🥀In Loving Memory🥀

Chapter 18

Huey and Huelene were on their way to Ebony Brown's house when they had an unpleasant drive. It had only taken three hours to get to where she was, but Huey and Huelene hadn't said anything to each other.

Huelene was clearly still angry at Huey for what he had said or exposed about her mother, but she realized he was just hurt. According to the stories he tells about the two, he appears to be quite happy to talk about her.

Because when she first met Huey, he appeared to be one of those guys who was having a bad day, but as soon as he started talking about her mother, his day brightened up and that made her happy. Every story he tells may not be the best, but she is learning more and more about her parents with each one.

Huelene wanted to ask another question but she was too afraid. She didn't know if Huey was in the mood to talk about her mother. He still seemed pretty bothered from yesterday.

"Are you okay?" Huelene asked, concerned for her father.

He didn't answer for a couple of seconds until he nodded.

"You sure? You look to be a little stiff," Huelene asked noticing his posture.

Huey held on tightly to the wheel and just took a deep breath. He couldn't hide anything from her.

"Honestly, Huelene, I'm not okay!" Huey truthfully answered.

"Why?" she asked.

"When you find out within 72 hours a person you loved for years slept with another man, caught AIDS, had a secret pregnancy, backed out of the marriage, and basically lied to you, it's a lot to take in," Huey spoke.

"Makes sense!" Huelene said not going to argue.

"Question?" she said as Huey was alert.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Did you and my mother ever have downfalls in your relationship?" Huelene asked as Huey looked to be a bit confused.

"What do you mean?" he asked trying to be sure.

"Like did you guys ever fight, try and break up with each other, have insecurities, you know basic couple problems," Huelene explained.

"Yes, we had arguments and insecurities, but we never tried to break up with each other," Huey said.

"Did she have insecurities or did you have them?" Huelene asked to be sure.

"We both had insecurities! Her's were more obvious than mine," Huey assured.

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I had always loved Jazmine for who she was and didn't care too much about her looks, but she thought otherwise. Normally, you would think she'd be insecure about her body but, surprisingly, she didn't think too much about her body. One of Jazmine's biggest insecurities was her appearance.

And, once again, not any of her body parts. I'm referring to her skin color, eyes, hair, and almost everything else about her being mixed.

Jazmine will never admit to it, but she hated how she was different from everybody else. She didn't like being an outcast everywhere she went.

Even when mixed kids started coming to Woodcrest she was still considered an outcast in their case.

And another thing she hated was choosing sides. Like most biracial kids, they're sneakily forced to pick sides on how they want to be viewed.

Teachers, kids, parents, and even my own people were always wondering what Jazmine identified herself as. We assumed she identified herself as white since she was always so sensitive and surrounded by only white people.