"It's nice of you to return so quickly." Rakeem Jackson said to Steven.

"I'm not the one to mess around that's why." Steven said back. "So the blueprints?"

"The contract?"

Steven placed the contract on the table, as Jordan laid out three blueprints for him to look at.

"Where is the pool?" Steven asked as he eyed the blueprints.

"You can always add that later on, when you in process of building it." Jordan jumped in.

"Nah, what if they forget to lay down the format down for it, and I don't get a damn pool. I damn sure don't one of them pools you buy out of Wal-Mart. I want my shit connected to my house." Steven said, he was pissed off, because looking at the blueprints, he didn't get what he wanted.

"Babe like the lady said, we can always add on, or when they building it, they can lay out a pool format." Carmen said, trying to calm Steven down. Steven glared at Carmen and Carmen looked at the other way.

Blueprint One in Media

Blueprint Two in Media

Blueprint three in Media

"If you don't like these, I'm sure Jordan can draw out more for you." Rakeem said, Jordan looked over at him.

"Can I be honest?" Jordan said.

"Hell I wouldn't want your ass to lie." Steven look at her, Jordan glared over in his direction.

"You wanted to blueprints you have them. Pools can be layout in formation when the builders are building your home. As you can see if you want your house not to big, not to small, in your voice. It still going to turn out big, what five bedroom house you know that is small, or even medium sides. If I had to add the pool the rooms would have been small, and not roomy enough. I know this is not what you ask for, but you still got what you want, minus the pool. But what I will not do is, do these over and add the pool. So you can either take it, or you can get moving somewhere else. Your pick." Jordan smiled at him.

Steven stared at her for a good five minutes, as he grabbed Carmen thigh. Rakeem looked over at Jordan eyes widen. He saw that bipolar side came out of her just now when she smiled.

"Who the fu-" Carmen cut Steven off.

"We will work with this. I'm liking the second and third one." Carmen said as she looked over at Steven. "Babe what you think?" Carmen asked Steven. They didn't have the baby with them this time, they left her with Mama Lorraine.

Steven looked at the picture again. Carmen just really save that girl life, because he was about to give her a piece of his mind. She had him fucked up.

"Yeah I like them too." Steven said dryly. Carmen sighed deeply. 

"Okay good, since we will be building your home in Conway, I need to know the address of the property we will be building at, and I will get back with you on when we can start." Rakeem said.

"Okay cool." Steven gave him the address.

"Thank you, but you still have to choose one house." Rakeem look from Carmen to Steven.

"The third one." They said in unison.

"Great. I'll make sure when we start building we lay down a sheet for the pool in the backyard." Rakeem said.

"Yeah you do that." Steven said, and Carmen hit his arm.

"Excuse him, he just hungry." Carmen said to Rakeem, and Rakeem just nodded his head.

"I am not hungry. I just want this shit to be right." Steven said.

"And he do have a cussing problem." Carmen added.

"I can see that." Jordan murmured. Steven glared at her.

"I'll be in touch with you, Mr. Michaels." Rakeem hold his hand out for Steven to shake it. Carmen hold her breath, when Steven shook Rakeem hand. She sighed loudly. All eyes went to her.

"Sorry." She smiled.

Carmen and Steven walked out the building, with a portfolio. They got in the car and drove off.

"So babe where we off too now?" Carmen asked him.

"Get something to eat." He looked over at her. "Drive thru." He laughed as Carmen stick her lips out.

"You tripping, for real." She shook her head.

"I don't have time for you getting mad about bitches smiling in my face, and I don't want to go to jail for beating a nigga ass for smiling in your face. So drive thru." Steven said.

Since they dig of Lonnie body, everything was getting back to normal. Mama Lorraine and Big T was back home after settling everything with that went down before Steven was even born. Now everybody was ready to move on with their lives.

"Fine where we getting something to eat from?" Carmen pulled out her cell phone and text Mama Lorraine to see what Destini was doing. She know she was about to get curse out, because she had already ask her that, before they went inside Rakeem Jackson Real Estate.

"I'm thinking maybe Taco Bell, or Popeye's."  

"Popeye's."

"Okay, Popeye's it is." Steven said.

When they pulled up to the drive thru, Steven ordered their food and pulled up to the drive thru window to get their food.

"I hope people don't yell through the window. If they do, I'm dragging them out the window and beat their behind." Carmen said, and folded her arm. Steven laughed.

"Wow Steven, I haven't seen you in a while." The girl at the drive thru window said as Steven hand her a credit card.

"Shit, hell yeah. How you been though?" Steven asked the girl.

"I've been good. I'm getting married soon, and have a baby on the way." She smiled.

"Oh shit, that's what's up.  Congrats." The girl hand Steven back his card and receipt.

"Thank you." The girl smiled. She hand Steven their food, and he drove off.

"I went to school with her. And guess what, I never fuck her. Shocking huh?" Steven smirked at Carmen who just glared at him. "You going to give me some later?"

"I don't know, I'll see. Depends on how I feel later." Carmen said.

"Fair enough."

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Derrick and India sat in their living room watching a movie together.

"So India how long have we been together?" Derrick asked her. India looked at him a shrugged. "A long ass time right?" Derrick looked over at her.

"Yeah I guess so." India said, putting more popcorn in her mouth.

"So what I'm trying to say is, Will you marry me?" Derrick looked at her. India choked on her popcorn. Derrick patted her back.

"What did you just say?" India asked wiping her eyes.

"You heard me." Derrick said.

"Are you sure this what you want?" India look at him.

"I want my family, and I want you to be my wife, so yeah." Derrick said.

India was just staring at him. Wow he really wanted to marry her. That was a shocker to her.

"Yes I'll marry you, but where is the ring?" She asked him. He laughed. He pulled the ring out his pocket.

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"Oh my gosh! I love it." She yelled. He slide it on her finger.

"I'm glad you do. Since we still young we can wait to have a wedding, and just be engage for awhile, I'm not rushing it. I want it to be right, but this ring is something I want you to wear proudly, because one day you will be wife, and I'm happy you forgave me, and gave me a chance to love you like you deserve to be love. All the wrong I did to you in the past, let's erase it, and create better memories as one." He told her. India nodded her head, and blink back tears.

"I love you Derrick." She put the popcorn bowl on the floor, and leaned over to kiss him.

"I love you too." He said against her lips.

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I just want to say thank you too all of you, who comment, on that last post. Words can't explain how I felt when you all made those comments. I was smiling big to know that I have people that believe in me, and my writing. Thank you all so much.

Also you may check out Rakeem and Jordan story in Her Boss , His Designer

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