KATIE.
There was a brief moment of silence as I blinked my eyes over and over to remove whatever scene I had just seen. I didn’t want to believe it,…it all felt so unreal to me and so untrue.
But it was true, it was glaring right in front of me and I knew that this was happening. Tyson was truly cheating on me with another woman.
Tyson’s companion didn’t notice me and went on moving her hips up and down because Tyson stopped moving.
“Babe…what’s going on?” She asked, but the i***t was too shocked to answer. His wide eyes were still staring at me, and I bet he was trying to come up with a better excuse for this.
Babe? She just called him that, and he didn’t have any disgust with the name. I remembered the first time I started calling him that after a week or two since we started dating, he answered rather too harshly to the cute name I gave to him. But here he is letting another woman call him one.
From where I was standing I could see the lady and was shocked when I noticed that it was one of his intended course mates. She was always beside Tyson, but I didn’t take it wrongly, after all, they were both in the same university studying the same course, but who would have thought that they had been seeing each other?
“Tyson,” I called dumbly with my eyes already getting watery. f**k! Don’t you dare cry, don’t you dare spare a single tear for this motherfucking asshole.
“Kat….” He cut off, swallowing the rest of the words. His eyes were still wide open as he scrambled down the bed naked.
I blushed when my eyes caught his dangling thing between his legs, but my eyes darkened when I saw it all covered with another woman’s body fluid. I held my stomach so the little lunch I had earlier wouldn’t come out. Yuck, this was so disgusting.
“Listen, Katie, it…. It’s not what you think.”
I tore my eyes from his body glistening with sweat back to the lady who didn’t have any decency to cover up her disgusting body.
“I thought you said you’ve broken up with her, Tyson?” The lady asked, and I was forced to look at Tyson who still didn’t have any decency of covering his little thing up.
Broken up with me? Where and when?
I stared at him as I awaited his reply, I wanted to hear what he was going to say. Did he tell her that, or was she just among it up?
I looked at the man before me, this was the same man who told me that he loved me and would do whatever I wanted. This was the same man who has been a pillar to me, my comfort zone anytime that I am down. The man who had waited so long for me to be ready…. Or so I thought.
I have always wondered how a man could have such self-control, how he wouldn’t even want to touch me when I’m around. Here’s my answer, he had been cheating on me the whole time.
The pain of his betrayal stabbed my chest again and again, it felt like I couldn’t breathe. One minute I was excited to come meet my boyfriend, and we can have a nice evening and then the next minute I caught him having s*x with another woman. Ironic!
“You said she isn’t your type, Tyson that all you just wanted to do is to f**k her, and then you dump her. Isn’t she the same girl you told us about that she wouldn’t give you the damn thing?” She asked with a sneer.
My head was banging loudly as her words became louder, I was not his type. He said to them that I wasn’t his type. I wanted to laugh my sorrow out hug couldn’t, it was hard. I couldn’t think or breathe, all I wanted to do was to leave this damn place.
“You have to listen to me Katie, it isn’t what you think….” Tyson said taking a step forward, but I took mine backward.
“Don’t…” I raised my hand, halting his next movement.
“I can tell she’s not as bad as you describe.” Can someone please tell this lady to shut up?
“Shut it, Bae!” Tyson yelled, and I almost chucked at the cute names they both called themselves. The first one was ‘babe’ and now ‘bae’ how foolish can you be Katie?
My eyes met with the lady who was still naked in his bed, and I smiled sadly at her, “You deserve him, Bae.” I said with my mouth slightly open, and I couldn’t care less if she heard what I said. But from her expression, I could tell that she heard me. I need to leave, and I have to do this now.
I felt so sick staying in the same room as them and also dressed like this.
Then I looked at Tyson who was pleading with me with his eyes, his once beautiful gray eyes were the one place I wanted to dive into but now all I could see in them was liar and cheat. He was a cheating bastard and they both deserved each other.
I promised myself that I wasn’t going to cry in his presence, and I was going to do that. I won’t cry for you, Tyson, no matter how much this damn thing hurts. No matter how much you have hurt me, I am not going to cry for you.
Finally, I swallowed the heavy lump in my throat before speaking to him.
“You never deserved me, Tyson.” After saying that, I turned to leave. My skin was crawling with the need to leave the apartment and get away from him. From them.
“Katie, wait.”
I could feel him running after me right after I left the bedroom. He was coming after me naked, still covered in her. I gagged, and I knew I had to leave this apartment before I would throw up.
“You have to hear me out, Katie!” He begged, but I didn’t pay any mind to him.
I walked towards the door and picked up my hoodie that was sitting on a small stool, then hurriedly put it on. My body was shaking with anger, fear, and hurt. I need to leave, I need to leave.
I kept chanting that word in my head.
“Please listen to me.” His hand landed on my arm, tugging me towards him. I stopped and looked at him, this man was my safe place and all I wanted to do was to cry in his arms like I always do. But I couldn’t do it anymore, he wasn’t my safe place. He had been.
But now he smelled of someone else's perfume—a woman's. He was covered in her body’s fluids, and he still wanted to talk about what I had just seen.
With all the anger that has been brewing in me, I let my palm connect with his cheek.
The sound of my palm connecting with his cheek echoed in the living room, but I wasn’t done. I gave him another one on his chest, and then another, and another, and another until I couldn’t count anymore. He was a big bastard.
“Please listen to me, Katie.” He held my hand that was about to hit his chest and I did. I did listen, I wanted to hear the excuse he was going to spew out, and so I waited.
“I’m sorry Katie, but I had to do it.” He paused and used one of his hands to ruffle his already messed-up hair.
“I had to do it to release some stems since you weren’t prepared to give me one.” The bastard.
“I told you the reason I couldn’t give in that easy. I was scared of getting cheated on again, and this is precisely what I was scared of.” I yelled at him.
“You have to calm down and stop behaving this childish, Katie.” I stared at him in disbelief. He didn’t just call my behavior childish.
“You are an asshole, Tyson, and that’s what you are!” I yelled at the top of my voice like a mad woman. I really needed to leave, I told myself to hear him out, and I did just that. He was done talking, now I need to leave.
“I told you before we started dating that I’m seeing someone else, Katie, so why are you acting this way.”
“That was seven months ago! Six months ago, you asked me to be your girlfriend and I agreed. You told me you loved me two days ago, Tyson.” My head was about to blow up with his dumb excuses.
“I do! I still do love you very much, Katie.” I chuckled at his words and then let out a disbelieving laughter with no humor in it.
“Is this how you love Tyson?” I asked, staring at him. Praying my eyes wouldn’t move lower to the thing dangling between his legs, something I was excited to see a few minutes ago.