With Faith & Love

Jett and Janese sat in the car. He looked over at her and smiled.

\"I\'m sorry for the way I acted the last time we were in here.\" Janese reached for his hand and smiled.

\"Stop apologizing.\" She leaned over and kissed him. They were too into each other to notice Romulus walk up to the car window. He banged on the glass and tried to open the door. Janese screamed and jumped in Jett\'s lap.

\"Janese get out the car. We need to talk,\" Romulus shouted. She didn\'t move an inch. Jett opened the door and go out.

\"Get outta here! She doesn\'t want or need to see you!\" Romulus walked over to Jett\'s side of the car and shoved him out the way. He reached in and grabbed Janese out the car by her hair.

\"Tell him honeydip! Tell him you just fakin\' on him and you really love me!\" Janese could smell the alcohol all over him. Romulus yanked her hair and she screamed. Jett came up and hit Romulus in the face. The impact knocked him off balance and Janese fell with him. Jett picked Janese off the ground and stood in front of her. Romulus jumped up and charged at Jett. Jett kneed him in the stomach and again in the nose. Romulus came up and hit Jett three times. Twice in the face and once in the stomach. Janese ran in the house to get her mother. She and Vickie came out the house. Janese had a bat in her hand. Romulus kicked Jett in the ribs and looked at Janese.

\"Romulus leave,\" she shouted. He laughed at walked towards her. Vickie came up behind her with one of Richard\'s golf clubs.

\"You heard her Romulus,\" Vickie shouted. \"Get off my property! Now!\" Janese stepped back and raised the bat. \"Boy, don\'t make me knock your head off!\"

\"My head? Bitch please. Who the hell yall supposed to be? The black puff girls or something,\" Romulus asked.

\"Leave Romulus,\" Janese yelled back at him. He ignored her warning and ran towards them both. Jett recoverd in time to step in front of them and tackle Romulus to the ground. Jett got on top of him and pounded him in the face. Janese and Vickie both had to rip Jett off of him. Romulus rose shakily off the ground and ran to his car. The two ladies helped Jett into the house and into the bathroom. Janese stood in front of him and started to nurse his wounds. Vickie went to get a bag of ice and paper towels.

\"Thanks,\" Jett mumbled when Vickie came back. He held his side and moaned. Janese took his head in her hands and looked at his face. His lip was busted on the side and he had a cut above his eye. He winced and rested his head against her stomach.

\"You didn\'t have to beat him up that bad.\"

\"He shouldn\'t have touched you. Then I would have just beat him up a little bit.\" Jett lifted his had and touched the blood on her shirt. \"I got blood on it.\" He wet a paper towel and began wiping it off. Janese took the paper towel from him.

\"Would you let me worry about you for once. Come upstairs so I can clean you up.\" She helped him to his feet and led him upstairs. Jett sat on the bed and leaned up against the headboard. Janese came in the room with a basin of warm water, a washcloth, bandages, cotton balls, and some peroxide. She sat on top of his legs and started washing the blood off his face.

\"Why did you say that I shouldn\'t have hurt him that bad? You think I was wrong or something,\" Jett asked. Janese wiped the blood off his lip and chin and shook her head. \"Honestly?\"

\"No Jett. You did what you had to do.\" She reached for the cotton balls and peroxide. Jett whinced when she cleaned the cut above his eye. \"He could have busted your ribs again,\" she said, taking his shirt off.

\"I\'ll be okay.\" Janese bandaged his wounds and left to put the things away. She came back with more ice and put it on his ribs. \"That\'s cold!\"

\"Stop being a big baby and leave it on there. Put this pack on your lip. You don\'t want it to swell.\" She climbed in bed next to him and turned the t.v. on. Jett stretched across the bed and put his head in her lap.

\"Thanks baby.\"

\"Your welcome.\"

~*~*~*

\"I heard my boy got in a fight,\" Wood asked, walking into the living room. Miss Coretta was sitting on the couch knitting.

\"He sure did. Vickie called me earlier today. Said he fought Janese\'s ex. He kicked his butt too,\" she added with a wink.

\"He still there?\"

\"Yea.\" Wood dialed the Mackall residence.

\"Hello?\"

\"Hey Rich, it\'s me, Wood. Did you hear what happened?\"

\"You know Vickie told me as soon as I can home. Jett and Janese are in the basement. Last I checked they were watching a movie. You need to talk to him?

\"Just tell him I called.\"

\"Sure thing. Talk to you later.\" Vickie walked up behind Richard and kissed the back of his neck.

\"Babe who was that?\"

\"Wood. He wanted to know what happened with Jett.\"

\"He didn\'t want to talk with him?\"

\"He just asked me to tell him that he called. I\'ll go tell him Wood called.\" Richard made his way down to the basement. Jett and Janese were on the couch watching Don\'t Be A Menace To Society While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood. \"Hey sweetheart, hey Jett.\" Janese paused the movie.

\"Hey dad.\"

\"Jett, Vickie told me what you did today. Fighting for your woman. That\'s what it\'s about!\"

\"Damn t,\"t,\" Jett said.

\"Jett,\" Janese scolded.

\"What? I did it today and I\'ll do it again. I should of did it when I first met him in the Theater.\"

\"Jett, Wood called. You should call him back.\"

\"Okay, thanks.\" Jett went upstairs to use the phone. When he finished telling his dad about the day\'s drama, Justin was sitting with Janese on the couch.

\"He was drivin\' them crazy.\" Jett picked Justin up and started playing with him.

\"Hey man. You drivin\' your mama crazy.\" He laid on the floor and held Justin in the air. Janese watched the two and loved Jett some more. \"When are you gonna give me a son?\" The question caught Janese off guard. She laid on the floor beside Jett. Justin rubbed his eyes and yawned. Jett laid him on his Jett and rubbed his back.

\"Soon,\" she answered, smoothing Justin\'s baby hair. Jett kissed his forehead then Janese.