by Tynessa
“Man, what the fuck was that about?” Ali asked as he drove Zylen home.
“That fuck nigga run his mouth too fucking much. I don’t condone niggas disrespecting females like that,” Zylen responded.
Ali knew right then there was more going on between Zylen and Heaven than his nigga wasn’t telling him. He could remember plenty of times back in the day, niggas would call Heaven and her girls’ bitches and hos in Zylen’s face and he wouldn’t do anything about it. Though he wouldn’t disrespect them, he wasn’t trying to kill anyone about it either.
“Man, what’s going on with you and Heaven?” Ali asked as they were pulling up to Zylen’s house.
Zylen sat quietly at first not wanting to break his promise to Heaven but he also knew Ali wouldn’t say shit. He ran his hand over his waves then his face. “She pregnant by me,” he finally said.
Ali’s mouth opened. He wasn’t expecting his nigga to say that. “Get the fuck outta here. When did this shit happen?”
“We been together for almost three months now. But you better not say shit. For some reason she don’t want anyone to know.”
“Bruh, you don’t have to worry about that shit. Man, that’s why you beat that nigga like that,” Ali laughed.
“Fuck yeah. I hope I killed that nigga,” Zylen said as he exited his car.
Zylen knew he needed to hide out at his secret stash house just in case a nigga felt like snitching on him about what went down, but he’d never been the type to do anything then run and hide like a bitch, so going there was out of question.
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Heaven was still chilling at La-La’s house when Fred pulled up in Ali’s car. He got out and ran to the front porch where the girls sat.
“What’s wrong with you and what you doing in Ali’s car?” La-La asked, seeing the nervous look on his face.
“Man, he took Zy home,” that got Heaven’s attention.
“What happened to Zy?” she asked, not trying to sound too worried.
“Man, he just beat the fuck outta Jamal’s ass. I don’t know if he killed that nigga or what but when we left he was just lying on the ground covered in blood. I don’t know what the fuck happened but that nigga Zy stomped his ass the fuck out,” Fred said, handing La-La the keys as everyone sat there with their mouths wide open.
“OH MY GOD,” Kim finally yelled after seeing the ambulance fly past followed by polices. “Let’s go check it out,” she said, jumping up with Gina right behind her.
La-La pulled out her phone to call Ali but he didn’t answer. “FUCK,” she yelled out. Little did she know Heaven already had Zylen on the phone and he was telling her to come over and bring La-La. Heaven was a nervous wreck as she drove over to Zylen’s house. La-La couldn’t help but notice how her homegirl was shaking. She knew Heaven and Zylen had become friends but she didn’t think they were that close.
“Girl, calm down. Why are you shaking so badly?” La-La asked.
“Did you not hear what Fred said? Zy probably killed that nigga.”
“Yeah, I heard him. I hope he did kill him and you should, too.”
Heaven shook her head. “Well I don’t! Zy don’t need to be going to jail over no bullshit.”
“Why does it matter to you if he go to jail or not? You still like that nigga, don’t you?” La-La laughed out loud. “I knew you did. Trying to act like you didn’t. I think he likes you too how he be asking me about you like I’m your caretaker. That nigga gonna nut up when he finds out you’re pregnant though,” she teased Heaven.
“I’m pregnant by him, La-La,” Heaven admitted.
La-La hands shot up to her mouth. “That’s why he beat that nigga ass then. That’s what the fuck I’m talking about. That nigga Zy ain’t no joke. He rides for his. He killed that nigga over you, bitch.” She pushed Heaven playfully in her seat. “Zy that nigga, hands down!” La-La jumped up and down in her seat, hyped up.
“Shut the hell up, La-La, damn! You all hyped up and shit but I’m the one that’s pregnant by that nigga and he might be going to jail for life. I’m going to have to take care of my baby by myself.” Heaven began to cry as she pulled in Zylen’s driveway and shut off her engine.
“Girl, come here.” La-La pulled her in her arms. “Look at me. Zy is not going to jail. You know them niggas not gonna snitch on him. You already know that, so why are you crying?”
Heaven took a deep breath. “I hope not,” she said as she got out the car.
