Pulling her into his arms, they danced like it would be their last chance.
While Jessica was dancing, she noticed her friend Vonda was in the arms of her newfound love, Stevo. When she and Vonda locked eyes, they winked at each other. Then Vonda gestured with her head behind her, and Jessica saw that Lynn was also dancing and getting it on with a boy as they slow danced to the love song.
When Tiny arrived back at the party, her eyes searched around for her friends, and when she spotted Jessica and Kenny dancing in the middle of the floor, she smiled cynically and had a seat in the corner of the room and waited—waited for all hell break loose.
After they danced and chatted through three love songs, Jessica’s panties became so moist that she had excuse herself. She told Kenny that she had to go to the bathroom to freshen up. Vonda and Lynn did the same and followed her to girl-talk. They entered the tiny bathroom, locked the door, and began to scream and jump up and down for their new love interests.
“Oh, my God, Jessica. Stevo asked me out for a date.”
Lynn quickly added, “Oh, shoot, the boy that I met name is Devin and he asked me the same thing.”
Then they turned their attention back to their homegirl Jessica and she also nodded and said, “He said he wants to go out with me too.”
The three girls hugged and jumped up and down a little more.
Vonda suddenly had a fantastic thought. “Oh, shoot! Maybe they can be our dates to our prom.”
The girls were temporarily frozen in place until Jessica said, “They say dreams do come true if you only believe.”
They all squealed and said, “I believe, I believe.”
They finally managed to pull themselves together, regain their composure and fix their faces and clothing. After a brief inspection of one another, they were ready to seize their men. When they opened the door, the first thing they noticed was that the music was no longer playing and the lights were turned on. The second thing they noticed when they stepped into the living room stopped their hearts. It was Mrs. Jones. Jessica’s mother.
The whole room was silent. When Mrs. Jones spotted her daughter, she walked straight up to her and said, “You lying whore,” then slapped her viciously across her face.
Everyone in the room shuddered and cringed as her mother continued beating her while they walked out the front door. Sadly, everyone in the room began laughing loudly as Lynn, Vonda and Kenny stood by and felt responsible for her unfortunate incident. They were heartbroken.
Tiny however, stood in the corner reveling in Jessica’s misfortune with a wicked smile.
Chapter 4
T he incident at the party would long be remembered as a disaster, and the Jessica situation became the talk of the town. Jessica was so embarrassed that she became withdrawn and shallow and wanted nothing to do with the outside world—even Kenny. The fact that her mother put her on a two-week punishment suited her just fine, because, she thought, the fewer people who saw her face, the better.
Vonda and Lynn suspected Tiny had a hand in sabotaging their big evening. She denied everything at all costs, but they didn’t believe her. Even though they still allowed Tiny to roll with them to school, she was treated like an outcast, especially from her longtime friend, Vonda. For the next few weeks, the four still went to school together, but none of the three girls said a word to Tiny.
Tiny felt really bad because she knew she took it too far this time. She knew that something had to be done to make up for her selfish behavior, but she didn’t have a clue how to make things right.
During that time, Jessica’s heart craved to see Kenny, but she could no longer face him because of the incident that left her so embarrassed. So she simply made up her mind to forget about him because he wouldn’t want to see her either.
One day, the girls exited the building right after school let out, and there stood Kenny Duboise, in