by Tynessa
“What’s up Triple OG?” Ronny asked.
He then turned to me. “Hey my favorite gorgeous daughter-in-law?” Even though I was his only daughter-in-law because Ronny was his only child I still blushed.
“Hey my handsome father-in-law,” I said as we hugged.
“Okay that’s enough y’all,” Ronny said breaking our hug and we all laughed. He was so damn jealous.
“He scared an ol’ G is going to take his woman,” Daddy Willie joked.
“Nigga you couldn’t take her from me if I gave her to you,” Ronny said.
I rolled my eyes at the two of them fools, turned to Grandma Thelma, and hugged her. “Hey baby. Where are my great-grans?” she asked.
“Ronny wanted to leave them at home,” I threw it off on him and she quickly turned towards him.
“Why you leave my babies at home?” she asked before hugging him and he shot me a look because leaving them at home was my idea.
“Because I want my pops to come back with us for a couple of weeks.”
“Oh well in that case I guess it’s okay,” she said hugging Ronny and it caused us to burst out laughing.
“Damn that’s cold ma,” Daddy Willie said.
We all went in the house and sat back and enjoyed each other’s company. I loved them. “I’m glad you finally realized Niyah was Ronny’s baby Shan,” Daddy Willie said out of nowhere.
“She knew she was mines she just likes to give a nigga a hard time,” Ronny said pulling me closer to him than I already was as we sat on the loveseat.
“How long have y’all been together again?” Grandma Thelma asked
“Almost six years,” I said smiling.
“How long do y’all plan on being together before y’all tie the knot?” she asked and I looked at Ronny because I wanted to know the same thing.
“We haven’t talked about all that yet Grandma,” he replied. ‘Well we need to talk about it’ I wanted to say but didn’t want to start an argument.
“All I have to say is don’t make her wait too long by chasing them other hoes in the streets that means you no good. I know you probably put her through hell just like your old man here used to do your mom but if she put up with your shit for this long then evidently she loves you. Just don’t make the same mistake I did and lose a good woman,” Daddy Willie said and I looked at Ronny and gave him an eye that said you better listen to him.
“I hear ya pops,” was all Ronny said as his phone began to go off. He took it out and looked at it then put it right back in his pocket. I tried to sneak a peek but couldn’t see anything.
“I dreamed of fishes last night,” Grandma Thelma said unexpectedly and that got mines and Ronny’s attention. He and I looked at each other with widen eyes.
“Are you pregnant Shaniqua?” Ronny asked.
I shook my head and frowned. “No, ain’t no baby coming this way.”
“You don’t have to be pregnant right now…Maybe you’re going to get pregnant soon,” Grandma Thelma said and I just laughed it off.
The weekend went by fast and Ronny talked his dad into coming back home with us for a couple of weeks. I made Ronny promise me that he would let me be with him when he told Debbie. I just had to see her reaction. Hell truth be told, she needed a man maybe she’ll stay out of her kids business.
Bino
“All you been doing is yapping on your damn phone since you been over here,” my babymama Amber said snatching the phone out my hand. Amber wasn’t your average Caucasian. Mama was bad and had the body most black women dreamed of. She had a set of perky double D’s that sat up without a bra, a thin waist with wide hips and an ass that would make any nigga take a double look when they were with their lady. She was bad as fuck.
“Yo ma, don’t play with me. I’m gonna tell you one time and one time only give me back my shit,” I said through clenched teeth. I didn’t want her to call my shorty like she did a couple of days ago while I was asleep, talking reckless to her.
“You’re not going to do a damn thing if I don’t,” she said running into the bathroom locking the door behind her. I was getting tired of her shit. Yeah we still had sex whenever but we wasn’t together so why she was acting out was beyond me.
“Amber unlock this fucking door before I kick this bitch in,” I said banging on the door. I waited for a few seconds before I knocked again. I then heard her yelling as if she was arguing with someone and I knew then she had called shorty again. I saw red. I didn’t hit women but I was about to lay a mean smack down on this bitch. I kicked the door in with one kick.
Just as I suspected, she had the phone up to her ear. I quickly snatched it. “What the fuck you think you doing,” I said as I was putting the phone up to my ear “Hello… baby?” She was too busy going off that I didn’t even think she knew I was on the phone.
“Baby?” Amber said and slapped me across my face.
“Bitch!” was all I said with a backhand across her face. I grabbed her by the neck and threw her against the wall. “I don’t know what the fuck is your problem but you better get that shit together quick,” I said looking her dead in the eye. I then let her go and walked out of the bathroom with her hot on my heels.
“Baby?” I said into the phone once more and this time my shorty answered me but Amber jumped in.
“So you just gonna disrespect me like that? Calling that bitch baby in my fucking face,” she yelled.
“Yo girl me and you are not together so how am I disrespecting you. I told your ass a long time ago that I didn’t want your ass.”
“Yeah you don’t want me but you always coming over trying to get some pussy,” she slapped me again.
I grabbed her wrist. “Yo ma chill the fuck out.”
“Get the fuck off me!”
