Authors: Jasmine Barber
During her relationship with Jaiden she felt like he always wanted to parade her around his friends, but then when she showed that she was independent he would always make it seem like she was the one who needed him around. In the beginning of their relationship it barely showed but in the end, it was all you could see. Brielle was interrupted when her doorbell started to ring. She looked out the door and saw Jaiden at door.
Jaiden was six feet, built, brown skin with hazel eyes. He kept a fresh cut and he body was covered in tattoos. He always reminded everyone he came in contact with of an older looking Bow Wow. He had on a blue pair of Levi jeans, a black V-neck shirt, a Blue and yellow Ralph Lauren polo hoodie. His ears were covered with black diamond earrings and his wrist had the black diamond bracelet that Brielle bought him as a birthday gift last year. As Brielle opened the door, he gave her a smile showing his sometime dimples that she once loved.
“Wassup Ma, can I come in?” Murder asked.
“Sure Jaiden,” Brielle said stepping to the side.
“Jaiden why are you here?” Brielle questioned.
“I came to talk. We’re still friends right?”
“I guess.”
“So friends can talk, right?”
“I guess, what are we talking about?”
“Where did we go wrong?” Jaiden looked up at Brielle from the couch.
“We didn’t go wrong Jaiden. You went wrong,” Brielle said as she sat next to him on the couch.
“What do you mean? I didn’t do anything major to make you break up with me.”
“Jaiden, you can’t be serious. You cheated on me. Lord knows how many times,” Brielle, stated the obvious.
“Okay Bri. I fucked up, but I changed over these last couple months.”
“That’s great that you changed. But you changing had nothing to do with me. I told you that if anything all we could be was friends. Nothing has changed since then,” Brielle said.
“So you’re not going to give me another chance Bri? I’m openly admitting to you that I fucked up, all I’m asking is for is a start over.”
“Look Jaiden, I already told you there would never be an us again. When you had me, you didn’t do anything but wonder off with other people and now that you lost me, you want to be all in my face. It’s not going to happen.”
“Those other chicks didn’t mean shit to me. I been told you that. So why do you keep throwing that in my face. You know you’re the only woman I ever loved. I don’t get how you’re just gone throw what we have away like that.” Jaiden said trying to put the blame on Brielle.
"You will not blame me for your fuck ups. I was the best girlfriend ever to you. I didn't stress you over little things. I told you from the jump that if you were going to be with me, then the hoes you use to entertain had to go. But that went in one ear and out the other! Us not being together is on you. You did it, now you have to live with it."
“You know what ma, I’ll take that. Everything is my fault. I messed up and
I’m owning up to it but as far as us being over, that will never be. Ain’t no way in hell another nigga gone get what belongs to me.”
“Jaiden, you are talking crazy. I already moved on and I suggest you do the same,” Brielle said while standing up.
“You did what? Moved on with who? That punk ass dude from the mall? Nawh see that’s where you got me fucked up, I’m not trying to hear none of this bullshit you spitting out. Ain’t no way in hell you moved on because we’re not fucking over,” Murder said as he stood up and moved closer to Brielle.
"It's time to go." Brielle said.
"So now you putting me out?" Murder laughed.
"Just Go."
"I'll leave when I feel like it and I don't think this conversation is over."
“There is nothing you could possibly say to me. We’re over. I don’t want you any more. Get over it.”
“I’m not getting over shit because at the end of the day you belong to me.”
“You talking crazy with your dumb ass. You don’t own nothing over her.”
“Yeah iight, I hear you talking but you better listen to what the fuck I’m saying.”
"Jaiden get out before I call the police on your crazy ass."
"You aint calling shit."
"Is there a problem," Danielle said walking in the door.
“Wassup Danni. Long time no see. Give a nigga a hug.” Murder said.
“Boy bye. I don’t even like your ass so gone with all that,” Danielle rolled her eyes.
“So it’s like that?”
“It’s been like that. Don’t act brand new. But I asked if there was a problem.”
“Nawh, no problems over here. My girl and me were just having a conversation. That’s it. But I’m gone leave since she got company.” Murder said to Danielle.
“But aye Bri, please believe this isn’t over. We will finish this talk,” Murder added.
“If you don’t get your ass out, It’s going to be a problem,” Danielle said.
“Yo ain’t
nobody talking to your stuck up ass. That’s why I don’t like you now.”
“Nigga I never asked you to like me. You can kick rocks for all I care,” Danielle yelled.
“Jaiden get out.” Brielle intervened.
“I’ll go. But we’ll be seeing each other real soon Bri. Oh yeah remember what I said. Nothing that belongs to me will ever be touched by another.” With that being said Jaiden walked out the house.
“What the hell was that about?” Danielle asked.
“It’s a long story.” Brielle said as she sat down on the couch and sighed.
Chapter 15
“Who the hell is she?” -Danielle
Girl’s night in sleepover turned into a full weekend sleepover between the girls. Friday night they ended up talking about their relationships and work while watching movies. The conversation ended up with Sabriya telling the girls all about her wedding day and showing them the pictures that the random photographer took on the island. Brielle started telling them about her relationship with Kristopher and Shanice couldn’t help but laugh. Shanice explained to Brielle that she thought it was funny because she felt like Brielle was just settling for Kris. That comment made Brielle think and she didn’t know if the statement made by Shanice was true or not.
Saturday, Danielle and Brielle ended up sleeping until noontime, leaving Chloe, Sabriya and Shanice to hang around at Sabriya’s store for the day.
