Part 3/3
(As a little refresher of the last chapter, Karma's surprise party was in full swing but she decided she wanted to have fun and dance with a boy named Jules. As she was whining and grinding all up on him, Jesse came (late) and interrupted them asking why she didn't wait longer for him to show up.)

I froze as I looked up at Jesse as I watch him clench his jaw with his eyes averting from mine when he looks at Jules in anger.

If I knew he was coming I probably wouldn't have agreed to dance with Jules.

But at the same time, he has absolutely no right to be this upset because we don't have any ties to each other.

I didn't notice how much attention Jesse managed to draw to the three of us because although the music was still playing, The other guests kind of stopped to stare because Jesse was literally saying nothing except for huffing and puffing, curling his fists on either side of him. I could tell he was trying to restrain himself and I was thankful.

I'm not going to lie I was a little annoyed that I was about to go full-on Shakira, my hips not telling any lies at all and he just wouldn't let me be great.

I look over to my left and I notice Paola and Ryan looking at me warily to see what I would do to end the staring match that Jesse is currently in with Jules who I'm surprised is still holding eye contact.

I was about to say something until Jules beat me to it, "Can I help you, man?"

Jesse raises his eyebrows and replies back to him saying, "The last thing I need is your help, man." He mocks Jules before continuing "Do you always dance with other people's girlfriends?" he asks and I widen my eyes as my mouth opens slightly, no words able to come out of my mouth as I stare in shock when Jules looks at me for confirmation, he only receives a blank stare from me when I move my eyes to look over at Jesse who is still glaring at Jules.

Jules licks his lips quickly as he averts his eyes from me to look Jesse up and down, "Well that depends. Is she aware that she's your girlfriend?"

"Oh shit." I hear Ryan say quietly as he and Paola begin to snicker to themselves as they were still stood next to us with a front-row seat to this whole show. I look over and glare at him and his childish antics this is not the time for them.

Though I'm sure that Jesse doesn't notice as he gives Jules a calmer, blank expression similar to the one that I have on my face out of pure shock.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jesse was already thinking of ways to kill Jules after that last comment.

"Why don't you ask her?" Jesse says to him and that leads both Jules and Jesse to look at me again waiting for me to either confirm or deny this lie that Jesse has already spun.

Both of my eyebrows raised in shock as I stare at the two men who look at me waiting for me to make the other person look wrong. I don't miss how Jesse Narrows his eyes at me and my silence but can he really blame me?

Not knowing what to say I begin to stutter like an idiot, "W-Well I don't know if um." I say not knowing how to form my words, " I mean well girlfriend is such a serious word you know? I mean like it's obvious that I'm a girl but like I think Jesse and I are really good in the friendship department and um.." I turn my head to the side not knowing how to end this because I don't know if I make any sense or not I quickly glanced to my left to see Paola smacking her forehead with the palm of her hand and I began to realize how dumb I sound."You know I wouldn't say that I'm his girlfriend, like the two words are together but he and I are kinda um I think that I can qualify as a girl that is his friend. With a space in between." I finish

The left side of Jesse's lip curls up in annoyance at the way I'm skirting around the question so I decided to stop talking because I really don't know what I'm trying to say anyway. He shakes his head at me quickly and goes back to talking to Jules, "Just stay away from what's mine, alright."

He begins to walk over to me but Jules stops him and says, "It doesn't even look like she wants to go anywhere with you, man."

Does he want to die?

Jesse turns around and looks back at him again, "Look I suggest you stay out of my business."

"I see that my friend is uncomfortable so now it is my business."

"You don't want to be mixed up in any kind of business with me."

"Why? Is it because of all those rumors going around about you?" I kinda forgot that those rumors were even a thing, to begin with, "You're not intimidating anybody around here, bro."

I watch as Jesse steps closer so that there was barely any space between the two, "I don't need to intimidate you, I could just show you how badly I'd fuck you up without saying anything."

"But you won't do it." Jules chuckles lightly not backing down from Jesse. Right now the music had stopped and we for sure had gotten everyone's attention because everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at what could possibly break into a fight.

All on my freaking birthday.

"You wanna take this outside then?" Jesse asks

Please, this is so ghetto. When did my life become this? I'm not about to have two men fight over me, I have no energy to give any sort of police statements when Jesse kills him. I begin to rub my forehead as a headache starts to come along and I prop my hand on my hip as it juts out to the side as I wait for their next move.

