Pure Love

Chapter 9

Well sometimes all you can wish for is change but it doesnt mean that it will happen. Jada had thought that because they had gone shopping and things were good and no one was arrested it meant that things would change between her parents views but it didnt. Nothing changed everything seemed to be getting worse by the minute and she was trying to control the situation but things just kept blowing up.

She had given the staff the night off because she wanted to cook an authentic meal with her mother and sister. She had invited Stacy and Connors parents and they came. The dinner was going great until William asked Ray where he worked and then shit just started. William was just trying to get to know Jadas father and he blew it out of proportion.

"So Ray where do you work?" William had asked trying to be friendly.

"Why?" Ray looked at William in disgust.

"Uhmm, conversation." He said and shrugged.

"I worked at a steel company ran by a black man." He emphasized the entire statement but he wasn't finished. "Millers Inc." Her father continued.

"Wait isn't that the company that Abraham bought?" Gretchen asked her husband and then shit went down.

"Oh, so you know the person that bought it?" Her father asked and William nodded. "Was it not enough for your people to take us from our motherland and work us like dogs but we try to build something and you take it from us too. Will your kind never tire of kicking black people down?" He was furious at them but they weren't the ones that did it.

William was getting red in the face, she didn't know if it was from anger or embarrassment. He was calm, he cleared his throat placed his utensils on the table and stood. It was nice to have dined with you all but I'm afraid we must be on our way tell Connor we stopped by I had hoped to see him.

"Will please don't leave." Jada begged him.

"Jada, why must you make yourself a whore to these people?" Ray never spoke to her harshly before. She was always obedient and took all the shit that she was given and never once had she spoken back.

"Dad." Justin looked at his father in shock, surprised at what he had just said to his youngest.

"Shut up Justin." Her father yelled at her brother. He was angry and she couldn't understand why. "Jada we taught you better than this and you associate yourself with these people." He said the last part pointing at Stacy, Will, and Gretchen.

"Dad they are my family and friends." She said softly.

"Her father looked at her as if she had just spat in his face. You consider these people your family?" he asked.

"Dad please." She begged him. "Please calm down and listen." She stood from her chair he was towering over her. "Dad they aren't the ones to be blamed for anything. We can't blame them for anything. Their ancestors had made an error but they corrected themselves and we weren't affected emotionally or physically. Those that were affected like that have long since died." She hoped she could show her father reason, she hoped that the hatred would leave him and that he could learn to at least like them.

"They are just to be blamed." They continuously put black men and women in jail for trivial things. He argued.

"It is not the people go to jail based on the crimes they have committed not because someone is racist. White people go to jail for the same reasons, Hispanic and Asians too." She tried to make him see sense.

"Who sent you to Juvenile Hall?" He questioned and it stung like hell. She watched the look on their faces they were just surprised she hadn't told them she wasn't proud.

"Dad please, they are not to be blamed they are innocent." She defended them.

"They have our peoples blood on their hands." He looked at them with scorn.

"They are now my people." She said and he looked at her not understanding what she was saying. "I have been married to Connor for two years and three months and daddy I love him with all my heart." She held her fathers hand and pressed it against her heart. Everything was silent for what felt like an eternity. He pulled his hand away from her and he brought it back down and across her face and she tasted the blood in her mouth and the tears welling in her eyes. She looked at the table then back at him straightening herself, he looked at her with disgust and it ripped at her heart how the first man she ever loved treated her this way. "Dad." She did not get to finish.

"You are no daughter of mine." He turned from her and to his wife. "Get our stuff we are leaving." His voice boomed and she jumped and ran to the room.

"Dad please." She made another attempt. "Please don't push me away." She begged him her eyes filling with tears but she wouldn't allow them to fall. Her mother rushed out of the room pulling their bags behind them.

"Jada you have made your choice now you have to live with it." He turned his back to her.

"Mom please talk to him." She begged her mother but either she felt the same about Jada or she could not stand the wrath of him.

"Justin and Kadian get your things." He ordered but none of them moved.

"I think I'll stay with Jada." Kadian shrugged. "I mean you finally get your chance to disown me but I don't care, shit I'm glad cause with parents like you I might as well jump off a building and plummet to my death." She looked them in the eye and didn't flinch when they glared at her.

"Justin?" Ray looked towards his son.

"Dad, I'm sorry but I don't agree with you I never have and things and people change." He said. "You have to believe in people and I do and I only stayed around because of Jada but since she had developed her backbone I have to leave too. I hope you understand." Her brother and sister felt the same way she did they didnt believe in what they believed in.

"Oh, so Susan we have no children." He said and walked out and she looked at her three children all adults and left with her husband.

Jada sighed and cleared her throat she knew her face was black and blue no doubt about it. "I guess dinner is over, I'll just retire to my room." She said and turned away.

"Jada." They called after her but she just climbed the stair and locked herself in her room and cried as she had never cried before because she had never experienced a pain like this. She knew they'd be mad at her but she hadn't thought that they would disown her as they did. She was hurt but she was relieved that she had told them a professed her love for her husband even though it left her as an orphan.

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