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“That woman right there had my baby when I didn’t have not a damn thing to offer her. The money that I was supposed to be using to buy our baby’s diapers, I was using it to get studio time because I was trying to get us out of the hood. That woman right there, we done slept in cars together, went days without eating, just so we could put food and clothes in our baby’s mouth, and she never once complained. To my mama, I love you, woman and I thank you for doing it on your own. To my father, even though you weren’t there then, you’re here now, and that’s all that matters to me. Sincere, my producer, thank you for seeing something in me man, because if it weren’t for you, I would still be sleeping on my mom’s couch. To my two daughters and my sisters, I love y’all to death and y’all are set for life. My fans, thank you for supporting me. Thank you, thank you, thank you,” I said, holding the trophy in the air and I watched as I got a standing ovation.
This award was very much well deserved and everybody knew that. The awards went on for about another hour or so and even though I didn’t win for best music video, the fact that I was nominated was all that mattered to me.
You couldn’t win them all, but you could damn sure try. You got a dream? You go after it and don’t ever let a soul tell you what you can and cannot do! Nothing in life is free, and nothing will ever be handed down to you. You are the only person in life that can dictate whether or not you can do something. I suffered many bumps in the road to get where I am, and it all paid off. It paid off because I never listened to a nigga that didn’t believe in me. Believe in yourself and I promise that you’ll do great things in the end!
One year later
Epilogue
Chantel
“Oh my God, baby did you see this?” I asked Davion, coming into the living room where he was with my Kindle in my hands. My book, Materialistic Things Don’t Bring Happiness was a number one best seller, and in three days, I already had over fifty reviews. Thanks to Davion knowing people, he was able to set me up with a publisher and my book had been selling like crazy. I had worked my ass off with this book, staying up to the wee hours of the morning, and it had finally paid off.
“Wow, I’m so proud of you, baby! I told you to put all of that energy into your writing, and now look what happened,” Davion said as he pulled me down on the couch next to him.
This journey with this man has been everything but easy, but I was just so grateful to be able to spend it with him. I had gotten closer to his son, and luckily, his baby mama wasn’t a bitch. In fact, she supported or relationship, and every time Davion asked to see his son, she brought him over with no problem. Davion and I had actual
ly been working on having a baby of our own, and I couldn’t wait for that day to come. This time, I was willing to have a baby by a man because I was in love with him, not because of what he had and the things that would be available to me.
If I was guilty of anything, it was being in love with a man and wanting to do any and everything that I could do to keep him. I’m pretty sure a lot of people probably still don’t fuck with me because of the person that I used to be, and that’s fine.
But anyways, I’m out. I have a man to tend to. Peace!
Monae:
“Monae Williams,” the dean of Broward College said my name as I walked across the stage to receive my AA degree.
I had finally quit fucking around and took my damn education serious and today I received my degree. Even though it wasn’t a major degree, it was still something. I could hear my family and friends in the crowd cheering me on, and I smiled the whole time that I walked the stage. This journey has been anything but easy. Out of all the dudes that I could have fallen in love with, I chose to fall in love with my brother’s best friend. That shit was true when they say, ‘you can help who you love,’ because it didn’t matter what curves life threw at me and Quay, I just couldn’t seem to leave this man alone.
I’ll admit, in the beginning, I was a little immature. Then, once my brother found out about us and Quay and I decided to make it right, I began to act very insecure, which wasn’t my style at all.
Quay was the first guy that I had been with and I planned to keep it that way. I watched the way Quay made sure the people around him was good and then he looked out for himself. That was just the type of man he was, and I loved him for that. Our relationship was getting better and better by the day, and unlike my two friends, I wasn’t trying to have kids any time soon. Hell, I was still a baby myself, and I felt like it would be very ungrateful of me to bring a baby into this world, knowing that I wasn’t in the best position of my life to be a mother.
Oh, I also couldn’t have a baby right now because it’s official, your girl is now a Hurricane! It came in the mail yesterday that I was accepted into the University of Miami for the spring semester as a transfer student. I said it myself that I was going to walk that stage and make my mama proud, and I was doing just that. Now, in another two years, I would be walking it again, only his time I would be earning my Bachelor’s degree. But that’s enough about me. Peace and blessings!
Toya
“Oh my God, Dre, please put that damn game down and come and get one of your sons from out of here,” I hollered downstairs from the bedroom. Yes, you absolutely heard me right, it read one of your sons, which only means that three months ago, I had given birth to twin boys, who we named Darrel Malik Davis and Devonte Isiah Davis. Diandre had jinxed me with having twin boys and these two kept me busy all of the time. Here I was trying to finish up some paper work and I had both boys in their play pen next to my bed and they were screaming and carrying on, distracting me from the task at hand.
“What’s all of that fussing about?”
Dre came into the room and I wanted so badly to knock his ass out one good time. Oh, I forgot to mention, not only did I have a pair of twin boys who were bad as hell and wasn’t even walking yet, but I went to the doctor’s office yesterday and found out that I was thirteen weeks pregnant AGAIN!! This is what happened when you didn’t follow the doctor’s orders and wait the six weeks that you were supposed to until you could have sex again. I wasn’t even mad at Dre for it because I knew exactly what I was doing when I opened up my legs for him.
“My little angels in here giving Mommy a hard time?” Dre asked. He went over took them out of their cribs, putting both of them in either arm. I watched as they immediately stopped all of the previous noises that they were making with me and cooed at their father. Dre was a great father and he spoiled the hell out of his sons. I picked up my laptop along with my paperwork and was about to walk out of the room, but Dre told me to wait. He placed the boys back in the crib and came after me.
“What’s wrong with you, T? You good?” he asked, stepping out in the hall with me.
He took the things out of my hands and set them down on the floor. I looked at this man, who I had grown to love, and I couldn’t help but to smile at him.
“Yeah, I’m good. I was just going to let you bond with them while I went downstairs,” I said.
He pulled me close to him and placed his hands on my ass and squeezed. I wrapped my arms around his neck and gently kissed his lips.
“You know I can’t wait until next month, when we finally make this shit official,” Dre said, referring to our wedding. I looked up at him and smiled because I couldn’t wait either.
“Me either baby, even though I may have to get fitted again because I’ve gained weight. When I went to try the dress on the last time, I wasn’t pregnant yet,” I told him.
“Whatever you have to do to make our day special, you go ahead and do that,” he told me.
