|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 10, 2004 22:21:12 GMT -5
[glow=red,1,200]You took me by surprise/And lit up my eyes/Like a child with a brand new toy/I never had so much inspiration/Now my songs are filled with joy[/glow] Well after a year of being apart from Marques while he opened up for various acts both here in the states and Europe, he was back home tonight for his last show here in Cloverdale, California. Earlier in the day, he sent a limo to pick me up along with Tamirah and Sylvia who were both excited that they were going to finally be able to see Jerome and Kelton. But they could never be as excited as I am right now to see my baby! However, because of the heavy traffic due to the July 4th weekend, we ended up getting to the show late. But we made it just in time to go backstage to see Marques performing onstage to a very receptive crowd. I’m so proud of him that I don’t know what to do! Anyway, the three of us also noticed Jerome and Kelton in their usual places playing the keyboards and drums along with the other numerous members of the live band. “Awwwwwwwwwww, look at my boo!”, Tamirah giggled while watching Jerome. Sylvia and I both began to laugh until she spotted Kelton. “He is soooo cute! I can’t wait until he gets back here!”, she grinned. “Now here you go!”, I sighed with a roll of my eyes. “Anyway!”, she laughed while shaking her head. While watching Marques, the three of us chatted amongst ourselves until he did the unbelievable near the end of his show. After thanking everyone for showing their support for him and his CD, he stated that he was gonna close with his new single that he wanted to share with someone special in his life. The next thing I knew, he was quickly heading in my direction with a sly smile on his face. Once he reached me, he took a hold of my hand. “Marques! Are you serious?! You want me to come out there in front of all of those people?!”, I anxiously asked with widened eyes. “Yeah! I gotta show off my girl!”, he winked while chuckling. “C’mon.” “Yeah, girl! Gone out there!!!”, Sylvia laughed while pushing me forward. “Stop!”, I snapped while glaring at her from over my shoulder. “You ol’ chicken!”, she teased. “I’ll be that!”, I huffed. “C’mon, ma. I got a surprise for you.”, he smiled while gently pulling on my hand to bring me out onstage with him. I took a deep sigh and walked out in the middle of the huge stage on shaky legs before sitting down in a chair that someone had placed onstage especially for me. Several seconds later, the lights dimmed and Marques knelt down in front of me while taking my hand. He then proceeded to sing “Smile” to me which, of course, made me smile while also blushing. It’s things like this that make me love this man so much! Anyway, once he finished singing, I watched him as he went into the pocket of his jeans for something. When he opened his hand up, there sitting in it was a small black velvet box. “Kyra, you have made me smile from the first day we met even though it wasn’t the first best meetin’ in the world.”, he chuckled while staring into my eyes. “But I wanna know if you’ll continue to make me smile forever by sayin’ that you’ll be my wife?” “Is he doin’ what I think he’s doin’?!”, Sylvia happily asked as she and Tamirah stared at us. “Yeah, girl! I think so!” “Oh snap!!! My baby sis about to get hitched!!!” Meanwhile, back onstage, I stared deep into Marques’ eyes while trying to open my mouth to tell him that I would marry him, but because I was so overwhelmed with emotions, I simply nodded my head. He leaned forward and shared a lingering kiss with me before facing the audience. “She said yeah, yall!”, he grinned. I heard yells, applause, and screams surrounding us and I began to laugh. He quickly took a hold of my hand and we left off the stage after he waved goodbye to the crowd! |
|
|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 10, 2004 22:22:35 GMT -5
“My baby, my baby!”, Sylvia grinned while holding her arms out to me. I couldn’t help from laughing as we shared an embrace because she sounded exactly how momma probably would’ve sounded.
“Congratulations you two!”, Tamirah grinned while sharing a hug with me and Marques next before quickly running over to Jerome who had just walked backstage to join us.
“W’sup, ma!”, he grinned as he and Tamirah ran into each other’s arms. They proceeded to share a passionate kiss.
“Ol’ nasty buzzards!”, Sylvia joked while we watched them. “Oooh, there goes my Kelt!”, she grinned when she saw him heading towards us. I noticed an anxious look that came over Marques’ face.
“What is it?”, I asked with a puzzled expression.
“Nothin’.”, he quickly replied.
Sylvia was almost in front of Kelton when a female rushed by her. Sylvia immediately stopped in her tracks when she saw ol’ girl and Kelton hug and kiss one another. But she wasn’t the only one who stared in disbelief; I also stood frozen while watching them as well as Tamirah who had a shocked look on her face.
