Where he was running to? Jason had no clue. He just knew that he had to get out of there. The sight of Arnold with his mouth open and tears running down his eyes stunned Jason for some reason. He kept running faster and faster, trying to get the image out of his head. He approached a stop sign and made a right. Then he approached another stop sign and kept running straight, Jason had no clue where he was going. He wasn’t out of breath though, even though he had been running for a few minutes, he wasn’t feeling weary or tired. His phone then began ringing, it was Christy. He ignored it and continued to run. A few seconds later his phone rang again, it was Christy. Jason ignored it and continued to run. A few seconds later his phone began to ring again. Jason’s feet started to feel tired from running, he decided to slow down and text Christy. As he took his phone out of his pocket and looked at the screen, he realized that it wasn’t Christy calling him, it was his father. Jason came to a standstill and quickly picked up the phone.
“Oldhead, wassup?” He said.
“Jason, please don’t forget to pick up your mother’s medicine when you come tonight.” Mohammed said.
Jason almost forgot. He told his father earlier that he was going to pick up his mother’s Trazodome from the local CVS.
“I got you, I won’t forget.” Jason said while trying to catch his breath.
“Are you okay son? Why are you breathing so hard?” Mohammed asked.
Jason knew that if he told his father that he was running away from Christy because she was high and tried to seduce him, his feelings would change for her. Right now his father really liked Christy and thought highly of her. He didn’t want that to change.
“Just running to the store to buy something for Christy before she wake up.” Jason said,
“Okay. Don’t forget to tell her to call me when she wake up.” Mohammed said.
“I gotchu.” Jason said.
“Also Cecilia wanted for you to ask Christy to come over tomorrow so she can do something with her hair.” Mohammed said.
“Ard.” Jason said.
Mohammed then hung up. Jason removed the phone from his ears and looked at it. There were so many things that had to be done with Christy. He knew he couldn’t run away, he had to go back. But he was finding it hard to do for some reason. He just couldn’t get the image of Arnold weeping out of his head. Jason turned around and started to head back. As he approached the same stop sign that he ran past a few minutes ago his phone began to vibrate in his pocket. He thought maybe it was his father calling him back to ask him to do another thing, but as he took the phone from out his pocket and looked at the screen he realized that it wasn’t him calling, it was Christy.
“Yeah?” Jason picked up and answered.
“Why did you leave? Why are you running? Why are…” Christy began to say.
“Why are you crazy?” Jason cut her off and said.
“Bae please… I was just trying to make you feel good, I’m sorry. Can you please come back?”
“No.” Jason said.
“I’m already home.” He added.
“Bae omg… Why?” She said.
“Because… You’re CRAZY!” Jason said.
“You tried to rape me.”
Christy gave a soft snicker. “Bae no I didn’t.”
“I’m not that type of girl.”
“What typa girl are you then?”
“Bae I’ma good girl!”
“Mhmm… Sure you are.”
“Come back baby, so I can show you how…”
“That’s enough out of you young lady!”
“I’m not walking back to have you try that same thing again. If you are then tell me now so I can turn around and go home.” Jason said.
“I thought you said you was home?”
Jason paused for a few seconds. “I am!
“Bae can I tell you something?”
“Yes Jason? Tell me.”
“Bae…”
Jason sighed. “Bae I really don’t like…” Jason began to say then he stopped mid-sentence to gather his thoughts.
He sighed again. “I really don’t like…”
“Yes baby? What don’t you like?”
“Bae I don’t like the way you acted.” Jason finally said.
“Just because you was high does not give you the right to act the way you did.”
“I’m very weak when it comes to you, it was only by the Grace of Allah that I didn’t…” Jason stopped and sighed.
Christy’s bottom lip began to quiver and she almost broke in tears.
“I’m sorry daddy.”
“Don’t be mad at me.”
“I’m not mad… I’m just confused, and disappointed.”
“I never would’ve expected that from you...” He said.
“DADDY I’M SORRY!” Christy said out loud.
“I told you IT’S OKAY!”
“Don’t sweat it, it’s done and over with. Just don’t do it again.”
“Jason I promise I won’t. Please come back, I’m so sorry!” Christy said as she began to sniffle.
“I’m walking back now. Stop crying, I told you it’s cool.”
“Jason I feel so ashamed. You’re so right. I shouldn’t have done that.”
Jason then came to Christy’s block and walked up to the front of her house. He saw Christy was already standing there at the doorway with her hand raised up to her mouth. Jason could tell that she had been crying, or she was about to. She was no longer naked like how Jason saw her last time. She was now wearing a long sleeve T-Shirt with regular pair of jeans. As soon as she saw Jason she ran up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. Jason hugged back for a few seconds, then he withdrew back and wiped the tears that were welled up in her eyes.
