Okay...I know it's been awhile and all I can do is apologize because I have been very busy...but here's another chapter. Please enjoy.
Kendra
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONA!
"This will only take a few minutes ok?" John told me while opening the door to his shop and letting me walk in first. I sipped on my half-n-half while nodding my head.
So far I lounged around which was a gift in itself. Since I've been working so damn much for the past couple of years, and now I'm standing inside John's shop. I looked around and saw four cars and parts all over the place, one was up on this lift and another was on a jack and I saw legs coming from under them.
"Hey Roman get your ass over here and wish my friend's sister a happy birthday!" I stopped sipping and looked over at John…friend's sister?
While I was still trying to process what just passed through John's lips, a guy rolled from under the car and grabbed a rag that was laying by his feet.
"Are we talking about Mona?" I recognize the voice and once I saw his face I thought my heart stopped…this dude was fione! I watched him stand to his full height and was shocked he was a few inches taller than John.
"That would be me." I kind of whispered out. I saw John cut his eyes at me but ignored it…I was his friend's sister after all right?
"Well happy birthday Mon." I watched him walk over to a sink off to the side and wash his hands. I checked him out from the back and couldn't really see how his body was since he had that jumper on…
That was until he unzipped it and took his arms out and revealed his arms and one was a Samoan tribal sleeved tattoo on one of them.
"Damn." I mumbled and that cost me an elbow to my arm. I looked up and saw John watching me with a raised brow.
"What?" I asked innocently?" I pointed to my arm and then Roman's to indicate I was talking about his tattoo. John looked me over before turning his attention to Roman.
"I need to check over a few things, I'll be back in a few minutes, you two play nice...not too nice though" The last part John turned his attention to me and I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever." John leaned down until our nose were touching and squint his eyes at me. I mocked him and moved away and wiggled my fingers at him.
"Bye John." John smirked and pointed his finger at me before disappearing to the back. Roman looked at me before looking over his shoulder at where John went and shook his head.
"Sister's friend huh?" I shrugged and went back to drinking my tea.
Roman leaned on the back of a car and folded his arms while eyeing me.
"So how many times has he went balls deep in that pussy?" I felt the tea go down the wrong way and dropped it while coughing and spitting what was in my mouth out and some coming out of my nose.
Or maybe he hasn't yet." Roman laughed out while walking over to me and patting me on the back.
"Where did that come from?!" I tried to yell, but it came out very horse. Roman stood me up straight and started hitting my chest lightly until my breathing went back to normal.
"I've heard so much about his "Mona Lisa" for so damn long I feel like I've known you for years…but you two not doing anything…like nothing at all?" I looked around at the mess I made and sighed.
"I really don't think I should be talking about this with you, but where is your mop?" I picked up the half empty cup and walked over to the sink to dump the rest out. I turned the hot water on so the sink wouldn't be sticky and took that time to get my breathing under control.
"Look Mona I didn't mean to upset you-" I looked to my left and saw Roman holding the mop and looking a bit guilty. I smirked and shook my head while tossing the cup in a trash bin beside the sink.
"You didn't upset me, just caught me off guard…how long did it take to have that complete?" I nodded towards his arm and he instantly looked down and smiled before running his hand over it.
"Oh shit, way too long, but I love it…do you have any ink?" I kept my eyes on his arm while shaking my head no.
"Not yet, but I plan on it soon…so your name is Roman huh?" I placed my hands on my hips and armed my brow. Roman laughed lightly and shrugged.
"Well my middle name is…my first name is Joe." He eyed me as if I better not tell anyone and I nodded my head and held my hands up
"Secret safe with me." I said mocking defeat and he laughed while patting my shoulder.
"Eighteen huh? You don't seem like it." I caught him giving me the once over and shook my head.
"I get that a lot…what's wrong with him?" I looked towards the back and saw John through his office window beat red and looked to be yelling.
