Timeless Part 4

[Sweet Meat aka CC]

[glow=yellow,2,300]“Go ‘head, go ‘head/You demons get out my face/Gone get out my life/I am ‘bout to lose my mind/Lord help me, help me to say no more drama”
—Mary J. Blige: No More Drama[/glow]

“Where did this one come from?”, Kiara asked with a puzzled look on her face as she held up a gift that was sitting away from the others on the table in Peaches’ living room.

“I’ono…lemme see who it’s from.”, Peaches replied as Kiara handed the gift to her. “It doesn’t have a name on it, but I wanna thank the person that it’s from, anyway.” She proceeded to pull out whatever was inside the large gift bag. Everybody giggled at once when Peaches held up an assortment of intimate board and card games to show the guests at her bridal shower.

“Now I wonda’ who’s responsible for this!”, Peaches smiled as she rolled her eyes. Then she looked at Kiara.

“Don’t look ova here! You already got yo’ gift from me, remember?”,Kiara chuckled with a look of innocence on her face. However, she had bought the games as a gag gift. But she also gave Peaches and Tamir a pair of custom-made crystal goblets with their names and wedding date inscribed on them.

“Do I need to spring my ‘Mama Peaches’ role on you?”, Peaches laughed while pointing her finger at Kiara.

“Oh…well in that case, I’m the guilty one!”, Kiara joked as she began to move away from Peaches.

“Girl, c’mere!”, Peaches laughed as she reached out and hugged Kiara. Then she stood up and thanked all of her family and guests for attending her shower.

“Now that was fun! But with my special day quickly comin’ up, I’m gettin’ too nervous!”, Peaches chuckled as she and Kiara began to clean up.

“Girl, you gonna be fine! Besides, you’ll be spending a lot of wonderful years with the love of your life!”, Kiara smiled.

“Oh there’s no doubt about that! But, well…I can’t explain it.”, Peaches replied while blushing.

“I hear ya, Peachy-Keen! But you’re juss havin’ a normal reaction to the big change that’s about to take place in your life…that’s all! Listen to me! I’m soundin’ like I’m an expert on this or somethin’!”, Kiara laughed as she flopped down in a chair in the middle of cleaning up.

“Nah, girl! What you’re sayin’ is makin’ a lotta sense!”, Peaches smiled as she flopped down in a chair across from Kiara.

“Yeah, but still…like I should be givin’ anybody advice. Look at the mess I have been goin’ through in the past few months!”, Kiara stated with a roll of her eyes.

“Keep talkin’ like that and this time, I won’t hold ‘Mama Peaches’ back!”, Peaches joked as she and Kiara stood up to start cleaning again.

“Yes ma’am!”, Kiara chuckled as she took some things out to the kitchen to put away.
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“And you know another thang baby/It ain’t the same no more when I go out at night/I get a buncha numbers baby/But they all juss stay in my pocket for days/I don’t wanna call nobody else/I don’t wanna see nobody else/I don’t wanna want nobody else/But I guess I’ll, I guess I’ll wait!!!” Michael sang along to Raphael Saadiq’s “Tick Tock” while walking back and forth in his dark living room. While puffing on a cigarette, he desperately thought of a way to get Kiara back. For almost two months, he kept a low profile after his encounter with Peaches who had warned him to stay away from all of them; not to mention how she cleaned his clock. But Michael still wanted to see Kiara when she would least expect it.

Lately, he didn’t care about his job, his image, Mark, or the restraining order that was taken out against him. All he cared about was having Kiara back in his life. However, he still wouldn’t admit that his ego had been bruised when she stood up to him in the restaurant the first day he ran back into her since their breakup and said she didn’t want to have anything else to do with him.

After he flopped down on his sofa, he came up with a devious plan on how he would finally see Kiara, once and for all.
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“Look, yall are gonna get us thrown outta here!”, Peaches whispered from her dressing room to her bridal party. They were cutting up like they didn’t have any home training while trying on their bridesmaid gowns. But Peaches was in on the action too as she slipped into her wedding dress.