Chloe was leaving out of the bathroom when she saw a girl with dark blue Levi skinny jeans, a knitted red sweater and a pair of closed toe heels.
“I love your shoes. Where did you get them from?” Chloe said to the girl looking through the racks in Sabriya’s boutique.
“Oh, thank you. I got them from Macy’s. On sale for one hundred and five dollars.” The girl said looking at her 5-inch Tomato red Jessica Simpson shoes.
“What! I need to go check Macy’s out. I haven’t been there in so long.”
“Yes girl, when it comes to shoes, I can shop. I wish I could say the same about dresses,” the girl sighed while picking up one of Sabriya’s summer release dresses.
“Do you want help? I’m great when it comes to dressing and if you don’t like my style, my girl Shanice can always help.”
“Thank you. That should be good because I don’t know where to start,” the girl smiled.
“First off, summer time already passed so we need to get out of this section unless you’re trying to shop for next summer.”
“That is so true.”
“So what’s the occasion? Anything special?”
“My boyfriend is taking me to his friend’s birthday party.”
“Well I have some good choices for you, let me introduce you to my friends.
Chloe walked the unknown girl over to the counter where Shanice and Sabriya stood laughing. Shanice seen Chloe walking with the girl first and then tapped Sabriya to announce their arrival.
“
Briya and Sha, I want y’all to meet somebody.”
“Hey, my name is Samara.”
“I’m Shanice, nice to meet you.”
“Sabriya. I love the shoes.”
“Thank you, nice to meet you too,” Samara said to Shanice and Chloe.
“Samara is looking for a dress to wear to her boyfriend’s friend party.”
“Do you know what kind of dress you want?”
“Nothing too fancy, nothing simple. Get where I’m going?” Sabriya asked.
“I’m not sure. I think he said next Saturday or Sunday.”
“Well I just got a shipment of my new designs if you want to try it out,” Sabriya offered.
“Oh my god. You’re the owner of Styles by S,” Samara said putting two and two together.
“Last time I checked,” Sabriya laughed.
“I love your clothes. I would love to try it out,” Samara smiled.
“Okay, give me a second to go in the back. Sha come help me pick out some options.”
Sabriya and Sha came back out with a handful of clothes after spending time looking in the back for some options for Samara to try on. There were around nine dresses each with different styles. Samara chose her favorite three dresses out of the bunch that Sabriya showed her. She instantly fell in love with the unique black dress that was long in the back and short in the front. Right in the middle of the back of the dress, there was a heart shape cut out surrounded by diamonds. She also loved the long sleeve plain blue dress. She figured either one of them dresses could be the perfect dress to wear on her outing with Kiyan until she seen a typical short turquoise party dress with three-fourth quarter sleeves. She knew she had the perfect shoes to go with each of the dresses but she just bought the cutest black bootie heels to go with the turquoise dress.
After spending around two hours in Styles by S boutique with the girls, Samara was satisfied with her purchases but she secretly wished she had friends like Shanice, Chloe and Sabriya. She wasted no time telling the girls how she felt.
“Y’all were cool to hang around,” Samara turned back to the girls.
“You were cool too because to be honest I can’t stand too many females,” Chloe spoke up.
“You look really familiar. Like I seen you somewhere before,” Samara said to Shanice.
“Really? I know I haven’t seen you before because I never forget a face.” Shanice responded.
“Yeah, I don’t know right now but you do look familiar.”
“I don’t get that too much unless it’s from a dude trying to spit game,” Sha laughed.
“I don’t know where I’ve seen you before but I’ll probably figure it out.”
Here take down my number just in case you need more dresses sometimes. I style people too.” Sabriya said before reciting her number for Samara.
“That’s awesome. I will definitely give you a call. I would love to hang out with y’all again.” Samara said.
“That’s cool. It’s two more people included in this crazy bunch, but they slept in this morning so you’ll get to meet them whenever we decide to go out.” Chloe said.
“Okay. Y’all can get my number from Sabriya and we can set something up. It was really nice to meet y’all.” Samara said.
“It was nice meeting you too. Come again.” Sabriya said as Samara walked out of the shop.
“So do you think Bri & Danni will like her?” Shanice spit out.
“Bri definitely, but Danni nobody will ever know until its time for them to meet,” Sabriya laughed.
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One Week Later
Zo was running around for three weeks straight trying to get Shanice the perfect gift for her birthday. It was definitely hard because Shanice basically had everything she wanted. He promised her months ago that he would make her birthday one to remember if she helped him get Brielle and Kiyan together. Even though that never happened, he still had every intention on making this birthday a special one. Hiding stuff from Shanice was hard for Zo because he knew if he stopped coming around she would assume he was making surprise plans for her birthday and she would make sure she was always around him, so he got Brielle involved to help him.
Today was finally the day before Shanice’s birthday and he had something special up his sleeve. He was giving her a surprise dinner and he was going to make sure that all the couples attended and were prepared to be out all night to eat and then party for his girl’s birthday. Shanice was one of those people who put everybody before she put herself and Zo was going to make sure he returned the same feelings she had. He knew at this point in their relationship he wanted to make sure she was happy before he was happy. Shanice snuck in his life and captured his heart, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Zo was ready to take the next step in their relationship. He just hoped that Shanice wouldn’t think he was moving to fast. He put a lot of thought into her biggest gift and he hoped he wouldn’t have to return it. Brielle told him that she thought Shanice would love it but he wasn’t too sure because although Brielle and Shanice were best friends they both reacted to certain things differently.
While checking to make sure everything was perfect, Zo texted to make sure everything was on schedule with Brielle and the girls.