Roman looked over and rubbed his hands over his face before letting out a deep sigh that followed a grunt.
"Damn, I've never seen that shade of red…must be Alex." I tore my eyes away from John and looked up at Roman and saw he was getting a bit pissed as well.
"Who?" I simply asked. Roman ushered me away from the view and over to a Low-rider.
"This guy has a contract with us about his trucks. He owns a moving business and of course he comes to us if a truck breaks down. Well lately he's been late with the money so I'm guessing that's where the change in pigment comes from." I shook my head. Damn, I know every business has it's problems, but it still made me feel some kind of way that someone can piss John off that bad. I did a little pout because I hated to see him that way. I wanted to bring him back to his normal self and quickly. The last thing I wanted was to have him pissed off all day on my birthday.
"Damn…oh shit." I saw in the rearview mirror that John was leaving his office and quickly got out the car was met with a not so red John.
"Alex is going to make me chock the life out of him!" John was making a gesture with his hands as if he was really chocking someone and Roman nodded his head in agreement.
"No murders on my birthday please-" I laughed lightly and saw Roman smile a bit…but John on the other hand glared at me.
"Mona I'm serious." I forward me brows, but tried to keep it light and joking and rubbed his arm.
"I'm serious too-" Before I could finish John snatched his arm away and yelled at me.
"MONA!" I looked at him as if he has lost his mind and out of habit I yelled right back at him.
"JOHN!" Roman looked between us and held his hands up and we both looked over at him after hearing his booming voice.
"HEY THE BOTH OF YOU! Look this is suppose to be a good day, drama free. John just stay away from the shop for a few days and show this young lady around town, show her a good time-" I looked John over and shook my head.
"Don't waste your time. I'll find something to do." John sighed and pointed at me and the next words out of his mouth took me to my boiling point.
"Mona stop acting up-" I cocked my head to the side and looked over at Roman. The look on his face let me know that he knew his partner just fucked up.
"I'm gone." I simply said and walked out of the door and head up the street, the same way we came.
I just turned the corner when I heard my name being called. I rolled my eyes and kept walking.
At this point with both needed to calm down and I knew if I didn't I was going to blow up on him like I did last time he did some shit like this. I was now at the back of the garage when I heard my name louder and knew John was behind me.
"Mona….MONA!" I turned around and point behind him to his business and knew I was glaring at him.
"What the hell was that?!" John had his hands on his waist and looked a bit annoyed himself.
"What?" I shook my head not believing he was acting like this and in the distance saw Roman at the corner watching us.
"It's like nothing has changed with you! I'm still just a little girl to you aren't I?!" John dropped his hands and his face soften, but mine didn't. this man is taking me through the motions and doesn't even know it.
"No you are not, it's just…I've known you for so long-" I rolled my eyes and held my hand up. I was not about to fall for anyones bullshit, including his.
"Well get the fuck over it John! Either that or stop playing with me…if you haven't noticed, I'm not someone who plays around for long…my life doesn't allow that so either play games for a while and I put your ass as a distant memory or be real with yourself more than me and for once be truthful!" John tried to touch me, but I slapped his hand away.
"Mona I am being truthful-" I shook my head and took a few steps back.
"I'm not even going to listen to this, I'm going back to the apartment. Come back when you have your shit together." At this time Roman was now beside John and that's when I turned and kept on walking. But from behind me I heard a low whistle.
"You sure she's eighteen man?" I heard Roman say and then him laugh.
"Shut up." Was the last thing I heard from Cena before I crossed the street.
It's been five hours since I've been in the apartment and no John. Since I've been here I have napped, showered and was now sitting up on his counter finishing off my second can oh whipped cream when I heard the locks to the front door.
"Mona-" I saw John before he saw me and I still in my feelings about what happened.
"What?" I said loud enough to know I was in the kitchen. John shut the door and looked over at me before dropping his keys on the counter and walking over to me.
