Carmen laid with Steven two weeks later. He still haven't woke up, and the doctors gave up on him. She just knew he was waking up soon, he had too.  

"Babe our baby due in two more week, and you playing. How you let PeeWee beat you awake? He calling you soft, we can't have that?" Carmen laughed. "The fact that you making me seem like I'm talking to myself is not cool at all, my nigga. In your voice." She shook her head.

Steven smiled inside, then frowned. Why haven't anyone wake him up yet? Where the damn chocolate man! He going to beat PeeWee bitch ass for calling him soft. The fuck wrong with that nigga? He tried opening his eyes again, he just couldn't.

A nurse walked in and checked him. She sighed deeply and shook her head sadly.

"Nothing is changing with him. Are you sure you want to keep him alive?" She asked Carmen.

"H.EL.L hockey stick yeah." Carmen said.

The nurse nodded, and walked out.

Carmen sighed, and stared at Steven. "When you wake up, I don't know rather to hug and kiss you, or beat you back into this coma." She said.

Derrick walked in with India.

"Where is the baby?" Carmen asked.

"With her grandma. This nigga playing games. Let me slap him, and see if he wakes up." Derrick said. Carmen mean mugged Derrick. "I just going to pull out this here chocolate bar, I brought."

"Might need more then that one." Carmen mumbled.

"Well I have four. We ready?" Derrick asked Carmen and India. They went to wash their hands. They walked back over to bed. Derrick and to wash his hands too.

"Okay, I hold his mouth open, while you feed him the chocolate, and India pour the water." Carmen said.

Derrick and India nodded their head.

"Let's get it." Derrick said. He open the chocolate bar and break piece off. He dropped in Steven mouth, and Carmen moved his mouth up and down so he could chew it. Derrick put two more in his mouth. While India pour the water.

"Man I'm out of chocolate." Derrick said, after the last candy bar was gone. "Maybe he's not alive." Derrick said.

"Throw Kool-Aid in his face." Carmen said.

"That's a good idea." India went in her purse and pulled out Derrick water bottle full of Kool-Aid.

"Y'all throw that Kool-Aid on me, if y'all want too. I'll beat all y'all asses." They heard a low voice.

"We dreaming?" Derrick asked.

"Hell yeah gotta be." India said.

"I swear it just sound like Steven talk." Carmen said.

"Y'all some dumbass for real. I'm awake!" Steven yelled. They all rushed to his bed.

"Oh My Gosh. I'm so glad you are awake!" Carmen kissed him all over his face.

"What took y'all so long, with the damn chocolate man?" Steven asked them.

"This nigga waking up talking shit, bruh." Derrick mumbled.

"Same ol Stevie." India smirked.

"Ya damn right." Steven said. He turned to Carmen. "I see you been holding a real nigga down." He said to her.

She smiled, "I had no choice. Derrick can't get beat up again."

Derrick glared at her. Steven started laughed, then stopped.

"Please don't make me laugh. It hurts. I'm sleepy as hell right now?" He yawned.

"Nigga what?" Carmen, Derrick, and India said at the same time.

"I'm sleepy." Steven said.

"Nigga you been in a coma, damn near three months, and you still tired?" Derrick shook his head in disbelief.

"Babe you not going to sleep, for another three days." Carmen said and they laughed.

"Stop making me laugh, for real it hurts." Steven said. "Aye, man I'm hungry as hell."

"Glad you said that. India." Derrick said and India pulled out a lunchables.

Steven stared at it.

"What the hell am I suppose to do with this?" He asked them.

"Eat it duh. Then you have Butterfinger candy in there. See we got you." Derrick said.

Steven shook his head.

"I don't want no more chocolate. Y'all gave me enough of that. So who want the candy?" He asked.

India gladly took it out his hand, when he open the lunchables.

The door open and the nurse walked in. Her face was shocked at hell.

"I don't believe it. How?" She asked.

"Chocolate." They all said at the same time.

"Huh?" The nurse was confused. She walked closer to Steven and checked him. "Wow everything looks good." She smiled.