“Like you ain’t doin’ nothin’!”, Kiara laughed as she checked out her gown in the larger dressing room mirror. “Damn! I know I got a bit much back here, but this is ridiculous! It looks like I’m stuffed in this thing! ”

“Yeah, you are blessed juss a tad bit too much!”, Rufus’ girl, Leticia, laughed as she came out of her dressing room to see how her gown looked in the larger mirror that Kiara was using.

“But you know what, trick? This junk in my trunk ain’t made for chumps!!! Heyyyy! Hoooo! You’ono nothin’ bout this here!”, Kiara laughed as she dropped it like it was hot.

“Keep right on, and that junk gonna bust that gown wide open!”, Leticia laughed as she rolled her eyes.

“Not in front of my baby, please!”, Peaches’ cousin, Sarah, stated as she covered her six-year-old daughter, Nicole’s, ears. Nicole was going to be the flower girl. “Yall will not corrupt my child with those foul mouths and hoochie dancin’ moves!”, she laughed.

“Yeah, whateva!”, Leticia chuckled as she and several other of Peaches’ relatives and friends came out to share the larger mirror.

“I know ri…!”, Kiara began before she saw Peaches coming out of her dressing room in her wedding gown.

“Oooooohhhhhh!!! You are absolutely beautiful!!!”, Leticia exclaimed when she turned around to look at Peaches.

Her gown was white and trimmed in pearls at the cuff of the long, lacey sleeves and up around her lacey neckline. The matching veil was also trimmed in pearls and was opened up at the top since she would be wearing an updo hairstyle.

Everyone gathered around her to compliment her. Peaches immediately began to blush. “Dang yall! It’s juss a weddin’ gown!”, she grinned.

“Don’t even act like you’re not enjoyin’ all eyes on you!”, Sarah joked as she hugged Peaches.

“Well, yeah, you’re right!”, Peaches laughed.

“But yall are lookin’ good too!”, Peaches smiled as she admired her bridal party in their long, satin, off-the-shoulder peach-colored gowns with long white satin gloves.

“Girls, we all look good enough to be in the next issue of ‘Brides’ magazine!”, James’ girl, Renee’, joked.

“Fo’ sho’!”, Peaches agreed.

[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bridal shop, the guys were trying on their white tuxedos.

“Well, in anotha’ week, it will be all ova for ya, my man!”, Larry joked as he nudged Tamir with his elbow.

“Naw, man! You got it alllll wrong! It will be a new beginnin’ for me!”, Tamir smiled as he adjusted his tie.

“Tell ‘em man!”, James smiled as he stood in the mirror checking out his own tuxedo.

“Man, shut up! ‘Mir knows I’m only messin’ with him!”, Larry laughed as he headed back to his dressing room to change out of his tuxedo.

“I ain’t payin’ you no mind no way!”, Tamir chuckled as he joined James at the mirror.

“So fresh and so clean, baby!”, Mark shouted as he emerged from his dressing room to show off his tuxedo.

A few seconds later, Rufus emerged from his dressing room. “You might be so fresh and so clean, but I’m mo’ fresh and mo’ clean!”, he grinned.

“Whateva!”, Mark laughed.

Just then they heard a bunch of laughing and giggling coming from the other side of the bridal shop where the girls were.

“I wonda’ what they laughing at?”, Larry asked as he came out of his dressing room.

“Now c’mon, man! You know good and well they over there crackin’ on us!”, Rufus chuckled.

“Well, I’ma go check it out!”, Mark stated with a wink as he walked out of the dressing room.

“Don’t yell for us when they catch you!”, James laughed.

“Man, please!”, Mark replied with a devilish grin.

“Why, sir! Don’t you look nice!”, the middle-aged owner/clerk of the store stated when she saw Mark walking across the shop.

“Thank ya, ma’am! I thought I’d let my lady see how nice I look! But don’t worry, she’s not the bride. So, I won’t be causing any bad luck!”, he winked as he continued to head for the dressing room.

“If you say so!”, the owner chuckled as she shook her finger at him.

The closer he got to the girls’ dressing room, the more giggling he heard. Once he reached his destination, he slowly stuck his head inside the door. Sarah was the first one to see him.

