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Welcome to Chapter Two of Imperfection. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, if you didn't get a chance to read it you should probably do it before you read this one.
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Thanks Layla sat on the couch blankly starring at the television, she couldn't believe her world came crashing down in one night. She wished that she had someone with more wisdom to talk to. She couldn't talk to Eddie's mom or sister because she tried that before and they didn't believe the things that Eddie was doing. The only advice that Eddie's mom came up with for Layla was to wear more make up and maybe Eddie would stay at home more.
At times like these Layla wished she had her own mother. Her foster mother seemed as though she were jealous of Layla and didn't really want her around. The only reason that she kept Layla around for as long as she did was for the money and to cook and clean. Layla was thankful for the washer and dryer that Jordan and Veronica had given them because she used to have to wash their clothes in the bath tub. Eddie wouldn't even give Layla money to go to the laundromat. Layla got up to put the clothes away that she had washed to try to get her mind off of her past and present. It didn't work. The thought of seeing another pair of Eddie's pants sent the blood rushing back to Layla's head. She just kept thinking, "How could he do this?" She began to cry again and just felt like dying. She didn't continue to put the clothes up, she left them right there. This was Layla's way of being rebellious. She new that Eddie liked everything in order. She left the clothes basket right where it was. She went to the bathroom to wash her face and put her hair into a ponytail for the night. After Layla had placed her hair into a high ponytail the phone rang. Layla rushed to pick it up because this late she just knew it was Eddie.
"HELLO!!!!" she yelled.
"Wooh, what's wrong?" the male voice said from the other end. Her heart sank because she wanted so desperately for it to be Eddie.
"Nothing." Layla replied dryly.
"It sounds like your upset."
"Look Jordan, Eddie's not here."
"I know he's not. I just drove by there and I didn't see his car so I called to see how you were doing. I knew you were still up because you have every light on, Girl you have that house lit up like a Christmas Tree." After Layla found out that Jordan had called for her she began to settle down a bit and for a quick second the situation with Eddie didn't bother her. She and Jordan started talking about a lot of things. It felt so good to talk to someone who was actually listening. She told him about some of the problems she was having with Eddie and he talked about some of the things he disliked about Eddie's sister.
After talking about for what seemed forever, the birds began to chirp.
"Where's Veronica?" Layla asked Jordan.
"Right here sleep."
"And your on the phone talking to me, you have got to be nuts. I'll holla at you another time." and Layla hung up the phone.
Layla laid in the bed just thinking about the conversation that she and Jordan had and it felt great. She almost forgot about all the crap that she was going through with Eddie. Layla looked at the time and it was 7:00 in the morning, that B*&#h got the nerve to stay out all night ain?t that a trip. Right now, for some reason, she wasn?t even mad. For once in her life she didn?t give a damn. For the first night in a long time, she finally drifted off to sleep without crying or worrying herself to death.
It was 10:00am when Eddie walked in the door.
?Hey baby, can you believe them mofo?s arrested me.?
This really made Layla?s blood boil. She just acted as if nothing happened as she got more of his story out of him like she was interested and concerned.
?Really, what happened?? Layla asked sarcastically, but being the dumb *Person* he is, he didn?t catch it. After he went on and on about his terrible night. Layla asked him where the papers were of the list of things that they take from you before they put you in holding.
?What papers??
?The papers that list everything they take off you like your jewelry and money and what not.?
?Oh,? he looked surprised as if he wanted to know how such a naive person like Layla would know something like that. ?I must have left it in the car,? acting as if he was checking his pockets.
?Well go out in the car and get it? she said smartly.
?I?ll show it to you in the morning.? As if that was the end of it.
?You been messing around on me?!? Layla couldn't hold it in anymore. Her heartrate started to beat double time because she knew that these were fighting words. Anything that she questioned Eddie about was fighthing words.
?Heck naw I ain?t been cheatin on you! I been freakin locked up like a common criminal and this how you treat yo man after he's done hard time!?"
"Boy please, you ain't never in yo life seen the inside of a jail so stop frontin like you some kind of thug because all you are is a hoe!......and you need to take that fake grill out yo mouth!"
For a brief second, Layla wanted to jump back because she knew that he was about to swing on her. To her surprise he didn't, this gave Layla the courage to keep going.
Layla told him about the picture and the number of the stripper that she found. Of course he tried to deny it but Layla wasn't havin it.
"First of all it sure looks like you in the picture."
"Oh, ahh....that...that was before I met you."
"Boy please you have on the same suit you have on now....and I bought that!"
