Neela shuffled in the front door her arms bursting full of grocery bags. She placed her purchases on the table and turned to put the milk away when…
"Watch it!", Neela huffed when Robin, Ray's flavor of the month, walked into like she wasn't even there.
Everyone in their building knew Robin or knew of her. From the super, to the delivery men, and about half the male population of the building. Ray really knows how to pick them, she thought to herself.
Spinning around she gave Neela's clothes a disapproving stare before saying, "You're home."
"Keen observation." She muttered under her breath as she began to put cereal into the cabinets. "Where's Ray?"
"Went for coffee." Robin told her as she scapulaed on foundation like her life depended on it.Neela watched in amazement as she added another layer but something caught her attention.
"Is that my necklace?", She asked, her voice's pitch rising dangerously. She marched over and grabbed the gold chain hanging around Robin neck.
"This thing? It could be, I don't know." Robin looked down at it nonchantly.
"Did you find it on my dresser?" She gritted her teeth with impatience.
"Oh… that's where I got it. Can I, like, borrow it?"
"No." Neela said firmly and stuck out her hand palm up.
"Ewww. You don't have to get an attitude. You act like it something special or something. It's probably not even real gold."
"It's special to me and I would like if you would stay out my room while you're visiting.",Neela was really surprised how slow she was.
"This is ray's apartment, too." Robin whined putting her hands on her hips. Neela thought she looked like a rather ugly child throwing at temper tantrum.
"Well it's my room."
Suddenly Robin got very serious and pinched her face, "I don't need the attitude, alright.I was trying to be nice. But now …"
"What are you going to do? Kick me out of my own apartment?", Neela rolled her eyes and went back to putting thing in the fridge.
"No wondered your husband left you."
Neela froze mid stride. She stood frozen to the linoleum as is stuck with invisible super glue. She opened her mouth to say something witty and conniving but nothing happened. The sound that came out was a strangled cough. If it had been anyone else it would have been a slap to the face but it wasn't anyone else, it was her. An over sexed, most likely Chlamydia ridden tart.
Robin continued not noticing her indifference. "It won't be just your apartment much longer. I think ray's serious about me. He might even ask me to move in." Robin grinned smugly thinking that she obviously won the argument.
"Git."
"Wha?", asked Robin not understand.
"Get out of my home."Neela tried to keep her voice even and steady. She turned around slowly and gave her a bone chilling stare that could have killed.
"You can't throw me out. I'm Ray's guest." Robin stayed put deciding she was going without a fight.
"I don't give a bloody hell who you are. You could be the Queen."Neela strode over to the door and flung it open with all her might. There was Ray balancing two cups of coffee and trying to knock.
"Ray! Thank god you're here!" Robin said breathlessly and ran over to him almost knocking him off balance in the process.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing."Neela said as she threw Robin's purse into the hall. Ray just stood in awe as the purse flew pass his head.
"What the-" , Robin followed suit and Neela slammed the door with a satisfying BANG. She stood with her head resting against the door and started breathing slowly in and out. She heard Ray and Robin bickering in the hallway, which only made her feel a little better.
"Knock, knock"
"You should be glad there's a door between us." She said through gritted teeth.
"The usual response is who's there, but we can do it your way too." Ray struggled to hold the coffee while Robin screeched in his ear and Neela barracked the door with her body. This wasn't exactly what he expected to come home to.
"Are you just gonna let her treat me like that?" Robin cried loudly.
"Can I call you later?" Without answering or even looking back she grabbed her bag and strutted down the hall to the stairs.
"Screw you! You two deserve each other!" She yelled without missing a beat. Ray sighed deeply thinking "another one bites the dust."
"How dare you Ray Barnett? How dare tell her my personal business!" Neela screamed angrily in his face. Well, in his shoulder because even on her toes she still couldn't stand face to face. He didn't feel like fight but he did have the urge to lean down and sniff her hair.
"I don't want to fight right now. Maybe I can schedule you in later." He pushed past her and put the coffee on the counter, finally.
"Don't want her knowing about me. I don't even want her breathing the same air. I probably have Syphilis." She nearly choked trying to get the words out. How could Ray deceive her trust like that? She would he rather tell Morris anything about her then tell Robin.
"I didn't mean anything by it. It came up over dinner. She asked about you and I told her about Michael and stuff." He really didn't see what the problem was.
"And stuff?"
"About how we moved in together and how we work together at the hospital." He had told her a little more but Neela was ready to attack so he kept it to himself.
Neela only response was to go to her room and close the door.