Chapter 28
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"Someone must have overhead our conversation at lunch. Brooke knows what's up and we saw her come to your mother's house."
"WHAT!?" I couldn't believe my ears.
Blossom's POV
I loath walking into the house but I had to whether it was today or tomorrow or next year.
I had to face her.
It was 5:45 in the P.M when I walked through the door. Brooke was still sitting on the couch, wiping her eyes with a tissue, my mother stood next to her.
Her eyes travelled to me as I entered and closed the door behind me.
"Good evening, ma."
"I want the truth and I want it now!" she immediately started. Although I was expecting this, I was still startled by her tone. It was something I've never gotten use to because I hated yelling.
Brooke took it upon herself to leave right afterwards.
If looks could have killed, she'll be dead walking out that door.
"You were with that boy, weren't you!?" my mother yelled again.
"And so what if I was?" I sassed.
"I specifically told you to stay away from him and you deliberately disobey me! What do I have to do to get through to you, huh?"
"How about you accept us? How about you stop comparing your past life to my present and future?"
"Blossom, I'm protecting you as a mother should!"
"You're protecting me from what? What have Jevan ever done to you! You're only doing this to keep your damn job as Brooke's maid!"
She was astounded by my revelation but I couldn't keep it bottled up anymore.
"Aren't you?" I finished.
She pressed her lips together and exhaled heavily. "I don't want you to end up like me."
"I'm not you. Mama, I love you with all my heart. You're my rock. My bestie."
She smiled at the word 'bestie'.
"But I need you to please cut me some slack here and accept the fact that I'm in love with Jevan Hollen. He's a really great guy once you get to actually know him. He's passionate, he's caring, he's protecting. He's everything. I'm so glad I have him in my life. Please don't take that away from me. Please," I begged.
"You're right. Brooke was here to inform me about you and Jevan. She said she saw you getting into his car."
"I'm sorry I lied to you. It's just that I wanted to spend time with Jevan and I know you'll go ape shit if I was honest up front," I explained and apologized.
"Oh, I would have."
"But why was Brooke crying?" I asked.
"She's still in love with Jevan but he doesn't want to be with her because he's with you."
"She's pathetic mom. Just recently, she was kissing a guy from college in the hallway in our school. She lied to the police about Jevan putting his hands on her. She's nothing but a liar and a jealous ex-girlfriend."
"I understand that but you need to be very careful with her. Her folks are some powerful people and I don't wish to see them angry. That's why I was so quick to have you stay away from Jevan when I noticed he was the same person in Brooke's photo on her night stand."
I couldn't believe Brooke. She had the audacity to going to my own mother over this. It was her own fault Jevan didn't want anything to do with her anymore.
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*Two Weeks Later*
It was finally the end of the first term of the year and I was so eager to see my grades that my little butt couldn't settle in the chair.
Our class teacher entered the classroom and simultaneously did the roll-call while handing out our grades.
I inhaled then exhaled before looking.
The biggest smile plastered on my lips. I knew I did great but I wasn't expecting it to be this great, especially in history. But being as it was one of my favorite subjects, I knew I excelled.
At lunch, Nina and Sophia showed me their results as well. They also did exceedingly well in every subject.
"I wonder how Jevan did?" I asked them.
"Oh please. Mr. Straight A. You have nothing to worry about," Sophia answered.
"Wait a minute, how did you do so freaking excellent in history?" Nina asked.
"I leave clues in the context," I answered with great confidence.
"Clues like what?" Nina asked.
"Okay. For example, if the question asks 'How many monarchs of the great kingdom of Great Britain ever had?' My context clue would be Great Britain which has twelve letters. Hence, the answer would be twelve monarchs."
"NO FREAKING WAY!" Nina and Sophia said in unison.
"I would have never thought of doing something like that. That's dope!" Nina added, "And congratulations on your grades. You did great."
"Hey baby," a voice interrupted and snatched my grades out my hands. His eyes scanned the paper with a smile.
"That's my baby," he said and kissed me on the forehead before giving me back my grades.
"Where's yours?" I asked him. He retrieved it from his pocket and just as Sophia predicted, all A's with pluses.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollen would be so proud.
"Let's all do something to celebrate. I'm having a small party at my home and I'm inviting the three of you. On Wednesday when school gives break," Jevan said.
School would be out on Wednesday until the following Monday.
"Sounds great."
"We can't wait."
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Wednesday afternoon came too quickly. Nina, Sophia and myself were at my house getting ready for the party. My mom was at work.
"I'm so excited!" Nina squealed.
"Me too," Sophia said and applied some lip gloss to her lips.
"Is Jevan coming to pick us up?" Nina asked me.
"No. He's sending someone to get us," I answered and re-read the text message from him.
One hour later, we heard a honking outside. I peered through the window and saw a limousine.
