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"Close yo eyes, shawty, gone make a wish. You never met a nigga like this. And we can get it on. I know the pain and all the shit you been through. I just wanna see your dreams come true." - Yo Gotti

SHAI

"Majesty, tell me where we're going, please." I beg him for the millionth time. I couldn't believe he asked me to go on a trip with him the other day. We're leaving tonight but he won't tell me where he's taking me. "We going somewhere you never been before. That's all you need to know." He answers, laughing a little while he continues to drive. I don't even know where we're even going right now neither, actually.

"I haven't been to a lot of places. So, that's not a good hint." I remind him. I didn't grow up traveling a lot and I've only been places Drew has taken me which isn't many and to Las Vegas with Majesty. "I can't tell you, Shai. It'll fuck up the plan." He says, laughing. "No it won't. Are we going out of the country?" I ask. "Not at all but we can if you want to. I know you said it's a lot of shit you never did in America so I wanted to show you some shit." He says.

I nod my head. "Hmm... Memphis?" I ask. He looks at me funny. "Why you wanna go to that garbage ass city so bad?" He asks. "Because you lived there once upon a time and I just want to see what it's like. I also heard Elvis Presley's home is there and I want to check that out and get some barbecue." I explain. "Shai, most people that live there ain't ever went to no damn Graceland before. And as far as the barbecue goes, it ain't shit worth taking no trip there for." He says. "Well, you asked where I wanted to go." I mumble.

"Oh, shit. You dead ass want to go to Memphis, Shai? Like, you not saying it just to say it?" He asks. "I'm so serious but of course, I'm going wherever you are. I just want to be with you." I answer. He pulls his phone out of his pocket. "We going to Memphis then. We still going where I told you I'm taking you to but we can stay a day in Memphis then dip." He says. "No, don't change up the plan." I say. "Too late." He says.

"I didn't know we were gonna visit your parents." I say as we ride down the long street leading to his family's home. "Yeah... I was serious the other day when I said I'm taking a loan from them to start a business then paying them back. I need to talk to my mom and dad about it real quick." He answers. We haven't talked anymore about him asking me to quit my job and to let him take care of me since the other day when he said it. I'm too afraid to bring up that topic because I feel like he's gonna pretend like he doesn't care and like he never ever said that to me.

"I didn't know your dad got out of the hospital." I say. "Yeah but he in some serious pain from his accident. They let him go home yesterday. Apparently, my momma been on some Diary of a Mad Black Woman ass shit." He says, laughing a little. "What? Why?" I ask. "He had a girlfriend during they lil ups and downs but they fucked at the baby shower which got her feeling played. His lil accident happened leaving the bitch house and the bitch came to the hospital when my momma was there. So, my dad told me that she been torturing his ass since he came home cause he be in too much pain to even do certain shit." He explains.

That's so funny to me. "Your mom is wild. Can you imagine me being like her? Like, she's so tough." I admit. I wish I was a little stronger like she is. People know she means business when she steps into a room. I've only seen her appear to be weaker when she's in the presence of one of her children or with Ant depending on what they're doing.

"Hell naw, the world don't need two of
my mommas." He answers. "What about Reign and LaLa? They're pretty tough." I remind him. Has he forgotten about his sisters kicking my ass like a freaking kick ball? "You don't know the half about my crazy ass momma. Trust me, the world don't need another one." He says, parking in their long driveway. "Reign and LaLa don't have shit on her. That lady out of control." He adds, laughing some.

"What's the craziest thing you've ever seen her do?" I ask, grabbing my purse. I'm sure he has so many amazing stories to tell. "I don't know, honestly. Every single day she do some crazy shit. It's hard to narrow it down. Maybe, when she stabbed my pops in his chest. That was probably one of her craziest moments." He answers. My eyes widen. I didn't know Jessica was really about that type of life. If I knew that, there is no way I would have risked my safety running my mouth to her in the past. Wow. She stabbed her own husband in his chest. I can't even imagine the things she could have done to me.

"Is your mom a gangster?" I ask, making him laugh hard as we both get out of his car. "No. My momma just got a bad temper." He answers. I can't help but to admire his family's home. I've always thought this mansion was gorgeous since the moment I first came here with Drew. "Gosh, this home is awesome." I compliment it, staring at the neat bushes closer to the door. They're cut perfectly and so is the grass. "You sound like a white girl." Majesty says. No I do not.

"Whatever. How are your parents so rich?" I ask. I really wonder what it is. When we went on the cruise ship vacation, they decided to go shopping before we went to the hotel. I personally watched Ant swipe his card to buy a watch that costed half a million dollars. Anyone who will spend that much money comfortably on something as simple as a watch must have some serious money somewhere. "I don't know." Majesty answers me, unlocking the front door.

"Yes you do. This is awesome. I need to know their secret so I can be this rich." I joke, making him laugh. "Aight, Shai. Ask them yourself. We here." He says. My heart starts beating fast. My last encounters with his parents have been decent, shockingly. That doesn't mean I'm any less afraid to ask them or have a normal conversation with them. What if they cuss me out or accuse me of being a gold digger or someone trying to set them up or something? I would never ever do anything like that. I just really would love to know.

I smile a little as Majesty grabs my hand. "I can't believe you're holding my hand." I admit, walking with him to the staircase. "Why you talking like I'm a mean ass nigga? Me holding yo hand ain't weird." He says. "You have been pretty mean to me in the past and you never voluntarily hold my hand in private or in public." I remind him. "Well, fuck the past. Today's a new day, Shai." He says, making me smile. I don't know what changed him but I'm so in love with the respect he's been showing me the past few days. He even sends me good morning texts with emojis now which is shocking as heck.

We're walking down a long hallway upstairs. "This hallway looks like something that belongs in a castle. Wow." I say, staring at the expensive artwork on the walls. I don't want to come off as weird but I've seen one of these paintings on TV. "You like the painting, I see." He points out. "I saw it on television one day on one of those art shows where they explain the value of the paintings. I thought it was only one of those in the whole world. Is this the original painting?" I ask. He shrugs his shoulders. "Ask my pops. I don't know. It's been here for a couple years now. I don't go to those art auctions and all that boring ass shit with KeKe or my parents" He answers.