"Thank you." Carmen said. The nurse smiled and walked out.

"Now the doctor need to come in and tell you when you can go home. I'm so over being in here. I'm having a home birth." Carmen folded her arms.

"That's a damn lie." Steven said, looking at her.

"We going to see." Carmen said.

"Bet." Steven said. They locked pinkies.

"Who you think going to win?" Derrick whispered in India ear.

"Stevie ." India said.

"I think so too." Derrick said.

"So what's been going on?" Steven asked them.

"Big T dead." Derrick said.

"How the hell? That nigga been wearing a vest." Steven said.

"When the police got there. His body was all shot up." Derrick said.

"Man, hell nah. Can't be, that nigga came to me with a bulletproof vest. He wanted me to wear it, but I said nah. I wasn't planning on getting shoot at. The first bullet hit my chest. Bruh it burn like hell." Steven shook his head.

"Can we not talk about this?" Carmen looked at him.

"Alright it's drop. But nah that nigga can't be dead." Steven said. "Where my cellphone?" Steven asked.

"At PeeWee house." Carmen said.

"I'm going to fuck him up for calling me soft." Steven said, and Carmen laughed.

"Oh you heard me?" She asked him.

"I heard everything you been saying for the past three months. I tried opening my eyes, I just couldn't." Steven grabbed her hand and kissed it.

"Umm we going to go, and let y'all spend some time together. Glad you awake man. Now we can take that trip." Derrick said, dapping him up. India have Steven a hug, and they walked out.

Steven turned to Carmen.

"Bring your ass here." He said to her. She got on the bed with him, all smiles. He hugged her tight. "I miss you ma." He said.

"I miss you too." Carmen said.

"Looks like you ready to deliver any day now." He rubbed her stomach. He got a few kicks here and there.

"Yes she just been waiting on you, like I was. So don't be surprise if I go into labor soon." She kissed his cheek.

"Shit, I'll be ready. I'll have my baseball glove to catch her, like when Martin catch that baby when he was helping that lady deliver. I'm going to catch her just like that." Steven said, and Carmen started laughing.

"Oh my gosh, just stop. You know that was not real." She said. He laughed a little.

"Yeah I know, but it was funny as hell." He said, hugging her tight. "Lord, I can't wait to slide in you again. Girl you going to go into labor for real. It has been to long." He said.

"Umm, ewww. I came at the wrong time." PeeWee said, walking in the room. With his girlfriend.

Steven glared at him.

"Well that's your own fault. And nigga I'm not soft." Steven said.

PeeWee laughed.

"Carmen told you. I was hoping she tell your bitch ass." PeeWee said dapping him up.

"Nigga whatever, your ass screamed like a lil ass girl." Steven said.

"Nah my nigga, that been you." PeeWee said, and they started laughing. Steven stopped laughing once it started hurting his body. He still felt sore, a little.

"Shit, I'm not worrying about it." Steven said.  "Yo, so how long you been messing with Lonnie sister?" Steven asked PeeWee, looking at Camilla. Carmen eyes widen, while PeeWee looked over at Camilla, as she looked away.

"Lonnie sister?" PeeWee pointed at Camilla.

"Yep, that's Lonnie baby sister." Steven nodded his head.

"She's not the enemy." Carmen said.

"You knew!" PeeWee yelled.

"She told me the night everything went down. She wanted nothing to do with her brother, because he used to beat her and their mother. She been stopped talking to him. Just listen to her before you fly off on her." Carmen said. Steven ate his lunchables while looking at PeeWee and his girlfriend talk.

"We will talk later." PeeWee told her.

"Man, really? I need some drama right now." Steven said.

"Nigga, your ass just got out of drama." PeeWee said.

"So." Steven shrugged his shoulders.

Carmen shook her head. Now that they were civil to each other, everything will be okay. Even though the little slick little comments they make toward each other, is getting annoying really fast. Carmen could live with that. She just laid her head on Steven chest, as him and PeeWee go at it, about what? She don't know.

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