Barclay Davis - Lover Of Mine, Mind Games

Art by Scopedog

Midweek, and Frida stopped by at the Crow's Bar to pick up her pay stub from Hirsh. She then went into the employee's room to pick up something from her locker.

But while she was in there, someone else entered the room, and started talking to Frida.

"You're a barmaid, AND a teacher?" Frida was taken by surprise from that. She turned to see where that voice was coming from. To Frida's disgust, it was Max's former crush Lydia Cole, who, as she started walking up to her, continued, "You must have screwed up something awful to have to hold down two jobs, honey."

Frida was none too pleased to see Lydia in the employee's room, and let her know it. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!! GET OUT!!! You're not even supposed to be in here!"

"Hey girl, can I just have a moment of your time?" Lydia tells her.

"Why?!!" Frida shoots back at Lydia. "We have nothing to say! And how the fuck did you even know I work here? Have you been stalking me?"

"Just a happy coincidence for me, is all! I never thought of you working in a place like this.😈" Lydia replies.

After a moment, Frida says "Fine! What do you want?"

Lydia was silent at first, as if to build up some drama. She then said to Frida "So...you like Max?"

"I LOVE Max!" Frida answered feeling angry and insulted by that question. "He's the only man who's ever treated me so sweet and kind! And why..."

"Oh yeah?" Lydia interrupted. "And just how does he treat someone like you so 'sweet and kind?'"

Frida crosses her arms and tells Lydia, "Well, if you're THAT interested in knowing, Max LOVES to go down on me. ALL OVER!!! And I don't even have to ask him to do that, among other things he does for me!"

Lydia was quite surprised by that, as she did not expect that kind of an answer. She said "Really? He actually...does that to you?"

"Uh-huh! He does!" Frida answered. "And I LOVE returning the favor to him!" She then sticks her long tongue out at Lydia and wiggles it wildly in front of her.

Lydia was even more surprised by Frida's tongue, saying "Um, uhh...WOW, that's...quite a..."

"Why the fuck are you even asking me this, bitch?" Frida demanded from Lydia. "I know what your little game is! You don't really love Max! You're going after him because you need someone to take care of you! Because you're a fucking manipulative screwup! We found that slip of paper, in Max's vest pocket, with your phone number on it!"

"Just wanted to keep in touch with Max, is all!" Lydia told her. "You have a problem with that?"

"Yeah, and so does Max!" Frida told her. "He took that paper, chewed it up and spit it out! That already shows he's not interested in you!"

"And you believe him?" Lydia asked Frida with an icy tone in her voice. "How do you know he didn't memorize it and entered it into his phone where you weren't looking?"

Frida got pissed at that answer, and was getting more infuriated with Lydia. She told her, through gritted teeth, "If you think you can try and snatch Max away from me, bitch, then you got..."

"Tell me something sweetie." Lydia asks Frida as she interrupted her. "How long have you known Max?"

Frida didn't like that question, but she answered "Since the beginning of September. WHY?!!"

"That long?!!" Lydia said, acting surprised. She then started laughing at Frida's answer, which left Frida really pissed at her. Lydia continued "Oh sweetie. I've known Max a lot longer than that. And the thing about Max is...he's a guy. And like all guys, he wants what he once couldn't have."

"Well. I know for certain, Max isn't like any guy you think are all alike!" Frida shot back at Lydia. "He's been very loyal and loving to me! He would never betray me for someone else! Least of all, YOU!!!😠"

Lydia responded to that by smiling at her, and saying "Is that what you believe? Oh sweetie. I was Max's first love. He told me that, himself. And the one thing about that is, you never forget your first love. You can say all you want about how Max hates me and doesn't want anything to do with me. But he said that to me before. And he still ended up wanting me. They ALL end up wanting me eventually, honey😈"

That response from Lydia really set Frida off, as her face grew more red and angry from Lydia blatant defiance. Frida then grabbed Lydia by her shirt with both hands, pulled her in close to her and started screaming in her face, "NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME, YOU FUCKING WHORE!!! YOU STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY GUY IF YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬"

Lydia just scoffed at Frida's threats at her. After chuckling a bit at Frida's threats, Lydia told her "Oh, I don't need to go to him, darling. He'll be coming to me. Guaranteed! And I wouldn't say that, if I wasn't so sure of myself.😈😈😈😈😈"

Frida never said or did anything after that. Lydia's brazen attitude towards her left her numb to the point where she just stood there and stared at her. Then Lydia turned around to leave Frida on her own.

Before Lydia walked out of the room, she turned to look at Frida, and said to her "Enjoy sleeping with Max while you can, sweetums. I foresee a lot of lonely nights in your future!" Then, Lydia walked out of the room.

Frida still stood there, unmoved and numb.

