The Zenya Bernard Story by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Four

Margot had just come off the phone to Tena when Britney called

her. She had gone for a sorrel beer out of her refrigerator. She wondered why Britney was calling her. If it was the same things that Tena talked to her about, she would cut off the call.

“What a surprise to hear from you. I hope you’re not going to ask me about Dean.

“That’s exactly where I’m going. I think you’re a shameless girl. You’re involved in prostitution. Last night you were on the Keswick back road having sex with Dean.”

“You’re making that up. I went out with him, but I was never on the back road. You’re just trying to find out what he and I were doing last night. You’re just talking a lot of foolishness. I’m now seeing him. I don’t know why you should have a problem with that seeing that you’re neither his fiancé nor his wife.”

“I’m seeing him. He must have hit his head or something to have been with a cheap girl like you. I know that once the money is right, you’ll open your legs to just about any man.”

“Since he’s now my boyfriend, it’s none of your business what I do with him. You should come out of my business and leave me alone.”

“He’s not your man as I said he was looking some cheap fun and he got it from you. You should go about your business and leave him alone,” Britney declared.

She drank some more of her drink before continuing.

“I was along with him before you pushed yourself up on him. He’s just using you and will run you away from him as soon as he’s finished with you.”

“He has already left you. He’s along with me now. You’re past tense as far as he’s concerned.”

“We’ll see Margot, we’ll see,” Britney said and ended the call.

***

An hour later, Britney called Ashley. Ashley wondered if she should take the call from her or cut it off. She drank some more of her ginger beer. She looked at the phone again.

“How can I help you, Britney? I hope it’s not the same foolishness that Tena came to me about. I’ll cut off the call if you bring up anything about me and Dean.”

Britney drank sone more of her drink while Ashley took some more of her ginger beer soda.

“That’s just where I’m going. So go ahead and cut off the call.”

But Ashley didn’t cut her off .

“Just like how you and Dean are friends so is he and I. I’m free to do anything I want with him. In other words, I’m announcing myself as his newest girlfriend.”

Britney drank some more of her drink before she burst out laughing.

“Margot got in before you did. At least she announced herself as his newest woman. I don’t know where you two girls are going. I can tell both of you that he’s using you. He will soon get rid of both of you.”

Ashley laughed and drank some more of her drink.

“If he hasn’t gotten rid of a classless girl like you, I don’t see why he would want to dump me. He might want to dump a harlot like Margot, but not me.”      

“I thought Margot was the one who was always insisting that she had class. Well, this is a new one, but I’ll warn you and her and even Tena too for that matter, that all of you are wasting your time. I have him locked and there’s nothing any of you girls can do about it.”

“Go about your business, Britney, all you want to do is to fast in my business,” Ashley told her and cut off the call.

***

Saturday night, there was a dance in Keswick. Karl went to dance with Carlene infuriating Zenya.

“Karl, what the hell do you think you’re doing by going to dance with Carlene?”

“So, what’s wrong if I dance with him? I own a part of him too. You’re going on as if he belongs to you alone.”

“Go to hell Carlene, look how long you’ve been looking him and he’s still with me.”

Wendel went to dance with Zenya infuriating Karl and his new woman, Brandy.

“Zenya, you’re criticizing me for going to dance with Carlene. But now you’re dancing with Wendel. I wonder how you expect me to feel?” Karl asked.

“I came to this party with you only to find you now want to abandon me for Zenya,” Brandy protested.

“I’m not abandoning you for her. I’m just trying to calm things down.”

“Don’t try to trick me. I didn’t come to this party to get this kind of treatment from you. I’ll leave and go home if you don’t stop dancing with her.”

When the song finished playing, Wendel went back to Brandy, but Karl continued dancing with Carlene. A woman came to the party

unescorted. She was Caslyn Holmes. Dean went to dance with her infuriating both Tena and Britney.

“Dean, what the hell are you doing? You’re leaving me for Caslyn? I should never have come to this party with you,” Britney protested.

“What’s wrong if I dance with her? It’s not like I’m going to bed with her.”

“Why didn’t you bring her to the party then? Why did you bring me?” she asked him.

But he persisted in dancing with the girl.

“I should have known that something like this was bound to happen from the moment I saw you bring that classless girl, Britney to this party,” Tena said.

Britney drank some more of her sorrel beer. Tena drank some more of her melon beer.

“Tena don’t be fresh with me. I want to know who you’re calling classless?”

“Britney, you deserve any name I call you. I heard that you cursed off both Ashley and Margot and called them all sorts of names. But you’re worse than them.”

Tena drank some more of her beer and put away the bottle.

“Go to hell Britney, you can stay and fight Ashley, Margo and Caslyn for him, but I’m going home.”

She went outside the venue and got into a taxi and left for her house.

Britney saw her leaving and burst out laughing. She was still

drinking her beer. She came over to where Ashley and Margot were sitting down.

“What are you two girls waiting for? He doesn’t want anything to do with either of you tonight, so you might as well go home.”

“I’m minding my own business. Maybe that’s what you should do too,” Margot told her.

Britney finished drinking her beer and put away the bottle.

“I know what you girls are looking, but it won’t happen tonight,” she told them as she headed out of the party to a parked taxi.

“Go to hell, Britney,” Ashley threw a parting shot at her.

Ashley and Margot stayed behind, but Ashley soon left.

“Margot, you’re willing to take anything he dishes out to you. People say that you’re one of his call girls. I know that he’s paying you to sleep with him.”

“I shouldn’t be talking to a girl like you. The grapevine has it that you open your legs to just about any man. All he has to do is to give you some money.”

“Go to hell, Margot,” Ashley shouted and boarded a waiting taxi headed for her house.