🥀In Loving Memory🥀

Chapter 9

Huey was paying close attention to hear what Huelene's mother was saying on the phone. He just picked up on a few words they were saying because she didn't have it on speaker phone. Huelene appeared to be engrossed in their conversation, as though she didn't want to interrupt and get down to business.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you mom, but Huey has a few questions for you," Huelene irrupted her mother on the phone.

She started talking again but she seemed upset. Huelene took the phone from her ear and put it on speaker phone.

"Here he is!" Huelene said giving me the phone.

I didn't dare hold it up to my ear because I didn't feel like making the mother upset.

"Hello!" she sternly spoke.

"Hi this is Huey, what do I refer to you as?" Huey asked to be polite.

"My name is Ebony, but you can call me Ms. Brown," she respectfully spoke.

"Okay, Ms. Brown, I was informed that you knew the reason why Jazmine Dubois had left me while she was pregnant and sick, and I would like to know why?" Huey professionally asked.

Huelene gave him a weird look because he was talking as if he was in a business meeting.

"I'm sorry Huey, but I can't tell you why she left," Ebony apologized.

"Why not, I know, you know, the reason why she left! She had to have informed you about her sickness and background on why she wanted to give Huelene up for adoption," Huey asked glaring at the phone as if Ebony was here.

"She did inform my wife and I about her sickness and her marital problems with you, but we were told not to mention this to you or Huelene if you were to ask," Ebony explained.

"Jazmine and I never had relationship problems before she left," Huey disagreed.

"Well, according to her, something went wrong while the two of you were together," Ebony disagreed.

This stroke a sharp pain in Huey's heart because he never thought him and Jazmine had relationship issues. It never seemed like nothing was wrong with them when they were living together in Washington. If something did happen he was most likely unaware of it. Then this started to have Huey question if this was the reason why Jazmine left him. Did she not love him anymore?

"Then what went wrong? You can't keep stuff like this away from me," Huey desperately question.

He just wanted to know! He wanted to know why the love his life left him. At first he thought she left him because she was sick and pregnant, but now he knows that something bad was going on while they both were together.

It hurt not to know what the reasons were. It already had broke him to find out that Jazmine was dead and gone, and she was never coming back. It hurt that he missed 30 years of not seeing Huelene grow into a beautiful young woman just like Jazmine. It hurt to see her pop up out of nowhere desperately looking for him. It hurt not to be there while Jazmine was pregnant and sick. It hurt to hear Ebony not wanting to tell him anything about Jazmine. It hurt to go on and try to cope with everything that was going on in his life when he was young.

It hurt, hurt, hurt!

He wanted to curl up and break down crying because life didn't go as planned for him.

He didn't want his parents to die, he didn't want to move to Maryland and adapt to his environment, he didn't want to get raped by his Grandad's girlfriend and have bad dreams about her, he didn't want to smoke, he didn't want to be careless about sex, he didn't want to be broke with Jazmine when they left to live in Washington, he didn't want society to still look down on black men and women after all they fought for, he didn't want Jazmine working as a nurse to help sick people, he didn't want her to be afraid to tell him that she was sick and pregnant, he didn't want her to die, he didn't want to move on from her and marry Adaline and have kids with her, he didn't want any of this!