Chapter 14 - Answered Prayers

"What did he do?" Grace asked Jade in a restless and agitated voice, when Jade's sobbed died down.

Jade slowly raised her head from her mother's shoulder with her eyes lowered as she hitched.

"I saw him kissing Stephanie..." Jade started.

Grace look turned murderous as Jade narrated what happened between sobs. Her poor daughter has sure suffered alot. She had always known Cane or Cale....whatever he called himself was not a trustworthy person. It was a pity that Jade had to learn with a broken heart.

Kelvin's inside turned as Jade spoke. His hands clenched in to a fist as his blood boiled.

"I'm really going to kill that bastard!" Kelvin said through gritted teeth. He was literally sweltering with anger.

He has never been fond of cale, as a matter of factly, he loathed him. There was something about Cale that irked him. He had never found him to be a trustworthy fellow, but his sister was so blindly in love and there was nothing he could do. After all he was 7 years younger than her, making him 17 and Jade 24. So he couldn't possibly order her around right? There were times he wished he was older, then he'd force her to break up with that jerk.

Kelvin wanted to bury his fist in that moron's face. He really desired to punch that bedlamite, as well as wipe the floor with that perverted face of his. But he also knew that didn't matter for know. All he wanted was to console his sister and cheer up her dampened spirit.

"You don't have to cry about him anymore okay. He doesn't even deserve your tears. He's such a dick head" Kelvin said, making his mother glare at him as he wiped off Jade's tears. Kelvin had a foul mouth, but only to those who messes with his mother and sister. He was one to protect his family, age regardless. He was still in High-school, but you can't remind him of that. He basically sees himself in college already.

"How many times have I told you not to use such words before me?" Grace asked eyeing him.

"Mom, are you really going to scold me now for cussing at that di..." He bit his tongue when he almost made same mistake twice.

"I'm your mother and you shouldn't be saying such words like dick or dick head even when that dick head is really a scumbag. So just call him that, scumbag" Kelvin looked at his mother incredulously. In his mind he was screaming 'hypocrite', but he wouldn't dare say it out.

Jade's mood lifted up a bit when she heard the banter between mother and son. That was a regular episode in her life which she had missed this past few days.

Grace gave Kelvin a questioningly look, when the door bell rang, she wasn't expecting anyone tonight, and she was sure Jade wasn't.

Kelvin observed his mother's look, "I'll go check who it is" He said before leaving the room.

"Amy" He greeted, when he opened the door to find Amy there.

"Shh...Is she still in there?" Amy asked in a whisper.

"Yes, but mom is with her. But why are you whispering?" Kelvin asked raising a brow.

"Your mom is there? That means she opened her door?" Amy asked sounding normal avoiding the question about her whispering. She had wanted to surprise Jade in a way she wouldn't refuse opening the door. But now she didn't have to.

"Yes"

"So did she say what happened?" Amy asked curiously. She had tried reaching Jade over the phone but she couldn't. It wasn't until Kelvin asked her to come over to cheer up her best friend, did she know Jade had locked herself up.

"Well...She and Cale broke up" Kelvin said hesistantly. He didn't know if it was in his place to tell.

"It's about time. l guess God has finally heard my prayers"

"But don't say I told you okay" Kelvin told her.

"Sure I won't. Thanks for the heads up kiddo" Amy said with a smile before heading for Jade's room.

"I'm not a kiddo, I'm an adult" He refuted.

"You're 17" Amy corrected as she continued walking to Jade's room.

"I'll be 18 in a few months" He yelled across the living room but she had gone off.

"Good evening Ma" Amy greeted Grace with a polite smile, which Grace replied with a smile of her own as she got up from the bed so Amy could sit with Jade.

"I'll be outside" She said as she walked out of the room, while Amy nodded.

Amy looked at Jade and she felt sorry for her. Jade had invested her emotions, love, time and resources to an undeserving Jerk and got her heart broken.

"Girlfriend, you look like shit" Amy said as she sat down beside her.

"I know" Jade replied in a quiet voice.

"Well that's not an issue for me. I'm sure going to fix you up, cause you literally look like a zombie and I can't have a zombie with me tonight" Amy said as she stood up to pull Jade up as well.

"I don't want to be fixed. I just want to lie down" Jade said trying to lie on her bed.

"Come on, you're not lying down and we're both going out tonight" Amy said pulling her up from the bed.

"But I don't want to go out Amy" Jade said.

"Yes you are" Grace said in a domineering voice as she walked back into the room. "You've been in this room for days. Just go out and have some fresh air okay" Grace said with pleading eyes.

"Come on baby" Amy said pulling Jade from the bed and pushing her into the bathroom.

"Thank you" Grace mouthed out to Amy before walking out of the room. She was grateful that her daughter had a friend to keep her company at such a difficult time.. Hopefully things will turn out better.