Saturday, June 8th

9pm

Jada & Marcel's House

It's been a week since what happened and Marcel of course trying to get back on my good side and I've been dubbing him. I've honestly been happy. I've gone on little lunch dates with my girls and we went guy hunting at the beaches and what not. Tonight we were going out to the club. I'm ready to mingle with the fine ass guys there.

I did my makeup and fixed my braided ponytail. I threw on my blue bodycon dress that came above my knees and threw on my silver heels. I got a text from Bria saying they were outside and I grabbed my clutch and headed downstairs. I was almost to the door when I heard Marcel mumble something.

"What was that?" I asked him.

"Nothing. It's just that you've been out every day this week. And now your dressed like that and going out tonight." He said.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know you had a god damn say in what I do now." I said leaning on the chair.

"Jada I miss you." He said sighing and looking at me with his phone in his hand.

"I miss me too. I miss the bitch I was before I met you." I said then walked out on him.

I got in the car with Mia, Bria, and Mina. Mina was driving.

"Damn girl took you long enough." Mia said.

"Girl I got caught up with Marcel ass. He thought he should bring it to me attention that I've been going out every day and now I'm going out tonight, like nigga please." I said closing the car door.

"Oh nooo and what happened?" Bria asked.

"I told him I didn't realize he had a say in what the hell I do." I responded. "Then he was talking about some I miss you Jada. Like that's nice the fuck." I said fixing my dress as Mina was pulling off.

"And what did you say?" Mina asked.

"I said that I miss me too. I said I miss the bitch I was before I met him." I said to Mina and Mia chuckled.

"Girl I don't know why you agreed to be single in public unless you're around family and shit." Bria said.

"It's the perfect revenge. He'll see the niggas coming to the house, I'll bring a nigga over or some shit and fuck him in the guest room. I'll go on dates just cause I can. I basically do what I want while being engaged because he know he feel shitty." I said smiling knowing how shitty he felt.

"Girl you are ruthless now wow. Bringing guns and shit threatening to shoot people. Now you gon fuck a nigga in the same house your fiancé in? Damn." Mina said laughing and Bria and Mia laughed also. I laughed to myself and looked out of the window.

25 minutes later we pulled up to Cucina Palm Beach nightclub.

We all got out and went in, it was packed in here.

We went to sit at a booth that was available.

"What do you guys want from the bar?" Mia asked us.

"Two shots of Amsterdam and 3 shots of pinnacle." Bria said.

"5 shots of d'usse for me." Mina said.

"3 shots of Hennessy, 3 shots of d'usse. Don't bring no chaser for me." I said and they all looked at me shook.

"What? Don't judge, no kids this summer." I said shrugging.

They all laughed and Mia went for the drinks.

"So Jada you excited to graduate in August?" Mina asked.

"Hell yeah. It's been a crazy ass two years with the business, classes, and the twins." I said.

"How are my nephews?" Bria asked.

"They're great I spoke to them earlier. They love being with grandma." I said laughing remembering how cheery and giggling they were earlier. I kind of missed my sons, they left last month.

"Aww that's good. I'm sure she's having a blast with them too." Mina said.

"She says they keep her young." I said and we all laughed.

Mia came back with the tray of shots and her shots as well. She got fireball and Amsterdam. I personally think that's a bad combination but we all had 5 shots each.

We all one by one took each shot. Then we let it settle into our systems.

"Alright ladies find a gentleman and my gentlemen find a lady.. we're gonna take it back with this slow classic right here." The DJ said on the mic.

Slow Motion by Juvenile played and my girls and I immediately got in the mood to grind on some find men. Except Bria since she was still with Q.

"You want to dance with me beautiful?" A tall, handsome FINE man asked me.

"Sure." I said and smiled at him as he took my hand.

We started to grind slowly on each other with the music and the sexual tension between us was crazy. If we could've had sex in the middle of the dance floor we probably would've.

After the song was over I went to walk back to my girls and but got stopped by the same man I just finished dancing with.

