Page 6 of Virgo Type Sh*t
A Few Days Later . . .
As far as I was supposed to know, Faheeta was away at a work conference. The conference was a real thing that served as a perfect cover-up for her baecation with James. As far as James was concerned, we broke up, so I had no reason to care about where he would be.
Every day, I called and texted my best friend to talk, but she had not answered my call. That was the reason that I was at her mother’s house. “I mean, I don’t care how busy she is. She has never gone this long without answering my calls, Mama Tela. Have you talked to her?”
She shifted uncomfortably in her seat. “No, I haven’t heard from her, which is weird. It’s not like her to not check in on Pepper.”
I glanced over at Pepper who sat comfortably in her swing, asleep. It was crazy that now I could see the features of James in her. I always said that she looked like her mother. Any features that I saw in Pepper and didn’t see in Faheeta, I assumed it belonged to her bitch ass baby daddy.
“Um, have you called the hotel or her boss?” I knew she hadn’t, because something told me her ass knew that her daughter was out there whoring with James. I couldn’t be mad at her for having her daughter’s back. The question to myself was whether she told Faheeta that she was dead ass wrong for fucking my man.
She got up from her seat. “I’ll do that. I was actually about to take Pepper to my sister’s house.”
I stood from my seat. “Oh, I’m so sorry for popping up like this. I was just worried. I’m trying everything I can to not fly my ass out to Arizona and look for her ass.”
Mama Tela gave me a fake ass smile. “I’ll make sure I call and check. As soon as I find something out, I’ll let you know.”
I gave her a hug, went over and kissed a sleeping Pepper on her forehead, then was on my way. How did I not scope out these snakes around me? I had to do better because this shit could never happen again.
A few days passed before I heard from Faheeta’s mammy. Her ass called me in a panic to tell me that her daughter was missing. I jumped into action to ask how I could help. It wasn’t until after Faheeta was reported missing that it came out that she wasn’t on her work trip.
“Well, if she wasn’t on a work trip, where was she? Why would she lie? We’re best friends. She could tell me anything,” I said to Mama Tela with confusion laced throughout my face.
Mama Tela held Pepper, but her ass was in a daze. She asked me to come to her house to talk. When she came out of her daze to focus on me, tears wet the corners of her eyes. “Did you know James is missing too?”
Showtime!“Wait, what? What does that have to do with Faheeta being missing? I didn’t know that he was missing. I blocked his ass after we broke up, so I haven’t talked to him.”
The tears finally fell from her eyes. “Um, James and Faheeta were together in Vegas. She wasn’t in Arizona.”
My head tilted. “I—I don’t get it. Why would they be together? They hate each other.” I paused before I allowed my eyes to bulge. “They were together because they’re together,” I said with a mumble.Come on tears . . . Don’t fail me now.I wanted to pat myself on the shoulder when they started to fall.
“I’m so sorry you had to find out this way. They went out to Vegas to get married,” she said through her bullshit ass tears. “They loved each other and wanted to just be a family with their daughter.”
I choked on my own spit. “Wh-what? Their daughter? No, that can’t be right.” I dropped my face into my hands to conceal my smile.
I didn’t know that their asses were out there to get married. That made me feel less guilty about sending them to the pearly gates’ entry line. I was so interested to know how they planned to keep this from me. Both of them were stupid as shit.
“Mekole, I’m so sorry. I told Faheeta that she was dead ass wrong. I didn’t find out about them being together until she got pregnant,” Mama Tela revealed. “I was not happy about it, but she’s my daughter.”
Yep, your dead daughter.“Why are you telling me this now?” My head shook, and tears continued to fall as I asked my question.
“I’m telling you because I don’t want you to be blindsided if it comes out later down the line. I know this is a lot, and I’m sorry,” she said. “The police are saying that it looks like a robbery of some sort, but James and Faheeta are nowhere to be found.”
I intentionally appeared to be in a daze. I broke my daze to glance at Pepper. No matter the situation, she was a gorgeous baby. I would miss her, but there was no way I could continue to be around her. “I hope they’re found, Mama Tela. I really do.” I got up from my seat before I spoke. “As far as me in connection with them, fuck them.”
I turned on my heels and walked my ass out of the house. From this point on, it was fuck all of them. As far as James’s and Faheeta’s bodies being found, good luck with that shit. The Sea of Cortez was 9,843 feet deep and filled with a diversity ofsharks. Mauri made sure there was no trace of me on any camera from Vegas to New Mexico.
When I got home, I sat in my den and looked around my house. I couldn’t call it my home. Since all of this had happened, it felt like anything but home. I pulled my phone out to make a call.
The call was picked up after three rings.“Hey, Cousin. How are you?”Fiona asked with sympathy in her voice.
I was silent for a moment before I let out a cry.“Fiona, I—I just found out that James cheated on me with Faheeta. My fucking goddaughter, Pepper, is his! How could they do this to me?”
Her gasp was loud.“Mekole, please tell me you had a bad dream and you’re just telling me about it. No, Faheeta wouldn’t do that to you. Y’all have been down since, what, middle school?”
I wanted to laugh at how genuinely surprised she sounded. Yeah, I thought of everything. What girl wouldn’t call someone to tell them about their boyfriend and best friend betraying them?“Fiona, I feel like I’m going crazy. Like, this girl named me her daughter’s godmother and knew that my fucking boyfriend was her father. Who the fuck does that?”
“I’ll tell you who, a trifling ass bitch!”Fiona spat.“I should come beat that bitch up. She got the game fucked up. Have you talked to her?”