Zylen was sitting in his recliner smoking a Blunt with Ali sitting on the love seat across from him when Heaven walked in with La-La behind her. He heard La-La say “Damn, you got a key to this nigga spot already” as they were walking in.
Zylen gave her a key to his place a couple of weeks after they made it official, but for some reason, Heaven would still call him whenever she was about to come over. He hated that and always told her that she didn’t have to call him to let him know that.
“Zy, are you okay?” Heaven rushed over to him.
“Fuck yeah, I’m okay! Bet that nigga won’t be disrespecting anyone else,” Zylen responded as he puffed his Blunt.
“What the fuck happened?” she asked him.
“I wasn’t about to let that nigga continue talking reckless about you. I was just gonna beat the shit out of him but hearing that nigga call my baby a bastard, that’s what got his ass stomped the fuck out.” Obviously Zylen was still upset.
“That’s what the fuck I’m talking about,” said La-La. Heaven just rolled her eyes. It wasn’t a laughing matter to her and La-La was acting real childish.
Ali explained the whole story, never missing a beat. La-La was loving it while Heaven only prayed that no one would snitch on her man. After chilling for a while, Heaven and Zylen decided to take their friends home.
Chapter 7
3 months later
Heaven was now almost five months pregnant and would be finding out the sex of the baby. She was ecstatic. She sat inside the room waiting for her doctor to come in, with Zylen, her mom, and La-La by her side. She wanted to share that precious moment with the ones that meant the most to her.
Once the doctor was in and Heaven saw her growing baby on the screen, she began to tear up. Zylen kissed her on the lips and that quickly relaxed her. Sunshine and La-La exchanged looks. Neither one of them had ever seen Heaven so happy in her life. They saw so much love in her eyes and were happy that Zylen came into her life when he did.
“Okay, let’s see what we have here,” the doctor said. “Well it’s healthy, I’ll tell you that. Just listen to that strong heartbeat.”
Everyone just smiled.
“Whoa...it’s definitely a girl,” he said laughing and pointing to the screen. “You see, she has her legs wide open,”
“Aw, my baby girl,” Heaven said, in tears. Heaven was so happy that she was having a daughter and so was everyone else.
Laying in Zylen’s bed, Heaven couldn’t stop smiling at the ultrasound photo and Zylen couldn’t stop smiling at her. He wanted to do right by Heaven, starting with her moving in with him and raising their daughter as a family.
“Heaven.” Zylen reached over and grabbed her hand. “I want you to move in with me so we can raise our daughter together as a family,” he said.
“Baby, are you sure? I mean that’s a big ass step.”
Bringing her hand to his lips and kissing it, “I never been so sure before in my life,” Zylen answered.
“Hell yeah, I’ll move in with you, baby,” Heaven said excitedly as she leaned over, kissing his lips. Zylen pulled her on top of him.
“You know you’re my Heaven Sent and I love the hell out of you, right?”
“And you know I love you too, baby,” she replied.
Zylen didn’t want to spoil the moment but he was tired of keeping them a secret because she wasn’t ready for her hoodrat ass friends to know about them. “So when are you gonna stop trying to hide us from everybody? I don’t even know why you trying to hide our relationship fro
m them anyways.”
“Because I know how they are. Those hos will try to stir up shit to break us up and I don’t want that.”
“Well I’m tired of keeping us a secret. I want the world to know we’re together, starting with your hoodrat ass homegirls.”
Heaven rolled her eyes upwards. “I will tell them soon,” she promised. The truth is, she was pretty tired of keeping them a secret as well but she knew how Kim and Gina were. As soon as she told them about her and Zylen’s relationship they were bound to break up sooner or later.
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Zylen was chilling on La-La’s porch with the rest of the clique shooting dice, when Kim and Gina walked up. La-La and Ali’s house was really where the clique hung out at and whenever Gina and Kim came around they dished out everybody’s business.
“What’s up, y’all?” Gina and Kim said as they took a seat on the porch. Everyone spoke back except Zylen.
“What y’all up to?” La-La asked.