“If you don’t get outta here!”, she shouted as she ran over to him to push him back out.

“Girl, gon’ somewhere! I juss wanted to see if you ladies needed some help with anything!”, he grinned as he scanned the room for Kiara.

“Yeah, right! You juss came over here to be nosey!”, Peaches shouted from her dressing room.

“Yall leave my baby alone!”, Kiara snapped as she came around the corner. She hadn’t taken her gown off yet because she was helping Peaches unzip hers.

“Wooooooo-weeeeeeeeee!!! How did you get into that dress, ma?!!!”, Mark exclaimed with a sly grin as he checked her out.

“Look, don’t even worry ‘bout that with yo’ clean self! Juss unzip this for me since you wanted to help so bad!”, she chuckled as she walked over to him. Then she turned around so he could unzip her gown.

“Lemme come out there to keep an eye on you two!”, Leticia laughed as she walked out of her dressing room carrying her gown. She was the first one to be back in her own clothing.

“Girl! We don’t need no babysitter!”, Mark stated with a roll of his eyes.

“Mmmmmm hmmmmmm!”, she replied with a hand on her hip as she made sure that all he did was unzip Kiara’s gown.

“Yall need to stop!”, Kiara stated with a shake of her head as she headed back to her dressing room.

“Okay, you can go now!”, Leticia replied as she followed Mark out while giving him a little shove in his back.

“You need to gon’ with that!”, he laughed as he looked back over his shoulder at her.

“Yeah, right!”, she replied.

After everyone had changed back into their regular clothes, they left the shop with their outfits.

“I’ma go hang out in the studio for a while, but I’ll be by to see ya sometime tonight.”, Mark stated as he walked with Kiara to her ride.

“Aight. I’ma run by Mr. Thompson’s daughter’s house to pay him a quick visit, then I’ma head on home. You want me to pick up anything for ya?”, she replied as he opened her car door for her.

“Nah, I’m coo’! Thanks though and drive carefully.”, he grinned before leaning in her window to give her a quick kiss.

“Aight, you too. Bye yall!!!”, she shouted out the window at everybody as she drove past them and waved. They all waved goodbye back.
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When Kiara pulled up to the front of Mr. Thompson’s daughter’s house, she saw Mr. Thompson sitting on the porch while his son-in-law was playing with his two small sons in the front yard.

“Hey, suga!”, Mr. Thompson waved from the swing on the porch.

“Hey there, Mr. Thompson!”, Kiara waved back at him as she made her way up to the porch.

“Hi. How ya doin?”, Kiara smiled as she waved at Mr. Thompson’s son-in-law. He ran over to introduce himself.

“Hello. I’m David and these are my two boys, Rodney and Jerrod. You must be Kiara because I noticed how pop lit up when he saw you!”, he joked as he shook Kiara’s hand.

“Yeah, that’s me! It’s nice to meet you”, she grinned. “And aren’t you two some cuties!”, she smiled as she bent down to say hello to the two boys. She remembered Mr. Thompson saying that he had a grandson that was 2 and one that was 4. The youngest one smiled and then became bashful. He ran behind his father to hide from her. However, the oldest one was very outspoken.

“Do you have any candy?”, he asked.

“Well, before I give you any, I have to check with your daddy first. Is that okay?”, she smiled as she looked up at David. He smiled and nodded his head that it was alright for Rodney to have a piece of candy. She proceeded to look through her purse.

“Look what I have juss for you, sweetie!”, she exclaimed as she pulled a tootsie roll pop out.

“Thank you!”, he giggled as he went running around the yard.

“Would you like one, cutie pie?”, she asked Jerrod as she peeked around his father. He nodded his head yes while smiling.

“Okay, here ya go!”, she chuckled.

“What do you say, Jerrod?”, David asked as he looked down at him.

Jerrod didn’t say anything at first. He just kept standing there with his finger in his mouth.

“We say thank you to the nice lady.”, David told him.

Jerrod looked at Kiara and smiled. “Tank ooh.” Then he joined his brother over on their swing set.

