I spent that night out of town and called in sick to work the next day. I checked the newspaper for any report of what happened to Device, but nothing was there. I wondered if she had survived, because when I left her, she seemed as dead as Judas Iscariot. Then I saw something in the paper that made my heart jump and cringe all at the same time… Jason, MY Jason.
“-- had a gun, when bystander Jason Washington tackled the assailant and took the pistol from him. Jason was shot twice in the arm, but was the hero of the day by beating the gunman and holding him with only one arm until the police arrived on the scene. Washington’s wife, fitness model and former kick boxer Jennifer “Jenny Bomb” Washington, said that she was worried about her husband for those brief moments. ‘He has always acted like he has something to prove,’ Jennifer said smiling and nudging Jason, ‘But he’s a true hero and a great man.’ Jason Washington was honored by the police department and made a statement: ‘I am just thankful to God for such a wonderful woman like my wife, Jenny. I didn’t believe in love until I met Jenny and we are so happy together. She helped me believe in myself and be all that I could be.’”
Jason…in a year, he leaves Device, meets a fitness guru and gets married? It all just didn’t add up. Love takes time and I thought he knew that… he had to be doing something out of the ordinary; he was a man and men use women and lie and cheat and rape women. That is what he is if he was stupid enough to fall into the device’s trap. There was a picture of the two of them in the paper and I saw both of them on the news. He, a tall brown skinned African American male and she, long straight blonde hair and blue eyes… boy, the southern media just ate that up, I’m sure.
I traded my Solara in and got a white Lexus as my handbagging business had really taken off. I had an attorney and an agent and they felt I was more than attractive enough to be the spokeswoman for my own company, just like Kimora Lee Simmons is the spokeswoman for Baby Phat. But my evenings were spent looking for Jason. Now that I knew where he lived, which wasn’t that difficult to find out after he became a local hero, I would watch him leave the house. He’d be gone all day long and come home late at night, just like he did when he was with me. His stupid blonde wife didn’t seem to pay it any mind. She’d leave not too long after. I decided to follow him one day to see who he was fucking this time. I pulled into the hospital and slowly followed him from behind, making sure that he didn’t see me once we got into the building. I had only met Jason’s mother once, but I recognized her lying on that bed, skinny from what I figured was cancer and Jason, sitting beside her with tears coming down his face.
“Momma loves you, Jason. Momma is so sorry she treated you the way she did when you were younger. I was just confused; I hated men. But look at you; you’d become the best man I know, and the only man I could ever love. I’m so sorry.”
Jason- It’s okay, Momma. I love you. I made some mistakes and I hurt some feelings, but I’ve changed who I am too and I want you to know that I’ll be here every day and you’ll get better and leave this place. We’ll start all over, Momma. We won’t think about what was; we’ll think about what’s now.
“Excuse me.”
A very sweet and polite voice. A tall blonde woman with big breasts and a perfect body walked right passed me, smiling apologetically and I recognized her from the video shelf at Blockbuster Video as Jenny Bomb, the workout guru, the former kick boxer… but I know her as Jason’s wife. The perfectly tanned blonde haired blue eyed angel that he settled with after he broke up with me and stopped using his device.
Momma- There she is. What a beautiful couple the two of you make.
Jenny- It was truly love at first sight. Jason was at a low point when I met him, and--
Jason- (jokingly) Oh Jenny, Momma has heard the story a million times.
Jenny- (nudging Jason) Ooh, right in the ribs. (whispering) You’re gonna get it when we get home. (Back to Momma) Jason is truly the man of my dreams.
Jason- And you’re the woman I’ve always wanted, Jenny. You took me and gave me back my will and you took me seriously, so I had to take myself seriously. You know what, Momma?
Momma- What that, baby?
Jason- I’ve decided that I’m going back to school to get my Master’s. Jenny and I talked about it, and I think that I can do more than just be a district manager at Macy’s.
