Wednesday, March 12, 2008

CHEATERS Will Let Me Know

"I'mma be working a little late tonight. So you can put my dinner away. Don't wait up." Then there was silence. Kevin was working late again for the fourth time this week and Tamika was suspecting something. Was he really working late or was he doing his dirt? Whatever the case, she was gonna find out. But for now, she'll play her part as wifey. It was around 6:30pm when Tamika received that phone call. Kevin usually got off from work at 8:00pm. It was now 12:00am. "I could have sworn that the business closed no later than 9:30pm; and it only takes him a half hour to drive home. I know he don't think I'm that stupid," she thought.
An hour and a half later Tamika hears Kevin's keys unlocking the front door. "Mika, Mika come here" Kevin shouted. He heard Tamika's slow footsteps coming down the stairs. When she finally approached him, he noticed suspicion on her face. He began to recite his rehearsed excuse. "Baby, let me tell you how the job decided to stay open three hours later than usual. Maybe because so many people came in. Oh my God I'm so tired. Warm my dinner up while I'm in the shower." Kevin then brushed past Tamika and ran up the stairs straight to the bathroom.
She knew something was up because he never took a shower straight after work with the exception of his four late days. "Who the hell needs to rush in take a shower after work when all he does is answer the damn phones?" she thought. Tamika was determined to get to the bottom of this.
As she sat in bed watching CHEATERS, she peeked over at Kevin and noticed he was looking back and forth between the TV and Tamika. "I know she don't know. I know she don't know." Kevin kept saying over and over in his head. Tamika smiled, as if she knew exactly what Kevin was thinking. "This show is crazy. Right boo?" Tamika said to Kevin with a devious grin on her face. "Naw, it's a little dry. Cut the TV off and let's get some shut eye." he replied. The guilt was eating him up inside. "I'm calling that show." Tamika mumbled as she turned over to go to sleep.
The next morning when Tamika awoke, she looked on the other side of the bed to wake Kevin up for work. He had left already. 'Oh he must really think I'mma fool. It's 6am. He don't have to be at work til 9.' Tamika got out of bed to search for the yellow pages. She was seriously gonna call CHEATERS. It didn't take CHEATERS investigators more than two days to get all the proof they needed. He wasn't working late at all.
Kevin was found working the back rooms at a local strip joint. A different kind of "working late". This strip club was hectic. CHEATERS had to dodge naked ho's and booty shaking shorties. When CHEATERS brought Tamika to the strip joint to bust Kevin, he nearly jumped out his skin. "What the...Tamika, what are you doin' here?" Kevin shouted. "Kevin who is she" asked the lady companion. "I'm his wife. Who the hell are you?" Tamika replied. "I'm his woman. At least for the night so I suggest you back up off my man!" yelled the woman. "Kevin, when you get home, all ya stuff will be waiting for you on the front lawn. Chuck deuces!" Tamika yelled and stormed out the strip joint. "I hope he don't think he gonna be with me when he givin' up that ass over here. It wasn't that good anyway!"

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