“What’s wrong baby?” He asked.
She didn’t respond. She frowned and looked down as her arms were still wrapped around his neck. Jason held onto her hands and walked inside the house with her. He closed the door behind him and moved with Christy to the middle of the living room couch and sat down.
Christy tucked her hands between her legs and didn’t say nothing as she sat down, her head was still dropped. Jason reached with his finger and gently placed it underneath her chin and lifted her head up.
“You okay boo?”
Christy slowly nodded her head up and down. Jason could still see the bits of tears that was welled up in her eyes.
“I’m gonna go in the kitchen and get something to drink and then I’m gonna come back okay?” Jason said as his finger was still placed under her chin and he looked in her eyes.
Christy nodded her head without looking at Jason. Jason then stood up and walked to the kitchen. He was arid after running such a long distance, and he was sweating a lot. Jason perspirated a lot. Even if he wasn’t tired. He would just be in a stagnant position and start sweating. That’s just the way that his body was designed.
He went in the fridge and took out the bottle of Dasani water that he put in there earlier. He opened up the cap and drank all of it down. Afterwards he burped, wiped his mouth with the back of his hands, and then walked back to the couch in the middle of the living room in which Christy was seated.
He placed his hands on top of her and stared in her eyes.
“Don’t be sad okay babe? What happened was just a silly blunder, before you know it you’re gonna forget about it and it’ll just be lost in nostalgia land.” Jason said.
Christy still didn’t say nothing or lifted up her gaze. Jason patted her hand as he held it in his, then he stood up and quickly turned around and ran up the stairs and down the corridor into Christy’s room, to pick up the plastic bag that Jackie Chan delivered earlier. He then went back downstairs into the kitchen and placed the plastic bag on top of a round table. He then took out two plates and metal forks from the cabinet and he put it on top of the plates. Jason then lifted up the plastic bag from the round table and dumped the Chicken Lo’ Mein on top of the two plates, he distributed the contents evenly.
Jason then lifted up both plates and walked to the middle of the living room where Christy was seated. He drew the small table that was also in the living room close to the couch, and then he placed the two plates on top of it. He drew the table close to the couch and sat down. Jason then said “Bismillah” and then he lifted up the fork from one of the plates and began to eat.
After the first couple bites he saw that Christy had not touched her food, she did not even turn her head to look at it. Jason pushed the plate closer to her proximity, as a gesture for her to start eating. When she did not reach for the fork Jason stopped eating and looked at her.
“Why aren’t you eating?” He asked.
Christy didn’t turn her head or say anything. She continued to stare off into the distance with a frown on her face. Jason reached to her plate and picked up her fork and dumped it in the plate and dug out a morsel of food. He then lifted it up and positioned it in the proximity of Christy’s mouth.
“CHOO CHOO! HERE COMES THE TRAIN!” Jason said.
Christy tried to hold back a smile but she couldn’t. She brushed his hand to the side.
“Jason I’m not hungry.” She said.
Jason opened his mouth in awe. “You? Not hungry?”
“IMPOSSIBLE!”
Christy smiled hard and showed her teeth. Jason smiled back. He then put the fork back on top of the plate and moved it to the side.
“Talk to me babe… Tell me what’s bothering you.” Jason said.
Christy gave a long pause. “Nothing.” She said, her head was still turned.
“Then why aren’t you looking at me?”
She turned her head and gazed deep in Jason’s eyes.
“Jason…”
“Yes honey boo boo pie butt?”
Christy snickered and turned her head, then she turned it back around to look at Jason.
“Jason… I am so sorry.” She said.
“For what bae?” Jason asked.
“For the way that I acted, for trying to seduce you. Idk what came over me.”
“Omg bae, you’re still trippin over that? I told you IT’S COOL!”
“All them times I be acting like a pervert to you and be trying seduce you. So what if you do it just once?”
“Jason but you’re a boy. It’s in your natural disposition. But I’ma girl. That’s not very lady like. I shouldn’t have acted that way and for that I’m sorry.” She said.
“Bae… Drop it and pick up your fork and start eating PLEASE!” Jason said.
“Bae, I just don’t want you to think of me differently.” She said.
Jason paused for a minute and looked away. “Well... I’m sorry to disappoint you on that.”
“Because I now see you differently and I no longer harbor the same feelings for you as I did before.” Jason said.
“I don’t love you anymore like I used to.”
Christy turned her head away, she couldn’t muster up enough courage to look at Jason in the eye.
Jason
gently placed her hand on her head and turned it to face him.
“I now love you much much more.” Jason said, then he reached over with his head and kissed her.