He knocks on a bedroom door at the end of the hall. "I've never even been so far into your family's house before. Are they going to be mad? Majesty, what if your mom gets angry because you brought me to their room?" I ask. "They won't be mad, Shai. I wouldn't invite you up here if it was an issue." He answers.

"Stop where you are and put your hands where I can see them! Intruder alert!" I hear his baby brother Sage scream. My eyes widen as he holds a gigantic nerf gun to my head. Majesty starts laughing. "Stop, Sage. Go put that shit up." He demands. Sage looks at him then shoots him between his eyes with one of the darts. I'm laughing so hard watching Majesty chase Sage up the hallway. "Bad ass nigga." He says, tickling Sage in the floor as he laughs hysterically. I wish I never had an abortion. Majesty would have been amazing father to our children. He's perfect to me.

"Stooooop! Let me up!" Sage whines, still laughing. "Tell Shai you sorry for trying to do a stickup on her then." Majesty demands, letting him up. "Why do I have  to say sorry if I'm not sorry? Is she your girlfriend now? Did her and Drew break up?" Sage asks, raising his eyebrow. Children are so curious and honest. "Her and Drew broke up." Majesty answers him. "Why?" Sage asks, tilting his head a little. He reminds me of Ant a lot. "For grown up reasons." Majesty answers. "Well, how come she your girlfriend now? Does that mean I can have Nariah if she breaks up with KeKe? I think she is sexy." He says, making me laugh. These children are terrible.

"Go find something to do, Sage." Majesty demands, walking back over here. He knocks on the bedroom door again. Jessica snatches it open. "I heard your ass the first gotdamn time you knocked, shit!" She yells at Majesty. I look down at the floor. "Well, dang, ma. Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed." He says. She looks at me. "What you staring at the floor for, child? I ain't about to bite your ass. Come in." She says, giving me a half smile. Well, that was weird.

Majesty and I follow her in.  "You didn't have to holler at the nigga, mean fuck." Ant says, glaring at Jessica. He's sitting in the bed eating. I've never in my whole life seen a bedroom like this. Everything looks custom made. It looks like royalty lives here. "Right, pops." Majesty  agrees. "Ya'll know I can't stand when somebody keep on knocking on the door. I was putting my clothes on." She says.

"Whatever, ma. Pops, you not speaking to Shai?" He asks. Ant chuckles. "What's good, Shit Show?" He asks me. "Nothing. How are you, Ant Farm?" I ask, returning the smirk. Majesty starts laughing. "Quit insulting each other." Jessica demands. "I'm just fucking with her. What the hell you doing in my bedroom, though?" Ant asks. "I brought her with me. Y'all let Nariah and Jaylah come in here. Why can't she?" Majesty asks, making Ant laugh for some reason.

"Nariah is KeKe's wife who he loves dearly and so do we. Jaylah is Noble's longtime girlfriend and the mother of my handsome ass grandson too. He also loves her. So, unless you got something you need to tell me about you and Shai, don't ask me why the women my sons love are allowed in here." Jessica answers him. "Yeah... what, you got a confession?" Ant asks, smirking as Majesty's face turns red. "Leave me alone, bruh." Majesty mumbles.

"Anywho, what brings you by? What, you need somebody to keep Major?" Jessica asks. "Naw, Major straight. He with KeKe right now but I'm supposed to be getting him when I leave here. Me and Shai leaving to go out of town tonight." He says, making the room fall silent. "What?" Ant asks. "I'm taking her out of town... like, a vacation." He answers.

"Since when you this nice to a woman? Who idea was this shit? Shai, are you still dealing with Drew? I done told y'all about this sneaking around bullshit." Jessica fusses at us. I'm too afraid to say something now. "Ma, relax. It was my idea. Ain't nobody sneaking around now." Majesty answers. "How the hell not? Don't you still live with your husband?" Jessica asks me. "No... we're done. I have my own place now and that situation is over." I explain. "Like I said, we not sneaking no more. It is what it is from here on out." Majesty says.

"So, what this shit mean? It mean you her nigga now or some shit? Cause I would never take nobody who ain't my girl on no trip." Ant says. Majesty glances at me. "Me and her just living, ya know?" Majesty asks. "Naw, we don't know. Provide a better explanation. Can I come on the trip too? I wanna just live too." Jessica says, laughing. "Naw, ma. This trip for Shai. Tell pops take you somewhere." He answers. "Boy, you love this girl. Quit playing." Jessica says, laughing.

I'm blushing so hard right now. I'm trying to stop because I feel embarrassed. Majesty chuckles. "Why can't I take her out of town as a friend? Nevermind. That ain't even why I came over here." He says. "Naw, for real. Where Major gon' be?" Ant asks. "He coming too, I guess." Majesty answers. Jessica shakes her head no. "Nope, I'll keep him. Bring him by here before y'all leave." She says. "Why? I don't mind him coming." I tell her. I love Major. He's the cutest little thing. "I just feel like this trip should be more private." She answers, eyeing Majesty.

"I'll bring him then, I guess. But pops, you letting me get that loan? Imma get straight to business when I come back home." Majesty says. "What, she a part of yo business plan or some shit?" Ant asks, pointing at me. "Yeah. She a smart girl. I need that on my team." He answers, shocking all of us. I'm surprised he admitted that to his family. "So, what does this mean?" Jessica asks. "It means me and her finna build a business with the loan y'all make to me. Once we make the money back, Imma pay y'all back. Shai gon' have rights to the business just like I do." He says.

"That's a big step, young nigga. You really wanna go into business with her? Once you do that, it's gon' be way deeper than sex or whatever y'all do." Ant warns him. "I thought long and hard about it. I wanna do it. Me and her  gon' be straight when it come to that." Majesty says. "Well, we can't just make you a loan when you have no plan in mind. How much this loan supposed to be and what you even opening?" Jessica asks. "I need a million." He answers. Whoa.

