Idris
"What are you doing here?" I stormed in. "Excuse me! I did not invite you in." I sat back on the couch. "Ok. Fine." She closed the door and sat across from me. "What's wrong?"
"You won't believe what Janet just told me. I'm so upset."
"About?"
"So you may not know that we've been together for..."
"Two years."
"How'd you know?" She drank from her water bottles.
"She told me."
"Oh okay. Well not long after her divorce she..."
"Slept with Jermaine Dupri."
"What the hell? Why do you know all this?"
"Because she told me." I was even more pissed at Janet now. She was telling other people things that should be between us.
"Why would she tell you?"
"First of all, take the snap and attitude out of your voice. Second of all, what all did she tell you because obviously you don't have the whole story."
"Does that matter? She cheated, got pregnant, aborted it, and didn't tell me. Period."
"No! Not period. Semicolon." She stood up. I looked at her crazy.
"What?"
"When she told you, did you cut her off?"
"Why does that matter?" She came and hit me on the back of my head.
"Dumbass! There is more to the story. Plus you two were broken up when it happened."
"What?"
"Janet was on tour and you guys got into some bullshit argument and broke up. That's when she slept with Jermaine."
"Oh." I had completely forgotten about that.
"Yeah, oh." She sat back down. "Idris, you have to let her finish. Though I doubt she's going to finish now and that's not good."
"Why?" She took a deep breath and looked away. "Naiyana, tell me." She sat on the edge of the couch.
"Look, she knew this type of situation would come up and told us to tell you but I just..." She rubbed her head.
"What?" She let out a shaky breath.
"Not long after their divorce, when Janet came back to the US, Wissam followed her and found her. He..." she paused and closed her eyes. Whatever this hurt her too. "He brutally raped her." I sat back in shock. "And when I say brutally, I mean brutal. I'll let her tell that part." I felt a pain in my heart.
"But why would she tell me about Jermaine but not this?"
"She was going to explain why she slept with him."
"Why did she?"
"I'll let her tell you that too, but you need to talk to her and listen."
"But she....."
"Needs you?" She cut me off and looked at me. I sat back. "Exactly. Go talk to her and listen. It may also help if you were honest with her too."
"What do you mean?"
"You slept with me during that period of time too. So if you count her actions as cheating then yours are too."
"That's different."
"How?"
"Becau..."
"Because it's your actions, right? Because it's you." She scoffed. "This woman has been through hell and I'm not excusing anything bad she's done or will do but for you to walk out on her during a vulnerable conversation, which you probably begged her to have, it's just wrong and inconsiderate."
