AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Okay. I love you more,” I responded.
“Bullshit.” And with that, he ended the call, making me laugh.
Traffic was fine today getting to Mahogany and Jabari’s house, so in no time, I was whipping my car into their massive circular driveway. I got out of the car with my purse on my shoulder, and I headed over to the front door. They had the Ring doorbell, so I went ahead and rang it. It took about two minutes for me
to finally hear some type of movement, and then finally, the doorknob turned.
I smiled when I saw Mahogany and Jamaria standing on the other side of the door. Mahogany had hand sanitizer right on the table in the foyer, solely for when people walked in and wanted to touch the baby, so I quickly put some on, and I all but grabbed Jamaria out of her mother’s arms.
“You’re soooo beautiful. Do you know that? Ohhh, I love you so much,” I cooed to her beautiful self.
Mahogany had her dressed in a denim Juicy Couture jumper, and a little pair of pink sandals were on her feet. She had a pink headband on her head with a flower that sat at the front. Even with me already pregnant, the baby fever was still so damn real.
“Let me finish packing her diaper bag, then we can go,” Mahogany said, and I followed her until we got into the kitchen.
Jamaria was just gurgling away as I held her and talked to her.
“I got to have a girl so bad. Look at these cute little sandals and this headband. I can’t wait to buy girly stuff, accessories, and do her hair in little ponytails. I told Miami that I would cry if I get a boy again, and I’m so serious,” I let Mahogany know as she made a bottle.
She laughed at what I said while shaking her head.
“I heard Jabari on the phone last night with Miami. He had the phone on speaker, and I was sitting right next to him. Miami said that he was looking up information online to tell if you were carrying a boy, and he said that from all the stuff he read about, you had it. From being stressed out before the baby was even conceived, he said your mood swings are up and down, you had morning sickness and some other stuff. That man is adamant that you’re having his son,” she said, and I waved him off.
“Girl, please. You had every symptom that you just named, and you ended up having a girl. I don’t believe in half the shit that I read on the internet with these fake ass wannabe doctors,” I let her know.
“Vonte was easy. I would think you would have wanted another boy,” she said, and I nodded.
“I experienced having a boy already, so I want something different this time around. You remember Vonte telling me that he wanted a little sister. I’m just wishing for something that the two of us wanted. Well, what I want now because you know at the time that he was asking, I was in no way, shape, or form ready to be busting out another baby. Crazy how the times have changed, right? I used to swear up and down that I was done having kids.”
“Look at you now. All in love and shit. I’m happy for you and Miami. I love the two of you together. When Jabari told me that the two of you were going through y’all little thing, I was worried. Of course, I was still too mad at your ass to call and check up on you, though,” she said, and I playfully rolled my eyes.
We talked for another ten minutes or so until she took Jamaria from me and put her in her car seat to carry her to the car. We were finally all in, and it took me maybe twenty minutes or so to get us to my grandmother’s house. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that my grandmother’s car was the only car in the driveway. I would have hated to drive all the way down there, just for my daddy to be there and have Mahogany tell me that she didn’t want to stay. Then, I would have to turn around and take her and the baby all the way back home.
“Put that blanket over that baby’s car seat. It’s windy as hell out here. You think that baby be crying now. You haven’t seen a damn thing yet if you fuck around and that baby gets sick,” my grandma got on Mahogany as she took Jamaria from the back with her still in her car seat.
Mahogany barely had the car seat out, and my grandma was yelling for her to cover her up with a blanket. Now, Mahogany was a grown ass woman getting yelled at, so you can only imagine the way my grandma used to get in my ass when I had Vonte. I swear I couldn’t do shit right.
“Damn, Ma. Let me fully get her in my hands,” Mahogany said, putting the blanket over the car seat and walking over to the porch where my grandmother was standing.
I laughed because the two of them could go at it all day if need be. We were all inside the house, and as if my grandma had baby fever, she stood there cooing over Jamaria as she took her out of her car seat and held her in her arms.
“I see you happy, out of the house, and smiling. Your husband must have given you some dick,” my grandma said with her eyes fixed on Mahogany.
I shook my head while pulling my phone out to text Miami and let him know that I’d made it. My grandma was quick to lecture the two of us and let us know that she wasn’t one of our friends but would sit up and talk to us as if she was one.
“He sure did. He put it downnnn, Ma. I’m in love with him all over again,” Mahogany said.
“Being in love all over again is going to have you down on your ass again, pushing out another baby. It ain’t even been six weeks yet. Boy, I tell you, you new generation of women don’t follow shit or take shit seriously. Them doctors are for real when they tell you to hold off on sex until six weeks after the baby is born. Your body can conceive a baby right now so easily,” my grandma fussed at Mahogany.
“But the Plan B that I purchased from the store myself the morning after has decreased my chances of getting pregnant again, Ma,” Mahogany let her know right before she reached over and kissed my grandma on the cheek.
Before my grandma could even respond, we all heard a door close from outside. From where I was sitting, I had the perfect view of the window, which showcased the front of the house. I sighed and bit down hard on the bottom of my lip when I saw that it was my daddy’s truck pulled in behind Mahogany’s car. I didn’t know how this was going to go down, but a small part of me was happy as hell that Miami had Maya right now because I didn’t want her to witness this. Mahogany was so wrapped up in a conversation with my grandmother that she didn’t even realize that my dad was outside.
“Why didn’t you tell me that he was coming? I would have come without Mahogany,” I said to my grandma, breaking their conversation before he could come inside the house.
Mahogany looked out the window, and when she saw his truck, she stood up. She took a sleeping Jamaria from my grandmother and walked over to her car seat to put her inside. At the same time, he was coming through the door.
“I had no idea he was coming over here. Mahogany, wait! This conversation is long overdue. I’ll take the baby,” she said, attempting to get Jamaria from her arms, but Mahogany stepped back.