Ant and Jessica look at each other. "Did this nigga just ask me for a million dollar loan? Who I look like? I look like Bitch ass Donald Trump to you?" Ant asks. "Come on now, pops. You loaned somebody ten million before." Majesty points out. "Yeah, and I got fifteen million in return from that nigga too. You blow money wildly and I honestly don't know what you gon' do to get that money back." Ant admits.

"I believe in whatever he has in mind. That's just a lot of money to ask for, Majesty. A lot." Jessica says. "How if ya'll buy stuff that cost more than that and make loans much bigger than that? Y'all got way more than a million. What about when y'all loaned KeKe three million to start up his art studio all those years ago?" Majesty asks, looking pissed. He's so spoiled.

"Man, KeKe made that money back times ten. Quit asking about everybody else. This shit about you, Majesty. How we supposed to know you serious about this shit?" Ant asks. "You act like I'm a dumb ass or something, pops. I made good grades in school. I can figure out how to make some money back." Majesty says. Jessica chuckles. "It's more to it than making good grades. If that was the case, every damn person with good grades would be rich right now. Running a business is some hard ass work." Jessica tells him.

"I know that. Me and Shai can do it, though. I'm telling you me and her can handle it. She smart. Everything on YouTube anyway. Whatever we don't know, we can easily learn." He says. "You making it sound like this shit a walk in the park.  What if yo business fail, Majesty? Then what? That's a million down the drain." Ant says. I feel like I can't even afford to be a part of this wealthy conversation they're having so I'm going to keep my mouth closed here and stay in my tax bracket.

"Why you gotta think it's finna fail? When Reign came to y'all with the clothing line, y'all was all for it. Y'all even helped fund it and ma, you went looking for spaces for it." Majesty says. Reign has a clothing line? "And you see her shit never got started because of her damn mouth, right? Nobody said we don't believe in you. You just asking for a lot of money with no idea of what you finna do with it. That's the issue." Ant explains. "Aight. Well, I wanna start a porn company. Sex sells." Majesty answers. Hell no. I am not being a part of that.

Jessica starts laughing. "Your business partner don't seem too fond of that idea. What's your thoughts on that, Shai?" She asks me. "Well... I don't know. I'm not into porn or anything like that. That's a weird industry. I don't think I'm too comfortable with something like that." I admit. Majesty starts glaring at me. "What, you think I'm finna be sleeping with them girls?" He asks. "Maybe." I answer. "Well, I'm not." He says. "This why ya'll ain't ready for no shit like this yet. Y'all two mixing business with pleasure is destined to fail." Ant says.

"How? Do you know how much money porn companies bring in?" Majesty asks. "Why you gotta be so gotdamn nasty, Majesty? Of all things, you wanna own a damn porn company? I'm not on board with that and I'm telling you right now. Find something else." Jessica demands. "You know how much money I can make off sex? I love sex. I can turn those girls on camera into some monsters, ma. Niggas gon' be for real paying to watch it on a regular. I'm dead serious." Majesty says. "You need help." Jessica says.

I sigh. "That's not the only thing that can make money, Majesty. I know you're interested in other things." I say to him. "Shai, shut the hell up. If you ain't on board with it, leave." He demands. "How are you mad at me because I'm not a freaking nympho like you are?" I ask. "I can't tell by the way you be on my dick." He says. "Forget this trip. Fuck you. I am calling an Uber." I say, pulling my phone out of my purse. I don't even want him to take me home anymore.

"What you not gon' do is sit here and get rude with her in front of me, Majesty. Shut the fuck up. How you want to be a business man throwing a tantrum like a damn child? Business men do not act like that." Jessica fusses at him. "Pops throw tantrums all the time. Do that stop his money?" Majesty sarcastically asks. "Your daddy has never thrown no damn tantrum in no fucking business meeting. You acting like a little ass boy and it's irking me. No, we are not loaning you money to basically start a legal prostitution ring. It ain't happening." Jessica says.

"But why not?" Majesty yells at her. "Why the fuck should we? Lower yo damn tone in my house!" Ant hollers at him, seeming pissed off now. I'm scared for Majesty. I've never seen him angry towards his mom and dad and I've definitely never seen Ant get this way with Majesty before. Majesty looks away, clenching his jaw. "That porn shit gon' bring the wrong attention to us and you know what I mean." Ant says.

"What? What you do don't have nothing to do with that. Porn is legal." Majesty says. "Majesty, the answer is no. We are not supporting that shit. I don't have nothing against pornstars but I ain't being a part of no woman selling herself on camera whether it's legal or not. I have daughters and I would kill one of them if they sold pussy on camera." Jessica says. "Y'all make zero sense. If that's the case, why ya'll own strip clubs, huh? Y'all own some of the most profitable strip clubs in America and y'all know it. When Reign started stripping, hell broke loose. So, y'all some hypocrites." Majesty says.

"I'm done explaining why the fuck we ain't supporting some bullshit. You and yo girl can let y'all selves out my house now. You ain't too old to get fucked up." Ant warns him. "Imma ask Uncle Vonte then. You know he'll do it." Majesty says, grinning. It looks like that struck a nerve with Ant. Jessica starts laughing. "So, you saying you gonna go against us?" Jessica asks. "No. I'm saying if ya'll won't support me, I know he will." Majesty says. "Baby, all it take is one phone call from me and Vonte won't give your ass shit." Jessica says. "Did it take one call for him to give you some dick?" Majesty mumbles, walking out of the room.

"What the fuck that boy just say to me?" Jessica asks, standing and putting her hair in a ponytail. "He said this is ridiculous." I lie as my heartbeat speeds up. I can't believe he just said that to his mom. "Naw, I know that ain't what I heard. Majesty Janelle Mitchell!" She yells, storming out of the room. I follow her out. "Don't mumble like a bitch! What the fuck you just say to me?" Jessica yells at him. "Leave it alone, ma. I'm finna go." He answers with an obvious bad attitude.

She yanks him by his shirt. "No, don't you ever walk off when I'm talking to you again! Say some more shit you ain't got no business saying and watch me hurt you!" She threatens him. He ignores her as he continues to walk. "Oh, you can't hear?" She asks, getting in his face. Jessica is tiny compared to all of her sons except for Amari and Sage because they all got their height from Ant and not her. I don't think I could ever be brave enough to get in my adult son's faces the way she does when they're like sky scrapers compared to me. Majesty would never hit her but I'm sure he could hurt her if he did.