"That's it? No name pretty? Or am I just going to have to compliment you every time I see you until you tell me?" He said and I gave him a smile.

"Jada." I said and he licked his lips.

"Jashawn." He smiled back showing his amazing smile that made me just wanna sit on his face.

"Nice to meet you Jashawn." I said.

"Nice to meet you too, Jada." He licked his lips once more.

"Excuse me if I'm being to forward but, may I have your number? I would love to take you out tomorrow for lunch maybe?" He asked and I hesitated but he was fine.

"Sure of course." I said and he gave me his phone and I put my number in.

Then he texted me and I save his number.

"Well I'm gonna go back to my girls now. So maybe I'll bump into you again tonight." I said smiling at him.

"How about y'all come hang with me and my guys in VIP?" He asked and I looked at him like he had two heads.

"Really?" I asked shocked.

"Yeah, I'm right over there." He said pointing to the VIP booth. "Grab your girls and meet me over there. I'll let the security guy know I'm expecting you and your girls." He said and I smiled.

"Okay." I said and walked towards the booth my girls and I were sitting at.

"You guys omg!" I said to them.

"It felt big didn't it?" Bria blurted out.

"What? Girl no- yes but that's not what I was getting at." I said and they laughed.

"Wassup?" Mina asked.

"He invited us to the VIP booth with him and his boys." I said and they all smiled.

"Bitch let's go." Mia said getting up as we all laughed walking after her. She got out the booth so fast.

We walked over to the VIP where Jashawn was.

The security let us in and I was immediately greeted by Jashawn.

"Hey gorgeous. Glad you and your friends decided to come." He said looking at me then at them.

"Of course. This is my best friend Bria, cousin Mia, and friend Mina." I said and he chuckled.

"All y'all names rhyme and y'all are friends, that's cute." He said showing his handsome smile once again. "These are my boys Darwin, Archie, and Moe." He said and we all said hey to them and they said hey back.

Mia went straight to Archie and they immediately hit it off. They were on each other all night. Mina and Darwin were hitting it off too. Bria and Moe were vibing but you can tell it was a friendly vibe. They were laughing it up and Bria was being respectful of Q.

We all were chilling, drinking, and dancing until about 2am.

"Hey y'all ready to go? Ima head out." Bria said.

"Nah not yet but I'll take you home if you're ready." Mina said since she's the one that drove here.

"Don't worry I'll take her." Moe said.

"Oh you don't have to do that." Bria said.

"I insist. I promise to take you straight home." Moe said and Bria hesitates but agreed.

We all said bye to her and her and Moe left. She sent us her location and said she'll text us when she's home.

"Um Archie and I are gonna go too." Mia said and I smirked at her knowing what was up. The way she said that gave it away.

"You know the routine. But have fun." Mina said and I nodded in agreement.

She also sent her location and I texted her to use a condom.

We all stayed until about 2:45am.

"I know this great chill place by the beach we can all go to if y'all ain't ready to go home but wanna stay out." Darwin said and we all nodded.

"Let's do it." I said and we all left the VIP and left the club.

I rode with Jashawn and Darwin rode with Mina since Darwin didn't come in his own car and came with Jashawn.

30 minutes later we pulled up to this boardwalk that was near the beach but it was its own thing. We all went out to the dock and sat down watching the night sky.

"I use to come out here a lot when I needed to get away." Darwin said and Mina looked at him in aw.

"This is a great place to clear your thought forreal. You know how to pick a place." I said and got quiet looking at the sky. I was going to start coming here.

We all sat thee just staring, it was a quiet moment and it was peaceful.

"Anybody else getting hungry?" Jashawn said breaking the silence and we all laughed.

"This nigga always hungry." Darwin said and Mina and I laughed.

"Nah I think I'll go home. I got food in the house." Mina said laughing.

"Ooooo can I come with you?" Darwin said and Mina laughed.

"Sure. Y'all wanna come too?" Mina looked at Jashawn and I.

