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“Thank you,” I said after accepting the glass.
The doorbell rang.
“That’s our food. I ordered it while I was waiting for you at the hotel,” he said as he walked to the door.
He took the food from the delivery person and closed the door.
“Come on in the kitchen and fix your tacos,” he instructed.
“Tacos? You remembered I love tacos?”
“How could I forget, Kiki? We ate them all the time in college.”
“Yeah, before…” I stopped talking to take the containers out of the bags.
“Before what? Before you quit me?” he asked.
“Oh, is that your version of it?” I lifted one eyebrow.
“It’s the only version,” he returned.
I finished creating my taco masterpieces with the chicken, beef, and pork he’d ordered along with various toppings. I pulled out the stool at the island in the kitchen.
“Have you spoken to Kerem today?” he asked.
“Nope. Have you spoken to your wife?”
“I don’t have a wife,” he leisurely responded.
I was swallowing when he responded and sucked some food down the wrong pipe or whatever happened that caused me to choke. I reached for my glass of wine and took a gulp to free my windpipe.
“You okay? Do you need some water?” he asked, coming to my aid.
“No,” I coughed a little more. “I’m good. What do you mean you don’t have a wife?”
“Tretina and I aren’t married. We are together, loosely, but we’ve never been married.”
“That’s news to me! I thought you asked her to marry you after college. That’s what I heard anyway. What about the baby?”
“Baby? What, baby?”
“She…I thought she was pregnant when we graduated?”
“Not that I was ever aware of. She’s been on birth control since she was twelve or something like that. We talked about having a baby, but the doctor said it may be a little difficult because she’s been using contraceptives for so long. That was before… Why did you stop talking to me Keeva? I thought we were family then one day you just stopped responding to me. I stood in the atrium on campus one day and watched you decline my phone call. I had some shit going on, and you dismissed me.”
“Kenny, I didn’t dismiss you. I…I loved you like my blood brother but…”
“But, what?” He asked.
“Alright look, Tretina came to me more than once saying that she had a problem with our relationship.”
His thick black eyebrows met in the middle of his face, but he didn’t speak.
“At first, I ignored her because I was in your life first. We weren’t fucking, sucking or doing anything other than being each other’s friend, so I blew her off. She had a problem when I would pop up at your room or if she found us in the student union together. I never told you because I didn’t want you to feel trapped in the middle, and I felt like I could handle her. Then she told me that she was pregnant and she wanted a life with you. I figured that if I loved you the way I’d proclaimed for years, then I could give you the space to be happy. So, I stepped back.”
“I didn’t ask you for space. Why would you destroy what we had to appease her?”
“You told me that you loved her. Out of all the chicks you’d screwed since I’d known you, she was the first one that you said you loved. I didn’t want to be the reason why you didn’t find your happiness.”
