Honey Flavored Tears (16 page)

“I don’t mean to interfere with your life at a time like this Kevin but I really can’t go back to that apartment after all this happened, can I please stay there for a couple of days and then I’ll check into a hotel,” I replied.

“Girl you ain’t staying in no hotel my ass. I’m not about to have Pierre come haunt me in my sleep because I’m letting you sleep in a hotel. You can stay at my place as long as you want to,” he said. It caused me to smile knowing that he had some of the same personality traits Pierre had. I could see why Pierre loved him so much.

“Thank you I’d really appreciate that,” I said in return.

                                                       
Chapter 14

                                                  
Author’s P.O.V.

Five months had passed by and
Zariah was now seven months. She loved the thought of being pregnant but a part of her couldn’t be happy because she knew the truth but it hurt that she was hiding it. The lies were growing on the inside of her stomach. A part of her felt like she wouldn’t be able to love the baby fully seeing that it wasn’t by Quincy but she knew she couldn’t take her anger out on the baby for the mistakes she made.

There was a knock at her door. She went to answer it and there was delivery guy standing there with a package for her. “Thank you,” she said as she signed the slip.
She closed the door and looked at the package weird. She hadn’t ordered anything and there wasn’t a return address on it. She smiled thinking maybe it was Yolanda sending her a baby gift for the baby. She unwrapped the package to find a DVD on the inside. She placed the DVD into the DVD player and pressed play.

Zariah’s
mouth dropped and tears seeped out of her eyes as she seen what was playing on the TV screen. Someone taped Isaiah and her having sex and sent it to her. She was so shocked at what she was seeing she didn’t hear Quincy come in. “What the fuck is that?” Quincy asked. Zariah turned around to find him looking shocked. She looked back at the TV screen and in red letters the words
can’t hide from the truth
popped on the screen.

“I got to go,” she said as she placed her shoes on and ran out the house. She got in her car and drove off.

A couple of minutes later her phone was ringing she thought it was Quincy calling to see where she went but to her surprise it was a number she didn’t recognize.

“Hello,” she said once she answered it.

“So is that how you react to the gift I sent you,” she heard Isaiah say into the phone. She began crying as she said, “Isaiah can you please leave me alone, please.”

“
Zariah I can’t do that. You have to tell Quincy the truth. Besides I can’t leave you’re stuck with me for the next 18 years,” he said in the phone. Zariah hung up the phone. She couldn’t let that happen she would kill herself before she let Quincy know the truth and allowed Isaiah to make her life a living hell.

She pressed the gas down to the floor and did
thirty five over the speed limit. A red light was coming up as she tried to stop her car slid over a patch of ice causing her car to spin six times. A black escalade slid into her car causing her to smack her whole driver side into a tree. She was unconscious after that as blood ran from her nose and head.

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Jaidyn’s P.O.V.

Days were getting better for me as the months passed. Kevin let me stay at his place just like he said he would. It was for the best, it allowed me to get to know the person that Pierre fell in love with. I know that Pierre was happy in heaven that Kevin and I were good friends now because we could help each other get over the pain of losing him.

My thoughts were cut short from my phone ringing. “Hello,” I said once I answered the phone.

“Hey Jaidyn it’s me Renee,” I heard Quincy’s mother say on the other end of the phone.

“What’s wrong?” I asked my heart stopping at this point hoping nothing bad happened to Quincy, I couldn’t afford to hear any more bad news this year.

“Just please come to the hospital,” she said.

I rushed out the house not even answering Kevin’s
questions and headed straight to the hospital. When I got there, I saw Quincy sitting there in a chair looking so lost. I walked over to him and sat down next to him. “Quincy what’s wrong? Your mother called me.”

“She’s gone,” he said
.

“Who’s gone?” I asked.

“She’s gone,” he repeated looking lost in space somewhere.

“Hey
Jaidyn,” I heard Renee say as she walked over to me.

“Renee
, please tell me what’s going on,” I said. Renee took her time explaining to me that Zariah had got into a bad accident and was seven months pregnant. She explained to me that they were able to save the baby but Zariah didn’t make it. I was shocked and I knew Quincy was hurting. I was never cool with Zariah but I would never wish death on her.

“Quincy are you ready to go back and see your baby girl?” Renee asked. He didn’t respond.

I grabbed his hand and pulled him up. “Come on Q. Lets go see your baby girl.” Renee and I held him up as we walked back to the nursery. Once we got to the window and the nurse held up the baby girl Quincy burst into tears. I looked at the baby, she was so beautiful. All the pain I ever felt when I heard Zariah was pregnant with his child went flying out the window. What they created was something so beautiful and I was proud that Quincy had a chance to enter fatherhood. I looked down at my best friend crying on the floor. Renee and I kneeled down beside him and consoled him.

“Don’t worry Q we will get through this together…”

                                    
TO BE CONTINUED…..