| Chapter 7: Obsession Beyonce went to Lindell's house after changing into other clothes. When he let her in she was surprised to see some of the furniture missing as well as the DVD player. "Sorry about the mess." He said. "I been sellin some of my things." "Oh." Beyonce said. "Yeah. Since I'm in the process of finding a new job�I used to work for me ex's father and now�." He said. "Oh�" Beyonce said again. "You want anything to eat or drink or something?" he asked her. "Water would be nice thank you," she said. He went to the kitchen to get her a drink. She looked around the living room. She sat on the couch and spotted torn open envelopes on the coffee table. They had letters in them, one of which was peaking out. All Beyonce could read was part of the heading. All she could see was "EVI���" She curiously pulled out the entire letter and read the words "EVICTION NOTICE" at the top in bold print. Lindell didn't have a job and couldn't pay his bills and now he was getting evicted. She quickly put the latter back in the envelope when she heard him coming back from the kitchen. The rest of the night the talked and laughed and realized how much they really did miss each other. "Oh gosh, it's 2 in the morning already!" Beyonce exclaimed looking at her watch. "Wow, it doesn't seem like it's been that long," Lindell said. "Oh I know!" Beyonce said. The stopped laughing and smiling and were silent. "Somethin bothering you?" he asked. "�.sorta," she said. "I was thinkin about what you said�about Jay Z�" "Oh�" Lindell said. "I don't know if he's really�the one for me." She said. "Maybe he's not." Lindell said. "I just�wanna find that special some one in my life�and if Jay Z's not him�I don't know if I'll ever find whoever is. Because I don't wanna go look for some one�but�sometimes I just get�lonely," Beyonce said. "Maybe he's right in front of you and you don't know it." Lindell said. They looked at each other both thinking the same exact thing but too scared to admit it to the other. "Who would that be? The only guy that I really talk to other than Shawn is you�" Beyonce said. Lindell felt slightly offended. "And you don't like me like that�" Beyonce said trying to hide her sadness. Lindell didn't say anything. Beyonce yawned. "It ok if I crash here for tonight?" she said. "Yeah-yeah, you can sleep in my room; I'll sleep on the couch." Lindell said. "What about your guestroom?" Beyonce said. "No�no don't go in there." Lindell said nervously. "Whatever you do, don't go in there. It-it's really messy." Beyonce studied him. "Um�ok..." she said wondering what was in the room and why if it was just messy he was so uptight about her going in. She insisted that Lindell sleep in his bed and she'd sleep on the couch and finally he agreed and she did. Since she'd slept all day, the next morning she woke up hours before Lindell. She looked through all the unpaid bills Lindell had on the table and slipped some into her jacket. She was bored and approached the guestroom door. She looked around to see if Lindell was waking up. He wasn't so she cautiously put her hand on the door handle and opened the door. The door opened easily and there wasn't a mess. She jumped when she saw the room. There were tons pf posters of Destiny's Child and Beyonce everywhere and there were magazine covers and clippings. It scared her seeing her face everywhere all over his walls. There was no furniture in this room, just pictures of Beyonce covering the walls and the door. She looked around surprised. "What are you doing in there? I told you not to go in." Lindell said sternly. Beyonce jumped and spun around. "I'm-I'm sorry," she said. "�I was kind of�obsessed when you and I were dating�" Lindell said. Beyonce forced a smile. "Yeah�" she said. "All of this stuff, I did it when we were still goin' out so�" he said. "Yeah..." she said. She looked at the magazine covers. "We broke up in February?" she asked. "Yeah�" he said. "I thought so. Valentine's day is when I got that tape from you," Beyonce said. Lindell felt ashamed. She smiled to herself as she looked at the magazine covers more. She looked at the dates. One of the magazines was from July-5 months after they'd broke up. "This says July 2000. We broke up in February 2000." She said. "Must be a misprint." He said. "Yeah�why would you collect magazines of me after we broke up?" She said forcing a laugh. "Yeah." He said feigning a laugh too. She saw magazines from 2002. These can't all be misprints, she thought. "ok�get outta here." He said. They went to eat breakfast. Then the phone rang. It was Solange telling Beyonce they were returning to New York that afternoon. "I had a great time here with you." Beyonce said as she got ready to leave. "Yeah. It was fun having some over to talk to." Lindell said. They smiled. "Bye," She said. "Bye," he said. She wished he would kiss her, and he wished he could kiss her too. But he didn't, and she left. Chapter 8 |