Chorus:
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don’t take him just because you can

As Dolly Parton’s voice crooned emotionally from the stereo in the
car, Ada dashed at the tears that were flowing from her eyes,
blinding her vision. She shouldn’t be crying; Andrew didn’t
deserve her tears after all she didn’t love him or so she had
convinced herself for the past nine months. Ada prided herself of
always being in control of all her relationships and as she traveled
down memory lane now, she realized that she had allowed herself
to be a sucker and let ego get in the way of her emotions.
She was easily a very beautiful girl of twenty-one who although
from just a middle income earning family, lived larger than most of
her peers in the university. She wasn’t just another pretty face in
the crowd however, she was talented. At a young age of nineteen,
she had won a music talent show that had earned her a recording
deal, her present car and a celebrity status. She was all the things
all the other girls wanted except she had totally botched all of that
now with what was going on.

Andrew had wormed his way into her life against her better
judgment; he was everything she didn’t want in a man but
somehow he had been able to get her to consent to be his
girlfriend. Of all the other guys that had been admiring her, he had
been the most persistent and with the help of two of her close
friends, he had gotten what he wanted. She agreed to date him
because her label had insisted she needed to have a public figure
of a lover to appeal to her fan base as a decent, responsible young
star. Not wanting the hassles of a real relationship, she had
offered an eager and too willing Andrew the option of an arranged
relationship. She had never told him she loved him for once during
all their time together but her attitude had changed towards him
after about four months together.

Although he was an acting boyfriend, he took things serious and
real since his feelings towards her were genuine and was always
there for her whenever she was down or going through a bad
patch with her music career. All the dates, outings and attending
events together soon made them pretty close and she warmed up
to him though never acknowledging she had any true feelings for
him, until now. Andrew was about to leave her for another girl. The
scandal of being jilted was not the worst of it all; he was leaving
with her best friend Elizabeth. Lizzy wasn’t as pretty as she but
was equally as talented, she was a top model and easily also a
celebrity in her own right. They were so close the paparazzi had
tagged them “Soul Sisters,” Lizzy had even appeared in some of
Ada’s music videos and now this was happening. Ada hadn’t yet
gotten over the betrayal by Lizzy, it was all the more shocking
because Lizzy had never hidden her disapproval of Andrew, a guy
she considered beneath their standards. To imagine that Lizzy
was about to publicly step out with him was hurting.

Ada slumped in the car seat and smiled ruefully to herself. Dear
old Dolly knew just how it felt when your man is about to be taken
away from you. Just then Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine”
came one, shaking herself mentally, she realized she wasn’t
about to give up without a fight, this boy was hers and it was
going to be a fight to the finish.

To Be Continued

The song ‘Joelene’ is by American country music artist Dolly
Parton. It was over 4 decades ago and is ranked at No. 219 on the
Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of “the 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time.” The song is about a woman imploring another woman not
to take her man from her.

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