Overlook Love – Episode 2
PART 2
I was not even embarrassed. I just strode back to my bedroom not caring what they were seeing on the rear. Tess had seen me like that many times and Ryan was a non-issue. I went straight to the bed and covered myself fully with a bed sheet.
Tess came in after ten minutes and pulled the bedsheet away.
TESS: Are you okay?
JADE: What do you think? You bring a stranger to my apartment and expect me to be okay. Why couldn’t you take him to yours?
TESS: He is the one who suggested that we come here coz it is nearer. We just left the club a few minutes ago?
JADE: Doing what until 6:30 am? Are you losing all your senses plus the sixth one? You hardly know the guy and you bring him here. Ask him to leave.
TESS: What’s wrong with you Jade? Ryan is a nice guy and he likes me a lot.
JADE: And you? How do you feel about him?
TESS: I don’t know yet. I was drunk last night and did some nasty things but hey, once in a while a girl got to misbehave to feel alive. Wake up we make some breakfast. It will be fine.
JADE: Next time, take him to your apartment
TESS: I can’t take him there, I have a child Jade. What will I tell Kyla
JADE: That you have found for her an uncle
TESS: Are you still high? Come on girl
She said and forcefully pulled me out of the bed and threw a dress at me to wear. We went to the kitchen and made coffee together. What I liked so much about Tess is that she was always apologetic if she was on the wrong. Our relationship was a
healthy one because we shared everything, the bad the good, the mild and the wild.
She was like Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell in prison break when it came to language.
She was witty and at the same time stubborn in a piercing way.
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Coffee was ready and we took it to the dining table. She invited Ryan to join us at the table. The club lights didn’t lie about this one. He was drop dead handsome with eyes to kill. I served him coffee and he looked up and smiled. I couldn’t look at him. Flashes of us kissing blocked my view. He wasn’t saying anything and so what Tess. There was totally no chemistry between them. All I saw was two people who felt guilty of what they had done.
JADE: You two must be tired.
TESS: You are right. I need a cold shower and the hit the bed till Monday morning
JADE: What about you Ryan?
RYAN: I am fine. I am leaving once I am done with this steamy coffee
JADE: That is fine, you need to rest.
RYAN: Yeah, my ride will be here any minute.
TESS: Last night was crazy, what did you say you do again?
RYAN: Me?
TESS: Yes, you. Who else is the stranger here?
RYAN: I kill people.
TESS: Get serious.
RYAN: I sell Electronics.
TESS: Here in town?
RYAN: Yes. Look ladies, you can’t know me in a day and I can only tell you what I want you to know. Let’s stop with the questions and take things one day at a time. For now, I am Ryan, I am in business, and I am single and looking for a woman to marry, period! The rest is up to you to find out. Call CIA if you need to.
TESS: Someone hates interrogations. You are so corky.
JADE: I see that too. One last question, which kind of a woman are you looking for?
RYAN: I already found her, no need to fill you in. Tess, you are that woman. I don’t care about your yesterdays. Let’s start from now and move on.
Tess wasn’t amused. She hardly knew Ryan and she hadn’t even told him that she was a mother to a 12 year old girl. She gave me a blank look and I took my cup and left for the Kitchen. Why did he kiss me the previous night if it was Tess he was into to? I hated him instantly but I had to swallow it in since Tess was my best friend. I couldn’t fantasize on what was to be hers. I was busy washing my cup with lots of anger bottled in when I had footsteps coming into the Kitchen. I knew it was Ryan because Tess always moved like cat, very quietly.
RYAN: I have brought my cup to be washed too.
JADE: You didn’t have to; you are a guest in this apartment.
RYAN: Look Jade, I didn’t intend to kiss you, it just happened. Please don’t tell Tess.
JADE: I am not a teenager. Now leave my Kitchen.
RYAN: By the way I like your house, it is quite cozy.
JADE: Wait until you visit Tess, you won’t leave. She has a cozier place.
RYAN: You don’t have to be sarcastic. I like you and I want to officially take both of you out soon.
JADE: Count me out.
