#THE_SACRIFICE
EPISODE 16
*GRANDHILL un-derGROUND CLUB*
“And it’s Jake Beau people” Mike greeted gleefully as Jake walked into the VIP lounge where himself and Rick were seated. They all had a round of hvg and fist bu-mps before sitting down on the sofa.
“You look good man” Rick said glancing at Jake.
“You both look great too” He replied with a small smile. He had missed this bunch of knock heads.
“I heard you got a new project and it was approved by the board?” Mike asked.
“And how did you know?” Jake asked.
“My dad told me so. You really are a show off. You’ve just returned and you’re alre-ady impressing my father and I haven’t had a moment of rest since you returned. Can’t you be a little bit useless” Mike pleaded with a painful expression.
“I can’t blame your father. We know you lazy around all day along. I would have probably given you up for adoption if I were your father. How useless!” Rick said with a mock smile.
“That’s the pot calling the kettle black. You’re worst than me. So keep your mouth shut” Mike fired back as he eyed him. He couldn’t believe Rick was actually saying that to him. What a hypocrite!
Jake couldn’t help but laugh at their silly exchange. He was amused that nothing had changed between them after many years. Except of course Daniel who was now married.
“Jake I got you some babes. The ones with the 36B cu-p and S-xy b©dy. This is my welcome home gift to you” Mike said with cheeky smile.
“What about me?” Rick asked.
“fv¢k off” Mike spat out with a glare.
“I don’t think I want to get la-id tonight” Jake declined.
“What??” Rick and Mike said simultaneously with a disbeliving look. When has Jake Beau ever turned down an opportunity to get la-id.
“I just want to hang out with your guys. Come on, don’t give me that look” Jake said amusedly when he observed their surprised look on him. He just wasn’t feeling up to it. He also didn’t know why.
“You’re not sick, are you?” Rick asked with concern. This was so unlike Jake. He really couldn’t believe Jake had turned down Mike’s offer.
“Just shut up and let’s have fun” Jake said. They both looked at him incredulously. Tonight was a night to be remembered. A night Jake c@m£ to the club without humphing a woman. What a day!
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Jade returned home with a box of pizza after dinner with Amy at the restaurant. She had just walked into the sitting room when Kelvin pounced on her and quic-kly gr@bb£d the box of pizza from her hands.
“Wow..Thanks sis” He said gleefully as he opened the box and took a big bite from a slice.
Jade looked at him amusedly.”Did you ask if that was yours?” Jade asked with a fond smile.
“Is it mine?” He asked rhetorically with his stuffed mouth. Jade sh0t him a disbeliving look as she shook her head. This brother of her’s was something else.
“I thought as much” He said without glancing back at Jade as he returned back to pla-ying his game.
“You’re back” Grace said as she walked out of the kitchen. She had hurried out when she heard Jade’s voice.
“Yes mom” She replied.
“Hold on, dinner will be re-ady soon” Grace informed her before turning around to return back to the kitchen.
“I alre-ady had dinner” She said st©pping her mother. “I had dinner with Amy. You should make for just yourself, since your son won’t be able to after eating that” She added, glancing at Kelvin.
“I guess it’s just me then” Grace said looking at Kelvin who was engrossed in pla-ying a video game. She chuckled at how funny his mouth moved every time he eats pizza. It was his favorite.
“Did you see him at work?” Grace asked the mind bugging question that has been tormenting her all day. She has been really anxious after Jade left for work in the morning. She wondered how her child’s life will be at work, when she worked with an ex who shattered her heart.
Jade didn’t nee-d anyb©dy to tell her who she was referring to. “Ya I did” Jade replied as she walked to take her seat on the couch. Her feets felt so-re.
“And?” Grace asked curiously as she followed her.
“And nothing” Jade shrugged as she raised her gaze to her mother who was expecting her to say more. “He apologized and said it was a misun-derstanding” She added.
“Do you believe that?” Grace asked.
“No! I don’t believe that. I know what I saw. And why did he lie about Stephanie being a relative? I guess it was just to fool me” Jade said.
“Well that’s over. Just keep your distance from him. Someone like him can only bring you more pain” Grace adviced.
