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Never asking any questions because my kids knew when not to try me, they all jumped up from the table and headed in my direction. Journey came over and handed me my purse. As we walked out of the restaurant, I could hear Jerrod’s mother asking what was wrong and telling me to come back, so we could talk. The whole time, the bitch who made her grand entrance was sitting down in the spot which was originally my seat. I’d never in my life been so fuckin’ embarrassed.
As we walked out of the restaurant, Jerrod ran behind us, trying to get me to stop and get my attention, but I was holding onto each of the twin’s hands and walking the fastest that my little legs would allow me to. Journey wasn’t too far behind. I was just pissed that out of all the times I chose to valet park, it had to be on the night when I was desperately trying to get away from this man and his crazy ass family.
I was outside now, and I quickly handed the valet attendant the card, and just like that, he went to get my car.
“Takari, baby—”
“Baby?” I heard a female’s voice say.
I was angry. The type of angry where I wanted to fight, but I had my kids. My kids were there, and I need to be an example, so it put me in a fucked-up situation. Tears fell from my eyes due to my anger. The devil was testing me, and there wasn’t shit I could do because three pairs of eyes were on me, and I cared about what they thought of me.
“Jerrod, please get this bitch out of my fuckin’ face! You know me! You know that I will turn this restaurant the fuck out—”
“Jerrod!” she called his name again.
“Jerrod! Get this bitch from around me and my kids, and I fuckin’ mean it!” I screamed to the top of my lungs, sounding like a damn mad woman.
Jada started crying. My daughter hated to see anyone cry, especially her mother, so I wasn’t even shocked when I heard her cries. I felt her wrap her arms around my body, trying to not only calm me down but herself as well.
“Valentina, you gotta go. You got my wife pissed off, and you making my kids cry. Just go. Alright?” Jerrod said, turning his attention to her.
She looked at him for maybe three seconds before she pushed past him and headed in the direction of the parking lot.
“Shrimp, I swear on my kids that I didn’t know my mom was going to pull some shit like this. You mad, and I’m just as mad. How the hell you think my kids looking at me right now? I had to sit there and watch my mom be spiteful and bring another woman around my family. I’m mad too, and baby, I’m sorry. I’m sorry,” he said and reached out to touch me, but I pushed him away.
“Don’t fuckin’ touch me! Don’t touch me. I just don’t understand your logic, Jerrod. It’s obvious from the bitch popping up, your mom knowing her, and her getting all bent out of shape when you called me baby that you’re fuckin her. If that’s the case, why the hell won’t you sign the papers? I don’t want you to see my tears and misconstrue them as me being hurt behind seeing this woman because hurt is the last thing I’ll ever be. You put me in a situation where I could possibly act a fool in front of my kids, and I hate you even more for that. Just, please get the hell out of my face. Please!” I yelled and raised my arm to push him, but he wouldn’t budge.
Seconds later, my car was pulled around, and instead of Jerrod going back into the restaurant, he helped put the kids in their booster seats. The kids were just as upset with him as I was because when he went to kiss them, they all turned their heads, not wanting anything to do with him. I knew Jerrod; therefore, I knew that it hurt him for the kids to do that, but at this point, I could give two fucks about his little feelings.
“Wait, Takari. Before you go…” he tried to say, but I was already headed for the driver’s side door and getting ready to pull off on his ass.
All the kids were inside the car, so it just left Jerrod and me outside. I went to open the door, and he stood with his body pressed against mine as he slammed it. His hands went for my waist, and he squeezed.
“Jerrod—”
His hands went over my mouth, and he stopped me from talking. “You one of the healthiest people I know. You have a good digestive system, never had any eating disorders, none of that shit. I’ve been with you since we were teenagers, Kari, and the only time I remember you throwing up is when you were carrying my kids. I haven’t fucked you in months, so I know damn well that baby isn’t mine. If you are pregnant, I’m telling you right now to go ahead and dead that shit because you know me, baby. You know I’m not wrapped too tight. I love you too fuckin’ much to sit my ass still and watch you carry another man’s seed. Either you handle it, or I’ll handle it for you.
“You and I have played this game long enough. All Valentina was to me was some pussy and a good time since I wasn’t getting it from you. It’s clear that you’ve been out here doing the same thing, so we both fucked up, but we don’t have to continue fuckin’ up. Remember me telling you this because I don’t ever want you to be shocked when you see that I didn’t let your baby make it,” this crazy bastard had the nerve to say.
When he was done making threats, he kissed my cheek, and then he finally let go of my mouth. I quickly got in the car once I was released and locked the doors in a hurry. There were times when I thought Jerrod would talk just to talk, but something in his voice tonight told me that he would kill my child if I was indeed pregnant. God, I hope I wasn’t, even though it was a huge chance.
I had been slipping with taking my birth control pills every day like I was supposed to, and Za’Kai and I didn’t always use condoms. With tears in my eyes, I drove us home in complete silence. Look at the example that I was setting for my kids, especially my daughters. Here I was, not even divorced yet, and the possibility of me being pregnant by a man that my kids hadn’t even met yet was super high.
10
Za’Kai “Bully” Kemp
“Girl, it’s alright baby
’Cause it’s there in your eyes, yeah
I can see that you want me”
I had a nice little vibe going on in the living room of my apartment. It was almost midnight, and I was smoking on the fattest blunt as a way of celebrating my accomplishment today. A nigga had finally saved up enough money to put the deposit down for the building where I wanted my barber shop to be. There were only two times in my life when I had been happy like this, and that was for the birth of my two kids. I used to be just another nigga on the streets trying to sell drugs, stealing, and other illegal shit, just so I could survive. Now, here I was about to be a full blown business man. Nothing could ruin this moment for me.
Of course, I was still missing my ole boy, and it fucked with me hard to know that I couldn’t call him up and let him know that I now had the building, but I had to remind myself that he was looking down on me every day. I let my ole girl know the news this morning, and she was so happy for me that she was crying. I told Shrimp the news about an hour ago when she came over, and she was just as happy as I was.
Although she’d shown her happiness, I’d been picking up from her over the past few days that something was wrong because she just hadn’t been herself lately. Her ass hadn’t been the same since the night she went out for her mother-in-law’s birthday. That shit sounds crazy, right? The woman that I’m fuckin’ to sleep just about every night, eating on her pussy like its steak, taking her on dates, has a whole mother-in-law that’s not even my mother!