Jenny- But you take your time; I’ve got another series of videos coming out and I’m going to be in the next Clint Eastwood directed movie. Plus, we’ve got the trust fund set up for when we’re ready to have children and we’re going in with Brad and Angelina on that Hurricane Katrina rebuilding project in New Orleans East. I can’t wait to see Jason make his speech alongside Brad and Angelina at the United Nations. Your heroic deeds have really paid off, honey.
Jason- That’s because I have the perfect woman to stand beside me instead of behind me, Jenny.
Momma- Oh! Such love… so much happy happy love!
I left them right there and fought back the tears on my way to the car. For some reason, seeing them together and seeing that he wasn’t the sex-driven asshole that he was when I last saw him made me even angrier. And that blonde bitch wasn’t the snobby stuck-up whore I figured her for. None of it could be possible, could it? I knew what I had to do… Jason broke me as a woman and I vowed that no man would ever break me again. This is what I went in for and this is what must happen for me to be satisfied. Ever since that moment he left, my heart has been frozen. It’s like having short term memory loss, like in that movie “Memento.” All I go back to is the way he broke my heart. I have to take something from him the way he took away my will to live freely and my will to choose. The next morning, I watched him kiss his wife goodbye as he left for work. By this time, I knew he wasn’t cheating on her; he was working long hours, and every time he stopped to get a gift, it was for her. It made me so fucking sick. That morning when he left, that sling still on his arm from the two bullets that made him a hero, I parked my car down the street and made my way to his door. The blonde opened the door and smiled; she was wearing a pink robe and I was in a gray sweatsuit with gray pants, a white shirt, and gray jacket to match my gray and white sneakers.
Jenny- Hi, how may I help you?
Me- I need to talk to you about Jason… your husband.
Jenny- What about him? Is he okay? He just left about an hour ago… ohh, he didn’t get into an accident, did he? His arm is in a sling, and--
Me- He’s been cheating on you.
Jenny- What?!! No… no…
Me- He’s been cheating on you with me. May I come inside?
Jenny turned and covered her face, blindly walking forward and sobbing loudly as she dropped on the beige couch in their spacious living room. I smiled, cracked my knuckles and closed the door.
MAILMAN by Soundgarden
Hello don't you know me
I'm the dirt beneath your feet
The most important fool you forgot to see
I've seen how you give it
Now I want to receive
I know that you would do the same for me
I know I'm headed for the bottom
But I'm riding you all the way
For all of your kisses turned to spit in my face
For all that reminds me which is my place
For all of the times when you made me disappear
This time I'm sure you will know that I'm here
I know I'm headed for the bottom
But I'm riding you all the way
My place was beneath you but now I'm above
And now I send you a message of love
A simple reminder of what you won't see
A future so holy without me
I know I'm headed for the bottom
But I'm riding you all the way
“Bitch” Part 2
Blood falls…
Her head hits that big mirror they have hanging over the fireplace and the glass shatters into a million pieces. I see the red stain and her blonde hair sticking to the wall; and I throw her to the ground. I take time to look at the portion of the glass still remaining on the wall attached to the frame, that greater whole of who I am. I’m strong and I’m dominant and nothing can stop me. I live for nothing, I want for nothing, but I am something… I am woman and I am woman unchained, undefeated and unloved. But I love myself.
Jenny lies on her back looking up at me, sobbing tears running down her face and blood slowly oozing from her broken nose. Around her are pieces of glass and I can see myself in all of them as so many flawed and broken woulda coulda shoulda what if alternate versions of me surround Jason’s so-called perfect woman. I kick her hard between her legs and she recoils, making a loud EEE! sound and then going into a coughing fit.
Me- He’s not cheating on you, Jenny. I told you that just to get into the house. He’s cheating on me with you… because he NEVER told me that he was leaving me!! He just fucked me and disappeared to be with you, you fucking cave whore!
Jenny- Why? Why are you doing this to us?
