Short Stories

He Was Mine First

"I see so much of myself in you", she said quietly. "It frightens me",...Chantel was speaking to her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend, Victoria. "I don't know what you have that I don't. I was everything that I could be for him . I did everything he asked me to do but then he just up and left me for you", Chantel said to Victoria. She kept pacing back and forth, getting more and more irritated. She had Victoria tied up in the basement for hours. Victoria tried to scream but she couldn't make much noise because tape was covering her mouth. "I remember it like it was yesterday. We were downtown on 42nd street spending our 2-year anniversary together. Derrick's phone kept ringing and everytime it would ring, he would look at it and turn the ringer off. The last time it rang, he walked away and answered it. I heard him yelling and arguing with that person. I wasn't sure if it was one of his friends or another woman but whoever it was, they were pissing him off. He hung up the phone and walked toward me", Chantel paused. Before she continued, Victoria's phone started ringing. "Hmm I wonder who's calling us", Chantel said and laughed. She grabbed the phone and looked to see who it was. It was Derrick. "It's OUR boyfriend. Answer it. If you scream or say anything stupid, I will kill you", Chantel said to her. She put the phone to Victoria's ear and Victoria answered, "hey baby". "Hey princess, where are you?", Derrick asked. "Umm I'm at Tamia's house", Vicky lied. "Um okay. When are you coming home?", he asked. "Later baby. My phone is dying my love, I'm going to text you in a few. I love you", Vicky said to Derrick. She wasn't sure if she was going to see him later though. She was scared. "Okay, i love you more baby", he said before hanging up the phone. Chantel snatches the phone from her ear. "Aww, you guys are so cute. I remember when he used to tell me that he loves me", Chantel said. "This is all your fault though", Chantel said to Vicky before smacking her. "Like I was saying. We continued to enjoy our night. I didn't hear his phone ring or ding. I assumed that he turned it completely off to avoid any more distractions. We had dinner, we talked, then we went to my house and made love. I put his ass to sleep. That night, I kept tossing and turning. I had this weird feeling that my man was cheating on me. Usually my instincts are always right. I decided to check his phone. Thank God for my fingerprint. I opened his phone and there it was; the messages , the phone calls, the pictures. He even had a picture of you two on his lock screen and his wallpaper. My heart was shattered into a million pieces. On our anniversary though? How long was this going on?", Chantel asked. Victoria cleared her throat and answered, "6 months. He never told me that he had a girlfriend. When he wasn't with me, he would tell me that he's with one of his boys". As Chantel listened to Vicky talk, she came more and more angry. "I'm sorry. If i would have known that you exist, i would have backed off", Vicky's voice cracked. Tears were running down her face. "Cut the alligator tears, I don't care andI don't believe you. Anyways, the next day, I didn't mention what I found to him because I knew he would lie. He started acting funny and distant. He was barely coming home. When we talk about it, he would tell me that he's busy. He called me one day telling me that he wanted to talk about us. That same night, he came home drunk and said that he was leaving me and never coming back", Chantel finished. She became so heated that she started crying. "I'm sorry", Victoria cried. "Shut up! No you're not!", Chantel screamed. "After he left me, I did what I could to find out all of your information. I accomplished my mission and now you're here. I didn't reach out to him and tell him my plan because I knew he would try to save you in every way he could. By the time I'm done with you, he's going to feel the way I did. He's going to know what a broken heart feels like", Chantel said. "Please! You don't have to do this", Vicky pleaded. Chantel taped her mouth shut, grabbed a chainsaw and started cutting her into pieces. When she was done, she took a picture of Vicky and sent it to Derrick with a text following it that read, "I loved you".....