Free It's Always The Pretty Ones by Vonda Howard

Are you still in love with her?”
    “I’m gone.”   He grabbed his briefcase and walked out.   He just shook his, trying to figure out what in the hell was in that girl’s head as he walked to his car.   His phone rang just as he pulled out of the parking lot.   “Hello?”
    “Good morning sunshine!”   Romeo said on the other end of the line.
    “Yeah, what’s up?”   Anton exhaled.
    “You don’t sound good. Dazzy, I assume?”
    “I don’t even feel like getting into it, man.   What’s going on with you?   How are things with Krystal?   Things are getting pretty serious, huh?”
    “I think so.”   Romeo said with a smile.   “I really care about her, man.   That’s saying a lot for me!”
    “”I know!   Usually you would have gone through half the city by now!”Anton laughed.
    “Trust me.   I have been tempted.   Like last night, for instance.   I met Krystal at Jaded , and she had an old friend there with her.   Man, the minute Krystal left to go to the bathroom, this chick had her hands all over me!”
    “What?   What happened?”
    “It took every bit of everything in me not to yank her up and bang her eyes out, but I held it back.   She was fine though, dawg.”
    “Well, I’m proud of you.”   Anton said with a smile.
    “Thanks man.”
    “A’ight, well I should be there in a few.   I’ll catch you when I get to the office.”
    “Cool.   See you here.”
     

     
     
    Anton called out for Colbey when she walked past his office after the meeting.  
    “Hey!”   She smiled.
    “I just wanted to apologize for how Dazzy treated you yesterday.”
    “It’s okay.”
    “No, no it’s not.   She was way beyond rude.”
    “Well, she was, but I’d be jealous if I had you as my man too.”  
    “No, you’d be lucky if you had me.”   Anton joked.  
    “You are still as crazy as ever.”   She laughed.  
    “Well, look at this !”   Dazzy’s voice said from the doorway near Anton’s office.  
    “Dazzy, what are you doing here?”   Anton was very irritated by her surprise visit.
    “Well, I thought I would stop by and take you to lunch, but I see you’re already busy.”   She looked Colbey up and down.
    “It is so not what you think.”   Colbey tried to explain.
    “Shut up , bitch!”   Dazzy shouted.
    “Be quiet!”   Anton pulled Dazzy into his office.
    She pulled her arm away.   “Don’t you tell me to be quiet!”
    “I think I should go,” Colbey said as she turned to leave the room.
    “I’m sorry for all this.”   Anton apologized.  
    “Why the hell are you apologizing to her?   I’m your damn fiancée, not her!”   She shouted once again.
    Livid and embarrassed, he grabbed her arm and drug her outside his office and into the stairwell.   “What the hell is wrong with you?”
    “What’s wrong with me? Are you serious?   I come here with the intention of taking my fiancé to lunch, and I walk up on you all up in another woman’s face!”
    First of all, I was not ‘ all up in her face’ .   We were just laughing.   That’s it!”
    ‘Whatever Anton, I’m not stupid.   I have been through all this before.   I will not be walked over again!”     She banged her hand on the metal star rail.
    Anton squished his nose up.   “Where is all this coming from?   I have never given you a reason to distrust me, Dazzy.   Why are you acting like such a psycho?”
    “Fuck you, Anton!   I am not gonna let you talk down to me and make me feel bad about myself when you are the one that’s wrong!   You and your bitch sister!”
    “What the hell does Jamelah have to do with any of this?”  
    “Oh don’t try to play me, Anton!   I know you guys talk about me behind my back.”   Her eyes began to well.
    Anton couldn’t do anything but look at her, as now he knew she was truly disturbed.   “I don’t know what to say to you, Dazzy.   I have no idea where all this is coming from.   None of it’s true.”
    “Yes it