah was distracting Sacaria, so that Erica could text me. At the end of the day, it didn't matter, because playtime with Erica was over. There was only so much pussy that she could give me to keep me interested. I'm damn sure not about to get caught talking to this girl and break Sacaria’s heart. It's time for me to get back on track with my baby. Even though she never suspected that anything was going on, cheating on her just wasn't cool. We were happy in our relationship, and I had no reason to be betraying her.

Oh, Shay is just going to block my number, huh? He didn't have a reason to block me. I mean, I know Sacaria hasn’t found out about us. Even if she did, that trick don’t want it; it’s not my fault that her man can’t stay from between my legs. I doubt that Shay just up and decided to stop messing around with me, but just in case, I need to find out what's going on. He’s been fucking my brains out and now all of a sudden, he’s ignoring me. Oh hell no, I’m not feeling this; not one bit. I betta not find out that he found someone new to slide up into.

He must not know who he’s messing and with any luck, he won’t have to find out anytime soon. Before I get beside myself, I’m going to play this from a different angle. I’m not about to flip out or chase him. I’m Erica Salazar and I have been forever forbidden to chase any man, period. My ear will be to the streets though. I have the funny feeling that he won’t be able to stay away too long anyway. Obviously, I’m doing something better than Sacaria, or else he wouldn’t be cheating.

In the meantime, I’m going to do me. I need to hit the gym a little harder anyway. I’m getting too thick these days. All I need is an ass and a pretty face; to hell with all that fat accumulating on my sexy ass body. That won’t happen. I know some top surgeons, so what the gym don’t do, they will. Right now though, this glass of wine and a long bath should help to push me past this little bump in the road. In the morning my journey begins, but tonight, I must rest.

“I have never been this nervous before. What should I say to him?” I said, taking turns wiping each of my sweaty palms on my brand new dress, while still holding onto my first love’s birthday gift. I feel like walls are closing in around me, yet I’m standing outside.

“Don’t say anything. Just wait until his friends walk away and hand it to him. Nobody turns down a birthday gift.”

“But he doesn’t even know me,” I said, looking for reassurance.

“He will know you after you give him that gift, I bet you that much. If someone gave me a twenty-four karat, gold necklace, I would be their best friend for life.”

“You’re right. This will make him want to know me,” I said, trying to convince myself, once again, wiping my palms on my dress. “Do you think that he will like my dress? Oh my, I can’t do this.”

“Stop worrying so much.”

“He is the finest guy in school… I can’t do it. I will make a fool of myself. Can you do it for me?”

“Heck no! I’m not walking up to him,” my best friend said, as she pushed the middle of my back, so that I jumped forward and towards my love.

“Oh my gosh; I think he saw that,” I said, looking back nervously at my bff. I guess there is no turning back now. My heart was thumping so hard, I thought it might pop out of my chest. Breathe Erica, breathe, I kept repeating to myself.

“Go girl, he’s looking. Go!”

“But his friends are still there.”

“Go! And fix your glasses. They are crooked.”

Out of all the moments in my life, this had to be the most terrifying. I cannot believe that I am walking up to the finest and most popular boy in school and his friends. I think I’m going to pass out. I took a quick puff from my inhaler.

“Uh… hi,” I said, nervously holding the perfectly wrapped gift out in front of me. I could see his friends looking at him as if they wanted to ask who I was. “I heard about your birthday and wanted to give you a gift.”

“Um… okay thanks,” my love said, with a puzzled look on his face. “Wait… don’t walk off yet. I want to open it.”

“Maybe I should let you enjoy with your friends.”

“Nope, you got me something, so I want you to enjoy it too. Stay here while I open it.”

“Thank you,” I said, as I blushed, feeling special.

“Dayum! She got you some fly shit. Let me see,” said one of his friends as he snatched the chain from my love’s hand and then held it up to his own neck.

I didn’t want him grabbing on the chain; that was brand new and just for my love. Who did he think he was?

“Yo, is this shit real?” my love asked in amazement.

“Yes, it’s twenty-four karat solid gold.”

“Wow! This is nice. Thank you… what’s your name?”

“Erica.”

“Cool Erica, take care.”

Take care? Did he just take my chain and tell me to take care? I thought for sure that he would invite me to join him for lunch, or offer to walk me to class. Feeling disappointed and embarrassed, I turned away to walk back towards my friend, who was standing there smiling with her fingers crossed. I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad. My heart was pounding a mile a minute. I was still so nervous and anxious, not knowing how he felt and where this might lead, until I could hear his conversation in the distance.