It also doesn't help now that I've noticed that Jesse is wearing a black and blue ninja costume to go along with the matching outfits Pao, Justine and I are wearing. But the blue directly matches mine.

Paola and Ryan continue to giggle off to the side as I hear Paola say, "Not him trying to claim her without her knowledge." causing me to shake my head at their antics

I watch as Jules nods his head once and says, "Come on, then."

Justine and Cyrus had been sitting in their seats on the couch for the majority of the time that this has been going on and as Jesse and Jules begin to stalk over to the front door on the other side of the club, I see Cyrus nod his head over in my direction most likely directing it to Ryan who walks in front of me and grabbing my shoulder, lightly pushing me over to Paola wordlessly as they aim to follow Jesse who's leading Jules out of the door for whatever ghetto ass fight they are about to have.

You know how in the movies, a girl's boyfriend will get into a fight, and then she inserts herself in there trying to stop her man and she has good intentions but it just comes out very cringy. Yeah, so I'm not doing that shit.

Not to say that Jesse is my boyfriend, but again, I'm not doing that shit since he started the fight he can be the one to end it.

I watch as Ryan and Cyrus rushed over there as Justine walks over from the couch to me and Paola, who has not stopped laughing since the topic of a fight coming up

"Whatever perfume you wear to get men of all ages to flock to you like this, I want it," Justine says when she reaches me and I shake my head in annoyance looking over as Cyrus and Ryan have grabbed Jesse and are now trying to talk him down. I thought they were going to go all bad girls club and jump Jules but I'm thankful for this current outcome.

Jules is still standing there as Cyrus and Ryan seem to be de-escalating the situation. I see a lot of hand gestures coming from Ryan and Cyrus as Ryan pats the middle of Jesse's chest most likely telling him to calm down as Cyrus is talking to Jules and I'm shocked as Jules shakes his head and his face scrunches in anger when he walks out of the building. I feel my face drop even more because I didn't think he'd leave this early but I guess I understand.

The expression on my face exudes so much annoyance I'm sure but I don't try to hide it when I notice Jesse, Cyrus, and Ryan walking towards Justine, Pao, and I.

Jesse stalks over towards me and grabs my hand as I stand here not knowing what to do, he leads me somewhere throughout this house, and because I have never really been anywhere besides this main lobby I'm confused as to where he's taking me still. I turn back as Jesse is still grasping my hand to lead me only he knows where to look at Paola and Justine.

I scrunch my face in disgust as Paola forms her hand into a small circle with her left hand and then uses her pointer finger with her right hand making a suggestive motion as she inserts the pointer finger into the circle

I turn back around to see that I'm being lead downstairs.

When we get downstairs we're both met with complete a dark hallway before, Jesse lets go of my hand and reaches into his pocket for a key to open the door. When the door is open, I see Jesse leans over and flick on a light switch to turn the light on in what I assume is the basement

When the light is on, he opens the door wider and motions for me to go in first. When I walk in, I hear the door close behind me afterward. I turn back around to see Jesse with his hands in his pockets as he curls his lips into his mouth looking at me as we stand there in silence.

I raise my eyebrow in question, "So you know how to make quite the entrance don't you." I ask and he sighs

"I didn't think you'd want to talk about that so soon."

"Well we're here now and I'm pissed so yeah we're gonna talk about it." I say, "And what was that? You calling me your girlfriend? Especially when there are so many people here from school you actually went out of your way to say that? And for what? You don't own me, Jesse. What are they going to say when we get back to school on Monday?"

He looks at me from his position where he's leaned against the wall, he's tossing around the keys to the door in his hands and I throw my hands out to the side looking at him expectantly.

"I know." he starts with his eyes pointing to the floor he then licks his lips and looks at me again, "I don't care about anyone else's opinion of me except yours though."

My mouth opens a little and I don't know how to answer that but he continues, "Look, Kar, I'm sorry for showing up late, I'm sorry for almost getting into a fight on your birthday but I'm not going to apologize for saying how I feel about you." he says, "I know you think I'm irritating and you probably feel suffocated because you don't want me around you but I have to be."

"I- do you see what I'm wearing?" he points at his outfit and I laugh a bit to myself knowing that the ninja costume is a bit out of character for him, "If half the shit I've done so far doesn't let you know that I care about you more than I led on before then I'm running out of ideas."

Not knowing what to say to that I stand in silence

He looks at me and notices that I'm not saying anything, he sighs again and reaches into his pockets pulling out a black piece of fabric, and walks over to me

When he walks over, I stand still as he walks behind me and places the fabric over my eyes.

