by Love N. Joy
“That must be him,” Pierre said. He walked over to the front door to open it and there Ava stood. It felt like Déjà Vu all over again when I first met Ava but this time I wasn’t happy to see her.
“Hey Ava,” Pierre said nonchalantly. He heard about what happened to Ava and I and wasn’t too happy about it.
“Hey Pierre can I come in please?” She asked very calmly. Pierre turned and looked at me to see if it was okay with me. I nodded my head yes and rolled my eyes. Ava came in and Pierre closed the door behind her.
“What’s up Ava,” I asked with attitude heavy in my tone.
“I don’t know you tell me. You’re the one who hasn’t been answering my phone calls,” Ava said in return.
“Yeah because you went too far the last time we talked, you flipped out.” I had to remind her because she seemed to have a case of amnesia.
“And I apologized for it Jai.”
“You don’t have privilege to call me that anymore,” I said coldheartedly. Ava sighed.
“So it’s come to this?” Ava asked.
“Yes I thought you would get it through your head that I don’t want anything to do with you after me forwarding you to voicemail all those times you called and not responding to your messages,” I said getting irritated.
That’s how you feel?” Ava asked. I could see the tears in her eyes but I didn’t have any sympathy.
“Yes that’s how I fucking feel,” I yelled out.
“Well I’m sorry it has to come to this,” she said as she pulled out a black 9mm gun and pointed it towards me. My heart paused at this point. Everything I said before I wish I could take it back but it was too late. I pushed Ava over the edge now.
“What the hell are you doing?” Pierre asked.
“Shut the fuck up Pierre!!!” She yelled out as she pointed the gun in Pierre’s direction. I covered my mouth as tears streamed down my eyes at this point. “You know if you would’ve just stayed out of it Pierre and let Jaidyn and I be happy then none of this would’ve ever happened. Jaidyn was happy with me but I know that you ran your mouth and told her about the past I had with Promise and it caused her to run back to Quincy. You shouldn’t have done that P.” Ava chuckled. “I knew I heard you talking to Promise on Skype that day when Jaidyn and I was walking in but I just played it off.”
Pierre was shivering at this point and crying. “Yeah you wish you would’ve just kept your damn mouth shut now don’t you?” Ava asked while laughing.
“Ava please put the gun down,” I said through tears. “Let’s just talk about this like civilized people.”
Ava turned and looked at me then looked back at Pierre and started laughing. “Ain’t this bout a bitch? Now you want to talk like civilized people, when all you had to do was just answer my calls.”
“Ava, please, I’m begging you,” I said.
“Awww don’t cry Jaidyn just say that you want to be with me. Come on show me how much Pierre’s friendship means to you, if you take me back then he lives.”
“AVA YOU ARE FUCKING CRAZY JUST PUT THE GUN DOWN,” I yelled out. I was over the edge at this point there was no reasoning with her anymore. She looked at me with disbelief written over her face.
“Crazy, I’ll show you crazy,” she said. At that moment while her attention was on me, Pierre tried to run and grab the gun from her. She saw him out the corner of her eye and turned back and BANG was the last sound I heard before I saw my friend fall to the ground.
“NOOOOOOO!!!!!” I screamed out. My friend who was light skinned with the prettiest green eyes anyone could ever stare into and a nice pearly white smile lied there on the ground lifeless with blood streaming from his head. I crawled over to him. “Pierre please don’t die on me, I should’ve listened to you. God no please don’t take him.” I was shaking and crying at the same time as I held him in my arms with blood all over me, but I didn’t care he was all I had.
I looked back up at Ava who stood there shocked at what she had just done. “Get out,” I said through tears. As Ava was coming back to reality she started crying after realizing what she just did.
“GET OUT,” I screamed out as I grabbed a glass vase and threw it at her. Luckily it missed her by an inch from her running out the apartment. I lay there holding Pierre crying and rocking back and forth. “I swear I should’ve listened to you, I should’ve listened to you,” was all I could keep saying over and over again…
It rained on my best friend’s funeral. While Mother Nature was crying I was numb. I couldn’t bring myself to believe that I was burying my best friend, the last person I had left in this world but I was somewhat happy because now he could keep my mother and grandmother company in heaven and they could thank him for keeping me happy here on earth. He could keep them smiling now. After the funeral was over, Kevin walked up to me dressed in a nice black suit with big black shades on. “Hey Jaidyn I just want to let you know that I loved Pierre and you were a very close person to him. So whatever you need, please don’t hesitate to ask for it,” he said. Tears rolled down my face at that point, he pulled me in for a hug. What I wanted was for my friend to wake up and tell me it was all a joke but after seeing him get lowered into the ground I knew that he wasn’t coming back.
