When Jaida Met Kadeem

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Chapter Nine;

I'm woken up to the sound of Keisha playing with her Barbie's talking bare loud like it ain't...I check the time on my phone - half nine in the f*cking morning! I groaned and got out of bed. It's now Saturday and I remembered Jamal's having a little gathering ting that's turned into a house party at his yard today. That's what happens when people love you off as much as people love off Jamal and his s*xy self. People start inviting themselves to what was meant to be a small gathering, offering to bring, drink one BLACK person even offered to bring food! Wow! And Jamal's one of them sweet boys on the inside and couldn't say no to all these people and decided to just have a party.

I convinced Bri to come, she didn't want to but I told her that Jamal asked me to ask her as when he try call her she always busys the call. Which is true, after me and Curtis came downstairs from Rex's room we started talking about Saturday and then Bri was mentioned and he asked me to tell her that. She secretly got happz but tried acting all casual about it. I know she's trying not to like him because we're not one of those girls who break up happy homes. And they do look happy together Janet and Jamal I mean, I saw pictures of them two together on Facebook and she is actually bare pretty, she looks Latino when in fact she's your typical black and white mix raced but she's got long curly hair and exotic looking features. That's so Jamal's type, and now I think about it so is Bri...they would actually be perfect for each other as she actually has that Spanish/Brazilian background and she's beautiful.

It's only been like two days since me and Curtis started doing a ting but I'm falling for him bare, he's just too sweet and you know when you're dealing with a boy that was also your friend and sometimes things change and becomes awkward? That hasn't happened with us...it's only been two days I know, you never know what the future holds and that, but so far so good boy! I fell asleep on the phone to him, I remember checking the time not long before my eyes closed it was like four in the morning, I was tired, but Keisha was making too much f*cking noise! I decided to go have my shower. Ramal was still here and I wanted to be out of the house before his face came into my view. As you've noticed I hate being at home now, I'm always going round a friend's house after school and staying there as long as I possibly can and on weekends I try not to be in the house. It so isn't like me, but as long as he's here that's how it's going to be. They're still looking their son and I can't help but look at my Auntie differently. It's not something you expect to hear your Auntie tell you 'I had my first child at the age of twelve?' I started having periods when I was thirteen. How the f*ck is Keisha going to feel when she's old enough to understand? How is Uncle Omari going to feel when he comes back? So far Keisha is over the moon! She can't wait to have a big brother and doesn't understand just how complicated it is.

So, life at home isn't been good for me right now. My feelings for Kadeem have been brushed over with my feelings for Curtis, it's weird. When I'm alone with Kadeem, its like something is still there but when I'm with Curtis I'm sure that I'm feeling him bare. Hmm... 

Me and Kadeem have been trying to get our friendship back on track, get rid of the awkwardness and just be the way things were before. We've been talking on the phone and that and I'm trying really hard not to think of him as more than a close friend but when I talk to him I keep thinking about how he told me he loved me...what's going on in this head of mine? How can I like both of these brehs at the same time?

I came out of the bathroom, my towel wrapped tightly around my body. Keisha's bedroom door creaked open. "Jaida!" she exclaimed. 

I smiled at her beaming face, "Good morning darling," I said. 

"I want to have my bath too!" she told me. 

"Alright then," I said and I ran her a nice, hot bath because I was generous enough not to finish all the hot water that morning lol. I put bubbles in it and she climbed inside with one of her Barbie dolls and started playing with it in the bath pretending it was drowning. I went into my room and started creaming my skin, I put on my underwear and quickly got dressed in some white vest top and a long black cardigan and black skinny jeans, I put on some black socks and slipped on my favourite fluffy white slippers. I went to the mirror and ran a comb through my hair, greasing it a bit and leaving it out, sticking on some big silver square earrings that were encrusted with little gems; I put on my glasses and left my room. Keisha was still splashing away in the bathroom; I helped her get dressed and combed out her soft curls, putting a pink headband around her head to match the pink outfit I picked out for her. Then we both went downstairs and I made us some breakfast, it was coming to half-ten at this time, Ramal and Auntie Donna were still asleep.