The Tyler Perry Chronicles

"OVERHEARD" Part 9

Author: CBW1986

DISCLAIMER: Story material is not based on actual events and all content (with the exception of character names) is completely fictional, as a result of creative story telling for recreational purposes only. All story material is copyrighted and all rights are reserved to the original creator.

Briana arrivied at Le Bernardin, half an hour early, because she was tired of Tyler always calling her out on her punctuality. He would always tease her and say that she was the true definition of someone running on CP time. Tyler was never late for anything, and Briana was going to surprise him by actually showing up on time, as well.

Once Briana was seated in the restaurant, she called Tyler's cell phone.

TYLER : "Hello."
BRIANA: "Hey."
TYLER : "Babe, let me call you back in a little while. We're finishing up a taping right now."
BRIANA: "Are you still coming?"
TYLER : "Coming where?"
BRIANA: "To lunch. Le Bernardin."
TYLER : "What are you talking about?
BRIANA: "You said meet you for lunch..."
TYLER : "What?"
BRIANA: "Tyler, stop playin'. Are you coming after you finish taping, or what?" (noticing a woman walking into the restaurant with a head full of curls much like Tyler's girlfriend, Gelila)
TYLER : "Briana, I have no idea what you're talking about. When did I say that? And, anyway, ain't Le Berni-whatever all the way in New York? (as the woman got closer, Briana notied it was in fact Gelila)
BRIANA: "Where are you?" (never taking her eyes off of Gelila)
TYLER : "In Atlanta, where are you?"
BRIANA: "Where's Gelila?"
TYLER : "What? Why...?"
BRIANA: "Hold on." (places her cell phone in her lap and hit the speakerphone button)
GELILA: (walks up to the table where Briana is seated) "Hello, Briana."
BRIANA: (looks at Gelila cautiously and slowly says) "Hi." (never had the two women been alone around each other without Tyler before, and Briana was suspicious. Gelila pulled out the chair across from Briana, and took a seat. She reached in the front pocket of her purse, pulled out Briana's earring, and placed it on the table)
BRIANA: (looking at the item Gelila sat on the table, she recognized it as hers, but decided to test Gelila) "What's that?"
GELILA: "Your earring."
BRIANA: (continuing her game) "That's not my..."
GELILA: "Yes, it is. Tyler told me to bring it to you." (proud of the front she put on as being confidently one step ahead of Briana, went on to say) "That should be the last of your things at his house."
BRIANA: "Excuse me?" (dropping the innoncent "I-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about" act, and got real)
GELILA: "Tyler and I are getting married. We're planning for a family, and..."
BRIANA: "Girl, I've heard that all before, trust me." (starting to feel sorry for Gelila, wondering if Tyler had really fed her those same lines he once fed her)
GELILA: "That's because Tyler does not love you. He loves me." (stating matter-of-factly)
BRIANA: "Is that right?" (questioning sarcastically, but really wondered in the back of her mind, if what Gelila was saying, was true)
GELILA: "Yes. He told me so, over and over, while we were making love last night." (smiling to herself when she caught the hint of jealously flash in Briana's eyes)
BRIANA: (she figured Gelila and Tyler were sleeping together, but to hear Gelila say it aloud, made her blood boil, and she started to get really pissed off) "Well, while WE were making love, he couldn't stop saying my name...over and over. (watched the slight smile Gelila had on her face disappear) "You were the last thing on his mind."
GELILA: (mokingly says) "Hmm. I'm sure your Christian fans would love to hear all about that."
(Briana pulled back instantly, realizing just what she had at stake. She began to wonder why she was even going back and forth with a woman ten years younger than her, but Gelila's next comment sent her over the edge)
GELILA: "Why are holding on to a man that has obviously moved on? Face it, Briana...it's over."
BRIANA: "Just like this conversation." (slid the top part of her phone down, shutting off the speaker phone, and ending her call to Tyler) "Now let me tell you something." (pointing her finger in Gelila's face) "It's real cute how you came in here all big and bold, acting like you're grown, but DO NOT try me. Tyler only calls you when he feels like it. He only sees you when he feels like it. And he only sleeps with you when he can't have me. That's why my stuff that's still at his house, will STAY at his house. (flinging the small diamond hoop earring across the table at Gelila) "And, I sure hope you wrapped it up last night...you don't know how many other women Tyler's sleeping with.
GELILA: "I'm sure not as many as all the men you've slept with. (watched Briana pull back in shock) "Yeah, Tyler told me all about your college days."
BRIANA: (feeling absolutely disrespected, quickly stood up and got in Gelila's face, yelling) "You may not even make it out of college, if you keep trying me! Say one more thing!"
GELILA: (standing up as well) "Get your hand out of my face!"
(Gelila stood about five inches taller than Briana, but Briana wasn't intimidated. It took all she had not to snatch every single one of Gelila's pretty little brown curls out of her head. Gelila and Briana had never spoken more than five words to each other in all the two years Tyler has known Gelila, and Briana wanted to know, what had gotten into her? Briana once regarded Gelila, as a very sweet and softspoken young lady, and although she never really liked her, she never would have imagined in a million years, they would be in each other's face the way they were now. A few of the restaurant's patrons, stopped and stared at the scene they were starting to cause)
BRIANA: (taking a few steps away from Gelila, not wanting to end up in the tabliods, quietly said) "You know what? I wish you and Tyler all the best. I really do. I hope you get everything you deserve. (thinking about the phone call she would soon be making back to Tyler)
GELILA: "I can't help the fact that you're threatened by me."
BRIANA: "No, you're threatened by me. I'm not the one who felt the need to set up this little meet n' greet. (start's to go off on Gelila again, but stopped, because she was just too through) "Do yourself a favor, and don't you ever contact me again, and I mean it. I don't want to have to have this conversation again. And I hope you have your bags packed, because when I call Tyler and tell him how wonderful lunch was, you'll be able to make a quick escape."
(Briana turned and walked out of the restaurant. Gelila, still standing by the table, now fearful of what she would tell Tyler, started to wonder if she had just made the biggest mistake of her life)

Briana was absolutely livid! She could not believe the nerve of Gelila confronting her and disrespecting her the way she did! She could not believe all the things Gelila said! Briana was so pissed from the comment Gelila made about how Tyler told her "all about her college days". That was sensitive information from her past that Briana shared with Tyler on a strict confidential and intimate level, and the fact that he shared that information with someone else, his girlfriend of all people, caused Briana's head to hurt. Or was it her heart that hurt the most? Why WAS she still hanging on to this man? After what went down today, she wasn't so sure she knew anymore...

To Be Continued…