With Pain Come Love 2

Melo 32

It was now August and we were on our way to the Arts Convention in Washington for Yaya's showcase. We were in Cali and we were leaving for DC at Lunch time. She and I were good, we were good friends I guess. The break has been too damn long but what choice do I have? It's been 4 months for Christ sake, I don't like how close her and Thomas have been thou, they've been going out and taking lots of pictures it was revolting. I met James and he seems like a good guy for my sister, he and I are friends I guess but all I know is that he loves my sister and my sister loves him so i'm good with that. So today I was meeting with Yaya at some cafe. She walked in and she looked as good as she always did. I got up to hug her and we both sat down.
Her: how are you?
Me: i'm good babe and how have you been?
Her: missing you
Me: you have a funny way of showing it
Her: I didn't come here to talk about Thomas Melo. He and I are just friends
Me: right... just friends
Her: we can either sit here and argue about him or we can have a nice breakfast and catch up and then go to your hotel room and catch up
Me: can we skip the breakfast and get right on to catching up instead
She giggled
Her: sex addict
Me: says the one who initiated it
Her: I was referring to helping you pack
Me: right
That was us now. We were on a break but our sex life wasn't. June holidays she went to Paris with Ashanti and the last week of her holidays she went home. I think she was avoiding me or something, I don't know but all I know is that I never saw her then. I came here a while ago on business and she and I had countless steamy sessions together, it felt as if we went from boyfriend and girlfriend to sex buddies within this "break" of ours.
Her: yes I was. What we doing is not what we should be doing, a break is supposed to mean no strings
Me: you ever been in one before
She shrugged
Me: thought so. Can we order now?
I said hailing a waitress over and she came to our table all smiles, she had been flirting with me ever since I came in here. She took our orders and then she left.
Her: oh my God
Me: what?
Her: have you two exchanged numbers yet or you didn't get that far?
Me: what are you talking about?
Her: I saw the look she gave you.
Me: you being dramatic right now Yandiswa
Her: am I?
Me: yes.
She kept quiet. I don't get why she was suddenly acting up. We may have flirted but that's as far as it goes. I don't want that girl, she doesn't even have an ass for Christ sake.
Me: nervous about tomorrow?
Her: not really. My pieces are all complete, I'm excited and I can't wait
Me: that's nice. Have you bought a dress already?
Her: my final fitting was this morning. It's perfect
Me: that's nice
Her: yeah. And what about your suit?
Me: it's perfect
Our food came and we started eating over light conversations. When we were done I settles the bill and we left. We got to my hotel room and she threw herself on the bed
Her: this is comfy
Me: very
Her: come here
I went to stand in front of her and she helped me take my clothes off
Her: i've missed you
Me: yeah?
Her: yep
We were laying in bed cuddling after a steamy session. My hand was resting on her ass and she was sleeping on my chest.
Me: please be honest with me
Her: about?
Me: have you been sleeping with Thomas?
She kept quiet for a while. I've had my doubts lately, well when she didn't come to Durban in June it kinda worried me cause her friends are there. Yaya is not one to not visit Durban so shiit had to be up and when I came to visit she was acting all weird and strangely but I didn't dig deep into it; well I figured it was exam stress. You know, that type of thing.
Her: it was one time I promise you
Me: did you guys use a condom?
Her: yes.
Me: when?
Her: before I went to Paris for holidays. We were both drunk and you weren't talking to me
Me: I was busy Yandiswa. I was taking care of a work emergency, we almost lost millions
We were sitting up now. I understand that she doesn't trust me and I'm to blame for that but when she called me I was really dealing with an emergency at BESS, we almost lost millions all because of a reckless mistake our accountant made. Apparently she was going through some stuff when she was doing our reports and because of that she made a huge mistake. Either way we almost lost a lot of cash which we weren't going to recover from and was going to lose clients because of it. It's took us the whole weekend to fix the mess and we had to suspend her for her mistake. BESS Is too big of a company to risk losing such money. I told Yaya about the incident long before she went on and fucked Thomas that I wasn't going to be available on my phone for the whole weekend. I don't understand you girls sometimes, you overreact over nothing.
Her: it was a one time mistake and it never happened again
Me: how am I supposed to buy that Yandiswa? You and the guy still hang out together. How do I know it happened one time?
Her: Melo I'm sorry. I swear it happened once and he and I agreed it will never happen again
Me: you and him agreed? You made a deal that it won't happen again. Get dressed and leave before I do something we will both regret
Her: Mel...
Me: by the time I get out of that bathroom you better be gone!
