PLAYING THE FENCE

Chapter 14 • Over you

It was mid day, and after crying her eyes out for hours Ryann was now vexed. She hadn't even heard from Ava, but she was damn sure not going to reach out again. So much was going through her head at the moment - but she coped with the pain as she smoked a L and downed a few glasses of wine in her living room. It was true that a woman could hurt your heart just as a man did.

Ryann knew it was fucked up the way the two initially fell in love, and believed maybe this was her karma. Shit, you lost em how you got em.

She knew Ava had to be hurt seeing the video that was posted, but she hadn't even gone out of her way to get answers. As if Ryann had been nothing to her.

Ryann poured herself another glass of wine. Just when she put the glass to her lips, she heard a knock at the door.

She was definitely on, and it took her longer than usual to get to the door.

Opening up the door, she showed no emotion as she revealed Ava standing in the doorway.

"You need something?" She asked nonchalantly.

Ava sucked her teeth, "are you fucking kidding me?"

Rolling her eyes, Ryann turned her back and walked back into her apartment. For hours she had talked to herself in her head however now she had nothing to say.

"So you back to fucking niggas now?" Ava asked, shutting the door firmly behind her.

"So you back to fuckin your ex now?" Ryann cut her eyes.

Ava was caught off guard. She didn't expect Ryann to know about her moment of weakness, at least not so soon. Still, as far as she knew Ryann was having a little fun of her own.

"Talk about the fucking video, not me. You going in bathrooms with niggas. Who the fuck are you?"

"He's the owner you dickhead" Ryann hissed, "he was letting me in the bathroom to throw up! But none of that matters, the first thing you did was go back to that fat bitch"

Ava didn't want to believe what Ryann was telling her, more so because then she would have to believe she fucked up on her own end.

"Man whatever. You was cheesing in that nigga face".

Ryann kept quiet, only rolling her eyes. She knew Ava had her there. But shit, and she couldn't help if the nigga was good looking. And she was attracted to men first. But that didn't mean she would be disloyal to Ava, she loved her.

"Exactly. I did everything for you, and you do me like that"

Tears began to well up in Ryann's eyes, "I didn't do shit. Call and ask the nigga then. You know what, don't even bother. You didn't even give me a fucking chance before you went back to her".

"I just slept over" Ava lied through her teeth, "you can't be mad, that video looks incriminating as shit"

Even if Ryann wanted to believe Ava, the purple hickies that slept on her neck had given away the truth.

"It doesn't matter. Go back to her. I'll be out of here soon and You can take whatever you want back"

Ava didn't know how to feel. She knew that a part of her was upset at Ryann and she wanted to believe she did her dirty, but for some reason she couldn't convince herself any longer. She knew she was wrong for even entertaining Ayanna.

"Ryann, lets just take a step back. You know that I don't want Ayanna."

"I can't tell. Why wouldn't you come to my place instead of hers? How about that"