“Who the hell is she?!”, I whispered to Marques. However, he didn’t say anything as he was at a loss for words.
“Tell me this much…did you know about this?!”, I asked while turning to face him; and still he wouldn’t answer me. That’s when I snatched my hand out of his with a look of disgust on my face.
In the meantime, Kelton sheepishly spoke to Sylvia who was as still as a statue while keeping her eyes focused on him.
“Hey, Sylvia. It’s good to see you.” When he tried to reach out to hug her, out of reflex, she backed away.
“Sweetie, is this the Sylvia you’ve been tellin’ me about?”, the female that was about to be in question asked while grabbing up to his arm.
“Yeah.”, he faintly replied while nodding his head.
“Hi, it’s nice to meet you! Kelt has told me so many nice things about you. I’m his fiancé and Marques’ stylist, Connie.”, she grinned while extending her hand to shake Sylvia’s.
“Fiance?!!!”, Tamirah and I shouted at the same time while glaring at Kelton. However, Sylvia stayed silent while giving Connie a weak handshake in return.
“Yeah, we became engaged last weekend!”, Connie happily replied while showing off the rock on her finger that Kelton had gave to her.
Sylvia turned around and all but ran out the side exit with me and Tamirah following behind her.
“I’ll be back in a minute.”, Kelton told Connie before joining us outside.
“How could he do this?! We’ve been talkin’ on the phone almost every damn day for the past year! You sure yall didn’t know anything?!”, Sylvia angrily asked while glaring back and forth at me and Tamirah.
“I swear I didn’t! But that’s aight, ‘cause I’m ‘bout to have it out with Marques!”, I snapped.
“Well surely YOU knew somethin’!”, Sylvia huffed while glancing over at Tamirah. “I mean you two are as close as brotha and sista!”
“So the hell what?! That don’t mean shit! Don’t be gettin’ all salty with me about it!”, Tamirah snapped. “When I say I didn’t know then dammit that’s what I mean!”
“Whateva!”, Sylvia sighed as she turned to walk away.
“What the hell do you want?!”, I snapped when Kelton ran up next to us.
“Look yall, I know that looked bad back there, but I wanted to wait to tell all of yall in person; especially you, Sylvia.”, he heavily sighed while watching her. She immediately turned around in her tracks to glare at him.
“Bullshit!”, she spat. “I can’t believe that as a friend you could do somethin’ like this to me!”
“That’s fo’ damn sure! Kelt what’s wrong with you, man?!”, Tamirah huffed while shoving him on the shoulder. It was obvious that we were all beginning to make a scene in front of the security staff. One of them came over to see if everything was okay.
“Yeah, it’s coo’.”, Kelton replied with a nod of his head. By this time, Marques and Jerome had made their way outside to see what was going on.
“Your boy has been foul with my sis! And you and Rome have been foul with me and Mirah! That’s what’s goin’ on!”, I snapped at him before stomping down the steps to follow Sylvia who was on her way over to the limo that had brought us to the forum.
“Hol’ up, Kyra!”, Marques yelled while grabbing my hand to stop me. In the meantime, Kelton made his way over to the limo and climbed inside before Sylvia had the chance to slam the door shut.
“What is it Marques?!”, I huffed while purposely not looking at him.
“I wanted to tell you about my boy’s situation, but he begged me and Rome not to say anything. He wanted to be the one to break the news to Sylvia.”
“But still…”, I sighed as I turned my head to look at him. “She’s been through enough juss for him to go and pull some shit like this on her!”
“I know, but as his boys, we had to respect his wishes to keep quiet about it. For now, let’s juss let him and Sylvia work it out.”
I wasn’t happy about what was going on, but Marques was right.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 10, 2004 22:24:05 GMT -5
“So what you’re basically tellin’ me is that for the past six months you and CONNIE been kickin’ it.”, Sylvia sighed with a roll of her eyes.
“Yeah, somethin’ like that.”, Kelton mumbled.
“And between then and now, you couldn’t tell me shit, huh?”
“I wanted to, but I didn’t know how.”
“But you knew how to lead me on all of this time. You’re no different than the otha niggas I’ve run across.”
At this point, Kelton didn’t know anything else to say except he was sorry.
“You right about that.”, she snapped while looking at the crowd through the tinted window.