"Ma, move. I ain't finna do this stuff you and Reign do with all that fighting and arguing. Don't give me the loan. It is what it is. I'm just trying to go home." He says. "I heard what you said. If you ever fix your mouth to talk to me like that again, I will hurt you and I mean it. Do you understand me?" She growls at him. "I'm just trying to leave." He says, pushing past her. He bumped into her and everything. My eyes widen in shock as she punches him in the back of his head super hard, almost making him fall. "Don't push me no gotdamn more neither." She says, walking away to her room.

"Gotdamn." He groans in pain, rubbing the back of his head as he walks. He seems a little unbalanced now. I don't think I've ever seen a woman punch someone that hard before and something tells me that wasn't even her best shot. The way she disciplines is not normal but Majesty was being super disrespectful so he was asking for that.

We've been riding in his car in silence for a while now. "Is she always like that?" I ask, breaking the silence. "Yeah. That was mild though. My momma typically would've stomped a nigga in the floor for the shit I was on. Imma apologize to her for that, though. I was wrong." He admits. "Yeah, you were. You didn't have to be rude towards me neither." I point out. He glances at me then grabs my hand. "I'm sorry." He says. That's a shocker.

"What you doing with your hair? We gotta go in a few hours." He says. "What's wrong with my hair?" I ask. I've had this sew in with a closure for a couple of weeks now. "I don't like it." He answers. "What? Why? What's wrong with it?" I ask. "It look old now, for one. For two, I'm tired of seeing you with weave. You must be bald headed or some shit?" He asks, making me laugh. "No. I just wear weave because I hate my natural hair. My whole life, I've heard about how I'm ugly and nappy headed because my skin is dark." I admit.

"That shit ain't true. You fine as fuck to me. The weave cool but I like natural women." He says. "I'm not your woman so why should it matter?" I ask. "You my woman on this trip though." He says, giving me butterflies. "I'm your what?" I ask. "Shai, you heard what I said. All jokes aside, you need to get your hair done. I'm tired of that same ass sew in you always got." He says. I don't even know what else to do with my hair.

"Um... I don't know anything else to do to my hair." I say. "I wanna see your real hair." He says. "No... I'm not wearing my hair natural on vacation. If it gets wet, I'll look horrible." I say. I will look like the grinch or something. "If it get messed up, it's plenty of beauty shops where we going. I'll just get it done again." He says. "I'll pass." I say, waving him off. It's not gonna happen. "Fine. Keep that cheap ass beauty supply shit in yo scalp then." He mumbles.

"My hair came from a website, actually." I correct him. "Well, it look cheap as fuck and I don't like it." He says. "Well, what do you think about one of those long ponytails? I see them online a lot and I think they're cute." I say. "Naw, I wanna see your real hair straightened out or in a puff." He says. I shake my head no. "When we come home, maybe." I say. "You like braids? I know this girl who do braids. Her shit be perfect." He says.

"I like long box braids even though I've never had them before." I say. "So, Imma call her and see if she can do yo hair real quick. She did my sister hair before. She provide the lil braiding hair too." He says, looking down at his phone for a second. I slowly nod my head. I wonder if those braids will be heavy. I've never ever had box braids or anything similar before. What if my head is really sore? Oh, well.

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Majesty just drove me all the way to a house in South Central. "We here." He says, getting out of the car. I climb out then look around. "I'm hungry." I admit. "Well, I'll let her get started on yo hair so this shit can be over quicker. While she doing that, I'll go pick you up some food." He offers. I nod my head, walking ahead of him. I feel his eyes glued to my butt. He's so nasty.

A tall, slim, beautiful darkskined woman opens the door. She looks like she's in her mid twenties. She has gorgeous twists hanging down her back. Her eyebrows are perfect and she has no makeup on but her skin still looks flawless. She looks like a professional model. "Hey, Majesty." She greets him, giving him a huge hug. What the hell type of affectionate hug was that? I'm trying not to jump to conclusions. Something tells me she can fight.

She lets us in. "Hey, I'm Trina." She introduces herself. She sure does have a butt like the rapper Trina does too. Her butt is huge even though she's very slim. I can tell it's real too. I wonder if Majesty has slept with her. Something tells me he has and that he's attracted to her little spandex shorts she's wearing. I should kick him in his eye for staring at her too hard.

"Shai." I simply say. She nods her head. "Majesty, this your cousin or something?" She asks him, smiling. He shakes his head no. "Naw, this my friend Shai." He introduces me. Just his friend? Well, that's better than him calling me his assistant like he did in Las Vegas when that tramp whore at the restaurant asked him about me. This is progress.

Trina slowly nods her head. "Can I talk to you right quick?" She asks him. "Yeah, wassup?" He asks, following her around the corner somewhere. Oh, hell no. I slowly walk closer to the bedroom they just walked into so I can listen. "Be real with me. Who is she to you? Because, you know what it is between me and you and I don't need any surprises." She says. "Trina, I told you that me and you can't fuck no more. I would say we could do a threesome but Shai only like niggas and I ain't even finna disrespect her by trying to fit you in what me and her got going on." He explains.

She starts making pouting noises. "Damn... So that's your girl or something?" Trina asks. "No, but she not just my hoe neither. Not no more, at least. How much for the hair?" He asks. "Oh, you're paying for it?" She asks, seeming surprised. "I am, so I expect it to look good as fuck. Hook her up. I'm tired of that sew in she be having." He answers, making her laugh. "Well, it's $275 for the box braids, especially if she want it long." She answers. "Aight. I got you." He says.

I quickly walk back into the living room. Both of them walk in here. "Well, Shai... you can sit in that chair. I gotta take your hair out then wash it." She explains. I walk over to the chair then sit. "I'll be back with the food." Majesty says. "Can you just order pizza?" I ask. I really don't want him to leave me here with his former fuck buddy who wants to have a freaking threesome with us.

