Free When He Cheatin' and You Still Love Him by Cachet

deserve so much better than him.” Even with the protective glasses over her face, I can see that her eyes are filling up with tears. “How much longer are you going to allow him to treat you like shit and embarrass you?”
    “He doesn’t embarrass me,” I argue.
    Naomi snorts and shakes her head before replying.
    “Really Shanair? You must have forgotten about the temp that worked here last year? What was her name again?” she inquires, and all I can do is remain quiet because I know she’s right.
    Last year a few weeks before Christmas, a few people got fired for calling off. This led to us being severely short staffed. Since it was only a few of us, the production began to get backed up, so Sharon reached out and started to work with a temporary agency. A couple days later they sent over a few people to help, and one of those people was a female whose name was Jackie. Now Jackie was a very pretty light-skinned chick with long hair and a nice shape. I’m not sure exactly how old she was, but I figured that she may have been in her early twenties. Well Jackie didn’t work long, because her first day turned out to be her last as well.
    Sharon introduced the temp workers to all of the staff, and after she paired them up with their trainers we all got to work. Not long after the day started, I begin to notice that every time I looked up Jackie was staring at me. It didn’t matter where I was at in the building, she was always there and always looking. Then when I caught her and met her gaze, she would turn around and roll her eyes. At first I thought that maybe I was tripping or even overreacting, but when I brought it to Naomi’s attention and she noticed it too, I knew then that I wasn’t crazy. This continued to go on all the way until it was time for us to leave out for lunch.
    As we walked out of the building, we passed her, and again she rolled her eyes. Even though I thought she was childish as hell, I started to walk up to her and ask if she had a problem. At the last minute I decided to not even bother, because I knew my attitude and didn’t want to cause an issue at the job that could potentially lead me to getting fired. I also figured that even if she did have a problem, it wouldn’t matter, because once her training was over, she would then go over to the late-night shift and I wouldn’t have to see her ass at all.
    That day a few of us workers went to the Waffle House for lunch. Since it was basically the only restaurant that’s near the hospital, we usually didn’t have much of a choice. Anyways, we had all finished our meals and were in the process of heading back to the hospital. Naomi rode with me, and we were both sitting in my truck getting ready to pull out of the parking lot, when Jackie suddenly appeared by my driver’s side window.
    “You know Terry?” she asked rudely, looking down at me with her hand on her hip.
    Taken back, I wondered why in the hell she was asking about my man.
    “Yeah, that’s my boyfriend, why?” I responded, as I looked her up and down.
    “I knew that was yo’ ass! So you are the bitch who was playing on my phone?”
    “What?” I asked. Even though I heard her, I had no clue what the hell she was talking about. I looked over at Naomi, and all she could do was shrug her shoulders.
    “Don’t what now bitch, it’s Jackie,” she informed me rolling her neck.
    “Jackie?” I repeated trying to see if her name rang a bell; it didn’t.
    ”Yeah bitch, Jackie ,” she mimicked. “You were talking all that shit on the phone.” I watched as she sat her purse on the hood of the car beside mine. “Talking about you was gone beat my ass and shit. I told you I was gone catch yo’ ass, didn’t I?” Jackie chuckled. “When I saw you pull up in your truck earlier this morning, I wasn’t sure if it was you, but when they introduced us, I knew that today was gone be my lucky day,” she paused. “I didn’t want to get fired for fighting on the hospital’s