Jailed Love

Expect The Unexpected

{Journee P.O.V.}

I try to go to sleep but for some reason I couldn't. So I started to clean the place up. There really isn't anything to clean sense Jade and I are clean people. The only kind of dirty rooms are the bathroom and kitchen. So I start in the kitchen. As I'm cleaning out the fridge I hear loud laughter. I look out the window and scanned the scene when my eyes fell across the street. There are three guys talking and laughing loudly. Shaking my head, neighbors I tell you. I go to take out the trash and notice that there's only one guy left and he speaks. What a night!

"Be careful there, wouldn't want to break a nail." He says with smirk. That's no good.

I laugh mentally. "Please. Look like I can handle more than you." I say with my hands now on my hips. Now that I'm outside I get to see him clearly and man is he blessed. I snapped out of my trance and head back inside, but he stops me and speaks again.

"Wait!" He says. I turn around and flick my hands to make he speak faster. "What's your name beautiful?"

I put my head down and blush. Yeah I already know that I'm beautiful but it just feels good when someone else acknowledge it. "It's Journee. Can I go back inside now?" I lift my head up and say trying my best to look irritated, but in reality I am pleased.

"Sorry. Yeah you can. Good night beautiful." He says still looking at me.

I turn around to head back inside. "Good night unknown neighbor." I say walking back in.

"It's Zee. You can call me Zee." He says promptly.

I laugh and go back inside. When I go back in the kitchen, I hear more laughter. Before I turned around to come back home I seen his friends standing in the balcony doorway smirking. So no doubt they are clowning him about with just happened between us. I shake it off and finally head to bed. Remembering that I have made a list of things that I have to do tomorrow.

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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

My alarm goes off. Constantly beeping in my ear so I pick it up and chunk it so hard that it breaks. Ugh! I don't even know why I set it this early. 7:30? What was I thinking? I can't go back to sleep because once I'm up, that's it. So I get up and go to the bathroom to freshen myself up, then head towards the kitchen to make breakfast for Jade and I. Even though she is still asleep I think about her. I scan the fridge and the cabinets to find something I can put together, to make from scratch. I just settle with cookies and cream pancakes, my specialty, with fried sausage, omelets, and toast. Yum.

After making breakfast I go back to my room and find something decent to wear. A fitted long sleeve burgundy shirt and some multi colored leggings with some flats is what I decide to wear. As I'm getting my purse situated to head out the door Jade bursts in my room.

"Jo I don't think you need to go anywhere today!" She yells taking my purse from me.

"Jade, bitch, what is you tweaking for! Coming in my room yelling at me and shit!" I yell back very frustrated. 

"I just woke up with this feeling that something bad was going to happen so I think it's best if you stay home today. You got 2 days off right? Go tomorrow. Please Journee!" She says frighten.

I know it sounds crazy but every now and then Jade has these "feelings" and 9 times out of 10 she do not be tripping. Things do be happening. She has been having these feelings for years now and I always go by them. Unfortunately, I can't go by that today. I have to much to do and I refuse to do it tomorrow.

"Jade I'm sorry but I have to go. I'm not going to do it the day before I go to work. Tomorrow is my chill day." I say taking my purse from her and grabbing my car keys. "But thank you for the warning. I love you."

"Yeah. Yeah. I love you too. Just promise me that you will be careful Jo." Jade says still paranoid. 

"I will. I promise." I tell her then kiss her on the cheek. "See you later." And with that I am out the door. For some reason I look up at the balcony where the guy from last night stood. Zee. I laugh mentally and get in my car and drive off to the bank.

As I am driving to the bank, I get a phone call. Mom? She never calls me out of the blue like this. What could she possibly want? I pick up the phone and answer it. "Hello?"

"Oh thank God you answered! How are you? Are you okay? Are you safe?" She says pilling question after question.

"Whoa mama, slow down. Calm down! Yeah I'm okay. Where is this coming from?" I tell her stopping at a traffic light.

"I don't know. Something in me was telling me that something was wrong with one of my children. I have already called Rashawn and he was sleep so it has to be you Journee." She says with so much worry.

I shake my head and take a deep breath. "No mom you are tripping just like Jade. I am okay, seriously. I'm just on my way to the bank." I say irritated finally pulling up to the bank.

"Well, okay my baby. If you say so. Just stay out of troubles way, okay? I love you." She says calming down.

"Okay mom. I will and I love you too." I tell her and then hang up the phone.

Wow. This is kind of getting to me. First Jade and now my mom. What is really going on? I shake it off and walk into City National Bank of Florida. I get in the shortest line but it's really long. I can already tell I choose the day to open a bank account. I wait it out about 15 minutes and within that time the line only moved up 3 people and one of those people left. Maybe I can come back at a later time. I thought to myself. So I turn around to leave and all I hear is gunshots and somebody saying "Everybody on the ground, nobody move."

I'm like a deer in headlights. One of the robbers come towards me and says "You heard me baby cakes. On the ground now." So I quickly get on the ground right where I was at, not to far from the door. But I'm not that dumb to go for it so I stayed where I was.  I'm guessing one if the clerks tired to push the alarm because a robber said "I wouldn't do that if I was you" he points the gun at her. He then says "Feel this bag up with everything that's in every one of these registers. Now!" The clerk quickly abides.

A minute or so later another robber comes in and says "we have went over our time."

"We are almost done yo! Go back in the car!" Another one says.

As he turnt around to go back outside, he stops and look at me. "Journee?"

I lift my head up scared and confused. "Who are you and how do you know me?"

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So much suspicion. How do this robber know Journee???