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Chapter 35

NaTaysia

              It had been so long since I’d been in Cuthbert. I was really enjoying living in my apartment over in Albany, so I don’t think I would move back anytime soon. I decided to stop by Mrs. Mildred’s house. I know she would be talking shit, and I was ready for it. When I pulled up she was already sitting outside in her rocking chair. Soon as I got out the car she started smiling.

              “Heeeeyy Mrs. Mildred!” I gave her a kiss on the cheek and a hug as I always did.

              “Taysia, chiilllllle where you been?” She hugged me and gave me a pat on the back.

              “I’ve been hiding Mrs. Mildred,” I laughed as I honestly told her.

              “You can’t hide from life chile, but I’m glad you’re okay. I thought you had forgotten about Mrs. Mildred. What you got there in that tummy? Tehehehe,” she started laughing.

              “A baby boy, Mrs. Mildred; I’m seven months,” I laughed with her.

              “Are you tellin’ me that Mrs. Mildred gotta great grandson?” She was dead ass serious with this question. I didn’t even respond. “Taysia, you don’t hear me talking to you?”

              “Yes ma’am, I hear you.”

              “Well answer the question chile? Is that my great grandson you carrying in your stomach?” She looked over her glasses as she always does.

              “Mrs. Mildred, I honestly don’t know,” I told her.

              “Mmm hmm... well I tell you what. When you have him, bring him over here and let Mrs. Mildred take a good look at him. I’ll save you some money on a DNA test. You know them grandmothers always can tell.” I wanted to tell her about Mega already thinking the baby is his, but I just kept it to myself. I sat and talked with Mrs. Mildred for a good little while. I promised her that when I had my baby I would bring him over to see her. My next stop was Kira’s house.

              Back then when I pulled up at Kira’s house I would hear her and Jay arguing and fighting. This time I pulled up and all I could hear was her screaming Rock’s name to the top of her lungs. That’s all these two did was fuck. Seemed like every time I called her they were fucking like rabbits, and when she called me he would bend her ass over while she was on the phone and I’d have to hang up. They were going full force. I could hear the bed beating down the wall. I started banging on the door.             

              “CUT THAT SHIT OUT AND OPEN UP THE DOOR!” I yelled. They were still in there fucking, as if they didn’t hear me banging. Kira finally came to the door with her hair flying and shit. Her hair was already short so she looked a mess.

              “Damn Tay, quit cock blocking!” Kira laughed as she opened the door to let me in. Rock was going through the house spraying air freshener.

              “Hey Rock! Ewe, y’all so damn nasty I’m scared to sit down,” I told them.

              “What’s up Taysia? When was the last time you heard from my boy? You know he been asking about you?” Rock said. I was actually glad that he brought Mega’s name up.

              “Speaking of yo’ boy, let me tell y’all what the fuck just happened. So, I had my weekly doctor’s appointment today right. After my appointment, I walks outside and guess who’s sitting on my car in all white with a damn toothpick in their mouth. Mega!” Rock fell out laughing.

              “Girl are you serious? What that nigga said when he saw your stomach?”

              “Bitch, this nigga knows how far along I am and everything! Now which one of y’all told him?” I asked looking back and forth from Kira to Rock.

              “Don’t look at me bitch, you kept this shit away from me too! Hell, I just found out two months ago!”

              “I’on get in other folks business!” Rock threw his hands up.

              “Well anyway, Mega knows and he’s pretty much telling me that this baby is his,” I sighed.

              “Well is it?” Kira asked.

              “No it isn’t,” I lied. I didn’t know whose baby I was carrying. The only people that knew that was me, Jamel, and Mrs. Mildred.

              “Girl, you better figure something out. You know that nigga crazy!” Kira said.

              “And is!” I agreed.

              “I got some shit to tell you too. Hold on.” She walked towards the back to see where Rock was. He had jumped in the shower.

              “I’m being stalked. It’s like everywhere I go, somebody is following me.”

              “Kira, quit acting like you don’t know who’s stalking you.”

              “Okay, okay, I think its Jay. I don’t want to tell Rock because he may just kill Jay. I hate him but I don’t want the nigga dead.”

              “Well Kira, you gotta do something before you end up dead! You know he’s on that shit now!” I reminded her.

              “Yeah you right. I gotta figure something out. So what brings you back to Cuthbert? I’ve been tryna get yo’ ass to come down here for I don’t know how long,” she stated while pouring up a shot of Remy.

              “I knew it was something else I had to tell you. Have you seen Debra lately?” I asked her.

              “Nah, last time I seen Mrs. Debra was at the hospital when you got shot.” She turned up her glass.

