Huey and Adaline were dressed and sitting next to each other on the couch, while Jazmine and Huelene sat across from them. The tension was so thick that you could slice it with a knife. Adaline appeared guilty, Huey appeared neutral, and Jazmine and Huelene both looked disappointed with the two. They were disappointed for a variety of reasons, all of which were similar.
Jazmine was displeased with her parents because they were divorcing and her mother couldn't handle her father. She didn't like how her father was handling the divorce so calmly while her mother was freaking out at every step of the way.
It's as if their divorce didn't affect him as much as it did her. Her mother can't stop herself from visiting him on a daily basis. She has her own responsibilities and life to manage, but she still finds time to visit her father, who is busy with his own matters. Jazmine didn't like how weak she was, and she felt more angrier with her father for leading her on.
She wasn't stupid enough to believe her father didn't have a reason for messing around with her mother when all this divorce stuff was going on.
Huelene, on the other hand, was furious with her father for leading Adaline to believe that he still has affection for her while he is clearly in love with her deceased mother. Huey, knowing him, had to be troubled by something because he was acting weird. He was smoking this morning, acting carelessly, and he didn't mind Adaline staying while she and Jazmine went out, and they both returned home to a house that smelled like cigarettes, and the worst part was that they caught them practically having sex on the kitchen counter.
She just knew deep down from this morning, that Huey lied to her about why he was smoking. She knew there was something bothering her father and she wanted to know.
"So, you two gonna explain why we caught you guys having sex?" Jazmine sternly asked with her arms crossed.
"Jazmine, we're grown mature adults, I think we can have sex whenever we want," Huey answered causing Jazmine to glare at him.
"You two are going through a divorce," Jazmine pointed out.
"It's not exactly official," he said as Huelene got upset.
"But you refer to Adaline as your ex-wife and it's not even finalized yet," Huelene reminded him.
"Yeah, you always make it seem as if it is finalized," Jazmine agreed.
"Jazmine, Huelene, calm down, it was just a common mistake," Adaline said trying to calm the two girls down.
"A common mistake?" Jazmine repeated.
"This is a common mistake," Jazmine said pointing to her and Huelene's bellies.
"What you guys did was by choice! Mom, you know good and well, dad does not give a fuck about this divorce. He loves you but he's not in love with you! At this point, you're hurting yourself because you're the one that is struggling with all of this," Jazmine argued.
"I know!" Adaline mumbled.
"No, you don't because you're still trying to force yourself in. Dad's trying to give you space but you're making it harder by closing in on that space," Jazmine said causing Adaline to get upset.
"Jazmine this is different, you don't know what I'm going through, I can't just drop 25 years of marriage like that," Adaline defended.
Huelene felt sad for Adaline because she knew the truth about why Huey didn't care about the divorce.
"You're right I don't know what you're going through, but this right here is not the answer for coping with it, you need to take time and focus on yourself," Jazmine tried to advise.
"Jazmine, honey, please just give me a break," Adaline pleaded as she rubbed her forehead.
As Adaline and Jazmine kept fussing at each other, Huelene glared at Huey because he was sitting there without a care in the world. He was letting the two women argue and he didn't even care to give them an explanation.
She couldn't take it anymore, she had to say something, she didn't want this mother and daughter relationship being ruined because of Adaline not having her questions answered.
So she decided to get involved!
"ENOUGH!" Huelene yelled as Jazmine, Adaline, and Huey focused all of their attention on her.
"Huey does not love you or even care about this divorce because he's still in love with my mother who is dead," Huelene exposed as all three of them looked shocked.
"What?" Adaline questioned.
"He's still in love with my mother, that's why doesn't care about the divorce," Huelene repeated.
"Your mother...Huey, I thought you both said you didn't know who her mother was," Adaline looked back at him as he looked guilty.
"I do!" Huey simply spoke.
"Then why didn't you say anything?" Adaline sternly questioned.
"Because if he tells you about her it's gonna uncover everything," Huelene warned as Adaline cocked her eyebrow.
"Like what?" she sternly questioned.
"Like my mother is named Jazmine DuBois and that's who he name your daughter after. He named her after his first love. And the reason why Jazmine and I look as if we could be twin sisters is that you look similar to my mother; you have unique eyes, beautiful skin, curly hair, and a great personality," Huelene exposed as Jazmine and Adaline looked shocked.