“Sis if that j£rk comes close to you again, tell me, I’ll give him a really good beating” Kelvin said. Who knew he had actually being listening while he was busy pla-ying?
“Yes sir” Jade said with mock politeness.
“I’ll be in my room” She said before heading to her room.
She walked out of the bathroom and was shocked to find a black suit jacket lying on her be-d. She picked it up and looked closely at it wondering why it was la-id there. It wasn’t on her be-d before she went into the bathroom minutes ago.
She put her on her pink pyjamas before going to her mother to ask who owned the jacket and why it was on her be-d.
“Mom, who owns this?” Jade asked holding the jacket in front of her.
“You should know that. Why are you asking me? It was among the dirty clothes so I washed it” Grace answered with a confused look on her face. She had thought Jade had brou-ght the Jacket home. Maybe it was Cale’s.
Jade was confused. Why was she to know where the jacket c@m£ from? She stood there staring at the jacket, while trying to joggle her memory.
“Why are you both looking like you’re solving a puzzle?” Kelvin asked when he saw the puzzling look on their faces.
“Kelvin is this yours?” Jade asked ma-king Kelvin look at her confusedly.
“How would I fit into something that big. And why am I the only one who knows that is a very expensive suit Jacket” Kelvin asked them and looked at them like they were kidergarten children he had to lecture. He could tell because he was the one who had dropped it in the laundry basket when Jade returned home with it.
Jade closely examined the jacket. She had not really noticed it was a br@nded Gucci suit until Kelvin mentioned it.
‘But where did it come from? And why did her mother think it c@m£ from her?’. If she had not broken up with Cale, she would have thought it belonged to him. But this was a suit jacket which would cost some thousands of dollars, which Cale definitely won’t be able to afford. So who owns it?
Kelvin noticed the confused look on his sister’s face. He knew she was thinking about the Jacket.
“Didn’t you bring it home, the day you were drenched in the rain? It was dra-pped around your shoulder when you arrived”
Jade thought about it for a few seconds when her eyes suddenly wi-den in shock. “It…It belonged to him??’ she said in her mind. She hurriedly turned around and went into her room.
“I guess she remembers” Kelvin said with a shrug before plumping down on the sofa close to his mother.
“Mom can I get a b©dy mas-sage?” He asked with a pleading smile, placing his legs on Grace’s th!gh.
“And why would I do that?” Grace asked with raised brows.
“Because my b©dy aches”
“What did you do?”
“I went to high school and I did alot of as-signments which they give students like us” He said as he placed his mother’s hand on his legs, in a way that asked her to just give him a mas-sage.
“Then you can ask your teachers to do that. I didn’t give those as-signments to you” Grace said as she stood up to leave.
“But you s£nt me to school?” Kelvin yelled behind her.
“Ah! I guess that was a mistake after all. You should probably quit then. Good night Kelvin, momma loves you”
“No you don’t!” Kelvin yelled with a frown as he watched her leave.
How did something like this happen? How could she have taken his jacket? This were the questions going throu-gh Jade’s mind as she sat down on the edge of her be-d. Was this the reason he had tried approaching her earlier when she had visited Amy? OMG!, and she had ran away? How was she to return his Jacket now? She searched the pockets of the Jacket to look for a card or something she could use to reach him. She sighed dejectedly when her search c@m£ out futile.
What was happening to her right now? How did she find herself in this kind of situation? A situation where she had a souvenir from a one night stand she was trying to avoid because she was ashamed of what had happened. But now she has to return a jacket to the same guy? How was she even going to do that?
Why was all this happening to her?! Was the heaven trying to make a soap opera out of her life?
First she had sle-pt with a man she ba-rely knew because she wanted to save her b©yfri£nd. Secondly she had her heart broken right after that. Thirdly, she kept seeing the same man everywhere she went. And now she had his Jacket? Was this a joke?!
This sort of things only happened in movies or novels. She pu-ll-ed her hair in frustration before falling back on the be-d. She la-id there staring at the celling. What was she supposed to do?
She had not expected this kind of outcome at all.
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