IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

It was a Friday night, we were just leaving RECESS, which is adult game night, in VA. One of my girls is driving , the other is in the backseat, and I’m in the passenger seat. We’re cruising in DC past Ozzios when I look to the right and see a police car sitting next to me. I kind of casually glance over, Hey nothing wrong with a man in uniform! Out of the corner of my eye I see the officer in the passenger seat appears to be a cutie! I quickly turn my head when I see he peeps my glance and as we’re about to pull off the officer who’s driving motions for us to pull over down the block. I’m like Oh Lord here we go ! I wasn’t trying holla I was just taking a look. So when we pull over to the side Passenger Officer gets out of the car and walks up to my window. Okay now that I get a good glimpse, officer is FIONE. And I don’t usually go for the high yellow blue eyes type, but this one right here has that sexy Michael Ealey thing going on so I can make an exception for him! Mr. Officer exchanges pleasantries with my girls then proceeds to ask me for my name and then my number. As we pull of I’m thinking Okay Mr. Officer!! As soon as I walk in the house he calls. He’s a little younger than my usual, but it’s cool I’m not getting excited yet! We agree to meet up later on that week. Due to my scheduling conflicts we didn’t meet when originally planned but Mr. Officer is persistent, so he finally meets me for drinks after work, right across the street from my job a few weeks later. He’s cute outside of his uniform and those eyes, did I mention they were blue? He’s a perfect gentleman on the date, nice conversation, nice laughs, easy going, pays for everything, we’re vibing well here. Over the course of the evening he asks me if I’m single and why. I tell him I just got out of a three year relationship and am taking it easy. He volunteered that he was single as well. I didn’t ask any probing questions because I really didn’t care. We were just getting drinks, nothing more or less. I’m really in a head space where I don’t want to be bothered with men beyond the platonic friend level anyway. At the end of the evening he walks me to the garage where my car is parked and where his is as well. I see a baby seat in the back of his car and ask him if that is for his child. He said no he doesn’t have kids but works undercover picking up “Ladies of the Night” and the car seat is one of the props he uses when pretending to be a regular “John”. I said okay and goodnight and that was that.

We talked on the phone a few more times after that date. When he asks me out again he asks me if I have friends so we can do kind of a group thing which I thought was kind of strange, but whatever, group outings are cool with me! One night he calls and I tell him my girls and I are doing dinner at Busboys and Poets. He said he was on duty but was going to come through and say hi and bring his partner. So he comes through Busboys gun loaded, waves it at the waiter, showing off! We laugh and joke and he leaves to go back on duty. Again at this point nothing serious, he is still just a cool guy to know, nothing more or less. Of course we flirt via text but that’s about it.

Fast forward a few months, we still have not had face time after Busboys and I was too busy doing my own thing to even notice, but anyway fast forward a few months and he tells me has a friend in town from Georgia that is doing an internship here so to bring one of my girls so we can all get drinks at the bar near where the friend is staying. I agree, no problem. We get there and he introduces me to his two boys. I introduce him to my girl and we’re all on the bar just chillin. We order our food and drinks. One of his boys is flirting with my girl, him and I are doing our thing, when out of nowhere this hoodrat pops up next to him. It was obvious they knew one another by the body language and interaction and this Beesh looks like she ready to just join our group, leaning over him laughing, whispering in his ear flirting BIG TIMMMME. I’m looking at my girl like Wow what a rude beesh! I can’ check her cause he’s not my man, he’s no one really, but I’m just observing how this all goes down. He’s chopping it up right along with her. At this point his other boy comes along and is trying to keep me occupied, but after a certain point I realize his boy is flirting with me. Hmm okay this is strange. He’s telling me about his career moves what he’s studying blah blah. Then he asks for my number. Now ordinarily outta respect for his boy I would decline, but hey his boy and I are not dating, nor is his boy dismissing this rude B so why not, I’m always down to meeting cool people. Ol girl finally leaves and I look at Mr Officer and don’t even say anything. He’s like, “Why didn’t you save me from her, she is so annoying blah blah. I’m like," Umm aren’t you a grown man, a police officer nonetheless, you don’t know how to dismiss chicken heads? Not my problem dear." So we continue chillin and do you know this B comes back!! My girl and I are like naw you have to be kidding me. So his homeboy tries to break the ice and is cracking jokes. At this point I’m ready to go because how did you invite someone out and then you sit here entertaining someone that clearly has a thing for you and you clearly must have a thing for her because you are not politely excusing her. After she leaves the second time Mr. Officer quickly jumps from the bar and says he has to take an urgent call. It’s close to midnight now. So I figure perhaps duty calls. He comes back and says Well goodnight everyone. I must go I have to do blah blah. Fine with me I was leaving anyway!

As we’re walking out his homeboy is still in my ear walking me to my car, inviting me on a date before he leaves town. I’m still thinking this is all so strange what kind of ménage did I walk into? The next day I check out homeboy’s Facebook page and I see two pics of Mr. Officer. He’s in a limo in one pic and the caption reads , “Last night with Mr. Officer before (insert girl name here) locks him down. “ Huh” eyebrows raised at this point..WTH. Before he’s locked down? Is this Negro married? Hit next and see Mr. Officer in a pic dancing in a tuxedo with his bride!!Okay hands in the air at this point. So this Negro really is married! Okay now it allll makes sense! Explains the unavailability on certain days, wanting to always be in a group, running out of the bar like a bat out of hell because it’s late. So I write a comment under one pic like “How cute”. His boy calls me after like," Oh snap you didn’t know Mr Officer was married?" I was like Naw he left that out. He was like "Yea and his wife is an Officer too, I thought you knew blah blah. "He then added that Mr. Officer always does this and I tell him he needs to be honest, the girl on the bar is an escort he was messing with "blah bla…at this point I’m speechless…like wow! So not only is he cheating on his wife who is a cop and could potentially KILL HIM, he’s cheating on her with escorts and random chicks..SMDH! So glad I didn’ t take this dude seriously and he is out of my life.