Me- Because it’s NOT FAIR!! All the shit that happened to me in my fucking life, I did NOT ask for it!! He fucked me and left me, but for you, he’s decided to be a good man!! Well, fuck him and fuck you!!
Somewhere deep inside of every woman, there is a heart of gold. Sometimes, after so much time, that heart can get dusty and even rusty, that heart still perseveres though. But a lot of times, that heart of gold can be melted by a simple spray of sperm. We are the mothers, the sisters, the daughters, the wives and the aunts. We are the soldiers and warriors because we have to battle that glass ceiling that was created by these fucks who think that we are simply here to support them. She struggles to get to her feet and I step on her heart, pinning her back down. A heart of gold between two perfectly artificial breasts… there has to be some sickening irony to that.
For about thirty seconds, we stare into each other’s eyes. She’s looking at me, wondering why I’m here, wondering who I am, wondering what the point of all of this is. I don’t see any evil in this woman. I don’t see the Jenny Bomb cockiness or the post fight bravado from her kickboxing days… all I see is a scared little girl hiding inside of a mature and responsible woman. After what Roy did to me and after those girls setting me up to have guys fuck me over and over again, I could tell an evil woman. Women were the ones I needed to worry about because it was a given that I wasn’t going to trust a man. I look into Jenny’s eyes, and I just don’t see what I’m looking for. You would think that would make me angry… it did a few days ago. But now, it makes me happy. It makes me so incredibly happy because I know what I must do.
She grabs my ankle and twists my leg, causing me to fall off of her and to the floor. I am trying to get to my feet, but she kicks me hard on the inside of my thigh while maintaining her grip on my ankle. It hurts and she gets to her feet first. I did my research on Jenny Bomb aka Jennifer Burris and now Jennifer Washington once I read the article and found out that she was married to Jason. 21-3 as a kick boxer, with her only three losses coming to fighters with the last names Payne, Pritchard, and Apache, and all of them were knock out losses. I don’t really follow fight sports, but what I read about her on wikipedia said that she was a potential star in the sport that burned out. The whole Jenny Bomb thing was just a character for her to play to get hype; she wasn’t really the stupid airhead/arrogant cheerleader type she acted like. She wasn’t any of those things, and when I looked into her eyes, I could see it. This was a woman who built herself from the ground up; this was a caring and loving woman. I had nothing but respect for Jenny when I looked into her eyes… all the passion and the love of a mother and the faithfulness and independence of a good wife. All of this hiding behind a television personality who does workout videos and teaches several self defense classes, classes on health as well as yoga classes. Typically, the big chested blonde haired blue eyed girls don’t fit this description in real life; the race-conscious artists depicted the angels this way and the American Dream has always been painted like this. But I can honestly say that Jennifer is an angel and a good woman. This makes me very happy.
We both stand up and she gets into a fighting stance with her arms raised and her legs slightly bent. I don’t even give her the time and send my right cross crashing into her face; she makes an Unnhh sound and staggers back, but she plants her back foot and gets back into her stance. For a second, I’m a bit surprised because this isn’t the look of the scared little girl I stood over. I send a jab in there and she takes it on the tip of the nose before her arms come in to block it, then I send a straight right to her stomach, right above the waist. Jenny is a high waisted girl; in other words, she has big breasts and long legs and a big butt, but her torso is short and her navel is well below her waist. She looks sick for a second and takes a step back. I move in quickly and I can see she still has that look on her face as to why I’m here, then she springs forward and kicks me right in the pit of my stomach… OUGHHH!!!
I double forward and she backfists me, coming with her right hand down across and on her left thigh and bringing it diagonally upward, nailing me on the right side of my jaw and sending me up and over on my back. I get up fast because I need to take the momentum back from her. I respect her, but I could not live with myself if I lost to her. This is it for me because this is what my life has come down to. No matter what I do, it all comes back to the way he broke my heart and left me for the device and her pet dragon. All the love in the world that I had for him is gone and this perfect woman with her perfectly artificial television persona and her perfectly artificial breasts living in this perfectly artificial world and not realizing the pitiful excuse for a man she’s wasted her time marrying must realize the truth. If I lose to her, then I am wrong and the world is right. If I lose to this woman, then there is no point in living another day. All the nightmares and all the stresses lead my back to that morning after he fucked me and left, but they all end at this moment.
