New Beginnings

Chapter 2: Intuition

She shook her head. "I don't know what to tell you baby girl, other than I'm hungry as fuck. Can we go eat?"

"Yeah, fatty." I chuckled as we got out the car and went inside the restaurant.

The waitress sat us at a booth and asked what we wanted to drink. I asked for Apple juice and Lisah asked for coffee.

"Lisah, do you think I was overreacting after the conversation I had with Monte?" I asked.

She shrugged." I don't know. I mean, I'm not in your relationship. If you think Monte's cheating, he could be at the same time you might be wrong. If you feel it deep down inside, it could be your woman intuition. Though it's not always right. Maybe you should go see him."

I thought for a minute before I finally spoke. "You're right. I'll go see him after we go shopping."

"Shit, sounds good to me" Lisah grinned.

The waitress had come back and we both ordered pancake stacks and smashed. Once we finished, I picked up the check and we headed out to the mall.

We shopped a little everywhere and every place we went, Lisah found some guy to talk to. After a few hours, we were both exhausted and decided to head home. Once we got to her house we sat in the car for a few minutes.

"That was fun" she said.

"Yeah, I bet. You was thotscotching all over the mall."

Lisah rolled her eyes "Girl, bye" she said getting out the car grabbing her bags. "You better call me too"

I laughed."Alright, I will."

I watched her walk into the house and I made my way to Wright Inc. to see Monte.

Once I got there, I checked myself in the mirror and made sure to put on some lipgloss. I got out the car and went inside the building, heading up to the top floor in the elevator.

My hands were shaking. Why am I so nervous? The elevator door opened and I stepped out to see Brittany at the front desk.

"Hey Brittany" I smiled.

"Hey Brandee, here to see Monte?" She asked picking up the pager.

"Yeah, but I want to surprise him if you don't mind."

"Oh no problem." She smiled putting down the pager as I headed to his office. When I got there, the door was closed and so were all the blinds. I started to wonder if he was even here.
I opened the door to see him laid back in his chair as some female was massaging his shoulders.

"You're so tense baby" she said.

I cleared my throat. "What the fuck is this Monte?"

He jumped up. "H-hey Brandee, baby it's not what it looks like." He came closer to me as I backed away.

I shook my head. "To think that I was gonna apologize, but I was right all along. All that bullshit you tried telling me last night. I knew something was going on." Tears started to fill my eyes as I looked at the female. She looked familiar.

"Danielle? Danielle from highschool?"
She nodded her head, smirking.

All I could see was red.

I lounged toward her and we both fell to the floor. I punched Danielle repeatedly in the face and she scratched my cheek making me go even harder. I let my hands take control until Monte pulled me off of her.
I kicked my feet and yelled "Get off of me! Get the fuck off me!" He put me down and I slapped him as hard as I could. He looked at me with hurt as I looked at him with anger.

I began to walk away until Monte grabbed my arm.

"Bran-"

"No! I don't wanna hear a damn thing you gotta say. You betrayed me!" I said as I snatched my arm away and stormed out without turning back.

I got into my car and looked at the scratch in the mirror. As Monte trailed behind me, I quickly pulled out the parking lot and sped home.

When I got home, the neighbor was outside on the porch again. He waved, but I couldn't find the strength to wave back and ran into the house before I completely broke down.

As soon as I closed the door, I slid to the floor and cried my eyes out. About 5 minutes later, there was a knock on the door. I stayed where I was, thinking it was Monte outside.

"Miss?" I heard from the other side of the door.

I got up and tried to get myself together the best way I could at the moment and looked out the peep hole. It was the neighbor.

I slightly cracked opened the door. "Can I help you?"

He smiled a little."I'm sorry, I just saw that you seemed a little distraught and I wanted to make sure you were okay."

I sniffed."Uhh.. Yeah, I'm fine." I said trying not to cry again, but I realized it wasn't working when I broke down again and began to fall to the floor until the neighbor caught me.

"Whoa" he said as we both collapsed to the floor.

I started crying into his chest as he rubbed my back and stroked my hair. We didn't talk at all. I cried and he comforted me. I cried until I fell asleep.

When I woke up, I was sprawled on the couch with a cover over me and I looked around for the neighbor. He was gone.

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