The Marge Vincent Stor by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Four

Aileen had come to spend time with Dickie that Thursday evening. She had called him about a reconciliation. He had told her to come over. They were sitting on sofas in his living room. Rain was pouring down very heavily.

“So, if you’re not spending time with me, you must be spending it with either Jody or Camille.”

“I just talk to those girls because you weren’t around. Both of them have their boyfriends. I never slept with either of them.”

“I wonder what you take me for. I don’t know about Camille. Maybe you just took her partying, but I have it from good sources that you slept with Jody. She never denied it when I asked her. She said you paid her. She said she gave it to you so good that she doubted if you will ever want me again. At least that’s what you told her.”

He burst out laughing.

“She’s just exaggerating to make you jealous.”

“You’re just a big liar. Why would she lie on herself and with you of all persons?”

“So, you don’t believe me?”

“Of course not, I also heard that you’re sleeping with Marge and Jean.”

Again, he burst out laughing.

“Both of those girls have their boyfriends. Marge is along with Dillon and Jean is along with Reece. They were even laughing at me, because you accused me of wanting to sleep with Jody and Camille on the same night.”

“I know that’s what you were planning to do. You were planning to do it with Camille first then take her home. You would then come back and spend some time at the party with Jody before taking her down to the River Road or the Hill View hotel to do it with her.”

“You’re accusing me of sleeping with Jody, but I heard that you were at a party with a guy one day last week.”

“That’s a lie, I was never at any party last week or the week before with any man. I know why you would be embarrassed because I accused you of wanting to sleep with Marge and Jean. It’s because you’re looking both of them.”

“You know the type of person both Reece and Dillon are. Right now, both of them are vexed with me because of the rumour going around.”

“Let’s solve this puzzle by going down to both Marge and Jean’s houses. We can also go up to Jody and Camille’s houses and thrash out this thing with them.”

“What would that prove? Even if all four women deny sleeping with me, you still wouldn’t believe them or me.”

“I’m finished with you. I’m going down to both Marge and Jean’s houses to find out the truth from them. Jody told me the truth. I‘m going down to Camille’s house to find out from her too.”

“You’re just wasting your time. You and I know what the outcome will be already.”

“You’ve slept with me and then took me home and went and slept with other women.”

“You can’t prove that,” he told her as she left.

***

Marge was at her house that evening when Aileen turned up. She was putting her daughter to sleep when Aileen came to see her.

“Aileen, what a surprise, can I offer you something to drink?”

“I’m okay, Marge.”

She took a seat in one of the veranda chairs.

“So how can I help you?”

“Are you seeing Dickie?”

“Of course not. I talk to him sometimes, but that’s all. If you want to know what we talk about. I’m trying to quell the rumor about us being along with each other.”

“I think you’re lying and the two of you are having an affair.”

“Aileen, I think you’ve overstayed your welcome, goodbye.”

“You’re not getting rid of me that easily. Are you sleeping with him?”

Just then Dillon drove up and heard the two of them arguing. He parked his car and came on to the veranda.

“What’s going on here?”

“Marge is along with Dickie and is lying to me about it.”

“I’m not along with him. Why don’t you go and ask Jody?”

“Let’s go down to his house to get some answers from him,” he told them.

“I’m not going anywhere, the two of you can go. I’ll just be wasting my time.”

“So, what are you afraid of?” he asked.

“I’m ashamed of you, Dillon. You’re listening to all that foolishness from Aileen. Okay, let’s go down to Dickie’s house to thrash it out with him.”

Aileen saw the look of rebuke registered on Marge’s face and retorted.

“Marge don’t tell any lies on me. I’ve not filled up Dillon’s head with any lies about you and Dickie.”

“Aileen, when Dickie isn’t sleeping with you, you know who he’s sleeping with, not me.”

“He and you are too friendly not to be sleeping with each other.”

Marge got her next-door neighbour to look after her daughter before going down to Dickie’s house. He was half asleep on his veranda when they came. He wondered what they wanted. Aileen was the first to speak.

“Dickie, is Marge your lover?”

He was fully awake now.

“You asked me about her and Jean and I told you that I wasn’t seeing either of them.”

“So why are you going around boasting that you and she have something going on?” Dillon asked.

Just then Jody came out of the house.

“Dickie, why are these people making so much noise to wake me and my baby up?”

“You big liar, you told me that you never slept with her!” Aileen screamed.

“So, now that you know that it wasn’t true, what are you going to do about it?” Jody asked.

Aileen rushed off the veranda, but Dickie barred her from entering the house.

“Why are you barring me from fighting her?”

“Let her come and fight me. Don’t bar her, let her come.”

The baby started crying, but Jody ignored her.

“Come, Dillon, I have to go home to look on my child. Dickie, the only advice I can give you is to stop mixing up my name in your affairs,” Marge warned him as she and Dillon prepared to leave.

“Don’t ever let me hear you calling her name again,” Dillon warned.

“You’re just being foolish and paranoid. You’re one of those men who doesn’t want your woman to talk to any other man, but yourself.”

Dillon burst out laughing.

“I make more money in a day than what you make in a month. You’re just a poor public health inspector.”

He and Marge left. Dickie turned to Aileen.

“Go back to Portmore and cool off.”

“Why are you preventing me from beating Jody?”

Jody burst out laughing. She took up a baton stick.

“Stop barring her, let her come and fight me.”

But he refused.

“I’ll catch you again, Jody. And as for you, Dickie you can stick to her and leave me alone.”

“Isn’t it obvious that’s what he’s doing? My meat is sweeter than yours, girl.”

“He’ll soon get tired of you. He’s just using you. The woman he wants is Marge.”

“I don’t care about him and her. I just care about me and him.”

“Dickie, I’m not finished with you yet. Jody, I’m warning you to leave him alone. I’ve been with him for over four years. Ask him about the sexy weekends we’ve spent all over the island. I’m going up to Jean and Camille’s houses to warn them off.”

“I think you’re crazy, Aileen,” Jody shouted after her.

Aileen hissed her teeth and continued on her way.