“They are juss too adorable!”, Kiara giggled as she and David headed for the porch. By this time, she saw Mr. Thompson’s daughter coming to the door.

“Thank you!”, David smiled. “Can I get you anything to drink?”

“No thank you.”, Kiara replied.

“Hello! It’s nice to finally meet you!”, Rose replied as she stepped out on the porch. She gave Kiara a hug. “Dad has told us so many nice things about you.”

“Thank you! It’s nice to finally meet you too! Your father is such a sweetheart!”, Kiara chuckled as she sat down on the swing next to Mr. Thompson. She leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek.

“Awwww…well we’re gonna leave you two alone so you can talk. Dad do you need anything?”, Rose asked him.

“No, honey.”, he smiled.

“Soooooo…how ya comin’ along these days?”, Kiara asked as they watched the two children playing.

“Just fine! I’m so happy to finally be on crutches and out of that wheelchair. God is good!”, he smiled as he took her hand. “But more importantly, how have you been?”, he asked. “I’ve been thinking about you since the last time you came to visit me at the hospital.”

“Oh, busy as ever gettin’ ready for Peaches’ wedding on next weekend. She told me to tell you that she’ll be looking for you.”, Kiara replied.

“She knows I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”, he smiled.

They chatted for a few more minutes before stood up to leave. “Well, since it’s close to dinnertime, I’m gonna leave now. You take care! And if nothin’ happens, we’ll be seein’ ya next weekend!”, Kiara grinned as she leaned down to kiss him on his forehead.

“Alright, honey! You have a blessed night and be careful!”, he grinned as he looked up at her.

“Thank you! You do the same and stay sweet! Tell Rose and David goodbye for me!”

“Okay!”, he replied while waving goodbye to her.
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[Sweet Meat aka CC]

“This will be easier than I thought!”, Michael thought to himself as he walked inside Kiara’s apartment building. He was thinking that Mr. Thompson was still there, but instead he saw a new guard. And not only that, but the new guard was the father of one of his buddies from his college days. However, they had lost touch with each other after graduation.

“Mr. Turner?!”, Mike grinned as he headed towards his desk.

“Yes sir?”, Johnny replied before looking up. “Heyyyyyyyy, Mike! How ya been, man?!” He took Mike’s hand and shook it vigorously.

“I’ve been doin’ aight! What about you?”, Michael grinned.

“Pretty good! It’s been what 10 years since we seen each otha’?”, Johnny asked.

“Yeah, that’s about right! How’s Eric doin’?”, Michael asked.

“Oh, he’s doin’ juss fine. You know he’s been married about 5 years now! I’m a grandpa too! I have a gorgeous, 3-year-old granddaughter. They named her one of those weird names like Sheniqua, no, Shetwinkie…man somethin’ like that. But I juss call her Punky!” Michael could tell that Johnny was a proud grandfather.

“Get outta here! Eric is married with a child?! That is really somethin’!!! Next time you see him, tell him I said congratulations!”, Michael smiled.

“So what brings you this way? You know somebody that lives here or somethin’?”, Johnny asked. He had a tendency to be a bit nosey.

“Yeah, actually, I do.”, Michael slyly smiled. “Do you know a female by the name of Kiara?”

“Yeah, I sure do! She’s a real nice girl! Are you a new boyfriend of hers?”, Johnny asked.

“Damn, man! You ask too many questions!”, Michael thought to himself.

“New boyfriend? Nah, Mr. Turner. She and I have been an item a lil’ over three years now! I’ve been overseas for the last few months with my job, though. But I juss got back into town a lil’ earlier than expected so I want to surprise her and have dinner waitin’ for her when she gets home. I noticed her car wasn’t here, but I really wanna get started on dinner, but I misplaced my key. Could I have the passkey to get in?” Michael gave Johnny one of his most innocent smiles.

“Hmmmm…well you know I been seein’ her comin’ and goin’ with this guy that drops by often. You may have some competition!”, Johnny joked.

“Is he a short, redheaded guy?”, Michael asked while keeping his composure.

“Yeah!!! That’s him!”, Johnny replied while nodding his head very fast.

