?ENEMIES?
?WITH?
BENEFITS?
RATED 18
? EPISODE 24✨
“Mom, can you stop? I didn’t call you so that you can pressure me to get married. I’m still young and I still have a lot of things on my plate. Getting married is not on my agenda now”
“You are young or what did I just hear you say? You are 25 years old woman!!”
I sigh in defeat. This woman will not get off my case if I don’t change the subject.
“Okay Mom, I will definitely inform you as soon as I find the right person. You don’t expect me to just go and pick a stranger because I’m desperate to get married. If I don’t my darling mother will never get off my case” I say, pun intended.
“If it’s about that, my darling daughter. I think I can help you” she mimics and I roll my eyes.
“How can you possibly do that ma”
“You remember Jesse right..”
Oh, God!!!!
“Marie Calhoun’s son” she completes.
“Yes, yes I do ma” I sigh knowing where this is going already.
“You use to play together when you were lads, at St. Francis. With your sister”
My chest aches when she mentions my sister and I hold my chest subconsciously closing my eyes.
Why does everyone decide to punish me this way? They are bringing out these painful memories.
“Mom, I do remember all of it, get to the point” I groan impatiently
“Well, I heard he’s in New York for a while. Have you met him yet? You two know each other well. You attended the same high school and he’s super rich as I have heard and he’s also single. I think he’s the right man for you at the moment”
“Wait, wait, Mom, how did you know all this? How do you know he’s in New York and he’s rich and all?”
“I met his mother on Facebook a few weeks ago. We did a lot of catch-ups. She’s asked if you are married and I told her no. She said she’s been trying to get his son to settle down also but he kept saying he isn’t ready and hasn’t found the one yet, just everything you said to me now.”
“So you guys decided to matchmake us without our consent?”
“I don’t see any reason for you not to marry Jesse except you have someone else. ”
“Mom I know for sure that this is a joke, so I’ll just take it as one”
“No one is joking with you Theresa” she uses my middle name her voice stern.
“Back to why I called mother, I just want to check up on you. How is Australia treating you? How are Clement and Theodore?”
Clement is my step Dad and Theodore is their adopted son. I was thirteen when I lost my sister and lost my dad five years later. I was done with high school then. It was more traumatizing for my mom than it was for me. My mom is Australian, so she went back home to heal while I just stayed back in New York because I got admission to NYU. I met Summer there, she also helped me through the healing process and that’s how she became my best friend.
My mom met Clement during those times. He was her therapist who is divorced. They fell in love and tied the knot. I was happy to see my mom happy again. They both decide to adopt a child since they have already grown up children. Theodore was five when they adopted him, he’s probably Eleven now.
“They are fine, and I’m doing pretty well. What about you sweetheart, how is your business, is it developing well?”
“I’m trying mom, I just want to relocate to a more Urban area. This place is slowing me down. But I haven’t found a good place yet.”
“It will be easier for you if you meet Jesse for help. He’s a constructor and I believe he can help you”
Okay, that’s it, woman.
“Okay, Goodnight mom. I love you!! Muah ” I blow a kiss into the air and hang up.
I sigh and lay my back on my bed. Why is the universe punishing me this way? Everything I do now revolve around Jesse and I can’t get him out of my Fuçking mind.
Best Mate;
Can you believe what my mom said to me today?
I type and send it to Summer and I receive back her text in a second.
Best Mate
“Gist me”
I told her how my mom had planned Jesse and my marriage. The response I got was a laughing emoji.
And then her call comes in.
I frown as I hear her mockery voice and laughter blaze through my phone speaker.
“It’s not funny” I hiss
“The universe kept pulling you two together, even your parents are shipping you two. You see I’m not the only one”
“What am I to do now? Jesse and I are remote. I broke up with him today”
“Oops, well you can fix that”
“I don’t think I want to”
“Why? Because you’re in love with him, which is not supposed to be” she asserts, and I drag my lips into my mouth.
“I’m not in love with him ” I affirm.
“Okay girl, wh@tëver you say….I don’t believe you” she giggles before cutting the call.
There’s more to Jesse and I hatred towards each other and I’m sure you are wondering what it is.
Fourteen years ago Jesse was my best buddy. Apart from the fact we attended the same Church and went to the same school, I was so fond of Jesse. When he was transferred to my school then, Jesse often get bullied a lot because of his small stature. But I was there to defend him, I never let a fly hurt him even though he’s six months older. He was fourteen and me and my Twin sister Lauren were 13.
The problem ignited when Jesse confessed to me, that she liked my sister. I was hurt but Jesse was oblivious to the fact that I have a big crush on him. He only considered me as his best friend.
I told my sister thinking she was going to reject him but ended up regretting it. Turns out my sister liked him back. And that was how I lost my best friend. He doesn’t hang with me anymore, he spent most of his time with Lauren and I was so jealous that I h@tëd my sister. I would snob her whenever she tries to play with me. Avoided her in the house even when mom and dad kept asking why but I didn’t respond. Every day it broke my heart to see them together.
Until that day, my sister fainted when they were playing in school. She was rushed to the hospital where we learned that it was a heart attack. Lauren was born with a hole in her heart which she fought before she eventually died that day.
That day I felt as thus I have been stabbed in the chest. I didn’t get to talk and play with my sister before she died. I was so immature and foolish for beefing with her because of Jesse.
I blamed everything on Jesse and accused him of killing my sister. I said he was the reason I fought my sister till death. I h@tëd him with everything in me.
I tried to bully and frustrate him but I taught him too well, and I began to regret ever standing up for him then. He became taller, more confident, and more attractive. It annoyed me as Fuçk.
All this happened during our sophomore in high school and we ended high school bickering at each other. And almost taking each other’s life.
It upsets me that those feelings are starting to resurface. I’m suppose to h@të him.
T.B.C
