Grayson's POV
"Hey Man." Chase rang me up. "What's up?"
"Nothing much." I replied. "Just stuck here since Jessica and Lily have found friends in each other." I slipped, sadly.
"I kinda noticed that. What do you think is up with them though?" He asked, in the most demeaning tone I might ever have heard.
"They both my women. I won't take that now, fam." I replied, shutting him up. "What did you want to say?" I asked. He must've called for a reason.
"Uhmm, well, I just got in." He sounded really excited. I could hear the reverberation of his voice, meaning he actually was in his space.
"I'm proud of you, man." I said. I was really excited. A yard of ours to host parties and orgies, finally! "Is she there?" I asked, lowering my voice.
"No, she isn't. Dummy!" He said. "She will be soon. Just thought to call you first so you don't disturb the rest of our evening." He added, light-heartedly.
"Oh. This is what you do to a broken man?" I asked, feigning hurt.
"Get out. I just wanted to say, never mind what I said earlier. I didn't mean it. it's selfish of me to ask that of you, and I realize that.
I didn't know how to react. I had already seriously begun to consider it.
"Are you sure, man?" I asked him.
"Yeah, positive." He replied.
I was happy I didn't lose my friend over that. relief is the word.
"Why though?" I was willing to know what was responsible for his sudden change.
"Cause I might be on my way to discovering something wonderful." Chase sounded like an evil genius.
"And what will that be?" I asked.
"We're gonna have to figure that out together. How far have you gotten with it?" He asked me
"Well, the police have his phone and have locked him home. My mom finally got to bury him last month. They say shit is deeper than it seems. The Watson's landlord has been ordered not to take a new tenant in their vacated special just yet. They're checking for prints." I divulged. Chase was on my side, and it was good to have someone to confide in.
"Let me call you back, Gray. Emma would be paranoid by now." Chase said and cut the call. Maybe I was happy for him, maybe.
"Bye. I'll see you later." I said. "I thought you said something about me coming over?" I asked.
"Uhm, can't remember. But definitely not now." He said, laughing and gloating.
I never felt as lonely as I did after Chase cut the call. Agreeably, it was a little too soon, but I was very open to finding love soon. I missed Lily badly, and I wanted to call her, so many times, but I couldn't bring myself to.
I fucked you, and I knew it. She wasn't gonna forgive me either. We'd had sex multiple times after that, and she kept saying stuff about how she still hated me, but missed my dick. How I was supposed to be her redemption or whatever. Lily was a talker during sex and it turned me so fuckin on.
I missed her almost all the time.
She avoided me like a plague in school, and Jessica wasn't open to helping me with her.
Summoning all the courage I could, I picked up my phone to call her, but I saw a text from Jessica.
I decided to open that first.
"Hey. Meet us(Lily and I) at Marty's."
Maybe that was a sign from the universe, at least that's what I took it as.
"I'll be right there." I said.
I shut down my laptop where I had been recording the lyrics to a beat I had just made.
I raced to Marty's which was about ten minutes away from my house
All the while my heart was in my mouth.
The last time I met with Jessica and Lily together, we had sex, and it was weird and awkward as fuck, even though they both seem to have recovered from it.
"Hey." I said, approaching them.
I had my sunshades on still, cause I was a little nervous and I didn't want any of them to know.
They had ordered some food already and were chatting away.
"Hey babe." Jessica said, hugging me. Lily never had an issue with Jessica calling me that. My relationship with Jessica was somewhat fucked up, and very complicated, but she never was the reason I cheated on any of my girls. Plus she respected herself too much to come between Chase's or my relationships. It's the reason we ever really worked. The only real bitch was Monica, Jessica's bestie, but they seemed rather distant of late.
I didn't know how to acknowledge Lily. The place was already feeling too small for her and I to be in. The air was warm and somehow, I was beginning to itch in weird places because I was so nervous.
I looked so fly, but if I had stood still there any longer, I'd have died from the tickle of my itchy skin all over.
I excused myself and asked a waiter for directions to the toilet.
I got there, but somehow, miraculously, I was not itchy.
I felt so stupid. I had been so nervous. Lily was a girl I liked, since before her fling with Chase. No one knew it then, I made sure of that. After they were done, I gave it as long as I could, even joined Chase and Jessica in bullying her, but it didn't replace the yearning in my heart for her. And Chase too didn't have any issues with us being together, 'any at all' in his own words.
Chase was the one who had all the girls' attention. He took them turn by turn, and the rest of us were destined to wait till the girls finally had their taste of him and could settle for the rest of us.
It pissed me at the time, but I was never jealous of him. He was my man still.
Just as Lily was my girl and I was gonna fight for her.
I looked in the mirror and reminded myself of the man I wanted to be, poised, I went back into the restaurant.
"Hi Lily." I said immediately I got to the table. I didn't want to wait any more time before all the confidence dissipated from me. "I'm sorry I had to do all that before talking to you. But the truth is you make me nervous." I was off to a good start, I knew it. I had never seen reunions on TV go that smooth.
"Let's just listen to what Jessica has to say, shall we?" Lily said. She didn't even spare me a glance.
She had her glasses on, and didn't look particularly well. I only saw when I looked closer to her that there were red fingernail marks on her skin, and they looked fresh.
"Who did this to you?" I asked, enraged, taking her hand. Lily had such pretty skin, it would reveal any dent done to it.
"Never mind." She yanked her hand out of my grasp and folded them below her breast. Breasts I used to lie and suck on.
Lily looked all the more sexy when she was annoyed.
"Who's the beast that did this to you, Lily?" I shouted.
. Jessica pinched me cause she knew I was only too ready to make a scene.
"Gray." Lily started. It's the first time she's called me by my name since it happened. And that kinda softened me. She stood up, nearly matching my height. "You wanna know who did this?" She asked, resting her hands on her hips. "I'll give you clues. Their gender takes turns with me. It goes this way, the first comes and gets me pregnant after which he forces and blackmails me into abortion, the second, a friend to the former, comes along, like a knight in shiny armor and dazzles me up. They too, go ahead to have me, all of me, my heart, my head, my pussy, but guess what? They spend their free time in other girls' legs. And mind you, when I say freetime, I mean all the time we should've used to get to know each other better. I think that's clue enough." She spat in my face, and sat back down like she hadn't just destroyed me and everything I stood for.
I looked around, and everyone who had turned us into a spectacle pretended to be looking elsewhere. My legs were weak. I sat down, more like I crashed, into the chair Jessica passed to me.
"Did you know about that?" I asked, Jessica knew I was referring to her.
"I did. I was silly at the time. I'm sorry." She said,
I banged the table so hard even Lily flinched.
The manager had me thrown out and blacklisted for six months as Jessica later told me.