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All I did was nod my head at her. She could fool her son, but she wasn’t fooling me. Her apology wasn’t genuine, and that bitch was lying, talking about she didn’t know that Jabari and I were serious with each other. She knew because she knew about us living together, and Jabari has never had a girlfriend a day in his life, so she knew. So that I didn’t put myself in a position to curse her ass out, I started putting the groceries away that Jabari had brought inside the house. Almost two minutes into me doing that, he joined me in the kitchen. He posted up against the wall with his arms crossed.
“The moment we got off the phone earlier, and I got out of the car, do you know that somebody tried to rob me?” I questioned. He quickly uncrossed his arms and gave me a look, basically telling me to continue what I was saying. “I was getting Jamaria out of the back when somebody came behind me and put a gun in my side. They wanted my purse, the diaper bag, and my ring—”
“Yo, you bullshitting!” he said, cutting me off.
“I’m serious, Jabari—”
“Then why the fuck you just now telling me this shit? You say that shit so fuckin’ casually and like it’s no fuckin’ big deal! You been in this bitch almost twenty minutes, Mahogany. How you let something like that just slip your mind?” he questioned.
“It didn’t slip my mind, nigga! I didn’t think your mama would be in the fuckin’ driveway when I pulled up. I planned to tell you the moment I walked in the door, but then all of this happened!” I yelled.
“Your purse and the baby bag are with you. You wearing your ring still, so what the fuck happened? If a nigga is going to rob you, he’s going to rob you. Ain’t nobody going to say never mind to a 4,000 dollar Chanel bag, a 2,000 dollar diaper bag, and a 60,000 dollar ring, so what happened?” he kept questioning.
“Jahir was coming out of the store, and he was able to stop him. The gun wasn’t real anyway. He was just using it to scare me. Damn, nigga, you don’t think you could be a little more comforting and vulnerable toward me right now? What if Jahir didn’t come out of the store, and what if the gun wasn’t fake? Fuck it, Jabari. You’re in a fucked up mood, and I’m in an even more fucked up mood because I have a woman that I don’t even care for out there holding my baby. So, let me just get the fuck from around you,” I said and slammed the water bottle down on the kitchen counter that I’d just taken out of the refrigerator.
I tried to walk past Jabari, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me into him.
“You want me to be comforting and vulnerable to you right now, but in the same sentence, you telling me how a pussy nigga tried to rob you while you were with our fuckin’ daughter. Excuse a nigga as I process this shit right now, shorty. You and Jamaria are two of my most prized possessions, and a nigga even holding a fuckin’ water gun to your head is enough for me to see red. It ain’t that I’m not trying to comfort you right now, but I’m picturing the many ways that shit could have ended for you tonight, that’s it. Damn, yo. You remember what he looks like?” Jabari questioned.
“No, Jabari, I don’t! It’s over. Jahir handled it. I don’t need you going out and doing anything stupid,” I said because he would leave the house right now and try to find the dude who had done it.
“Your ass ain’t going nowhere else. I swear you ain’t,” he said and pulled me tighter into him.
“You going to keep me locked up in the house? I think not,” I said and wrapped my arms around him as well and kissed his lips.
“Watch me. It’s about to be lockdown around this motha fucka. You can’t go nowhere without me, especially when you go somewhere with the baby. I’ll lose my fuckin’ mind if something were to happen to either one of y’all. Just thinking about some shit like that just stressed me the fuck out. Go start the shower. I’ll meet you in there. I need to release some stress right quick,” Jabari said, making me laugh.
“Nigga, you are full of shit.” I chuckled. “You find any excuse to bust a nut. You hit your toe on the edge of the bed last night, and you convinced my dumb ass that me fuckin’ you at two in the morning would make it feel better, and you have the nerve to call me slick,” I said as I pulled away from him and walked out of the kitchen, leaving him standing there.
“Seriously, shorty. Run the water. I’ll meet you up there in two minutes,” he yelled as I made my way up the stairs.
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His pleas fell on deaf ears. Jabari wasn’t stressed; he was just looking for any small reason to bust a nut.
Jashae Johnson
“Look at him waving. He’s… I mean, the baby is waving,” my doctor said, quickly trying to correct himself and say the baby is waving instead of him.
We were at my eighteen-week doctor’s appointment, and they were performing an ultrasound on me. As soon as we left the doctor’s office, we would be heading to the airport to get on the private jet to Jamaica, and Lord knows that I couldn’t wait for this vacation. I needed this vacation. The last time that I went on vacation was months ago when Miami had taken me to Orlando with him and Taniya.
This is like my first bae-cation ever, and I couldn’t wait. Mahogany and Jabari were going with the baby, Miami’s friend, Boss, who was actually the one who had put this entire trip together was going as well, along with his fiancée. I believe I heard Miami say that Boss’ sister was coming as well with her husband. It was a trip that I was actually looking forward to. We needed this. Our home has pretty much been in shambles since we’ve all stood there and witnessed Krystal being murdered right there in that parking lot.
Maya was pretty much back to behaving like she did when she first moved in with us, which was constantly crying all the time. Now, she was too afraid to even sleep in the room by herself, so these days, she had been sleeping in the bed with Miami and me.
Having to take Maya to her mother’s funeral last weekend was easily one of the hardest things that I ever had to do when it came to Maya. As much as I couldn’t stand Krystal, and as bad of a person as I thought her to be, even I can admit that she didn’t deserve what had happened to her. I mean, no, it wasn’t right on her part to fuck her cousin’s man, especially after that same cousin allowed her to move into her home, but damn, I didn’t agree that she had to lose her life in the end. Even I found myself sometimes waking up in a cold sweat as I thought back on that day. I couldn’t get those damn gunshots out of my head. I couldn’t get the images of Krystal out of my head from when I turned around and saw her lifeless body.
Maya would definitely be raised by us now because with Krystal gone, and me being so overprotective of Maya, I had no plans to let her out of my sight. I was going to raise this little girl to the best of my ability. At the age of six, this little girl has a father serving a life sentence and a mother who was murdered. I hate to say it, but her story is just too damn common in the back community. I had faith in Miami and me, though. We wouldn’t make Maya become another statistic.
“What do you mean he’s waving? We have another two weeks until we find out the gender. Right, Doctor?” I questioned, looking at him with hope in my eyes that it wasn’t a boy that he saw inside of me.
Miami was standing next to me, and I wanted to reach up and slap that dumb ass smile off his face. We’d brought Maya with us, and she was standing next to me, in awe of the baby that was on the screen.
“My big mouth. It slipped. I’m so sorry. I hope you weren’t planning to have a gender reveal because I obviously just revealed it right here. That’s a boy. Look at that right there,” he said and zoomed in closer on the screen.
When I saw the little penis, I broke out crying. Like, the ugly cry right in this doctor’s office. I let go of Miami’s hand, pushed him away from me, and everything. Meanwhile, he was jumping up and down in this small room, yelling out all type of stuff that wasn’t doing anything but making me cry even harder.
“Ms. Johnson, you will be fine. Boys are fun. I have three of my own. Let me give you a minute,” my doctor said before placing his hand on my shoulder to give me a little bit of support right before he walked out of the room.