I let her go and she charged at me again but thattimeshe met my hand around her neck. I yoked her ass up off the ground by her neck and slammed her ass on the hardwood floor. “I told yo ass to chill the fuck out. Now I’m gonna let you up but keep your fucking hands to yourself.”
“Just get the fuck out my house before I call the police on you,” she said and I heard my daughter crying. “And take her crying ass with you. I don’t want her ass anyways.”
I looked at her for a few minute before letting her go. How could a woman say she didn’t want her own child? That was all I needed to hear. I walked over, snatched my daughter up, and walked towards the door.
“I don’t want to see either one of y’all asses again,” Amber yelled out.
I walked my baby girl to my truck and luckily, I kept a car seat inside for her. I strapped her in and we headed straight to the mall.
Ronny
Shan and me was having a cookout and invited everyone over. Being that Vic was turning himself into jail the next day for violating probation Shan surprised me when she said I could invite him and his family over. She and Trish actually spoke on the phone a couple of weeks ago when Trish went through Vic’s phone and read messages that Nikki had been sending him. She went off in his shit, of course and left him for a few days, but I guess they share the same unbreakable relationship as Shan and me because she went right back to his ass.
The cookout was going nice besides Star’s little ass kept giving me the eye. I was so happy when Shan asked her to ride with her to pick up my mom.
My pops had been there for a week and though he begged me to take him to see my mom I refused but I was getting tired of him asking so I promised him that I would tell her today.
I was in the kitchen when Shan, my mom, and Star walked in. “What you doing baby?” Shan asked wrapping her arms around me from behind.
I turned around to kiss her lips, looked over at my mom, and smiled pulling her into one of my arms. “Two of my favorite women,” I said smiling hugging both of my girls. The two of them, Niyah and my grandma, was my heart. I would kill for them.
“I’m not one brother?” Star asked smiling a little too hard.
“Hell fucking no,” I said bef
ore walking off with my arms still around my mom and Shan. Once we got outside all eyes were on us. I felt my mom tense up as her and my dad eyes met and they stared each other down. I looked over at Shan and she was smiling from ear to ear.
“What are you doing here Willie?” she said with her hand on her hip. This was her first time seeing him in over 10 years. I knew she still held a grudge against him because of the way he used to dog her out when they were together but the love was undeniable.
“Well hey to you too?” he said walking over to her with open arms.
She hesitated before falling right into them. I knew my mom still had mad love for my dad because lately when she talks about him I saw so much love in her eyes. Her eyes would always have a sparkle to it. The same sparkle Shan have in hers. I looked over at my baby and kissed her lips. I could never say I love her enough.
“Shan she is so beautiful,” Trish said walking over to us with Niyah in her arms.
“Thanks.”
“I just want to kidnap her… I wish me and Vic would have had a little girl instead of all these damn boys,” she laughed.
“You can’t kidnap my lil mama,” I said to Trish before turning to Shan. “I’m about to get something to drink, you want something?”
“I’m good baby,” she said and gave me a peck on the lips before I walked off.
I went over to my niggas Vic, Eric, Bino, and my lil brother. “What’s up fools?” I said taking a seat at the card table. “I got next.”
“You can get some of this ass whipping too,” Eric said. He and my brother were on team against Vic and Bino.
“Okay, we’ll see my nigga,” Bino said.
“NEXT!” Vic shouted laughing. He thought he was the King of spades. He thought no one could beat him and Bino. I swear them niggas be cheating though.
“Who yo partner is Bruh?” Vic asked me.
I looked around. I would say my OG but his ass was over there laying his mac down to my ma. “Hold on,” I said getting out my chair. I walked in the house and minutes later, I came back out with Shan right behind me.
“Oh hell naw bro,” Nell said and they all laughed.
To be honest I didn’t know if she could play or not but we would soon find out. “Alright y’all fuckers laughing now but we’ll see who’s gonna be laughing at the end” Shan said, talking shit already.
“You got money,” Bino asked
“I got 2 g’s” Shan replied.
Everyone around the table whistled. I jerked my head up “Whoa lil mama. You sure?” Money was nothing to me but I didn’t want her making bets and didn’t know how to play. I mean I never saw her play.
“I got this. You just make sure you have your A game on,” she said to me.
Bino reached across the table and shook her hand to seal the deal. I looked over at her and smiled as she put her hair in a high ponytail and grabbed the deck of cards to deal them.
Shaniqua
These niggas got me fucked up; this was going to be an easy win. I learned how to play cards back in middle school. I knew all the tricks and how to deal the card where I would get all the high spades. I was going to teach these niggas to never underestimate a pretty face.
“Man, Shan ass cheated,” Bino said, going into his pocket counting out my money.
“For real bro? How did I cheat?”
“Man you did something to them cards,” Vic said.
“Y’all quit being sore losers,” I laughed as I got my money from Bino and stood. “It was nice doing business with you Bro,” I said as my phone began to ring I snatched it up off the table and walked inside the house to answer it.
“Hey lady,” I said to Brooke once I answered. She didn’t say anything at first; all I heard was sniffles like she was crying. “Brooke are you okay?”
“I caught him Shan… I caught this muthafucker fucking a bitch in my house with my kids in the other room. What kind of shit is that?”
