Free Karma's a Bitch by J. Gail

woman. “You gave me gonorrhea you dumb fuck!!”
    Tony just stood there and closed his eyes. He had been hoping that somehow Quanisha didn’t get it too. His worst case scenario was coming true. Only now he wondered if he should have called Quanisha first.
    “Do you know what it feels like, sitting up in that fucking STD clinic alone with all those other infected mutherfuckers looking at you? Do you know how embarrassing that shit is, walking out of there looking around to see who saw you come out?? How could you do that to me Tony, and then leave me by myself to deal with that shit?” Quanisha raged on, not caring about who may have heard her. “I hate your ass!! I hate you!”
    Tony came inside and grabbed hold of Quanisha in a hug. He tried his best to conjure up some tears. “Come on Nish, I’m sorry baby. I would never purposely do this to you.”
    “Then why did you do it! You sorry muthafucka! You couldn’t even call a bitch, in two damn weeks?” she asked incredulously as she struggled to break free from his hug. Tony grabbed the gun out of her hand and placed in the back of his jeans.
    “I said I’m sorry Nish. I wanted to call you, but I thought you were mad at me. And I been dealin’ with all that shit with my mom, I just didn’t know what to do. I been wanting to come over all this time. I missed you baby. Please, please forgive me,” Tony begged. “Please baby?”
    “I ain’t tryin’ to hear all that shit! You left me! I hate you you stupid bitch !” Quanisha screamed. Tony kicked her door closed and picked Quanisha up, carrying her into the bedroom.
    “No! I ain’t having sex with you! Get the fuck off of me!” Quanisha protested and started slapping and scratching at Tony’s face. Tony became enraged when she slapped him across the sides of his face so sharply that it stung, but he kept his composure.
    “I ain’t having sex with you Nish, I just want you to calm down okay? We can talk about this!” Tony pleaded as he flopped her down on the bed.
    “I don’t give a fuck what you got to say, you ain’t got shit to tell me!” Quanisha responded, rolling over on the bed violently until her back was to Tony. She was infuriated with him, but she didn’t want him to leave. She had missed him so badly. Besides her shallow friends and selfish mother, she didn’t really have anybody in the world. While Tony was gone she had felt incomplete.
    Tony was about to go around the other side of the bed and try to talk to her, but instead he decided it was best to just be there. He knew that she would talk to him when she was ready. He lingered over the bed for a long time, watching Quanisha. She never moved an inch. He admired the trace of her figure inside of her pink robe. She was a sight for sore eyes, even in the midst of her anger. Quanisha was so much better than Jenny, even on her worst day. It was a relief to be back with someone he knew and was comfortable with, even if it meant conflict was in his future.
    Tony simply sat down on the bed and took off his shoes and jeans. He laid back on the bed besides his woman and sighed a long sigh of relief.
    “Nish… I love you girl,” Tony said very softly. He couldn’t even believe he had just said those words out of his mouth, but they had just flowed out. He expected some kind of response from Quanisha, but there was none.
    “Nish?” Tony asked a little louder. “You up?”
    The silence on the other end was interrupted by Quanisha’s heavy breathing, which eventually led to heavy snoring.
     

Chapter 5
    It was 5:30 in the evening when Tony stepped out of Quanisha’s apartment. He looked back in the apartment once more, then finally allowed the self-locking door to close.
    Quanisha had since left for work, leavng him in her apartment to sleep. She had slept an uninterrupted and peaceful sleep until 11am that morning. Finally jumping up from the comfort of her bed, Quanisha showered and threw on some jeans and her smock. She had had to