Perez gnashes his teeth and said, "Kendia, I had already told you that I'm not interested in her. How many times do I have to say that for you to understand?""I do understand," I raised my voice at him. "But do you understand that Aria is deeply in love with you? She's so in love that she's willing to leave a good man like Avery for someone like you."
Perez cocked his head to the side, frowned, then asked me, "what do you mean by someone like me?"
"I didn't mean anything by it. I just wonder what you did to her because she's so caught up on you."
"What does her being caught up in me have to do with us?"
"EVERYTHING, Perez! Aria is our friend."
Perez shook his head in displeasure. "Of course you'd say that. It's an excuse for you to stop dating me because you're probably thinking I'm like Andrew or Liam, but I can assure you that I'm not. I swear."
"Perez, I'm not really worried about that, but I can't say it hasn't crossed my mind. I haven't had the bestest luck in the dating world, but still." I sighed, "Look, I just don't want my relationship with you to cause my relationship with her to end. I know it's a big possibility and you know it too."
"Kendia, we both knew the consequences of you and I dating although we didn't openly discuss it. Friendship is important, but a loving relationship is too. Aren't you tired of crying? I won't call myself a savior but I'm that guy for you. I know it in my heart. How do I know? Because all I desire to do is be in your presence."
"But in her head you are the guy for her, Perez. She loves you more in that way than I do."
"Well, maybe you don't love me in that way now but I believe within myself that it's gonna happen eventually. I just know it. The more we keep trying to make things work you'll fall deeper in love with me and I'll fall deeper in love with you. Things take time, especially love."
"You're right," I agreed, and then said to him, "but I have a question for you."
"Ask me anything," he said.
"Okay. I wanna know what happened on game night when you and Aria were all alone in your apartment, you know, before I got there."
"Nothing," he answered with a deep frown. "We just talked about who my date was. I had to lie, as you know, about having one and saying that they canceled on me as we had planned, and right before you came she told me that she had to use the bathroom really badly and she took her phone with her. We weren't alone for a long period of time because you showed up about five minutes after her."
"Can I ask you another question?"
"Yeah. Shoot it at me."
"Do you really think Avery canceled on Aria that night."
"Uh yeah. That's what she said."
"Well, that's not true. He didn't cancel on her. She canceled on him because she wanted you two to pair up. I bet if you had bought a date that night he would've been there."
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Roller Coaster Life
Romance24 year old Kendia Brown's life has always been great, even through the miniature of bad times she's stumbled upon, still and hardly ever she complains. Who would when life's mostly great? Being a mother of a 7 year old Liam Davis Jr. Kendia has he...