Volume Fourteen

"I miss you." I spoke talking to Baby.

"I miss you too." He smirked.

"What you doing today?"

"Jae never been on a boat so we going to a yacht party."

"Jaelyn just living her best life." I chuckled.

"Her and Dai be blowing my shit." He scoffed making me laugh. "She say she never did it before and Dai just make shit appear. I ain't never hear of him talking bout no yacht party til she said some shit."

"You sound mad." I laughed.

"I'm not but I am." He laughed.

"How about you just fly back in?" I shrugged.

"I wish." He mocked my shrug. "How everything been with you?"

"They declared him brain dead so everything's just been silent."

"Damn, I'm sorry. You think I should text Sanaa?"

"Not right now, she's going through it right now."

"I can't imagine losing my brother man."

"I just fill bad for everybody else, they gon paint the city red for Face."

"As they should, one of my brothers die, God forbid, I don't wanna hear shit."

"Hey baby." Sanaa spoke coming to lay down in my bed.

"I was just talking bout you, I was gon text you but I know you tired of people feeling bad for you."

"I am." She shrugged. "I wanna have fun, I'm tired of being sad."

"Aight so when I come back how bout we go do something to get ya mind off everything? It's all on me."

"I'm with that."

"Aight, Spence Imma call you when I get off this boat."

"Okay." I smiled hanging up. "You okay?"

"Yeah."

"I just don't want you to be sad no more but I don't know how to make you feel better."

"I don't know how to feel better either."

"Wanna smoke?" I shrugged.

"Sure." She chuckled.

"You got weed?"

"No but I got a baby daddy." I laughed pulling out my phone to Facetime Kee.

"Wassup?" He asked.

"I got five on ittt." I sung making him laugh.

"You a clown but pull up on me."

"Me and Nana is on the way." I hung up.

"Y'all doing better." Nana pointed out as we started walking to her car as she threw the keys making me glare at her.

"We are cause we both understood we not for each other right now and it's not bad blood. Him and Baby even speak to each other, we just on some mature shit right now and honestly it's refreshing."

"Kee being on them pills was his biggest downfall."

"Thank God he off, it's like Face just made everybody life change. Kee working legally now, Terror just started his classes, Reem and Mickey just put down some money to start a business."

"They only doing stuff Face been telling them to do." Sanaa spoke. "I'm glad they doing it before it's too late."

"Word, you heard from Esme?"

"No but it ain't surprising. Face was my world but she was his too, at times she was closer to him than me, shit they even look alike."

"I'll always support her and Face."

"Me too because she the only one who actually cared about him."

"Have you spoken to his girlfriend? Do she even know?"

"Once that girl heard he wouldn't wake up, she dipped." Sanaa scoffed. "She talking bout she too young to be sitting and waiting for a nigga to wake up."

"She said that?"

"Literally. She said it on live so when I see her I'm going to beat her up."

"Nana you just wanna keep beating people kids up."

"I don't care, when the summer over I leave to another state for college so while I'm here Imma make sure nobody say shit."

"Imma miss you."

"Imma miss you more, even Kreed bad ass. Where is he?"

"He's with Kee mom for two weeks."

"You trust that?"

"Keohn do so I do." I shrugged. "His mom been doing good with Kreed so I trust it plus I could always drive down there and whoop anybody ass if my son not good."

"Periodt, godmommy coming too and ending shit."

"You just took this godmother title and ran with it." I chuckled pulling in front of the building calling Keohn. "I'm outside."

"Coming down in two minutes."

"Bett." I told him hanging up.

"I'm horny." Nana said making me look at her in surprise.

"You always fucking horny."

"It's the sadness in me." She shrugged as her phone started ringing. "Yes Terror?"

"Please don't play with me." He laughed. "Whoever you in the car with tell em to drop you off right na!"

"First of all-"

"Oh nah Spence you know I ain't talking to you like that." He said making me laugh.

