"Hello, Josiah. How are you?" Dr. Ross spoke to me as I looked up at her with a smile.

"I'm great." I shrugged while she raised her eyebrows.

"Well someone's in a better mood. Tell me what's been going on. Why the sudden spurts of happiness?"

"Well.." I trailed off, debating if I wanted to tell her or not. But then I thought about her telling Montana. I already knew she probably would.

"I moved on." I spoke and she furrowed my eyebrows.

"You moved on?"

"Yeah."

"..from the situation?"

"No. From Montana. I fucked somebody else just like she did. Now I'm over her." I shrugged.

She simply looked at me before writing somethung down in her notebook.

"Okay. So you're completely done with Montana?"

"Yup."

"And you're prepared for her to move on too?"

I sat there, saying nothing as I looked down.

"Right?" She went on and I said nothing.

"You didn't think that far did you? You simply acted off emotions." She asked and I looked up at her.

"She did the same shit so shouldn't she be able to forgive me?" I asked smartly, just testing her.

"Okay." She nodded, closing her notebook.

"So Montana's here today. I want you to explain to her what's been going on with you and she's got something to explain to you too."

I froze once she said Montana was here. I wasn't expecting to have to say this shit to her face.

"Wait. She's here?" I asked again for clarification.

"Yes. I told her to come in today because I felt today would be a good day to do so." She said before leaving. I watched as she walked out of the door and went to get her.

"Shit."

*

"Hello, Montana." Dr. Ross spoke as she came to the waiting room to get me.

I was here alone today because Ms. Carol had work and Teesh was out with Kace somewhere.

"Hi. How is he today?" I asked and she raised her eyebrows.

"He has some pretty interesting things to tell you."

"Okay." I sighed as we began to walk.

"And today I can tell him this was all a lie right?"

"Yes." She nodded.

"But I must warn you, Montana. Brace yourself because he has some heavy information to spill and I'm sure it was all based off of his emotions."

I nodded slowly as I nervously bit my lip.

Once we walked into the room, Joey didn't say a word. He hadn't looked at me, he didn't smile, he didn't do anything. He showed no emotion and it was breaking my heart more than it already was.

"Hi, Joey." I said to him as I sat down and he just looked at me.

"What's up." He mumbled.

"Alright, Montana. So I think now is a good time to explain to Joey what we've done." She expressed and I nodded, just ready for him to stop being mad at me. We had more important things to talk about rather than this made up situation.

"Okay." I took a deep breath as Joey cocked his legs opened, just looking at me. I took a quick look over him, noticing that there was something different about him. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

"So you gon' talk or what?" He spat as I looked into his eyes.

"Yeah, I ju-"

"Go ahead then and stop bitching." He cut me off, rudely.

"As a matter of fact, Montana." Dr. Ross interrupted, looking at him.

"How about we let Joey tell you what's been going on with him first." She put her eyes on me as I looked at him.

"Go ahead, Joey." She urged.

"Aight." He shrugged with a smirk.

"What's going on?" I asked as he looked into my eyes.

"After you told me what you did, I hated you.."

"Because you know I'd never do something like that to you and then on top of that, not even tell you about it. I respected the rules, Montana."

"Jo-"

"Let him speak, Montana." Dr. Ross spoke up and I nodded, taking a deep breath. I needed to let him talk to understand anything.

"So after you told me, I thought about what I wanted to do next." He looked away from me, smirking.

"Well what did you do?" I spoke barley above a whisper, hoping whatever it was had nothing to do with that video.

Please. I thought to myself. I didn't want my heartbroken anymore than it already was from seeing that video. I couldn't take nothing else.

"Well I wanted to hurt you." He shrugged as I bit my lip nervously.

"What did you do, Joey?" I pleaded, I needed to know.

He paused, sitting there as I looked at him awaiting his answer. But he said nothing.

"Tell her what you did, Josiah." Dr. Ross urged, it was like he didn't want to tell me. He was speaking slowly and unsure like.

He looked down and cleared his throat before I used my index finger to lift his chin. I made him look me in eyes as I awaited his response.

"Are you scared, Joey?" Dr. Ross asked.

"Nah." He scoffed but I could tell by the look on his face that he was lying. He was scared to tell me whatever it was he needed to tell me.

"Then tell Montana what you just told me."

He looked into my eyes and sighed deeply. Whatever it was that he was about to tell me had me uneasy. I just hoped it wasn't anything drastic on top of what I'd already had to talk to him about.

"I fucked another girl." He spoke, looking into my eyes and I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Huh?" I looked from him to Dr. Ross and she nodded.