“Shit,” Kim said before turning to the guys. “Y’all know Jamal died this morning,” she said looking directly at Zylen. He just shrugged his shoulder, turned around, and rolled the dice he was holding. He already knew Jamal had been on life support since he beat his ass and Zylen wasn’t feeling bad about it at all.
“How you know?” Ali asked.
“What don’t I know?” Kim replied, because she knew everybody’s fucking business. “They shipping his body up north where his family is,” she continued as Heaven was walking up.
“That’s what his ass gets,” said La-La.
“Who y’all talking about?” Heaven asked and Kim gladly told her. Heaven didn’t say anything. She clearly didn’t care one way or the other. She just hoped that no one would take Zylen down.
“Anyways, so how my niece doing?” asked La-La.
Gina’s eyes lit up “Aw, you having a girl? Why you didn’t call and tell me?”
“I called you the other day but you didn’t answer.”
“Yeah, I meant to call you back but I got tied up fucking with this bitch,” Gina replied, pointing at Kim.
“So you be seeing your baby daddy in school? Is he happy?” Gina asked out of nowhere. She was determined to find out who was the father of Heaven’s baby.
Heaven saw Zylen’s head snap around so fast she thought he had broken his neck. He stared at her like he was about to explode. She even saw Ali look up from the dice game before turning around and saw La-La staring at her with widened eyes while biting her nail. Say something, bitch…anything, Heaven said to herself.
“Zy my baby daddy,” she answered quickly.
The porch got so quiet you could’ve heard a pin drop, until Gina blurted out, “Bitch, stop lying. Let me find out you been holding out on us,” she said, smiling. Meanwhile Kim wasn’t believing what her friend had just said.
“Let me find out these bitches out here fantasizing and shit,” Kim laughed.
“Bitch, are you trying to throw shade? We was both fantasizing about the dick at the same time but the only difference is, I got it while you’re still fantasizing about it every night,” Heaven said, surprising everybody, even Zylen.
“I never liked Zy like that and you know that,” Kim lied.
La-La and Heaven pressed their lips together and looked at Kim as if she was crazy.
“Really bitch, so you just gonna sit there and lie like that? I always knew the real reason you was throwing salt. You was so scared I was gonna get the dick before you. You couldn’t wait for me to leave for college so you could try to fuck him. But guess what, I still came off on top. He’s mines and we’re having a baby. Oh, and I’m the one that’s sleeping in his bed every night. Now let that shit marinate, bitch!” Heaven said as everyone sat there in disbelief.
Before Heaven went to college Kim was all in Zylen’s ear letting him know who Heaven slept with, even if she was lying half the time. For the longest she had him thinking Heaven had slept with a couple of niggas in his clique. That was another reason he wouldn’t give Heaven the time of day. Once Heaven went to college, that’s when Kim thought she would actually have a shot with him. But clearly she was wrong.
“Come on mama, sit down. We don’t need you going into premature labor here,” La-La said, standing in between the two as Zylen helped Heaven sit back down. Kim just stared at Heaven. If she wasn’t pregnant they would have definitely been fighting.
“Whatever, Heaven. I’m not about to argue with you about Zy. I don’t know what him or whoever been telling you but I have never liked him like that. I thought me and you was better than that for you to come at me like that,” Kim said.
“I thought we was too, but clearly I was wrong. You ready to go, La-La?” Heaven asked. La-La went inside to grab her purse and returned shortly, ready to go.
“Where y’all going?” Gina asked.
“Out to eat,” La-La answered.
“I swear y’all two bitches be acting funny nowadays,” Kim said.
“Bitch, ain’t nobody acting funny. We just going to get something to eat. How is that acting funny?” said La-La but Kim didn’t reply. Deep down inside she knew La-La wasn’t the one to fuck with.
“Well we wanna go,” Gina said.
Kim got up to leave. “Nah, I’m good,” she said walking off and just like always, Gina followed.
Once Heaven and La-La were gone it was like the guys released the breath they didn’t know they were holding. It was all making sense to everyone the real reason Zylen beat Jamal’s ass. They all congratulated him before continuing their dice game. Zylen took out his phone and scrolled down until he found ‘Heaven Sent.’ He texted Heaven just to let her know he loved her. He was happy that they no longer had to hide their relationship and now they could finally act like a real couple out in public.