"What you need?" Kee asked coming to my window.

"Please don't play with me." I told him as he laugh.

"Yeeeerddd!" Terror said making Kee look at the phone.

"Yerddddd!" Kee said back making me laugh.

"Y'all annoying." I looked at em.

"Fuck you at Mr.Officer?"

"Suck my dick yo." Kee laughed. "But I'm in the bribo, I'm popping out later it's too hot to be out here."

"Word, I just got out of class I'm tryna dip into some Sanaa." He smirked making me scrunch my face up. "Then Imma be out there."

"We gotta talk bout some thing-"

"First of all-"

"Y'all have each other number." Sanaa finished my sentence making me laugh.

"Man, you better beat me to the house that's all I know." Terror said making me laugh.

"I'll be there." She hung up on him. "You want me to take you back home?"

"Bitch, this why I don't go places with you." I rolled my eyes making her laugh.

"Just chill with Kee til I get back."

"I didn't wanna chill with Kee, the hell?"

"Oh aight then fuck you." Kee said making me laugh.

"You know I mean that with love baby daddy." I smiled as he mushed my head.

"If you coming you better let's go cause I'm hungry."

"I'm not cooking." I got out the car following him.

"I cook now." He smirked making me laugh.

"Hilarious, tell me another joke. I'm dying." I said making him stop walking and glare at me.

"Call Sanaa back, you not coming in."

"Boy bye." I chuckled walking past him.

I walked in seeing it was clean making me raise a eyebrow in surprise, it was clean in here I could actually see the floor. I walked to the refrigerator to see it was food in there too, he was actually doing good for his self, I was proud.

"Proud of me, right?" He asked smiling making me smile.

"I actually am." I told him sitting on the couch. "You was right, you actually didn't need me."

"Don't bring that up." He looked at me.

"You smoking?" I asked grabbing the weed and roll up.

"Yeah."

"You work in a jail Keohn."

"I got a pee cleanser plus I fuck with the warden, she gon tell me when they doing surprise drug test."

"If you wanna do that then do it, that's ya ass." I laughed.

"When you gon start back making your platters?"

"Too much shit been happening to even think about doing dinners."

"You gon start back up next week, on my next off day which is Sunday and Monday. You're going to think about what the hell you wanna make now."

"You be thinking you run shit and you don't bitch."

"Fuck up bitch." He said making me laugh as he passed me the blunt.

"You can't beat me bitch, play a movie though."

~

"You think I should just do soul food Sunday?" I asked Sanaa.

"Yeah, do some turkey wings I want some so bad."

"Some turkey wings, baked chicken, short beef ribs or oxtails."

"Bitch, that's expensive."

"I got food stamps girl." I laughed. "Plus Kee gave me some money."

"Well, shit I'm getting some motherfucking snacks." She said making me laugh.

"I been told you to get whatever you want."

Once we had a full cart of stuff, we had to get another cart. I just knew this was going to exceed $400 as we gathered to the front of the store I seen Meeka was the cashier making my eyes go big.

"Let's go to self checkout." I told Sanaa.

"Bitch no, we got too much shit."

"Aight well let's find another-"

"That's Meeka?"

"Sanaa it's security in here, we in the white Walmart we will get locked up." I told her.

"She gon think it's okay to keep talking about Face if I don't do anything."

"I'm not saying you can't beat her up, just don't do it right now."

"Now I know she working here, whew chile."

I chuckled as we walked into our line as soon as Meeka saw us it's like her whole heart dropped making me laugh. Bitches be so fucking scary and this bitch was too big to be scary like this.

"Can I go on break?" Meeka asked her boss as I laughed out loud.

"This punk ass bitch bout to start crying." Sanaa said as she recorded her. "This bitch so scary, relax mama you ain't getting beat up today."

"Sanaa bitch stop picking and put this shit on here." I laughed.

