Page 49 of Fever: Love In Scrubs
“Who else?”
Asia kissed her teeth. “Fucking Amandela. What did she do now?”
I took a deep breath and told her everything that had been going on. Of course, she was livid and we had to stop her from leaving the house to go to Amandela’s place. As bad as my sister didn’t play about me, she was ten times worse about our kids.
“You are not going over to that woman’s house,” Johnathan said, picking her up and placing her on the counter. He wedged himself between her legs so she couldn’t move.
Asia glared at him. “You can’t hold me back forever, baby.” She turned to me. “Jax, I’ve let a lot slide, but this time she went too far. Her ass is mine when I see her, and I mean that shit. There are too many child predators out here for her to be so blind to what that nigga was doing. It happened not once but twice. That’s not a coincidence.”
“Same shit I said.” I shook my head. “I wish I’d seen her true colors before I went and married her, man. I never thought Dela could be this selfish.”
“When people show you who they are, believe them.”
“I know that now.”
I dropped my head into my hands and took a deep breath. There was silence between us for a moment.
“On a positive note,” she said. “How was your date?”
That made me smile. “It was great.”
“Well, don’t keep us in suspense. Tell us about it. We wanna be nosy. Right, babe?”
Johnathan chuckled. “Youwanna be nosy. I’m just here.”
“Please! You would have asked me about it later so don’t even front like that. Go on, Jaxson.”
I gave them a rundown of my date with Wynter. My sister was smiling like a proud mother hearing about her son’s first date. She asked me a million questions, barely giving me time to answer any of them.
“When are you going out again?” she asked, kicking her feet.
“I’m not sure. Just know that I have the green light for as many dates as I want.”
“I’m so happy for you. You have to bring her by so we can officially meet.”
Johnathan shook his head. “Just say you want to vet her, baby.”
“I don’t! She and I actually went to school together. We were never friends and I wanna change that.”
He smiled. “Look at you trying to be nice.”
“Kids were horrible to her in school, Johnathan. While I wasn’t part of that crowd, I never defended her or tried to befriend her, and I regret that.” She turned to me. “You better not fuck this up.”
I chuckled. “I won’t. I really like her.”
She gave me a goofy smile as she poked my arm. “Jaxson’s got a girlfriend!”
“You are so childish, man. Let me get my kid so we can head home.”
“You might as well chill over here for a bit,” Johnathan said. “I checked on them before I came down and they are still knocked out. Come on out back and have a smoke with me.”
I got up and followed him outside. After the morning I had, a smoke was just what I needed.
“And this is the pediatric wing.”
I followed Ms. Levi, the hospital administrator, as we stepped off the elevator.
Today I was doing an interview for a Patient and Community Relations Specialist position at Saint Ambrose. I took Jaxson’s advice and looked on the hospital’s website for an open position. Since my move here was a permanent one, my employment needed to match.