“Sylvia, it’s juss that I was lonely bein’ out on the road for so long and well…one thing led to anotha and before I knew it, it juss happened between me and Connie. She reminded me so much of you that…”, he stated before Sylvia cut him off.
“Okay, you know what? I’ma stop you right here before I do the unthinkable. It was nice bein’ your FRIEND while it lasted. Goodbye.”, she sniffed while feeling her eyes watering up with angry and sad tears. She turned away from the window and looked straight ahead.
“But Sylvia…I didn’t mean to hurt you like this.”, he sighed.
“Okay, what part of goodbye, do you not undastand?”,
Kelton sat motionless for a moment while looking at her. “Bye.”, he whispered as he opened the door and climbed out.
Several seconds later, Tamirah and I were climbing in the limo to join her. I noticed how she immediately wiped away at her tears as she slid over to make room for me to sit down next to her. Tamirah sat down in the chair across from us.
“You okay, girl?”, I asked while throwing my arm around her shoulder.
“Yeah, I’m straight, Mrs. Houston.”, she lightly chuckled.
“Anyway…if you want, Mirah and I will keep you company back at the hotel instead of goin’ to the party.”, I smiled before placing a soft kiss on her cheek and smoothing her hair back away from her face.
“Nah, yall don’t have to do that on my account. Besides, maybe the party will do me some good.”, she smiled while looking from me to Tamirah.
“You sure?”, Tamirah asked.
“Yup. And I’m sorry for goin’ off like I did.”, she sighed.
“It’s coo’!”, Tamirah smiled as she took a seat next to the one that we were seated in. “And I’m sorry for how things went down between you and that dumb-ass cousin of mine!”
All three of us began to laugh although Sylvia was laughing the hardest.
“Thanks. I needed that.”, she giggled before we all shared a big group hug.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Several hours later after Marques and I went to his hotel room for the night, I went into the bathroom to get ready for bed while he chatted on the phone with his manager for a few minutes.
Once I was done with my shower, I dressed in my cute pink and black Victoria’s Secret gown that I had brought along to model for him. But while standing in front of the mirror running my fingers through my hair, my mind drifted off to wondering how Sylvia was holding up.
Back at the party after bumping into our recently divorced cousin Lydia that Sylvia has always been very close to since they were around the same age, she told me that instead of staying alone in her hotel room, she was going to stay overnight at Lydia’s house since she only lived a few miles away.
While continuing to wonder about her, I looked down at my engagement ring. Ever so lightly rubbing one of my fingertips of my other hand across the 4 carat diamond set in rubies, I began to feel guilt, but I didn’t know why.
“What’s wrong?”, Marques asked as he wrapped his arms around me from behind. I was so deep in thought that I jumped at the sound of his voice.
“Ummmm…I was juss wonderin’ if Sylvia was okay. I think I’ll call her right quick to see how she’s doin’.”, I faintly smiled while looking at our reflections in the mirror.
“Aight…I should be done with my shower by the time you’re off the phone.”, he stated before leaning forward to plant a light peck on my cheek.
“Okay.” But before stepping out of his embrace, I turned around and wrapped my arms around his neck to share a kiss with him. “Thanks for makin’ me the happiest girl in the world.”
“That’s my job, boo.”, he chuckled before placing a playful kiss on my nose.
Once I was lying down across the bed, I picked up the phone from the nightstand to call Sylvia up.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 10, 2004 22:26:15 GMT -5
“…This is no new phenomenon/This always has been goin’ on/When some punk bitch just does you wrong/And she keeps goin’ on and on/This is no new phenomenon/This has been goin’ on and on/When the relationship is goin’ wrong/And you just wanna fuck it/GET EVEN/I’m a survivor/I’m gettin’ older and wiser/Won’t let no/Nothin’ can change my mind/I’m a survivor/I’m gettin’ older and wiser/And nothin’ can change my mind/I’m gonna vent now/Ooh ooh ooh/Don’t’chu hate when you lose your man to a chick/Oooh ooh/And she does it in your face to make sure you feel it/Ooh ooh ooh/So the story draws out like some long-ass skit/Oooh ooh/And bitch you know that I like to GET EVEN …!”, Sylvia angrily sang off-key along with Kelis’ “Get Even” from the stereo into her nearly empty bottle of Alize while standing on one of Lydia’s armchairs as she bounced up and down.
It’s almost to the point of being weird how much she and Lydia are alike because they both love to listen to Kelis whenever they’re angry.
