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Arianna
made a U-turn. She decided to make a stop at the liquor store before going
home. She bought a bottle of top shelf tequila and a lemon.

 

 
 
         The
phone was ringing as Arianna unlocked her front door. She ignored it and told
the kids to do the same. She threw the bags on the couch and went to the
kitchen. She made dinner, helped Akilah with her homework, and sent her to the
shower. They had their nightly mother-daughter ritual of a bedtime story and
prayers before she tucked Akilah in.
         Amir
was his usual anti-social self, locked in his room where his CD player,
telephone, computer, and video games were all the company he needed.
         It
was time for that drink.
         She
cut the lemon into slices and put them in a small bowl. A shot glass and
saltshaker completed her supplies.
    “Lick it. Sip it. Suck it.”  
         Three
shots later and she was ready. First, she printed the emails, then copied and
pasted them into word processing files. She burned them and the rest of her
files onto a CD. She got a Phillips screwdriver and removed the back of the
computer tower, installed the new hard drive and copied the programs from the
old one onto it.
         She
used a hammer to beat the life out of the old hard drive. Anyone who found it
would be unable to hook it to a computer. The old hard drive found a new home
at the bottom of a trashcan.
         The
printouts were divided into two stacks on the living room floor; work and
personal. The work files were stuffed into a manila folder. She sat with the
personal ones, sorting them by category and date.
           They went back a year
to when she first moved to Philadelphia and bought the new computer. She read
the emails and recalled her first lonely months in the city. The ones that
prompted her to join LoveMeBlack.com and put her on the path to meet Nicole and
Janelle. The same path that put her on the road to possibly becoming a murder
suspect.  

 
 
 
 
 

 
    Chapter
Four

 
 
 
 
 
    A rianna learned about LoveMeBlack.com from her girlfriend,
Tania.
    Tania hadn’t had much luck
finding Mr. Right on earth, so she decided to search in cyber space.
         Tania spent hours
peering at a computer screen salivating over pictures and poring over profiles
of men. She sent out a lot of emails, and got a few dates and some booty calls,
but nothing even slightly resembling a real relationship.
         For Arianna, just
having someone to communicate with would be enough. Her plan was to put up a
profile and see what happened. No expectations.
         She had no idea the
drama that short profile would bring into her life.

 
    Hello
LoveMeBlack.com. My name is Arianna. I'm 37, 5’5, single with two children. I
live in Philadelphia and I’m new to the area. Looking to make friends and meet
new people. Email me to find out more.

 
         She uploaded a picture
in which she wore a sexy, red gown with spaghetti straps. Nothing revealing
like the bathing suits and nightgowns a lot of women wore in the pictures that
accompanied their profiles, but enough to get noticed.  
         Afterwards, she
emailed several sisters on the site who lived in the area, asking for help
finding a hairdresser, someone to braid her daughter’s hair, and a few other
things a woman needed to know when she moved someplace new. She thought at
least one of them might provide some information, maybe even extend an offer of
friendship. She got an icy reception. The sisters let her know with the
quickness they were online to meet brothers and brothers only.
         Arianna figured they
thought she was a lesbian, so she let it go.  
         She resigned herself
to the fact that any friends she made would definitely be of the male
persuasion. A week after she put up her profile, her inbox was deluged.
         She spent half her
time trying to weed out the crazies, deleting emails from men who admitted they
were going through