"Na… maybe some other time. You know I spend that day alone." Jayden said thinking about his own painful birthday memories. One thing he could say for sure was, that his father never made any promises that he didn't keep. It was always "I'll see if I can make it…" However his father Jacob Ellis seemed never able to make it. Something or someone more important always took first place. Jayden choked. He blinked his eyes repeatedly several times batting away the tears. He was too old for this shit to still be pissing him off; but it seemed like he couldn't shake his pain and his anger at his father. He just couldn't let it go and nor did he know how to.
Bastard, he cursed to himself. Was he so unwanted by his father that the man couldn't even bring himself to sign a lousy birth certificate acknowledging his paternity? Was he that worthless as a son that the man felt he was only deserving of a pitiful $20.00 dollars a week in child support? Is that all the worth black children have? Is that why he had stopped paying around Jayden's 16th birthday?
"Hey man, are you listening?" Again Jayden had drifted off into his own thoughts as he suddenly began hearing his best friend calling out to him from seemingly a faraway place. He shook his head and blinked again.
"What? What you say man?" He asked as he took another big scoop of ice cream and cake stuffing it into his mouth.
"I said, I knew you were gonna say that, so that's why I told Nita to bring her here today." He cajoled as he began cracking up hard laughing at the expression on Jayden's face. Jayden had his mouth hung open and cake and ice cream splatter out as he began talking before swallowing his food.
"You what?!" Jayden jumped up causing an unexpected scene that temporarily drew everyone's attention from the party.
"My bad; sorry." He apologized and took a pause as everyone slowly returned their attention back to the party. He was about to continue reading his good buddy the riot act when by chance he looked up and glanced Nita with a very shapely voluptuous woman approaching. The woman was a few inches taller than Nita's five-foot-four inch frame.
"Sup Jayden… I heard my cue." Nita remarked in her usual sassy but flippant way. Jayden still marveled at their meeting at the House of Kics from long ago. Avery had said he saw his baby's momma and here they were eight years later still together and celebrating their son's sixth birthday. Nita had a lot of sass but she was fun and Jayden understood his best friend's attraction to the big-boned woman. Nita was a full-figure woman and if Jayden had to guess he would put her weight somewhere around 220- maybe even to 230 pounds. She had a lovely round face with a beautiful smile and warm laugh. She always carried herself neat and well-groomed and had more hair weaves than a drag-queen appearing on stage. As Avery often said, 'Nita has hair for all occasions.'