Anyway, in the meantime, Lydia was lying down on the sofa bobbing her head from side-to-side with her eyes closed and a big grin on her face while nursing her own bottle of Alize. Several seconds later, she heard Alicia Key’s “You Don‘t Know My Name” ringer playing from inside Sylvia’s purse that was on the floor next to her. Without thinking twice about it, she reached into it and pulled the phone out as Sylvia kept singing and clumsily swaying from side-to-side.
“Yello!”, Lydia answered after putting the phone up to her ear.
“Sylvia?! Is this you?!”, I angrily asked after hearing a drunken female voice. But I also noticed a loud, raspy and angry off-key singing voice in the background.
“Nah. Who dis?!”
“This is Kyra!”
“Ohhhhhhhhhhh…w’sup, lil’ cuz! Dis Lydia! How ya doin’?!”
“Betta than yall seem to be right now! Put Sylvia on the phone please!”, I snapped. I knew my sister was feeling bad, but I didn’t think it would get back to the point of her drinking again. She had been clean and sober for over five years now and I’m not about to let her go back to her old ways of dealing with pains and disappointments in her life by taking drinks here and there.
“Hey, you! Get the phone!”, Lydia huffed while slowly waving it around in the air to get her attention.
“Who dat is? Denzel?”, Sylvia laughed while climbing down off the chair. Just as her foot was about to step on the floor, she lost her balance and fell face-first which caused both her and Lydia to fall out laughing before Lydia noticed that Sylvia had dropped her bottle causing some of her drink to pour out onto the light beige carpet.
“Look what you did! Yo’ ass gon’ pay me to get it cleaned!!! Now get your crazy ass ova here! Cousin Kee-Kee wanna speak to you!”
“Oh…my baby!”, Sylvia cooed as she crawled over to Lydia and took the phone from her. “Hel-loooooo baby sis!”
“Sylvia! Why are you drunk?!”, I snapped.
“I’m not drunk…I’m juss a lil’ tipsy!”, she giggled.
“Now err’body in the club get tipsy! Err’body in the club get tipsy!”, Lydia shouted in the background.
“Don’t that nigga remind you of an ugly ass Popeye or somethin’?!”, Sylvia laughed while glancing over at her.
“I’ono what he remind me of…all I know is that the muphucca is straight butt-booty ugly!!!”, Lydia laughed back.
“Sylvia!!! This isn’t a time to joke!”, I huffed.
“It is too! I’m tired of always feelin’ bad…from now on, it’s gonna be my duty to make niggas feel bad before they do it to me first! I’ma start lookin’ out for number one, shoooo’! Oops…I gotta go pee, so I’ll talk to ya lata. Bye, Boop!”
And like that, she ended our call.
A few minutes later, Marques rejoined me in the room.
“Hey, sweetie. Is everything okay with Sylvia?”, he asked as he laid down next to me and pulled me in his arms.
“Otha than bein’ drunk?”, I sighed as I laid my head on his chest.
“Damn! Well do you wanna go see about her? I can get our driver to take us out to check on her.”, he replied with a look of concern on his face while looking down into mine.
“Nah, that’s okay. We can go in the morning as planned. For now I just want you to hold me.” He proceeded to plant a soft kiss on top of my head and rubbed my back until I fell asleep.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 10, 2004 22:28:42 GMT -5
Around noon the next day, Sylvia woke up in bed with a horrible hangover. As soon as she went to sit up, she grabbed her forehead.
“I CANNOT do that anymore!”, she thought to herself as she slowly climbed out of bed. She noticed that she still had on her dress from the night before.
After gathering a t-shirt and a pair of sweatshorts from her bag, she was about to make her way down the hall to the bathroom, but she heard Lydia singing along with the radio from the kitchen. She decided to go see how she was doing first.
“Hey’, lil’ cuz. You aight?”, Lydia chuckled when she looked up from wiping off one of countertops.
“Yeah.”, Sylvia smirked. “What’s that noise?”
“Oh, the carpet cleaner’s settin’ up the machine in the den to get the stain up from the carpet.”
“Oh yeah…my bad. Whateva it costs, I’ma pay for it.”, Sylvia sheepishly replied.
“It’s aight, girl. Accidents happen. Don’t worry about it.”, Lydia warmly smiled.
“Nah, I insist. But first I’ma go take a shower and freshen up.” Sylvia was about to turn around to head back down the hall, but she hesitated. “Hey, is the carpet cleaner cute?”
