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From the look in her eyes, I knew she was pissed off and sad that her friend wasn’t coming to get her. Something else about her eyes stood out to me too. I could see that she was fed up with me and this fuckin’ relationship. Shit didn’t start getting bad with us until she got pregnant. I knew I was stressing shorty out; I could feel it, but I swear that I wasn’t trying to.
“I don’t want to go with you, Jabari. Just let me go. I’ll find my own way back home. I left your mama’s house for a reason—”
“A stupid ass reason, yo! You didn’t even talk to me about the shit first. You just left! You think I would have left you over there had I known that bitch was going to drop by? Mahogany, you know better that anyone that I always steer you in the opposite direction of any bitch that I done ever fucked with. I don’t even let a bitch do your hair, nails, or wax if I know I fucked them, and you know that! Just the other day, you showed me somebody’s Instagram who does braids, and I told you not to go to her because I fucked in the past. Did I or did I not?” I questioned her.
Of course, her ass ignored me because she saw where I was going with this.
“A nigga is not perfect, but I’m also not foolish enough to do some stupid ass shit like that and lose you behind it! Let’s go, shorty. We out here with motha fuckas all in our business and shit. Let’s discuss this bullshit in private! I done told you that Jashae is not coming, and I’m not about to let you jump your ass in another Uber. Let’s go!” I barked, ready to drag her if I had to.
“Your taking me home, though. That’s where I want to go, and I don’t want to be around you,” she had the nerve to say.
That comment triggered the fuck out of me. I put my mouth to her ear, and my hand on her stomach.
“You pregnant with my baby, shorty, which means you got to be around me for the rest of your fuckin’ life! Should have thought about that shit before you started bouncing your ass on my dick, and I didn’t have on a glove,” I let her know.
I saw the hairs on the back of her neck stand up when I said that shit. She didn’t even respond, which was shocking because she always had a comeback for something. I kissed her on her ear and walked with her through the crowd of people. We finally made it to the car, and I put her luggage in the back seat before I helped her get in the front. During the ride home, she sat in the passenger seat with the hood over her head, and her head leaned against the window, not saying shit. I honestly didn’t care if she didn’t say anything, as long as she got her ass in the car with me.
She said she wanted to go to her house, so that’s where we were going. It was a little bit of traffic getting out of the airport, so it took us a little longer than usual to get to her house. Mahogany lived in a gated community with new townhouses that were just built last year. When I made it to the resident’s side, she handed me her fob, which was on her key ring, and it opened the gates for us. I continued in the direction of her house, and once I found it, I pulled into the two-car driveway. Since her car was at my house, I just pulled my car in the middle, taking up both spaces.
When I shut the car off, I could feel her eyes on me.
“Why are you turning the car off? You’re not staying. I was serious when I said that I didn’t want to be around you, Jabari. I want some space. I feel like you and this relationship is consuming me,” her dumb ass said.
“Aye, watch your mouth, man. I was serious when I said that you don’t have a choice but to be around me. This pregnancy got you losing your fuckin’ brain,” I let her know.
“I just don’t understand you and your narcissistic ways. You are the fuckin’ epitome of a hypocrite. You just got mad at me yesterday because a guy that I used to date came over and addressed me in public. Now, it’s a brand-new day, and the same shit happened to me, only difference was a bitch that you used to deal with was comfortable enough to bring her ass over to your mama’s house. Do I not have the right to be mad? Do I not have the right to want some time to myself? Nigga, you went and spent damn near three hours at the gym last night, then you brought your ass home and slept in a completely different room from me. You had your space, so let me have mine!” she screamed.
She was upset, stressing, and in her feelings.
“You had all of the fuckin’ space you needed on that airplane. Let’s go, shorty,” I said, this time getting out of the car.
“I’m beginning to hate you, Jabari,” she said, catching me off guard with her words.
I spun around, turning my head like I was the damn devil. I could tell from the look in her eyes that she was scared of what would spew out of my mouth next.
“Why you hate me, Mahogany, huh? Prior to this, you loved the fuck out of me, ain’t it? Look, believe what you want to believe, but I done told your dumb ass that I d
idn’t know the bitch was going to come over there. Fuck you want me to do? Draw the shit out and say it in sign language for your ass?
“I can’t believe that we really here arguing over a bitch that I haven’t fucked in over ten years! In that crazy ass head of yours, do you really think that I purposely left you over there with my ole girl so that you could be around an old bitch that I used to deal with? Answer me that. If that’s what you believe, then I’ll get the fuck from over here right now because that just tells me that you don’t think that I give a fuck about you or our baby,” I said, looking at her with all seriousness in my eyes.
“No, I don’t believe that, Jabari, but—”
“Then end this conversation now! You ain’t doing shit but stressing out my child—”
“Jabari—”
“Yo, ain’t I say to end it?” I barked.
Her eyes had gotten watery, but she didn’t say anything else back to me. I slammed the car door and went over to the back, so I could get her luggage out. With her keys still in my hands, I let the two of us in. She went right for the alarm, disarmed it, and I watched as she kicked her shoes off and took the stairs, more than likely up to her bedroom. I badly needed a damn blunt.
After setting her luggage down in the house, I went right back outside. I sat in the backyard on one of the patio chairs. It didn’t take long for me to have a blunt rolled. For almost ten minutes, I was left to my thoughts as I let what was inside this joint take me away, although I knew that it was only temporary. I thought about the shit that Miami said over the phone about fighting for my relationship. I wasn’t used to fighting for a woman to love me because I’d become so accustomed to women practically throwing themselves at me that I never really had to fight for love.
With Mahogany, the shit was so fuckin’ different because I loved her, and it meant everything in this fuckin’ world for her to love me back. The selfish part of me wanted to say fuck her and this relationship and leave now, but I couldn’t do that shit. Not when she and that little girl in her stomach needed me. I personally just didn’t feel like I was the one who should have been blamed in this situation, but if it was going to make shit better with me and Mahogany, I would step up.
When I finished off the blunt, I went back inside the house. Mahogany would kill a nigga for going upstairs with my shoes on and walking on her carpet, so I kicked them off before I headed up the stairs. Everything about her home screamed girly. Nothing in this house had a man’s touch to it. Mahogany moving in with me was definitely something that had been discussed a few times, and I knew that when that day came, we were going to butt heads a lot because we both had our own little style. Mahogany liked all of that gray, creme, and shiny shit, while I was laid back, liking shit that had black in it.
I didn’t plan to make Mahogany a live-in baby mama or girlfriend. For me to even think about her moving in with me, that shows right there that I would want her title to be upgraded.
