I groaned rolling over in the bed hearing the thumping again this morning. I grabbed the little blanket and made my way in front of his work out room. I sat criss cross leaning against the door frame and watched him.
Even though his movements were aggressive he moved gracefully. His music was so loud I heard from here. His thick brown brows were scrunched up creating crinkles in his forehead and his facial expression read full concentration. His muscles were glistening with sweat.
As he continued on with his work out he seemed to be letting all of his anger out punch by punch. The thudding got louder and soon the bag fell from the ceiling.
Once his concentration broke he finally realized my presence and he tugged at his head phones giving me a smile like he always does.
"Why you wake up so early ?" He asked me helping me to my feet.
"You wake me up Rocky Bowboa." I say and he laughed he hovered over me for a second before he walked a head of me out of the door.
"You hungry ?" He asked and I shook my head but his back was turned. Jasmine was sitting at the table with cereal watching some basketball game like her dad.
"Good morning ms. Dee." She says and I returned it waiting for Jason's suggestions maybe I'd want something.
"Jasmine made sure I got all of this." He says taking out everything I need for a great breakfast but my appetite wasn't there.
"Thank you but I'm not hungry yet." I say and he nodded his head. He's been a great support through this but I really feel like I'm over staying my welcome. It's been a whole three weeks and he hasn't dropped any hints about him wanting me to leave but I would be sad if ever did.
The two of them have really comforted me and I have come to terms if they want me to leave I would be okay. I would have to visit everyday but I'd be okay.
"Do you guys want me to leave ?" I ask and the both of them got really quiet and they looked at each other for a long time.
"I don't. I like you." Jasmine says and I felt relieved but I knew it wasn't her who had the say so she isn't here except on the weekends.
"You can't go remember they think he's got a hit on your head ?" He says starring through me.
"I know I just dont want to be a burden on you J." I whine and he chuckled shaking his head.
"You're not remember you're supposed to be helping me with houses ? I could even start taking you to work ma." He says and I nod my head. His phone rung in his hand and he kissed my forehead before he left the room to answer it and jasmine cooed at him.
"You feeling okay today ?" I ask her trying to change the subject before she goes on about how much she thinks we should be together. She's been sick the past couple of weeks.
"Yeah." She says simply. I was about to ask about what she ate since she's been throwing up but Jason came back with a smile.
"Y'all I just got the call about the second hospital and we doing it." He says doing a dance making me laugh.
"That's so good !" I say and jasmine got up and hugged him.
"Since we're all in a great mood can Mark come over ?" She asked and Jason automatically scrunched his face up.
"You still with this John ?" He asked and she sucked her teeth.
"Dad don't be racist." She says rolling her eyes and folding her arms." Ms. Dee don't you think it's rude to dislike someone because they're white ?" She asked and I chuckled she always wants to bring me into it.
"I'm sure your dad doesn't dislike him because he's white. He dislikes him because a he's your boyfriend and he's white." I say and Jason tried to high five me." You're wrong for that." I say shaking my head at him and he sucked his teeth.
"Fine bring hunter over I don't care." He shrugged being childish. She took that answer and ran with it. Literally she went flying upstairs.
"I think she pregnant Dee." He says and I didn't know what to say. That was my first thought when she told me she had been feeling sick but I didn't know what to say to that." Ion know if I should whoop her ass or her mommas." He says with a sigh he leaned up against the counter top and he put his head in his hands.
I wouldn't know how to react if my 15 year old daughter got pregnant but she's in the same boat as her father he was 13 when he had her and I'm lost for words.
"Why do you think that ?" I ask trying to make sure we both weren't thinking the worst.
"They got caught together already doing shit Dee and i talked to her mom earlier and she was saying she went and bought pregnancy test with her card." He says I walked over to comfort him and he melted on to me." I don't know what the fuck to do. I tried the best I could with this girl but I guess I fucked up." He says I felt his tears seeping through my shirt and my eyes got big.
"Jason please don't cry. You're too tough to cry. Just talk to her first because you could be wrong. She really could just be sick or something." I say and I started to get choked up myself. I would've never imagined Jason crying not even if someone died. He's like my superhero." Even if she is I got your back. It's really not the end of the world Jase. Sure it's disappointing and it's going to change her life but you have to react the way she's going to need you to." I tell him looking at his covered face.
"Dee you got to help me with this shit. Because it is the end of her world she can't be a regular ass kid no more. I know myself and I know if she tell me Ima beat Billy ass." He says looking at me with his red eyes.
"His names John." I say and a chuckle escaped bringing a sad smile to his face." Honestly j you can't do that. I'm sure the both of them are freaking out right now and if you beat him up that's going to cause nothing but drama and bad decision making. What jasmine needs is support because I'm sure she's ready to die at this point." I tell him and he chuckled.
"I should kill her ass then." He says shaking his head.
"I don't understand this Dee. She supposed to tell me everything." He says and his anger began to emerge and I knew it was time to end the conversation. I started backing away from his now tensed up body. I felt uncomfortable and scared because of the way he looked. The vein in his forehead nudging at his skin and he fist clutched together. He turned to me and his whole demeanor changed. He sighed seeing my face. I held my arms out for a hug and he quickly accepted. I melted into him like a piece of chocolate in a hot car.
The door bell rung but he didn't move. Sure enough jasmine ran as fast as she could down the stairs swinging the door open hugging mark tightly and Jason sighed.
"Here we go." He mumbled as the two of them approached us making the two of us stand up straight.
