The Zone

VII

Abel:

I awake to the bright sunlight shinning in my face and to find Jhené no where to be found. "Jhené?" I ask while waiting for a response.

she comes out of the bathroom still wearing my T-shirt and showing off her beautiful legs. "Yes Abel?" she climbs back into bed and cuddles next to me.

"I just wanted to see if you were still here." I wrap my arms around her shoulder and pull her closer. Hopefully her coming closer will cause her to never leave me. I look at the clock to see its 7am. "We have about two more hours to sleep. Close your eyes and relax." And with that we fell asleep.

***

"Abel wake up!" Jhené's voice fills my ear along with a slight shake on my body. "I'm going back to Aubrey's condo to get my stuff and get dressed okay?" I peek open my eyes to see her taking my shirt off and showing off her cheetah bra that matched her lace panties that matched.

"um okay." I say still pretending to be asleep. she throws on the shirt and pants she wore over here. "I'll walk you out." I stretch and slowly make my way out of bed.

"last night was fun. We should do that again sometime!" I say nothing. just smile instead. "okay well, bye." I open the door for her and give her a hug goodbye.

Just as soon as she stepped out of the door the door across the hall opened and their stood Brey, with no shirt on, along with a girl standing behind him.

Jhené:                                                

"Really Aubrey?" I ask. I don't believe this shit. He literally stood me up for this hoe. No words have been spoken, so I guess he's not even going to explain himself. I shake my head and say goodbye to Abel and walk off.

***

Finally made it to Houston. It was a hell of a drive but dammit were here. I'm supposed to be going to the studio to work on a song with the guy who stood me up, but I'm literally not in the mood for it.

"Hey!" Aubrey says greeting everyone as he walked into the studio. I don't say a word. I don't even look at him. "Hey Jhene". I ignore him and continue to scroll through twitter on my phone. "Can we talk?" He ask lowly.

"No, go talk to that hoe you stood me up for." I throw my phone down on the couch and walked into the booth and slammed the door shut. "Can we just do this 40?" A look of confusion spreads across 40's face.

                        

"Um yeah, sure?" He questions while beginning to play the beat.

" And I should've never took you on a boat for your birthday

And I should've never fucked you on a boat for your birthday

And I never would've came into your house in the first place

If I would've know that you would hurt me like the worst way."

The whole time I'm singing this verse I'm mean mugging Aubrey. This isn't the actual song but fuck it I feel like free styling. His eyes are filled with guilt and I love it. "Okay, everyone give us five minutes." He says telling everyone to leave. 40 stops the music and follows behind the crew to exist the studio..

I roll my eyes as Aubrey enters the booth. "Jhene, please let me explain." He says slowly walking towards me.

"There's nothing to explain Aubrey. You'd rather be with her then me." As he gets closer towards me the more I back up.

"Jhené you know I love you. I ended up getting drunk & luckily she took me to a hotel room and took care of me. Nothing happened, at least she's not a creep! I actually know her and she's happily married with a daughter and takes care of her little brother. But why were you in the room with Bel?"

"Its nothing. I needed someone to vent to trust me nothing happened. Back to you..." I ease up a little. My heart believes him but my mind doesn't. "Okay, well why did she stay all night with you?!" Finally I back up into a wall and he can finally come close to me.

"To make sure I was cool. I threw up all over my shirt so I took it off as she hand washed it. I was asleep the whole time she took care of me." He inched his lips closer and closer to mine. As our faces were inches apart he did the goofy dance he knows I love and knows I'll always crack up to. I give in and kiss him. I might've gave in too easily but its Aubrey. I can't stay mad at him.

Aubrey:

I hate what I'm doing to Jhene & Erica. Neither one of them deserve this. I want them both & don't want to hurt either of them which makes this seven times harder.

***

"So what did y'all do last night when you left the club?" Ryan asks me as we finally get a moment to ourselves when boarding the flight.

"We just went back to my hotel room and watched movies." I say while taking a seat in my favorite spot close to the window. Ryan smacks his lips. He knows I'm lying. That's probably the number one thing I hate about him. He knows when I'm lying."

"Okay, and theeeen?" He says waiting for me to spill the details. I sigh and roll my eyes while looking out the window to make sure Ob was still outside. "And then we fucked." I couldn't help it but a huge smile had spread across my face. I'll probably regret telling him this later but right now, this feels amazing to finally let it out and tell someone.

"Yo! You smashed! You won that bet!" Suddenly my smile disappeared. I completely forgot about the bet. I sigh and run my fingers through my hair. "What? You not happy bout that or something?"

"No, I am. Its just, I kinda got to know her and she's been through a lot and I really don't want to hurt her. Please don't tell Ob."

Ryan stands in front of me with a facial of shocked mixed with speechless. "That's not even the worst part. The worst part is, I tried to pull out but it got everywhere!"

His eyes grew wide and began to pace around the plane.

"Brey you're so fuckin stupid! Did you even use protection?!" He yelled to me as if I was his sixteen year old son. I lower my head down at my stupidity. I should've wrapped it up. "Don't you know its females out here that wants your child support money?! You're an idiot!" I say nothing, just take a seat with my head still lowered. "Okay, it might not be that bad. Hopefully she's not and hopefully you didn't catch an STD. I'll keep this between us."