He sits down on the couch. "Yeah. I didn't feel like leaving no way. Trina, don't take a lifetime, mane. We got a flight to catch tonight." Majesty says. "I haven't even packed. I planned to do it later." I say. "Where are y'all going?" Trina asks. "None of yo business, Trina. You'll know if I post some pictures. But Shai, if she finish in time, we can stop by yo place and get necessities. If not, they got shopping where we going." He says. I nod my head. I hope we have time to stop at my apartment because I have a dress I really want him to see me in. He'll love it.

REIGN

After our threesome with Qua the other night, Wendy became so distant. She barely answers her phone and when she does, she doesn't say too much. I didn't even do anything to her. It's not like I put a gun to her head and made her fuck me with Qua. It was just something I wanted to try. I prefer Qua to fuck me alone now anyway.

I just tried to call her again. She sent me to voicemail. Tae walks in my bedroom laughing at something. "What's funny?" I ask. He hands me his phone. "What's this?" I ask. All I see is a skinny girl with a fat ass braiding hair or something on Majesty's Snapchat. "Keep watching the next one." He says. I can't help but to laugh. I'm in shock, honestly. Majesty just posted a video of Shai getting her hair braided while she smiled at him. "The nigga put a fucking heart emoji on the video, Reign. It's official. He fuck with her for real." Tae says.

"That's a shame but it is what it is. Fuck how Drew feels. I hope he sees that bullshit too." I say. "Me too. You told Ant what Drew said to you the other day when you met him?" Tae asks. I shake my head no. "Nope, I'm not about to get my daddy involved in our mess. Fuck Drew for life. Just let it go, Tae." I demand. Tae has a grudge he's holding against Drew. Lately, Tae has been doing shit I never imagined him doing. He's unpredictable and I don't need him trying to go at it with Drew, at all.

"I didn't even say nothing about that bullshit. I'm finna take Lianna to get something to eat right quick." He says. "Tae, y'all are not grown. When is she going home? Her aunt can't possibly be okay with her laying up over here with you." I say. "Her auntie don't wanna have shit to do with Lianna." He says. "Well, I need to talk to her later to make sure." I say. He nods his head.

"You want to come eat with us?" He asks. "Nope, enjoy your date. I'm waiting on Qua right now. He's on his way." I answer. He smirks. "Everybody in love ain't it? Jaylah just gave birth to Honor so Noble sprung as fuck now, KeKe married and shit, Jessie be messing with the nurse, I be kicking it with Lianna, Drew got that rag doll now, Majesty really out here posting Shai on social media, and you waiting on Qua to come scoop you up." He says, laughing some. "Qua and I are just friends. Oh, and Noble was super sprung way before she had Honor the other day." I remind him. "What the fuck kind of name is Honor? They named that lil nigga Honor JaMir Mitchell of all things." Tae says, shaking his head. "Noble's name is fucking Noble. I don't know why you expected the baby to have a normal name. I'm not shocked he gave the baby mom's middle name neither." I say.

He chuckles. "Honor Mitchell. That's funny." Tae says. "If you have a baby what will you name him or her?" I ask. I haven't settled on a name for my daughter just yet but I have a couple of names in mind. I do know she'll more than likely get my last name instead of Drew's with his deadbeat ass. My family name holds more weight out here anyway. "I don't know. I never thought about baby names." He answers. "You should go pick LaLa up. She told me she barely talks to you now." I say. He nods his head, walking out of my room as he look down at his phone. I remember when Tae was born. He's so grown and tall now.

My phone just started ringing. Now this bitch wants to call me back. I answer Wendy's call. "What?" I ask. "I'm just calling you back." She answers. "What's up with you? You act so funny now." I say. "Girl, hush. You would act funny too if you were me." She says. "What did I even do?" I ask. "I didn't even want to do no damn threesome with that nigga, first of all. I did it for you anyway. You didn't have to be all on him like y'all were in love. I heard y'all say how y'all missed each other and everything. I'm done getting played. Tell Qua he can have you, slut." She says. "Why am I a slut?" I calmly ask. I'm not about to do this with her right now at all. "Because, you let another man nut all up in your pussy while you're like six months pregnant by a whole other man. You really should have never slept with him when you carrying another nigga's kid. Him nutting in you just made shit worse." She says.

"My bad, Wendy. I didn't know I was placed on this earth to live up to everybody else's standards. Please forgive me for doing whatever the fuck I wanted to do." I sarcastically say. "Something is wrong with your ass if you don't see an issue in Qua nutting in you while you pregnant for somebody else." She says. "That't fine, Wendy. I'm gonna do what I want. I am not putting my baby in harm's way. I don't deal with her father anymore. Does that mean I'm supposed to be out here not fucking if I want to?" I ask. "Do you, Reign." She says. I hear a knock at my front door. "I'll talk to you when you chill out and get over yourself. Bye." I say, hanging up on her. I'm done living based on what other people feel is right. We all got our own bullshit going on.

I walk out of my room and into the living room. "You didn't hear the door?" I ask Tae, watching him play wrestle with Lianna on the couch. "I ain't expecting no company. What I need to go to the door for?" He asks. "Imma keep that in mind when you want somebody to cook for you." I say, walking to the door. I look out of the peephole then take a deep breath. It's Qua. I open the door for him. "Hey." I mumble. He looks so good right now. He has a fresh haircut and he smells amazing. "Hey." He greets me, walking in. 

"How are you?" I ask, leading him to my bedroom. I wasn't done getting ready. I'm having trouble with finding something to wear. My clothes barely fit now and I've been way too lazy to go shopping for some more maternity stuff. "I'm straight. You good?" He asks. I nod my head yes. "Do you look at me differently now?" I ask. "Naw, you single and free to do what you wanna do." He answers. "I know but Wendy made me sound like a hoe for the whole situation." I say. "If you a hoe, she a hoe too cause she was in my bed just like you were participating. Whatevrr happened just happened. Let it go." he says.

I nod my head, choosing to drop it. "I'm sorry I'm not completely dressed yet. I have trouble finding clothes I like on me now." I apologize. "Take yo time. I ain't in no rush. You got a man now?" He asks, grabbing my red Givenchy track shorts. "No, those are mine." I answer, laughing. I stole them from Tae one day when I couldn't get my pants all the way up. He'll be fine without them. He nods his head.

