Pleasure or Pain

Part 44

Pleasure or Pain Part 44
Shorystorychallenge
J.Velvet

L.A walked through the stands making her way to the V.I.P section, as usual the stadium was packed for what would be a great playoff game for football. Thousands of fans stood in their seats with alcohol and food as they screamed to the top of their lungs for the home team. Miranda had taken her place as one of the football wives even if she wasn't legally married to her boyfriend, everyone knew her as the girlfriend. She made her life with him ever since they met that night in the airport. L.A reached the elevator and traveled up to the upper deck which sat over the whole arena, reaching the entrance she stuffed a hundred dollar bill in the security guards jacket and made her way inside. She took her time walking up to Miranda who was unaware she was there standing up face first to the glass watching the game.
L.A couldn't help but notice Mirandas tight pink pants that struggled to cover her rear end or stay buttoned but she quickly shook off the feeling, she was there for business and most of all Anita.
They hadn't spoken to or seen each other since the day they met in court, and the way the proceedings were going L.A was in no rush to head back to court since her whole estate was on the line. Miranda finally turned around to see L.A laying half way off her chair with a handful of chips eating away. L.A had a nonchalant look on her face which usually meant she was up to something, it wasn't like her to appear out of the blue.
"I thought I made it very clear I didn't want to see you" Miranda said.
"Well hi to you too, look I just came to see if we can settle this like adults I mean we did at one point love each other"
"Now you want to talk like adults, okay what you have in mind"
L.A sat up in the chair wiping her hands pulling out a envelope of papers, her sinister smile was haunted Miranda as she eagerly passed her the papers.
"We finalize this divorce, I'll give you twenty five thousand dollars but you get no parts of my recording royalties"
"Wait I already told you, I'm a need more"
"Wait there is more and I think you're going to like this, read the papers" L.A said.
Miranda looked at the documents and couldn't believe her eyes, photos of her beaten, bloody and bruised. The memories hit her like a sack of potatoes and the dreadful day she tried to forget was no coming back. L.A smiled once as the shock grew over Mirandas face. She wondered how she recovered the photos, how she knew about the incident.
"Those were taken by a neighbor you rember right i mean that is you, he whooped your ass but why. So I just happen to come across these and it seems like your man caught you cheating with out of all people the quarterback, but you forgave him cause he got that new multi million dollar deal and you know he would lose it if it became public, plus the quarterback is married he would be taken down in the scandal too and what would you be left with nothing at all. Still up to your no good ways, and keep going I know you're pregnant so do you even know who the father of the baby is oh, and I have these uploaded digitally and can send them to every media platform. Now this stays between us and we get this divorce you take this money or else I'll expose the scandal and destroy both of their careers in the process then you'll have no one and be just another poor black has been with good weave. So I'll ask one more time, want to settle this like adults"
Prize couldn't be more out of place, he was alive but his spirit wasn't. He sat on the side of the bed with his eyes filled with water and rage. Miracle brought him back to her hotel to get rest but he stayed up all night I'm one position, the same emotionless glare and sign of hate steming form his pores.
"Drink something" Miracle said passing him a cup of hot coffee but Prize was still unresponsive.
She then placed the cup by his I'm the nearby table.
"Well when you get ready for it, it's right there for you"
She wrapped herself in a thin blanket sitting by him. She tested her head on his shoulder sipping her warm cocoa she made had made.
"I know what you're going through"
"So you had your heart ripped out of your chest and stomped out"
"Stomped out more like chewed up and then burned, when I was nine I witnessed my mother get murdered. She was the victim of a drive by shooting, I saw everything the bullet travel through the front of her head and out the back. My shirt was drenched with her blood and brains and at that point I think I died along with her, I didn't speak for nearly five years. They took me to counseling but nothing helped it took me years to realize that my life was still worth living. I'm sorry what happen to your friend but know he's not dead, he can't die when the love you and his family have for him still around and strong"
"I just never thought I'd see the day he would be gone you know, I remember when we first met a couple knuckleheads was clowning me on my gear. Everyone had Jordan's and Nikes and I had on some reject Fubu sneakers"
Miracle laughed along with Prize who giggled finally picking up his cup of coffee taking a sip.
"Bishop stood up for me, he walked with me home so nobody would jump me hell he even gave me a pair of his sneakers my parents were too poor to afford the name brands but he looked out for me, we been brothers ever since. When I made it he made held me down and all always"
"He's still with you, it's messed up what happen to him but don't  give them the satisfaction of two people dying"
"Thanks, sorry about the way I been acting I know I've been out of it the last couple hours but I appreciate you being there"
"No problem you're a good person, I'll always be here for you after all you blessed my track with your words so it's only right i support you"
Miracle got up stretching walking over to the window looking out to the city streets below her.
"The only other person I had in my life is no longer mines, noe I'm really alone"
"What is that I hear, trouble in paradise"
"Not paradise more like nightmare but I could be the blame for that, look at me I'm blabbing on about my love life"
"No go ahead I'm a relationship counselor anyway"
"You, a counselor"
"Yes I write love songs for a living  heartbreak is my specialty, so you still love her"
"Of course she's the mother of my children"
"So go for her"
"Its not that easy, she doesn't love me anymore"
"Are you sure, I know there had to be something there"
"Not like it was before, she's happy with the person she's with now I blew my shot"
"I don't believe that, I say if you have love in your heart go for it"
"You make everything sound so easy"
"I wish but I do know you can never give up fighting my friend"
Prize began to think maybe what Miracle was saying was right, he wanted to see Anita happy but happy with him not anyone else. He thought of what Bishop would say, after first teasing him about her not taking him back he would then shower him with women at some strip club but in the most of it all he would say go back to her. He felt his friend was talking through her and he couldn't live with himself without trying to make it right with Anita.
Anita didn't know what was going on with Bishop but was now finding out about Leslie who was still in custody for the murder of Diamond. She scrolled through her phone on the bed as she read the news and saw his face plastered on the site as the number one suspect and him admitting he murdered her. She didn't know what was going on but didn't believe Leslie to be a murderer. She got up putting her clothes on and gathering her things after calling Passion to go down to the booking area to see him, now was the time of support and to find a way to get him off.