𝐀 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 - 𝐏𝐨𝐩 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬

Pop's House 📍
1:45pm

"Ahhhhh Cielaaaaa!" Audrey throws her arms up greeting me at the door, "Andddd Cameronnnn!" She smiles going to hug him.

When we walk in, there were a few people there including Obasi and two older kids.

"You must be the grandmother i'm always hearing about!" She laughs going to hug abuela, "It's nice to finally meet you."

"Si, it's so nice to meet the woman who raised Bashar into the young man he is today."

"Thank you," Audrey smiles, "Okay," She closes the door behind us, "Do you wanna introduce her to your aunties or so you want me to?" She looks up at Pop as everyone goes into the living room.

"This is my girl Ciela."

"Hi everybody," I smile.

"How you doing."

"I see you nephew."

"Okay!"

"And this is her grandmother Mrs. Fuentes and her brother Cam," Pop adds as we all take a seat on the couches.

"I'm his uncle william," He stands up and stretches his arm across the coffee table holding out his hand, "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too," I smile as we shake hands. He then shakes abuela's and Cam's.

Everyone else introduces themselves as his aunts and cousins. He didn't have much but it was a handful.

"Yo you play ball?" One of the boys ask Cam.

"What?" Cam stands up, "I'm goated at ball."

"Let's go outside and see who really goated!" The boy laughs making everyone else laugh.

"You drink?" Audrey asks abuela from the kitchen, "I have some wine.. tequila."

"I'll have some wine," Abuela gets up and goes into the kitchen.

"So, we wanna know about you. Where are you from. How long you guys been together. I wanna know it all."

"She's the nosey aunt, all up in these kids' business- leave these kids alone Tanya."

"Nah it's fine, I dont mind. I'm from Brooklyn but grew up upstate and part in the bronx. I moved a lot," I look at Pop before quickly looking back at them, "We've been together for a few months now.. and uhm-."

"What is your nationality?" Tanya asks, "I can't pick it up, it's like his father's but i'm not going to assume you're panamanian and jamaican," She chuckles.

"She's every island in the book!" Pop laughs making them laugh.

"Haziel which is my father is jamaican and dominican and my moms is puerto rican and trinidadian."

"That's a crazy mix!" One of his uncles laugh, "They were born and raised on the islands or-."

"My moms was born and raised in puerto rico before she came out here and had us and everything my father been a new yorker his whole life."

"Well where are they?" Tanya scoffs, "Why didn't the whole family come?"

My face immediately went straight. That was the moment I realized how broken my family was. Only having abuela look after us. Having to hide that I was meeting with my birth mother since mid April. Being kicked out but Luce and Haziel.

It all just came rushing back, in an instant.

"Uhm," I clear my throat.

"She doesn't-," Pop began to talk before abuela and Audrey walk in the living room.

"So what's everyone talking about?" Audrey asks.

"Just getting to know Ciela.." Tanya smiles, "So, where's the rest of the family?" She continues.

"What do you mean?" Abuela speaks up as she sits beside me.

"Her parents. We wanted to meet the whole family today!"

"Her father couldn't come and her mother neither."

"Abuela.." I sigh looking at her, "Parar ya por favor."

"Qué Ciela?" She turns her whole body towards me.

"Nada.." I shake my head, "I don't have a dad.." I face everyone else, "Never did. Never really had a mom neither, til now."

"Oh, i'm sorry.." Tanya sucks her teeth before looking at Audrey then Pop and his dad.

"Nah it's alright."

"No it's not, I got pushy. I just get like that whenever one of my nephews bring a girl home that's it. I'm the over protective one. I catch all the vibes.. good and bad! Shar's never brought home a girl for us to meet so i'm extra excited today. I apologize if I made you feel uncomfortable baby, I didn't mean anything by it."

Her apology didn't change the fact that reality had finally set in. I knew abuela was gonna catch on to what I said and question me in private about having a mom 'til now'.

2:35pm
"And then when Audrey told us Shar was bringing home a girl I just thought, 'oh he's in love!' he never brings home a girl!"

After a while, I started getting comfortable with them. It felt like I was talking to Haziel's side of the family.

"What do you think about him huh? How do you handle him on a daily basis without wanting to beat him up everyday because he knows how to get on someone's nerves!"

"Does he!" Audrey laughs before sipping her wine.

As us girls and his cousins were in the kitchen talking, the guys were in the living room paying card games.

"I don't know to be honest," I laugh, "It's like we just have a really good understanding of eachother. Before we started dating and everything it was like we studied eachother and learned how we get when something upsets us or gets us mad- we learned each others emotions. Then from there, It was like-."

"You two are in love it disgusts me," His cousin laughs making everyone laugh.

"Are we?" I smirk before blushing a little.

"Yes you guys are, no ones ever gotten the boy to go back to church after he got caught up with the police. That's a huge accomplishment, he loves you. He never showed emotion til now it's crazy."

"Babe c'mere," Pop comes up next to me holding out his hand, "I wanna show you something."

"I'll see you guys in a minute," I say before grabbing his hand.

He leads me downstairs to his room and I see a bunch of blue roses around the room. There were bags from Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Valentino and Chanel.

"Awwwww babe," I laugh, "For me?" I laugh more as he laughs.

"Yeah this just adding on to the list of gifts I got you," He licks his lips, "Go on open em, look at what you got."

"Okay okay," I start dancing a little as I make my way to the bed, "Which one you want me to open first?" I turn back and look at him.

"Whatever you want baby," He lowers his tone, "Matter of fact, open that Fendi one first- I know you gonna like it."

I didn't hesitate neither. Once I opened the bag, it was a baby pink Fendi purse.

"Whaatttttt," I laugh making him laugh, "My first fendi!" I laugh more, "Thank you baby."

"I got you always baebas."