Beyond Us- Book Three

•••Chapter Seventeen•••

<Chris Brady> Inside Thora's house, we all gathered and familiar people from high school paid their condolences to Nathaniel. I was like his wing man here. The man lost his head. His mom was still in the hospital and there has so far not been any good news. Above all these, Cheryl was still with Randy. Nathaniel stands in the corner of the room and stare at her for eternity.

"Isn't she pretty?" he asked.

"She is."

"I don't want my daughter to be like her. She's a slut."

"That's too..."

"I know what I've seen." he smiled and walked out of the house. Thora and Hillary stepped out of her room with laughter. She looked at me and I looked away.

Jesse's loving heart followed me here and she took all the kids out to play. I'm really grateful to her. Thora called me from the stairs and I headed out.

"Chris wait!" she said. I turned to her and my anger wasn't going down.

"What? Are your panties wet again?" she looked at me like a frustrated woman and I asked again. "Where do you want it this time?"

"You do not have to talk to me like that. I will not tolerate this."

"Alright. I don't think we've anything more to talk about other than your sex schedules. Excuse me." I eyed at her and walked out of the house.

Nathaniel was standing outside looking through the air. He wiped a tear off and bent on his toes. He took a stone lying behind him and threw it at the far end of the street.

"Hey," I called. He turned his head to me and smiled. "You okay there?"

"I'm trying to be." I got closer to him and bent on my toes too. We both sighed. "What do you think I should do? I just lost my dad, I'm loosing my mom and my kid and everything is just the same. Nothing is changing. Not even her feelings for me."

"You're talking about Cheryl?"

"Was it obvious?" I smiled at him and he sighed. "I feel like she completes me. Nothing has been working out and I feel like I could've prevented my dad's death. I'm just so fucked up."

"Do you want me to help you get her back?" he laughed and shook his head. "Yeah I know what you're thinking. I couldn't even get Thora back."

"That's not what I thought. She loves your friend and she's a bitch. What I'm going to say to you stays between us. Do you get me?"

"Yeah. I'm listening. He turned to face me and everything he said to me was quite shocking. Cheryl? Not only Thora got worse? Should I spill this to Randy? "Are you fucking serious?"

"Yes. It stopped a month ago and I don't believe her. You shouldn't be so surprised. They're a lot of people who enjoy these kind of things. Choices." he smiled and I nodded.

Something was ticking inside of me to tell Randy about this. He'll flip tables over if I tell him this. I drove Nathaniel to the hospital to see his mom and he told me more about it.
We came home in the evening and Thora and Cheryl were sitting outside of the house.

Friends of the same feathers. Nasty-sex freaks.

She stood up to walk over to me and I hurried to my house. I'm still mad. She can go to the market and buy any sex toy she wants. I'm not on sale.

Jesse texted me earlier on that the kids are with Mellisa and George. I wanted to be the one to introduce Ava to them but she said I've nothing to worry about because they all like her very much.

The room next to mine was being occupied. I heard Hillary and Randy talking in there. She sounded pissed off. "No, Randy. This shouldn't have happened. Your fiancée is out there and I've a boyfriend. This is really bad. I've to tell Tom about this before he finds out. I've a bad feeling about this. Why didn't you just stop it?" she said. I heard her panting.