I turned around and grabbed the cup just as Tess joined us in the Kitchen. I wanted them to leave. I needed to go back to bed and finish my dream. The wedding wasn’t over and I needed to see how the reception will be and where we will go for honeymoon. I took Tess cup and put it in the Kitchen sink. She moved closer and held me on the waist. I pushed her away. I was not myself and I wasn’t going to pretend that all was well. Ryan went back to the living room leaving me alone with Tess, I had to be honest with her, but not about the kiss.
JADE: If you are going to date this guy then you better be careful Tess.
TESS: How many times are you going to warn me about him, is there something you know that I don’t?
JADE: We don’t know him, and that is the problem.
TESS: I know that jade, and it’s not like I am going to sleep with him today or tomorrow. It will take time. I am on a dry spell yes, but that doesn’t mean I am going to jump on the next dick that comes my way. I like the guy, he is a good kisser, but I need time to get to know him.
JADE: Okay, you have my blessings on this one, but just be a little careful with the information you give him about yourself, and for my sake, don’t share nudes with him.
TESS: What? I already did
JADE: Noooooo!
TESS: Never! I will do no such thing.
Once I was done washing the cups, we went back to the living and Ryan announced that his ride was parked outside. He had to leave. He thanked me for the coffee, hugged Tess and left. An hour later, Tess said she was also leaving because she had to go rest and run some errands for her mother in the afternoon. No one talked about going to Church. I took a shower and then went back to bed but I was
sleepless. I couldn’t stop thinking of Ryan and the kiss he planted on my lips. It is not like I had not been kissed before, but it is the way he did it, with a hunger and rush. It wasn’t planned, or was it? Maybe he had too much to drink. I looked for random things to do including watching Tom and Jerry to divert my attention from him. By evening it was starting to fade away. He said he was in love with Tess and probably he was. I had to back off.
That night before I went to bed, Tess called and she wasn’t happy at all.
TESS: Can you imagine he hasn’t even called to check if I am okay or that he misses me or something
JADE: Relax Tess. Ryan is not a teenager and neither are you. Some men are very poor in communication and you have to accept him that way. It is only day one and you are already stressing. Just assume he doesn’t exist and life will be good.
TESS: Next time we meet, I will sleep with him and then forget he exists.
JADE: Your life, your choice. Do what makes you happy.
TESS: Do you think he will look for me again or even call?
JADE: Of course he will. If he doesn’t then you look for him. That doesn’t mean that you are desperate or cheap, it means you care. You already friends, right?
TESS: Right! You always know what to say.
Two days later, no call from Ryan and Tess was on edge. She kept calling and texting me cursing Ryan and all men. She was starting to get on my nerves too and I told her to either get a grip of her body system of go to Ibiza for a holiday and forget Ryan. I told her she had the most important people in her life, and that was her mother and Kyla. Why whine over a man that she didn’t even know or hadn’t even slept with. It was not like he had taken some part of her body and gone with it. That next Saturday night we had not planned anything, I decided to stay indoors since Tess was in foul mood and talking shit all the time. I told her to drop her daughter at Raksha’s and spend the weekend with them. At around 9pm I got a call
from her mother. It was the first time that humble but crazy lady ever called, and she just made my night.
RAKSHA: Jade, please come to my house and pick up your problems.
JADE: What problem?
RAKSHA: My daughter
JADE: What’s the issue, I told her to drop Kyla and at least spend the weekend with you.
RAKSHA: I love my daughter so much, but we can’t spend a weekend together.
One of us will die.
JADE: Why?
RAKSHA: We don’t see eye to eye on many things. Since she came, she is just whining and blaming me for her father’s death. I didn’t tell the father to cheat on me and get killed by his side chick’s husband, did I?
JADE: Look mama, Tess is not herself, just avoid her and stay in your bedroom.
RAKSHA: If she is not herself then she would have stayed in her house, or come to you. I am not going to baby sit a mother who probably is ovulating and operating under 40 degrees heat.
JADE: Okay, can I speak with her?
RAKSHA: Not on my phone. Call her and please get her out f here as soon as possible. Tell her you are sick, fake anything I beg you.
JADE: It is that bad?
RAKSHA: It is a grave matter!
