Page 84 of Catch Me
“Say that again?” I tell Mya.
“No fucking way!” Ari yells.
“It’s true. My firm has nothing to do with his dumbass, so I can talk about what I’ve heard.” She looks at me. “You knowI wouldn’t work for a firm that represented that lame ass, little dick jackass.”
I swallow the lump in my throat before mouthing ‘I love you’ to my friend. She squeezes my hand.
For months, followers of Dennis James and his channel harassed all of my social media accounts, somehow found my personal and professional emails and sent the vilest messages you can think of.
“For the life of me, I can’t figure out how some men who I’ve never met, heard of, or spoken about could hate me so much.”
“It’s because they’re bitter and lonely themselves,” Mya says.
“And they’re projecting their own failures onto you,” Ari adds.
“Dennis attempted to start his own media company and signed on a couple of smaller podcasters. All lame ass men like him, of course,” Mya scoffs.
“Well, apparently, homie wasn’t paying like he promised in those contracts. And to top it off, he was sleeping with one of the dude’s wives, so shit is getting real messy.”
“Whaaat?” Ari yells.
“Shut up!” I add.
“Yeah, that’s not even half of it. But to add insult to injury, a number of the social media sites he uses, including YouTube, shut down his channel for bullying and harassment. He’s trying to appeal but it’s not looking good for his ass.”
Mya cackles.
“That’s what he gets. Wait,” Ari says, “who is he accused of bullying?” She looks at me.
I throw my hands up. “I never reported him for any of that stuff that happened.”
“Which you fucking should have,” Mya scolds with narrowed eyes. “I told you that a year ago.”
I hadn’t told either one of them what was going on when it was all happening. I was too embarrassed.
Hard not to be when I needed to move back home at that time and on an almost daily basis my own parents were the ones saying how much I deserved it for humiliating our family the way I did.
“Do you know who it was he was harassing? Was it another woman?”
“You know it was,” Mya says. “That fool obviously hates women.”
“Yet, he doesn’t mind sleeping with another man’s wife,” Ari says
“Pig,” I mutter.
“Lame ass bitch,” Mya adds.
“It was another YouTuber. Mz. Ellyn is the name of her channel. She’s a Black influencer in her mid-fifties with over a million followers on YouTube alone. More than that dumbass.
“Anyway, he tried to come for her, and after she did a short clip responding to a comment he left on one of her videos.
“Apparently, he’s been harassing her for over a year now.”
“He’s insane.”
“I know Mz. Ellyn,” Ari says. “I met her at an event in New York a couple of years ago. She was a ball of fun.”
Mya’s smile widens. “She’s also smart because she kept a record of everything. Someone got in contact with her through a lawyer, and she had all of her receipts of that clown’s harassment.”