"Come here." He softly says. "Why?" I ask. He isn't saying anything. I walk over to him as he sits at the edge of my bed. He wraps his arms around my waist. My body has changed so much and I'm super insecure about it now. I have a few stretch marks on my thighs now, my titties are bigger than they were, and I obviously have a belly that I never had before now. "Why are you staring at my stomach?" I ask as he holds me. He's just holding me by my waist and staring at it. "Drew still not around?" He asks. "We talked recently. He's holding a grudge against me for not telling him about Shai and Majesty so he talked crazy to me about how I'll be a bad mother to a baby to a little girl. He claims he'll help take care of her when she gets here but at this point I don't give a damn. She'll be fine." I say. He kisses my belly. "Imma be here for you and her, I promise you. So what, you got pregnant by him. It is what it is." He says. He plants a kiss on my lips before I can say anything. 

"Qua, I love you." I say. He has never told me he loves me before. he nods his head, standing up. "Finish getting dressed. I wanna go to the movies." He says. Now, I feel super shitty inside. He just completely disregarded what I said. "Okay." I mumble, looking through my clothes basket of clean clothes I need to put away. He's dressed comfortably so there's no point in me going out of my way to get supper dressed up. I might just throw on a pair of leggings and a T-shirt or something. "I love you too, Reign. I love you more than you'll ever know." He admits for the first time, sending chills down my spine in a good way. I can't believe he said he loves me. I want things to work between us so bad. he's everything I want regardless of our flaws and fuck ups we both have made. 

DREW

"Why haven't you and that bitch divorced yet?" My girl asks me. "We just haven't. We gonna get that taken care of. We done with each other." I answer. I'm serious. Just because I'm legally married to Shai still don't mean I want anything to do with her because I don't. I just got a text. Myia unlocks my phone then opens up the message. "What the fuck did she send your this for?" She asks with an attitude. I take my phone from her then look at the screenshot Risha just sent me. It's a screenshot from Majesty's Snapchat of him and Shai eating some pizza while she gets her hair braided.

I call Risha then put it on speaker phone. "Nigga." She says, laughing. "Fuck both of em. I don't give a fuck." I say. That didn't phase me at all. How disloyal they are is unreal though. "So, they together now?" Risha asks. "I don't know or care, bruh. I ain't ever seen that nigga post no bitch before, though." I say. They might be together. That'll shock me. "Damn, you got yo wife took." Risha says, laughing at me. I hang up on her. I ain't trying to hear that.

"I feel like you either still love her or your pregnant ex girlfriend. You act bitter every single time they're brought up." Myia says. "I ain't bitter. I just feel some type of way. I don't care shit about neither one of them, though." I say. I don't care what they do. "Why do you feel some type of way if you claim you don't care?" She asks. "You would feel some type of way too if the shit happened to you. You should be more worried about me fucking a random bitch before you should ever worry about me fucking one of them. Those days are over with and one with. These facts. I wouldn't fuck Shai with a homeless dick and as far as Reign goes, that bitch can choke after she have my daughter." I say.

"Why would you even say that? regardless, she is the mother of your child, Drew." Myia fusses at me. "I don't care. I didn't say nothing negative about my baby girl.  I said something about her confused ass momma. One day, the bitch a lesbian and the next day she love dick. One day, she love her life and the next the hoe somewhere trying to slit her wrists and shit. One day, she love me and the next day, she all on her bitch ass boyfriend dick. The bitch just a pure hoe and don't nothing good come from dealing with the broad. She always playing games and she don't know what she want out of life. I swear I wish I never got that hoe pregnant. She gon' turn my daughter into a lil bi sexual, alcoholic, crazy hoe one day if I don't get custody." I say. "You sound real hurt and you lucky I ain't knocking your teeth out your mouth by now." Vonte angrily says, walking in here.

"You know that shit about your niece is true. It's a cycle with them. Jessica ain't shit but a ride or die, business smart whore. Reign ain't no different. The only difference between them is Reign couldn't figure out how to run no business if her life depended on it, she dumb as hell, and she hasn't fucked my brother like Jessica did." I say. Vonte starts laughing. "Watch your mouth when you speaking on them. I ain't warning you no more." He says. "Why? Let's just call it what it is. Everybody think what Shai and Majesty did to me was funny. A nigga was the laugh of the family. I wonder if yo brother gon' find it funny when he find out that time me and Sean caught you and Jessica fuckin' wasn't the only time you got some of his wife pussy. You think Ant gon' get a good ass laugh from it when he find out you tore her ass up some more after that and called her phone telling her how you love her after she cut that shit off between y'all? Come on, let's tell him so everybody can get a good laugh like y'all been doing when the nigga was fucking my wife right under my nose." I go off.

Myia and Vonte are dead silent. "You don't even know what you speaking on, Drew. I advise you to shut up." He warns me. "Naw, cause it was funny when they tried me how they did. Tell yo brother the truth. Tell him you been wanting his wife and that you was never joking all the times you flirted with her. Tell him how you real deal in love with his fucking wife and damn near cried over that bitch when you realized even sex with you wasn't gon' be enough to tear down what they built. Call it what y'all want but I'm sick of the fake ass shit. I advise everybody to shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I got dirt on all these mothafuckas and you know it. Do I need to tell Nariah she for sure got cheated on by KeKe after he married her ass? What, I need to expose the fact that Jessie supposedly got a whole ass baby on the way? Should I tell everybody how that bitch Wendy and Reign be fucking behind Noble back? Huh? Huh? I'm sick of the bullshit!" I go off. They all got secrets. That whole family do so much fucking dirt behind each other's backs but got the nerve to play with me and shit. "You sound like a bitch. Air anybody's shit out and you won't live no more." He calmly says, walking out of here.

"How do you now so many secrets?" Myia asks. "Because they all foul and they all smiled in my face one upon a time. They smiled in my face knowing what was going on. I did dirt too but I was always a man about mine. I always stood ten toes down on whatever I did." I tell her. She sighs. "Let's just go out. You need a drink." She mumbles. I'm pissed off and tired of the jokes and games when it comes down to Majesty and Shai. I'm sick of everything and everybody. I need to just go out of town by myself before I snap.

