“I don’t know how this turned into pick on Jay Day, but okay.” She raised her arms in mock surrender. “I still have feelings for him.” Putting them down, she picked up her fork, moving food around on her plate. “I don’t want him hurting me again.” She avoided eye contact with us by keeping her head down. “I can’t take him breaking my heart a second time.”
I could see her side. When her and Messiah broke up, I witnessed how depressed she was. I didn’t want that for her either. However, I also knew how much she still loved him, despite what her mouth was saying.
“I think you should try again,” Tiffani spoke her mind. “I’m not sure of the situation, but you obviously love the man.”
“Do you still love him?” Reaching my hand in the basket, I grabbed a fry, waiting for her to admit she did.
“Maybe.” She was still in denial.
“Girl, ain’t no damn maybe.” I swallowed the food in my mouth before adding, “Maybe you wanna have his babyyyy.”
I dragged it out, being extra as hell.
This time, Tiffani was in the middle of her sip before she almost choked.
“Nu uh, let’s go. Check!” I called out. “Y’all hoes don’t know how to consume y’all food.”
These bitches didn’t have manners.
We cackled the entire time, even after the check was paid for and we were back to the car. We were dropping Tiffani off home first, then me and Jay was going to my auntie’s house. Since she was off tomorrow, we gone have a little sleepover.
“I had so much fun y’all. We gotta do this again,” Tiffani pouted, grabbing her stuff to leave. “I ain’t got no real friends. All I do is work and take care of Treasure.”
“Well, you have two now and we aggravating,” Jayda let her know. I agreed.
She giggled all the way out the car. “Y’all gone three-way me, right?”
“Yup!” I smiled. We waved and waited for her to open her front door before pulling off.
“Girl, she cool as hell. Who would have thought?” I said sarcastically, stretching my legs out.
“Ain’t it, though.” Jayda smiled. We rode in silence for a while, both of us in our own heads.
I twisted in my seat. “You serious about Messiah? You still love him, don’t you?”
She huffed out a breath, chin wobbling slightly. “I never really stopped. Just...” she shrugged nonchalantly, “...accepted that we weren’t gonna be together.”
“You still feel that way?”
“I wanna try.” She looked to me for confirmation.
I nodded, smiling. She finally came out with her true feelings, and I loved to hear it. Anything to get rid of Kai, I’d do it. “You should.”
“If I do, you and Love need to make this work.” I bit my lip while thinking. I’d had boyfriends in my life, but Love brought out a whole other side of me I didn’t know I was missing. That’s gotta be worth exploring.
“Deal.” I smiled, holding out my pinky.
She sucked her teeth and wrapped hers around mine. “You and this pinky shit.”
I giggled, remembering how Love acted when I did the same thing to him. He was talking big shit, but he did it anyways. We were pulling up to the house when we saw a figure outside on the step.
“Who the hell is on the porch? I thought auntie was out with Kenny tonight?” Jayda inquired with a frown.
“She is.” I even had a text saying she was gone be with Kenny until tomorrow, so I knew this wasn’t her.
“Leah?” Jayda blurted. My head snapped up so fast, I could’ve gotten whiplash.
“Why the fuck is she here?” she added, but I was still tryna get around the fact that she was on this porch.
