BEING JOMAE

BEING JOMAE-I'm Gone

"I'm sorry I just came down here to get my clothes. They right there next to you can you hand them to me?", he said smiling at me.


"You good", I handed him the clothes that's was next to me and he went to the bathroom downstairs I guess and came back out.


He was wearing a Son of Mads shirt, black true religions, glow green son of Mars Jordan's, and a black SnapBack that said glow green on it. And his dreads was twisted up yes he was sexy and have swag.


"So Jomae tell me about yourself", he said laying on the couch on the side of me on his phone.


"Well what do you want to know?"


"I want to know can you trust me"


"We literally just met"


"I know I was just asking but for real I wanna know anything I can about you, past relationships, your future dreams, what you plan on doing in the next few years, where I can stand in your life stuff like that"


"Wow no ones really asked me that"


"What? About your dreams?"


"Yeah. I mean I've always wanted to design clothes and have my own clothing line but other people say I should be a doctor"


"Well it's your life and if everybody who told you that disappears or something happens then it's just you. You don't want to be stuck doing something other people told you to do and you not like it. Live for yourself and for what other people want you to do"


"Thanks I never thought of it that way and I've never told that to anyone"


"Well now I feel special", he said making me laugh.


"So tell me Killion, since your so smart. How did you manage to graduate early and be starting college at 16"


"From my history I always had to work harder than everybody else on what I wanted. I would stay after school sometimes to make sure I had everything I needed to pass and it all paid off. The way I grew up nothing was ever handed to me no matter how rich my dad was he. After I turned 13 I had to start working for everything I wanted"


"And speaking of parents where are they now? At work?"


"My dad is in jail and my mom got deported back to Mexico"


"Wow I'm so sorry to hear that"


"It's good, my dad should be getting out in a few years and I always see my mom, she actually moved to Cancun and she doesn't want to come back so I said okay and I talked them both into letting me stay here and they said I could as long as I don't lose my mind"


"Well from this house you are definitely doing good for yourself"


"Thanks, so what about you? Your parents won't be mad you at my house?"


"Umm that's a really weird story"


"I don't care tell me"


"Okay I always grew up with my mom, dad, and my older sister. But then one day my sister told my mom she was pregnant and they ended up getting into a fight and my sister told me that my dad wasn't really my dad he was just my dad's friend. So then I ended up running away but into my real dad and now I stay with him and I have no idea where he is right now"


"Wow that's crazy. I thought my parents put me through a lot"


"Well at least your doing good for yourself now. Your mom is fine, my mom is a crackhead. I've never been pushed to do what you did so I didn't. I'm smart and I make good grades but I never thought of graduating early. I always thought I would end up like my mom having her first child in high school you know"


"Well if you did end up having a baby in high school I would help you out"


"Thanks but I made a promise to my dad I wouldn't until after I graduated so I'm definitely good on that", I said making us both laugh.



We talked me for a few hours and I found out so much about him and he found out a lot about me but it was about to get late so I have to leave.


"Well it's getting late so I'll talk to you later", I said getting up from then couch.


"Okay text me when you get home", he gave me a hug and then I drove home. I've never met anyone like him he was actually interested in what I wanted to do, I don't get that to often. And he told me stuff he said he's never told anyone else like about his mom and about his dreams. He just might be a keeper.



When I made it home it was about 7 but it looked like it was 8 outside. I parked the car in the garage and I went straight upstairs to my room not wanting to talk to anyone. I pulled my phone out and put it on the charger since it's been dead for the past few hours, I looked and I had missed calls from King, Tiana, my dad, Shaunie everybody. Now I'm getting nervous, I decided to call my dad first though.


PHONE CALL

Dad: "Where are you?"


Me: "I'm at the house right now where are you?"


Dad: "I'm at the hospital. Everybody's been trying to call you where were you?"


Me: "At a friends house. Who's in the hospital?"


Dad: "Darius"


Me: "Okay well I guess I'll see you when you get here. I'm tired and I just want to lay down"


Dad: "So you not coming?"


Me: "Come for what I'm sure he's good he got you, King, Tyrone, Jamel, and Kiana he don't need me there"


Dad: "Alright. Well I'll see you when I get there"


Me: "Okay I'll see you later bye"


Dad: "Bye"


END OF PHONE CALL



I hung up the phone and started texting Killion until I fell asleep.



THE NEXT DAY


I woke up to my phone ringing and when I looked at the caller i.d. it said Darius. I didn't want to answer my phone so I just let it ring. It stopped ringing but then he called back so I put my phone on vibrate.


"Oh so that's how you do me?", Darius said coming in my room.


"Why are you in my room?"


"Why you have an attitude? You acting like you was the one in the hospital last night. And speaking of which why you ain't come see me?"


"I'm not yo girl so why do you care if I came or not", I said with an attitude.


"So. You still could've came to check on me and everybody was calling you to see if you could look at me but you ain't answer yo phone"


"I'm not a doctor. You went to a real one and now you good apparently cause you back to normal getting on my nerves again"


"But you wasn't saying that when you was getting that bullet out of my arm and if you didn't know about Kiana you would've been right there with me"


"Because I didn't know about her and she was there with you so why you in my face?"


"No she wasn't there with me that's why we called you"


"Get out of my room. You with somebody if she never leaving then why are talking to me then? And then because she wasn't there you call me? Nossah you got life bent, twisted, and confused. I'm not with you so leave me alone"


"No and I didn't mean it like that. We called you because we wanted to save a trip to the hospital. I'm sorry you fell for me and you don't know what to do because I have a girl but you'll get over it after while", he said then left out of my room. I'm leaving here I can't stay with him living here. I grabbed the black card my dad gave me, most of my clothes, and the keys to the Audi. I drove to Tiana's aunts house because I didn't want my dad to find me and I know he have a tracker in all his cars so I called Killion to come get me from there since he's my last option.


PHONE CALL


Me: "Hey Killion what are you doing?"


Killion: "I'm just getting off work. Why wassup?"


Me: "Umm I was just wondering if I could come over for a little while to clear my head"


Killion: "Yeah where you at I can come get you"


Me: " I'm the Reymont apartments in parking lot b"


Killion: "I know where that's at I'm on my way"


Me: "Okay thanks I'll see you when you get here"


Killion: "Alright bye baby"



END OF PHONE CALL



He just called me baby and then hung up the phone. Oh my goodness what have I gotten I myself into?