Kim wasn’t too pleased about the shit that went down at La-La’s house between her and Heaven. Yeah, she was going to play things cool for now but as soon as Heaven dropped that baby she was going to check her for calling her out in front of everyone, but mainly because she was fucking with Zylen. Kim didn’t even know how she found out about her secret crush on Zylen.
“Girl, why you over there pacing the floor like that?” Gina asked.
“That bitch tried me. But that’s alright, I can’t wait for her ass to drop that baby. I got something for that ass,” said Kim.
“Man, y’all both needs to chill the fuck out. We’re supposed to be homegirls. I know y’all ain’t gonna let Zy fine ass come between y’all,” Gina giggled.
“Fuck her. I bet she won’t have Zy for long. I can guarantee you that”
“Girl, let that shit go. Let’s call up Tre and his homeboy so we can get fucked up,” Gina said and that put a smile on Kim’s face. It always made her happy to fuck Heaven’s leftovers.
Chapter 8
Heaven was sound asleep when she felt Zylen’s hands rubbing her belly. She smiled but never opened her eyes until she felt him kiss it, that made her smile even harder.
“Good morning, Heaven Sent. How did you sleep?” he asked.
“Morning, love. I slept good, under the circumstances,” she said, getting out of bed.
“Aw, is my baby giving you hell again?” Zylen laughed, but Heaven didn’t find anything funny. Lately she’d been complaining about their unborn child kicking all night. That was something she definitely had to get used to.
“It’s not funny. I see now I’m gonna have a problem with her little ass. She wants to sleep all day and be up all night kicking and shit,” she said closing the bathroom door. Zylen just laughed as he went downstairs to smoke him a Blunt.
He was sitting at the bar smoking and surfing the web when Heaven snuck up behind him, wrapping her arms around his neck.
“Who in the hell are you booking a flight for?” Heaven asked with a raised brow but Zylen didn’t answer. He put out the Blunt and fanned the smoke away from her. He didn’t smoke around her while she was pregnant.
“Zy, I know you he
ard me,” she said with her hands on her hips as he was closing his laptop. He stood up in front of her with his tall frame. Zylen was 6’4” while Heaven stood at 5’5”. She loved his tall basketball frame, along with his deadly swag, gorgeous milk chocolate skin, and all of his sex appeal that had drawn Heaven in. He leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips and smacked her ass.
“Go pack a small bag. I wanna go on a trip,” he said.
Heaven frowned. “Where are we going? I can’t fly while I’m pregnant, can I?” she asked.
“Just go pack a bag. Our flight leaves in three hours. I have to go make a phone call,” he said and walked to one of his spare bedrooms to use the phone, shutting the door behind him.
Though Zylen’s money was long he had never been the type to spend it on unnecessary things, such as big houses when it was only him, and two cars was more than enough for him. He was so used to having his three-bedroom home to himself but now that he had Heaven and a new baby on the way he thought it was time for an upgrade. He called up Ali to let him know he was going to be away for a few days and was leaving him in charge. Ali was the one person Zylen trusted the most.
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Heaven and Zylen had been in the Bahamas for a week and she was still in awe as she stood on the balcony of the house she and Zylen had been staying at on the beach. It was her first time being in Bahamas and she fell in love as soon as she stepped foot off the plane. Zylen walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist as he rubbed her belly and kissed the back of her neck.
“Did you enjoy your stay?” he asked her. It was their last night there and Zylen had something special planned for his Heaven Sent.
“I sure did. It’s so beautiful and peaceful here.”
“Yeah, it is. You feel like taking a walk on the beach?”
“Sure, let’s go,” she responded.
The sun had begun to go down as they walked on the beach hand in hand. Heaven noticed something on the ground from a distance that looked like candles all around a table that was nicely decorated. Heaven thought it was nice and only wished her man was that romantic. As they got closer Zylen released her hand and walked over to the table. She just stood there looking at him like he was crazy.