Ebony, Mi Amore

Second Chance

Time-Lapse: 4 Weeks

EBONY

"Ebi can we make cupcakes!?" Zena asks as she bounds down the stairs. I take the ingredients out and preheat the oven. My phone starts to ring when we are done mixing the ingredients so I tell Zena to pick the phone. My body chills all over when I hear the voice over the phone. "Please give me a chance I only want to speak with you! I miss you! Hello?" Before I can tell Zena to off the call she giddily greets Jensy and asks her where she is and she's missed her. Jensy ignores the questions being thrown her way and tells Zena to give me the phone. She pouts a little but smiles again when I tell her to go play and wait for the cupcakes.

"Ebony?..." Jensy's voice sounded scratchy as if she hadn't been using it for a long while. I cleared my throat. My heart began to beat faster as I thought deeper about what she was really trying to accomplish. She was going to kill me, she was trying to end my life. What a sick bastard. "Ebony I'm sorry-" Jensy began to rasp out but I didn't let her finish. " NO! you crazy bitch! What the hell had gotten into you? Huh? Jensy I thought you loved me!" Jensy was quiet on the other end. I took a deep breath. "Where are you?"

I heard rustling. I think I'm at some mental health center place. Jensy sounded bored. " Please come see me Ebony please, Please." Jensy kept on pleading with me. "Ebony, I only have a few minutes left on the call come to see me at MGA crisis intervention. Say your looking for Jen. Please come Ebony I miss you." Before Ebony could say anything the phone was cut off. I guess they had a limit for speaking on the phones. I smelled faint smoke in the air. THE CUPCAKES. I forgot to set the timer. I take a sigh of relaxation when I saw that the cupcakes weren't burned but they were about to.

I called Zena to eat and called Esmee to come to babysit her. Around thirty minutes later I was in my car driving to see Jensy. Should I call Mason first? No. He will be mad.

Time-lapse: 30 minutes

When I entered the room I saw Jensy sitting and looking outside a window. A security guard stood at the door. When Jensy saw me she sat and looked at me. She didn't look happy, yet she didn't look mad. I sat across from her in a soft plushy chair. I waited for her to speak. She said nothing. I started to get uneasy. Was she okay? I took it upon myself to speak. "Hey, Jensy...How have you been." Once I said these words Jensy starts to cry uncontrollably. She sobs loudly. Snot runs from her nose and her eyes are red. I feel uncomfortable.

She runs to hug me and I let her. At first, the hug is light and loving but then she starts to tighten her arms around me. I think nothing of it. She starts to bring her arms upward. I think nothing of it. I only realize when it's too late. Jensy spins me around by my shoulders and puts me in a tight chokehold. The security guard's back is facing us so he doesn't see. I also cant make noise. I try to fight her off but me not being able to breathe makes the action very hard. I start to see dots but I'm not giving up yet. I kick my leg back and ram my heel into Jensys knee. She shrieks from pain and let's go instantly.

That was when the security guard heard the commotion and came in. He saw me struggling on the floor and immediately went to his walky-talky to call for back up. Jensy was on her side and holding onto her knee. She began to curse me out. " I can't believe Mason likes you and not me! You're a fucking bitch! There is nothing special about you! Even your own parents didn't want you! That's why your mom walked out on you and your dad doesn't care enough to even call and ask of you! Fuck you!!" Two more security guards came in and carried her out she kept on shouting things at me.

A medic came in and checked up on me. I was only going to have a sore throat. She looked at me sadly before bidding me goodbye.

When I got home I made myself some tea and laid in bed. I could hear Esmee and Zena playing in the next room. It calmed my nerves to hear Zena's happy laughs. I was drifting off to sleep when my phone started to ring again. I was reluctant to even look at it but my mood perked right up when I saw that it was Mason. "Hey, babe." He greeted me with his deep velvety voice. He didn't wait for me to greet him back. He then proceeded to ask me to come over for Thanksgiving dinner with his family. His mom asked to meet me again and apologize for her husband's actions.

Plus she wanted to thank me for being so kind when she was in that horrible state earlier. I thought about it for a long while before giving an answer. I could tell Mason was on edge. " Okay, I'll come baby, and I'll bring Zena and Esmee. Especially Esmee she would love free food." As if they knew I was speaking of them Zena and Esmee burst into my room. Zena's squeals bouncing off my walls as Esmee struggled to catch up. It all ends with them jumping on my bed with me. And us laughing hysterically. Mason called Zena to speak with him. She excepted happily.

"Hola!" Esmee cuddles next to me. I sit there a little dazed about what happened today. My eyes tear up as I think of how much it burned when she spoke of my parents.

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