Worth It

Chapter 13: How It Went Down

"Now why you lying," Kevin asked. "You know good and well it's always you starting something. J," he said turning to face Janelle, "you know how Lys is. You know how she talk."

Janelle laughed. "Mad reckless."

Kevin agreed. "She be catching me off guard sometimes, but most times she so smooth about it."

"I believe it Kev. She can talk her way outta some shit. You hear me?" We laughed. Just then there was a knock on the door. Janelle got up. "That ain't nobody, but Adrian." She opened the door and was surprised to see Ronny standing on the other side of the door. "Hey. Is Alyssa here?" She asked. It took Janelle a minute to respond. She was so surprised that she was there. "Uh yeah. Let me just---Alyssa!" Janelle called from the door. "It's for you." I stood up and walked over to the door. I was just as stunned as Janelle was to see Ronny there. "Ronny. Hey. What are you doing here?"

"Um. I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but we need to talk."

"Uh. Okay. Sure. What is this about?" Ronny looked around. "Uuuh, can I come in please?"

"Yeah. Sorry. Come in." Ronny walked into the living area and grabbed a seat. I followed suit as did Janelle. "So Ronny. What's up?" She still did not look ready to talk. I looked between Kevin and Janelle. "Can y'all excuse us for a minute, please?"

"Yeah. Sure," Kevin said standing up. "Adrian's here anyway. So imma just head out," Janelle said as she stood up. Kevin stepped out too. "Text me," Janelle said as she left out.

Once they were gone Ronny's demeanor changed. "Okay. Listen bitch."

I scrunched my face up. "What the hell?"

"Oh you thought I was coming in peace? Nah. I'm here to give you my raft. Whatever you have going on with Ron you need to end it now or else me and Kevin are going to have a little talk. Me and Ron are engaged to be married and your little hoe ass keep messing with him behind me and your boyfriend's back. That's trifling ass fuck." I looked at her confused. Ronny smirked. "Told you I'd figure it out."

"Well I don't know what exactly you figured out, but I'm not messing with Ron. I'm really done with that nigga." Ronny scoffed. "Wow. You are a whole new level of low. You still gon' lie about it? You've been caught and it's only a matter of time until Kevin and God knows who else finds out." "Ronny what are you talking about? I've been caught doing what? I don't deal with Ron anymore. How many ways can I say it? I mean do I have to spell it out?"

"Stop playing dumb. I saw the video of you and him having sex in his dorm room. The things you did to him---" she trailed off. "You must really be in love with him," Ronny said dejectedly.

I exhaled and placed my hands on the temple of my forehead. "Ronny. That's an old video of us that I didn't even know he recorded until recently. That video is almost two years old. I promise you nothing is going on between Ron and I." At this point Ronny had had just about enough. "Are you capable of telling the truth at all! Damn," she said a little horsely. She quickly unlocked her phone and pulled up the video. She shoved her phone in my face. "This is the video," she yelled, "and it's dated three days ago! Now I want to see you deny that!" My eyes began to well up. I put my hand over my mouth. "Mmhm. Can't deny it now can you!"

"This is not true. I wasn't with him that day. I haven't seen him in at least a week. He must've altered the date to make it look like I was with him recently, but I haven't been. I swear." Ronny wiped the tears from her eyes. Wow! You're a liar. All you do is lie. Why would he change the date on the sex video? Why would he go through so much trouble? Just to hurt me? Alyssa own up to it! He did! He admitted to me that you were there that night AND his roommate vouched for him and said that he saw you come in."

"Ronny he's lying. He's trying to Sabatoge my relationship with Kevin." "No. I don't think so. That's you. Think about it why would Ron do that? It just doesn't make sense."

"Because he loves me," I blurted out. "He said so himself." Ronny took a step back and laughed. "Wow. That is so arrogant of you to say. You gave him a little pussy and you think he's in love with you all of a sudden? Let me tell you something. All men during climax tell the woman they're fucking that they love them. Don't be naive." I eyed her over. "Including you," I said dryly. Her face dropped. "I didn't think so." Without a second thought Ronny slapped me in the face and on impulse I punched her in hers.

Within seconds we were knocking things over and pushing large objects out of our way. One minute she was on top of me and the next minute I was dragging her. Kevin burst through the door. "What the hell is going on!" He shut the door behind him and ran over to us. He quickly pulled us away from each other. "Y'all need to calm down!" Ronny took a deep breath and got herself together. She moved her hair out of her face and fixed her clothes. "Ronny you need to go!" Kevin said pointing to the door. Before she did she moved closer to me. We stood toe to toe; tears were standing in her eyes. "I know I come off as a bitch, but I actually love him and I need to know if our relationship is real or is it based on a lie. I've been playing second place to you since I met him and I'm tired. I just want the truth."

"I gave you the truth."

"No you lied and for that I'm gonna make your life a living hell," she said turning to leave." She walked over to the door and let herself out.

When she was gone Kevin turned to me. "What the hell was that?"

"What little deal did you and Ron strike with each other?"

"What?"

"What did you and Ron work out concerning the sex video? What happened? What did y'all discuss, did y'all resolve anything, because that bitch now has her hands on that video and I'm pretty sure making my life "a living hell" is code for releasing it all over campus and possibly the internet!" I was fuming. "Ron changed the date on that video from almost two years ago to three days ago. She thinks that I've been secretly seeing Ron, but you and I both know that I think he's a piece of shit!"

"Baby. Calm down."

"Don't tell me to calm down Kevin! You were supposed to handle it so I wouldn't have to and you didn't. So I'll do it. I'll figure out what to do, because within the next twenty-four hours everything that I've ever accomplished is gonna go to shit, because of that damn sex video. You and I both know that people aren't gonna let that go. I am trying to make a name for myself, trying to establish a professional career before I leave here. I can't have my name tainted. Not to mention my father. I'm jepordizing his name too; his career; everything him and my mom ever worked for. It may seem trivial to some, but my name is all I have and I have worked too damn hard to keep it clean to allow a sex video to mess that up! I'll be damned!"

"Baby let me help you."

"No thank you. You've done enough."

"Alyssa---"

"I said I got it," I replied cutting him off as I walked away from him and headed to my room. "You can let yourself out," I called out over my shoulder.
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