House Call

Chapter 7: The Dirty Truth

I was beyond lost for word. The fact that we've spent almost two years together, not to mention worked at the same hospital, and he not tell me that vital piece of info.
I had to look away from him, it was almost as if I become enraged. "How could you not tell me that?" I asked as I looked back at him. He tried to walk up to me, but I took a step back.

"Baby, I honestly didn't know how to tell you. And then as more time went by, it got harder. I don't want you to think I was just hopping from doctor to doctor. I really am sorry. It's a real complicated situation."

"Think you were hopping from doctor to doctor? Percy, I honestly love you, and you know I'd never judge you like. C'mon man. Were you ever going to tell me about this, like for real?"

"No, I was going to just try my hardest to forget that entire situation ever happened. Look, I couldn't tell you. I still can't."

"At least he was being honest", I thought.

"What? No, you have to explain this to me. You're asking me to tell my best friend, my sister to leave this guy alone who seems to make her happy because you don't like him for whatever reason. You need to tell me why."

I sat down in one of the chairs and placed my elbows on my knees. He stood there speechless, looking afraid of what was going to happen next.

"Wyatt, I want to tell you, but baby... I just can't!" He said walking over to me, this time making contact with me. He grabbed my hands, knelt down and looked me in my eyes. "Baby, you trust me right? Please tell me that you trust me."

I sighed. "Percy. You know I trust you. But honestly, this doesn't sit well with me. I trust you with my life and I know you trust me with yours, so believe in that trust and be honest with me." I grazed the left side of his face with my thumb. "Talk to me."

He closes his eyes and took a breath. He got up and grabbed one of the other chairs and sat it dead in front of me.

"What I'm about to tell you is breach of the Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed." He looked me in my eyes and squeezed my hand. I shook my head so he knew I understood. "I dated Reggie about 3 years ago. I met him when we worked on a trauma together and hit it off immediately. We started kicking it and dating, I mean we hung out all the time; He was closeted though and didn't want anyone in his business at the hospital. He said it would potentially ruin his chances of working with his attendings and he didn't want to jeopardize his career, and stupidly, I agreed."

He put his head down in what seemed to be shame. I held his hands and sat there quietly.

"We dated for months and I didn't even know." He exclaimed. "Wyatt I was honestly falling in love with him, everything about him. We were so connected it was crazy. Although it was nothing close to what we have, at the time I thought what we had was magic."

Percy was in full blown tears at this moment. He looked me dead in my eyes, and I knew it was nothing but the truth spilling out of him

"Baby, I found out that he was married, to a woman, she was back in Atlanta doing her residency there. He was DL, and to make it all worse, he was cheating on me too. We didn't use condoms towards the end of the relationship, and that was my biggest regret. He gave me gonorrhea man. And I didn't know about his wife until I came to his apartment to confront him about it. He answered the door and she was right behind him wearing his scrub top. Wyatt I didn't say anything. The look on his face confirmed he didn't give a fuck about me. I got in my car and cried for about 2 hours.

"Baby, I..."

He cut me off. "The level of foul betrayal was only at level one at this point. I tried to talk to him but he shut me out and made it seem like I didn't exist. I threatened to tell his wife and his parents, and he quickly responded but with his lawyer. He offered me $100k to keep quite and to never speak to him again. Babe I was broke and struggling at the time and too prideful to call home and ask for help, so I took the money, and signed the agreement. It was honesty the most cowardly thing I've ever done in my life."

"I understand babe." I grabbed him and pulled him into me. The man was crying his heart out and it felt terrible for yelling at him earlier. "I'm so sorry I yelled babe. You were just trying to protect our family. I'm really sorry. You never have to go through anything like that ever again, ok?"

"I know, it just sucks that I trusted that nigga and he just turned to be the worst person I've ever met in my life. I just don't want Tiffany to go through any portion of what I went through."

I sighed knowing this was going to be a tough ass conversation to have. How the fuck do you even begin to talk someone out of someone they like without stirring the pot and causing all types of drama.

I looked at him as he gathered himself. "Babe, I'm gonna do what I can, but this, this shit is gonna be rough. I don't even know how to look at her and tell her some shit like this, without telling her everything."

"I know, I can be the one to tell her. I'll tell her everything."

"What's the penalty for breaching the agreement."

He looked at me and squeezed my hand. "Jail. But I'd do the time. I should've have been a dumb ass about the situation."

"You can't go to jail. It will be extremely hard for you to finish school, get your degree, and convince any board to approve or even recognize your credentials. I can't even get you outta that."

He stood up and pulled me up with him. " I know, but I have to protect this family at all costs." He grabbed my ass and pulled me closer; so close that I could feel his heart beat, and I just hugged him tightly.

"That's noble, but you can't go to jail. There's another way to work this, I just need to figure out how to make this work. Give me a few hours."

He giggled. "Oh so what, you're Olivia Pope now?"

I laughed and pulled away, just enough to make eye contact. "You know what they say. If it's big, get Wyatt on it."

"It's actually get Liv on it, but I like the thought of you on my something big." He said with that sly ass Stevie J grin.

I slapped him upside his head. "How can you think about sex, when we're also talking about keeping you outta jail!?"

"Because." He pulled me back close and squeezed my ass. "I can only imagine the withdrawals I'll be going through if I get locked up."

I pushed him off me. "Get off me fool." I started walking back towards the house. "I'm going back in the house before mom comes out here trying to if we being freaky."

He just followed behind. "She know we some nasty niggas! Especially the que dog of the family."

I started barking and this nigga started laughing.
I honest to God love this man, but I really don't know how the situation with Tiff is gonna go. I'm not too much man to admit that I'm scared.
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