Eye Candy by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Author:ReShonda Tate Billingsley [Tate Billingsley, ReShonda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

I had snatched up my phone so quickly when I saw Alvin’s number, I didn’t even get a chance to say hello.

“Okay, who died?”

“You’re about to,” I replied.

“Seriously, Maya?” Alvin said, exasperated. “I’m in the middle of this important meeting and you’re blowing up my phone, having the secretary come and get me, and nobody’s dead for real?”

“Not yet anyway.”

He had the nerve to act irritated. “Maya, what are you talking about? I really don’t have time for this.”

“Oh, but you have time to be sitting up kissing on your ex-girlfriend?”

Silence filled the phone. Then, he said, “What in the world are you talking about?”

“Hold on a minute.”

“Maya, I don’t . . .”

I couldn’t even hear the rest of his sentence because I pulled the phone away from my ear. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this in the first place. I opened the magazine up, snapped a picture of the page and texted it to him. “Check your phone,” I told him.

“I’m on my phone. Why can’t you tell me what this is about?”

“Because I can show you better than I can tell you. Check your phone,” I repeated.

“Hold on,” he huffed. I could hear him fumbling around and then silence again.

“Hello?” I said.

“Maya, it’s not even what it looks like.” Oh, his entire tone changed now.

“Don’t tell me it’s not what it looks like, because it looks like you’re kissing on your ex-girlfriend. But I know better than that. Is it Photoshopped? It better be Photoshopped,” I said, before he had a chance to answer.

“I wasn’t kissing her. She kissed me and it caught me off guard,” he replied.

“Whatever, Alvin,” I yelled. “This doesn’t look like you were caught off guard.”

“Can we talk about this when I get home?”

“No, we can’t! We’re gonna talk about this right now!”

He let out a heavy sigh. “Maya, I don’t want Marisol.”

“I can’t tell.”

“Regardless of what it looks like, it was nothing.”

“You are so full of it, you liar!” It was taking everything in my power not to cry. Out of every guy I had ever dated, Alvin was the last one I ever thought would cheat on me. “How could you do this to me? And with her, of all people? She’s about to go on trial for trying to kill me. You freakin’ turned her in. And now, you’re out playing kissy-face with her?” I screamed.

“Maya, I have to go back in this meeting. I’ll be there to meet you after school so we can go somewhere and talk.”

“Alvin!” But before I could say another word he hung the phone up. I wanted to scream. Oh, he could try and meet me all he wanted, but I wouldn’t be going anywhere with him. Ever again. If I didn’t have a presentation in my last class, I’d leave right now.

I don’t know how I made it through the rest of the day, but I did and as soon as that seventh-period bell rang, I hightailed it out of there.

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