When Jaida Met Kadeem

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Five Months later;

I frowned as I leaned over to the side of my bed where the bed-side table was and peered at the time on the face of my clock, it was past midnight...I wondered what he was doing. My heart started thumping in my chest as I started thinking the worst. I sighed as I picked up the Blackberry he had peer-pressured me into getting and rang him, his phone did exactly what it had done in several times I had called him about an hour ago...went to Voicemail. My mind was racing as all sorts of thoughts started spinning around my head. I decided to call Janet to get her to calm me down.

"Wow Jaida, you are not serious," she snorted.

"What if some stripper's whining up on him and he gets an erection and -"

"Oh my God Jaida calm down, its Kieran's stag night not Daniel's, the stripper will be all up on him." Janet reassured me.

"How do YOU know are you there?" I asked her, nibbling on my bottom lip worriedly as Janet laughed down the phone.

"Remember Mateo's there too," she reminded me. "Do you see me getting worried?"

"You two have been dealing for a couple of weeks now. It's fresh. Me and Daniel have been together for six months he could be getting bored of me."

"You haven't given him anything to get bored of," Janet pointed out.

"Exactly." I replied. "What if he's tired of me going on like a frigid virgin after I have a nine-month old daughter, what if he just wants s*x to get it all out of his system?" I was now babbling fearfully, half-knowing I was being stupid but another half of me was unsure, how did I even know they had a stripper...what if they were just sitting around a table reading books, that sounds like suttin Kieran would do...but that isn't Daniel...he would be here if that was what was planned for the night.

"You're so paro, just go to sleep!" Janet giggled. "Stop waiting up for him because he'll probably be back at some mad time of the morning."

"Why did your silly brother have to get married?" I sulked.

"Boy..." Janet laughed. "Five months later and I still do not have a clue."

I heaved out a heavy sigh. "Right, I'm gonna try and get some sleep before Janelle starts screaming down the place." I told her.

"Ok and don't worry. Daniel loves you." She reassured me for the final time before we got off the phone.

I think I finally made it, to the place in my life where the mix-up had finally died down, everyone was growing up and moving on. Kieran was getting married to that pretty white girl he had been dealing with for years, Lauren - I was even going to be a bridesmaid at the wedding, I was getting excited when she announced this to me because I've never been a bridesmaid before, Janet was one too - she wasn't as excited, she's still unsure about them getting married but she didn't want to say nuttin because Kieran was so happy and three other friends of Ashley were going to be bridesmaids and her non-identical twin sister, Dawn was going to be the maid of honour and Daniel was the best man of course as he's Kieran's best friend. Also me and Curtis were now officially talking again, it was weird because he randomly just called me out of the blue and we started chatting again, I was relieved that he wasn't holding a grudge and giving me the silent treatment...I was happy we could just move on...but not everyone's moving on, Jamal and Janet's relationship was unable to repair in Jamal's eyes, he sternly told Janet that it basically isn't ever going to happen again so she needs to get it in her head and move on. Janet took it very badly at first, sleepless nights, switching off her phone refusing to talk to anyone, it got so bad that Kieran even went down to Jamal's house to talk to him (he's mature like that, he made it clear to Jamal that he didn't want to start no trouble, he just wanted to talk to him because he didn't know what was wrong with his sister but he knew Jamal had something to do with it.) wow, it was an emotional time, when Kieran found out what happened he told her harshly that she brought it all on her self by being selfish and playing with his feelings.