| Chapter 19 |
| Sunlight could be seen through the curtains as it casted it's light upon the sleepy figure. Slowly the body started to move as the sunlight was in her face. Moving her face away from the light, she looked at the clock besides her and groaned. "Shit, I missed all my classes today. If I keep this up, I will so fail," said Amelia as she flipped on her back. Looking up at the ceiling, all of the memories of last night came flooding back to her. They came so fast, it almost made her cry again that she has lost a best friend. Amelia had valued and treasured her friendship with Mya and thought Mya did too, but all she got was a slap in the face. Getting up from her bed, she gathered her belongings and went into the bathroom singing a song she had heard on the radio a few times. "Every little thing I do/ Never seems enough for you/ You don't want to lose it again/ But I'm not like them/ Baby when you finally/ Get to love someone/ Guess what/ It's gonna be me," sang Amelia, while getting into the shower. Opening the door, steamed released as she walked out towards her closet, dressed in Sean John's tank and skirt. She put on her white flip flops and grabbed her purse on the way out of her bedroom. Walking into the livingroom she noticed that Mya wasn't home and she was thankful. She didn't feel up to seeing the woman she thought was her bestfriend. As she crossed between the couch she noticed the red blonking light on the answering machine. She pressed the button and was suprised at the vocie that came from it. "Hey, Amelia, this is Justin. I was wondering if you were free tomorrow. If your not, I understand. You know my number. Bye," said Justin. 'I'll just call him when I come back home. I have to deal with something very important, right now' thought Amelia as she left her apartment. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs home... |
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| Amelia had finally reached her parents house to settled what had happened with her mother. Now she was in the middle of her parents livingroom with her sister Tanisha looking at her in disgust and her parents with angry looks. Looking around at the faces, she was just waiting for one of them to blow up on her and finally not to her suprise it was her father. "Amelia Jean Jacobs, why do you have to do this? Why can't you just follow the standard rule that we have installed for you girls to follow?," angrliy said Mr. Jacobs, wanting an answer. Looking at her father, she immediately felt like she was trapped in a cage. He had always made her feel like a baby, like she couldn't take care of her ownself. Dropping her head down, she was trying to think of the best answers for his questions because if she said one word wrong, it would tick him off. Looking back up, she gathered all of her courage, like what she did with her mother, she gave her answer. "I don't purposely do this and as to not following your rule. I don't feel the need to follow them because I am a 20 year old woman.... a woman dad and I can do what ever I want and I'm not a baby that has to be taken care of. I'm grown and I don't live in your house so, there is no reason to follow the rule of not being friends or a girlfriend to a white man," said Amelia. By saying those words, Tanisha had decided to put her two cents into the conversation. "It doesn't matter. You are still their daughter and expect you to atleast follow the one rule that all of the family has for years. We have never accepted any white man in our family and never will. The sooner you get it through your thick skull, the sooner this mess can be forgotten," lashed Tanisha. "Tanisha, I never asked for your opinion on this. I will not give up on a relationship with Justin because my family are a bunch of racist. This is the millennium and its time to get over the whole rascim shit. Justin is one of the few men who have looked past my skin color to see the real Amelia. Dad, you always said you wanted a man to love your daughters unconditionally and for what they are on the inside and not the outside. Guess what? Justin is that guy and he is everything in one that I have always wanted in a man. So, why can't you just be happy for once that I have found someone who could possibly be a man that could love me? I'm not saying that Justin and I have gone as far because we haven't. I do have feelings for him, but he doesn't know and will when I tell him. There is so much more I could say, but I don't where to start so, I'm going to go home and calm down and leave you guys to think about what I've said," sighed Amelia as she gather her things and walking out the door, while her family watched on. |