Chapter 7
Laura put on her clothes in a rush, feeling slightly embarrassed about Renae catching them, even though it was no surprise. She felt like such a whore, but if everything goes as planned, she would have a nice reward for all her trouble. Plus, Marshall wasnt half bad in bed. She felt bad for Renae, and for Marshall. Marshall did love Renae, she knew that soeone was gonna get hurt today, or maybe someone already had.
"Shit, fuck, dammit." Marshall said as he buttoned his jeans and hurried down the hallway after her. He kept cursing himself, how could he be so stupid to screw this up? He screwed everything up it seemed. He let himself get caught, fucking Laura, and the look on Renaes face when she saw them, made him want to cry. "Fuck." He swore loudly as he opened the nursery door.
Renae stopped short when the nursery door swung open, and Marshall stood there in his jeans with n shirt on. She was about 2 inches from him, she had been on her way out of the room herself, she wasnt expecting him to open the door. She choked back her tears, trying to decide if she was more hurt or angry. She wanted to beat the shit out of him, but she also wanted to just fall down and cry.
"Renae." He said, out of breath. She bit her bottom lip and shook her head, tears streaming down her cheek.
"Dont-Fucking-Talk-To-ME-" She said slowly, emphasizing every word as she cried. She pushed past him roughly and stormed down the hallway towards the guest room again. Marshall reached out and put his hand on her shoulder, trying to stop her from waling away from him and she shrugged him off, so mad at him. She didnt even want him to touch her.
"Renae, wait a second, listen to me, baby please?" He pleaded with her. "Baby, Im sorry-"
"DONT FUCKING TALK TO ME!" She screamed, turning around so she was in his face. He tried to say something else and she slapped him across the face, without even thinking. He brought his hand up to the side of his face and cringed, stepping back out of her reach as he saw her get ready to slap him again. She turned around again and started to run down the hallway, finally reaching the guest room.
Kenny, by this time, had come out of the bathroom hearing the noise, the screams and shouts from upstairs, and he was also walking down the hall towards the guestroom. Renae didnt even notice him as she turned into the doorway and saw Laura, fixing her hair.
Anger overtook her body and she ran forward, grabbing Lauras arm and then using her other hand to grab Lauras hair. Laura gasped and looked at Renae, her face had tears going down her cheeks and her eyes were narrowed.
"BITCH!" Renae screamed, punching Laura in the jaw as hard as she could.
"Renae! Stop it!" Marshall yelled, finally reaching the room, and started towards them.
"Why?!" She cried. "You wanted to see me kick her ass, you said so last night, so just fucking shut up and watch! You got what you wanted asshole!" She screamed, punching Laura repeatedly in the face, as hard as she could. Laura barely knew or understood what was happening until she tasted the blood in her mouth. Her eyes were closed, cringing, and her hands were trying desperatly to sheild her face, but she couldnt.
"Renae!" Marshall yelled again, trying to get her off Laura. He grabbed her arm, and pulled her backward, and in that second, Renae had let go of Laura, and stumbled backwards, turning around to start hitting Marshall and struggling to get away from him. Laura waited for the next punch, and was surprised when she didnt feel it. She opened her eyes and saw Renae, away from her. She immediatly ran forward and grabbed Renae by the arm.
Renae whipped around and Marshall let go of her in surprise, Laura punched Renae, hard in the side of the head, and Renae gasped. Laura tackled her to the ground, grabbing at her hair and kicking her and punching her where ever she could. Marshall was in shock, just staring at them, Laura was on top of her, straddling her waist and Renae was trying to get out from under her.
A minute later, Renae had gained control and had pushed Laura off her, and got on top of her to hold her down. She scowled at her and stuck her finger in Lauras mouth, pulling as hard as she could at her cheeks. Laura screamed, it felt like her cheeks were being ripped apart. She moved her arms up and grabbed Renaes shoulders, digging her long nails in as hard as she could, and felt the skin break as fresh blood started to seep through.
Renae screamed and moved her hands from Lauras mouth to Lauras neck and pushed down as hard as she could, trying to get Laura to move her hands. Laura gasped and grabbed Renaes arms, flipping Renae backwards onto her back.
After a second, Marshall realized what was going on and he grabbed Laura by the back of the hair, pulling her up off Renae. Laura squealed in pain and stood up, and Renae sat up, wiping the blood off her face with the back of her hand, staring at Laura like she wanted to kill her.
Renae scrambled to her feet and ran forward at Laura again, but Kenny had come in by this time and he grabbed Renaes arm. "Let me go!" She screamed. Kenny shook his head and tightened his grip on her, pulling her backwards and grabbing both her arms. "Kenny!" She screamed.
