Homeland

Go Home Rodger!

"AJ PLEASE JUST LET ME IN!" Rodger's deep manly voice boomed through the empty run down apartment hallway. It was early in the morning, the birds were chirping, sun was shining and the devil was creeping at AJ's door.

"YOU WANT YOUR MONEY!" AJ swung the door open angrily breaking the long clear vase she had decorated behind the front door. "I CAN'T TAKE THIS SHIT! You...you are here for what?!" AJ threw the thick stack of money into Rodgers unpleasant face making him stumble back from getting hit. She was currently dealing with a headache and a stomach ache from last night.

"I want to talk to you." He said in a soft tone, his time was short and it was plenty of things he had to get off of his chest before the arms on his watch stopped ticking. "About what? Rodger it's nothing I want to say to you! After that night...you did what you did WHILE MY DAUGHTER SAT AND LISTENED TO ME CRY!"

"Listen, im sorry" He put his hand up stepping over the money that laid out on the dirty floor that ran down the hallway. AJ was out of tears, she refused to let Rodger even see her cry. He didn't deserve to see her down. "Hear me out, it's something--"

"It's always something with you Rodger! Always...I can't even seem to understand..."

"LET ME TALK" He barked, getting tired of AJ interrupting him. Rodger expected AJ to act like this, it was a given but he came here on good intentions. "I didn't ask for your forgiveness..."

"Then-Then what do we possibly have to talk about? What? Are you about to die huh? Cause I'll pull the damn plug Rodger! I'm not the type to hold hate in my heart but I can proudly say that I hate you." Those words hit Rodger deep, did he deserve it ? Of course but he wasn't expecting to hear it. He had two options, to tell her what she wanted to hear or give her what she despised the most from him, sex.

    Rodger knew the route he was going to go with, he was tired of ruining lies with the package he remember hearing the term on Trapped in the closet which made him laugh a little. "I am currently dying slowly, I don't know how much time I have left."

AJ threw up a fit of laughter, half of her took it as a joke but then once she noticed he didn't crack a smile on that evil face of his she ceased the storm of laughter she created. "You serious?" He nodded his head slowly stuffing his hands into his suit pants pocket, pulling out a thick white sealed envelope.

   "Oh my...what's wrong?" Her beautiful face turned soft remembering what she just had said to him in the back of her mind. Her hand rested on his shoulder showing the little bit of sympathy that she had for him. "AIDS." He mumbled turning his face down the hall, he was embarrassed to even bring it up but it was something he had to do.

    "What did you just say?" She cupped her ear not knowing if she heard him correctly, his face seemed flushed and not to mention he was losing weight like crazy. "AIDS alright? The shit isn't something I just air out to people!"

AJ's hand covered her "O" shaped mouth in shock, she was disgusted but probably more over shocked. It didn't hit her that she might be infected too until their eyes locked. "YOU RAPED ME KNOWING YOU HAD IT!" It didn't take AJ but a second to come cross his face with a powerful uppercut that could knock a bear out. His bottom row of straight teeth connected with his tongue almost making him bite straight through his tongue. The feeling in his chin was unbearable, it was for his own good though, he knew he deserved it.

     "I CAN EXPLAIN" He leaned on her door frame holding the hood of his chin, he was even more embarrassed that he just got bitch slapped by someone as tiny as AJ.

    The wooden door slammed in his face, Rodger clenched his fist at the disrespect he just got. I deserve it played through his head over and over so that he didn't take matters into his own hands.