I snort quietly and say, "Are you covering my eyes because you're planning to kill me finally."

I hear him laugh and he says, "I wouldn't need to cover your face since I like to aim between the eyes remember." he says and I quickly close my mouth and purse my lips as I realize that I keep forgetting who this man is.

I hear him shuffling a bit and I hear him dropping things onto the ground a few minutes pass by and I begin to wonder what he's doing

I'm still standing but I feel myself being moved backward as Jesse quietly tells me to sit down slowly into a seat.

I hear his footsteps wander behind my seat and I feel the knot at the back of my head from the blindfold being untied and I blink a few times as I feel it being lifted off my eyes

I look in front of me and my mouth drops in shock at the sight before me

I see a line of pink boxes. Inside the boxes, I see barbie dolls with different hairstyles similar to the ones I've worn myself. The skin of the barbie dolls similar to my own in its rich deep complexion. About six dolls are lined up and they all look like, well, me.

I see one dressed as a doctor, wearing white scrubs and a lab coat, I see one wearing a suit with a small toy gavel on the side making me believe that it's meant to be a lawyer or someone of a judicial background.

There's another one wearing glasses and holding a laptop, wearing a blue sweater vest and black pants. She has box braids in her hair. Another one wearing a lab coat and holding fake chemicals in her hand with her hair in faux locs.

I see one that's dressed as a flight attendant with her hair in a bun and then finally one that is dressed as an astronaut with a helmet on and an American flag in hand.

I look up at Jesse to see him curling his bottom lip into his mouth biting it as he looks down at me waiting for me to say anything.

"What is all of this?" I say in shock

He walks over to grab a chair, and he places it in front of me. He sits down and holds eye contact with me, grabbing my hand and pulling it onto his lap.

"I'm not good at this sort of thing but I'm hoping these gifts are enough. If you don't like it I'll give it back, donate it, give it away to the daycare, or whatever. But I got you these gifts because once upon a time I remember you telling me how much you looked up to Barbie." he says

"Throughout the last couple of weeks that I've gotten to know you, I've seen how intelligent, caring, hilarious and endearing you can be. You told me that you thought that it was cool how Barbie had all these jobs and I know that you said that you were stressed because you didn't know what you would do after High School, of course, the jobs that the dolls represent aren't me suggesting what I think you should do but it's just to let you know that you do have options. I got these gifts to remind you that you can literally do anything in this world and be successful."

"I don't mean to get all serious on a day that you're supposed to have fun, and you can go back and enjoy the rest of your party after this but I couldn't show up to this party without showing you these." he continues, "I just want to be here on that journey with you. Because now that I know you I don't want to think about what next month or what next year will look like without you being in my life one way or another."

"So if you'll have me, do you want to maybe um." he starts and I look at him in question wondering what he's trying to say next.

He lets go of my hands and rubs his own along his thighs in what looks like nervousness.

"Do you want to be exclusive?" he says and I raised an eyebrow trying to stop the smile that wants to grow along my lips

"Exclusive? Is that what we're calling it?" I ask and rolls his eyes

"You know this is new for me."

"Okay but I want to hear the words." I smile, "You know since you're trying new things and all."

A smile comes onto his lips, "Karma."

"Come on." I grin

He shakes his head and grabs the chair that he was sitting on moving it over to the side, getting on one knee in front of me and I laugh loudly

"Karma Honolulu Onuoha," he says with a smile and I scoff at the fact that he still is naming me after Hawaii's capital.

"Would you please do me the honor of being my girlfriend?" he asked laying his palms on my knees and looking up at me with a smile that would have me weak at the knees if I were standing and I thank God that I'm sitting down so that I don't embarrass myself further.

I sigh loud and dramatically and look up at the ceiling shaking my head, "I mean I don't know. Are you sure you're ready to commit to me like that? I mean I remember you saying that my name reminds you of... what did you call me again?" I say resting my chin in the palm of my hands "Oh that's right. Bad luck? I wouldn't want to bring any more of that to your life."

He scoffs and stands up grabbing my hands pulling me up with him out of my seat, "That's the least of my concern." he rests his hands on my waist as I wrap my hands around his neck.

"If anything, you're my little good luck charm," he says and then lifts my chin a bit higher, leaning his neck down and kissing me softly

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LONG AWAITED FINAL CHAPTER OF THE 3 PART CHAPTER DONE

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