“I don’t mean to interfere with your life at a time like this Kevin but I really can’t go back to that apartment after all this happened, can I please stay there for a couple of days and then I’ll check into a hotel,” I replied.
“Girl you ain’t staying in no hotel my ass. I’m not about to have Pierre come haunt me in my sleep because I’m letting you sleep in a hotel. You can stay at my place as long as you want to,” he said. It caused me to smile knowing that he had some of the same personality traits Pierre had. I could see why Pierre loved him so much.
“Thank you I’d really appreciate that,” I said in return.
Chapter 14
Author’s P.O.V.
Five months had passed by and Zariah was now seven months. She loved the thought of being pregnant but a part of her couldn’t be happy because she knew the truth but it hurt that she was hiding it. The lies were growing on the inside of her stomach. A part of her felt like she wouldn’t be able to love the baby fully seeing that it wasn’t by Quincy but she knew she couldn’t take her anger out on the baby for the mistakes she made.
There was a knock at her door. She went to answer it and there was delivery guy standing there with a package for her. “Thank you,” she said as she signed the slip. She closed the door and looked at the package weird. She hadn’t ordered anything and there wasn’t a return address on it. She smiled thinking maybe it was Yolanda sending her a baby gift for the baby. She unwrapped the package to find a DVD on the inside. She placed the DVD into the DVD player and pressed play.
Zariah’s mouth dropped and tears seeped out of her eyes as she seen what was playing on the TV screen. Someone taped Isaiah and her having sex and sent it to her. She was so shocked at what she was seeing she didn’t hear Quincy come in. “What the fuck is that?” Quincy asked. Zariah turned around to find him looking shocked. She looked back at the TV screen and in red letters the words can’t hide from the truth popped on the screen.
“I got to go,” she said as she placed her shoes on and ran out the house. She got in her car and drove off.
A couple of minutes later her phone was ringing she thought it was Quincy calling to see where she went but to her surprise it was a number she didn’t recognize.
“Hello,” she said once she answered it.
“So is that how you react to the gift I sent you,” she heard Isaiah say into the phone. She began crying as she said, “Isaiah can you please leave me alone, please.”
“Zariah I can’t do that. You have to tell Quincy the truth. Besides I can’t leave you’re stuck with me for the next 18 years,” he said in the phone. Zariah hung up the phone. She couldn’t let that happen she would kill herself befor
e she let Quincy know the truth and allowed Isaiah to make her life a living hell.
She pressed the gas down to the floor and did thirty five over the speed limit. A red light was coming up as she tried to stop her car slid over a patch of ice causing her car to spin six times. A black escalade slid into her car causing her to smack her whole driver side into a tree. She was unconscious after that as blood ran from her nose and head.
Jaidyn’s P.O.V.
Days were getting better for me as the months passed. Kevin let me stay at his place just like he said he would. It was for the best, it allowed me to get to know the person that Pierre fell in love with. I know that Pierre was happy in heaven that Kevin and I were good friends now because we could help each other get over the pain of losing him.
My thoughts were cut short from my phone ringing. “Hello,” I said once I answered the phone.
“Hey Jaidyn it’s me Renee,” I heard Quincy’s mother say on the other end of the phone.
“What’s wrong?” I asked my heart stopping at this point hoping nothing bad happened to Quincy, I couldn’t afford to hear any more bad news this year.
“Just please come to the hospital,” she said.
I rushed out the house not even answering Kevin’s questions and headed straight to the hospital. When I got there, I saw Quincy sitting there in a chair looking so lost. I walked over to him and sat down next to him. “Quincy what’s wrong? Your mother called me.”
“She’s gone,” he said.
“Who’s gone?” I asked.
“She’s gone,” he repeated looking lost in space somewhere.
“Hey Jaidyn,” I heard Renee say as she walked over to me.
“Renee, please tell me what’s going on,” I said. Renee took her time explaining to me that Zariah had got into a bad accident and was seven months pregnant. She explained to me that they were able to save the baby but Zariah didn’t make it. I was shocked and I knew Quincy was hurting. I was never cool with Zariah but I would never wish death on her.
“Quincy are you ready to go back and see your baby girl?” Renee asked. He didn’t respond.
I grabbed his hand and pulled him up. “Come on Q. Lets go see your baby girl.” Renee and I held him up as we walked back to the nursery. Once we got to the window and the nurse held up the baby girl Quincy burst into tears. I looked at the baby, she was so beautiful. All the pain I ever felt when I heard Zariah was pregnant with his child went flying out the window. What they created was something so beautiful and I was proud that Quincy had a chance to enter fatherhood. I looked down at my best friend crying on the floor. Renee and I kneeled down beside him and consoled him.
“Don’t worry Q we will get through this together…”
TO BE CONTINUED…..
Table of Contents
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14