Running From Fate.

Chapter Two: Wonderfully Wrong.

"You already know!"

"Bet." Ezra cackles once more. "So, What about you, though?" Ezra asks. "Three years, anything new?"

"Mannnnnnnn.." Adonis dragged. "I just broke up with my girlfriend of 2 years a couple weeks ago."

"Not Adonis finally got a girl." Ezra cracks up with laughter. "Well, you had one. What happened, Don?"

"She was tripped out, bruh." Adonis says, getting serious. "It was some dumb rumor that was going around about me that wasn't even true and was dumb enough to believe it."

"What was the rumor?"

"That I was planning on breaking up with her." Adonis told Ezra. "I wasn't even going to do that until now."

"You should probably have a conversation with her." Ezra  encouraged. "I don't know the full story, but it seems like miscommunication."

"I've tried." Adonis explains, stressing out. He wanted his girlfriend back but he didn't want to beg her or embarrass himself. "Only reason I broke up with her after the fact was because she kept saying how she didn't know what to think and she believed everything her friends said about me."

"Those types of friends are the worst, yo."

"Exactly."

After a couple hours of rambling, joking around, and making plans of meeting up, Adonis and Ezra soon were off the phone. Adonis didn't realize that his father was home and heard in the hallway, the two having what sounded like an argument. He decided to stop behind a wall and listen in closely.

"David," His mother placed one hand on her hip while holding his father's phone in the other. " Why does she keep calling your phone? She called like four times. This doesn't seem like business to me."

"It is business, unlike you." David retorted, picking up his wine glass before taking a sip. "Leaving in the middle of the night while I'm asleep, Claire?"

"And what does that mean?" Claire remarked. "I'm cheating?"

"Trina calls when I miss my business calls or meetings." David admits. "Nobody calls you in the middle of the night. You just sneak off in the night and play stupid by the morning."

To keep from expressing his fury at his father's harshness, Adonis bit his lip. He wanted to know more about what was going on between his parents, but before he could change positions, the stairs began to squeak a little and his parents' conversation came to a halt.  

"A-Adonis!" David calls out to him. "You there?"

While remaining silent, he tightly shut his eyes in the hopes that his father wouldn't get up and discover him hidden. When he eavesdropped on their chats, his father didn't enjoy it. It didn't seem like a good moment to inform his father about the night before as he debated whether or not it was time to do so. Already inebriated, his father was also not that great at conversations for that matter.

"Do you think I'm' st-stupid?" David hiccuped, taking a large gulp of his drink. "We've been married for over 15 years."

"You're wasted, David," As she talked, Claire moved closer to him in an attempt to take his drink, but he immediately took it away from her. "Are you serious? Our son is upstairs. He don't need to see you like this."

"And what about you?" David stood up with his drink still in hand. They were now face to face. "I see you leaving late at night, random phone calls, oh! Do you remember how you stood me up on our anniversary? Why was that?"

Adonis softly gasps at the information he had just heard. From the looks of it, his mother was cheating. He wasn't sure how to process what had just been said. He took a quick peek at his parents as he watched his dad pace across the floor while his mother stood still. He could tell that his dad has been holding this in for a hot minute.