She hits me with a right cross to my jaw, then backfists me, backing me up. She steps in and begins to hit me with left hooks to my ribs as I try to cover up my face. Her punches are hard and they’re stealing the confidence from me… I’m starting to want to quit now as I turn my left side to her and she still slams the lefts into me, only this time, they are uppercuts to the pit of my stomach. Each punch lifts me up on my toes, each punch forces a WUUHH!! From me and widens my eyes as she’s backing me across the living room and towards the stairwell. She doesn’t say anything to me, no “This is such a great workout” or “You need to tighten up those abs, pronto”… none of that from Jenny. She looks at me as my heels are against the bottom step and she batters me with a combination of punches to my face and raised arms until the advancing force sends me down on the stairs.
I look up at her, expecting her to take a kick at me or mount me, but she’s standing there staring at me and she takes a step back. I get to my feet, feeling blood trickle from my nose and I go right at her, but she sidesteps me as my right cross sails passed her, ducks under my left hook attempt leaving me wide open for the one-two she gets right on my navel… I freeze, my arms still outstretched and my mouth hanging open. I can’t breath and I can’t move and she grabs my left arm, slings me into an elbow to my throat, then drives the elbow into my belly, forcing an OOOF!!! From me as I double over and she pushes me front first back down on the stairs. Once again, she backs up a bit and raises her arms. She’s really taken the steam from me and I realize that she’s testing my will. As I try to regain my footing, I see her step forward, and somehow, I don’t want to get back up. My stomach is killing me right now and as I sit and hold it, I can see that she has taken note. This is the woman Jason married.
Jenny- What is this all about? Did Jason really cheat on me with you? Or has he been with you and he married me, but is still with you?
Me- No, you fucking idiot.
Jenny- Then why are we doing this? Why are you here? I don’t know you and I don’t have any idea why you’re in my house fighting me.
Me- I’m here for closure.
I spring to my feet and attack her again. This time I come in low and tackle her, but she sprawls her legs out and leans forward, putting her weight on my back and forcing me to go to my hands and knees while breaking my grip around her waist. She begins to punch my right side, trying to get my liver, with her left hand while I cover up. I can see that married life hasn’t stop her skills from improving and that she’s a very fit woman. This is not going the way I expected it to and I am paying the price. This is truly a dominant woman with a pure heart. I feel her strength as she hooks her right arm under my neck for the guillotine choke as I try to force myself up to my feet. I’m not a wrestler, but I manage to push forward and up and she is on her knees and so am I. I am then able to push her over on her back with me on top, but she crosses her arms in a four behind my head in another choke. I have taken kickboxing classes to stay in shape, but this is just a down and dirty fight now. This is where I take a stand against everything that I have seen and everything that I have fucking felt. This is it.
I throw my rights around and into the side of her head, crashing into her cheekbone and into her lips as she makes these OFF!! and MMPPHH!! sounds. Her lip is now bleeding badly as she breaks her grip on me and I begin to punch her head repeatedly and gain a sitting position on her stomach. I feel the muscles in her stomach tighten as I drop my butt down on her… she feels it, but she lets out a little “ough” when I scoot up on it a little. I grab her by her ears and begin to bang the back of her head into the floor. Every time I see that vacating look in her eyes, I just slam her head into the floor even harder.
“So now I goooooooooo to youuuuuu, with oooopennnn armssss, nothing to hide, believe what I sayyyyy”
Me- What the fuck is that?
“So herrrrre I ammmm, with oooooopen armmmsss, hoping you’ll see, what your love means to me, open armsss”
Jenny- That’s…my… cell… phone… Jason is calling. We… go to lunch… sometimes… he comes home… early.
