Honey Flavored Tears (14 page)

“Okay but Pierre that’s the past and you never know maybe Promise lead her to be jealous, females can be conniving but what I’m saying is that you don’t have to explain any of this to me because like I said before
I’m not going to let anything get out of hand between Ava and I.”

Pierre looked me in my eyes like there was something else he wanted to say but instead of saying it he just said, “Okay just looking out for you that’s all.”

“I know and I love you for it,” I replied.

“Duh because I’m lovable bitch,” he replied causing me to laugh. I laid my head on his shoulder. I missed my friend and I’m glad we finally got to spend some time with each other. We sipped on our drink and watched a marathon of “George Lopez” on Nick at Night and laughed our
asses off.

                                                     
Chapter 12

                                               
Author’s P.O.V.

Quincy sat out in his car drinking on some Hennessey thinking about how his life got to the point that it was in.
There’s something deeper that’s causing you to act like this and you need to figure out what it is.

  
I care about you so deeply I just don’t want to see anything bad happen to you.
Quincy chuckled at the thoughts going through his mind of the past things that Zariah and Jaidyn told him. He was fed up with love and life. He felt like no one gave a damn about him and there was no need to even care himself. He started up the car and started driving. Jaidyn would always lecture him about drinking and driving but Quincy was starting to say fuck her and fuck everyone else. He couldn’t take advice from someone who wasn’t even around at his worse. “Where the fuck are you at when I need you the most Jaidyn, where the fuck are you?” He slurred out as he pressed his gas down some more doing ten over the speed limit. He grabbed his cell phone and decided to call Jaidyn’s number. As he was searching for her number in the phone, he heard a horn blowing as he looked up and seen his car was swerving into a lane where a car was coming at him, he quickly turned his wheel causing his car to go out of control and crashed his front end straight into a wall….

                                                                       
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Quincy woke up to a bright light in his eyes. “
Ahhhh my eyes,” he instantly said as he covered his eyes, hoping this wasn’t the light to heaven.

“Dr.
Shimodo can you please move the light from in front of his eyes,” he heard a familiar voice say. It was a voice that he hadn’t heard in a long time.

“Sorry about that son,” the doctor
said as he moved the light over. Quincy looked over to his left to see a female version of him looking up at the doctor. He heard the doctor explaining something to her but he tuned him out and just continued to stare at the woman sitting in front of him. He couldn’t believe that she was actually here.

“Thank you doctor
. for the information,” she said as she looked at me and smiled.

“No problem, I will be back in every thirty minutes to check on you but if the pain comes back just beep the nurse to bring you some more pain medicine
,” the doctor said to Quincy then walked out the room. When Quincy noticed the cast on his left leg and felt the bandages on his forehead, the accident memory came flooding back to his mind. The woman sitting to the left of him dragged her chair over by his bedside and grabbed his hand. He missed her soft touch.

“I’m so glad you are okay son,” she said
with tears in her hazel brown eyes.

“Did the doctor say
if I have any severe injuries?” Quincy asked looking at her now.

“Well
, he explained that you have fractured your knee because of the impact of how hard your car hit the wall and your ankle and foot is swollen plus your forehead because of how hard you hit the steering wheel but other than that he said you should be fine,” she explained to him.

“Well how long will I have this cast on my leg
?”

“The doctor said it
will be a couple months depending on how quickly you recover in physical therapy.”

Quincy sucked his teeth and sighed. “Just another situation to put me deeper in my financial problems. I don’t have that kind of money for physical therapy. I’m barely making ends meet with paying all the damn bills and rent by myself since Zariah just moved out.”

 
Renee sat there and listened to her son rant about his problems then said, “Don’t worry about the physical therapy. I’ll cover it son.”

Quincy looked at his momma then shook his head no.
“Momma we haven’t talked to each other in three years I can’t let you come in and pay for things I’m supposed to take care of as a man.”

“Quincy I understand that but it seems like you have
so much on your plate I just want to help you.”

 
Quincy didn’t say anything else just looked away from her. She knew he wanted to say it’s too late for that but something wasn’t letting him. Maybe it was because he didn’t want to argue anymore; they did too much of that in the past. Renee felt like it was time for her to apologize to him for everything.

“Quincy I know that I wasn’t there for you like I should’ve been in the past. I went back and forth between being your mother and loving another man. So sometimes when you really needed me the most I should’ve been there but being in love had me acting stupid and I put another guy before you and I just really want to apologize for it. I’m so sorry and I know I wasn’t there back then but if you could find it in your heart to forgive me and just please let me be there for you now,” she said through tears.

A couple of tears rolled down the side of Quincy’s face. He looked back at her and said, “You know it makes sense now of why I’ve been going back and forth between two females lately. I guess I felt like someone owed me for you not being there.”

Renee listened and wiped her tears feeling bad that her son was impacted by her foolish ways.

