Desire, Money & S*x

I watched Fox rub his temple while chuckling. How could I have been so stupid to trust him? All that while he was screwing my mother and Maxine too? Unbelievable!

"Poor you! You should be careful with guys like him, they know how to want their cake and eat it too. I have always known that he had something under his sleeves from the moment I first met him. His name Daven Williams and not Fox!" Maxine glared at me hard burning with rage especially when she saw that I had nothing under the sheet. Of course, she was damn jealous, I stooped so low for someone else's guy to screw me.

"I don't know what you saw in me....I fuck don't know why you're hovering around my mother, do you want her money? Say something you imbecile!" I yelped at him.

"What the heck Daven! So you're fooling around with her mom too? I gave you everything, money, I cleared your father's hospital bills and your brother's bail...I loved you, damn it! I stood by your side when you had nothing, made you the man you are today and then....you went fucking some other woman and his daughter!"

Everything Maxine was saying was new. I never made it my priority to know all about him, his family or his flaws. So he was a pauper, a nobody leaving under someone's roof, a parasite for that matter. I was dying and crushing inside, it wasn't about how we felt for each other but sex, sex without emotional strings attached to it. My mother was his kept woman for money and Maxine, his naive girlfriend. I gave him an empty look and he had nothing to say. I needed answers, I needed to know if that moment we shared was just one of his games.

"What about us, Fox? What about my mother? What about her? Where's your stand in all these? Say something, will you?"

I was almost at the verge of breaking down. I couldn't still believe that that was happening right in front of my eyes. It was like a series, those romantic love triangles and how women would pull each other's hair just because they head over heels in love with one man. Maxine didn't dare hurt me or anything, he blamed Fox or Daven as she claimed his name was. I waited for his response, his remorse and for him to write his wrongs.

"You have no mouth now huh! After everything, Daven, so you have been living a double life all along. I made a very huge mistake by accepting you they you were before. I told myself that if I gave you everything you ever wanted, you'd love me and stick with me. I didn't want to date those rich and arrogant guys who lusted for my peaches instead I wanted you for a lifetime. Love is overated after all, you never loved me you insolent waiter!"

Maxine took the flower vase from the bedside table and crushed it on the floor. It was so deafening that I dreaded she'd lose it and hurt the both of us.

"My name is not Daven but Fox Williams. My whole life has been a total lie. I lied to all of you for my own selfish gains. I'm not rich but a mere Janitor's son, we had nothing or at least we have now however little it is, we survive. Thanks to Maxine. I thought I loved you but I'll be lying if I say I love you. You were too perfect for a pauper like me. I'm not in your social your class and the thought of you doing everything for me made me feel like I can't do it because I'm too poor. It was like a insult, that's why I began dating older women for money, I wanted to save up and return everything you ever gave me. I'll forever be indebted to you all my life for helping my family out and I'm sorry if I wasn't enough for you. I'll transfer all my savings to your account and return the car and the credit card you gave me before." He was now apologetic. Maxine pursed her lips, not wanting to hear any of his lame apologies.

"Azora, I'm so sorry for taking advantage of you, your mother offered me money in exchange of pleasure and desires. I accepted it and I'll end it, that's after confessing the whole truth to her. She deserved to know that I made a very huge mistake for screwing her daughter. It wasn't my attention to lay you or anything. I'm sorry."

With that, he walked out leaving both us dumbfounded, we had been played. A fucking sorry wasn't enough for me and Maxine.

"That a*s*ole!" Maxine hissed.

Before I could find any words to say, my girls barged in, drunk.

"Can you take us home, ba...baby girl, c'mon..." Lobelia spoke with a stutter.

"I'll arrange a room for all of you, it's not safe to go back this late in the night." Maxine offered.

"Thanks." I mumbled.

"You don't have to, wait here please." She excused herself and the girls jumped into the large bed while making ambiguous noises.

I stood by the window and strayed to wonderland. I didn't know when I heard soaked the dress Maxine had given me for a change with tears. Why was I crying, he fooled me, mom and the rest whoever they were. My pride as a woman was hurt for expecting a man like him to love me, he wasn't mine in the first place but my horniness took over and I desired and yearned for him.

"That son of a b*tch! He's not worth your tears. You're still young, beautiful, take your time to know someone. I don't regret anything because he wasn't my first love, I knew this was coming. He was never true but I kept hoping that he'll change."

Maxine's optimism was another level. How come Masha didn't know she was into Fox? Maybe they weren't that close or Maxine kept her love affairs a secret. I didn't bother asking her because she and I were never meant to meet if it were not for Masha.

"Your friends are asleep already. You should probably go to sleep and get it rid of the hangover. Goodnight.'' She patted my shoulder and walked out silently. I locked the door, switched off the lava lamp and laid on the couch. I soon drifted to sleep.