I said walking to the bathroom. I needed to breathe. I was so pissed but mostly hurt. This whole time i've been depriving myself of sex when so many girls threw themselves at me I rejected them all because of her, because I didn't want to disappoint her. I love Yandiswa and this.. this is the last thing I expected from her of all people or I just put her on a high pedestal. I got inside the shower and opened cold water, it's the only thing that will probably calm me down. After the shower I got out and dried my body with a towel. Yaya was gone. I just down on the edge of the bed with my face buried in my hands. Where did I go wrong? I know I screwed up but it wasn't meant to be this bad. My phone rang and it was Yaya, I pressed reject and soon after I got a call from Michael.
//Him: I just landed so I'm on my way to the hotel now
Me: i'll see you then
Him: you better be dressed and ready to go
Him, the girls, Siya, Yaya's mom and mine were all going to fly together.
Me: you should be worried about the ladies and not me
Him: yeah well you tend to behave like one of them
Me: screw you!
Him: whatever Bess. See you soon
Me: bye//
After the call I put my phone on the bed and went to pour myself a drink. I needed alcohol in my system. There was a knock on the door, I went to open and it was Siya.
Him: you look fucked up
Me: is that your way of saying I look ugly
Him: duh! I thought I saw you walk in with Yaya
Me: she left
Him: that soon? What have you done this time?
Me: ask her that
Him: stop being a baby. What's up?
Me: nothing. I'm just drained that's all
Him: and Yaya?
Me: probably went to do her hair
Him: so what? You mad at her?
Me: no. Nigga what do you want?
Him: what time are we leaving?
Me: at 3pm
Him: nice, let's go get our hair cut
Me: my hair is fine.
Him: what is wrong with you? You so moody and shiit
Me: no. I'm tired
Him: fine. Whatever
With that he left. I got on the bed, switched my phone off and tried to sleep. It was a struggle so I got myself a bottle and tried again. It knocked me right out, just what I needed. I'm not used to being hurt, I'm used to doing the hurting so you can try understand why this is hard for me and is as painful as it is because this is the last thing I would have expected from Yaya.
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-Michael
We were at the airport waiting on Melo. We've been trying to call him but his phone kept going straight to voicemail. Yaya was leaving with her classmates. I called her bit she wasn't answering either... ok.. they probably got into a fight. I don't understand how these two function I swear! One minute they on a break and the next they fuck buddies.. I don't know.
Siya: Ash
Ash: did you reach him?
Siya: no, and Yaya isn't answering your calls too?
Ash: no
Ama: if Melo wants to be childish, let him. He'll drive himself there!
Siya: maybe something is wrong, i'll go check on him
Me: no let me go
Ash: i'll come with you
We got into my car and we drove to the hotel. I parked and we both got out and went to his room. He was sleeping.
Me: Melo wake up
I said shaking him, he opened his eyes after a little bit of struggling
Him: what?
Me: dude we've been trying to call you. What the hell?
Him: i'm sleeping
Ash: Melo come on let's go. We gonna miss our flight
Him: not going. Have a safe flight
Me: dude your girl needs you there
Him: she has Thomas.
Me: what?
Ash: lets go Micah
Me: Melo come on dude
Him: dude you going to miss your flight
He said covering his head with a pillow. Ash took my hand and led me out of his room. We got to the car and we both got in and drove off
Me: what did Melo mean she has Thomas
Ash: I don't know. You saw how drunk he was
Me: we both know you now more than you letting on
Her: its nothing babe.
I just let her be. We got back to the airport and everyone was impatiently waiting.
Ama: no Melo?
Me: nope. He had some last minute files to work on that's all
Ama: this boy and work
Ash: he'll probably be there tomorrow morning
Ama: I hope so
We got on and headed to Washington. It was a beautiful place. So calm and less busy than Cali. We landed very late so we went to grab a bite and headed on to our rooms. I walked Ash to her room
Me: Ash what's going on?
Her: nothing we need to worry about. I need to shower and go visit my friend
Me: oh ok
With that she got in and closed the door and I went to my room and closed mine. I kept tryna call Melo but to no luck. Whatever happened must be huge for him to miss the most important day of his girlfriend's life. The following morning we met up for breakfast but Ash and Serena weren't with us. After breakfast Siya and I walked to our rooms
Siya: everything ok?
Me: I don't know. Melo's not answering his phone
Him: he can't miss this. It's important to his girlfriend
Me: I know. Trust me I know
Him: did he atleast mention something?
Me: all he said was that he wasn't coming
Him: Yaya must be crushed. My friend has been looking forward to this since I don't know
I just shrugged not knowing what to say. It's not my place to put his business out there anyway and if anyone knows what's going on, it's Ash and Serena.