my fucking household. Don’t you ever in your life think I’m going to do prison time for some stupid ass shit like hiding y’all in my motherfucking house! I worked hard labor to get this house boy! I struggled and put in blood, sweat, and tears in order to pay for my home!”
Jawan shook his head and closed his eyes as he listened to his uncle go on a rampage about his house. In that one moment, the memory of Meesie’s words came running across his mind. He looked at his fiancé to see her reaction, but she was staring at the wall. His heart smiled right then because he knew she could have easily made him feel worse. She could have easily have poked her finger in his face and said “I told you so Jawan ,” but she wasn’t like that.
He knew that he had made the correct decision when he made Meesie his life partner. It was something that he would never have to question. Meesie was the only lady who was willing to stay by his side through all of his anger issues in the past, and here she was; pregnant, riding with a serial killer, and still down for her man. He loved her to death and beyond.
“ Unc , please… Meesie is pregnant, and we just need a few more days to get ourselves together. I’ll turn myself in eventually but-”
“You’ll do no such thing Jawan !” Meesie screamed abruptly. “You said you were standing your ground, then you stand that shit! We won’t be folding for nothing or nobody! I’m not going to sit around and let you empower me and then fold when it’s time to put up or shut up! I picked a strong man, and by God; you’re going to be strong damnit !”
Jawan’s eyes widened as he stared at the love of his life. He had long thought that his words flowed in one ear and out of the other one when he spoke of injustice. He had never known her to be empowered by any of his speeches and rants, but listening to her speak had just changed his entire perspective of her.
“Wow.” Jawan said as he stared at his fiancé. Her bottom lip was trembling and her arms were shaking as she stared back at her lover. He had never seen her as emotional as she was at that very moment. It was a sight to behold. Something that he wished that he could package up and carry with him in his casket and to his grave. It was everything that a man could ever ask for out of life.
It was real love.
“I don’t give a fuck about you two and that powerful, strong, and above the law shit ; but I tell you motherfuckers what! Y’all got approximately 60 seconds to get the fuck outta my house or I will be calling 911 on y’all asses.”
Jawan stared at his uncle with a confused look on his face. He would have never thought his uncle would have turned on him like that. He had always looked up to him. His uncle was his father’s only living brother!
“ Unc … you always told me how much you hated these fuckin’ white people for killing your brother. You always told me that you would go crazy if you got the chance to avenge your brother’s death! They killed my daddy Unc ! They killed your brother, and here you are trying to turn in your brother’s son and fiancé for killing them in return?
I don’t understand you at all! How you preach to me about black power all of your life, and as soon as I show you some of the power you told me about; you wanna turn me in? Whose side are you really on Unc ?”
Jawan’s uncle stood up and walked to the kitchen. He grabbed the cordless phone and turned it on. “ Jawan ! You listen to me closely! Your father being killed back in the day was a misunderstanding! That white man didn’t mean to