"No, Renae." Marshall said, letting Laura go, once he was sure that she wouldnt go back for Renae. "Thats enough!"
"Fuck you Marshall! You stupid asshole!" She fought with Kenny and finally kicked him in the crotch, and he let her go and bent over in pain. Marshall winced, that had to hurt. Renae bit her bottom lip and walked forward, past Laura, who was backing away from her slowly.
"Renae-" He started. She shook her head and punched him, as hard as she could in the face. "Ow, FUCK! RENAE!" He yelled. She wound up to do it again, but he quickly grabbed her arms and tried to hold them at her side. "Renae, STOP IT!" He yelled.
"You fucking asshole." She muttered, and then raised her voice. "I fucking TRUSTED you, I trusted you Marshall!" She yelled, tears streaming down her face.
"Renae, I fucking dont know what to say. Im sorry." He apologized, feeling genuinely sorry. He tore his attention from Renae, who was struggling with him to let her go, and looked up at Kenny and Laura. Why wasnt Kenny pissed at Laura? His thoughts were interrupted as Renae tried to punch him in the chest, and he held on to her, not daring to let her go.
"Let me GO!" She screamed, bringing her knee up and kicking him in the crotch as hard as she could.
"FUCK!" Marshall screamed and practically threw her backwards, as he brang his legs together and doubled over, wincing in pain and grabbing his nuts gently. "Shit." He cursed, looking down at the ground, tears stinging his eyes. He closed his eyes in pain, he just got done fucking Laura, and he hadnt gotten off, the pain hit him full force.
"Aw, Marshall, did that hurt you baby?" Renae asked in a mock caring voice, looking down at him. "GOOD!" She screamed, pounding on his back as hard as she could, and trying to hit at his head.
"Renae!" Kenny yelled, grabbing Renaes arms and pulling her backwards away from Marshall. "Stop it." He said sternly. She didnt try and fight him this time, and just broke down crying. Kenny looked around awkwardly and backed away from her. Marshall looked up and saw her sobbing uncontrollably and he felt like such an asshole. He felt like he deserved all the pain that he got.
"Renae," He said quietly. Renae didnt look up, she was kneeling on the floor in tears, tears or anger, fustration, betrayal and hurt. "Renae, please, listen. I can explain."
"Marshall." She nearly choked on her tears. "How could you to this to me?" She looked up and looked him in the eye, and he thought his heart was going to break.
"Im, sorry." He said for about the 100th time that day. "I really am, my god, I love you."
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" She screamed. "I fucking hate you." She mumbled.
"Renae, please, I know you dont hate me."
"How the fuck would you know?! DO YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW?" She exclaimed. "I dont even want to look at you." She wrinkled her nose, a bad taste suddenly in her mouth. "NONE OF YOU FUCKING MOVE!" She warned, running for the bathroom to throw up.
She stood up, wiped her face on a tissue and threw it in the toilet, then flushed it. Blood was all over her shoulders and chin. She couldnt even bring herself to look in the mirror. She was still shaking with anger when she opened the bathroom door and walked out to Laura, sitting on the bed, wiping the blood off her face and neck, Marshall leaning against the wall with a look of utter pain on his face, and Kenny sitting at the desk chair, his face in his hands.
Marshall looked up as he heard the bathroom door open, and started to talk again.
"Dont do it Marshall!" Renae held a hand up, stopping him before he even started to speak. "Dont fucking do it. I dont want to hear it."
"Renae-" Laura spoke suddenly, causing everyone to turn and stare at her, no one expected that, not even Laura. "Please, dont be mad at him, I was the one who-"
Renae smirked at her. "You have guts talking to me, bitch. Didnt you get your ass kicked enough in one day?"
"Look, I was only-"
"Shut the fuck up! I dont want to hear any of your shit. And Kenny, incase you are going to try and say something, let me tell you to shut the fuck up before you even try it. Marshall, I wanna talk to you alone. And I think Kenny would probably like a word with Laura too. Right?" She looked at Kenny and he nodded. She looked at Marshall. "Come on." Marshall watched her exit the room, looked back at Kenny and Laura, and then followed her.
After he was sure that they were gone, Kenny walked over and closed the door, and turned back to grin at Laura. "Good job." He said, laughing. "That was a fucking awesome ending to their fucked up marriage."
"It was only fucked up when I got in the middle of it. Do you have the mother fucking money?" Laura asked bitterly. She wanted to cry and tell Renae and Marshall everything, but Renae was right, she had already had her ass kicked enough for one day, and plus if she told them that meant that she wouldnt get her money. She couldnt risk that. She wanted to cry because of the hurt look on Renaes face, the horrified look on Marshalls face, and because she knew that she had caused that. She had ended their marriage for her own selfish reasons. She felt like a bitch, and a whore, and she broke down crying once she realized that she was a selfish bitch, and a whore.
