I Know You Can't Speak

20: Lawrence

"What the fuck was that!" I yelled at Mercedes as she followed me back in my house.

"You know exactly what the fuck it was" she said laughing.

"You must really love her huh?" She said as she lit the blunt she had rolled.

"I can't fucking believe you bitch!" I said as I paced back and forth. "So the whole time you wanted to talk to me just to get back at my fiancé? What did she even do to you? I knew I shouldn't have fucked with you!" I told her as I punched a hole in the wall.

"Boy calm down. Ain't nobody make you stick your dick in me you wanted to cus Jas a boring bitch" Mercedes said as she puffed on her L.

"Watch your fucking mouth!" I snapped at her as I continued to pace the floor.

"I ain't watching shit, fuck her!" Mercedes said to me as she walked up to me.

"Back the fuck up.." I told her as she edged closer.

"Oh now it's back up, but before Jas popped out like the fucking FBI your face was between my legs" she said as she laughed. I turned away from her ashamed that she was telling the truth.

"Mercedes just get the fuck out!" I said as my head began to spin and I began to think back to the day when I wish I never met her. I had met Mercedes downtown buying Jas's engagement ring.

"Oh this is a nice selection, somebody must be a really lucky woman" she'd said to me that day.

"No I'm a lucky man" I told her smiling. I pulled my phone out and showed her a picture that me & Jas had just taken. Her eyes grew wide in surprise as she grabbed my phone from me.

"This is your fiancé?" She asked me surprised.

"Yes that's her" I told her as she handed me my phone back.

"Oh wow she's pretty"

"Thank you" I said as I put my phone away. "I'll be getting this ring in a size 6" I told her as I confirmed the ring that I wanted.

"Okay put your number here and I'll call you when it's ready" She told me. So I did thinking nothing of it. She never did. I went back two weeks later and when I walked in her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Oh hey Lawrence I was jus about to call you" She told me as she flashed the ring in my face.

"Wow it's beautiful, she's gonna love it" I told her as I admired the ring.

"I hope she does" Mercedes told me as she totaled me out then walked around the counter.

"I'm so glad it's closing time" she told me as she began to close the blinds.

"Busy today?" I asked her.

"Yeah kind of. I'm leaving out, you mind waiting? I hate leaving out this late alone. It's a bunch of creeps around here" She told me as she walked to the back.

"Yeah sure" I told her, not paying her any attention because I was too focused on the ring. She cut all the lights out as she walked to the front door and locked it, then walked over to me.

"What the-" I said as she put her fingers to me lips.

"I've wanted you since you first walked in here" She told me as she pushed me against the glass counter.

"Excuse me?" I asked her as I looked at her like she was crazy.

"You heard me. I want you. & I always get what I want." She told me seductively as she started trying to unbuckle my pants.

"Bitch if you don't get ya hands off of me!" I snapped at her but she wouldn't let up.

"You're fighting it. Just let it happen she said as she pulled my pants to the ground and gave me some of the best head I had in my life. In a jewelry store. All where I had just purchased me fiancés ring. And now here we were. Mercedes has some how become my weakness. After that day in the jewelry store, I vowed that I would never cheat on Jasmine again. I proposed a few weeks later and put it behind me. Mercedes was so persistent. Even after I told her I had proposed and what was supposed to happen shouldn't have, she still kept calling and texting me. One day while out with my friends, I was telling them how the proposal had went when the bartender came over to us. This young lady at the other end of the bar sent this bottle of Hennessy. She said it's a congrats to the groom to be.

"Who that bro?" My friend Kyle asked me.

"Nobody" I said as I got up and walked over to her.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" I said as I grabbed her from where she was sitting.

"I was about to ask you the same thing" she said as she looked at me seductively. I could tell she was inebriated.

"You stalking me?" I asked her.

"Possibly" She said as she smirked and grabbed my face. "Why you tryna act like you don't miss me?" She said as she moved closer to my face.

"Cus I don't. I don't fucking know you and it ain't shit to miss" I said as I snatched away from her.

"Yes it is. Your girlfriend...I mean fiancé don't suck dick like me." She said confidently. She was right but I didn't want any dealings with her.

"Man whatever. Leave me the fuck alone." I said as I attempted to walk away. She grabbed my arm and pulled me into the bathroom we were near and some how, my dick ended up
In her mouth and inside her this time. I felt so ashamed when I was done. One because I had cheated again and two because I had no intentions on stopping now. Mercedes was a spice in my life I didn't know I was missing. Everytime I cheated and lied to Jas, I felt horrible inside and now it had cost me my relationship.

"Mercedes get the fuck out!" I snapped at her. Suddenly snapping back to my train of thought.

"Will do" She told me as she grabbed her coat. "You'll be back. Just make sure you tell Jasmine that I said.. now we're even" She said as she laughed then walked out of my door. I must've called Jas a million times after she left. With no luck in getting through to her, I hopped in my car and drove to her house. Seeing that her care as outside, I jumped out and knocked on her door. Within seconds Deja answered.

"What did you do to my sister?" She asked with her arms folded, her baby in her arms.

"Where is she?" I asked ignoring her question.

"She's in her room and she's very upset. She won't talk to me. What happened?" She answered me looking at me with her eyebrow raised.

"Well can I come in? I need to talk to her."

"No he can't come in! He's a fucking cheater and a liar!" Jasmine screamed as she came from around the corner. She must have overheard me at the door. Her eyes were bloodshot red from crying and seeing her like that broke me down inside.

"Jasmine I'm sorry! Please let me just talk to you!" I pleaded.

"There's nothing to talk about Lawrence" She said as she walked up and closed the door in my face. Walking back to my car I had a look of defeat as I realized that I had failed Jas. I had let her down and broken my word. Something I had always vowed to never do. Driving home. I knew I had to fix things and make them right and that started with leaving Mercedes alone.