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Bri-Bri?” Aubrey laughed, as Sasha held in her own laughter.
    “ Jayde!” She yelled as Mike just cut his eyes at her.
    “ You know what Jayde, you should put all of that energy you use trying to pry into Sasha’s life, and find a man of your own…. and I am not Uncle Mike…I’m daddy. Say daddy,” he urged Aubrey.
    Jayde looked at Sasha like he was crazy and Sasha stopped fumbling with her bag and stood alert with her hand on her hip. She hated when he did that.
    “ Stop Mike,” Sasha ordered, upset.
    “ Stop what?” He feigned like he was shocked, but he knew Sasha was mad, and why.
    Sasha walked over and picked up Aubrey.
    “ Stop telling her to call you that. You’re going to confuse her.”
    Mike laughed obnoxiously.
    “ Confuse her? How… she doesn’t have a father! You’re acting like she sees two different men, everyday, and she doesn’t know who her father is. He’s in jail.”
    He laughed again like he had said the funniest thing in the world.
    Sasha was becoming angrier by the minute.
    “ That’s right, in jail. Not dead, Mike!” Sasha could feel tears welling in her eyes and didn’t know why. “And even if he were, he is her father, and will always be…you can’t replace him, Mike.”
    Mike’s face dropped instantly and he just stood there, staring at her as his temper surged and his heart broke. He knew her last statement was not just in reference to Aubrey.
    Sasha held his stern gaze, but then blinked away her tears and put Aubrey down. Mike wanted to say something but just nodded and made his way to the door without a single word spoken.
    Jayde bit on her bottom lip not sure of what to say for once, but glad that Sasha had stood up for herself, and for her daughter’s father. As Sasha went back to her packing, now searching for her toiletries bag, she started thinking of how Mike had just walked out without even defending himself against her hurtful comment. Another thing that disgusted her about him.
    “ So what’s up after this…you wanna go grab dinner?” Sasha asked Jayde, desperate to get out of that house. Even though it was a spacious, two-story home, it suddenly felt cramped. She turned around and looked at Jayde when she didn’t get an answer.
    Jayde went into her purse and pulled out her phone with a blank look on her face, as if she were thinking of a response.
    “ Helloooo…earth to Jayde.”
    “ Oh, um… No, I can’t girl…I’ve got some business to take care of.”
    Jayde could tell Sasha was skeptical of her answer so she tried to lighten the mood. She stood up and walked over to Sasha with a big grin.
    “ Buttt, when you get back from seeing ‘yo baby daddy’ we can go over to Justin’s, and eat a whole bunch of Soul Food that aint no good for us and talk about your Jersey experience.”
    Sasha chuckled at Jayde, momentarily forgetting the delayed and obvious excuse that she had come up with.
    “First of all, you know you aint gonna eat a whole bunch of nothing, with your perfect body-obsessed ass…and since you want to be so secretive,” Sasha paused and playfully pushed Jayde. “I want Sylvia’s, not Justin’s…on you.”
    Jayde grabbed her purse and slid on her Dior shades, after walking over and giving Aubrey a kiss. Aubrey was now playing with her mommy’s lip-gloss in her toiletries bag, lost in her own little world.
    “ You got it babe,” Jayde told her, blowing Sasha a kiss and making her way to the door.
    Sasha stood for a moment wondering what was up with that about Jayde. It seemed that since they had reconnected, there was something that she kept hidden from Sasha.
    Maybe she got a little jump off that she don’t want nobody to know about…yeah, that’s probably it , Sasha figured, as she looked down at her things.
    She pushed the thought out of her head and looked at her daughter, smiling and knowing that packing her up wouldn’t be half as much work. Then she took a deep breath and braced herself for her trip back to