              “Well she’s pregnant!” Kira literally spit out all of her Remy that she was about to swallow.

              “What?!?" Kira was just as shocked as I was.

              “I know right!”

              “Are you sure Tay? How you know?”

              “Well today was my second time running into her at my doctor’s appointment. The first time I saw her I couldn’t tell if she was or not. I saw her today in there and her stomach was damn near bigger than mine,” I told her.

              “Oh my God! Who the hell is she pregnant by?”

              “Hell I don’t know, probably one of her crackhead friends. I didn’t even ask. I could care less. I told her she needs to get her shit together. I brought her back home. I’m going to try and get her help, and help her as much as I can. She is carrying another life, which is my sibling. She’s my mother and I can’t let her go out bad like that.”

              “That’s what’s up Tay! I’m glad you finally coming around. Your mother needs you.”

              “Yeah, I know she does.”

              Kira and I chatted up for a few before I left to head back home. I felt good visiting my hometown. I had one more stop to make before I left. I went by the house that JaMel and I once shared together. When I opened the door to our home, the house scent brought back so many memories that I had just left behind. Everything was still in place. All of my belongings were just the way that I left them. I intended on leaving them just like that, just in case I ever decided to come back. I called JaMel to let him know that I was heading back to Albany. He wanted me to stop by the club first.

              JaMel was having Club VIP renovated and it looked damn good.

              “What’s up sweetheart?” JaMel hugged me and gave me a kiss on the lips. Even though he and I weren’t officially back together, we still were very close to one another.

              “Hey Mel!”

              “So how do you like the place?” he said referring to his club.

              “It’s amazing!” I told him. “I see you done added some stripper poles up in here!”

              “Hell yeah! You know I’m always about that money!” We laughed. One thing about JaMel is he knew how to get money, and he knew how to manage it, unlike his older brother Jay. We chatted for a few about my doctor’s appointment and my mom, until I was tired and ready to go.

              “Mel, I’m about to go back to Albany now. I’m tired.”

              “You sure want to drive back over there, sleepy and all? You do know that you have a home here, right?” he questioned as if I didn’t know. I didn’t want to stay at that house though. I just wanted to go home and get in my bed. Besides, I didn’t feel comfortable staying in the same house as JaMel just yet.

              “Yeah, I’m okay. I can make it,” I told him as I walked to my car with him right behind me.              

              “You sure Taysia? I really want you to stay here with me.” He was slick begging.

              “Yes. I’m sure. I’ll call you as soon as I make it to Albany.”

              “Okay, make sure you do.” I got in my car and pulled off.

Chapter 36

Kira

              Rock left soon after Taysia. I hated when he left but I knew in order for this to work I had to let the man breathe sometimes. Rock and I had been blessing every room with our love. It looked like a damn tornado had come through in this bitch. I figured since he was gone, I would use this time to clean up this mess we had made. I can’t stand for my house to nasty, and when I get in my mood I have to have some music on while I clean. I turned on the radio and put Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” on repeat. That was my ish! I could listen to that song over and over because it reminded me so much of Rock and I. Rock and I did damn near everything together; shopped together, smoked blunts together. He had even been trying to convince me to quit my job to make more money with him. I had been handling all of his money and bagging up his dope lately. Rock had me feeling like a damn trap queen for real. I was straight vibing through my house. I started singing loud as hell.

And I get high with my baby

I just left the mall, I'm getting fly with my baby, yeah

And I can ride with my baby

I be in the kitchen cooking pies with my baby, yeah

After I finished cleaning, I jumped in the tub so that I could chill and relax until Rock came back home. I had filled my tub with bubbles and placed some coconut and fig scented candles around the bathroom. It was so relaxing. When I got out the tub, I dried myself off and put lotion all over my body. I threw on one of Rock’s t-shirt with no panties. I laid down in my bed and turned on the TV. I had missed a few episodes of “Empire” so now I was playing catch up. My intentions were not to fall asleep because I enjoyed waiting up for Rock to come home at night. Cleaning up this entire house from front to back has worn me out. It wasn’t long before I had dozed off.

              I woke up out of my sleep coughing irrepressibly. I could hardly see anything. My bedroom was filled with smoke and I could see the shadow of fire flashing on my wall in the hallway.
Oh my God!
I made my way to my bedroom door and I was trapped. The entire front of my house was in flames and the fire was making its’ way towards my bedroom. I was coughing something serious.