I couldn’t say anything. That was some foul shit. Yeah Ronny cheated in the past but he would never do no shit like that.
“I tried to kill him and that bitch Shan, I swear I did.”
“Where are you now sis?”
She told me she was at home and she didn’t know where he was. She ran the whole story of how she came home early from work, he was getting it on with some white chick in her bed, and her kids were awake in the other room.
“He said he didn’t want me or the kids anymore,” she cried out.
“Sis why don’t you just get the kids and moved down here. You already know you have a place to stay, you can have my charger, hell I’m not using it, and you won’t have to worry about money because we got you.”
“I don’t know boo. I just don’t want to come out there depending on people.”
“Girl if you don’t hush. I am telling you to come because I consider you as family. You my sister and you know I got you. Now go get yourself together, pack up you and the kids some things, and get on the first flight in the morning.” I grabbed my laptop off the nightstand and powered it on. “I’m booking your flight now.”
Ronny came walking in the room. “Who you in here hiding out talking to?” he asked as he climbed on the bed beside me pullingme down alone with him causing me to giggle.
“Ronny stop,” I said in a serious tone. I felt bad, there I was giggling with my honey while my girl was crying over her no good husband. He asked again who was I talking to and I told him.
“What’s up Brooke?” he yelled in the phone before kissing my neck.
I pushed his head back. “She said hey… Brooke let me call you back later on tonight. But go ahead and pack because I already booked your flight.”
After she said okay, we hung up and Ronny’s nosey ass started asking questions.
“She came home and found her husband getting it on in her bed with the kids in the next room.”
“Damn, that’s fuck up. So what, she coming to visit or something?” he asked while kissing on my shoulder.
I closed my laptop. “No, she’s moving out here.” To my surprise all he said was, “Okay, that’s what’s up.” I smiled as he took my laptop and sat it on the nightstand. I already knew what was on his mind.
“Baby don’t we have company?” I said as I threw my head back from the kisses he was planting all over my face, neck, and shoulders.
“They out there getting fucked up, they ain’t thinking about us.”
“But I have to get back out there with my kids.”
Now he had my shorts off and was kissing on my inner thigh.
"They straight Shan. Chill out," he said and I did just that.
After our love session, we washed up before walking back out to find the house damn near empty.
“Damn, where everybody at?” Ronny asked as I took my sleeping daughter out of Debbie’s arms.
“Everybody went home while you were in there handling your business,” Daddy Willie said.
Ronny laughed. “Man go head on Pops,” Ronny said sitting in the recliner.
I loved their relationship. They were more like brothers than father and son. It was as if Daddy Willie hadn’t been absent from Ronny’s life for ten years. I can just imagine what Ronny and Ray’Shun’s relationship is going to be like but I will be sure to raise Ray’Shun to love and cherish the woman he ends up with. I will make sure my son never puts the woman he loves through the things his father has put me through.
Vic walked in and informed Ronny that he was getting ready to leave. He promised to keep Ronny updated and let him know what happen when he go to court. He knew more than likely, he was going to have to do three years but he was only hoping they would give him a lesser sentence. After he hugged everyone including me and said his goodbyes, he was out the door. I was somewhat happy his ass wasn’t going to be around. I just gets a bad vibe when his ass was around.
Chapter 8
Brooke
I got off the plane and felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I
sucked in the fresh air and smiled when I notice the familiar Black Yukon. I saw my chocolate heresy bar standing there looking as handsome as he looked the night I laid eyes on him. I walked over to him and didn’t say a word. I dropped my bags and hugged his neck so tight, letting him know how happy I was to see him.
“Hey Ma,” Bino said to me. The first night I laid eyes on Bino at the club the night he drove Shan and me to her house, I thought he was sexy as fuck. When I saw him the second time at Shan and Ronny’s house the night before I left, I knew I had to have him.
“Hey baby,” I replied, and gave him a peck on the lips. He then turned towards my kids that were standing there just looking.
“What’s up gentlemen,” he said and Keon and Kendrick just waved. He then kneeled down in front of Angel. “Hey Miss lady,” he said. She smiled and said “Hey.” He introduced us to his daughter that was sitting in the backseat once we settled in the truck and we pulled off. She was adorable and looked just like him.
Once we pulled up to the Shan’s condo that I still had the key to, I quickly grabbed the phone to call Shan but was stopped by Bino.
“I thought maybe we could spend some time together for a little while before you call her.”
I turned to face him. “Okay that’s fine bae,” I said putting the phone back where I got it.
I felt kind of bad for telling Shan that I wasn’t coming. I told her that I changed my mind only so I could have Bino pick me up so that I could surprise her. I knew she was going to kill me. I turned to face him. “So what do you have in mind?” I asked as I threw my arms around his neck.
“You,” he paused. “But unfortunately the kids are awake so I’ll have to settle for cuddling after dinner,” he said.
“Well that’s cool but as soon and they fall asleep, it’s on,” I said to him.
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The next day after Bino left, I grabbed my phone to call my girl up and from her raspy voice; I could tell she was sleep.
“Girl wake your ass up!” I said to her.