Chapter 2 : The bitchy bestie

Loraine in distress after leaving the Adams mansion decided to go-to her boyfriend's apartment seeking sympathy. She massage her cheeks still aching from the slap her father gave her. Her tears fall again, this is the first time her father raise his hand on her.

 A hanky was offered to her by the driver. " Where to Miss Loraine? " He looked at her with sympathy. Loraine grew up with him who offered her a father figure, which she cannot find in her own father. Who is busy making his wife and their daughter Zeinah happy to their hearts content. But they are not contented in what he can provide  them. If only he knew.  

"Just drop me off the corner, I need something for this."  She points towards her cheeks.

" Don't worry Miss Loraine you still look beautiful, you just have to balance the shade."  He gesture with his hand to slap the other side his face. They both laughed at his joke.

"That bad huh!"  He drop her off at the spot she said, and reminded her to take care. She walks a few blocks further into the rows of residencial houses and  apartment complex. She reached Troy's  apartment  she guess he is still at work, so she decide to cook a meal  out of the things she bought from the grocery on her way here. 

She decided to change her clothes to avoid to soiling her dress and the smell to stick in her clothing. She went to his room.  On her way there she heard voices panting like a long distance runners do, moaning and screaming she found hard to decifer  and she gets nearer the voices became clearer as the bed creaking like hell. Her heart beats triple time afraid to open the door and finding out what is happening who is inside the room. 

"Harder! Faster Troy Ohhh... You are driving me crazy!!!" 

" Are you sure  Lorraine  will not be coming here? "

" No... she is at  her father's mansion... Ahh... "

Loraine grasped in shock she push the door of the room that is left unlock and slightly  ajar. Seeing her boyfriend on top of her best friend Sandra naked like the day they were biorn. The couple stoped when they sense someone else is in the room.

"Lorraine, babe! It's not what you think!" 

" Save your breath Troy! The truth cannot be denied. She saw us with her own eyes." Sandra bravely said.

"You betrayed me! My bestfriend and my boyfriend? You of all he people!" She cannot stand the scene she ran out of the room out of the house and out of their life the people whom she invested her love and compassion.

She had a heavy heart .Trying to assess what she is going to do, will she accept her father's bidding.  Will she forgive Troy if he apologized. But that is out of the question  no woman in her right mind would accept a cheating boyfriend more so when the third party is her bestfriend whom she shares almost anything. 

She and Sandra were friends since they were at grade school. She share  her frustration with her family her secrets even her apartment. She introduced Sandy to her boyfriend. How was she to know that she has designs on her boyfriend. She never thought that Sandy will disregard their friendship for a mere tumble in bed. 

Of course she had known Sandy  she is a flirt and a playgirl. She falls for men like Troy Brimmer, rich , successful and good looking. But isn't a friendship more important than lust? She never suspected that Sandy was attracted to Troy. She even discouraged Lorraine's  relationship with him and they never exchange conversation with each other, or was it just for show so that she will never suspect.

The door of their apartment opened and Sandra walked in. Lorraine look at her waiting for her to apologize or offer words of explanation. "I just came to get my stuff." She said no remorse no regrets she looked at her straight face. Lorraine felt sad. "Oh ... don't give me that look Lorraine! You deserved it." She added while putting her things in the box she brought with her.

"What look?" She asked dumbly.

"The look that you expect me to apologize." 

"Don't I deserve an apology from you?"

"No because as I said you deserve it. You were so busy building a career to show off to your family, you trusted your boyfriend to be faithful and committed to you . Don't you realise that a man have some needs too . You and your puritanical ways, that one should wait until a wedding band will fill that fingers of yours." She chuckled sarcastically.

"But why with you! You are my bestfriend!" She said disgustedly.

"If not me then there will be someone else. I didn't intend it to last long just a little fling just to test little junior, but he got hooked so..."  Slandy hunch her shoulders as if she have no control of it.

"You seduced him!" The realization hit her so hard. "How long have you been cheating on me?"

"Oh six months or so..." she said casually. There was an awful silence. The tension between them is building up.

"When you leave bring everything you own with you. Because I don't want you to darken my doorstep ever again. Say goodbye to the things you left behind after you leave you won't be seeing them ever again. I don't want a reminder of your treachery and betrayal." Lorraine rise from the couch she is sitting and leave to enter her room.

"But!" Sandra's protest fell on deaf ears, as Lorraine slams the door.

Sandra look at her stuff over the years of living together she had accumulated more things that she can carry.but since living as a free loader in Lorraine's apartment she cannot do anything. She just hope that her things will still be here when she come back. But how wrong can she be? 

The next day she returned she saw her things being feasted by the beggars. She went to confront her ex-bestfriend but the code to the doors had been changed. She was ignored by Lorraine staring at her by the window waiting for the police to pick up her  traitor friend.