“I thought I was always confused and just couldn’t commit but hey it finally makes sense…but I don’t want to live in the past anymore momma. I want you to know I forgive you but it’s just going to take time for us to build our bond back up,” he explained.

“I have all the time in the world
,” she said with a smile upon her face. He smiled and kissed her hand. He was happy that he took Zariah’s advice and was finally starting to dig deeper to the root of his problem.

“So how did you know I was in the hospital?” Quincy asked.

“Some police officer called my number out of your phone, said you had ICE next to it so he called me to let me know you were in the hospital and what hospital it was and I rushed straight over…I see you didn’t ex me out of your life completely.”

“Never that M
omma,” Quincy said with a slight smile on his face.

“How are you feeling?” She asked.

“I’m okay I don’t feel any pain right now so I guess that’s good,” he said.

“
Yeah that’s because those pain meds they got you on got you feeling good,” Renee said causing them both to laugh. “Oh yeah by the way some girl called asking how you were and I told her that you were in the hospital.”

“Who was it?” Quincy asked. At that exact moment
there was a knock at his room door. Renee and he looked over to see who it was. When he saw Jaidyn standing there with a huge teddy bear in one hand and some roses in the other, his whole face lit up with a smile. He was so happy to see her.

“That’s her,” Renee said.

“Hi Quincy,” Jaidyn said as she came into the room.

“Hey Jai,”
he replied with a smile across his face.

“I think I’ll leave you two alone to talk, I’m about to go see what they got down in the cafeteria,” Renee replied as she got up from the chair.

“Thank you for letting me know that he was in the hospital,” Jaidyn said to Renee.

“No problem,” Renee said smiling then walked out.

Jaidyn looked at Quincy and held back her tears it was hard for her to see him in that condition. “So I got this for you,” she said.

“Well damn I feel like a woman you buying me roses and a teddy bear,” Quincy said
laughing. Jaidyn laughed as well, feeling better knowing if he could joke about things then he was going to be okay. She went and sat the teddy bear and roses down on a table and came back and sat by him.

“Jai
, I want to apologize. I should’ve listened to you but I promise I won’t drink and drive anymore.”

“Oh trust I know because you’re paying for the
consequences now just be glad you aren’t dead,” she said.

“So are you mad at me?” h
e asked.

“Yes,”
Jaidyn said with a serious face. A look of disappointment came over Quincy’s face. Jaidyn’s serious expression went away and was replaced with a soft smile. “But I’m glad you are okay,” she replied.

Quincy smiled as well and grabbed her hand.

“So that’s your momma?” She asked.

“Yes it is,” he replied.

“She’s pretty. I’m surprised that’s my first time seeing her.”

“Yeah she and I haven’t talked
in three years so this is my first time seeing her in a while too,” he replied. “And it feels good to say that we are slowly working on a mother and son relationship again. It can probably help me understand and end my fear of committing to one woman you know.”

“I’m glad to hear that,”
Jaidyn said as she clenched his hand tighter. She hadn’t talked to him in forever ever since she found out Zariah was pregnant and hearing that he was in the hospital it showed her anger and pain are only temporary and it’s bad to hold grudges because you never know when life can take that person you care about away from you.

“I’m really glad you came,” Quincy said.

“I’m glad too.”

“Can I have a hug?” He asked.

“Sure.”

He sat up a little and she got up and wrapped her arms around him he pulled her in for a long hug not wanting to let go…

                                                                 
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A couple days later Quincy was discharged from the hospital. He limped over to his apartment with his crunches dreading coming home to no one being there. He opened up the door and limped in with the crutches and closed the door back with one of the crutches. When he turned back around to find Zariah sitting on the couch his heart felt like it wanted to stop. “Zariah?” He asked making sure it wasn’t an illusion. She looked up at him and stood up from the couch.

“Hey Q,” she said.

“What are you doing here?” He asked with a smile but worried look on his face. Worried that maybe she was back to get the rest of her stuff.

“Well your momma called me to let me know you were in the hospital and she explained how it all happened...baby I’m sorry for leaving you and causing you to deal with all this by yourself.”

“Zariah it isn’t your fault that my dumb ass got drunk and got into a car accident.”

“But I know I lead you to do it. I didn’t mean to leave like that I just needed to clear my head but if it’s okay with you I would like to come home and work things out with you,” she said with a smile upon her face.

“Is it alright with me, I’d be so happy if you did,” He replied. Zariah smiled and ran to give him a hug.

“You don’t understand how much I was worried about you,” she said in between kisses.

“You don’t understand how much I have missed you,” he replied.

“I’m going to take care of you tonight, run you a bubble bath, cook for you and if you are up to it probably have some make up sex.”

“I’m mean I’m up for it but just know you got to do all the work,” he said causing them both to laugh.

“I love you,” she said then planted another kiss on his lips.

“I love you too.”

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                                    Jaidyn’s P.O.V.