Ch. 25
I Just Wanna Say …..BIG SHOUTOUT ! to Cutechibilolita For The Help I Truly Appreciate it ! and Thank You for The Reviews…and Sidenote Keep your Eyes on Ashley !
It was currently Christmas Eve and Jazmine was putting up the last touches of the Christmas decorations all over the cozy warm house.
"That's looks great honey." Mrs. Dubois said carrying a large plate of chocolate chip cookies to sit on the table next to the tree.
"Thanks mom." Jazmine responded beaming.
"You welcome and here are the cookies for Mr. Clause." Mrs. Dubois said setting the plate down next to the other cookies.
"You still give out cookies to Santa clause?" Ashley asked a bit amused while wrinkling her nose with a slight sarcastic tone.
The girl had spent her whole entire time on her phone texting whoever and hadn't offer a drop of help.
Jazmine was still unsure about her cousin, while Ashley seemed nice and sweet for the most part Jazmine really got to look at how shallow and stuck up Ashley could be. But Jazmine assumed most of her personality came from how she was raised, so she decided to not take her comment to heart. Her father would devoured them once he got home anyway so it did not matter.
"Yeah it's family tradition."Jazmine informed her while looking at the cookies.
Ashley shrugged and went back to texting on her phone. Since Jazmine was done putting everything up she decided to go finish wrapping her Christmas gifts.
She pulled out her gifts from under the bed and wrapped Cindy's, Riley's, and Mr. Freeman's first. She was saving Huey's for last. While she was wrapping Riley's gift she felt her cell phone buzzing and saw that she was receiving an incoming text from Cindy. ^^^^^^^^^
C-Murph: You Busy Jazzy?
Jazmine: Not really, just wrapping Christmas presents. Why what's up?
C-Murph: Nothing much just wanted to come over and drop off my presents.
Jazmine: Ok then hurry up. You can meet my cousin Ashley while you're here.
C-Murph: Ok, see you in a few.
Jazmine quickly wrapped the last of her gifts and set them on the bed. She was happy that Cindy was coming over because she wanted to talk to her about her relationship with Huey, and Cindy would be the best person to talk considering since she was dating his brother as well.
While she waited she wrapped her mom's, dad's, and Ashley's gift. Since it was a last minute thing she bought Ashley a pair of earrings from forever 21, they weren't expensive but they were in the girl's taste so Jazmine figure she should like them.
She bought her a small stack and laid the gifts under the tree. She looked to see if Ashley was still in the living room but she was gone , Jazmine figure the girl must have went to her room. She did however noticed that two of the cookies were missing.
Jazmine frowned. She didn't know why that bothered her, especially because she knew her father was going to eat them later, maybe because it was ahead of time. She decided to go ask Ashley if she ate them and headed upstairs quickly to knock on her door.
"Ashley?" she called out as she faced the closed door.
there was no response so Jazmine tried again.
"Ashley?" she said again turning the door knob without thinking and walking in the room.
Her room was neat to perfection, but Ashley was nowhere in sight.
'Where is she?; Jazmine thought .
She called out her cousin's name one more time and looked in the bathroom, but it was empty.
Thinking no more of it she left the room and closed the door and decided to let it go because it was silly to think that she was about to argue with her cousin over two missing cookies that Santa clause wouldn't get to eat.
As she was making her way back to her room the doorbell rang.
"Jazmine!" her mother called out.
"Cindy is here!" she yelled.
"Ok!" Jazmine yelled back while running back down stairs.
"Hey Cindy." Jazmine greeted her best friend.
"Hey Jazzy." Cindy replied.
She smiled at Jazmine while holding a bag full of presents.
"Here Mrs. dubious, this is for you and Mr. Dubois." Cindy said while handing Sarah a red envelope.
"Why thank you kindly. I can't wait to open it." Sarah said as she smiled and took it. ^^^^^^^^
"Well you girl's have fun, I still have some more wrapping to do." Mrs. Dubois said as she left them.
"Um, mom?" Jazmine said stopping her.
"Yes,honey?" She answered as she turned around.
"Do you know where Ashley is? I was looking for her so I could introduce her to Cindy."
"Oh, she went off somewhere with a nice boy, he was really sweet. She'll be back soon."
"Thanks mom."Jazmine said.
