What Love Built

Real Diamond

Diamond

I woke up the next morning to my phone ringing . Answering it , on the other line was Charlene .

"Girl they saying you his muthafucking girlfriend , you got a little paparazzi outside the building right now".

I rubbed my eyes and replied as I sat up "wait what"?

She read the shaderoom caption "Rodney Blake possible new lady has the World shocked as we didn’t think black women wasn’t his type who is this mysterious women”?

“Girl you wasn’t mysterious for long the comments done did their investigation and found you”.

By the time she had said that I was already on the shaderoom that post was from last night but this morning post read...

“Sources say mysterious women works for a well known magazine called Sizzle Up and her name is Diamond Meshae”.

Okay good they didn’t really know my real name thank God.

Going through the comments I read one that said “wow y’all act as if she’s the first black girl he’s dated there was singer Tabi”.

And then someone commented under that same post and said “you could tell that s**t was fake he was just helping her druggie ass get her image back and it didn’t work”.

That right there was some tea that I needed to read . Someone said the way we looked at each other and smiled in our picture looked like love. I wanted to comment, but I didn’t want to get intertwined into the media . I just know my following went up like crazy on i********: and Twitter . I was a dedicated tweeter but today I think I’ll hold off until all this dies down.

“Has Mr. Blake called you I know he probably seen this”.

Checking my phone I did have a text from him asking to go to brunch before I leave. Looking at the clock it was nine thirty and my plane leaves at two.

“No he hasn’t but he wants to go to brunch. If the more we are together the more this rumor of being his girlfriend will look true”. I said into the phone.

“Diamond you know it isn’t true so why feel some type of way just go girl live your best life because when you get back work is waiting”. I blew off and removed the covers “alright fine let me go get ready I guess”.

Getting out the shower I grabbed my phone to text Rodney when I saw I had a missed call. Calling back I replied “why are you calling me”?

“Arusha”?

I rolled my eyes “mom I told you I don’t go by that s**t my name is Diamond you named me Diamond before you married that sick ass man”.

“Arusha your father wants to see you” she said . She was talking like she was being watched or something that was nothing new she only called when she was told to.

“See me for what he has forty something kids I don’t wanna see his sick ass neither do I wanna see you, I don’t have no money for y’all stop calling me”.

She spoke “Arusha please” I just hung up . Every time they called I was reminded of a time in my life from age seven to fourteen that I didn’t want to remember a time I left in the back of my mind. My mom married a cult leader and moved on his farm with me when I was seven. When I turned fourteen I found out the sick bastard was planning on asking me to marry him so I ran away. Stole some money from the farms so called bank and hitched a ride to my grandparents. They quickly got custody of me and I didn’t have to worry about that life anymore, other than the sometimes calls Budda would have my mom make when he needed some money.

No one knew about my actual lifestyle and I wanted to keep it that way. Far as they know the line I told about the military thing was way better than me saying I was in a cult.

Rodney

“So what’s next when you leave”? She asked as we ate brunch.

“Handle some company business in Cali and then some business in Vegas and then it back home in Hawaii by the weekend. What about you”?

She smiled and said “work and then for the weekend rest”.

“Why don’t you come back to Hawaii”.

She grinned and said “why”?

I replied “because you want rest what better way to rest than in Hawaii”?

She sipped her drink and said “okay then I’ll come but first you have to tell me about you and Tabi”?

I knew she had said something to Diamond last night she was at the bar talking to her for a little to long.

“What did she say”? I asked . Trying to see how much of a line Tabitha had to so I could know where to start.

“Nothing really” Diamond stated .

I then spoke “good me and Tabi we were cool grew up together. She needed my help after fall short due to her own demons . When I had to cut her off because she wasn’t bettering herself we fell out . We are cordial but never as close as we once were”.

She was looking at me as I talked . I basically summed everything up in a nice way to her .

“You just dressed that up so nicely telling me without telling me , I can respect it”. I needed to change the subject so I said “now that means I’ll see you in Hawaii this weekend”? The flash from the cameras outside caught her attention “you don’t have those now do you”?

I chuckled “if that was the case they would’ve been got us since that day at the zoo, so no we don’t have those at least now where I reside”.

She took a bite of her bacon and replied smiling at the cameras “good”.