you.â
I walked over to the kitchen table and took a seat. Jada followed me. She bent over, put her elbows on the table, and pressed her hands against her cheeks.
âPlease,â she begged. âYou got a heart in there somewhere, Jaylin, and you canât be mad at me for makinâ you leave. You know I had to vote you out of here so I could win this challenge.â
âYes, I can be mad at you. If I can eat this bullshit that you cooked for me this morning, then I can do anything I want to, canât I?â
She opened her mouth wide and blew her hot breath in my face. âCool off, fool. Youâre too hot this morninâ and Iâm tryinâ to be nice. If you donât like the food, I will be happy to go to the fridge and retrieve an apple for you.â
âRetrieve? Look at you trying to use a big word and pronounce it correctly. Iâm proud of you, baby. Real proud.â
âGreat. And when I put my tidday in your mouth to shut you up, I hope youâll be proud of that too.â
Annoying me, she blew her breath on me again. I cocked my head back to give us some space.
âSeriously, you shouldâve brushed your teeth this morning. Itâs apparent that you didnât. And even though the food looks good, why put all this whipped cream on top of the waffles? All youâre doing is adding too much sugar, when the strawberries are enough.â
She rushed over to the fridge to get the container of whipped cream. âI knew you were goinâ to complain about the whipped cream, but let me show you a little somethinâ about food that you donât know. Bay-bee, there are only fifteen calories in that whipped cream and one gram of fat. The sugar content is less than one gram, so what do you have to say about that?â
I removed the whipped cream from the waffles. âI say that youâre easily misled and you need to check the servings, per container. What you mentioned only accounts for two tablespoons. You have at least twenty or thirty tablespoons piled on my waffles. Sell that shit to somebody else, not me.â
Jada rolled her eyes and snatched my plate. âUgh,â she said. âYou think you know it all, donât you? I swear you get on my nerves andââ
I rushed behind her and snatched a piece of turkey bacon off the plate before she tossed it in the trash.
âThe waffles were soggy, but the bacon is good,â I said, chewing fast to irritate her.
She playfully pushed my shoulder and then got me an apple from the fridge, tossing the fruit to me.
âThanks,â I said. âThis is much better.â
âI hope so.â Jada walked up to me, as I stood by the counter. âSo, tell me what you and Chase talked about last night. She didnât leave here until real late, and I saw her ass hiked up on that pool table. I bet she had that whole room smellinâ like tilapia, didnât she? She is so nasty to me, and that pussy of hers is tired of that bitch tryinâ to use it to her advantage.â
I bit into the apple, shaking my head at Jada.
âYou know sheâs foul,â Jada continued. âAnd if she donât smell like tilapia, you be smellinâ like it âcause I believe you get moâ pussy than ten NBA players put together, donât you? Chase was throwinâ that cat at you last night, and when I saw you walk off, I was likeâ¦hell, nah! I cracked up and ran to hide behind one of those chairs. You didnât see me, though. I was hidinâ real good.â
âActually, you werenât. I saw you peeking into the game room, and I also saw you trying to hide behind the chair. Next time, choose somewhere else. Behind one of those bushes outside may have been better.â
Her brows shot up. âDid you just try to insult me by implyinâ that I was too wide and the chair couldnât hide me? Is that what youâre sayinâ?â
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