“Oh, man! That ain’t nobody but her crazy cousin. They’re practically like brother and sister.”, Michael chuckled.

“Oh! Well then that’s different!”, Johnny chuckled as he went to go get Michael and extra key to Kiara’s apartment. “I’ll be right back.”

“Yessss!!! I’m almost in there!”, Michael thought to himself.

“Thanks, Mr. Turner!”, Michael grinned as Johnny handed him the extra key.

When Michael went inside her apartment, he noticed that pictures of Mark had replaced his pictures. This infuriated him. He went into her bedroom and began going through her things because he couldn’t handle that someone else had taken his place.

“Son-of-a-bitch!”, he hissed as he read little cards and notes that Mark had given to her for no special reason. Michael suddenly calmed himself down.

“I better get dinner started!”, he chuckled. He had completely lost it. But somewhere in his mind, he thought that what he was doing was going to actually work. However, before starting on his dinner, he decided to light all of the candles that she had throughout her bedroom. He remembered how much she loved collecting candles. “This is a nice touch!”, he thought to himself as he put everything away that he had went through.
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About 45 minutes later, Kiara arrived home. She noticed that Mark’s car wasn’t around. She assumed that he would be over shortly.

Johnny was on the phone when Kiara walked inside the lobby of her place. Because she didn’t want to disturb him, she simply waved her hand at him. He waved back at her with a gigantic smile.

“What in the world is he so happy about?!”, she thought to herself as she stepped inside the elevator.

When she reached her floor, the delicious aroma of Jamaican food teased her nostrils.

“Whew! Somebody’s doin’ some good eatin’ tonight!”, she thought to herself. But the aroma became stronger when she reached her door.

“Mark must be here after all! I guess he had to park on the other side of the building.”, she thought to herself as she put her key in the lock to open her door. However, Michael saw the knob turning so he jumped up and opened the door.

Kiara wanted to scream but nothing would come out. She tried to take off running, but Michael grabbed her and pulled her inside while holding his hand over her mouth.
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“’Mir! I’ono why I feel like I gotta go see Kiara tonight! But when you come over here, can we please go to check on her?”, Peaches asked as she and Tamir talked on the phone.

“Yeah, boo! I’m on my way over right now. I should be ova’ in just a few minutes to pick you up. If you talk to Kee, tell her that Mark will be there soon. Love ya!”, Tamir replied.

“Okay…I love you too!”, Peaches smiled as she hung up her phone.

“Lemme see if Kee’s gotten home.”, Peaches stated aloud to herself. When she couldn’t reach Kiara at home, she tried her cell phone. But Kiara wasn’t answering that either. “Maybe she’s out of range right now!”, Peaches reassured herself. But she just couldn’t fight her uneasy feeling.
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[Sweet Meat aka CC]

Once Michael had pulled Kiara inside her apartment, he let her go. As soon as he did, she ran to her security intercom to call Johnny. But Michael had taken it apart so she couldn’t do so. She then ran for her phone, but he had purposely misplaced it.

“Why are you doin’ this to me?!!!”, she shrieked as she backed up away from him as he walked towards her.

“You can’t get away from me this time, Kee!”, he grinned as he continuously walked towards her around the living room. When she reached inside her purse for her phone, he grabbed her hand.

“No! I juss wanna talk with you…please!”, he shouted as he began to unknowingly twist her wrist.

“Let me go!!!”, she cried as she tried to break away from him.

“I can’t! Don’t you see the hurt I’m sufferin’ from because you won’t listen to me?!”, he asked as he pulled her with him towards her stereo. “Remember our song?”, he smiled as he turned it on. He had put Next’s "Next Episode" CD in her CD player and skipped to “Brand New”. Michael had used this song to lure Kiara back to him the next to the last time that they split apart. He began to dance with her. All of a sudden, Kiara shoved him away from her.

“Stop it!!! I don’t want you anymore! Can’t you understand that?!!!! I hate you!!!!, she screamed.

