The Last Black Unicorn

(Ann) #1
Tiffany:    “Would  you say that    in  front   of  your    brother?”

Sister: “Yeah!”

So  we  got with    Titus:

Tiffany:    “What   did you tell    me  about   Titus?”

Sister:  “ͳat    he  cheating    on  you,    girl.   He  cheating    on
you with this girl that he tried to get to be a stripper.
Her name is Bertha.”

Tiffany:     “Bertha?    How     you     gonna   be  a   stripper    with
the name Bertha?”

Titus:   “She    lyin’!  She     don’t   know    what    she’s   talking
about! She lyin’!”

I believed him. I didn’t believe the little girl. I don’t know
why I didn’t believe her, because she had nothing to lose by
telling the truth. I was thinking maybe she was watching too
much TV or something. Like I said, I was twenty-one and
stupid.
ͳree months go by, and slowly things got worse. To the
point where we were basically broken up, except not
completely. You know how with some relationships, the
breakup takes months to really get momentum and be real,
but you know it’s there long before? That’s how it was.
It just so happened that I was scheduled to go on a
cruise with my auntie. Titus had zero interest in that, until

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