Chapter 16
940 Words
(Desire)
When I start feeling better Jacari and I go back into the living room.
I sit down on the couch while he puts the gifts away for me.
"You wanna come somewhere with me right quick?" He asks when he re-enters the room.
"Where?" I ask.
"Somewhere"he says.
"I'm not going nowhere until you tell me where I'm going. The last time I went somewhere with you you had me climbing a tree." I say.
He smiles a quick smile then goes back to normal.
"To my grandma house" he says.
"Oh sure then" I say as I remember what he told me about her.
"I know she don't like me and s**t but I still try to make sure she good" he says.
"Okay let me go change real quick" I say.
I get off of the couch and go to his room.
I slide into some gray sweats , my slippers and ,throw on a hoodie.
I run into the bathroom and throw my hair into a quick messy ponytail.
"You look good" Jacari says when I walk into the living room.
"Thanks I guess .. you too" I say.
I wasn't even trying.
I think he was just being nice.
I follow him out to his car and we get on the road right away.
"How far away from your grandma do you live?" I ask after we've been on the road for almost 2 hours.
"Very far away but we're just about there" he says as he pulls over into this brick house.
It's really pretty on the outside.
I get out of the car and follow him to the front door.
He knocks and then we wait.
About 5 minutes later a older women who I'm guessing is his grandma opens the door.
She's very pretty.
But she doesn't look like a typical grandma.
You know the ones you see on Tv.
The one who bakes you cookies and watch lifetime all of the time.
She looks like one of those hip grandma's.
The one's who became grandma's far too early and aren't ready to give up their younger days.
She looks at Jacari like he's the last person she wants to see.
But she let's us in anyway with no greeting or nothing.
I follow Jacari as he follows her into her kitchen.
"What the f**k you want Jacari? I ain't got s**t for yo sorry ass." She says as she sits down at the kitchen table.
I look at Jacari.
His jaw clenches a little.
I feel real out of place right now.
Why did he bring me here?
"Look I don't want s**t from you. Just take this damn money so you can pay yo bills and s**t" he says then throws this huge stack of money on the table.
And it gets me to thinking.
How much do I really know about Jacari.
Not very much.
Here I am staying with the guy telling him that I love him and I do. But I really don't know much about what he does for a living other then what I've heard.
Jacari gets a phone call and steps out of the kitchen.
Leaving me alone with his grandmother.
"You look like a smart girl" she says.
I nod and smile not really knowing what to say.
"You don't know what your getting yourself into. His father killed my baby girl. He is his father son." she says.
"You can't put that on him." I say feeling like I have to defend Jacari.
"You don't know him. Men like him are sweet at first but then they turn out to be just like the devil"
Before I can reply Jacari returns to the kitchen.
"What was she saying to you?" He asks me.
I don't want to tell him because I don't want to get him mad.
But then his grandma steps in.
"I was telling her about men like you. How you're just like your no good demon ass father." she says.
"I'm not going to tell you this s**t no more. I'm nothing like that man" Jacari says.
I don't think I've ever seen him so mad.
I don't think I've ever seen him mad at all.
Will he was a little mad in the tree but this is beyond that.
It looks like she brings out the worst in him.
I don't like seeing him like this.
I don't exactly like the way he is talking to her because at the end of the day that's still his grandma.
But I guess she deserves it.
"You might as well have killed your mom yourself. You look just like the damn man." she says.
She's really trying to get to him right now.
I don't give Jacari I chance to reply to that because I'm afraid of what he might say or do.
I get up from my chair and lead him to and out of the front door.
We get in his car and drive off.
"Now do you see why I needed you to come with me? I usually bring Que." He says after a while of us riding in silence.
"Yes. I'm glad I came." I say.
"That lady really knows how to get to me" he says.
"Just forget about her for now Jacari. I think you're are great person." I say then reach over and grab the hand he's not using to drive the car.
I sweeze it gently.
He sweezes mines back.
"I'm not going to let her mess up the night I have planned for us" he says.
"I can't wait" I say.
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