Let’s Be Together

Here We Are

It is Saturday morning and I swear I am not in the mood for anything today. I’m excited to see Draven but I’m also extremely nervous. Why did we have to go for a party? Anyway it's better than not seeing him.

I call Shan and she picks up almost immediately.

"Baby!" She screams through the phone.

"Why are you so excited?" I tease her.

As much as I am the calmer friend. It took a lot to get here from my anger issues to not showing enough emotions or them just being there. It sucks but that's the person I’ve chosen to be right now. For the sake of my peace.

"Well we are going out tonight with the guy you met in the club and I don't have anything to wear? Any options?" She says too excited about this party.

"We can go shopping. I need a few things." I respond. I need to look good tonight.

"Awesome 12 is good right? Then we can get some lunch. I'll let Aaron know too we can meet at the mall." She says.

"Great. See you later." I say and hang up.

I clean up my apartment and make sure everything is where it needs to be. I have breakfast and take a shower and change into a pink track suit.

I decide not to wear any makeup and tie my locs up in a pony tail. When it's quarter to 12, I grab my keys and head off to the mall. I get there and I meet my two best friends. I honestly really missed them. They keep me sane even though I don’t see them everyday.

"Hello f**k Heads." I say and hug them at the same time.

"I missed you guys." They look at each other in shock and laugh loud.

"What?" I ask and raise an eyebrow.

"Someone got laid?" Aaron says and I smack his arm.

"No you i***t. I just honestly missed you guys." I roll my eyes.

"Sure you did. " Shan teases.

I flip them off

"Let's go losers. We need to look for some s**t to wear for this party." I say

"There she is." Aaron says and rolls his eyes.

I laugh under my breath.

We check through every shop and try on the most ridiculous clothes. Laughing our butts off at the dumbest things. Even crying a few times.

"Aaron you look like a crazy person right now." Shan says and I am literally on the floor laughing my ass off.

"Thank you thank you." He says in a fake british accent and pretending to bow.

We get a few things from a few stores and just decide to wear anything we find in our closets. We grab some burgers and walk to our cars.

"You looked hella funny in that Shan. I almost di.."

"Hey Jaz." I am interrupted by a familiar voice. I look at where the voice is coming from and its my therapist. f**k.

"Hey Jessica." I say almost nervous.

"This is Aaron and Shanice my best friends and this here Jessica.. uh my new friend I met at work she is a therapist too." I say awkwardly.

My friends don't know that I see therapist. I don't need them to know that right now.

She greets them with a handshake.

"Nice to meet you both." She says.

"Nice to meet you too." Aaron says in a friendly way.

"So you were just shopping and stuff?" She says trying to make conversation. This is so f*****g awkward.

"Yeah we are heading to a party later tonight. You should totally come." Shan says and I pinch her arm to stop her from saying more.

"No no no. Parties aren't for me. I love my personal space." Jessica says and I am honestly happy.

I know we are building a friendship outside of work but she doesn’t need the full details. Well at least not right now.

"Anyway we have to go. I'll see you around." I say

“I’ll see you around.” She says and we walk away.

"That was awkward." Aaron says and he is right.

"Yeah she's very shy." I say.

“Did you date her?” Shan asks.

“No I didn’t.” I laugh a little.

"So how are we doing this?" Shan says obviously talking about the party.

"You guys go get ready then we meet at my apartment at 7" I say

"Okay shorty." Aaron says and we go our separate ways.

…

I get to my apartment and it’s 5:30 pm. I look for something to wear. I decide on a yellow body hugging dress with an open back up to my ass. It just goes over my knees.

I take a quick shower. I do my makeup and dress up. I hear a knock on my door and it’s Aaron and Shan.

"Oh f*****g gosh b***h. You look amazing." They say at the same time.

"Shut up guys." I roll my eyes but with a big smile on my face.

"Ya'll look good too." Aaron is wearing a blue flannel shirt with a white hoodie and black baggy jeans with white sneakers . Shan is wearing a black skin tight dress and white sneakers too.

