Show Me You Care by Yanni Page B

had been months since I’d last seen or heard from him. After I left I guess he moved on. I rolled out of bed and stood in front of the mirror. I was going to be taking a flight to go see my family for Thanksgiving dinner. I looked down at my stomach. I was barely showing but if you knew me you’d know I was extremely small in my stomach area all my life. How do you tell someone you haven’t seen in six months that you’re pregnant with their child?  Two months into our summer semester I had what I thought was a bad stomachache since I couldn’t keep anything down. Come to find out I was pregnant. At the time I didn’t want to believe it so I just kept it to myself until I realized that my period hadn’t come since the month we left. I was nervous as hell to tell my father, let alone Trey. I walked into the bathroom and got dressed. At six and a half months I still look good , I thought to myself as I put on my Adidas sweatpants with my black Converses. There’s no need to get dressed up for the airport , I thought, pulling out a shirt from the hamper. Then again, maybe I should just in case, I said to myself. “Damn, Jordyn, relax. Having a full-blown conversation with yourself and shit,” I said out loud, causing an already dressed Shyla to laugh at me.
    “Jordyn, you look fine. Now come on before we miss our flight,” she said, still laughing.
    “Shy, I don’t want to go. The store is going to need me.”
    “I’m pretty sure Kathy can handle it, girl. Stop tripping. You have business to tend to,” she said, pointing at my stomach. I guess the baby knew his or her aunt was being annoying as hell because it started kicking me. I decided I didn’t want to know the sex of the baby until I gave birth. I let out a deep sigh, grabbed my suitcase, and walked out of my room, not before grabbing my Jimmy Choo shades.
    “You’re a mess, you know that?” Shyla said as I headed to the kitchen to get some chips and a piece of cake. I just sucked my teeth and headed toward Kathy’s car. I got in the back seat and ate my snacks.
    “Hi to you too, prego.”
    “Hey, Kathy, how was the store running today?”
    “It was going good. Everything was in place. The cameras are working again so that’s even better.” I just nodded my head. Kathy was a college graduate who majored in business management so I allowed her to become the store manager and oversee everything while I was at school. She was a cool down to earth white girl who loved being around people. She was ghetto as hell though, but always turned it off when she was at work. We had to make a stop at Nicole and Natalie’s dorm to pick them up. They were standing outside representing for their school with their FAMU sweat suits. Once we arrived at the airport I had to pee like crazy and I was hungry as hell, but none of the airport food was appealing to me at the moment.
    “Boarding for flight 305.” I looked at the girls and we headed to board, first class of course.
    Once the plane landed I was starving and irritated as hell. We made our way to bag check and there stood Jayden with his trustee sidekick Trey. I looked over at Shyla and she knew what was running through my head. I wasn’t planning to see Trey this early in the trip. I wanted to do an about face so bad but I couldn’t. They were already heading our way. I tried my best not to panic when they walked over to us. Shy had a huge smile on her face as Nicole and I headed to go get our bags. I could feel his eyes burning a hole in the side of my face.
    “So I can’t get any love from my little sister?” Jayden asked as he picked me up in a bear hug, causing the baby to kick. I prayed he didn’t feel it but the look on his face told me he did. Trying not to cause a scene, he walked away and gave Nicole and Natalie hugs too. We all walked over to the cars since we were going to have to split up in order for all the bags to fit. Shyla thought she was slick having Trey pile his car up with most