Me- Jason? Calling you? YOU FUCKING cxnt!!!
I start punching her face with my right hand exclusively. I have tears running from my eyes and blood dripping from my nose. My stomach is weakened and my heart is still frozen in its broken state. I love what this woman is because she’s beautiful, intelligent, and possesses all the qualities that I would want in a man. I love her because she is everything that she’s suppose to be, but I hate that she is with Jason. I hate that she is his, because he simply does not deserve a woman like this and she is a fucking fool to be with him. I batter her eyes for ever laying them on him, for ever considering him worthy of her gaze. I batter her blue eyes until they are nearly swollen shut. I batter her eyes for listening to his lies and his bullshit and believing that he is a good man when all men are no more than talking dicks. I batter her ears for deceiving her and I watch her hiss and moan in pain as the blood seeps from them. I batter her nose so that she can never smell him, his fallacious pheromones and his expensive cologne and Irish Spring Soap and Brut aftershave and his Stay Soft Fro Hairspray and Degree Deodorant. I batter her nose so that she can never breathe all those scents that have reminded me of him; I never asked to smell him and I never wanted to, but he fucked me and left me and as my fists pound her nose until it begins to resemble a volcano, blackened from bruising and gushing red chunky blood, I am reminded of my own state of fury. And I batter her mouth for saying the words “I do,” words that I envisioned myself saying to Jason more than a year ago, not knowing that he was using his device, not knowing that after promising me his heart and his patience, he proved what my mother always told me to be true. I batter her mouth and listen to the sound of her teeth chipping and her tongue slipping in and out and not allowing her to spit blood. I batter her perfect mouth that spoke only kind words and , her perfect mouth that offered consolation to Jason after he found no more use for the device, that perfect mouth, that in a year was able to take the man who broke me as a woman and turn him into the man he kept claiming to be. Yes, I batter her mouth until it is chapped and bleeding and swollen beyond compare.
I pull up her shirt and I look at her stomach. It is so hard in the upper portion, but very soft below the waist with a deep set oblong navel. I wonder… I begin to rub her stomach and grind my knuckles into her belly, and I here what I expected to hear… moaning, but not painful moaning, moaning as she blindly grinds with me. More tears come as I lean down and kiss her navel and grind my knee against her crotch… she cums and she cums hard, I feel a great deal of wetness against my knee. How inadequate am I if he could find her a year after me and a year after Device? How inadequate could I be if she is so nice and so pure and so kind and giving and I am so vengeful? I must not be inadequate… I am not inadequate because I did not do this, Jason did. I punch her stomach, slamming my fists into it over and over again. I hear sickening “UUUUFFFFFFF!!” “OOOUUUGGGGHHHH!!!” “AAAAUUUGGGGHHHH!!!” and “UUUGGGGHHHH!!!” sounds as I feel her angel soft belly and watch her navel disappear deep into her as I hit it over and over again. Roy punched me in the stomach while he was in the process of ruining me for any man I could ever love… no, no man is worth loving, Jason proved that.
I grind myself into her, experiencing enough of this love that he has fancied and fucked. She struggles with me… she struggles hard and uses every ounce of strength remaining to try and throw me off, but all her strength is nothing against what I have become. She is perfect spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally, but I the imperfect and so-called flawed thing that Jason could not love… I break her. I take her womanhood and she surrenders, going limp under my power. I now know the feeling so many men have had in this position, and while I loath it and I loath them, I find myself working up to a climax as I continue to grind into the bomb named Jenny… and I cum as I bite her neck and lean down to bite the skin around her navel. Once again, she builds up a big orgasm and lets it go. I hear her breathing slow down and then I hear no more breathing. I step hard on her heart and then I grab her by her bloody long blonde hair and drag her to the front room as I hear a car pulling up in the driveway.
Jason- Honey, you didn’t answer your phone; I got your chicken salad as usual and--- WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?!!! JENNY!!!
Me- Hello, Jason. Remember me?
