Free Show Me You Care by Yanni Page A

as he tapped on my window. I didn’t know what it was but Jayden always had my heart since we were kids. He hopped in the car, running his hands over his waves before giving me a kiss on my cheek. I shook my head and stared at him.
    “How can I help you?” I asked with a fake attitude.
    “You could stop playing and be my girl.” I sucked my teeth. Here we go.
    “Only if you could stop being my best friend’s older brother.” He sucked his teeth and got out the car waiting for me to get out too. I let out a deep sigh and followed suit.
    Jayden:
    It was like no matter what I could never have Shy. When we were younger it was because of age. Now it was because she was Jordyn’s best friend. I would never understand that. It was okay for Jordyn to date Trey but my head would be on a platter if I dated Shy. My sister and her bad ass double standards. I pushed those thoughts to the side as I headed to Trey’s room. My heart broke into a billion pieces at the site in front of me. Jordyn stood in the corner whispering in her phone, making little to no eye contact with me. For the first time I saw the killer in my sister coming out as she asked me to stay with him. I didn’t hesitate to, but her journey was cut short when she saw our father approaching the door. I had left them in Barbados but I guess they followed suit and left.
    “Jordyn, leave it for the big boys!” my father said as Jordyn sucked her teeth and rolled her eyes. It pained her to watch the love of her life fight for his life. She walked out the room and didn’t return for another hour. When she returned she had on fresh clothes and her hair in a messy bun.
    “Jordyn, what did you do?” she didn’t look at me. She just closed her eyes and laid her head back on the chair. Not pushing the subject, I gave her space. When she was ready to talk about it we would know what happened.
    TaKiera:
    I sat in my room feeling like shit. All I was trying to do was get my mother’s love and be happy, but everything I did seemed to fail. She says fight Jordyn, I fight Jordyn and get my ass whipped. I haven’t seen my mother since I was one and it was all due to me being the side nigga’s daughter. The moment shit got right with her husband I was a picture in the past and left for my grandmother to raise me. I can’t believe that I fucked up that bad and shot the only man that showed an ounce of care for me. My father was in informant for the feds and told them all about Big Jay’s operation and it landed his right hand in jail. After the sentence was given to Jay’s right hand, my father was deep in the river somewhere being shark food. But people always judged me. The only people who never judged me were my son and Trey. Trey wasn’t Tremaine’s father but I wanted him to be so bad. It was the only way I could look him and the face and not see my brother’s best friend. Too bad Tremaine’s father Larry and my brother never were seen after I sent them to rob Trey. Damn, I just keep messing up , I said to myself as the tears fell freely.
    I woke up at 6:00 a.m. and got little Trey ready for school. I went and looked in my grandmother’s room and she still hadn’t returned home. Maybe grandma was getting her groove back. I walked to the front door with my son holding onto my hand where I saw an envelope with a letter. I slowly opened the letter, which read: A bullet for a bullet, a life for a life. I let out a gasp. “Oh my goodness!” I screamed out loud and held onto Trey as a black van drove past the house. I examined the envelope and saw the five bullets fall out. At that moment I knew I had fucked up royally.
    Chapter 13:
    It had been a month since Trey got shot and he was slowly making progress. He started breathing on his own. He just hadn’t awakened yet; it was like he was deep in thought all the time. I missed him. His mom stopped coming two weeks ago, thinking that he was gone forever. I held her that day as she cried about losing her child to