She raised her eyebrows and thought 'When the hell did Ashley have time to meet this boy and who is he?'
She gave Cindy a look and Cindy just shrugged, as if she knew what her best friend was thinking.
"Come on let's go upstairs, maybe she'll be back before you go home." Jazmine said to Cindy, who nodded in reply and followed the girl upstairs.^^^^^^^
"So what's Ashley like?" Cindy asked once they were in Jazmine's room.
"She's nice, kinda shallow but nice. And a little high maintenance, I can't believe she's my cousin it's crazy. did I tell you that we ran into Rayonna at the mall the other day?" Jazmine asked.
"Hell no. What did that bitch do now?" Cindy asked as she took off her sneakers,making herself more comfortable in Jazmine's bed.
"Besides the usual, she went into a great rant on why I should watch out for Ashley. She said I knew nothing about her and blah blah blah. I can clearly see that Rayonna has some deep problems and color issues." Jazmine stated while shaking her head and sitting down next to her. ^^^^^^
"Well jazzy, I would be a little cautious."Cindy spoke.
"Of Ashley?""Jazmine exclaimed, looking at her in surprise.
"Yeah, I mean it's not every day an enemy warns you like that. Rayonna don't even like ya ass so why in the hell she telling you to watch out for your cousin? She must know something about Ashley you don't." Cindy pointed out.
"I don't think so. I just think Rayonna is being more dramatic than usual and letting Ashley take the fall for her attitude."Jazmine said unconvinced.
"I hope so." Cindy murmured as she got up to look at the egg.
"You think it's dead or something?" Cindy asked while studying it.
Jazmine face palmed herself. Riley and Cindy were perfect for each other, only those two would think the unhatched egg would be dead.
"No. He or she are not ready to hatch yet, besides the chick should be out any day now." Jazmine assured her.
"So how are you and Riley lately?" She asked casually.
Cindy smirked and shook her long blonde hair.
"We good for the most part, but I'll admit I'm having a few trust issues. Riley was such a big whore before we got together, you should see the numbers of hoes he was talking to." Cindy replied giving a disgusted expression.
"Well he does have quite the reputation at school." Jazmine responded amused.
She began thinking of the multiple girls Riley had talked to and messed with before dumping them.
"Ugh, Tell me about it. But if Riley going to be with me he won't be associated with those slut buckets anymore. He better shut that shit down quick, cause I'm not going to put up with it. So far his phone been clean and he hasn't talked to any girls since we got together, but I can't help but be careful. The only girls I like around him is you and Cari, I wish he told me about her sooner cause I was literally about to smash that girl's face in. I'm just glad she spoke before I did." Cindy sighed.
"Yeah I'm glad she did too because beating up a special needs kid would not look so great on your record at all. I'm just glad we were there for her, who knows what that disgusting Dewey or Cairo would have done to her." Jazmine said feeling herself getting heated.
"Hell yeah! I swear she's like a little sister to me, if they would have laid one finger on her I would have beaten the fire out they asses so quick." Cindy declared fiercely, an angry expression appearing on her face.^^^^^^
"Huey hasn't spoken much of him since the fight happened." Jazmine said.
"Damn, I almost forgot about you and Huey. How are y'all? We never really talked since y'all became a couple and shit." Cindy pointed out while smirking.
Jazmine blushed and smiled.
"We've been great so far, everything between us is so perfect. I still can't believe we were best friends and now we're a couple holding hands and kissing and stuff." Jazmine replied as her face turned beet red.
Cindy laughed.
"Oh yeah me and Riley have some pretty good make out sessions ourselves, we even went past first base. Well halfway." The blonde said dreamily as she also blushed.
Jazmine rolled her eyes and made a grossed out expression while faking to throw up.
"I know, I've seen one of them." She said dramatically.
"Shut up.""Cindy said as she laughed and threw a pillow at her.
"Well me and Huey haven't been past first or half base yet. We just been kissing, which is nice and I don't mind. I'm not ready for the other things yet." Jazmine admitted.
"Wait,you're not thinking what I think you're thinking? I just mean Riley and I kiss and I'll let him touch me, nothing else. I'm not ready either girl." Cindy explained quickly as she blushed harder than before.
"Oh,my bad." Jazmine said, realizing what her friend truly meant.