"With my MONEY!" Eddie snapped back thus admitting to the crime.
She told him that the rest of the evidence was in the laundry room and she didn't give a damn about how, when, where, or why. Layla just didn't have the strength to keep it going.
He went in the laundry room to look. Boy, was he pissed. Oh well, he made his bed now it is time for him to lie in it.....and I do me lie because obviously that is something that he does so well.
When he returned to the bedroom he accused Layla of invading his privacy.
"What the heck were you doing going through my pockets anyway....see you never did trust me, so it didn't matter if I was messin around or not. You always had it in yo mind anyway."
"First of all I am your wife, I didn't know going through your pockets when I do laundry was a crime...I've been doing it for two years now."
"Who the hell you getting chingy wit *chick*?"
He raised his hand up to her face as usual and was going to hit her.
"Not today," she thought to herself.
Layla picked up the phone to dial his sister house. She thought maybe if she could get someone on the phone he might calm down and not hit her. She was nervous and shakin but she managed to dial the number and just when somone picked up the phone, he knocked the phone out of her hand.
Layla?s heart was pumping blood faster than her veins could take.
"Not today!" she yelled at him. "Oh yeah you can kick my butt, but today is a new day."
"What the hell you gone do?....nothin but get *messed* up as usual.
He balled up his fist and punched Layla straight in the eye. She felt like she was a cartoon character because all she saw was stars.
"YOU...WILL...NOT....HIT...ME...AGAIN! Layla pronounced every word slowly but loudly. "I swear to God, I will leave and this time, I am not playing!"
Eddie looked at Layla surprisingly, "You done lost yo mind!"
"Actually Eddie I think I finally found it and I will not take this crap from you anymore."
"What are you going to do? Where are you going to go? You don't have no money and you don't know nobody." Eddie said with a smirk on his face.
"I don't care anymore! Anywhere is better than here! I'll go to a shelter until I can do better for myself and you know that I will."
Eddie began to calm down and back off because he knew what Layla was saying was true.
"Whatever...I'm going to bed...you coming?"
"With you...I don't think so."
"Well, I'm not sleepin on no couch."
"Didn't ask you to. I had enough sleep while you were out messing around with yo stripper hoes."
Eddie didn't egg it on because he knew he had been wrong. He just gave Layla a strange look and went to bed.
Later on that afternoon Eddie was still sleeping when the phone rang and Layla answered it.
"Hello"
"Hey, how are you doing?"
"I'm good, how are you?"
"I was calling to make sure you were okay....I was the one who picked up the phone this morning....when you guys were in an altercation?"
"Oh....yeah...you mean our norm."
"I could tell you guys were fighting....did..he...hit you?"
"Well you know...it ain't really no thang cause I'm use to it."
"No.no.no....that's never something that a woman or anyone for that matter should get use to."
"I know, your right."
Jordan was so intelligent and much older. He had it all together. Sometimes Layla would sit and think how lucky Veronica was. Why does it seem like some people just don't know what they have?
Just then Layla heard Eddie getting up out of the bed. For some reason she felt rushed to get off the phone, like she was doing something wrong.
"Ahh....Jordan....I gotta go."
"Okay." and they hung up the phone.
Layla saw Eddie getting up out of the bed when she walked into the room. She felt nervous, jittery, and calm...all at the same time. It was a weird feeling. A feeling that she have never felt before.
Eddie apologized to Layla and tried to tell her all his problems about why he did what he did. All Layla knew is that all that went into one ear and out the other when he told her that he was ready to have a baby.
?I know you?ve wanted to have a baby and I guess I?ve been acting crazy because I?ve been selfish and scared. Don?t leave me baby. I know I can be a better husband especially if I was a father. I guess I was afraid of what type of father I would be because I didn?t have one.?
?I know baby, I can understand that because I had the same feeling, wondering if I could be a good parent because I never knew who my real parents were. How do you think it feels to go from foster home to foster home and every man you encounter that?s supposed to be a father figure just wants to sex you.?
?I know baby, I know. I promise I?ll never do anything to hurt you again.?
Right now Layla was high from all the emotions that were flowing around.
After their conversation, Eddie kissed Layla and said he'd see her later.
"Where are you going?"
"I have to go to work baby, if were going to have one we have to start saving up. No more going to the bar for me or buying expensive things because I want to give our baby everything that we never had."
Layla couldn't believe it....maybe things were going to change. Even after that conversation, she couldn't help but have mixed feelings.
After awhile the phone rang and it was Lisa. ?Hey girl, you doing okay??
