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Fezco's grandma was a fucking G.

Mariah had known about her since she first began talking to Fezco since he would always talk about her, he would tell Mariah stories.

She loved hearing about his grandma, because 1. she was a literal fucking G, and 2. Mariah knew that she meant a lot to Fezco, and telling stories about her was for sure helping him cope with the fact that she was in a coma and was most likely never coming out of it.

She liked being there for him in any way she could, including listening to his gangster grandma stories. Mariah herself had grown to love the woman although they had only met one sided.

That didn't matter though. Mariah loved her, for who she was and for all she did for Fezco. Mariah loved her for loving Fezco when he probably needed it most, as a kid.

Fezco meant the world to Mariah, and her heart broke at the thought of what he had to go through when he was little, but knowing that his grandma saved him from it all and took him under her wing was a big relief. Mariah loved her for taking care of him.

So in return, she took care of her. Sometimes when Fezco was busy, she'd give Marie her meds or a spongebath, honored that Fezco trusted her with the huge responsibility.

Or whenever Fezco and Ashtray were out and Mariah was left alone, she'd check in on Marie and make sure everything was good. And she knew she couldn't hear her, but Mariah would talk to her sometimes.

She'd heard Fezco talk to her a few times, so why couldn't she? She had a lot to talk about.

She told her than she was a fucking G, of course, for what she did to Fezco's dad, praising her for hurting the man who hurt him, then would go on to tell Marie about Fezco hurting the men who hurt her.

And that would lead to her really just talking about Fezco.

Mariah loved to talk about her man.

And Fezco loved to talk about his girl.

Fezco hadn't given his grandma a spongebath in a minute, having been busy with Mouse and Custer and the whole drug thing and then Christmas a few days ago and Ashtray and Rue stressing him out, but he was taking a day off and away from everything but his girl, so he had the chance to cater to his grandma while Mariah made sandwiches with big ass bread.

Rue was over, like she had been almost every day of her winter break from school, high off her ass watching the TV in the living room and talking to Mariah about her girl problems.

Fezco got tired of usually sitting in on the conversation while he smoked a joint, using the excuse that he had to give his grandma a sponge bath.

"Sup grandma," He mumbled a greeting as he walked into her room, setting the bucket he just filled with soap water on the floor by her bed.

He pulled up a chair and got to work asap, as always, being as careful and as caring as he possibly could be when caring for her.

"I know I ain't been in here doin all dis in a minute, thas my bad," Fezco apologized after a few seconds of silence as he squeezed the sponge out into the bucket. "Been busy, but I'm here right now. And my girl's got me, she got you when I don't. I know Mariah been taking good care of you."

He smiled to himself at that, recalling the heartwarming feeling he got every time Mariah told him about her day when she was home alone, hearing her mention anything involving his grandma. The two women he loved the most.

He glanced up at his grandma's face, still smiling to himself, "She's the best, on god. Think my ass more in love now that she living wit us and shit."

Mariah paused in the doorframe once she heard Fezco talking, accidentally listening in on the one sided conversation when she originally came to ask Fezco if he wanted his bread toasted or not.

She knew he talked to his grandma but she didn't know that she was something he talked about, and Fezco talked about her a lot. But hearing him tell his grandma that he was in love had her cheesing, so hard that her cheeks started to hurt.

Mariah knew good and well that she was head over heels in love with Fezco and she knew it was the same on his end, but hearing him say it to someone had her over the fucking moon.

"She put up a Christmas tree for me and for Ash, like you used to," Fezco continued with a slight nod. "Shit's nice. Christmas was a few days ago."

Fezco hadn't had a real Christmas, like the ones portrayed in all the sappy Christmas movies not once in his life. His grandma always did what she could and he knew and appreciated that and everything she did for him and Ashtray, but everything that his girl did for them was just different.

And this year, though he didn't have the overly huge family and all that other shit, was his first real Christmas, thanks to his girl. She really went all out for him, despite how many times he told her not to worry about it.

She made him and Ashtray food and bought them presents and wrapped them all nice and pretty with huge pink bows on them and made them watch Christmas movies with her. She forced them both to wear Santa hats with her and take cute lil pictures where Ashtray mean mugged the couple in every single picture taken. Rue was even over for a while, tired of her family and being welcomed into the O'Neill house.

Christmas was nice. It was fun.

Up until Custer showed up at the front door, his nose all bandaged up due to the events of a few nights ago that Mariah had completely forgotten about.

She had a bad feeling about Custer showing up, side eyeing him as he spoke to Fezco in a hushed voice, acting like Fezco wasn't gonna tell his girl everything Custer had said the second he was out the door.

Custer was hooking Fezco up with some supplier named Laurie, and though Fezco told Mariah everything about everything, his job and drug dealing were the only things she had limited knowledge on. He preferred to keep her away and out of his shit.