"Yeah, and besides I feel like a girl's first time should be special and shit. Me and Riley just started dating, we most certainly need to wait. You and Huey should too." Cindy said seriously.
"Oh I agree. Everything is so new with us and I don't think sex needs to be thrown in so quickly." Jazmine nodded in agreement.
"Good, cause I feel the same way. God this is awkward as hell talking about sex and shit."Cindy stated, her face still red with embarrassment.
"Very awkward." Jazmine agreed, nodding and turning to look at Cindy.
The girls stared at each other for a minute and burst out giggling.
"Let's talk about something else." Jazmine suggested once they stopped giggling.
"Like what?" Cindy asked.
At that moment Ashley came bursting into Jazmine's room, her cheek flushed pink and excited.
"Hey Ashley." Jazmine greeted her cousin. She felt a little startled by the unexpected arrival.
"Oh, sorry I didn't mean to startle you like that." Ashley said as she giggled. ^^^^^^
Jazmine waved her off.
"It's ok. Cindy this is my cousin Ashley."
"Hey." Cindy said politely.
Ashley waved back at her, but giggled at her hard.
"What's so funny?" Cindy asked carefully.
"I don't know." Ashley said laughing even harder.
Her cheeks were flushed pink.
Jazmine raised her eyebrows at her.
"Then why are you laughing?" Jazmine asked her.
"I don't know." Ashley repeated herself as she laughed with tears in her eyes.
Cindy looked at Jazmine and gave her an expression that said "This bitch is clearly crazy."
Jazmine rolled her eyes and looked back at her cousin. ^^^^^
"Ashley are you ok?" Jazmine asked feeling worried as the dark curly head girl went into a more heavy fit of giggles.
"Yes of course, I'm so happy." Ashley singed still laughing and throwing her head back.
"Jazzy I think the bitch is high." Cindy said amused at the situation.
"Cindy!" Jazmine hissed at her.
"What? She is, I have seen one of my niggas on my team get high before. This is clearly how they acted." Cindy pointed out.
"Ashley isn't high, she's just, I don't know more her or something." Jazmine said while watching her cousin plop down on her bed giggling at the ceiling.^^^^^^^^^^
"Man look at her eyes! People who are high usually get red eyes." Cindy pointed out while pulling Jazmine closer to show her Ashley's eyes.
The girls watched Ashley sit up and look at them,still giggling, her eyes were red as hot cherry peppers. 'What the hell!' Jazmine thought.
"Ashley where the hell have you been and why the hell you high? What are you on?" Jazmine asked. She felt herself panicking.
Ashley just stared at her and rubbed her stomach.
"Hey Jazmine, do you have any food? I got the munchies bad." Ashley said ignoring the mulatto's question.
"Yup, that bitch is high. They say that shit too when they is high. I wonder who she was smoking with cause she is clearly high off weed." Cindy said confirming her theory.
"Omg what am I going to do?" Jazmine freaked out.
"Just wait. That shit gon wear off soon and her ass will be alright. She just hungry and happy, those are pretty much the side effects." Cindy assured the panicking teen.
"Wait, have you smoked before?" Jazmine asked a bit curious.
Cindy snorted .
"Hell no! That shit will have you weak on the court. But I have seen plenty of niggas at school smoking weed and shit, if it wasn't for me we would have lost most of our home games. I was the only sober one playing and not giggling on the damn court like a damn Hyena." Cindy said while rolling her ocean blue eyes.
" I need to see where my mom is. I can't let her see Ashley like this." Jazmine said fully alarmed and upset at the situation her cousin got her in.
She didn't know how to deal with this. I mean she had just learned she had a cousin, and now that so called cousin was a possible drug addict. Her parents just let a druggie move in her house, some role models they were. Jazmine got up and left the room.
"Jazzy wait!" Cindy called out.
She reached for her hand and grabbed it.
"What?" Jazmine snapped.^^^^^
"Let's think about this. I know this looks bad but are you really going to snitch on her?" Cindy asked. She was beginning to sound just like Riley.
Jazmine bit her lip and thought that Cindy had a point. Even though she didn't know Ashley that well she figured Ashley would be pretty pissed if she ran and told her parents that she was high.
"I guess not, but what are we gonna do? We can't leave her like this!who knows how much she smoked of that...stuff." Jazmine said feeling agitated.