?Yeah, everythings okay. It's just hard because every time he goes out the door I want to think he?s messing around. We had a good conversation today.? Layla told Lisa everything that happened last night.
?Girl, I keep telling you that dogs don?t change as a matter of fact, they're all the same.?
?Whatever Lisa you just say that because you just pick up dog after dog and sleep with them the same day you meet them.?
?Now you know I would be mad at you making a comment like that if it wasn?t true. Just remember I?m not a hoe cause hoes don?t get paid.?
?Oh yeah, that?s right you?re a prostitute.? We laughed so hard on the phone like we were school girls and then she said, ?Now getting back to the dogs, if they weren?t Jordan wouldn?t be sniffing around your ass now.?
?Girl please, Jordan and I are just cool.?
?Oh yeah, then tell me how many times he call you a day.?
?Just maybe three or four.?
?He calls you more than your own husband." Just then the door bell rang. Layla hung up with Lisa to go and answer the door and it was Jordan. For some reason her heart began to beat ten times faster like she was some little school girl with a crush.
"Hey..." Layla couldn't think of anything else to say. She just stood there looking stuck on stupid feeling embarrassed from the conversation her and Lisa were just having about him on the phone.
"Uh...Eddie said I could come up here and watch the game because something is wrong with our cable at the house."
"Oh..Okay." Layla stood aside and let him through the door.
He came in and sat on the couch and asked Layla to come and sit with him. She did and had noticed that he hadn't turned on the TV yet.
"I don't like the way that Eddie treats you, if you were my woman....I wouldn't treat you like that."
"Oh yeah, and how would you treat me?"
"I would treat you the way a beautiful queen is supposed to be treated."
Layla had butterflies in her stomach. "Is that his way of saying that I'm beautiful?" Layla thought to herself. She hadn't heard that in a long time.
"You know, Eddie is a sucka, I bet he wouldn't be hitting on a grown man like that...look at your eye...that punk needs his ass kicked. See that comes from his mama making him think its ok to hit women."
After Jordan and Layla talked for a while, he asked her if she could get him something to drink. When she walked into the kitchen to get it, he was right behind her.
He pulled her close to him and started kissing her. She felt like he was just pouring straight shots in her mouth because she became instantly drunk off his kisses. His touch felt so tender...his lips so soft...but then his grip so firm. Layla got weak at the knees and wanted to fall to the floor. She felt like she was dreaming.....it was like a soap opera kiss. After what seemed like ages, she somehow managed to pull him away from her.
They both stood there stunned and unsure. Layla and Jordan kept apologizing to each other....but obviously it was just words they thought the other wanted to hear.
They went right back to it again. To be continued.....Will Jordan and Layla go all the way. If they do, will anyone find out, if so who? Is Eddie really a changed man. Will there be a baby? Stay tuned for Chapter Three of Imperfection.
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20 Comment(s) posted so far
On Jul 28, 2006 Gibson Twins wrote:
I loved that story please make chapter 3 soon
On Jul 28, 2006 Kismyname wrote:
This was another nice story! I hope you will continue this one and your others.
On Jul 29, 2006 sunaire wrote:
What?
On Jul 29, 2006 sheneiney wrote:
i loved it
On Jul 30, 2006 ConnieR2003 wrote:
Can't wait for the next in the series, Great story.
On Jul 31, 2006 Olga2102 wrote:
Nice and sweet
On Aug 1, 2006 *louise* wrote:
Love the bed!...where'd you get it?
On Aug 12, 2006 sunaire wrote:
Sorry if you thought I was being rude! I ment what because why would she cheat on him if he is fair to her but she isn't back! Thanks for the guestbook letter too. Rating: 4.5
On Sep 19, 2006 huntress2005 wrote:
great
On Oct 1, 2006 Adira wrote:
Good story. Liked it. Hope for more!
On Oct 11, 2006 Mistress Useless wrote:
Thanks for this - can't wait for next part
On Oct 17, 2006 rafaelwow wrote:
Excelent work!
On Nov 9, 2006 wrote:
On Dec 9, 2006 civetinja wrote:
Thanks! Great story !
On Dec 10, 2006 manuela55 wrote:
On Feb 22, 2007 Palina wrote:
Beautiful!!!!!
On Apr 8, 2007 Born2sing101 wrote:
wheres chapter 1?
On Jun 2, 2007 spacemouse wrote:
Very nice story. Thanks for sharing.
On Jan 31, 2008 jadespacemonkey wrote:
Cool idea for a story...thanks for sharing it...
On Nov 23, 2008 saturrn wrote:
great story...love the storyline