Jordan The Warrior *Editing*

Chapter Nineteen

Opening the door for her to get in the car, she stops and turns to point at me, "Now honey don't be going fast with me in this car. I see how you be pulling out of this driveway". Nodding my head slowly at her request, "I don't drive that fast, but I'll make sure to get you there safely and in one piece" I say trying to calm her nerves down. "That's all I ask for Honey" she pats my thigh.
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I help her get out of the car, which I receive a thank you from her. "So I got a couple of stores in mind that I think you would like" She says while we make are way to the entrance of the mall. "That's good because I really don't shop at clothing stores. I would usually shop at the local thrift shop back home" I tell her.

Arriving inside the mall it wasn't really packed like I thought it was going to be, probably because it was a Monday. "Great the mall is dead, that means no lines" she grabs my arm "let's go to this store first" she guides me inside.

Walking in there, I get completely blinded by the bright lights in here. "Gosh why is it so bright in here? Should have told me it was this bright because would have definitely brought my sunglasses with me" I squint my eyes trying to look around. She chuckles "Sorry I'll warn you next time, it's a couple of stores like that" She pulls me to the men section.

I'm glad she's comfortable with the clothes I wear and not force me to wear women's clothing like her husband used to try to do.

"Okay, so I noticed that you like to dress up causal so those shirts over you might like, I'm going to be over there" she points to folded up shirts. Going to the shirts, I pick one of them up, and it's a simple 90s band shirt. About to put it in the bag mom gave me but stop when I see the price. $39.95!!! What the hell is this!! Why does this shirt cost so much? I start to turn it inside out to see what's so special about this damn shirt.

After looking at every inch of it, I found nothing that would give me a reason to buy the $40 shirts, so I put it down and walk away from the overly priced shirts. Finding mom who's looking at some pants, "oh honey look what I found some good jeans for you" she holds up some regular faded blue jeans. I pick the price tag and my eyes go wide, $50. I lean against on the rack from almost passing out. Who would willing pay for that price, this is straight up robbery.

"What's wrong? You didn't find anything you liked?" She asks me. Shaking my head no at her question."This store is expensive, mom, I saw a band shirt that costed $40. I would get that same shirt at Walmart for only $7" I stressed out. I don't understand why she even thought I would like this place.

"Great another cheapskate" she rolls her eyes. "Can we go to Walmart or something?" I ask her.  "No Honey, let's just look at other stores before you decide that" she loops my arm with hers, and she takes me away to the next store.

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Two hours later of us just shopping around the whole mall, I was getting exhausted. Mom made sure we went to every store in this place and left out with something. My feet were hurting, and I was hungry, I shouldn't have skipped lunch.

"Mom, can we get something to eat please?" I said while dragging the bags in my hands. "Yeah we can, I'm hungry too. There's this little, nice restaurant in here". We make it to the restaurant, and it had a line but wasn't that big, so to pass the time, I start texting Adrian.

"Jennifer is that you?" I hear someone call moms name. I turn around to see some lady behind us, she looked like she can be mom's age. She had this big smile on her face, then I looked at mom to see if she knew her. She had this shocked look on her face, like she has seen a ghost or something.

"Oh that is you" she comes closer to us giving mom a hug which she's still in shock. The lady didn't seem to notice, or probably didn't care of mom's state.

"Hi I'm Jamie" she looks at me with a huge smile and reaches out her hand."Jordan"I simply added shaking her hand. "I know who you are" she says, making look at her weirdly.

"Wha- what are you doing here, Jamie" my mom finally asks her. "I was doing a little shopping and when I saw you standing here, so I was like what the hell why not join you guys for lunch" she said all that while still looking at me. Did she have a fucking problem or what?

I look at mom to silently ask her what's going on. She clears her throat then looks at me "Jordan, Jamie and I used to go to school together" she explains to me. "Now come on Jen don't downplay me" Jamie laughs "We were more than just going to high school together" she says while still having that smile on her face. What the hell does she mean by that? "We were best friends in high school" Mom adds to that, probably seeing how confused I looked. "More than best friends" I hear Jamie mumbles lowly but not sure if I heard her right.

"So what do you say, Jen? Can I join you guys for lunch?" She asks my mom. Taking a moment to answer, mom finally said yes. We get seated at our table, I start to look over the menu. Geez, I wish mom would have told me this is a vegan place. I would have definitely went home to eat.

"Jordan" I hear Jamie call my name, making me look at her. "Your mom told me today was your first day of school" she smiles at me. "It was alright, mom put me put in all AP classes. Thanks for that mom" I give her a tight lip smile. "No don't thank me honey, I know you can ace those classes" she smiles at me.

"Your mom was always a brainy act in school" Jamie laughs "yeah, and you always wanted to fight" mom retorted, making Jamie laugh even harder. "Yeah! What can I say finding is in my blood" she looks back at me. If she looks at me one more time, I'm going to punch in her lip.

The waitress finally comes and takes our order now we are just waiting for the food. "Jen, why you take the kid to this plant eater place?" She questions "she's a growing girl, look at her, she needs all the meat and protein she can get for she can grow up big and strong like me" she lifts her arm flexing. I couldn't help but not to laugh, is she serious. She snaps her head toward me, "what you laughing at kid?" She asks me. Continuing laughing at, I wipe the imaginary tears. " I'm sorry but you saying you're bigger than me is crazy" I answer her.

"Kid you're a pipsqueak compared to me" she flexes a little more. I'm not going to lie and say this lady is built, but I'm more built. "And you're delusional" I tell her. "Please guys calm down, people are starting to look" mom says in a calm voice. "No Jen, I have to show her who's boss. Let's arm wrestle right now, Jordan." She slams her arm down in position. The lady is fucking crazy. "What you're scared kid" she has a smirk on her face. Yeah, I'm going to wipe that smirk off. I grab her hand getting to shut up, "Jen be refereeing" she tells mom.

"No! You two, stop it right now!" She whispers yell. "We don't need her. On 3 go" she says, and I nod agreeing. "1...2...3 go" she yells and we start. I got the first advantage and start to move her arm down. I look up smirking at her then she looks to me giving me the same look. Confused by that, then I feel her grip tighter, my arm starts to go down. Fuck!

I hear some clear their throat, " Um excuse me, I'm the manager here. You guys are scaring the customers, so I have to ask you all to leave" I look up the to see the man then I feel my arm hit the table. "Hell yeah!!!" Jamie jumps up from the table. Shit! I let my guard down. I look at mom to see her shaking her head, she looks upset.

"You guys have to leave now, or I'll have to call security" the manager says. "Yeah we heard you buddy" Jamie tells him.

Leaving the restaurant, mom walks ahead of us. This wasn't the plan to get on good terms with her now she's upset with me. "Hey Jen we're sorry what happened back there" Jamie says, scratching the back of her head. Mom stops her walking, then turns around to look at us. "You guys should be sorry. You were acting like children who have no home training" we both put our head down while she scolds us. "Sorry mom" I whisper, feeling bad I embarrassed her back there.

"And you know what I'm more pissed off about?" She pauses "How you let that old fart beat you Honey" I snap my head up seeing a smirk on her face. "What.?" Jamie yells. "You heard me. Jordan should have won that, you're lucky she got distracted" she says. I start to laugh at Jamie face, she looks stuck.

"Now let's go. I know a good burger place" Mom says turning around leaving and we both follow.

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