"We feed her and drop her ass off in her room. Then we wait till the shit wears off." Cindy stated.
"I don't know, I mean how long can that take?" Jazmine asked as she shook her head.
Cindy and Jazmine walked back into the room since they did not want Sarah to overhear them.
"That's the only option we got." Cindy said as she closed the door.
They both shrugged as they watched Ashley slumped on Jazmine's bed. The girl was watching Dora and laughing every time Dora said something .
"Jazmine can you believe that she walks around with a monkey? like who the fuck walks around with a monkey? Especially named Boots." Ashley said as she shook her head from laughter.
"Do you have anything to eat by the way?"Ashley added.
Jazmine stared at the girl with wide eyes while Cindy just looked at her in amusement. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Huey's number.
"What you doing?" Cindy asked looking at her.
"Calling Huey." Jazmine informed her quickly while listening to the phone ring.
"Hello?" Huey answered in his usual bored tone.
"Huey! You have to get over here quick!" Jazmine said getting riled up.
"Whoa, Jazmine calm down and tell me what's wrong?" Huey said while attempting to calm his girlfriend, but Jazmine wasn't having it.
"Ashley is high as kites! And I don't know what to do so get your butt over here freeman and bring Riley to." Jazmine said squealing.
Making Cindy and Ashley wince.
"Damn jazzy, you tryin to make yo mom hear?" Cindy said while rubbing her ears.
Ashley just laughed again.^^^^^^^
"Ok Jazmine. I'm coming as soon as I make sure I have my hearing back." Huey said.
"Well hurry up! And bring Riley with you!" And with that Jazmine had firmly hung up the phone.
"What the hell are they going to do?" Cindy asked as she frowned.
"I don't know. But maybe they know what to do better than us." Jazmine replied while biting her lips nervously.
They watched Ashley crawl on the ground, the girl was barking.
"Oh God." Jazmine moaned as she rubbed her face.^^^^^^^^
It didn't take long for the boys to come over. Riley burst into her room severely annoyed with Huey right behind, looking annoyed as well.
"Aye, this shit better be good cause I was beating niggas on COD and-
What the fuck is wrong with this ho?!" Riley exclaimed while looking at Ashley, who had now gone from barking to meowing.
"Shush!" Jazmine said, dragging the boys in roughly and closing the door. She prayed her mom didn't hear them just then.
"Ow!" Riley yelled .
He rubbed where Huey had slapped him on the back of the head.
"Will you shut up!" Jazmine said infuriated and stressed out.
"Tell your nigga to stop hitting me then." Riley grumbled while Huey just scowled even harder at Ashley.
She was now making snow angels out of invisible snow.^^^^^^^^^
"I don't know what to do? she's to high." Jazmine said while running her hands through her curls in a stressed manner.
"Clearly." Riley said while smirking and sitting next to Cindy.
They watched Ashley flap her arms wildly and giggle again.
"Huey help." Jazmine whined while looking at her boyfriend.
Huey stared at her and then back at Ashley, he scratched his head.
"Well what is she on?" He asked.
"Weed." both Jazmine and Cindy answered.
"Her ass on more than weed, cause weed don't make you do that." Riley said as he still laughed hard. Ashley had now stopped making snow angels and had begun taking her jacket off, after came her shirt. "Look Jazmine!I'm girls gone wild!" Ashley yelled laughing.^^^^^^^
"Stop her!" Jazmine screamed as she and Cindy tackled the girl and stopped her before she exposed her goodies to Huey and Riley.
"Jazmine I'm hot." Ashley whined.
She than began giggling while wiping her forehead as Cindy and Jazmine laid on top of her, trying to make her keep her clothes on.
"I bet bitch." Cindy said sarcastically.
Jazmine rolled her eyes at her cousin.
Riley laughed wildly at them.
"So Jazzy, this yo cousin?" He said while wiping the tears of laughter away from his eyes.
"Yes." Jazmine grumbled.
"She a pot head." Riley stated while slapping his knees as he laughed some more.
"Huey." Jazmine said, looking at the boy.
"Honestly Jazmine, I don't know what to do." Huey said simply.
"What!" Jazmine stared at him like he was crazy.
Cindy snorted, he was supposed to be the smart one how in the hell he didn't have a solution for this. He had to help her.
