KING

I opened my door and saw my homeboy Bryson outside the door on his phone. I haven't seen Bryson in forever. We used to kick it heavy back in the day. I just never knew what happened.

"My nigga."

"Man what's up?"I asked dapping him up.

"Man I just came to see how you doing boy,"He slung his arm across my back as I walked us inside.

Bryson was like two years younger than me and determined. He wanted everything his way and had a very fixed mindset. Not me.

"Nah whats going on with you? Your ass went MIA on everyone."

"I been cooling it, ian stunting these stre-"

"LAY YOU GET YOUR ASS BACK IN HERE!"I heard Maddy shout.

Lay came and hid in my arms.Bryson laughed and sat back in the chair. Maddy came in with another one of her good shirts damaged because of lay.

"King you better get yo-Who is this?"

Maddy pointed to Bryson. Bryson had his eyes fixed on her. Damn homie fell in love quick. He gon have to back up.

"Umm Maddy me-"

"I'm Bryson, but you can call me your future,"He interrupted taking her hand kissing it softly.

I rolled my eyes. I swear you can't take him no where. Maddy smiled softly and giggled.

"I'm Madison,but you can just call me Maddy,"She said mocking him.

He stood up and they just continued to smile at each other. Bryson ain't the nigga you want to be with. I saw how he did girls and it just wasn't pretty. Not that I don't do the same, but I know how to treat a girl if I wanted to.

Lay tapped my shoulder and pointed at the paint marks. I had a whole damn closet of these, soon it will be a room. I smiled at her and blew on her stomah making her giggle loudly.

"Yall just gon keep looking at each other or....."

Maddy sighed and sat down next to bryson. He watched her ass the whole time while she did some extra shit to make it bounce. These two just met and already putting on a performance.

"Thats yo kid?"He asked Maddy.

"N-"

"Yeah this her kid,"I gritted holding Lay.

Maddy stared at me long and hard. He picked up Lay and played with her.

"Yeah she's my beauty,"Maddy said fakely and smiled taking Lay.

"Maybe you can pop out some of mine."

"Bryson lemme talk to you fa a minute."

He smacked his lips?. I grabbed him by his hoodie and dragged him outside.

"Where you find her at bruhh? Did you see that ass?"He asked.

I stared at him with a cold look.

"Ohh you hitting that. I thought we was cool man!You ain't trippin over her,"He said playfully punching my arm.

I pushed him back and made him fall down.

"And you playing step daddy too? Damn."

"Bryson, shut the fuck up."

"I'd never thought I'd see the day,"He said with a smirk.

"What are you talking about Bryson?"I asked sitting down in the rocking chair.

"My nigga got a girl,"He said with a smirk.

"Bryson shut the fu-"

"You gon stop telling me to shut up nigga. Hear me out. Shit you always telling somebody to shut up. You shut up. You be rambling yo mouth on and on about shit. Tell me to shut the fuc-"

"If you dont..."

"I'd thought I'd never see the day my nigga get a girl,"He said taking a sip from his can.

"She ain't my g-"

Maddy stuck her head out of the door, "Would you like some cupcakes?"

"Why you so damn proper?"

"Ok do y'all want some cupcakes? I really ain't got none I just wanna see what yall talking bout,"She shrugged.

We laughed along side Lay who came out with a apron on laughing. Y'all know those people who just laugh to laugh? That's Lay.

"Whats so funny?"Bryson asked picking her up.

"Nufin,"She said giggling.

"Yall made a beautiful child."

Maddy started choking on air. I chocked on my damn spit, and Lay acted like she was choking too.

"Yall alright?"He asked with a weird look on his face.

"For a second I thought you said 'Yall made a beautiful child',"Maddy said alughing.

"Thats what I said...Anyways I gotta get going. I gotta meeting in 30 minutes. Bye y'all."

He ran off the porch.

"OH AND I STILL WANT MY CUPCAKE!"

He pulled off making us laugh. Maddy sat down beside me and picked up Lay.

"Who was Lay's mama?"She asked.

"Some girl I fucked with,"I shrugged taking a sip from my beer.

"Now looking at it she doesn't look like you Ace,"She studied my face.

"She's mine. The DNA test was 100% accurate."

"What happened to her mother?"She asked.

"She died while giving birth. She was a perfect girl, but I wasn't worth her time"

"Aww, poor Lay,"She said. "Do you think she looks like me?"She asked out of no where.

"Kind of question is that Mad?"

"Everyone has been telling me this...You have any pictures of her mother?"She asked.

"Yeah its one on the nightstand in my bedroom."

She handed me Lay and walked away.

MADDY

I walked upstairs and examined his bedroom. It was actually clean. He had pictures hanging of him and Lay. He had a picture of Lia and him on his nighstand, along with his family. It was very nice and orientated.

My eyes looked at the picture on his nighstand. The picture showed a woman with long black hair. They had taken pregnancy pictures. I picked it up and examined it.

This..

No

It couldn't be

She died-

But

It's was her

I dropped the glass frame on the floor and stared into space.

This couldn't be true.