recognize the black SUV, so she stayed inside her locked car with the engine running. When the driver got out and came around the front of her car she saw it was Eric, and she turned off her car ready to get out and finish the job Adrian had started.
“You have some nerve following me home after all this shit you caused. Nigga, you need to leave now before I kick your ass!” Ashley shouted as she headed toward her front door.
“Ashley, wait…I need you to go with me. You have to…” Eric said.
“Are you fucking kidding me?!” Ashley interrupted. “I already told you this thing with us…”
“Yo, you need to hear me out. Your dude who stormed in the club ready to jump me is now over at my girl’s place now as we speak. Now tell me why that is—shouldn’t he be here tending to you and your needs, trying to make things right with you?”
Eric’s words stopped Ashley in her tracks. Adrian had said he was going home so why would he be at Lila’s parents house?
“Eric, how do you know Adrian is there if you’re here after following me from the club?” Ashley turned to confront Eric on his claim.
“Because I called her as soon as I got to my car to tell her about what that nigga pulled. She’s been giving me such shit about what happened before and my reaction. I wanted to tell her how he showed his ass since the asshole can’t seem to do any wrong in her eyes. Well, while I was on the phone with her about to tell her what happened, I heard her doorbell. Of course I stayed on the phone to see who was coming over that late besides me, and that’s when I heard the fucker’s voice announcing it was him at the door,” Eric said looking Ashley directly in the eyes.
Ashley stood speechless for a moment, but then she realized she needed to go see for herself. She headed back to her car with Eric running to try to get in on the passenger side. She immediately pulled off not wanting to be bothered with Eric but then she remembered that she didn’t know where Lila and her parents lived, so she quickly halted on her brakes.
“I’m following you, so hurry up!” she shouted out her window.
“He stood tor a quick moment staring back at Ashley ready to question her about why they couldn’t ride together, but then he realized he needed to hurry up and get her to Lila’s while Adrian was still there. As he jumped in the car and prepared to drive to Lila’s the only thing in his head was getting back at Adrian and hurting him some more. Bringing him face-to-face with Ashley at Lila’s place would do just the trick. Ashley followed Eric as he hurried to a neighborhood that Ashley was actually quite familiar with. She had church family that stayed right around the corner, as a matter of fact, and she used to hang out in this neighborhood during her teen years. Eric pulled over directing Ashley to pull up beside him and let her window down but as soon as she did that she saw Adrian’s car in front of a house on the corner of the next block.
“You see your dude’s car there, I take it. I told you something was going on!”
“Let me handle this!” Ashley said as she drove off and pulled up right beside Adrian’s car parking right in the middle of the street. At this moment Ashley could not care less what attention she was bringing to herself. All she could think of was how embarrassed she was for her man to be here at this bitch’s house after telling her that he couldn’t speak to her and needed to cool off. He had lied and said he was going home, but he ends up here? Ashley went to the trunk of her car, pulled out the tire iron, and began slamming the iron on the opposite side of the car where it was originally damaged from the fight with Eric. Ashley never reached the front door because the noise attracted Adrian’s attention and made him run outside with Lila following him.
“Ashley, what are you doing?” Adrian shouted at the top of his lungs.
“I should be asking you what the fuck are you
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