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besides the
rude gentleman standing on the other side of the room.
    “Hello”, I said to him attempting to break the ice.
    “Did you like the bracelet”? he asked
    “Oh, so you sent the bracelet. Yes, it was nice; thanks. I
actually had one like it when I was a kid”.
    “Yeah, I know”.
    The voice started to sound familiar, but, I was unsure because
I hadn’t heard it in a while.
    “You still look as beautiful as the day I first met you”, he
said as he turned around to face me. He was all grown up with; full beard and
all, but, if I knew nothing else, I knew those eyes.  
    “Jake”, I sighed, “Jacob Boykin. BJ Enterprises. How in the
hell could I have been so naïve? Is this some kind of joke to you? The
bracelet. How could I be so stupid”.
    “Yeah, I remember I gave it to you for your twelfth birthday
and somebody stole it out of your locker at P.E. It’s been a long time Kammie”.
    “Don’t call me Kammie. Don’t ever call me Kammie again. You
lost that privilege a long time ago. Like, what the hell Jake? I haven’t spoken
to you in what, twelve years, and you bring me up here on a bum business trip,
for what?”
    “First off, this business is real. I needed sombody to help me
expand my brand and according to my research you’re the best person for the
job. Secondly, yes we haven’t spoken in years, but let’s not go pointing any
fingers. I distinctly remember the plan being that I was supposed to get
settled and then send for you, but little did I know, you were out here living
foul. Did you think I wasn’t gonna find out?”
    “What are you talking about? I was faithful to you from day
one. You were the one with the hoe issues, remember”?
    “Come on Kam. A picture is worth a thousand words and this
right here tells it all”.
    He hands me a picture of myself and Hershel, a guy I dated all
but two weeks my sophomore year in high school. We were walking out of the
abortion clinic. He had his arms around me, consoling me.
    “So I guess this picture of you and your ex coming out of the
clinic is nothing huh”, he starts back, “So, you get pregnant by this dude then
get an abortion to try to cover it up and I’m the hoe. That’s messed up Kam. I
would have never expected something like that from you. I wanted to kill him
knowing he got you pregnant and then made you get an abortion. I know he made
you do it ‘cause you don’t believe in abortions, so it had to be him. Only a
coward would make a woman do something like that”.
    “So, that’s what you think happened. That’s the thousand words
that you got out of this picture? It’s obvious that you didn’t know me then and
you definitely don’t know me now. What you see in this picture is a friend
consoling me after I found out that I was actually pregnant. I took five tests
at home and after each one I was still in doubt. His aunt worked there and
agreed to let me come in to get the test. I didn’t want to go to my doctor
because I was still on my dad’s insurance and I didn’t want him to find out. In
this picture I was so out of it because I didn’t know how I was going to tell
my dad and most importantly, I was scared that it would mess up what we, you
and I, were trying to do. When I finally got up the nerve to call you, your
chick from all the basketball games answered the phone. How ironic that she
ended up in Brazil with you and was even answering your phone. She said that
you were on restriction and wanted her to give me the message. I guess you’ve
been on restriction all this time because this is the first I’ve heard from you
since. I called you and left several messages but no answer. I even emailed
you. So, if anybody is a coward BJ it’s you”.
         
          Jake leaned back
against his desk seemingly startled by this new information. He stared into the
sky for a moment. It took a while for him to say anything.
    “Wait. So, what you’re telling me is, because you couldn’t get
in touch with me