"Jack, why are you calling me?" I asked him
" Because I want to talk to you." He replied
" We haven't talked in six months why now." I asked him
" Well I had went and stayed in Alabama. I just got back." He said
" Oh and I assume Alabama doesn't have phone lines yet." I said sarcastically
" Don't be like that I just wanted to talk to you. You hung up on and wouldn't answer the phone anymore." He said " I'd still like to come see you."
" As a friend?" I ask. I was not ready to jump into anything again.
"As whatever you want." He said. Smooth. I'm not impressed.
"Alright, let me talk to my mama and I'll call you back." I said
" Ok make it quick." He said and hung up
I walked out on the porch where mama was.
"Mama, can a friend of mine come by and see me?" I asked
"Is it one of those chat line guys?"She asked
" No it is a guy that used to go to school with me but he moved to Atlanta." I lied
" Tomorrow while your (b) dad is here. Remember though Angleic is coming for the weekend" She said so I went inside and called him to let it know. He told me that his two friends were riding too. Good thing daddy will be here.
When Angelic got there we were all sitting around laughing and talking bullshit.
" What we gonna do if they get here looking like something from a horror movie." Angelic asked
"That's why I said as friends. I mean he ain't gotta be fine but I have to be able to look at him." I said laughing
" Ya and what if they are fine?" Jess asked
"Be gettn booty." Angelic said and we were rolling laughing at her stupidity.
"Who's gettin booty?" Mama asked seriously and we laughed even harder.
" Nobody's gettin booty in my house." Mama said
"I was just playin nanny." Angelic said embarrassed. I was hurting from laughing but I couldn't stop.
The next afternoon Jack calls to let me know that they was almost there. I went out to let Mama know.
" He's almost here but he has two friends that rode with him." I said nonchalantly.
(B) Daddy looks at me and he's pissed.
"Two friends?" Daddy asked
"Um yeah it's a long ride." I said
" What kinda guy brings friends with him to see his girlfriend?" Daddy asked
" He's not my boyfriend Daddy. He's just a friend." I said
" Still." Daddy said
About that time a green cavalier pulled up and the three got out. I walked out to the car to figure out who was who before I got caught in my lie. Jack looked like a Justin Timberlake wannabe which turned out to be what he was he even knew the dances. Justin looked like carrot top the at&t character. And Bob was heavy set with shoulder length black hair and a baby face.
"This is Jack." I said as I walked up on the porch. He shook hands with my dad and mama.
"Do you always take a crew with you when you go to see a girl?" Daddy asked him.
" Na" he replied laughing nervously." They just tagged along."
" OK well we're gonna walk around back and talk." I said turning to walk away.
" If I walk around there there better be space between all of you." He said as we walked away.
We took seats in the backyard boys on one side girls on the other facing each other. We were talking and getting to know each other. These fools think they are smooth but they ain't.
Justin kept telling Jess to go in the woods with him to "boink".
"You have no idea your not in the city anymore if my daddy hears you you might disappear in the woods." I said
" Hell ya y'all got cows down here I had never even seen a cow." Jack said.
"Wow are you serious? Angelic asked
He nodded
" Will you walk to my car with me?" He asked me so I got up and walked back around the house.
" Sorry about him he's stupid." He said
"Bob seems nice." I said
" Not as nice as me and I look better." He said
"That's matter of opinion." I said laughing. He just looked at me and raised his eyebrow. On the way back around the house he took my hand.
" It's about time to be saying goodbye." Dad said
" Alright I'm gonna go tell the others ." I said walking back around the house. Jack stopped me suddenly and pulled me into a kiss then turned and continued to walk like he had done nothing. I just shook my head.
" Can I call you when I get home?" He asked.
"Yea." I said and they loaded up and left.
"I don't know what I think about him yet." I said as I walked in the house and Jess and Angelic looking at me waiting for an opinion.
"Well I think Bob is a sweetheart." Angelic said. " So I got his number."
"Yea well Justin is a creep so I told him to keep dreaming" Jess said." But I did see someone holding hands."
"Yea he seems nice. I think I'll give him a chance." I said.
When he got home he called like he said he would. We sat and talked for about an hour and when we finally hung up I had a new boyfriend.
Now we have been dating for over a year I had meet his grandmother which he lived with because his dad was in prison and his mom ran away when he was a child.
This Friday he wants me to go to his uncle's house with him. He said his uncle plays the guitar like my family does and he wanted me to sing. I told him that I would love to meet his family.
It's Friday night and I was sitting at uncle Buck's house. He was a very old man with an amazing life story. I could sit and talk to him forever. To say he was good at playing the guitar was a severe understatement. He played and I sang until I looked at the time and it was eleven o'clock.
" Oh my gosh it's so late. I have to go home mama is going to kill me. Like dead." I said to Jack.
So I got up hugged uncle Buck and Aunt June and said goodbye. When we were on the way to take me home he went to his house instead.
" So you have a thing for my uncle?" He asked. He seemed like a completely different person. " You want to fuck him?"
" Are you serious what the hell is your
proble"
Before I could finish my sentence he has slapped me in the face so hard it felt swollen almost immediately.
" I'm so done with this. Take me home." I said
" Oh, that's not gonna happen." He said laughing.
What the fuck have I gotten myself into?
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So have you know someone that turned out to be nothing like you thought?
Did you remove them from your life or except them for who they really are?
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Non-FictionThis is a story of the tests of life and faith. Even before she was born life had it in for Jayla. Death, cancer and divorce are just some of the battles she would face as a small child. Then as a teen her life turned into a nightmare. As Jayla live...
