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I could still hear Ethiopia talking as they walked away.
     
    "Wait until I tell Sparkle about this!" I was so glad that they were gone. They were annoying the hell out of me although they did manage to ignore my presence all together.
    I looked over at Morris and he was smiling hard.
     
    "I know you ain’t take that as no compliment or positive thing, right?"
     
    "Babe, just let me have my moment," he laughed. "I am getting recognized now."
     
    "Yeah, basically for cheating on me." I don't know where that bitter statement came from. It just slipped out of my mouth. I was over the thing he had with Lailiana… or at least that is what I wanted him to think. I still didn't trust that they could be left alone in a room together without proper adult supervision. And when I say proper adult supervision, I mean me sitting next to them with a zoom lens and a gun.
     
    "You said that…"
     
    "I know. I am so sorry," I cut him off to apologize. "Please forgive me. I didn't mean to start nothing." Morris nodded but didn't verbally reply. I knew I would hear his frustrations later.
     
    As we continued to stand there, Breion called my cell phone. Breion and I chilled a lot. He was such a terrific guy. We could talk for hours about any and everything. He was a great conversationalist. I swear that I learned something new every day. Breion was both intelligent and insightful. I even felt comfortable telling him all about the details of my relationship with Morris. Breion would sit there and listen to me vent or gush over Morris and would not get mad or jealous. There is still some attraction between us, but we are just cool. However, Morris doesn't know all about that. I am no fool. Breion's name is saved as Larenz in my phone and his ringer definitely is not one of his own songs. I was not trying to get caught up in an argument with Morris especially when nothing wrong is going down.
     
    I ignored the call, but I soon got a text message. I looked and it was from Breion.
     
    "I need to talk to you tonight. It’s important. Meet at my place?"
     
    I replied back that I would be there if I could. Being that me and Morris lived together, sneaking out without telling him where I was going would be hard. I couldn't say that I was going to chill with Curtis because that lie would unfold if Morris talked to Jay. I would have to think of something. This had to be something major. I would have my lie planned by dessert.
     
    Chapter 14
     
    I tried so hard to find a good way to sneak out of the house that night. I racked my mind thinking of what I could say to Morris to excuse myself from his side. However, since he knew as well as I did that this time before the movie's media blitz was very precious, he was not going to let me go nowhere. I knew what he would say to all of my planned lies.
     
    For instance, I couldn't say that I needed to go to the store because he would insist on going with me. If I said I was going to chill with Curtis, he would have tagged along too and said that he and Jay could hang with us. If I made up a friend that I said I was going to hang with, he would have ten thousand questions to ask me. Basically, I seemed screwed. So in a final act of desperation, I did what any man would do in my position. I made hot, passionate love to him until he fell into a deep peaceful sleep and then I sneaked out. But since Breion lived on the other side of town, I asked for us to meet at a central place so that I could get back to Morris if he called to see where I was at. He agreed to just come pick me up and said we could just ride around in his car for a minute.
     
    I was really anxious to know what was going on with him. What big talk did we need to have that would cause me to stoop to such sneaky ways to come to see him?
     
    That night Breion laid all his cards on the proverbial table with me. He confessed how much he really did care for me. I knew that he felt a certain way about me. Truth be told, I kinda liked him too.