Bad Apple - the Baddest Chick(58)
Apple walked up to two passing young ladies and asked, “Any of y’all seen Ayesha around?”
“No,” they replied.
Apple kept it moving and continued to ask around for her, but no one knew where she was at. She was beginning to think they were covering for her, knowing she was there to hurt Ayesha for the gossip she was spreading.
An hour later, Apple still didn’t have any luck finding Ayesha, so she decided to call it quits and come back the next day to continue her search. She stood beside her Benz, the sun slowly dropping below the horizon. The streets were teeming with people, from the young to the old, and with the first day of school right around the corner, the young ones were trying to have fun for the last few days of summer vacation.
Apple lit up a cigarette, leaned against her Benz, and looked around at her old hood. She didn’t live too far from it and didn’t miss it at all. She hated the sight of her old building—too many memories for her. She wanted out of Harlem, period, but the only place she’d been to was DC.
She exhaled the smoke, took a few more pulls, and was ready to extinguish her cigarette and get into her car. Just then, she noticed Cross’ gleaming black Range Rover coming to a stop across the street from her. Her heart fluttered, and she couldn’t keep her eyes off his truck. The windows were tinted, and his chrome wheels shined like a brand new dime. Apple knew it was Cross’ truck because she knew that man’s ride from blocks away. She missed staring at her eye-candy. Apple so badly wanted to jump his bones, and in a heartbeat, she was ready to become his woman. The way he made her feel, it should be considered a crime. She would have done anything for him.
Apple watched from the short distance of three lanes of traffic, as Cross stepped out of his truck clad in a bright red velour sweat suit, matching Jordan’s, and his long chain gleaming with diamonds. She smiled, feeling like she had the courage to finally holla at him the way she wanted to, but her smile was short-lived when she saw Kola step out from the passenger’s side of the Range Rover. Apple looked on with bewilderment, which soon turned to bitterness and hate when she witnessed Cross pull Kola into his arms like she was his woman, hugging and kissing on her in public.
“Oh no, this bitch didn’t,” she whispered under her breath in total disbelief.
Apple was fuming and couldn’t keep her eyes off Kola hugged up on Cross. It was apparent that they had become a couple. She wanted to know how the f-uck it happened. She just stood there watching the two enter the Chinese takeout spot. For a moment, Apple was lost. It seemed like her nightmare was never-ending. She couldn’t believe how Kola betrayed her. Kola knew of her feelings for Cross.
She tossed her cigarette and hurriedly moved across the street, not caring about traffic, and stormed into the Chinese establishment.
“Bitch, how f*ckin’ dare you cross me like that!” she shouted, attracting the attention of other customers.
Kola was hugged up on Cross as they waited for their food. When she saw Apple barging into the place, she smirked. Then she suddenly slid from her man’s arm and rushed toward Apple with that same fury. The twin sisters were up in each other’s faces, while the customers stood around watching the two identical twins size each other up.
Kola shouted, “I just stepped up on somethin’ that you were too scared to push up on!”
“Nah, f-uck that! You knew how I felt about him! How you do me like that, Kola? You a foul bitch!”
“Bitch, f-uck you! Don’t come up in my face talkin’ about betrayal, after what happened to Nichols! You ain’t got no f*ckin’ right!”
“Why you gotta keep throwing that in my face?”
“’Cause you and Mommy are some dumb bitches. But it’s all good, ’cause you gonna get yours, bitch!”
“Kola, don’t f-uck wit’ me!” Apple was so close up on her sister, she could see the pores of her skin.
Cross got between the two. “Y’all need to chill.” He grabbed his woman away from Apple, who was crushed when she saw how Cross took hold of Kola in that caring manner.
“Yeah, I got him, bitch. He’s wit’ me. You hear me, tramp? I got him. So go and continue f*ckin’ wit’ that rapist killer, ’cause I’m doin’ better!”
Apple exited the food spot with tears in her eyes and rushed across the street to her ride. She hastily got in behind the steering wheel, started up the car, and peeled off without caring about oncoming traffic, causing an approaching car to slam on its brakes to prevent crashing into her Benz.
Apple raced back home and hurried through her front door. She cried out for Denise, but she wasn’t home. She peeled off her clothing, leaving a small trail from the living room to the bathroom. She suddenly needed to cleanse herself in the steaming hot water. She got into the shower and let the hot water cascade off her rich light-brown skin, wishing she could just wash the pain and heartbreak away. She was f*cked up. Just thinking about Kola f*cking Cross made her want to go insane. It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. Cross was supposed to be her man. She was the one he was supposed to wife up.
Apple remained in the shower for a long time, wanting to make the pain go away, scrubbing herself and letting the water soothe her. So much had happened in the past three months. In fact her life had gone a quick 180 degrees in such a short time.
After spending an hour in the shower, she stepped out the bathroom, wrapped in a towel, to find that Supreme and Guy Tony had arrived and were lingering downstairs.