"Huey, is this true?" Adaline looked over at him in denial.
Huey didn't say anything which answered her question.
"I can't believe it," Adaline shook her head.
"Adaline I only kept this from you so you wouldn't be upset," Huey tried to defend.
"So you lead me on for almost 28 years because you were still in love with her mother?" Adaline rhetorically questioned pointing at Huelene.
"It's not like that," Huey lied.
"It seems that it is! If you were so in love with her how come you didn't marry her?" Adaline snapped.
"Because she fucking left me without a say and I was fucking depressed when she left. A couple of days ago I come to find out she was dead the whole time," Huey defended.
"There must have been something wrong with you if she left," Adaline blamed.
"No the fuck there wasn't," Huey sternly spoke.
"It had to have been," Adaline denied.
"She left because she was pregnant with me and she was sick," Huelene defended.
"Yeah, and since we're exposing everything here, your mother cheated on me with some rich doctor, got AIDS, and then she fucking died from it," Huey angrily spoke causing Adaline, Jazmine, and most importantly Huelene, to be shocked.
"What?" Huelene questioned.
"Your mother died from AIDS because she decided to go lay in bed with another man," Huey repeated.
"No, that can't be true, she wouldn't do something like that," Huelene denied.
"You would think, but you're wrong. My guy was able to go back into the system, find Jazmine's background check, and her bank statements, and track every step she took while we were in Washington.
The footage shows Jazmine having romantic relations with Dr. Anderson, who could have also been your father, and she was getting paid double her monthly salary," Huey informed as Huelene started to think.
"So she was doing prostitution?" Huelene asked.
"And laying in bed with another man," Huey added.
Jazmine and Adaline looked at Huey funny because he was very slow in their case. He basically exposed what was happening when Jazmine was having an affair.
"And selling her body away to earn money," Huelene pointed out once again.
"And she was lying to me about where she would be at every night," Huey added as Huelene frowned at her father.
"She would be in his bed having sex with him for days then she'd come home as if she was at work the whole time. But she got what she deserved which was AIDS, and surprisingly Dr. Anderson is still living and not dead," Huey informed as all three of the girls frowned at him.
They couldn't believe how slow he was. He really should lay off the drugs because it was messing with his mind.
"Why don't you ask my mother, she might know more about what happened since Jazmine told her," Huelene suggested.
"Huelene, we already went down that route and it didn't go as planned," Huey denied.
"Maybe you could ask again!" Huelene encouraged.
"I don't think my mother would intentionally cheat on you. My mom's told me that she loved you very much and she would do anything for you," Huelene defended.
"Apparently not she cheated," Huey pointed out.
"Yeah, but that's stuff being told to you, you haven't heard everybody else's side of the story," Huelene pointed out.
"Like who Huelene? Jazmine is dead so she can't defend her actions and your mothers don't want to tell me shit," Huey questioned causing Huelene to hold her head down.
"Why don't you question Dr. Anderson?" Adaline suggested.
"What?" Huey questioned.
"Dr. Anderson, since he's alive and her mother was fooling around with him while you two were together and suspiciously earning money, why don't you ask him? It seems he's one of the most important sources since something obviously went on between him and Jazmine," Adaline explained causing Huey to think about it.
"And you can ask her mom face to face about what Jazmine told them because they play a huge part in this," Jazmine added.
"Yeah, I'm disappointed in what you've done, but something doesn't seem right about that story," Adaline maturely spoke.
"Why are you trying to help me after I told you everything that my father was doing?" Huelene asked a bit confused.
"Because you both deserve to know the truth and receive closure from it," Adaline simply answered.
"I don't like that I've been lead on for 25 years, but Huey is clearly not healed from Jazmine and you're not healed because you want to know more about your mother, and your father and his friend placed a bad image on her, so you guys should go off and look more into everything before you go into an assumption," Adaline highly suggested as Huey and Huelene looked at each other.
"She's right! I can't assume everything, I have to keep digging for the truth," Huey spoke.
"Huelene, we're going to pay a visit to your mom Ebony," Huey said getting up from his seat.
Thank you for reading!
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