The Bridge

Chapter 41

One week later

Aubrey

I had been staying with my crew at the Grosse Pointe apartment. Lia didn't ask me to leave but with the extreme silent treatment she was rightfully giving me I thought it best to give her some space. I miss her. I text her everyday even though she doesn't respond. Just trying to remind her how much I love her and knowing this is a major hiccup in our plans but I still want a life with her and how I am praying hard she still wants to have a life with me.

Charlie: we meeting up later?

Aubrey: yea

"Yo! AG! We bout to head to the gym, you rollin'?" Chubbs called out from the master bedroom.

"Yeah let me throw some shit on," I rolled off the couch and walked a few paces to my duffle bag grabbing my workout gear. After I was dressed I walked out of the apartment and waited in the open hall of the complex, resting my elbows on the rail while looking down at the courtyard waiting for the boys.

"You just visiting? Considering you been here for at least a week my guess is you fucked up already nigga." My jaw tensed as I shifted my gaze in the direction of the distant voice. Eric was walking down the hall dressed in scrubs.

I turned my head and peered back down to the courtyard.

"Damn nigga, how you fuck up already?" He stopped walking as he approached his apartment door and stood in front of it.

"You ain't gotta say shit, I already know. She was gonna find out bout you and your hoe sooner or later."

My head snapped and my eyes shot him daggers.

His face held a sinister smile.

"Yo there a problem AG?" Chubbs, Mark and OB came to stand in the hall. I was so in my thoughts about him and Lia. Her possibly confiding in him that I didnt notice my boys next to me.

"No problem, just a little friendly conversation." Eric reached in his pocket and pulled out his house key unlocking the door, "Tell Babygirl I said hi, oh wait... you know what? I'll just do it myself." He winked and disappeared behind the door.

"That nigga bold as fuck, he got a death wish." Mark shook his head.

"Let me cap him AG, I hate his ass." Chubbs threw in.

I let out a deep breath, "Let's just go get this workout in."

Aris

Mark: how is she?

Aris: not great

Aris: she been crying all day, I think it's all finally sinking in and shit

Mark: damn...

I sat with Aurelia in her bed as she rested her head on my lap while I stroked her hair. She was out of it. She would cry for hours, fall asleep, then start back with the tears soon after waking up.

She was so emotionless for the better part of the week that I think it just all caught up with her.

"Wh- wh-why cant I just have anything?!" She wailed.

"Everything just comes to me and is ri-ripped away soon after." She tried her best to not stutter through her sentence but she was bawling so hard she had trouble catching her breath.

"I don't know mama," I teared up as I watch my friend unravel, "I wish I had some epic answer for you that would put all of this into perspective but I don't."

She sat up and reached towards the nightstand, picking up the tissue box and blew her noise. She held the used tissue in her hand, hunched her shoulders and whispered, "I want to be mad at him and I feel like I cant...we weren't together when he was seeing her-"

I held a hand up to silence her, "But it doesn't make it any less fucked up. That bitch strolled all around his party tryna showcase how she had one up'd you when the bitch really had no power and now nigga actually gave her some."

She shook her head and laid back down on my lap crying harder than before.

"You deserve to feel angry, you are suppose to feel angry with him."

"I love him." She sniffled.

"I know baby, I know."

Aubrey

"So we just gonna sit here and you not say shit to me..."

I looked up from Charlie's pregnancy confirmation documents from her recent dr's visit.

"Yeah...sorry."

"So..."

"Look I really don't know what to say." I huffed, "this whole situation is not ideal."

"Well it's the situation we are in so what we need to decide what our next steps are gonna be." She folded her arms across her chest in an attempt to conceal her growing attitude.

"Well before I offer you an financial support I want confirmation that the child is mine." I looked her straight in the eyes.

Her widened and she looked around at the other patrons in the restaurant trying to remind herself not to pop off as she lowered her voice, "Excuse you nigga?

"I think that is a reasonable request Charlie." I said flatly.

"I'm not poking my baby because your bitch mad."

"This has nothing to do with Lia and I suggest you watch your mouth when you speak about her."

"Fuck you and you better not think you gonna bring that hoe anywhere near my child." She sat back in her seat trying to stare me down.

"I'm not gonna tell you again Charlie, watch your mouth."

"Whatchu gonna do?"

She rolled her neck and snickered as the waiter approached to refill her drink order, "thank you."

"Of course, ma'am."

"Look...this is how this gonna go. You gonna take care of me and your baby because thats what real niggas do. We family now so fucking deal with it." She shrugged while taking a sip of her water.

"I told you, you ain't getting a fucking dime from me until I have proof."

She shook her head and rolled her eyes.

"I'll tell you what though, because I am a real nigga. I will handle everything that needs to be handled in regards to the baby while you are carrying it but when it's born we are getting the baby tested."

"You don't trust me?!" She slammed her hands down on the table causing the silverware to clink and clatter. A couple people turned in our direction scowling at the interruption of their meal.

"No...I don't.

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