NOBLE

"This the most hollering baby I ever seen." I say, staring at my son as he cries loud as fuck. He just had a bottle of breast milk and he already hungry again. I'm watching as Jaylah feeds him. "I can't believe I had him in a freaking bathroom floor." She says, laughing. "Me neither. I can't believe Montana was really scared of it." i say. Montana kills niggas on a regular and was really scared to help deliver my son. That's ass backwards.

We named our son Honor. We really didn't have nothing else in mind. Jaylah's family think s it's ghetto but we don't care. They can have they own kids and name them whatever they want to for all I care. An unfamiliar number just popped up on my phone screen. I answer it. "What?" I ask. "This Drew." He says, sounding mad. "What the fuck you call me for?" I ask. He got every right to be mad about Shai and Majesty but that's in the past. I just can't respect him for how he be doing Reign now and I damn sure can't respect him after he popped up to my baby shower on some dumb shit swinging on Tae of all niggas he could've hit.

"I ain't one to snitch or nothing but unlike you, I'm loyal enough to tell you what it is." He sarcastically says. "I'm for sure loyal. I stayed loyal to my twin brother like anybody should do. Why the fuck would I air my brother business out? You crazy if you feel like I owe you loyalty before I owe it to Majesty." I say. It's not like I encouraged Majesty to mess with Shai because I knew everything would go left. I didn't even like the bitch so why would I be on board with that?

"I feel you but I bet all yo siblings not loyal to you." He says, laughing. "All my siblings, riding. Nigga, get off my phone running your mouth like a hoe, mane. What you want?" I ask, catching Jaylah's attention as she burps Honor. "Wendy yo girl, right?" He asks. "Hell naw. My girl Jaylah." I answer. "Aw, well I heard Wendy fucking yo sister on a regular and that she had a threesome with yo bestfriend and yo sister. She told me that herself. That ain't none of my business, though." He says. Reign and Qua? The fuck?

"Nigga, I don't care. Reign can have her and Qua can ram the bitch insides when he feel like it. The only woman I love is Jaylah. God bless you, bruh. You need help." I say, hanging up on him. He tripping. Me, Reign, and Qua can rotate Wendy for all I care. My sister a freak anyway. I ain't shocked she turned Wendy out by no means.

"What happened?" Jaylah asks. "Drew on some wild shit. That's it. My momma wanna see the baby." I say. "Is she coming over here? I don't really want to take him out of the house this early." She says. "She will. She said she gotta go get Major for Majesty so she probably gon' swing by." I say. She nods her head. I got a feeling things might go left with Drew. It's like he wanna go against the family. I hope not but it is what it is.

MAJESTY

THE NEXT DAY

Me and Shai got to Memphis a few hours ago. "So far, nothing is fascinating really." She says as we walk around the Wolfchase Mall. It's nothing too special about the mall here. We just doing random stuff. The real fun comes in when I fly her out to New Orleans later tonight. I got some stuff planned. Imma get her drunk as hell on Bourbon Street for sure.

"You see a store you wanna go in?" I ask, eyeing her braids. They stop at her waist. I like that on her way more than I like the Brazilian shit she be wearing. "We've been in almost all of them. I don't know." She says. "You hungry?" I ask. She nods her head yes. "I wanna go downtown. We can go on Beale Street. I heard that B.B. King's restaurant good." I say. "Okay. I want to try it." She says. "You seem unimpressed with the city." I say, laughing. "I'm having fun with you but it's nothing too spectacular here." She says.

I nod my head. "I feel you. I tried to warn you. It's stuff to do but it ain't nothing too fun. You wanna go to that lil Incredible Pizza place?" I ask. "What's that?" She asks. "An arcade type thing with a pizza buffet. My momma took us there when we was kids. Me and Noble jumped some kid for messing with Reign back then." I say, laughing. We were bad as fuck as kids. It's crazy how bad we were.

She starts laughing. "Sure. Is that where you want to eat?" She asks. "Naw. If the food anything like I remember, it's nasty as hell." I answer as we walk in Journeys. "I googled some places. What's that Jerry's snow cones place?" She asks. "I don't know. I haven't been here in a long time. We got time to do everything." I say.

"Can I help you find anything?" The girl working in here asks me. She lightskinned and tatted up. Her hair is a greenish color and it's smoothed up into a puff. Damn, she fine. She look like she around my age too. "Naw, I ain't looking for nothing in particular." I answer, checking out her ass. It ain't too much back there at all. "Let me know if you need me." She tells me, licking her lips as she walks away smiling at me.

"Stop flirting." Shai demands. "Why you keep accusing me of flirting? I can't help it if girls wanna flirt with me." I say. "Whatever. You were checking her out just like she was eyeballing you. Also, when we went to Pacsun, I saw you and that freaking girl at the register exchange numbers while I was looking at their tank tops. I'm not going to be disrespected by you with these other women on this trip. If you want to be a man whore and act like I'm not present, I will pay to fly back home." She goes off on me.

I'm laughing now. "Hell naw. I saw you looking at the nigga in Finish Line when he was going to get the shoes out the back for you." I say. She too insecure to notice how many niggas be looking at her fine ass. Niggas and bitches in this city have been coming off real thirsty all day, honestly. "Whatever, Majesty. The only man I've been looking at is you." She says.

"Is that right?" I ask. "Yes." She sternly answers, picking up a tan Birkenstock sandal. That shoe is so ugly. "I want this." She tells me. I nod my head, motioning for the girl that works here to come here. "She want an eight." I say to her. "These are ugly." The girl says, giggling. "Who asked your country ass?" Shai asks her, making me laugh. Memphis people got some country ass accents but the bitches sound good to me. I like that ghetto shit a lot of them be on.

"Hoe, damn. Chill out. We don't have that in no eight." The girl says. "I don't believe you." I joke with her, making her laugh a little as she walks to the back of the store. "Stop flirting with that whore." Shai demands. "You my only whore. Trust me." I joke, laughing. "Shut up. Are we a couple?" She asks. "No ma'am." I answer as the girls walks back over her with the sandals.

