Its The Chase For Me: A Heights Story by Christina C. Jones

Author:Christina C. Jones [Jones, Christina C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Warm Hues Creative
Published: 2020-11-02T18:30:00+00:00

Seven

January

“Y’all really went and had shots without me? Like for real?!”

That was the first question I posed to Haven and August once I’d been welcomed through the door of his place. Never mind that it was way too early in the morning for a confrontation, with me still dressed and exhausted from my overnight shift at the hospital.

But I had to know.

I mean, I already knew, because the pictures of it all had flooded my social media. Apparently everybody and their Mama, the whole damn neighborhood, had been invited to the celebration… except me.

Which was especially fucked up when you considered the fact that I was the one who spent more time and effort than anybody - except the person we paid to do so - taking care of Geezy.

It was wack, honestly.

Don’t get me wrong - I wasn’t saying that August didn’t pull his weight, because he did. He was just… a lot more relaxed about leaving things solely up to our eighty-something year old grandmother without even really evaluating if her mental faculties were still what they used to be.

He just took her word for it.

I wasn’t even saying that Geezy’s mental capacity was limited - she was a very well-kept woman, healthy, mobile, all that. But what she didn’t understand, and what August didn’t seem to understand, was that it took work, and care, for her to remain that way.

What they both thought of as infantilizing, was what I saw as making sure she was able to be around as long as possible, at this same level of vivaciousness, by taking as much as possible off her plate.

Eventually, one of us was going to have some kids, and with our parents no longer here, Geezy was going to have to pull double duty. Great and grandma, dammit.

From the kitchen, Haven squinted at me through half-drooped eyes, the carafe of coffee in her hands reminding me of the very first time we met. Well, the time when we reconnected because she and August had reconnected from their acquaintance with each other back in college.

As a freshman back then, I had a girl-crush on Haven something serious.

Hell, I wanted to be her.

Even now, from the hair, to the skin, to the face, to the clothes, to the career, she was definitely still somebody to admire and look up to.

In this moment though, I was pissed at her too, and was completely thrilled to see her looking more like Bruh Man from the Fif’ Flo’ than the usually very pulled together Haven Trotter.

With her eyes still squinted against the light, probably hungover, Haven presented me with a grimace that was likely supposed to be a smile.

“We missed you last night Ry,” she said, barely hitting the target of getting any coffee into her waiting mug.

“Me? Oh, I wasn’t invited. I was at work.”

“What are you talking about? It was Geezy’s closing celebration, a freaking party. Of course you were invited… right?”

Glancing behind me, I caught August’s failed attempt at silencing Haven by waving a hand across his neck.

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