Jade Macleary Pt. 14

Haley: Okay, now that introductions are taken care of, snacks are ready, and comfies have been comfied. Let's get down to business girls.

Sinder: Um, for those of us who aren't in the loop of why we're actually here, could we get a bit of info, please?

Alexis: I'm kinda with Sinder on this, I'm a bit curious, too. (Though I'm happy to stay ignorant and just stare at everyone's bellies)

Elena: I would like to know too, please.

Haley: Of course. The real reason we're having a girl's night is to help Jade.

Jade: Um... yeah... about that...

Megan: What's wrong, Jade? Did something happen?

Laura: Your text sounded like you are going through something.

Shannon: Are you...

Jade: No, I'm... I'm fine.

Renna: You don't sound fine.

Jade: I am... I'm just... this is stupid.

Haley: No, it's not stupid. Whatever you're going through, you need to talk about it. Now, take a seat and let it all out. Were here for you.

Jade looks at her friends and feels her heart swell, now knowing they truly want to help her. She sniffs a little and wipes away her tears before they and well up more.

Jade: Okay, I will. (She takes a seat on the couch behind her and prepares to open herself up to them)

Just know that this isn't a cheery story, and it doesn't all turn out to be sunshine and rainbows.

Abigail: Of course.

Haley: We're ready Jade, tell us what's on your mind.

Jade: pheeew... okay. I... I think I'm in... love?

Shannon: Really! Oh, that's great news! Congratulations, Jade.

Renna: Okay, but why do you sound so sad?

Megan: Is being in love a bad thing for you.

Jade: Yes... and no. When I was a kid, my mudder was a fucked up cunt. She and my Da fell in love at a young age and did it all. Leter they had my brother, and she started to go a bit nuts.

Haley: What do you mean but "nuts"?

Jade: She used to disappear randomly and not come back home for days, weeks, sometimes even months.

Alexis: Jesus. Was she right in the head?

Jade: Not in the slightest. After a particularly long time away from home, she came back rageing drunk and told my Da she wanted to shag and then left again for a year. Then, one day, my Da opened the door to find me on the front step of the house with a note in my basket saying, "Josh, you left this with me. It's now yours."

Renna: By Isha!

Laura: What on... what is wrong with your mother?!?!

Shannon: How... how old were you?

Jade: From what my Da told me, I was aboutn2 months old when me mudder left me on his doorstep, just barely holding onto life since she didn't feed me of care for me after she pushed me out.

Mavis: Is she...

Jade: Not a sweet fucking clue. After that, my Da raised me and my brother as a single father since he grew to distrust women after my mother and stepmothers. A few years later, my mudder came back and said she's changed and wanted to be a family again.

Megan: But...

Jade: But that's was a fucking lie. She was vicious whenever my Da wasn't around. My brother had to hide me from her because she thought I was the Anti-Christ or something and wound beat him until he was black and blue screaming at him to tell her where I was.

Laura: Oh my God...

Jade: She would tell me that I was the daughter of Satan and that I was unfit to be loved by anyone and everyone when she found me and beat me the same as my brother.

One day, my Da came home early and saw my mudder holding a steak knife over her head, ready to stab me, declaring that she was doing the world a favor. That's when he snapped and shot her leg off with the closet shotgun.

He filed for divorce, and he sent her off to a mental institution. Then shortly after that we moved to Mexico and lived here ever since.

The girls looks at Jade with shock and horror at her childhood. Laura starts crying into Shannon's should, while Haley clenches her fists.

Mavis: Is you mother still...

Jade: Yes, the ol cunt is still kicking. She's now living somewhere in Norfolk with her girlfriend, living happily ever after.

Mavis: They should have given her the needle.

Elena: Mavis!

Renna: No Elena, she's right. A soul that wicked doesn't deserve the gift of life, especially not after inflicting harm on her own children.

Megan: So... your mother's words have stuck with you all this time, right? Making you think you don't deserve love?

Jade: Ye... yes. Basically, that's the gist of it.

Elena: Oh, Jade. (Elena stands up from her seat and waddles over to Jade, pulling her into a hug and pressing her face against her belly) You are deserving of love, no matter what your mother told you. She is a crazy woman who speaks lies and hate.

Haley: Elena's right, that bitch is a liar and a demon. If someone were to be called the anti-christ, it is her.

Laura: Please, Jade, don't listen to that horrible woman. She is not your mother. She never was.

Shannon: You deserve to be happy and to pursue a life of romance with the one you love. So please, don't let her words hold you back.

Jade: (Tears start to well up in her eyes as the emotions that she's bottled up for so long start to spill out. She holds Elena close to her as she cries into her shirt, crying for the first time in decades.

Elena: There there, we're here for you. Just let it all out.