Jaylen and Jessica 2: I Won't Cry by Shaquanda Dalton

Author:Shaquanda Dalton [Dalton, Shaquanda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Urban, United States, African American, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1491224703
Amazon: B00DOOPAGI
Published: 2013-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

Jaylen

Chapter 12

My heart stops. I look down at Jaslene for half a second, then back at Jessica. What did she just say? “She’s mine?”

Jessica closes her eyes and nods. I stand up and start pacing the room. “How do you know? I never took the test. Chris did.”

She opens her eyes but stares at the floor instead of me. “The results came back negative. He’s not her father.”

I rub a hand down my face. This is unbelievable. Should I even believe it? “When did you find this out? How come all of a sudden you know this stuff?” I ask. I step closer to her, but she still doesn’t look up. Look me in the eye, I say in my head. If you’re telling me the truth, look me in the eye.

“I found out last week. I mean, that’s when I got the call. And then they sent something in the mail confirming what the person said over the phone.”

“Last week? You found out it wasn’t Chris’s last week?” I’m pissed. I can’t believe she’s been lying to me this whole time. I stare over at Jaslene, who’s spread out across the bed. She’s so tiny. So vulnerable. And she’s mine? How could . . . ? “Were you on birth control when we had sex, Jess?” I ask as softy as I can muster.

“No,” she says after a few moments. “I stopped right after I broke up with Chris. So by the time you and I did it, I had been off for days.”

I close my mouth tightly. She was off the pill, but she still let me go in raw? If I had known she was off the pill, I never would have . . . God, what the fuck is going on here?

I shake my head and start pacing again. Okay. Think, Jaylen, think. You have a daughter. A daughter? Oh my God. Mom’s gonna kill me. Angela is going to bury me. God. Angela.

I stare at Jessica. I need her to face me. “Look at me, Jess. Come here.” Jessica stands up and comes within two feet of me still looking down like a kid who got caught stealing. “Look me in the eye and tell me she’s mine.”

Slowly she looks up at me. She goes from staring at my feet to my chest to my neck and eventually my eyes. She straightens her shoulders. “Jaslene Mae Smith is your daughter. She was conceived ten months ago, and although we thought she was early, she was actually on time, if we look at the day you and I had sex. She has a lot of your features including your ears, hairline, and chin. She’s smart and beautiful, and she is your daughter.

“After we had unprotected sex, I went back to Chris. And we also had unprotected sex because he was trying to get me pregnant. I thought he succeeded, but in fact I had been pregnant the day I walked back into his house. There was no gap in between my sleeping with you and Chris for there to be another man involved.

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