“Now here you go!”, Lydia laughed with a roll of her eyes. “But yeah, he is a cutie.”
“Hmmmmm…did you see a rang or anythang on his finger?”
“Nope…already checked, silly! But I used my slick approach anyway by sayin’ that he must come in handy for himself and his wife’s carpet and he said he didn’t have a wife. So then I said that his girlfriend must enjoy reapin’ the benefits of havin’ a carpet cleaner as her man and he said he didn’t have a girl. Cuz, I’m tellin’ ya…if I wasn’t juss gettin’ ova some stuff in my life, I’d definitely holla at him, but I’ma lay low for a while. Maybe I need to go in there and tell him I have a cousin that would be good for him.”, Lydia playfully grinned.
“Nah, I was juss wonderin’ that’s all.”, Sylvia giggled with a shrug of her shoulders. “Lemme gone and take my shower.”
“Okay. Oh, did you want me to fix you anything to eat?”
“No thanks. I’ll make myself a bowl of cereal or somethin’ when I come out.”
“Aight.”
Several minutes later after returning to the kitchen to grab a glass of water since she ended up not really having an appetite at the moment, Sylvia quietly headed towards the den to sneak a peek at the carpet cleaner. When she stuck her head inside the doorway, she was in for the shock of her life. She was about to turn and leave, but the two of them made eye contact before she could do so.
“Sylvia?”, Jarell smiled as he turned the machine off.
She responded by loudly sucking her teeth and rolling her eyes. “Don’t mind me…I was juss lookin’ for my cousin. She must be in the back.”
“Actually, I think she’s still outside. She went to check her mailbox I think. So how have you been?” By this time he was heading in her direction.
“Like you care.”, she snapped as she turned around and walked over to the kitchen.
“I do.”, he sighed as he followed behind her.
“Whateva. Look, why don’t’chu get back in there to the carpet and finish your job?”
“I’m almost done, plus you forget that I’m the owner of the company now so who’s gonna report me?”, he joked.
“You’re the owner, yet you’re the one that’s here doin’ the hard labor. Yeah, makes sense to me.”, she sighed as she took a seat at the kitchen table.
“That’s only because all of my workers are out of town for the holiday and bein’ the thoughtful person that I am, I’m stickin’ around for any weekend emergencies.”, he grinned as he sat down across from her.
“That grin isn’t gonna work this time!”, she huffed when he kept looking at her while wearing it.
“Not even after a year?”, he chuckled.
“No.”, she faintly smiled while making sure not to look at him anymore.
“So are you livin’ out here now?”
“No, I’m just in town for the holiday.”
“Oh.”
“Well, bye.”, she stated as she stood up from the table to head over to the living room to read the newspaper until he was done in the den. She heard Jarell’s chair loudly scrape against the floor as he stood up. Before she knew what was happening, he grabbed her back by the hand and turned her around mashing his lips against hers in a passion-filled kiss. Her first reaction was to smack him, but after thinking about Kelton for a moment, she thought what better way to get back at him while using Jarell in the process for what he had done to her.
--The End
|
|
|
|
Post by Michelle aka Lil B-More on Jun 10, 2004 23:59:53 GMT -5
woooohoooooo YAYYYYYYY!!! Sequel!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by JUCIEE GUDNESS FROM DA HOOD on Jun 11, 2004 1:01:55 GMT -5
woooohoooooo YAYYYYYYY!!! Sequel!!!!! U R SO REMEDIAL!!!! BUT I LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
|
|
|
|
|
Post by AngelicVoices19 on Jun 11, 2004 5:38:30 GMT -5
I just know there is a sequel! And I can't wait to read it! But boy if Kelton didn't piss me off. Great Job CC!!  ;D |
|
|
|
Post by *~*Lady K*~*~ on Jun 11, 2004 9:52:15 GMT -5
uh ooooooh! Bring on the Sequel. That was off the chains |
|
|
|
Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jun 11, 2004 12:32:20 GMT -5
U R SO REMEDIAL!!!! BUT I LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    That wasn't nice!   Sorry for my outburst, Shelle...I luvsh ya lil' sis, but it was funny--hehehehe. Anyhoo, a sequel is in the works now.  |
|
|
|
Post by JUCIEE GUDNESS FROM DA HOOD on Jun 11, 2004 14:51:41 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Michelle aka Lil B-More on Jun 12, 2004 0:58:10 GMT -5
i lub ya too
|
|