"Dont cry, fuck, I have your motherfucking money. Heres your part." Kenny reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash, and handed it to Laura.
Laura wiped the tears from her eyes and began to count the money. She looked up at Kenny with a confused look on her face, and held the cash up. "What the fuck is this?" She asked.
"Your money." Kenny replied, looking at her like she was crazy.
"You said you were getting 5 thousand from her, I only have 2 thousand right here. Wheres the rest?" She asked.
"Oh, thats all your getting." He said simply.
"No, its not. how come you get 3 thousand, when you aint even do anything?" She stood up. "Give me the rest of my money, or you getting your fucking ass kicked."
"Oh, yeah, Im so scared. I saw the job you did on Renae, she almost looked hurt. I had better give you the money." He rolled his eyes and laughed.
"Kenny, give me the fucking rest of my money before I beat the fuck out of you." She threatened, walking toward him. He kept laughing, and she scowled. "Fine. I'll just go and tell Renae WHY I fucked her husband. Dont think for a second that I wont."
Renae walked down the hallway and into their bedroom. Marshall followed her, looking down at the carpet of the hall as he walked. He knew that he was going to screw it up with Renae sooner or later, he always screwed his relationships up. He wished that he had some common sense so that he could keep things good between him and Renae, but he knew he was in big trouble, and he didnt know if she would ever forgive him.
He was about to walk in the room when he saw Hailie looking at him from down the other end of the hall. He glanced at Renae as she walked into the bedroom and then jogged over to Hailie. He was in no hurry to go talk to Renae, and he didnt want Renae around all the fighting that was going on.
"Hails, babe." He kneeled down in front of her. "Why dont you go outside and play?" He suggested.
"I was just out there, but I heard yelling, so I came in, and the phone rang, and no one was around so I answered it, and it was Uncle Proof, and he wants you to call him." She explained.
"Thanks girl, but, why dont you go and play outside some more, and Ill call Proof?" He suggested. Hailie looked at him suspiciously. "Please Hai?"
"Okay...Renae said we are getting pizza for dinner, are we?" She asked.
"I dont know right now, maybe." He bit his lip. "Go ahead outside okay? Im gonna go talk to Renae."
"Okay." She knew something was wrong with him, but she couldnt figure out what, so she just gave him a hug. He smiled and hugged her back, he wasnt expecting that but, it was a pleasant surprise. It seemed to be just what he needed, and he hugged her back tightly. "I love you Daddy."
He felt tears well up in his eyes at those words. "I love you too Hai." He whispered. "I love you too." She pulled away from him and looked at him, seeing the tears him in his eyes. She hated watching him cry, she had only seen him cry a couple times before and it was something she hated to watch.
"Im going outside now, okay?" She said, backing away from him. He nodded and stood up, watching her as she carefully descended the steps.
"Shit." He cursed as he remembered Renae, and walked off towards the bedroom door that was left open just a crack. He looked through the door carefully, and didnt see Renae anywhere. Feeling a little uneasy about everything, because he had SEEN her go in this room, he let himself through the door and shut it quietly behind him.
He walked into the room and looked around, and then he heard Renae sobbing somewhere. He looked around the room, trying to find out where Renae was. He stepped in and look down at the floor, and saw Renae, crying on the floor.
She was curled up on the floor, leaning against the bed, her hands covering her face as she let herself cry. She let out all the emotion that she hadnt gotten to let out on Lauras face, and she just cried. She didnt even know that Marshall had come into the room, and she didnt even see him when he at down on the floor next to her, bringing his elbows up to his chest and wiping the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand.
She heard him make a sniffle type of noise when he did that, and she looked up at him, her eyes were red and tears streamed down her cheeks. Normally, he would pull her into a hug and she would talk to him, and he would find some way to make up for what was bad that was going on in their lives, and he would say that he wanted to kick that persons ass for making her cry. But he couldnt kick his own ass.
He wanted so badly to go back in time and refuse Laura, or go with them to the movies, and if he could, he definatly would. He sighed and put his arm around her shoulder comfortingly. She shook her head, glaring at him, and slapped him hard across the face. He winced in pain and brang his hands to his cheek immediatly.
"Okay," He nodded. "I deserve that..."
"Damn straight." She said, her voice shaking from the tears, the anger and the hurt that she felt. After a few seconds of silence, she looked up at the ceiling. "Why Marshall? Why?"
