Another week had gone by and Kaleah was nothing but happy. She spent so much time working and being with Tyrell that she had forgotten all about Sam. She hadn’t visited her house in weeks—when she needed a new outfit, she was making so much money that she would just go out and buy one. One night, a Saturday, Kaleah and Tyrell stayed up late
together. She got Sundays and Mondays off work, so she always wanted to spend
as much time as she could with Tyrell when she knew she had time off. They went
out into the garden and picked apples—they competed to see who could find the
best one. | They found their apples and compared them before Tyrell
continued. Kaleah won.
“How come you’ve never let me come over to your house?” He finally asked. Kaleah was taken a little aback by the question. “You wouldn’t want to come to my house. It’s so old and boring. You’re place is so much nicer!” Kaleah giggled as she took a big bite from the piece of fruit in her hand. “You actually have no idea how badly I want to go to your house. I want to see…your bed…for once.” He gave Kaleah a seductive smile. |
Kaleah threw her apple to the ground and quickly leaned in
to give Tyrell a kiss. | They pulled up to the empty driveway—Kaleah left her Audi
back at Tyrell’s house. |
Before they reached the porch steps, Tyrell stopped Kaleah
and took her hands. | They started to kiss each other softly, but it wasn’t long until it turned into fiery, passionate intimacy. They walked to the front door, not even bothering to stop kissing. Kaleah pulled away for only a few moments to unlock the door and let Tyrell push her body inside. |
He guided her to the first couch he could see—Sam’s couch. Kaleah didn’t even think twice about it and let Tyrell push her down to kiss her harder. They were all over each other—as if it was the first time they were ever doing this. | Only moments flew by before Kaleah heard the pattering of
running feet coming from the other room. |
Kaleah got up and slowly walked towards Sam. | “Do you not have any
respect for women?” Tyrell continued. “She has her freedom, you know! This is not 1812! If Kaleah wants to make out
with her boyfriend in her own home, than so be it! You seriously have no right
walking in here and deciding that she is in the wrong!” |
“TYRELL!” Kaleah intervened. “Stop it, right now! This is
insane!” | “That’s right, pal. I’m her roommate.” Sam smirked. “Now…I
suggest that you leave my
property before I call the police.” |
Sam scrunched up his nose and lowered his eyebrows, unsure of what had just happened. He had come home to Kaleah—he chose Kaleah—only to find her with somebody else. He shook his head and turned to walk away.
| “You could’ve told me you had a roommate! A male roommate, for that fact!” Tyrell
said once he heard Sam close the backdoor when he left. |
“It’s a really complicated situation! Him and I hated each
other when I first moved in, and then we became like…best friends. Then, out of no where, we both had these crazy
feelings for each other and the day we almost
did something about our feelings, his ex girlfriend who he is still totally in
love with showed up and complicated every thing. We went back to fighting and
then he decided that he was going away for 3 weeks to figure everything out and
now he just got back and I totally had no idea that it has already been 3 weeks
and…and…” Kaleah was basically hyperventilating. Tyrell grabbed her shoulder to
calm her down. | “I’m sorry.” Kaleah could feel a tear running down her
cheek. “Don’t be.” Tyrell smiled. He looked into her eyes as if to comfort her—sooth her—into feeling like everything was really okay.
|
“How can you not be mad at me?” Kaleah asked. Tyrell raised
his hand to hold Kaleah’s face. | Tyrell leaned in and gave her a little kiss. |
When they got to her room, Tyrell instantly went over to Kaleah’s radio and turned it on, only to find the perfect song. It was playing ‘I don’t want to miss a thing’ by Aerosmith. Tyrell slowly made his way to Kaleah’s bed and Kaleah joined him. Almost instantaneously, Tyrell threw his body on top of hers and started kissing her passionately. | They kissed and touched and held each other for nearly an
hour. They were getting pretty into it, until all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
Sam’s face flashed through Kaleah’s mind. It caused her to gasp. |
“Kaleah…” Tyrell pulled away further this time. “Are you
okay?” He was confused, just as Kaleah was. | “What do you mean? We’ve done it plenty of times before?”
Tyrell asked. |
“I’m so sorry. I really hate this…” Kaleah felt like crying
again, but restrained the best that she could. | Tyrell looked Kaleah in the eyes only once before bringing
her towards his body for a hug. “Talk to him tonight.” He said into her ear. “Figure things out and be ready for me tomorrow.” “I will.” Kaleah sighed. “Tyrell…you’re seriously the best guy I have ever known.” Tyrell
laughed. “I’ll be back tomorrow morning by 11 to pick you up so you can go get your car.” He said as he pulled away. “Sweet dreams, my love.”
|
Kaleah watched out the window as her boyfriend walked slowly down the porch steps to his Charger. She felt awful…like she had just broken up with him or something. She knew she was going to see him tomorrow, and everything will still be fine, but there was something eating at her as if he was hiding something. | She walked to the back door and looked out the window. Sam was outside, sitting by the pool. As much as Kaleah needed to talk to him—as much as she wanted to talk to him—she wasn’t ready to face him quite yet. All of her old feelings for him came rushing back in one big gust of wind, causing her to almost feel sick to her stomach. ‘Why!!!’ Kaleah thought to herself. Instead of going out to talk to Sam, she turned around and headed back up to her room, deciding to give things a little more of a chance to cool down. |