"You did?" I asked, hurt evident all over my face and he nodded.

"When?" I looked down, automatically thinking about the video.

"Last week." He spoke and everything stopped. My heart dropped and my ears went silent.

I looked up into his eyes as he looked into mine. A smirk then appeared on his face as I sat in shock.

So the video wasn't old and it was more than just what was shown.

My heart shattered into a million pieces as I sat there trying to understand how he could've even done this and why.

Tears cascaded from my face while my body felt numb.

"Whatchu cryin' for?" He chuckled as I watched him act an ass. He was pretending as if he didn't even care.

"You cheated, Joey?" I asked again for clarification as I wiped my face from the tears, though they kept falling.

"Cheated?" He asked with an amused expression on his face.

"We ain't together."

"Right?" He repeated spitefully and I raised my eyebrows.

"And you did the same shit." He went on and I shook my head.

"Your don't like how it feel, do you?"

Wiping my tears again, I looked over to Dr. Ross and she nodded for me to tell him what we did.

"It was all a lie. I haven't been with anyone else, Joey. We came up with it to get you to stop being so prideful and arrogant." I said, my voice cracking mid way and he furrowed his eyebrows.

"What?"

"It was all made up, Josiah. Montana didn't step out of the relationship between you two. She was simply doing what I'd asked her to do to get you to cooperate in the sessions." Dr. Ross explained.

"And it worked until now." She shook her head.

"I'm just going to go. I can't take this." I admitted, standing to my feet.

"Montana." He stood to his feet, trying to grab me but I pulled away.

"Stop, Joey." I said to him, tears running down my face.

"Baby, come here." He told me and I looked him in his eyes.

"You lied?" He asked as I looked down at the floor.

"Yes, Joey but you-" I cried, not even able to finish my sentence. I simply turned on my heels, trying to leave.

"Baby. Baby. Baby." He repeated, grabbing me again as I tried to walk away.

"Stop it, Joey." I begged.

"Nah. Look. I'm sorry." He apologized and that only made my heart break more. He wasn't even denying it.

"I thought you fucked somebody else. I was just tryna hurt you, ma."

"So did you?" I asked, looking into his eyes.

"Baby." He wiped the tears that fell from my face, looking into my eyes.

"Did you do it, Joey?" I asked, with an ounce of hope left in me.

"Nah. I was lying." He looked away from me and I pulled his face back to me, making him m look me in my eyes.

"Are you telling the truth, Joey?"

"Yeah, ma. Don't leave me."

Taking a deep breath, I got myself together and we both sat back down.

"So you only lied Josiah to hurt Montana?" Dr. Ross asked and he nodded, putting his head down.

"Okay. So you wanted to get back at her for the way she made you feel."

"Yeah." He sighed and I just watched him. For someone who was innocent, he was acting pretty guilty.

"So why did someone send Teesh a video of a woman giving you head?" I spoke bluntly, making him look up.

"I don't know nothing about that, ma."

"Oh really?" I asked and he looked me in my eyes.

"Wait. What's this video?" Dr. Ross asked and I pulled my phone out, telling Teesh to quickly send me the video.

"My friend's going to send the video but someone sent her a video of him getting head from another woman."

"Shit probably old." He flagged.

"I saw your new tattoo in it, Joey." I expressed and he shrugged.

A few moments later, my phone dinged and I went on to show Dr. Ross the video. She raised her eyebrows, looking at Joey.

"So you lied to her?" She asked him and he sighed, looking at me.

"Baby." He called me.

"Am I missing something?" I went on to ask Dr. Ross, completely ignoring him now.

"That's one of the cleaning women who work here. I met her a few days ago." She explained to me and my heart shattered all over again.

"Baby." Joey tried to grab again as I stood to my feet but I smacked him as hard as I could.

He licked his lips, putting his head down as I began to cry again.

"So you actually did this and then just lied to me about it."

"You're so fucking heartless and I'm done with you."

"Montana. I love you."

"You don't love me. You love you." I spoke, crying my eyes out.

"Baby, I love you. I just fucked up because I thought you did."

"..please let me make it up to you, ma."

"Fuck you, Joey."

"You won't ever see me again and I promise you that." I snatched away from him, trying to walk out of the door.

Pulling me back roughly, he wrapped his hands around my neck and tried to kiss my lips but I pushed him back as hard.

"Stop!" I yelled at him and he licked his lips.

The security guards then began to grab him roughly.

"Montana." He called me but I walked out. I couldn't deal with this shit anymore. I'd been through enough with him. He wanted to have sex with other people then I hope they can deal with shit because I can't anymore.

I'm done.

*

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