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“I know you haven’t, but has he?”
I didn’t know the answer to that. I unfollowed him on social media and didn’t stalk him. Even on my worst days, I’d never check to see what he was doing. Common sense says that anything I saw on his pages would make my thoughts spiral. If there were women in his pictures, were they my replacement? Was he sleeping with any of them?
I didn’t want to be that girl. I knew I cared about the answers to those questions.Because I still love him wholeheartedly.I shook my head to ward off the thought. It was true, but I didn’t need to say or think that shit.
“I don’t know,” I whispered.
“We can either look him up, so you can see the truth and move on, or… We can fuck again. There’s also the option of getting pizza, playing video games, and then fucking after.”
“David, I–”
He kissed me, short-circuiting my thoughts. Well, now. I didn’t notice before, but he was extremely talented with his mouth. His tongue grazed mine, his hand circled my throat, and he controlled the kiss like a fucking beast. I wanted to feel his mouth do other things, too.
“Let’s fuck, David. Then we can do all that other stuff and fuck again.” I whispered against his lips.
“Say no more.”
This time, when we had sex, I wasn’t thinking about Seven. This time, I was only focused on David.
SEVEN
“Coffee with cream, please.” I smiled at the cashier for a few reasons. One, she was nice. Two, the guy before me was a jerk. Then three, Tina was about to place her coffee order and every time she ran off the grocery list of customizations, it made me twinge.
I turned to look for a table when I heard her get to the light foam and four ice cubes part. That’s when I saw Corinne having coffee with some basketball-type dude. Tall, freshly shaped up, low-cut beard, and some fresh J’s on his feet. He had money and wore that shit on his sleeve like nobody was bold enough to steal it off his ass. Flossin’ for no reason at all. I sucked my teeth, ready to let my fist connect with his face. He wasn’t worthy of her attention. A woman as bold as Corinne needed somebody who wasn’t afraid to fight for her. He wasn’t that dude. Neither was I, or we’d still be together. I fucked that up in aces.
“Seven?” Tina tugged on my arm and I hesitantly looked her way.
“Yeah?”
“Ready?”
“I don’t want to stay here. How about we go to the bookstore next door or something?” I didn’t even wait for her to respond. I just started walking in that direction.
Outside, I could breathe again. Cool air refreshed my system to focus on the present and not the past. When I looked in the window, it was the perfect view of Corinne. Her hair was in those deep waves that I loved, and she wasn’t wearing too much makeup. She never did, unlike Tina. Tina woke up flawlessly covered in makeup, ready for the day. Or at least that’s how it always seemed to me. I hated girls like that. I preferred natural beauty that didn’t get smudged or messed up when you went in for a kiss. Women like Corinne.
“I thought we were going to the bookstore?”
I took one last long look at Corinne before I turned in the opposite direction to go to the bookstore. Once inside, I went directly to the new release station. Tina was probably checking out the beauty section where I usually found her in here. I needed the distance because I completely focused my mind on how good Corinne looked and how much I missed her.
Our breakup had been sudden, but tough on me. I’d tried to call and text her a few weeks later, but she’d blocked me. I was angry and hurt that she’d done it. Later, I understood. If the reason she broke up with me was as she said it was, then I’d hurt her beyond repair and there was no real reason to save what we’d built.
She thought that she was second best and I couldn’t understand how. Corinne was my world. I’d slay every damn dragon to get to her and starve off every demon just to hear her voice. How had I not been enough for her? Done as much as possible to show her that?
“Sev, I forgot my danish. I’ll be right back.” Tina turned perfectly in her red bottom black leather heels as if she were working the room like it was a runway.
“Can’t have the princess upset.” I mumbled.
I exhaled loudly, not sure why today Tina seemed to grate on my nerves. It could be because she’s had one too many emergencies this week, and it was only Tuesday. I canceled two dates because she’d screamed emergency for shit that could have waited. With null plans, I helped her figure out her dilemma, but I was feeling smothered as fuck lately.
“Seven?” Corinne’s voice threw me, making me drop the book I was holding. “Easy… books are our friends.” She joked.
“Yeah…” I picked up the book and placed it back on the shelf. “How’ve you been?”
“Good. How about yourself?” She was eating a glazed donut that was so pretty. Even I wanted to take a bite of it. She was holding a large coffee cup in her hand and it made me chuckle.
“I’m good, but you’re not fooling anybody. I know that’s warm milk disguised as coffee in that cup.”
“It’s so good, though. Warm milk, glazed donut? Who doesn’t like that combo?”