"We are shutting this party down." Shan says. I agree we look fly as hell.

We finish up and take a few photos. While I'm looking through the photos. I get a message from Drav.

Draven

••Are you still coming? The party is getting hyped. ••

Me

•• I’ll be on my way. Should we bring anything? Like a bottle of something?••

Draven

••Just bring yourself that’s all I care about right now••

This message shocks me.

Me

•• Really? There's a lot I don't know about you.••

Draven

•• There's a lot I don't know about you too. I have to go. I'll send you the address soon.••

I don't reply till he sends the address.

Me

•• Thank you••

Draven

•• Get your ass here now••

He responds and I smile and put my phone in my bag.

I look up at Shan and Aaron are staring at me.

“Don’t say anything.” I say and point at them.

“Mhm.” They both say and laugh.

We leave my apartment at 9pm. I'm driving because I am the only one who doesn't drink like a mad person here. We make a quick stop to a*****e and grab a few drinks just incase we find stuff we don’t like.

We head to the address and my god, it was a long ass drive. We get there and there's a huge gate. The gate opens automatically and we drive through the drive way and there's cars everywhere.

"Oh my God." I hear Aaron in the back seat. He literally just took the words out of my mouth. This house is huge. I might be in the wrong area till I spot his car.

"Jaz why the f**k didn't you tell us your club boyfriend is rich?" Shan says.

"First of all, he isn't my boyfriend and I didn't know he was rich." I snap back

We park and we get out of the car and the music is loud af.

We get in this huge house and there's people everywhere. Every f*****g where.

The minute we walk in we feel people looking at us.

This s**t is uncomfortable.

Aaron spots one of his friends and heads over to hang with him.

"So what should we do?" Shan asks and we put the drinks on a table.

"Dance?" I suggest

"I was waiting for that answer." She smiles.

“Not just yet. Let me find this man.” I say to her

I haven't seen Draven yet. I go outside so I can text Drav. I pull my phone out and a drunk guy comes over to me and he is too close for comfort.

"Hey you look sexy." He slurs.

"Get the f**k away from me." I respond in a neutral tone.

"Oh you are a spicy one huh? I like my bitches spicy." He says and I am getting pissed off.

"Excuse me What the f**k did you say? I will kick your ass right here in front of all these people and trust me you wouldn't want that." I say and I mean it.

A few kick boxing classes taught me a lot about self defense. He laughs loudly and places his arm on my shoulder and i grab it and twist it and place it on his back almost dislocating his shoulder.

"Ah! Please stop.! It hurts!" He screams in pain.

"If you ever put your hand on me again I will dislocate your shoulder. Got it?" I say

"Yes please let go!" He begs

"Asshole." I let go and he runs away.

I hear a slow clap from behind me and guess who it is Draven.

"I was looking for you and here you are trying to dislocate a guy's shoulder." He smiles.

"Hey Jasmine" he hugs me and kisses my forehead.

"He wasn’t just a guy. He was being a douchebag. I even spared him." I hug him back. I missed hugging him.

"You look really beautiful. Yellow is definitely your colour." He holds my hand and spins me so he can see the full dress.

"You surpassed my expectations. Now kiss me." He says while lifting my chin to kiss my lips lightly. I smile and look down. Why does he make me feel like this? I don't get it.

We go inside and I spot my two bestfriends and we walk over to them.

"Draven these are my bestfriends. Aaron and Shan. Best friends this is Draven." I smile and look at them so they don't say stupid s**t.

"Nice to meet you to Draven." Aaron looks at him from top to bottom almost admiring him. Oh gosh.

"Nice to meet you Draven." Shan says doing the same then looks at me with a stupid expression on her face. I flip her off without Draven seeing me.

"You can call me Drav or Dre. It's nice to meet some of Jasmine's friends. Have fun guys there’s food and drinks." He gives them hugs and turns to me.

"I'll be back okay? Don't get lost and be careful." He says while holding one of my hands.

"Okay." I smile. I can't even be cool around him.

"Good." He kisses my cheek and disappears into the crowd.