***

After that confrontation with Lydia, Frida's anxiety levels started rising. She was worried about what Lydia had told her, how she claimed Max still desired her, and how she was going to have Max for herself.

Frida didn't tell Max that. She was afraid of bringing up Lydia to him, because of how Max would react. But, at the same time, Frida still has faith in Max's love and loyalty to her. She was quite confused and troubled from all that.

***

That night, Frida was having a bad dream.

She found herself in a large white space. She wasn't sure if it's foggy, or just all white. Whether it was large or small. Soon, she saw something in the distance. As she got closer, she saw it to be her late father. Frida went up to it and said "Daddy?"

"Why did you do this to me, Frida? Why did you have to kill me?" The figure hauntingly said to her.

"I didn't know that playing with you would cause you to die, daddy!" Frida responded.

"Well it did!" it snapped at her. "And it's all your fault, daughter!"

"NO!" Frida shouted. "Don't say that dad..."

"HE'S RIGHT!!!" said another voice. Frida turned to look at her mother with a bottle of vodka in her hands. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, YOU LITTLE BITCH!!! YOU TOOK AWAY THE MAN I LOVE, BECAUSE YOU WERE SELFISH!!!"

"That's not true, mama!" Frida cried out. "He had a bad heart! He could have..."

"I HATE YOU!!! I SHOULD HAVE ABORTED YOU!!! I WISH YOU HAD NEVER LIVED!!!" Frida's mother cried out.

"Don't say that mama! Please..." Frida said. Then, her mother disappeared from her. Frida was looking around, wondering what was next. It came from her former classmates, who were all taunting Frida with cruel names like "Bucky" and "Little Miss Beaver Puss." Not to mention calling her "Cootiehead" because she had lice in her hair as a kid. Frida was crying from all the taunting they were doing to her.

Then she heard a familiar voice saying to her "Mommy?" Frida turned to see her daughter Angela standing and looking at her. Frida cried out "ANGELA!" She started running towards her, crying out "Oh Angela, I so missed..." But then, she saw Angela being grabbed by her arm and hauled up in the air by her father, Archie Sanders.

"YOU BASTARD!!!" Frida screamed at Archie. "Gimmie my daughter back before I..."

As Angela was crying, Archie told her, "I won't allow my daughter to be seen with a skank, like you!" He then looked at Angela, who was crying in pain, and yelled at her, "I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!!!" And proceeded to spank Angela, who crying intensified with her father spanking her hard.

Frida was incensed by what Archie was doing to her daughter, screaming at him. "STOP IT!!! STOP HITTING MY DAUGHTER YOU BASTARD!!!" Frida then lunged at Archie, but he and Angela both vanished before Frida could touch them.

Frustrated at what was on going around her, Frida, down on her knees, started crying bitterly. Just then, someone had walked up to Frida. When she looked up, she saw Max looking down on her. Frida, being overjoyed at seeing him, cried out "MAX!!!" and hugged him around his legs. She cried out "Oh Max, please help me! I'm surrounded by my past, and everyone's..."

"You're nothing to me, you fucking bitch!" Max growled out, with a sour look on his face.

Frida was shocked and upset at what Max had just told her. She said, "What?" After a pause, Frida cried out "WHY WOULD YOU CALL ME THAT?!!"

"Because it's the God damned truth, you fucking bitch!!!" said Lydia, who went up to Max and wrapped her arms around him, with Frida staring at the two of them.

Frida, not believing what she's seeing, cries out "MAX!!! WHY?!!"

"Because I'd rather be with a REAL woman in Lydia, than an overgrown infant, like you, you fucking bitch!" Max answered.

Frida then cried out "NOOOO!!! Don't say that Max! I LOVE YOU!!!"

"Oh really now!" Lydia interjected. "Who'd love an ugly loser, like you, you fucking bitch?" Lydia then started laughing, then Max joined in and started laughing at Frida. Their laughter was growing louder and maniacal. And as it got louder and louder, Frida leaped up and lunged at them, screaming "NOOOOOO!!!"

But just as Frida was about to touch them, she woke up from her nightmare, breathing heavy and sweating profusely. After trying to take in what she just experienced, Frida turned to her left and saw Max sleeping peacefully like a baby.

Upon looking at Max, Frida started crying, wondering if what Lydia told her earlier on was true. After a moment of looking at him, Frida curled up to Max to hold him in her arms and drape her leg over him, as if she was holding on to him for dear life. She then kissed Max on the forehead and laid down, holding Max tightly like a teddy bear, and crying herself, softly, to sleep.

***

When morning arrived, Max, awake from his sleep, said to Frida...

"Frida...I GOTTA GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!😬😬😬😬😬"

Coming up, Barclay Davis - Lover Of Mine, I AM NOT A LOT OF GUYS