The Score Read Free

and put the key into the bottom lock of the condo I shared with Matt. At first the door wouldn’t open. I crinkled my face in confusion and sucked my teeth. Then I realized why the door wasn’t opening.
    â€œWhy the fuck did he lock the top lock? He knows we never do that,” I grumbled. I pulled the key out of the bottom lock and shuffled through my key ring until I found the top lock key. I got the door open after a few minutes.
    â€œFinally,” I breathed out as the cool air from the air conditioner inside hit my face. I stepped inside and dragged my bags in after me. I think it was the music blasting and the type of music that hit me first. It was the R&B group 112 singing about making love on a waterbed. That was me and Matt’s song when we first started dating. It still made me blush hearing it since he and I had made love for the first time with that song on repeat.
    I smirked, immediately thinking that maybe he had planned something sweet like a romantic evening for us since we had been kind of at each other’s throats days before.
    With a huge, sexy grin on my face, I walked down the long hallway toward our bedroom. I was going to surprise him since I had busted in on him trying to surprise me. I kicked off my Giuseppes and started unbuttoning my blouse. The closer I got to our bedroom door the more the music moved through my soul. I swayed my hips sexily, practicing for the show I was planning to put on for Matt. I started to knock on the door, but I thought it would be sexier to catch Matt in the act of fixing up our room for my romantic surprise. I can’t even lie, I was giddy inside for the first time in a long time. Matt hadn’t done anything like this in a long time because we had literally been fighting almost every day.
    I finally made it down our long hallway and to the bedroom door. I was almost naked, standing there in just my lace La Perla bra and thong. I reached down to turn the doorknob and that’s when I heard it. It was like a bomb had exploded in my ears.
    â€œEwww, Matt. Oh yeah. Right there. Fuck me harder. Harder!” Even with the music blaring I recognized the voice as Yancy’s. Then . . .
    â€œWhose pussy is this? Call me daddy! Call me your fuckin’ daddy!” I heard Matt growl. Those were words he had said to me exactly like he was saying them to that bitch. My mind was telling me to bust up in that room and kill the both of them, but for some reason my body was not following directions.
    I froze and my feet became rooted to the floor. A tornado of emotions swirled inside of me and I felt unsteady on my feet. Suddenly, I could no longer hear the music blasting and all I could hear was the sound of lovemaking coming from MY bedroom. My heart rate sped up so fast it made my head swirl. I was suddenly unsteady on my feet. My first instinct was to bust in the room and go ballistic on Matt and Yancy’s ass. I wanted to fuck her up so badly that no one would recognize her face and cut his dick off so he’d never be able to use it again. My entire body was trembling and then I realized I was standing there half naked still in my underwear like the damn naïve fool that I was. The fucking joke was on me. Here I was thinking my man was surprising me with something sweet. Instead, I surprised myself. Tears involuntarily rolled down my face before what was happening really registered in my brain. I snatched my hand back from the doorknob like it was on fire. Suddenly my body came alive with the heat of shame and embarrassment. You fucking fool! They’ve been playing you all along! I silently chastised myself.
    I quickly scooped up my clothes and ran down the hallway to the front of the condo. With my chest heaving up and down and my entire body trembling like a leaf in a wild storm I slipped back into my clothes. Whirling around like a madwoman I located my purse, grabbed it and my cell phone, and rushed back out the front door. I