              “
Oh my God!! Oh my God!! God Please help me!”
So much anxiety had taken over my body that’s all I could say. I felt like I was having a panic attack as I made my way around my room searching for my window. When I finally found it, I tried turning the knob to unlock it but the knob wouldn’t turn. It was like it had jammed or something. I began searching for something to break the window with. I couldn’t see a thing and I didn’t know what the fuck to do. My mind was racing. I didn’t know if I was coming or going. I felt myself giving up, because I couldn’t even think properly, I was so scared.
Lord, please get me out of here!!!
I began to cry. I didn’t want to die this way. This had to be the worse way to die.

              “Kira!!!! Kira!!!!” I heard Rock’s voice calling my name. The sound was coming from my bedroom window. By now the fire had made it to my room. I somehow made it back over to my window. It was so crowded with smoke that I really couldn’t see Rock.

              “I’m here Rock!! I’m at the window!! Please get me out!” I cried.

              “I gotchu baby. Move out the way!!” I moved away from the window and I heard my window break, as one of my chairs from my porch came soaring through. Rock was right behind that muthafucka like Superman.

              “Come on let’s go!” He grabbed my hand and helped me out of the window first. Then he jumped out behind me. If I would’ve never woken up, my body would have been ashes. Thank God, Rock made it in time to get me out. I was surprised to see the fire department out here trying to control the fire. Did these muthafuckas not know that I was inside about to be burnt the fuck up? I was pissed but my joy of being alive outweighed it. I guess Rock was pissed too because he started going off on the entire fire department.

              “The fuck y’all out herr doing! Y’all can leave now! Damn this muthafuckin house! Y’all tryna put out a muthafuckin’ fire and my girl up in therr trapped!” He was talking hella shit. I could tell he had been drinking too.

              “Baby calm down, I’m okay,” I said in between coughs.

              “Nah fuck that! They out herr worried about materialistic shit! Make me go to jail out this bitch tonight!” I don’t think I’ve ever seen Rock this mad before. Then the ambulance pulled up.

              “And look at these slow muthafuckas just now pulling up,” he said and started walking towards them, but I stopped him.

              “Rock No!! Come on, just take me to the hospital. I think I inhaled too much smoke!” I was still coughing.  The only thing I had on was Rock’s t-shirt and no panties, the same thing I went to sleep in. Everything I owned was now gone. I didn’t care though. I could replace those things, but I couldn’t replace my life. We jumped in Rock’s Camaro and drove me to the emergency room.

              “You know that nigga dead right?” Rock said to me as we got out of the car. I already knew he was referring to Jay. Rock was already pissed so I just agreed with him.

              “Yeah, I know.” I left it at that.

Chapter 37

NaTaysia

              When I made it back to Albany, I called Jamel to let him know that I had made it home safe. My body was drained, my baby was doing flips in my tummy, my feet were hurting, and I had to pee really badly. I opened my apartment door and ran straight to use the bathroom. I couldn’t hold it any longer. While I was in there, I went ahead and undressed so that I could get in the shower. I really wanted to sit down in the tub so that I could relax, but I knew I would catch hell getting back up. I wiped my pussy, flushed the toilet and turned the shower on.

              The steaming hot water massaged my body and it felt so good that I didn’t want to get out. I had stayed in there so long that the water turned cold so I had no choice but to get out then. I grabbed my towel and dried myself off. I wrapped the towel around my body and headed to my bedroom.

              “Ahhhh!” I screamed! “Mega, the hell you doing here? You scared the shit out of me!’” I was holding my chest as it heaved up and down.

              “Cut out all that noise and get yo’ lil sexy pregnant ass in this bed!” That’s when I realized I had dropped my towel when I screamed. I picked it back up and wrapped it back around me. Mega was laying in my bed but ass naked. He was under the sheets but they stopped right at his waist. His beast was lying on his thigh.

              “How did you get in here Mega?” I wanted to know.

              “You left the door open for me. I was planning on knocking but you just ran in the house and didn’t close the door all the way. So I came in and made myself comfortable,” he smiled and patted the bed for me to get in.

              “Mega I’m not going there with you. Get out my bed!” I told him as I tried to snatch the sheets from him, and he pulled it back like he didn’t want me to see his dick as if I hadn’t seen it before. I don’t know what he was trying to hide it for. The muthafucka was so big that you couldn’t miss it.

              “I ain’t going nowhere. Come on, get in!” He held the sheet up on my side, so that I could get in.              

              “No Mega, we are not doing this! You know I’m high risk!”

              “Taysia, get yo ass in this bed! We ain’t bout to fuck. I just want to lay with you and my seed, that’s all. I miss you. A nigga ain’t been up under you in months,” he said with a serious look on his face. A part of me was saying
run the other way Taysia
. Another part was saying,
Taysia this may be his baby, let him at least feel the baby kicking or something
. He deserved that much.