He looks at me and my heart shatters as he studies me as if he’s never seen me before. He looks at his dead wife and the bloody streak down the floor into the carpeted front room. He can’t take his eyes off of her and the food in his one good arm spills to the floor.
Jason- No… no…
Me- I hate you, Jason.
Jason- Who are you? Who the fuck are you?!
Me- You don’t remember me? LOOK AT ME, you motherfucker!!
Jason- M? Is that you, M? You look so different… how… how could you DO THIS TO ME?!!!
He drops to his knees and crawls to his dead wife, her blonde hair still in my right hand as he cradles her, pulling the sling off his bad arm and begins to cry.
Me- You took everything from me Jason, and now, I’ve taken everything from you. You are so weak and this true strong woman gave you strength; that is why you married her so quickly. But I had to take her away from you, you fucking bastard… you didn’t deserve her.
Jason- Why… WHY… WHYYYYYY?!!!!
Me- Because once upon a time, I was weak and you gave ME strength. But you took it all from me, Jason. You left me and now, she’s left you. I hate you, Jason. I did this to take away your smile and now, I have.
Jason- I loved her, M… she was everything to me… how could fucking do this to ME?!!
Me- Because I can.
Jason- Kill me!! You killed her, then kill me!! I can’t live without her; I love her!!
Me- Fuck you, Jason. You’re too weak to kill yourself, and that is the way I will leave you… weak and broken.
I start to make my way to the door.
Jason- M… you fucking BITCH!!
Me- Maybe I am, but what does that make you for fucking me and leaving?
I leave him there sobbing and holding on to what he no longer can call his own. Jason was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder. Jenny‘s family turned on him and believed, despite his not being there and his coworkers saying that he was at work, despite all the evidence, Jenny‘s family is convinced that Jason killed her. The police would not believe that a woman could do that either; they couldn‘t prove that he did it either. He has moved out of town with his reputation destroyed and I haven‘t seen him since. He never told anyone about what happened in that house and the police didn’t bother investigating further. The fact that he knew something and wouldn’t talk only made them more suspicious of him. They figured that if he didn’t do it himself, he had somebody do it for him. I never heard a word about Device. I don‘t know if she survived or not, but Jenny definitely died. My handbagging business is doing great and I am married now. I met him through his mother and he was just my type. I go to work and he stays home and takes care of my house. He never contends with me and he always greets me with a smile. Plus, he’s patient, and that’s because he has to be. And I have a little girl now too. She’s only two years old, but she’s smart and I am so proud of her. I found a poem online and whenever I think of who I am and what I represent, I read it. Jason called me a bitch.
Being a bitch means by Unknown Author
I'm a bitch!
When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a bitch.
When I stand up for those I love, they call me a bitch.
When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts,
or do things my own way, they call me a bitch.
Being a bitch entails raising my children
to be strong people who have a solid sense of personal and social responsibility,
who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in
and who love and respect themselves for the beautiful beings they are.
Being a bitch means that I am free to be the wonderful creature that I am,
with all my own intricacies, contradictions, quirks and beauty.
Being a bitch means I won't compromise what's in my heart.
It means I live my life MY way.
It means I won't allow anyone to step on me.
When I refuse to tolerate injustice and speak up against it,
I am defined as a bitch.
The same thing happens when I take time for myself instead of being everyone's maid,
or when I act a little selfish.
I am proud to be a bitch!
It means I have the courage and strength to allow myself to be who I truly am
and won't become anyone else's idea of what they think I "should" be.
I am outspoken, opinionated, and determined.
By God, I want what I want, and there is nothing wrong with that!
So try to stomp on me, try to douse my inner flame,
try to squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me.
You won't succeed.
And if that makes me a bitch, so be it.
I embrace the title and am proud to bear it.
I love this, I can call myself a bitch now
and not feel bad about it.
I always looked at that word as being negative, and I still do, but if that’s how he defines a bitch, then a bitch is what I am.
THE END