"Still mad-" I shook the can while eyeing John to the point he stopped walking towards me.
"Yes." I said before putting some cream in my mouth.
"I thought you would be gone." I raised my brow and swallowed the cream before talking.
"Would you like me to leave-" I asked calmly and put the can down.
"Hell no!" I folded my arms across my chest and felt myself getting bored with this whole thing. I wanted John to be straight with me and so far it's been like he's playing with me.
"What is your problem." John leaned on the counter and the look on his face told me he did not want to have this conversation.
"I don't-"I dropped my arms and attitude and kept my eyes on him. I wanted him to be straight with me.
"No John seriously, what is your problem with me?" John looked at me seriously and stood in between my legs.
"Mona you are not nor will you ever be a problem to me." I looked down at his hands rubbing up and down my bare legs and smirked.
"So it's my age." John stopped rubbing my legs and sighed.
"No-" I dipped my head so he looked into my eyes and shook my head.
"Don't lie to me." John dropped his hands and moved back so he was now leaning on the fridge.
"Mona…look." I rolled my eyes feeling like the bullshit was about to follow and picked the whip cream back up.
"No John you look, if our eight year difference is this much of a big deal to you, than by all means. I don't need to be here." I sprayed some more cream in my mouth and saw John smiling at me.
"Just like a woman. Are you going to let me talk?" I shook the can again and realized it was empty. Feeling a bit defeated I waved my hand at John to continue.
"Go ahead." I mumbled.
"Thank you…Mona I like you, you know I like you and I always liked you. But you have to try to see this from my point of view…I was falling for a kid. I don't care how you acted or how much you had your shit together, dammit you were a kid and I liked a kid." My eyes grew wide and I was ready to hop down off the counter.
"But-" John quickly held me back and held his hand up.
"Let me finish. I battled myself with my feelings. Sometimes I stayed away because I didn't want anything to happen. Sometime I flirted with you a bit too much because I couldn't help myself. One of those points was when I kissed you for the first time. I knew it was wrong and I didn't care. Randy was starting to suspect I had feelings for you and that's why a lot of times I would bring someone else around or I would talk to you the way I did. I know it pissed you off and honestly that was the last thing I wanted to do…but I couldn't let anyone know how I felt-" I looked down on my sock clad feet and swung my legs a bit.
"Even if it meant hurting me and playing with my feelings. John you do know for some years I put you out of my mind…I made up my mind that night that I would never let a man hurt me or disrespect me and you did both that night."I saw John shift his weight and knew I was right…this was not turning out to be the birthday I was hoping for.
"I know and I apologize for that-" I kept my eyes on my feet and felt that ache in my chest.
"And today? You did it again and you knew you risks of doing that." I asked while feeling that sting in my eyes.
"Yeah, but you didn't leave." I looked up at John though slits. Is that really what he was going with? Because I didn't leave…YET, that everything was good?
"Oh I meant what I said, but I don't just shut people out if I'm that upset. I need to cool down and give the situation time, but John I'm serious. I need to know the truth. What is going on?" I asked more to myself than to him. I hopped down off the counter and ran my hands through my hair out of frustration.
"I don't want to lose you, God knows I don't, but I can't just jump into a relationship with you Mona…this is still kind of weird don't you think?" I felt like someone just slapped me in my face. I kept my back to John and felt the first few tears roll down my face.
"Actually no, but if that's how you feel fine, I can't change that…just know until it no longer feels "weird" to you, do not touch me." I heard John laugh behind me and closed my eyes; freeing a few more tears.
"Are you serious-" I finally turned around and looked up at him to show just how serious I was. Once John saw my face he stopped all laughter and his face dropped.
"Very serious. Crush or not, I'm also not going to play the fool and let you take advantage of me Cena." John tried to reach out and touch me, but I moved away.
"I'm not trying to take-" I held my hands up and shook my head.
"Keep that." I simply said before going into his bedroom and packing my things…
