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"So I had sex."
I was over Jade's helping her pack for her stay in Miami. I walked along the brown hardwood floor in her bedroom in my ankle socks and some of her designer clothes in my hand and carried them over to her bed and released them onto the comforter. The giggles coming from the playpen were by Chloe and Sarai and the TV before them played Karma's World. I plopped down on the mattress to help her start folding.
"Sex?" I repeated, interesting to know about this. "Whose this little friend that knocked the cobwebs?"
Jade chuckled as she folded a pair of pants. "Actually.. you know him."
"I do?" She nodded and I pondered on who she could've possibly had sex with that I know, then it wasn't hard to figure it out. "Jade.. please to me you didn't do it with Cairo."
Just by the expression on her face, there was my answer. "Jade!"
"It.. just happened."
"Well he didn't just fall in it Jade." I exhaled and paused the process of folding a shirt, "Why? Why would you revert back Jae?"
"It was only sex, Caren. I'm not getting back with him. I even told him that. I'm still divorcing him.
"And let me guess: he was cool with that?" She nodded and I shook my head in disappointment, "Checkmate, then."
She was confused. "What?"
"I said: checkmate, because that's what he done." I said, "I told you he was great at chess and you didn't believe me. Mom and grandma are gone. Mom cut you off. Carla cut you off and left. Exactly what he wanted. You're in this house alone with just Sarai and once Margo comes over. That's what he wanted to happen because it's easier that way. You fell into his trap, again. And if anyone knows about that, I do. I let X do that for eighteen years of my life until I opened my eyes and realized it. It's gonna take for you to open your own eyes to it. We can't keep forcing them open for you."
Jade fell into a sudden silence, while I continued to help her pack.
"His father.. Ekon," her mentioning my godfather made me return my gaze to her. "Where is he? I've never met him. Cairo doesn't talk about him. I feel if I talk to him–"
