Wicked Love 3 (Kyle Kuzma)

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Thursday, May 6th, 2021

Kyle 🏀

I sat on the couch, scrolling through Instagram and Twitter. There wasn't much to see, except for the fact that my girlfriend is killing the IG game. As soon as I lock my phone, Winnie plops herself down onto the spot next to me on the couch.

"What's up girl?" I say.

"Nothing much. Just missed seeing your face for the last few minutes." She grinned.

I smile as she kisses me. I wrap my right arm around her as she curls into my side.

"We should go somewhere for dinner tonight, to give Paul a break." I suggest, rubbing her arm. Paul is my personal chef.

"Okay." She replies, looking up at me.

I kiss her nose and she stands up from her spot, running up the stairs to get herself ready. Over the past few weeks, I've been back and forth with my thoughts and feelings. Ariana hasn't really made any efforts to talk to me, like at all. I haven't really seen her as much either.

When I do see her, it's on Instagram, but she barely posts on there anymore. And she damn sure doesn't post on Twitter. The last time I saw her was when I bought Violet to my house after the Baseball game. Then when I bought her back home, Ari barely said two words to me.

I suggested that we get together for lunch or dinner sometime, but she completely blew me off using her music as an excuse. At this point, I don't even know if I should try anymore. I mean, as you can see, I haven't been trying that much at all lately. She's changed man, like a lot. But I guess she doesn't have much of a choice when she's raising a kid.

I soon find myself getting into the shower to get ready for this date with Winnie. She's been very supportive as of late. Hasn't mentioned much about Ariana or Violet, which is odd because she'll usually ask about Violet and how she's doing. To be honest, I hardly know for myself how my baby girl is doing. And with the way Ariana is working, I should be a little worried. But I'm not because I know Ariana is a great mom to our little girl and I do get to see her enough.

I dress myself in a black Puma tee, dark jeans and white Pumas. I had my gold chain around my neck. Of course I was rocking the matching bracelet around my wrist, and my diamond earrings.

"If we weren't going on a date right now, I would totally-"

"Hold on a second." I cut her off, chuckling.

She been talking reckless a lot lately. Now don't get me wrong, the sex is bomb...but I don't think I'm ready for that conversation. Like really, I just slept with my baby mama not too long ago and she's acting like it never happened.

Did I miss something? Did something happen between them?

"Kyle." She whines. "I'm horny and you haven't touched me in weeks."

"I know baby, I'm sorry." I frown and wrap my arms around her shoulders, kissing the back of her head. "I'm sorry."

She huffs out a breath and I release my grip.

"If it helps, we can have sex when we get back." I exclaim, watching her grab whatever else she needed.

On her way out of the room, she just looks at me and blinks. I purse my lips and raise my eyebrows in expectancy. After that, I follow her out the door and into my Range.

*****

"I'll take the shrimp scampi over white rice, with a side of string beans." Winnie ordered.

The waiter wrote down what she wanted, then looked to me.

"I'll have a steak, well done, with broccoli and yellow rice." I close my menu.

He nods and collects our menus. When he leaves, I take a sip of my wine. Winnie takes a sip of her water.

I lick the wine residue off my lip. "What's with the water tonight?"

"I figure because my period starts soon, I should start to get a leg up on the water diet." She replies.

I shiver. "Periods."

"You wouldn't understand because you're a guy." She teased.

"Oh trust me, I do understand. Ariana's periods used to be the worst." I notice a slight shift in her mood and immediately change the subject. "But anyway, how's the modeling going?"

She shrugs. "I guess it's okay."

"You guess?" I ask, sitting back on my side of the booth. "That's not a valid enough answer."

"It is when you don't know how to answer it." She replied.

Yup, her period is definitely coming. She is hella moody.

"What's the matter?" I ask, even though I already know what it is.

"You seem bored." She said.

Oh. That is not the answer I was expecting...at all. "Umm..."

"Is it because of me?" She asked.

"Is what because of you?" I respond.

"That you're not...satisfied." She frowns. "You don't have to lie, I already know what the answer is."

I look straight at her, contemplating my next words. I know I have to walk on a thin wire around her when she's PMSing.

"Winnie, I-"

I cut myself off because I literally do not know what to say to that. So she keeps speaking.

"I just...wish you weren't so caught up on her the way you are." I don't say anything. "I can't force you to love me Kyle, but can you at least act like you give a damn?"

I furrow my eyebrows. "Where is this coming from? Why are you acting like this?"

"Because I want what you two once had." She stressed. "I want to be showered in a million kisses unexpectedly and taken to new highs."

"I shower you with kisses." I argue. "I baby you the same way I babied her."

"Yet it feels so artificial." She says. "It feels like it's tainted because I'm not her. I'm not the one you want."

"You are the one I want Winnie."

"No, I'm not." She said. "You want Ariana, not me."

"We're not doing this right now." I sigh.

"We can't continue to pretend like this relationship isn't one sided Kyle, because it is." She ignores my previous comment. "Everything about this relationship is wrong."

"How Winnie? How?" I stress. "Because I don't treat you the same way I treated her? I don't see much of a difference."

"I do, Kyle." She frowns. "And if you can't see that, I don't know how else to make you see."

This was supposed to be a nice date between the two of us where we just eat and talk about our jobs. I didn't expect for it to take a turn for the worse.

"What do you want me to do then? Hmm? Because clearly, I don't know how to love correctly." I say.

"I didn't say you don't know how to love correctly-"

"Then what are you saying Winnie?" I cut her off.

"I'm just saying that I'd really appreciate it if-"

"I could love you the same way I loved my ex? I could flip your world upside down?" I ask. "I could give you a baby and we co-parent?"

Her eyes widen in horror and she shakes her head.

"I just want you to get over her Kyle." She said. "That's all I'm asking of you."

I wish I was hearing her correctly, and unfortunately I am. Maybe she doesn't understand the concept of what 'love is a battlefield' is, and if not, somebody gone have to tell her. Because I can't. Not right now.

Everyone's love is different, she just doesn't understand that.