I also didn’t want to be with Tess when she is all moody and behaving like a toddler, but I had to obey Raksha. Tess had not told me how her father died and I never bothered to ask? The things women go through sometimes, God forbid. Being killed by your side chick’s husband, what a shame! I rang Tess and told that Ryan was in my house looking for her, and that she had to come immediately. That was the only way I could make her leave her mother’s house. I knew she had left because Raksha rang and told me she owed me heaven and earth.
RAKSHA: The trouble has just left for your house. May you friendship continue to flourish.
I laughed and told her I will handle the situation. When Tess arrived and realized I had lied to her, she almost hit me with a vase. I told her what she was doing was wrong.
JADE: You don’t go projecting you anger and frustrations to people who have nothing to do with what you are going through. Your mother is not a punch bag.
TESS: I didn’t hit her
JADE: It is not about hitting someone. Your attitude matters. Because of your foolishness, now I know how your father died
TESS: She told you?
JADE: Yes, but I am sure it wasn’t her intention.
TESS: Anyway, what do we do about Ryan? I don’t know what he did to me. I can’t stop thinking about him. I have to see him at least one more time.
JADE: Give me your phone
TESS: Why?
JADE: Tess, give me your phone please.
She hesitated. I grabbed it and since she never locked her phone, I went straight to Phone book and searched for Ryan. Tess was truly in love, she had saved him as RYAN LOVE, great. I rang and there was no answer. I waited for two minutes and then rang again. He answered but sounded weird.
JADE: Ryan is that you
RYAN: Yes this is me Tess.
JADE: It is not Tess, this is Jade.
RYAN: Ooh! Where is Tess
JADE: She is here but worried sick because you haven’t contacted her since last Saturday.
RYAN: I have been sick. If she contacted me she would have known. I was in hospital for 3 days.
JADE: Ooh my God! I am so sorry, what happened?
RYAN: They said it was a bacterial infection.
JADE: Is it fine if we come and see you, probably tomorrow?
RYAN: Yes please I don’t mind. Call me tomorrow and I will direct you to my house.
Tess mood immediately changed to Royal Purple. She was all over my living room dancing and cruising from one corner to the other. If all that was just for make it out in a club, what if they make love? She was going to go mad, I wondered.
Ryan lived in and Apartment not far from where I lived. I was surprised that he didn’t mention it the day he dropped me off. He wasn’t to be trusted. His kid bro who had come to nurse him opened the door and welcomed us in. He was seated on the couch, he had a sweat pant on but shirtless. Tess rushed to his side and hugged him with lot’s passion, planting a million kisses on his cheeks. I just stood
there watching the two ‘love birds’. She final let go and I went close and gave him a hand shake. The young boy brought us cold juice and Ryan narrated to us how it all happened just after he left my house the previous Sunday. A neighbor took him to hospital before calling his parents who lived on the other side of town.
After spending a few hours with him, I decided to leave. Tess was misbehaving and I couldn’t stand it. I couldn’t even believe it was the composed woman I have always known. She told Ryan how she almost died because she hadn’t heard from him and she expected me to agree with that and confirm the same to Ryan. When I said I was leaving, she saw me to the door. She said she will stay back and take care of him for a while. I wasn’t shocked after what I just witnessed. It is at that point that I lost hope in ever kissing Ryan again. He had gotten his dream woman, Tess.Kindly share out more interesting stories from generalloaded.com using the floating social media icon button below.
From that day onwards, Ryan and Tess became a couple and our friendship slowed down. Ryan was genuine according to the little Tess told me. He was caring and very tender with her. The first day they made love, she almost announced it on the radio. My phone couldn’t stop ringing. I got all the details second by second. It was like watching a romantic/horror movie or mini porn. I had to cheer her own as any good friend would. Two months later and the romance had heated on. She introduced him to her mother and daughter. And since Ryan was a hunk and had a good business. Raksha had hopes that finally her daughter would settle down with someone she truly loved.
Kyla was happy for her mother. She too finally had a father figure in her life. I slowly distant myself from the affair and killed my dreams of the beach wedding with Ryan. Our outings reduced to once in a blue moon and I wasn’t even bothered. I was happy for my ‘sister’ until several months later when she came to me with some disturbing news.
OVERLOOKED LOVE