"Babe stop being a lil hoe and tell me what he said," Mariah whined as she watched Fezco smoke a blunt while he watched the Drake and Josh Christmas special on the TV in the living room.

"Babe stop being nosy and watch the movie," Fezco mocked her tone, nudging her so she'd turn her head to face the TV.

Mariah just rolled her eyes, pushing his hand off where it rested on her stomach, which he started doing after she once placed his hand on her stomach after eating and told her to feel their baby, which was really just all the food she had just ate.

"Nah c'mon, don't be gettin mad at me on Christmas," Fezco kissed his teeth playfully, wrapping his arm around her torso to pull her all close to him after she scooted away. "You know ion like involving you wit all my shit, ma."

"I think it's a little too late for that," She rolled her eyes once feeling his lips press themselves against her neck, which he knew was a way to get her to stop being mad at him, although she wasn't really mad.

"I know, but still, less you know the better," Fezco mumbled, his lips moving against her neck as he spoke, which made her shiver and gave her goosebumps.

He smirked at that, pressing another kiss to her neck, making her place her hand on his chest to push him away.

"I hate you. I'm not fucking you for the rest of the year."

Fezco let out a laugh, "Think I can last a week."

"No you can't," Ashtray argued from the other couch, watching the two in pure disgust.

"Ha," Mariah smirked at Fezco. Ashtray had been taking her side for everything lately and she loved it, blowing the kid a kiss before scooting away from her man again.

"Why are you laughing?" Ashtray furrowed his eyebrows at her, fighting the smirk that threatened to form on his face. "Yo ass can't last a week either. Nasty."

"Shut up you're suppose to be on my side," Mariah reminded him.

"I'm on whatever side will let me sleep at night," Ashtray shrugged.

Mariah gave him a look, "Which is my side."

"But you and me and Fez all know–shit even Rue, who's cracked out in the bathroom, and grandma who's in a coma in her room knows that y'all nasties are gonna be fucking tonight," Ashtray scoffed, earning a quiet laugh from his brother.

"No, I'm for real about not doing shit til the New Year. Remember that one time I said that I wasn't gonna fuck him for the rest of the month?" Mariah asked.

"Mar Mar–it was the last day of the month and I walked in on y'all about to fuck on the counter at the store," Ashtray reminded her with a disgusted look.

Fezco bit back a laugh at the memory, glancing down at his girl under his arm after successfully pulling her back into him without her even noticing.

"Shut up," Mariah rolled her eyes because he was right, eyes flickering away from Ashtray to look at the TV, and then to Fezco, who was still looking at her.

She smiled a little once meeting his eyes, getting butterflies at the fact that he had been staring at her.

"Hi."

"Hey," Fezco said back, giving her a lil smile back before pressing a kiss to her forehead and squeezing his thigh in her hand.

Mariah grinned, softly grabbing his pretty ass face in her hands as his lips detached themselves from her forehead, pressing a kiss to forehead in return, along with a kiss to every inch of his face.

"Bro what is you doin," Fezco laughed before placing his blunt between his lips, her lips leaving a tickling sensation in some parts of his face as she repeatedly kissed him.

Mariah giggled as she paused for a second, "Tryna kiss all your freckles duhhhh."

Fezco raised an eyebrow while she continued, letting out a laugh. "You got a long way to go, shorty."

"I know," Mariah smiled, pressing a few kisses to his neck. "I can kiss the ones on your dick later."

Fezco's breath got caught in his throat, eyes flickering over to Ashtray to catch his reaction, but he hadn't heard anything being too caught up on his phone now, smiling and giggling down at his screen.

Mariah raised her eyebrow at Fezco and glanced back at Ashtray, completely forgetting that he was there and that that's what Fezco was staring at before exchanging looks with Fezco.

"Yo, who got yo ass smilin and giggling at yo phone and shit?" Fezco spoke first after exchanging a lil smirk with his girl.

The two watched as Ashtray's smile dropped, slowly glancing up at the two from his phone, looking like a lil kid getting caught doing some bad shit.

He didn't say anything, just glared at them both before he stood up off the sofa and shoved his phone in his pocket as he walked off into his room, taking his Santa hat off az he did.

"Aweee let me find out he has a girlfriend. That's so cute," Mariah gushed, resting her head against Fezco's.

"Nah, we gon clown the fuckkkk out of him. He ain't shut the fuck up when he found out bout you," Fezco scoffed, recalling the way Ashtray wouldn't ever shut the fuck up when it came to Mariah. "He use to think you was setting me up though."

Mariah furrowed her eyebrows, "Setting you up? How?"

"Like, wit Mouse and shit," Fezco mumbled lowly, staring into his girlfriend's eyes.