"There must be something. You're the smart one so you should have an answer to this." Jazmine pointed out.
"Gee Jazmine, I didn't know I had to be a genius on every level. Sorry I haven't met that many pot heads to know what to do." Huey responded sarcastically.^^^^^^^^^^
"Well you must know something?" Jazmine asked angrily.
"Here's a suggestion." Huey started.
Jazmine looked intrigued on what he was going to say, even Cindy and Riley were paying attention.
"We can wait till your mother comes back and we can tell her that your cousin is high and probably needs to be taken to the hospital." Huey finished.
Jazmine glared at him.
"Aye snitching is gay! Jazzy you bet not tell." Riley said seriously not laughing anymore.
"This isn't your problem Jazmine. You need to let your parents handle this." Huey said as he ignored his brother.
"I can't, she would be supper mad at me." Jazmine uttered softly.
"You barely know her. And beside you'll be doing her a favor, look at her." Huey said while pointing at Ashley, who was leaning out Jazmine's window and singing her ABC'S.
Jazmine groaned in frustration as her and Cindy pulled the girl back in the room and lead her on Jazmine's bed.
"Wait my mom is gone?" Jazmine asked, now realizing what her boyfriend had said.
"Yeah, her car wasn't in the driveway when we came over." He informed her.
"Then we still have time to figure something out." Jazmine announced as she tried to figure out a solution to this problem.
"And what would that be Jazmine?" He asked a bit annoyed at his girlfriend's cousin. ^^^^^^^^
"I don't know Huey, I'm trying to come up with a bright idea or something." Jazmine informed him, frustrated at Ashley.
Huey gave her a deep scowl but she ignored it. Riley laughed and snorted at the bickering couple while Cindy just looked tired and uncomfortable.^^^^^^^^^^
"Hey, Its Lil Wayne!" Ashley pointed at Riley.
She giggled even more and Riley stared back at her with a blank expression.
"You know what? Put this bitch in the chair." Riley said, standing up serious.
"You have an idea?" Jazmine said hopefully.
"I don't know yet, just do as I say." Riley commanded as he still stared at Ashley, who giggled furiously with her hands on her mouth.
Cindy quickly grabbed a chair while Jazmine picked the girl off the floor and sat her in the chair like a child.
"So what's next?" Jazmine asked while looking at Riley preparing.
The boy had a way to get her out of this mess. He ignored her and stared at her hard for a few minutes "I remember watching this movie where one of the homeboys had smoked some real bad shit and was high as hell, higher than snoop dog, well anyway they didn't know what to do so they put him in a cold shower and broke him out of the high." Riley explained.
"So you're saying we wash her ass? Aw hell naw! This ain't no nursing home, that bitch can clean herself. Matter fact Jazmine that is yo cousin you do it." Cindy said disgusted.^^^^^^^^^^^
"So your solution is to give her a damn bath? Riley your suppose to be helping me figure out something!" Jazmine snapped angrily.
Both Huey and Riley face palmed themselves.
"I can definitely tell your tom's daughter."" Riley said while sighing.
"Jazmine go cut the shower on." Riley commanded as he grabbed Ashley's arm.
"Aye Huey! Get off yo gay ass and help me carry her to the bathroom." Riley said frowning.
Huey rolled his eyes but got up.
"Oh hell naw! If me and Jazmine is not going to wash her then what the fuck make you think we are going to let y'all do it? You better leave that stoned bitch right there."" Cindy said while flaring up with jealousy.
"Cindy is right, you can just leave Ashley right in that chair." Jazmine said folding her arms.
Riley slapped his forehead in annoyance.
"If y'all white girls don't calm your asses down, shit. Ain't nobody giving nobody a bath." Riley assured them.
Jazmine and Cindy bristle with anger at the term.
"We gonna let the cold water run on her until she snap out of it and break out the high. Get yo damn mind out the gutter, you done dragged me from my xbox to deal with your pot head cousin and you got the nerve to complain? Shut up and let me handle this." Riley continued as he and Huey carried the giggling and now sweating girl to Jazmine's shower.^^^^^^^^^^^
"Well she better have all her damn clothes on or ima beat your ass and her ass too!" Cindy called after him as she and Jazmine followed them into the bathroom.