Jashawn looked at me for a moment. "Nah I think ima take Jada somewhere to eat." He said and I looked at him and laughed.

"You saying it like I'm the one who said I was hungry." I said and he laughed.

"Okay, text me when you're home J." Mina said to me and I nodded.

We all got up and left the dock, going into the cars and going our separate ways.

"So where we going? McDonald's because that mostly all that's open right now." He said chuckling and I giggled.

"McDonald's it is then." I said smiling at him.

We soon pulled up to McDonald's drive thru.

"Can I get a number 4? The crispy chicken sandwich meal, large, fruit punch." He said and the person asked if there was anything else and he looked at me.

"Same thing as you. With an extra order of large fries and I want sprite instead." I said and he nodded and told the person.

We got the total and pulled up to the window and paid. Then we pulled up to the other window and got our food.

"So where are we going to eat? Back to the dock or we gon park up at that park for there?" He asked me.

"The park duh. That's too much driving to go back to the dock." I said laughing and he chuckled.

We pulled up to the park and started to eat.

"So tell me about yourself Jada. You single? What do you do for a living? How old are you?" He said taking a bite of his sandwich.

"Well I own a business called Lux Aesthetics that's doing very well I should add. I'm 25 years old. I also graduate from University of South Florida on August 3rd. And my relationship status is complicated. How about you?" I asked him.

"Well, I am also a business owner, I'm an essential street wear designer. I'm 26 years old, I'm actually an Alumni of USF. Graduated when I was 22. And I am newly single." He said.

"Really? Wow that's crazy I feel like I lowkey just met the male version of myself then." I said and we both laughed.

"So why is your relationship complicated?." He asked and I sighed.

"Technically I'm single. But if I explain everything to you, you'll look at me like I have five heads." I said and he chuckled.

"Trust me, I got a story for you too about the relationship I just got out of. So we'll both seem crazy." He said and I smiled at him.

"Well, I am single, but I'm not. See, I'm suppose to be getting married August 28th this year. But he cheated on me a week ago with my enemy and I gave him the ring back, but the wedding is still on." I said and he just continued eating. He didn't seem like he was judging me.

"So if he cheated how come the wedding is still on? So you're not single?" He asked but not in a judging tone. He seem like he was actually interested.

"I am single, but I'm doing it for the sake of my two sons, I have twins. I kinda don't want to have him and I separated while they're so young, they're only two. And we spent so much money and our families are looking forward to it. So I'm single, but we're only together around family and the boys." I said and he nodded.

"I see. So an open relationship. Where you're technically single and can do what you want but when you guys are together you are together." He said eating his fries.

"Yeah I guess you can put it like that." I smiled at the fact that he didn't judge me he just simply tried to understand. "So how about you? How come you're newly single?" I asked him.

"Well we've been dating ever since college, graduation day I found out she cheated on me. So I cheated back. Then we agreed on an open relationship. But then she started to become toxic and got mad when I go on dates but I couldn't get mad if she went on dates. So eventually I got fed up and called it quits." He said.

"Oh wow, so that's why you were kind of understanding when I told you about my situation." I said and he nodded.

"Yeah, it ain't no big deal. I'll gladly still take you out and get to know you." He said smiling at me and I smiled back.

"We are two confusing ass people that deal and dealt with confusing ass relationships." I said laughing and he laughed also. I swear I think I found the male version of myself.

We finished eating and he took me home.

"I had a good time tonight." I said after getting out the car and look in his window.

"Me too. We should do it again Monday maybe? Go to the beach or something." He said and I smiled.

"I'd like that." I said and we said our goodbyes and I walked away.

I texted the girls I was home and went to unlock the door and walked in to see Marcel sitting on the steps looking at me.

"It's 4:35 in the morning Jada. Where have you been?" He said looking at me with red eyes.

"Are you high? Drunk?" I asked walking towards him.

"Answer the question." He said calmly. I didn't hear any anger in his voice which was different.

