The Unusual Suspects Book 2

Anthony

Today was one of them days for sure man. This is the second baby shower for our son, only family and our closest friends at this one. Everything was already in motion and going well thus far. I don't think any of the homies were able to really mentally prepare for all of the merengue that was gonna go on here. But the ladies definitely showed up ready as hell. Toya, Iris, Dom, Nicole, and Araya had been dancing their lil hearts out with my aunts for the past 2 hours. We all kinda just sat back and enjoyed the show for real. I loved this feeling for real, nothing compared to the love in this house.
"Man...shawty is cold." Martin said as he eyes Araya. We all laughed a little bit. She was indeed cold, but he didn't want to walk down that road for real.
"She already in a tribe G." Charles said.
"Damn it! Back to the drawing board." Mar said as we all laughed at him.
"Man...I can't believe they're letting you get another one." Jay said to him.
"It's so hard to believe somebody can have more hoes than you?" I said.
"Touche." he said.
"I'm surprised your girl been so cool all day C Money." I said to him.
"Man...she lives for stuff like this." he said and I nodded. It's a Boricua thing.
"Shit Im surprised yours been on good behavior." Jay said looking at me.
"Excuse me, what about a girl? My single friend." Mar said to him. Me and Charles tried not to laugh but it escaped anyway. Jay just nodded. "I'm single by choice." he said and we all just didn't even comment because he been staring D down the entire time. Just then Riek walked in bearing gifts.
"What's up homie?" He said walking over as I took the gifts from him.
"What's good bruh? Thank you." I said as I set them on the table with the rest of the gifts. "Looks like I'm just in time." he said as he walked right over and started dancing with them. I'll admit him and Araya was getting it for real. Toya walked over to me and grabbed my hand, I knew what time it was. I went ahead and joined the masses with the dancing. We were having fun to say the least though. In true fashion though, Charles and Iris had to be extra. Here they go with all the tricks and shit.
"Looks like we're being showed up." Toya said in my ear and I laughed.
"Never that! We are the party." I said to her as I kissed her. We overcame some shit to be in this predicament now. I'm grateful. Before long I looked over and saw Mar and Nicole and to my surprise Dom and Jay were dancing together too. We were just living in the moment and enjoying it for the first time in a long time. This was it! This continued for about 30 minutes before it was time to eat. My aunts served everybody. Me and the fellas plus Jose and my dad all outside eating and talking shit. We agreed to leave the ladies to themselves.
"I appreciate yall for coming out and showing us mad love. That's important to me." I said as I looked around at them all.
"Well...it is my house, so..." my dad said as we all burst into laughter.
"But special thanks to you Pops. Without you, there is no me. Thank you for everything up until this point and what is to come." I said as he walked over and hugged me. "Well son, I believe today you have proven yourself to be a grown ass man." he said and everyone clapped.
"Amen to that." Jose said as he hugged me too. "I've seen you at so many different points in life and I used to wanna be just like you T. Thank you for everything big bro. But, I want to know if you'll bestow me with the honor of being able to dedicate him when the time comes?" he asked me sincerely.
"Absolutely!" I said as we shook.
"Okay okay and as the godfather, I got something for you T." Charles said as he went to his car and came back with a box. "So back home the baby showers were always co-ed and it was customary to give gifts to the mom and dad as well. So here you are, when you and Toy are alone, go ahead and open that." he told me. I dapped him up on that one. Respected more than he knew. "Well in the spirit of being celebratory, look what I got." Riek said as he pulled out the biggest blunt I ever seen in life.
"As long as I can hit that first, I'll let this continue." My dad said as we all laughed and Riek handed it to him to do the honors. My dad took a long hit. "Shit...I'm too old for this now." he said coughing as we all laughed as he passed it to me and it was my turn.
"Hey Jay, I thought you had another girl." Jose said and we all laughed again.
"She's not my girl and plus we're done anyway. Naw me and shorty just danced is all. I know she got a dude so..."
"Still a shit-starter, I see." Mar said as we all laughed. Jose had to be the one.
"I'm glad yall still able to be civil though. I mean look at how I was with Depth and look at where we at now." Riek said.
"No lie son, that's wild." Charles said.
"Right you converted a stud. That's top tier shit." I said as I passed the blunt to him. Riek took a hit too.
"She was a soft stud anyway. But for real that girl is beautiful inside and out just like Araya and Aries. I'm lucky for real."
"Let me get in here with my wife before yall get me put out with this polygamy madness." My dad said.
"Come to the dark side." Mar said and we all laughed as my dad went back inside. We smoked that blunt til it was gone. Good vibes and a chill night. What more could I ask for?