Riley rolled his eyes
"Yeah Cin I just find high bitches attractive-
Oww Huey stop hitting me before I drop yo ass in this bathroom!" Riley yelled at his brother while rubbing his head.
Ashley laughed at the both of them.
"Man stop playing and hurry this shit up!"Cindy yelled at them.
"Man Cindy chill. Jazzy come run this water." Riley said as he and Huey place Ashley in the tub. "Look Jazmine I'm going swimming!" Ashley grinned as she swung her arms around like she was swimming.
"Yeah, your going swimming Ashley." Jazmine said softly as she ran the cold water.
It shot out quickly, instantly hitting Ashley with freezing water. Because it was so cold outside it was natural that the water was at 0 temperature.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Ashley screamed,flinging and trying to get out the tub.
"Hold her ass down!" Riley yelled while pushing her down so the water could hit her.
Jazmine and Huey quickly pushed her down, but Ashley tried to fight them off her.
"Stop it's too cold!" The girl whimpered while she shivered under the freezing water.
"Cindy throw some water on her face!" Riley said as they struggle to hold Ashley down in the water. "Gladly.""Cindy replied while grabbing a cup and filling it up with cold water.
She threw it at Ashley's face.
"I said stop it!" Ashley screamed at them, her eyes closed pushing at them.
"How long is this shit supposed to take?" Cindy asked.
She threw another cup of water at Ashley.
" I think that's enough water Cindy. We're not trying to drown her." Huey gritted his teeth.
"Okay, let her go." Riley said while moving his hands away from the freezing girl.
The others did the same quickly.
Ashley sat in the tub shivering. She folded her arms,as though they were providing her with warmth. Jazmine cut the shower off.
"Aye open your eyes." Riley said, snapping his fingers at her.
Ashley ignored him and shivered.
"Here." Huey said as he handed her a towel.
The girl took the towel and wiped her face.
She open her eyes.
Her eyes were pure white, the redness finally gone. They all sighed with relief.
"What the hell did you idiots do to me?" Ashley accused angrily looking at them.
She was clearly back to herself, but Jazmine didn't understand why she was angry.
If anybody should be angry it should be her. She was about to tell Ashley this, but Huey beat her to it.
"You should be glad we did what we did. Whatever you was on could have been dangerous and killed you, and you should be glad that your cousin took this route instead of telling her parents. I don't think they'll take their niece being high on weed to well or whatever you smoked." Huey lectured firmly with a no nonsense tone.
"Yeah, be glad we sober your ass up. You was on the floor barking and shit!" Riley added in annoyed tone.
His clothes were soaking wet.
Ashley bit her lip embarrassed at the situation. Her eyes began filling with tears.
"Sorry Jazmine and thank you."
Jazmine sighed. Just when she was about to let Ashley have a piece of her mind she stuck with the waterworks.
"Ashley what were you thinking? I never took it that you would be one of those types." Jazmine said slowly.
She was trying not to be judgmental towards her cousin. Ashley looked up offended.
"I'm not! I knew him for a long time and he told me that it wouldn't do anything except make me feel good." Ashley said while spluttering freezing.
"Yeah you were feeling good alright." Cindy mumbled sarcastically.
"And just who was this boy you were smoking with Ashley?" Jazmine asked sternly, sounding like an angry mother.
"Could I please get out of the tub first? I'm so cold." Ashley asked.
Her teeth were chattering.
Riley and Huey helped her out the tub while Jazmine and Cindy wrapped her in large towel.
Jazmine went to her room and brought back one of her hoodies and sweatpants for her cousin.
"Here, put this on before you catch cold." Jazmine handed Ashley the clothes.
She was gripping the towel on her wet self for dear life.
"Thank you." " Ashley took the clothes.
They left the bathroom and waited impatiently for her to come out.
After a few minutes Ashley emerged from the bathroom still shivering but dry. The only thing still wet was her hair.
"Now Ashley, who were you smoking with?" Jazmine asked again.
Whoever this fool was he could have almost killed her cousin, and if he was Ashley's friend why would he offer her such a thing?
Ashley grabbed a wet curl and burst out crying again. Cindy rolled her eyes and Riley just looked irritated and unimpressed. Huey scowled at her with disapproval.
Ashley quickly composed herself and answered.
"I was smoking with Cairo."