Michael looked at her for a few seconds before he bit his bottom lip and slapped her with such force that she fell to the floor. She tasted blood in her mouth and became scared beyond belief. She began to cry and crawl away from him as she tried to get up and run. But before she knew what was happening, Michael grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up.

“You see what’chu made me do?!”, he shouted. “I never wanted to hit you, but you won’t listen to me!!! I know a way to make you listen, though!”, he angrily stated as he half-picked her up and pulled her into the back. She tried frantically to break away from him.

“Leave me alone!”, she screamed and shouted as he pulled her down the hall. While waving her arms and fists in the air, she caught the side of his head with a powerful blow that stunned him.

“You’re gonna pay for that!!!”, he yelled as he threw her into her room. She flew backwards across her bed. In the midst of her screaming and crying, she silently prayed that someone would hear what was taking place in her apartment and call for help.
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”W’sup John-John!”, Mark smiled as he walked inside the apartment building.

“Hey, man! Listen, you may want to come back later because your cousin has company right now!”, Johnny joked while grinning.

“What the hell you talkin’ about?!”, Mark demanded as he turned around and headed back to the desk.

“Your cousin, Kiara…her boyfriend came back to surprise her with a romantic dinner. You know, Michael. He went to college with my son. I juss wanted to save you a wasted trip up to her place!”, Johnny replied matter-of-factly.

“I’m her fuckin’ boyfriend! Call the police, now!!!”, Mark shouted as he ran towards the elevator.

“What…?!”, Johnny began before Mark shouted for him to just call the fucking police.

When Mark reached Kiara’s door, he quickly put his key in the lock to open it. However, the chain lock had been placed on the door. He heard Kiara crying and screaming and that’s all it took for him to knock the door open with every ounce of strength and hatred that he had pent up in him.

“Kiara!!!”, he shouted once he was inside. He immediately ran to the back. When he reached her room, he saw her and Michael struggling with each other on the floor. Michael was trying to take what didn’t belong to him anymore.

Mark ran over and pulled Michael off of Kiara and began fighting him. He repeatedly punched Michael in the face as Kiara ran to a corner of her room.

She watched in horror as Michael stood up and began punching Mark. He eventually kicked Mark to the floor and began stomping him. Kiara screamed and ran up and across her bed and jumped on Michael’s back. She dug her fingernails in his eyes which made him scream out in pain.

Tamir and Peaches ran into Kiara’s bedroom at the exact moment that she had jumped on Michael’s back.

Tamir immediately ran over to Mark to help him up while Peaches stood and stared at everything that was going on around her in disbelief.

“Get off me, bitch!”, Michael shouted as he flung Kiara off of him. She fell down onto and then off of her bed with great force. She cried out in pain. Peaches ran over to help her up.

Michael headed straight for Mark. However, Peaches and Kiara both jumped on him and knocked him to the floor to keep him from attacking him. Peaches was pulling on his hair and Kiara was pulling on his ears.

“You bitches gettin’ ready to die!”, he shouted once he was able to pull himself away from them. He pushed Kiara into Peaches, knocking them both to the floor.

When Mark and Tamir saw the girls hit the floor, they proceeded to whup his @$$ like he had stole something.

“Hold it right there!”, the police shouted as they pointed their weapons at Mark, Tamir, and Michael. Kiara frantically tried to explain to the officers what was going on, but they kept telling her to calm down and be quiet.

The officers handcuffed Michael, Mark, and Tamir until they could check the story out. After getting an explanation of what had happened, Michael was arrested and charged with breaking and entering under false pretenses, attempted kidnapping, attempted rape, assault and battery, and a restraining order violation. He would later be found guilty of all of these charges and sentenced to a ten-year prison sentence with a possibility of parole in 5 years.

“Are you okay?!”, Kiara hysterically cried as she ran over to Mark. They both held each other tightly.

“Yeah! I’m fine because I still have you!”, he replied. “It’s finally ova!”

[glow=yellow,2,300]“Now I am filled with love and I sing a love song/A song for yesterday, today, tomorrow and beyond/My new prayer is thank you God for setting me free/And thank you God for giving me back Me”
—Mary J. Blige: Forever No More (Poem)[/glow]