"This healthy little one is a baby girl." The Ob-Gyn lady said smiling at Derrick and India. Steven and Carmen stayed out the way. Steven Snapchat the whole thing.

"My boy got a little girl on the way. Y'all heard the lady." Steven snapped.

"Man did you really had to put that on there?" Derrick asked Steven.

"Hell yeah." Steven said.

A month had gone by and Steven was still looking over his shoulders. He and Carmen is closer now, and she is talking more now to them. Her and India has gotten cool. Plus Derrick and India is trying to get their relationship back together. Even though Derrick could be a little standoffish still.

"Where we going to eat at?" India asked.

"At your house. I got shit to do." Steven said putting his phone back in his pocket.

The Ob-Gyn lady gave India her next appointment, and her Ultrasound pictures and told them to have a good day.

"Man you don't got to do shit, but go fuck a random bitch." Derrick said.

"Remember you used to do that though." Steven said.

"Key words my nigga is, used to." Derrick said. Derrick looked over at India as they walked to Steven car. After their day at the beach, they somewhat gotten closer. India was okay with that. Even Derrick wasn't really talking to other girls like that. India was happy about that, but then there is a problem. Jon keep blowing up her phone. She ignoring him, but it's getting annoying.

"Well, you do you, and let me do me." Steven said.

"Nobody stopping you from getting a STD. I sure as hell not." Derrick said getting a Kool-Aid pouch out his mini cooler.

"Man why you had to take it that far?" Steven asked as he started the car.

"You started with me first." Derrick said.

Steven dropped India and Derrick off at Derrick's house, and he and Carmen went back home.

"You have school work to do?" Steven asked Carmen.

Carmen decided to finish high school online, so she could go ahead and get her diploma and started college.

"No, I did all my work for this week, and next week." Carmen said.

"Oh is that why you been up late last night, with that bright ass light, shining up the bedroom?" Steven looked over at her.

"Yep." Carmen said.

Steven shook his head.

"You cooking or me?"

"You."

Steven looked over at her.

"Why me?" He asked her.

"You asked."

Steven pulled up at his house, and a car was already in the driveway, when they got there. The girl got out the car when Carmen stepped out the car.

"Really Stevie you got other bitches living with you now?" The girl yelled as she walked up to Carmen, she was about to swing, but Carmen backed up and hit her in the nose. Busting it. "Ugh this bitch, just busted my shit!" She yelled out.

Steven stepped in as Carmen leaned against the car, and the girl hold her nose back, trying to stop the bleeding.

"What the hell you doing here April?" Steven asked her. Carmen just stared with her arms folded.

"You fucking me, in odd places, but you got this bitch living with you. Really Stevie?" April said with her head back.

"At least I don't have an Adam's apple throat you drag queen bitch." Carmen said and walked away from them.

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Steven found Carmen in the bedroom with her journal out. He had to get rid of April. She wanted to come in the house, so they could have a quickie, but Steven wasn't feeling it.

"Are you good?" Steven asked Carmen.

"I'm fine, just mad right now." Carmen said as she continued to write.

"You love busting people in the face I see." Steven laughed.

"She stepped to me first." Carmen said quietly.

"I feel you, you was just defending yourself. Nothing wrong with that." Steven sat on the bed. "You sure you don't want to cook?" He asked her.

"Positive. I'm not hungry." Carmen said.

"What's up with you? You shutting me out again." Steven looked over at her.

"I'm not. Just tired people think it's okay to disrespect me, any kind of way. I just so tired of it. Why do I get treated this way? Why me?" Carmen asked him.

"If you allow someone to treat you a certain way that what they going to do. You allow it, by not opening up your mouth. How old are you again? Eighteen right, it's time you act like it. People treat you how you allow them to treat you. Don't take no shit from nobody, you a grown woman now, not fully, but shit, you still grown." Steven said to her and shake his head. "You need to cut that shy shit out, it's getting old." He walked out the room.

Carmen stared into space long after Steven left and sighed deeply. What he was saying was true. She tired not to be so shy. What he expect her to do? Him and his friends the only people that talked to her mostly her whole life. She was the odd girl out, she had no friends. She don't know the first thing about opening up to people. The only time she open up, is when she is writing in her journal. She love to write.

She walked down the stairs, she smelled fish cooking. She guess they were eating fish tonight. She heard keys in the door as Steven mother walked in.

"Good, I came just in time." She smiled and walked to hug Carmen.

"What's up mama, what you doing here?" Steven asked her.

"The police looking for you boy. They coming to my house, my job, almost got me fired. You need to leave that shit alone. I'm not losing another child Steven." Mama Lorraine said with her hands on her hips.

"Man I haven't been to the trap in over a month man, I'm clean as fuck. They can look all they want they won't find shit, but a bunch of money." Steven said as he walked to give his mother a hug.

Carmen went to put a pot of tea on for her. Since she first met Mama Lorraine she liked the lady. She was really cool, and she made her feel welcome when she went to her house. One thing about Mama Lorraine she love to drink hot tea.

Mama Lorraine in Media

"Well hide the money Jackass. Why can't you be more like Derrick and find a real damn job? I can barely sleep worrying about you." Mama Lorraine said.

"Better take some sleeping pills then, I got this mama, I know what I'm doing. I'm laying low for a while, letting shit die down, and after that, it's back to the money. You should know this shit by now." Steven said as he walked back to his food that's cooking.

"You going to be just like you dad, if you don't slow down. Either dead or in jail." Mama Lorraine shook her head as she sat down and Carmen bring her a cup of tea.

"Dad was beefing with people, I'm not beefing with nobody. I'm friendly." Steven said, as he took the fish out the skillet.

"I'm done talking Steven." Mama Lorraine said.

There was a knock at the door, and Carmen went to open it. There stood a girl with a baby on her hip.

"Umm Steven, there is someone at the door." Carmen yelled out as the lady just stood there.

Steven walked to the door, and paused. "Oh shit, let me call Derrick."

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