"Ash thought I was setting you up?" Mariah asked, lowkey hurt.

"Yeah, when we found out you knew Mouse and shit. I hadda tell him there was no way you was doin that cause you were letting me hit it raw," Fezco explained to her, sneaking his hand onto her ass to give it a squeeze.

Mariah giggled, "You did not say that."

Fezco scoffed, "Yeah I did."

"I'm back! What'd I miss?" Rue spoke, stumbling into the living room from spending almost an hour asleep on the toilet in the bathroom.

"Yo, welcome back," Fezco told her as she plopped down on the sofa, grabbing a handful of chips from the bag that Ashtray left behind.

"Are you okay?" Mariah asked the girl.

"I'm fucking great, why do you ask?" Rue asked with a dopey smile.

Mariah shrugged, "You were in there for a while."

"Yeah, I fell asleep. I feel great though. Everything's great," Rue left out a sigh. "Should I go look for Jules?"

"No, fuck Jules," Mariah answered right away.

Over the past few days, Rue had been coming over a lot, and she'd been confiding in Mariah about her problems with Jules.

Rue hadn't seen Jules since she left her at the train station the night of her Winter Formal, the night that Mouse and Wayne died.

It was no secret that Rue missed her, and she couldn't talk to Fezco about it since all he would say is "word" so she talked to Mariah.

And though Mariah would be crying and throwing up if she were in Rue's shoes and Fezco left her at the train station to run away, she told Rue to get over that bitch and just fuck someone else.

Mariah would never take her own advice but she felt like it was the best thing for Rue to do.

"But don't actually fuck Jules, fuck someone else," Mariah added shortly after.

Rue thought about it for a second before smirking, "Can I fuck you?"

"No," Fezco answered before Mariah could answer, and also before Mariah could even ask him for permission to fuck Rue.

"Sorry babe but my man doesn't share," Mariah laughed.

Fezco tsked, shaking his head, "I ain't letting you fuck no crackhead."

"So like, if I get sober you'll let her?" Rue asked, sitting up in her seat. "Cause I can get sober."

"Aweee you'd get clean for me?" Mariah asked, placing her hand over her heart before smiling up at Fezco. "Babe say yes."

"Yo, why you tryna fuck Rue?" Fezco gave his girl a weird look and laughed. "Like, I get why she's tryna fuck you, but–"

"Just so that she'll get clean," Mariah rolled her eyes, speaking in a whisper. "I don't actually wanna fuck Rue."

"You better not," Fezco whispered back, making Mariah smile.

"You know I'm all yours daddy," She whispered before pressing a kiss to his cheek.

"Fez, if you were in my situation, what would you do?" Rue questioned. "Like, if Mariah ran away and just left you."

Fezco put his blunt out onto the ashtray on the coffee table before eyeing his girl, "Shit, I'd go and find her ass."

Rue nodded understandingly, "Sooo then I should probably go look fo–"

"Nah, fuck Jewel. Jus go fuck someone else," Fezco repeated what his girl said to Rue about a million times and shook his head.

"Okay I tried that, you won't let me fuck Mariah," Rue scoffed.

"Someone that ain't my girl," Fezco scoffed with a shake of his head. "Got me fucked up."

"Okay shut up anywayssss," Mariah disregarded him, placing a hand on the side of his face to push him away as she spoke to Rue. "This bitch literally left you at the train station, like she didn't think twice about leaving you and that says a lot. Forget about her and move on. Just not with me. I'm married."

Rue raised an eyebrow as she watched Mariah stick her hand out with the biggest smile on her face as she showed off the promise ring Fezco had given her.

She didn't know how to act wearing his ring, making sure he could see it anytime she passed him anything or literally did anything with her hand in his presence.

She was extra, but it was cute. Fezco found her excitement cute. It just got him excited for the day he gave her an engagement ring. He could already see the cute ass smile on her face.

Rue ended up staying til past midnight, helping Fezco and Mariah make fun of Ashtray being all giggly at his phone, comparing him to Fezco when he first started to talk to Mariah.

Rue watched Ashtray open all his gifts like a little kid at 12 a.m. before Fezco gave her a ride home, then took Mariah and Ashtray around to look at all the pretty Christmas lights.

Fezco and Mariah's Christmas day consisted of sleeping in til 2 p.m., only waking up to go shower together before Mariah put on a lil fashion show and tried on all her new clothes for him.

Spending the holidays with someone was nice. As fuck.

Fezco felt like he was dreaming, and every morning that he woke up, he half expected for everything to have been a dream that he just now woke up from, but his girl was right besides him every morning, so that wasn't it.

This was real fucking life. His life.

And nothing could possibly ruin this for him.

I'm back 😚