Don't Hate the Playa - Mz. Deede (good beach reads .TXT) 📗

just fine, since I’m not with your trifling tail no more,” Breanna said staring Calvin straight in the eyes. Then she turns around to walk away.
“Why I got to be trifling?”
Stopping dead in her tracks, she turns around and goes off on Calvin. “I called you trifling because that’s what you are. For the past year, you’ve cheated on Nicole for me. The entire time you kept saying, ‘I’m gonna break up with her soon’ or ‘I can’t right now. She’s going through a lot.’ You knew what you were doing. You weren’t gonna break up with her at all.
“When I finally realized that, I took matters into my own hands. I made it top priority to break y’all up. Then when you called me a trick and said that I was nothing, you went too far. I called Nicole and told her everything. Believe it or not, she knew the whole time. And when she told me something else, I couldn’t help but to laugh. All I can tell you is you’ll have a great surprise tomorrow at prom.” Breanna walked off with a big smile on her face.
Calvin just stood there looking confused. “What could that girl mean? Nicole might be planning to tell me that she wants me back. I got that girl sprung even though she won’t admit it,” he told himself as he walked to class.


“Hey Mya. I love your dress,” Nicole said as she walked into the gym turned wonderland.
“Hey Nicole. Your dress is cute too. So where’s your date, or did you come alone?”
“I thought you knew me better than that. You know I didn’t come alone. Travis should be here any second. He was parking the car.”
“Travis? Who’s Travis?”
“Travis is the one who gave me this promise ring last year for Valentine’s Day.”
“Hey,” Travis said as he stepped behind Nicole and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.
“H-H-Hey. You must be Travis. I’m … I’m…”
“She’s Mya,” Nicole said helping her disoriented friend out.
“Nicole, can you come with me for just a second?”
“Yeah, Mya. Excuse us, Travis.”
“Girl, where did you find him? How long have you had him? Does he have any brothers or cousins that look like him? Am I dreaming ‘cause he is fine?”
“I found him after one of his football games. I’ve had him for about three years. No, he doesn’t have any brothers, but he has a cousin that looks a lot like him. And, no, you ain’t dreaming. I know he’s fine.”
“Hold on. Why haven’t I heard about Travis before now if you’ve had him for three years?”
“Because you can’t hold ice water. I didn’t want everybody to know my business especially since I was technically still with Calvin.”
“I wouldn’t have told anybody that. So, did he know about Calvin?”
“Yeah, he knew. He understood that I was in an unhappy relationship and I didn’t know how to get out of it. It was worst than anybody knew and he understood that and was patient with me. But honestly, I didn’t really love Calvin; I just liked him. I was just with him because I was expected to be with him. I really do love Travis.”
“Okay, let’s get a little less serious and talk about how Travis is gonna be mine by the end of the night.”
“Yeah, whatever. Come on and let’s get back to the party.”
When Nicole and Mya made it back to Travis, he was talking to Calvin.
“Hey baby. Everything okay?” Travis asked Nicole when she made it behind Calvin.
Calvin turned around to see who he was talking to until he heard a familiar voice say, “Yeah. Everything’s perfect.”
“Travis, Nicole is your girlfriend?” Calvin asked in shock.
“Yeah, why?”
“How long have y’all been together?”
“Three years and one month,” Nicole said wrapping her arm around Travis’s waist with a smile.
All of a sudden Calvin punches Travis in the right jaw. All anyone heard was “bam!” When Travis realized what happened, he punched Calvin four times, once in both eyes, one in the chin, and once in the jaw. That last punch knocked Calvin unconscious. After five minutes, Calvin woke up with his whole face swollen. He stood up surrounded by Travis, Nicole, Mya, and Breanna.
“I told your trifling tail you was gonna get a surprise,” Breanna said with a smile of satisfaction on her face.
He turned and looked at Nicole with sorrow in his eyes and all that came out of his mouth was, “Why? Why, Nicole? Why?”
“Why?! Why did you cheat on me with my best friend when we first hooked up? Why did you cheat on me with the same girl for a year? Why did you think that you can hit me and expect me not to say anything about it? After all the crap you have done, you have the nerve to ask me why.”
“That was different Nicole. I should’ve known something was up when you insisted on not wearing the ring I got you for your birthday. Remember, you said it was too small, but the one your aunt gave you is the same size and you wear it.”
“Well I lied. I really didn’t want to wear that ugly ring, but thanks anyway. And my aunt didn’t give me this. Travis did last year for Valentine’s Day. That’s right. I didn’t want to wear your promise ring because I was already wearing his,” Nicole said flashing the ring in the light so Calvin could see. “And how was it different when you cheated on me?”
“They didn’t mean anything to me. It was just a game to me.”
“Well it looks like I’m better at that game than you ‘cause you got caught and I didn’t.” After that Nicole and Travis walked off hand in hand.
“You can’t cheat on me for over three years and expect me not to be pissed off. Come back her. I’m still talking to you,” Calvin said pleading with her.
“There’s nothing left to talk about. So don’t hate the playa, baby boy, hate the game,” Nicole said over her shoulder.

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Publication Date: 03-06-2012

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