Once I got closer I noticed his eyes were puffy.

"Have you been crying?" I asked.

"Jada where have you been." He asked look in my eyes.

"I don't have to explain myself to you. What YOU need to explain though is why you're sitting on the steps almost 5 in the morning with bloodshot red eyes like you were crying for hours." I said and he didn't answer he just looked away.

I looked at the table to see two empty bottles of alcohol and a full ashtray.

"Marcel what's wrong with you?" I asked him seeming real concerned at this point. I don't think I've ever seen him like this.

"What's wrong with me is you Jada. A nigga got in his feelings and drown them with alcohol and weed what it look like?" He said giving me attitude.

"Alright nigga I was just trying to care. Get out my way." I said snapping back at him.

"JADA WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GO?!" He said getting loud.

"FIRST OF NIGGA YOU BETTER USE LOWERCASE LETTERS WHEN YOU TALKING TO ME!" I said raising my voice also. Then I sighed.

"Fine. I went out with the girls, went to a dock, then had food and talked with a guy I met at the club." I said walking away and he grabbed my arm.

"Who is he?" He asked calmly through grinned teeth.

"Why? So you can beat him up to get me to go out with you so you can get me back?" I asked and he sighed.

"Nevermind Jada. I'm the one that told you that you can date so whatever." He said letting me go.

I nodded and went up the stairs. I took my clothes off and went in the shower.

Next thing I knew Marcel got in the shower where I was.

"Marcel get out." I said sighing.

Instead he got closer to me.

"Marcel I said get out!" I got louder.

He grabbed my neck and started to kiss me. I was resisting until I finally gave in. But then I remembered about Kira and pushed him off me.

He looked at me confused.

"I'm not Kira. I'm not going to give you some when you want it. And I'm not your fiancée anymore in my eyes." I said and I knew that hurt him.

"Jada please just listen to me." He said.

"Get out Marcel." I said before my tears started to fall.

He pulled me from underneath the water and pinned me up against the shower wall.

"Jada please. If there's any ounce of love that you have for me left, just please, let me show you I can do better." He said and I looked away.

"Yeah, you'll do better for two years and then fuck up again." I said and tears started falling.

"Jada, look me in my eyes and tell me you don't still love me. Tell me you don't see how much I love you in my eyes." He said and I looked him in his eyes and cried harder.

"It hurts so much because I know you love me and I love you but yet you still cheated. And with the enemy. What kind of love is that Marcel? Tell me?" I said and he turned the shower off and we got out and dried off. We sat on the guest room bed since I was sleeping in there.

"Jada I'm really sorry. I got frustrated and took it out in the wrong way. I knew I was being a jackass and I did it intentionally and there's no excuse for that. But I have a lifetime to make it up to you." He said.

His words felt like the truth but it hurt to hear.

"She's going to hold that against me forever now. You fucked up big time Marcel and I'm not just going to go back to that easy. I gave you the ring back. That should show how fed up I am. I don't want to marry you anymore Marcel don't you see that? I'm not going to marry someone who's going to act right one minute and decide to have me looking stupid the next. It's not right. I've done nothing but love you unconditionally. I did everything for you. We have a family Marcel. And you jeopardized that for what? What did you gain from it? Masculinity? Because if that's all you wanted you should've said so before I said yes." I said and started crying hard. He didn't know what to say.

"You hurt me Marcel! I'm losing myself! I've been through so much because of you, because of the life you life, and you couldn't just spare me the cheating?! And you cheated with the enemy Marcel! The girl who said the babies weren't yours and that I was just some darkskinned hoe! You know how bad that hurt me!" I said in between heavy breathing and cries.

"A female who said that shit out of spite not even knowing I was raped and you slept with her like it didn't even happen! And worst of all.. YOU NUTTED INSIDE OF HER MARCEL!" I said crying so hard I couldn't breathe and I was hitting him.

He just let me hit him and started to shed tears himself. I stopped and looked at him.