“Man Mani, gone on with all that. Fuck I look like fuckin my lady with a damn rubber! And no I didn’t do the shit on purpose, but shit I’m glad it happened,” he snapped. I sucked my teeth and turned to leave. He pulled me into him.
“What the fuck is wrong with you? Why you got an attitude about it?” he barked.
“I don’t have an attitude about it. The timing just isn’t right,” I tried to reason with him.
“Well you better fuckin make it right, because you keeping my baby,” he said.
“Who the fuck said I wasn’t going to keep it?” I wanted to know.
“Nobody! It just sounds like you having doubts and shit,” he said.
I looked up at him and kissed him on his lips. I wanted to make sure he knew that I wasn’t having doubts at all.
“Baby, I’m not doubting it at all. Like I said, I just wish we could have waited. I just have to accept the fact, that’s all. Oh and baby, one more thing before I leave,” I said.
“What Imani?” he asked annoyed as he went to sit on the bed. I stood in front of him because I was dead serious. I needed him to check his cousin about it.
“Baby, I don’t like the way Mark be staring at me when I come around. I can take the staring, it’s just the way he do the shit. He don’t even try to be discreet with it either,” I confessed.
“Alright lil one, I’ll talk to him about that,” he said.
“I’m serious, Shard,” I warned.
“Shit, I’m serious too,” he said, pulling me on top of him.
He lifted my dress over my head and continued kissing me. This was the reason why my ass was pregnant now. I couldn’t seem to tell this man no.
Chapter 28: Sharice
“Bria, come in here and get your damn shoes from out of my damn living room,” I yelled at my daughter.
Dontae would be over later to pick her ass up, and I couldn’t wait until he got here. This little bitch was working my nerves. Every time she was over here, all I heard was “Breesha this and Breesha that.” I was Team Fuck Breesha, and I didn’t even know who the hoe was. Bria came in the living room, and sucked her teeth and rolled her eyes. I threw the broom down that I had in my hand and walked over to her and jacked her up by her shirt.
“Fix your damn attitude little girl, before I fix that shit for you,” I hissed at her. Truth be told, I never really had any problems out of my daughter, it was just the simple fact that I hated her just because, and I would find any reason so I could beat her.
“I want to go to my daddy’s house,” she said while I still had my hands tugging at her shirt. That little comment made me so mad that I ended up shoving her so hard, and she tripped over the broom and fell straight on her ass.
“Get up and go to your room,” I told her.
She got her little ass up and went crying to her room. She was getting on my fuckin nerves. I hoped for her sake that her daddy was on his way, so I didn’t end up killing her little ass in here. It took Dontae’s ass two months to let me see my daughter again after that shit went down the night that he came over here and beat Fred’s ass. He let me know that I was not allowed to have Fred around our daughter and so far, I’ve been doing well with that, which is why I’m so ready for Dontae to come pick up this little girl, so that I could spend some alone time with my man.
Imani
I was on the way to my parents’ house to go ahead and have that talk with them. I was already prepared for my mom to snap on me about being pregnant. Quite frankly, I didn’t care what she had to say anymore. Shit, I was grown and it wasn’t like I was still living with her. I mean, no I didn’t plan on having a baby so soon, but it is what it is and I’ll be damn if I go and get an abortion. It just wasn’t happening. I’m not going to lie, at first the idea of having an abortion did cross my mind, but I didn’t think that I would be able to go through with it. I knew that my cousins wouldn’t approve of it, and I also knew that Shard would try to kill my ass if he knew that I even thought about having an abortion.
I pulled up to my parents’ house and said a quick prayer before I went inside. I saw my grandmother’s and my mom’s car in the driveway, but my father’s truck wasn’t here. Shit, now I was going to hear it from the both of them and my daddy wasn’t going to be here to help me out. I knew I should have brought Breesha along with me. I got out of the car and headed to the front door. I rang the doorbell and a minute later, my mom came to the door.
“Hey Mommy” I cooed, trying to sound like everything was all good.
“Hey Mani,” my mother said, giving me a hug.
I walked in the house and I saw my grandmother standing over the stove preparing dinner.
“Hey grandma,” I said, kissing her cheek.
My grandmother was a yellow bone like the rest of the ladies in the family. Standing at 5’5 and maybe 145 pounds, my grandmother was the shit for her age. She was 62 years old, but didn’t look a day over 30. The women in my family all looked good for their age, and I only hoped that I looked that good when I got older.
“Hey girl, I haven’t seen your ass in weeks. Your mama told me that you got yourself a little boyfriend now. Is that the reason why I haven’t seen my granddaughter?” my grandma asked, turning around to look at me as I sat down on the stool in the kitchen.