Lies & Affairs

sixteen

"Oh, my...God." Ty'Quan whispered to himself as he looked around the room.

He was covered in sweat and panting as if he had just ran a marathon. Ty'Quan looked beside him, his heart pounding in his chest. After the dream he just had, he hoped and prayed that when he pulled the covers back he'd see Sapphire instead of someone else.

Sapphire was a light sleeper so when he pulled the covers down her eyes opened almost immediately.

"Sapphire?"

"Hmm?"

"Nothing. I just wanted to see if that were you."

"Who else would it be, Ty'Quan?" Sapphire asked, pulling the cover back over her body. "It's cold in here, stop taking all of the cover."

"You can have it. I'm hot." He piled the cover on her body.

Ty'Quan turned to get out of bed, but he never actually got up he just sat there. He looked back at Sapphire and all he felt was so much guilt for something he didn't even do and wouldn't even think about acting on.

He got up and made his way into the bathroom; he just leaned over the counter and exhaled deeply.

He just hoped that this wouldn't ruin anything he had planned throughout the week.

**

"Hey, Mr. Marshall."

Ty'Quan jumped and quickly caught his phone before it hit the ground. "Can you announce when you're coming?"

"I wear heels everyday, I know you heard me." Nicole said. "Unless you were too distracted by the nude pictures Sapphire's sent you."

"What? Sapphire doesn't send me nude pictures."

"Really? What kind of woman doesn't send her man nudes every once in awhile? Especially a handsome man like you?" She rubbed his face and he backed up.

"I don't appreciate you touching me."

"You look good in red." Nicole said, inching closer to him.

"Does a man who constantly rejects you turn you on?" Ty'Quan asked. "If you knew how you looked you'd stop throwing yourself onto me."

"I'm not the only bad person in this situation; I think you enjoy when I come around you and touch you because if you didn't you would've either fired me or walked away...you're still here." Nicole said, running her nails along his face.

He backed away from her again. The same guilty feeling he'd felt earlier that morning started coming over him when he had backed against his desk and Nicole had got in front of him. It was then he realized if he didn't stop her, his dream would've became a reality and the last thing he wanted was to lose Sapphire over something as stupid as sleeping with her.

His hands felt sweaty and his heart started pounding harder and harder inside of his chest as Nicole's slim hands rubbed on his thighs and torso. She leaned in to kiss his neck, but they were interrupted by Greg walking in talking.

"Quan, I was at the store and—"

He got quiet. Nicole backed up and fixed her hair and Ty'Quan just stared at Greg.

"Oh, man." Greg said. "You stooped that low?"

"Excuse me?"

"No, it's not like that." Ty'Quan said. "I would never, ever cheat on Sapphire."

"Looks like you are to me." Greg said.

"I wasn't...at least I didn't plan on it. Look, I had a dream last night that I—I slept with her." Ty'Quan said.

"Her as in Nicole?"

"Yes."

Greg gagged which made Nicole cut her eyes at him.

"I don't know where it came from or what made me even think like that because I don't like Nicole in that way at all, I never have. I'd never hurt Sapphire like that, ever. I don't know what's going on and I can't get it out of my head." Ty'Quan explained. "Please, please, don't tell Sapphire."

"I won't." Greg said.

"Or Milani. Milani won't hesitate to tell Sapphire."

"No shit, Sherlock." Greg said. "You better get yourself together before Friday or you're gonna have some problems in the Bahamas."

"I'm going to go," Nicole said, fixing her dress. "I think I need to get back to work."

She walked out of the office and made her way up down the hallway. Ty'Quan didn't even realize what he had done, all Nicole could do was just smile to herself as she made her way back up.

"Go have sex with your girlfriend, please don't embarrass me by having sex with Nicole. She has a nice body and all, but the face isn't there." Greg said. "And I can tell something is wrong with her mentally."

"Sapphire is going to hate me." Ty'Quan said, sighing. "I fucked up."

"It's not like you actually fucked her...did you?"

"No."

"Then you're good then. It was just a dream, you don't have control over your dreams." Greg said. "As long as it doesn't affect your performance when you're having sex with Sapphire then she wouldn't even suspect something is wrong."

"That's the thing, I don't know if it will or not. Sapphire and I haven't had sex in months; she's been busy with work and I've been busy working and trying to get her birthday together."

"Then that's probably why you're thinking about Nicole. When you're horny you'll do some strange things...trust me, I know." Greg said. "I got a couple I wish I could take back. Just control yourself and stay away from Nicole."

Greg looked at his phone. "I have to go. Milani wants ice; another thing, don't get a girl pregnant. It's like they turn into monsters, I've been fighting for my life and I have eight months left of this shit."

"It can't be that bad."

"Milani is crazy, that we already know. Now slap pregnancy hormones onto that."

"Is it like period hormones? Sapphire on her period is pretty bad, I usually just stay out of her way."

"It's like ten times worse." Greg said. "It's way worse than that."

His phone vibrated again. Greg turned it off. "Let me go. See you later and don't forget what I told you."

"I won't."

Greg walked out of the office and Ty'Quan immediately sunk into his chair. He put his head down and sighed, tapping his fingers on the desk.

He was stressed and Greg was right. If he didn't get himself together, it could cost him his relationship in the long run.