For a second I forgot about these two. Oh gosh

"Eeeeeep!" Shan shrieks.

"b***h that was f*****g cute. He f*****g likes you and you like him too. Look at you." Aaron says ugh I can't take this.

"Both of you shut the f**k up." We laugh together and dance for the a little bit.

I haven't seen Draven since he said he would be back. Its almost 1 and I'm tired af.

"Guys let's get ready to leave." I tell Shan and Aaron.

"Let's go we are drunk af." Aaron says and they both laugh.

I take them to the car and lock them in so they don't leave when I come back.

"Let me tell him we are leaving. I'll be back."

I walk back in the house and look for him everywhere. I ask someone who looks like him if they know him.

"Yeah he's my bro. Upstairs, door at the end of the hallway." He says.

"Thank you." I respond.

I walk up the stairs and there's a long hallway with different rooms. Most of the doors are closed and I honestly don't want to hear anything disgusting so I walk passed all the doors as fast as possible.

I get to the end of the bright hallway and I get to a huge door. I don't know if I should knock. I know it’s rude but I don't think I should.

I open the door and my jaw drops from what I see.

There he is, with a girl on top of him, with his f*****g shirt off, on his bed.. with his f*****g hands wrapped around her waist.

I step back almost falling because my knees are too weak to stand up straight.

This can't be happening. He hears me and looks at me and his mouth is on the floor.

I look at him and he doesn't move. I couldn't see the girl but even if I did I wouldn't know her.

I finally find my strength to close the door and run through the long ass hallway.

"Jasmine! f**k!" I can hear him but I keep running till his friend from earlier stands at the top of the staircase. Blocking me from running.

"Is everything okay?" He says

"Get the f**k out of my way." I say angrily

"Calm down girl." He still doesn't move.

"Did you find him?" He asks

"Please let me pass." I beg

"Jasmine!" Drav's voice scares me

"Please let me go. Please get the f**k out of my way." The guy blocking the staircase looks up at Drav and then looks back at me.

"Just talk to him." He says goes walks in the hallway.

"Jasmine." I feel his hand hold my arm and the guy disappears.

"Don't f*****g touch me." I yank my arm out of his grip.

"Please she..?"

"She what huh? She came at you? She drugged you? She forced you to be on top of her?" I interrupt him

"Yes.. she..she did."

"Are you f*****g kidding me Draven?! You think this is a f*****g joke? You really think I have time for your games? Why did you tell me to come here?" I ask looking at him straight in the eyes.

"Jasmine plea.."

"Why the f**k did you ask me to come?"

"Jasmine look.."

"No we aren't doing this s**t Draven. Nope. She was right. You saved me before it begun. Here I thought we had a connection. I actually started to like you. I actually saw something with you and you slapped it right in my face. Calling me, texting, hugging, kissing me and even coming to my f*****g house. Just so I can find you kissing and f*****g a random b***h at party?" I say.

I have never felt such pain in a long time and this time it's deeper. We weren't even together but I feel like he cheated on me.

"You like me? Jasmine did you say you like me? He asks.

Are you f*****g kidding me? After all I said that's all he got.

"You know what? f**k you Draven. Don't call me, don't text me. Stay away from me." I walk away and head to my car in tears. I haven't cried in almost a year and here I am crying over a f*****g guy who was never mine.

"Jasmine please listen to me." He grabs my arm again. I turn to face him.

"I.. I.." He is speechless.

"I thought so. Let go of my arm."

"Jaz."

"Let go of my arm before I f*****g slap you." He lets go and I walk away from him.

He doesn't follow and I am glad he didn't. I get in my car and Aaron and Shan are asleep.

I put my head on the steering wheel and suppress my tears. I start the car and we head home.

I wake Shan and Aaron up when we get to my apartment.

They sleep on the couch. I go to my room and turn my phone off and lay on my bed.

Why do I always do this to myself? I don't even know why I trust people.

They always do this to me. Always making me look stupid. I am such an i***t.

Here I am crying on my f*****g bed over a guy I met in a club what did I expect? He probably did this all the time.

I am such a fool.