“Whatever I can do to make you smile, or you,” he said, looking at me. “Or that baby in your stomach, I will.”
Amir stood up and dapped Love up. “Thank you.”
Once he pulled away from Love, he looked at me.
“And thank you. Will you sit with me at the service?”
I paused and looked at Love. He gave me a slight nod.
“Whatever you need me to do, I will.” Amir smiled and walked outta the room.
Leaving me and Love standing there.
“They are not going to like me sitting with him.”
Love shook his head. “We are sitting with him. That’s my son, and if he wants you beside him, you will be beside him.”
We spent the rest of the morning getting dressed. We all put on all black, with our jewelry doing the talking for us.
Before we got to the church, we stopped for breakfast for Amir and me.
Love kept his eyes on the road with his jaw tight. I know I hadn’t been the easiest to deal with, but I hope I wasn’t adding to his stress. I placed my hand on top of his, making him look at me.
I didn’t ask him anything, knowing that he took Jada from this world then had to sit front row at her service. To be honest, I didn’t want to go. She didn’t like me, and I didn’t do a thing to her.
But to find out that she helped Gio take me, I hate to say it, but I was glad that she was gone.
We pulled up to the church and saw a bunch of cars around with people walking up the steps to go inside. Love parked across the street and walked around to help me out.
He held me close to his side as we watched Amir get out, fixing his chain.
“You ready?” Love asked.
He exhaled and shrugged. “I have no choice, right?”
Love nodded. “I know this is going to be hard, but we got you.”
“I’ll be on one side and your dad on the other,” I added.
Amir smirked, stepped in the middle of us, and we walked across the street and up the steps. We were greeted by Amir’s great-aunt.
She hugged and loved on Amir while mean-mugging me and Love as we walked in.
Love looked over at me. “It’s okay, you know I will check them.”
I smirked. I knew he would do that and more.
We walked down the aisle slowly. People were stopping Amir to check on him and give their condolences.
Everybody that loved on Amir mean-mugged me and Love one by one. Part of me wanted to laugh in their faces; the otherside of me felt like I needed to run out when we finally made it to the front row.
Love and Amir stepped to the side so I could sit first, then Amir sat beside me. Love kept standing for a lil’ bit longer, mean-mugging everyone in that church back.
“Are you okay?” I asked Amir.
He took a deep breath.
“Right now I am.”