Shai opens the box then pulls out the left shoe. "I want them." She simply says putting the sandal back in the box. I hand it to the girl. "You see something else?" I ask. "Nope." She answers with an attitude. Damn, what I do to her? Shai so bold now.

I paid for the shoes and we left. I had to hurry up and leave that mall before she got her ass beat in Journeys. "Do you ever donate to St. Jude? I didn't know it was in Memphis." Shai says as I drive. I can't stand this rental car. I rented a mini van from the airport. I didn't wanna get nothing too flashy in no raggedy ass city like Memphis. "My folks send big donations there every month and they donate to individual families of all the kids there." I answer. My mom and pops got a soft spot for sick kids especially so that's always a priority.

"That's awesome. One day, I want to be rich enough to help a lot of people out like that." She says. "You will be if you keep fucking with me. "What's the FedEx Forum?" She asks as she stares at whatever stuff she searched about Memphis on her phone. "Where they have concerts and games and shit." I answer. Reign used to kick it with one of the niggas who play for the Grizzlies. That's how I know that.

"That sounds really cool. Are we going to try Wet Willie's? It came up on Google." She says. "We can try whatever you wanna try. I told you this trip for you and not me. I came to Memphis for you. Now, when we get to the other place, you the one who gotta go with the flow." I tell her. She smiles wide as she nods her head.

I found somewhere to park the car. Me and her out walking now. We near the FedEx Forum. "This is pretty cool. Can you take my picture in front of it?" She asks. I take her phone out of her hand. She poses as she smiles. I take the picture then give her phone back to her. She grabs my hand as we continue to walk. "The Forum has a little Grizzly apparel store. Let's go in here." She says  pointing.

I follow her in the store. It's just a typical fan store with apparel and random Memphis Grizzlies stuff in it. "Hey, how you two doing?" A girl working here asks. "We're fine." Shai answers, smiling. She leads me over to the women's stuff. "I love this shirt. What do you think?" She asks, holding up a shirt that has the big grizzly head on it. I shrug my shoulders. "Get what you want." I say. I ain't no Grizzlies fan so it ain't no point in me copping nothing for me. She don't even watch basketball so she just getting it cause it's here.

We finished up in there. She got a few shirts, a hat, and a keychain. We walking down Beale Street now. "This is what all of the hype is about?" She asks, frowning. It's a bunch of white people out here touring the street. It has nothing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. "This is." I answer, chuckling as we walk. She grips my hand tighter as a homeless man walks close to us. I stop then give him a fifty dollar bill I got as change in the store. "God bless you." He says, seeming appreciative.

Both of us continue to walk. We went in a few gift shops. Shai got some random stuff like shot glasses and shit. "I want a taco." She says. "I saw this lil spot called 901 Tacos somewhere a lil while ago." I say as we walk. "Let's eat there. We can do B.B. King's later. I want to watch the sunset on the river first if you don't mind." She says. "I said it's whatever you want, Shai." I remind her, looking for where I saw the taco place.

We walking in silence as we get closer to it. It ain't no full blown restaurant. It's more like a stand or something. I stop walking then wrap my arms around her waist. "What?" She asks, blushing a little. "You look good." I compliment her. She got on a yellow spaghetti strap jumpsuit and some sandals. It's something about her dark skin in that yellow that I fuck with.

She smiles at me as she stares at my face. "What if I kiss you?" She asks. "I'll ship you off to China." I answer, pulling away before she can start that bullshit again. "Nice necklace." I add. Everytime I see her, she wearing the swan necklace I got her from Swarovski in Las Vegas. "Thanks. My baby bought it for me." She says, blushing. "Ew, Shai, shut up. That shit made me feel nasty inside." I say, walking ahead of her weird ass. I ain't nobody's baby.

We walk over to the taco stand. "Can I get four chicken street tacos?" I ask. "That's $12.00" dude answers. I pull out my wallet then give him the cash for it. He walks away to start making our food. It's boring but I feel peaceful as hell for some reason. Me and Shai haven't had no sex. It's cool. Imma break her in when we get to New Orleans.

"I want this forever." Shai says to me while we eat. "You want what forever?" I ask, wiping her mouth with a napkin. "Just us being at peace. I love how nice you've been to me. I just love seeing this side of you. You've been such a gentleman and you've been treating me like you care. I'm not used to a guy really showing me that he cares this way." She says. "I care about you so why not show it? We gon' live it up, Shai. I promise." I promise her. She smiles as she looks down at her food. We definitely gonna do it big.

-

We've been parked on the river chilling in the rental car. The sun is starting to go down. I turn the radio up as Yo Gotti plays on my phone. "This song make me think about you when I hear it now." I admit. She smiles wide, nodding her head to his song We Can Get It On. "The view is beautiful." She says, staring at the bridge and everything. I nod my head in agreement. "When we lived here, my momma used to take us out here to throw rocks on the water and shit." I say.

"I wish I had those types of memories." She says. "Fuck what memories you don't have, Shai. We finna make whole new memories." I say. "Yeah, but the memories don't matter much to you. The time we're spending means everything to me. It's just something to do for you." She says. "You crazy if you really think me spending money to take you anywhere you wanna go and trying to surprise you tomorrow is just some shit I'm doing just to be doing. I don't do this shit for nobody but you. It's more than just something to do." I tell her. It is what it is.

"I can't tell. You confuse me. One minute you care, the next you don't." She says. "I told you I care a lot, Shai. I do." I assure her. She nods her head, wiping her tears away. "Never want for nothin', never need for shit. Cause I'm a real nigga and you's a real bitch." I rap along to her, making her laugh a little.

She leans in then kisses my lips. "Are you ashamed to be around me?" She asks. "We gon run past you putting your mouth on me?" I ask. "Sorry." She mumbles. I grab her face then kiss her soft. I pull away as she stares with her eyes wide as hell. That shit was just a peck. It ain't like it went far. It ain't no big deal. "I think I'm gonna faint." She mumbles. This shit so strange. What the fuck am I doing? How a nigga end up here?

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