{blackbabes} 'Being Mary Jane' Season 2 sees Mary Jane torn between two lovers

When "Being Mary Jane" Season 2 picks up, Mary Jane (Gabrielle Union) is bound and determined to find out what happened to her relationship with David (Stephen Bishop) Creator Mara Brock Akil calls it Mary Jane "being an investigative reporter about her own story."

"She has to know why. Why did you leave me?" Akil says of Mary Jane's dogged pursuit of why David has moved on. "She needs to know why. It's gonna be painful, but she has to go there."

And painful it is, because not only does Mary Jane discover that David is with Anna because Anna is pregnant, but viewers find out that in the past, Mary Jane and David made the decision to abort their own child, which makes the pregnancy news all the more upsetting.

"A lot of people are bonded through having children, but [Mary Jane and David] are bonded through the abortion of a child, and now it's defining why David is moving forward with this new woman," explains Akil. "Mary Jane and David weren't on the same page, which is where a lot of people live -- they love each other, but they can't stay on the same page and live a life together. But it doesn't mean they don't love each other."

This of course means that Mary Jane-David relationship is not over. Like Kara says in the premiere, it takes twice as long to untangle your heart as you spent loving the person who broke it.

"This season is certainly about having to take two steps back before you can really move forward. But it's not easy to move on. How many times have you had the go-back sex?" Akil says with a laugh. "Mary Jane wants to move on, but is she going to stumble and fall like most of us do? Yes."

Things are further complicated by the appearance of Gary Dourdan as an attorney Mary Jane is pursuing for a story. "We're going to see Mary Jane be courted," teases Akil. "We're going to see who she thinks is worth dating ... and watch Mary Jane enter in to a new relationship when you're still sort of numb from an old one."