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"Crystal, Camree, Christian...where the hell is Zahir?" Cepheus raised an eyebrow as he turned around from doing a head count of his kids. Letting out a loud yawn, Mariah lazily pointed outside of her window, where Cassia stood fussing with Zahir who was throwing a fit. "This nigga right here man." He grumbled, while shaking his head.
"Calm the hell down before we don't go anywhere at all, stop it!" Cassia yelled at him, snatching him up by both of his arms to pull his body into hers.
"Get off me-."
"Zahir!" Cepheus called out, immediately stopping his son in his tracks. He could see the fear flash through his eyes at the sight of his father, his body immediately relaxing as he attempted to pry Cassia's hands off of him so he could run, but she wouldn't budge. Usually she hated watching them get scolded by Cepheus, but it was way too early for Zahir to be acting the way he was.
Snatching Zahir from Cassia's hold, Cepheus crouched down so that the two were at eye level. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" He spoke through clenched teeth, Zahir immediately going shy in his grip.
"M- mommy say I couldn't have ice cream and I-."
"It's 5 in the damn morning Chyus, you not having no fucking ice cream. This trip is for you, but you know it ain't nothing for me to call all this shit off and we stay right up in my house for your birthday and don't do a damn thing. I'll bring all them presents back too, keep up acting like you don't got no damn sense. Soon as I catch your ass misbehaving we flying right back here, do you understand me?" Cassia only stood back with her arms crossed, watching as Zahir's eyes began to water up while he slowly nodded his head. "Speak like how you was before."
"I understand" Zahir spoke just above a whisper, as lone tears began to fall from his eyes. Staring at him for another minute, Cepheus eventually let go of him, watching as he immediately turned around and ran into Cassia's legs crying.
Letting out a small sigh, she didn't hesitate to pick him up and lay his head on her shoulder, gently rocking him while ignoring Cepheus' hard glare.
"You need to stop babying them, this why he be acting like that cause there you go cradling him like something wrong." Cepheus pointed, trialing behind Cassia who made her way towards the steps of the jet. Glancing back towards him, she eyed him weirdly while running her fingers through Zahir's short curls.
"If he's bawling his eyes out, I'm not just going to watch him do so. He's not 14, he's 4." Cassia mumbled, placing a small kiss on Zahir's temple while rubbing his back. Walking up the steps of the jet, Cassia glanced around to see everyone nearly sleeping except for Solana, whose eyes burned into her with a smug smirk on her face.
Glancing back at Cepheus, Cassia could only laugh at the way he was acting. In his jet, he had 2 main chairs in the back of the plane that were right in front of the large bedroom he had in the back. For years he hadn't allowed anyone to sit in the seat next to the one designated for him, being that it was meant for someone of importance. After getting with Cassia, he immediately declared that that was hers, even going as far as getting her name imprinted into it while emphasizing that nobody was allowed to take that ever, no matter what.
