Got Til' Its Gone

II. | first party of the year.

- September 1996.

Friday night and Tia Amber and I are throwing a party. Those are my best friends so you know I've got to be there. Its the first party of the year so you know it's got to be slamming. "What you gonna wear tonight?" Tia asked as we walked down the hall to our next class. "Girl,  I don't even know." I said sighing just a little bit. "Are you getting dressed at our house?" Amber asked walking up next to us. Amber,  Tia and I have been friends since diapers. Our moms used to be best friends before my mom passed, she was shot at a club by  a woman after fighting her. She was 26 when she died and I think I was about 6 or 7. My mom had me when she was 19 and my dad was 24 . I've seen him a couple of times, he has a wife and other children but he sends me money every two weeks and bought me a car.  She had my brother Steven when she was 16 and we have different dads. Tia and Amber's mom had them at ages 16 and 18. Tia's a junior and Amber's a sophomore. "Yeah, I just have to get my clothes from my house. Ask moma if I can stay over." I said adjusting the strings of my backpack. "Girl you know she don't care. She not even gone be there she going to her boyfriend house." Tia said smacking her lips. "I'll see y'all later. I have Mr.Brown." Amber said rolling her eyes. "Ooh, I feel bad for her. I remember Mr.Brown perv ass." I said laughing. "Hell yeah, he was a perv always staring at my titties." Tia said looking down at her breasts. "Girl yes and he always tried to touch my ass on the downlow." I said rolling my eyes. We walked into Mr.Watson's class and took our seats in front of the class. "Pssst." I heard somebody trying to get my attention. "Jade..Jade." Pistol whispered to me. I ignored him but he kept calling my name. Finally , he threw a folded up piece of paper that said 'Open'  on the front of it. I opened the note and it read:

Underlined: Pistol
Bold:  Jade

'So wassup on you and Tia party tonight?  We invited or what?

Who is we??

Me & Q. Duh.

Yeah, y'all can come but don't start no bs like y'all did at my last party.

So wassup with Tia though ? You gone hook me up or what? 

No. You can talk you her on your own. Do I look like a fuckin' matchmaker to you?

Just as he was about to pass the note back to me, Mr.Watson turned around and saw him. "Terrence, bring me that note." He said sitting at the edge of his desk. "Chill Mr.Watson, I ain't gone pass no more." He said trying to hide the note under his binder. "The grammatically correct way is 'anymore' now bring me the note before you're scheduled to have a date with Mrs.Lewis." he said walking up to Pistol's desk. He handed him the note and he started to read it. "Well Ms.Jones, looks like Mr.Brown has a little crush on you." He laughed looking in Tia's direction. Mr.Watson is the true definition of an asshole , he's one of those 'Harvard brutha's' that comes back to the Hood to teach so that he can 'set an example.', but really throws it in our faces every chance he gets type of niggas. He went back to his desk and we all went back to doing our work. I was done with my work so I went to turn it in. I started to write in the journal that I keep in my purse when I felt eyes burning my back. I turned around to see Ashley (s/n~ Ashley is Vanessa Williams).  some girl KD used to fuck staring at me like I had shit on my face or something. "Fuck you staring at?" I asked mugging her. She looked at me and laughed. "Absolutely Nothing." She said twirling her hair. "You were obviously staring for a reason. You got something to say?" I asked raising an eyebrow. She stayed quiet for a bit and looked at her friend. "Well.." she cleared her throat. "If you must know....KD wrote me last week and I visited him last weekend." She said flipping her hair. Ashley is a real pretty lightskinned girl with long hair and hazel eyes. In think she's Puerto Rican, KD always cheated on me with her whenever we were having problems and everybody knew it. Even though we're not together anymore because I told him I wanted to see other people, the fact that he still fuck with her bothers me. I sat there quietly and didn't say anything to a while. "And.. " I finally said rolling my eyes.  "He told me some real interesting information about you slut. I know why you left and why you came back.." she said crossing her arms and sitting back in the chair.  I got up and walked out of the class because tears started forming in my eyes. How could he tell her that. Now she's gonna tell everyone. I went outside the class and slid down the wall crying , not because she upset me or bothered my existence. It's because I want to slap her,  but I know can't. "Jay.." Tia called. I lifted my head and looked at her. "Yeah?" I sniffled. "You good baby, I already know wassup." She said hugging. "I want to beat her ass T." I said laying my head on her shoulder. "I know Jay , I know, besides you gotta stop fighting over him one day." She said stroking my hair. "Even though your situation is bad, just think of all the good it's done for you. Gave you the strength to leave KD triflin ass alone and it's helping you control your anger." She said pulling back to look at me. "You're so right." I laughed. "That's why I'm your best friend." She smiled and got up. "I love you T." I said looking up at her. "I love you to Jay. Now let's get back in class before Mr.Watson try to give us detention and shit." She said helping me up. We walked back in class and took our seats anticipating the ringing of the bell so we could get ready for our party tonight.