"Don't scan certain stuff, just put it in the bag. If you do Imma beat you up." Sanaa said making me start dying because Meeka just nodded her head doing what she said.

She was being a big ass bully cause she knew Meeka scary ass wasn't going to do anything. I would've felt bad but I don't.

"$328.90."

"Nah, I wanna pay less."

"Sanaa stop." I laughed handing her the card.

"Have a good day." She said handing me the receipt.

Sanaa turned around and spit directly in Meeka face, I opened my mouth in shock as I seen she was recording.

"I'm the wrong bitch to disrespect bout her brother, what you say? You can't wait til he dead so you could spit on his grave? Well bitch I spit on you. Do something!"

"Sanaa." I said trying to get her to move.

Meeka was just standing there looking like she was about to cry as the spit was going down her face. I couldn't even imagine getting spit on, let alone not doing nothing about it.

"This to all y'all bitches who said something about my brother, I'm coming for every single one of y'all. Ain't no remorse, fuck y'all."

Sanaa grabbed the cart making me chuckle, we were really just going to leave. Okay.

~

"What you want?" I asked.

"Collard greens, yams, Mac and cheese, oxtails but I want turkey wings too." She said looking over it.

"Girl." I rolled my eyes making her platter as she laughed.

"How much?"

"Girl, you know you wasn't paying. Please get out my kitchen miss."

"Your kitchen?"

"My kitchen miss."

She took her platter and left making me laugh, living with them I grew close to Yana like crazy. She was like the older friend you need who also was your mom, she treated me just like Sanaa and I loved her for that.

"Kee, I have a four deliveries."

"Six." Jala said.

"Ten." Esme spoke.

"Look at all my beautiful sisters." Benji spoke recording us. "Y'all sisters broke and musty, they could never."

"Periodt!" Esme yelled making us laugh.

"Aight Kee, come on." Q said grabbing all the platters.

"Add these too." I spoke after writing the order down and they info.

As they left I made some plates who wanted to pick up and paid to hold their plates until they got off work or could make it to me.

"We have enough for about ten more plates, get y'all orders in."

"Here." Esme handed me a 20 as she made her own platter.

"You so fucking greedy, this like ya 2nd platter."

"I barely eat cause all I do is work, I'm starving." She said making me chuckle.

Once I packed all the platters I put up everything and cleaned everything up so I didn't have to later. After doing that I went in Yana room laying in her bed.

"Why your greasy ass come lay in my room? You got your own bed."

"First of all." I rolled my eyes making her laugh.

"You done for the day?"

"Yeah, I'm exhausted. I miss Kreed."

"I miss his bad ass too." She said then looked at me. "Oh yeah, I wanted to talk to you too. You know how you always told me you wanted to get your culinary degree?"

"Yes."

"Well, it's this program for eight months that I signed you up for. The classes are free because you have a child and you're "homeless". I told them about you because my friend run the classes, he have a opening next week if you want to do this."

"Yeah, I want to do it."

"Okay, you have to go to the office tomorrow with your Id and social along with filling out some more paperwork."

"Okay, I could do that."

"And if you impress him, he lets you work at his restaurant but I don't want you to do that because I want you to have your own shit by time you get it. I seen this food truck for sale and I want to help you get it. It'll be like you having your own restaurant just on wheels."

"I never heard nobody besides Kee wanna help me so much." I said trying not to get emotional.

"I grew to love you, even though I made some mistakes with raising Face, even Sanaa, I always wanted more for them." She said as her eyes started getting watery. "That's why when you told me everything about your mother I couldn't believe it. I could never treat my kids like that, even after I kicked Face out I was calling him the next day, tryna give him money but it helped him grow up."

"It did, he learned how to be on his own. That tough love you gave him made him a better person. I can't wait until he get up so he can see all the love he receiving."

"He really was loved." She smiled.

"Ma, Meeka and her family outside. They wanna fight!" Sanaa said coming in before I could say anything.
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