              “Okay.” I got in bed with Mega. My back was against his chest. His dick was planted in the crack of my ass. He placed his hand on my stomach and it felt like the baby was doing backflips inside of me. It’s so crazy how I always felt protected with him. Like, I was untouchable. His presence always gave me that vibe.

              “Taysia, you do know that this is my baby right?” Mega said as he was rubbing my stomach gently. It’s like the baby moved along with his hands.

              “What makes you so sure this is your baby, Mega?” I turned around so that I was facing him. This man was so handsome, inside and out to me. He smelled so good.

              “Cause I remember the exact night that I dropped it off in you.” I laughed, but he was dead ass.

              “You think I’m playing don’t you? I told you, you were mine. Now we connected for life ma. You can’t get rid of me now.”

              “Mega, this is not your baby,” I stressed to him. “How many times do I have to tell you that?” Mega didn’t care. It’s like he knew this was his baby. I honestly didn’t know if it was or not, but Jamel and I were at a really good place and I wanted to keep it that way.

              “You don’t even believe that.” He closed his eyes. “Don’t be trying to fuck me while I’m sleep either!” I couldn’t help but laugh at him. Mega was such a character. Usually niggas would be glad if a female said the baby wasn’t his. This nigga right here was telling me that my baby belonged to him.

              I laid there admiring his body. It looked like Mega had been putting in a few hours at the gym because he looked much bigger than the last time I had saw him. It took everything in me not to climb on top of him and slide his dick inside of me. I hadn’t been fucked in months. My pussy and I were having a mental conversation. She was ready to bust it open and I was trying to get rid of this addiction. I had to literally make myself go to sleep, because I had definitely started thinking about taking that Anaconda down through there.

              When I woke up the next morning Mega was gone and I was glad. I knew that the longer I was around him that I would go back to square one, and I didn’t want that to happen. I checked my phone and Kira had been blowing me up as well as JaMel. I called Kira first.

              “Hey bitch, what’s up?”

              “I’m homeless Tay!” she cried.

              “What? What are you talking about Kira? You need to stop drinking!” I told her.

              “My house burned to the ground last night. All I have is my car and Rock! Lord what am I gonna do?” She was crying so hard I could barely understand what she was saying.

              “Oh my God, Kira, what happened?”

              “I fell asleep last night and the Lord woke me up to my house in flames. Rock bust the window and got me out of the house. If he didn’t save me Tay, I would’ve died in that fire last night!’

              “Oh God! Kira, I’m so sorry, I am. Where are you now? You know that you can come live here with me right?” I told her. Kira knew that I had her back no matter what. My house was always open to her.

              “Yeah I know, but I’m staying at Rock’s crib for now. He’s taking me to look for a house sometime this week.”

              “You know Jay did that shit right?” I told her. There wasn’t any sugarcoating shit. I was not about to beat around the bush with her. She could keep living in denial if she wanted to. I know it was pretty hard for her to believe that her ex that she once was in love with had done this to her, but people change. Jay had definitely turned into a whole new person.
              “As much as I don’t want to believe it, I know he did it; everything that’s been happening to me, I know it’s him. I was blaming Alicia for slashing my tires because my heart wanted it to be her. I know it’s Jay who’s torturing me. Why won’t he just leave me alone? I’ve moved on and apparently he has too,” she confessed.

              “Kira you need to go and take a restraining order out on him or something before next time he succeeds at killing you. This shit is way more serious than you think! Keeping thinking because of the history y’all share that he won’t kill you. Jay is not the same person you once fell in love with.”

              “Rock already said he’s a dead man. So, whatever happens to him happens.”

              “I hate Jay! I swear I do! I don’t even think he and Jamel been kicking it like that anymore. JaMel told me that day I got shot at the hospital he was in and out of the bathroom using coke.”

              “Girl he was, and it’s like every time he came out the bathroom he was staring at Rock and I with so much hate in his eyes. I’m surprised he didn’t kill us both that day. I was so glad that Rock wasn’t paying his ass any attention.”

              “Well Kira, you’re grown. You know what you need to do. I personally, think you should go buy yourself a gun, and keep it with you at all times for protection, just in case. You never know what this nigga is up to,” I suggested.

              “Rock got plenty of guns here. Hell, I can just use one of his,” she laughed.

              “Girl, do you know how many bodies Rock probably got on his guns? You need to get one that’s registered in your name. It’s only for protection.”

              “Yeah you right. I think I’ma go up to the pawn shop tomorrow and get me one. Well let me get off this phone honey, my damn head hurting and I need a damn drink!” Kira said.