Green Eyed Monster

Wake Me From This Nightmare

It's been over a week, and I haven't heard from anyone. Too frazzled to function, I take a stress medical from work. There's no way I can return after this lavish wedding, saying the marriage is over. Oh, and by the way, it's due to me!

Mrs Tolbert hasn't returned home yet, and I find myself sitting in the house, not even bathing. Being so selfish and only focused on proving myself right, I have utterly destroyed my baby. I know I'll never see her again. And my Trevor. He'll never place me on that high pedestal ever again.

After two days of relishing in regret and guilt, I cleaned up. Windows now opened, I air out my home and light scented candles. Soon, I decided to bake an apple pie. As I sit peeling apples, I hear voices. Eyes straight ahead, I look towards Mrs Tolbert's, but they're coming from the Hopkins' side. It's Terri and Gypsy.

Gypsy says, "Mrs T's staying with Roger for awhile, so I know where she is, but has anyone seen Mae?"

"Ivey saw her the morning after the wedding, but that's been it."

"Hmm."

"Well, did Mrs T tell you anything? How's Lola and King?"

"I've been talking to Roger's wife, Maxine. She's close to Leah, David's wife. And she told me they believe King had the marriage annulled."

"King? Not Lola?"

"Yes! Lola was willing to work through it, but King says he'll never forgive her mother for what she's done."

"What exactly did she do?"

"Well, she purposely got him drunk and raped him!"

"Gimme a break. C'mon on Gypsy. Are you serious?"

"That's what Leah told Maxine! Maxine said, "Leah you can't rape a man."

Leah then answered, "If he's drunk and not thinking sober, you most definitely can! Men do it to women all the time. They get her drunk so she'll do whatever they desire. Why isn't it viewed as rape when a woman does it to a man? Just as women can't willingly consent when they're drunk, neither can men."

Nodding Terri replies, "Never looked at it that way, but it makes perfect sense."

Sighing out loud, Terri adds, "Poor Lola. That child is as sweet as they come. Why'd she get such a crude woman as a mother?"

"Right! It's as if she longs to be Mrs T. But all the while, Mrs T was living a fantasy. She's just an older woman teasing her younger neighbors. I got it, but Mae started pursuing younger men like some maniac!"

Gypsy then proceeds to tell my sexual rendezvous with Lucius. It's then I bust out of my back door screaming, "Get your own life you miserable cunt!"

Terri shouts, "Mae!! I've been worried sick about you! Have you been hiding away in your home all this time?"

Not even acknowledging Terri's words I tell Gypsy, "Bitch, if I hear my name in your mouth one more time, I swear I'm going to cut your fucking tongue out!"

"Are you hearing this, Terri? ...Ma,e you need not threaten me, I already have an assault charge on you. If you're wise, you'd stay far away from me."

"Gypsy just tell me why you did it? Why would you ruin my daughter's wedding night, her happiness, our relationship? How does destroying our lives benefit yours?"

With a chuckle, she scoffs, "Mae, I didn't do that, you did that, honey. A lie lasts but a moment, but truth endures the test of time. It's so easy to blame me, Pinky, King, even Lola, but what about you? Have you ever thought for a second that if you just went to everyone and humbled yourself by apologizing, maybe someone in the fold would forgive you? But that's too beneath high and mighty Mae Mitzit! ...So what my daughter loves this guy, I want him! So what Gypsy wants her friendship back with Mrs. T, she's my friend now! So what Pinky's lonely and depressed, that's her miserable life! I'm out living my best life!"