"What?" He asked, although he knew what she was talking about.
"Why'd you do it?" She looked him in the eye.
"I, I dont know, I thought you were mad at me this morning, before you left-"
"SO YOU SLEEP WITH SOMEONE ELSE?" She exclaimed, crying harder.
"No, its not like that-"
"Its not like that huh? So, what the fuck is it like?"
"I just, oh fuck, I thought you were mad at me, I was all upset over that, and then, she just kept coming on to me, and she cornered me in the bedroom by telling me there was a bees nest in there, and I was looking at it, and then like, she just came on to me, and I dont know what I was thinking." He shrugged.
"Obviously, you werent thinking at all."
"I guess I wasnt." He said quietly. He waited for her to say something else to him, not wanting to speak.
"Dont you have anything to say for yourself?" She asked.
"Im sorry, and I love you so much baby, I really do." He said, sitting crosslegged, and turning around to face her. She didnt turn around, kept staring straight ahead at the bathroom door.
"You dont love me." She choked out.
"What?" He asked, panicking. He wanted to cry, how could she think that he didnt love her? He wanted to hold her, and let her know somehow that he did love her, she had no idea what that did to him when she said that he didnt love her. "Baby-"
"Dont call me that." She said automatically.
"Okay, listen, I do love you. Ba-Renae, I love you more then I can explain, you gotta know that?" He fought tears back.
"I thought I did, but, if you loved me, how can you just sleep with someone else?" She asked, shaking her head. "I thought alot of things that werent true though..." She trailed off and he frowned.
"What do you mean?" He asked carefully.
"When I left today, I thought that you loved me, and that you would NEVER cheat on me, and you would never hurt me. I had a horrible feeling about leaving today, and I wish that I had listened to it. But I said to myself, that even if Laura did want you, which, she obviously did, she couldnt possibly have you." She looked down, and continued talking. "I thought that, at the end of the day, no matter how much she hit on you, no matter how much she wanted you, you would always come back to me, because you love me, and I trusted you. I thought that, after she left, you would still be mine. Just like before." She shook her head and wiped the tears from her eyes on her sleeve. "But, I see that I was wrong."
He didnt know what to say, tears were starting to flow down his cheeks, and he tried his hardest to stop crying, to no avail. "I do love you, though. I really do."
"You cant possibly love me." She shook her head. "If you loved me as much as you say that you do, you wouldnt have hurt me like this."
"If I knew what would happen, I wouldnt have done it, I really regret it. But what can you really do? Its done, so we can either move on, or we can fight for the rest of our lives about it." He blinked back tears.
"And what do you want to do about it?" She asked, turning to look at him. It was then that she saw the tears coming from his eyes, and she wanted to hug him, and stop the tears, but she couldnt bring herself to touch him, not after Laura had.
"I want to move on." He replied.
She sighed. "We cant, we cant just move on and have a happy ending, it doesnt work like that! You think we can just live happily ever after, and just forget this even happened?" She exclaimed. He bit his bottom lip and made another sniffle noise. She started to cry harder, she hated to see him cry, and it was tearing her apart. "It doesnt work like that."
"No, it has to. It will." He reassured her. She shook her head and he took a deep breath and tried to pull her in for a hug, a little afraid of getting slapped again. She didnt resist the hug, because deep down she really needed one. She needed someone to hold her and tell her that everything would be okay, so she let him hold her. "It has to work like that. Its us." He whispered into her ear, crying into her hair.
"No. I dont know if I can just, forgive you, and act like nothing happened. You fucked that whore!" She yelled, pushing him away from her after she felt a little stronger. "Dont touch me."
"Renae, listen, we can work this out-"
"No! I dont know if I can look at you the same way again. I thought that you would never hurt me. I dont know if I can do this anymore Marshall...I just dont know."
"I never meant to hurt you, Renae. I would never hurt you again, I swear." He said sincerely, as he tried to stop crying.
"So, I was supposed to be happy that you fucked her? Hm, silly me, I felt HURT all this time, when you didnt mean to hurt me. You meant to make me happy." She said sarcastically. "Fuck you, Marshall!"
"Im not saying that you were supposed to be happy about it, I didnt know that you would walk in on us!" He defended. Renae rolled her eyes.
"Oh, so you didnt want me to know? You did that behind my back and you never wanted me to find out?" She questioned incrediously. "I cant believe you. I cant believe this, I cant believe that whore. What the fuck? Why would you do something like this?"
"I already told you." He said quietly. They sat in silence for a few minutes, and then Renae took in a shaky breath and looked at him.
"I want you to leave." She said, with no expression in her voice.