White Lines 3: Love/Fate

Author:Tracy Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-10-07T05:00:00+00:00

After the Pain

37

FORGIVENESS

January 9, 2007

Jada held her head in her hands, as if doing so would prevent her from remembering all the pain of her past. It was all more than she could stand at that moment. The last thing she needed was to be remembering these things, feeling this pain again. Getting the flowers that Born had sent to her, reading his note … it was enough to send her back along all the corridors of her recollection to places she hadn’t visited in years. Jada was overwhelmed with so many emotions. Instinctively, she picked up the phone and called Sunny. Sunny had been her friend for so long. She knew Jada better than anybody. As dependable as ever, Sunny answered on the third ring.

“City morgue. You kill ‘em, we chill ‘em,” Sunny answered, jokingly.

“That’s not very funny, since I’m in the process of burying my mother, Sunny.” Jada’s voice was trembling as she shook her head at her friend’s twisted sense of humor.

“Sorry. I didn’t even think about that. I was only joking, girl. How you holding up?” Sunny asked.

“Not too good.”

“What’s the matter?”

Jada sighed, rubbing her head to try and stop the headache creeping up on her. “I got a package from Born today.”

Sunny didn’t respond right away. Instead, she let Jada’s words linger for a few moments. “Wow. What was it?”

“Some flowers. He sent a note with them, and it didn’t say much. But now I can’t stop thinking about him, and about us. I thought I had dealt with all this shit, but—” Jada’s voice trailed off, as she fought to compose herself.

Sunny listened intently, and heard the pain in her best friend’s voice. “You want me to come over?” she asked.

Jada closed her eyes, and gripped the receiver tighter. “Yeah, could you? I need to get some of this shit off my chest.”

Sunny knew that was exactly what Jada needed. “I’m on my way.”

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