*𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐕.𝐈𝐈*

twenty-eight

MALEAH

TWO DAYS LATER

3:30pm

"And you don't want anyone there?" Cam asked me. "No, only my siblings, and Grandma Paula" I say looking at him. "Not your parents?" He asked me. I scrunched up my face. "I don't know, not right now." I sighed. "What happened at that baby shower? You guys or Mary and Blake didn't come here afterwards." He says. I looked at him and laughed. "You know when you know your family doesn't like your significant other?" I asked him. He nodded. "Yeah, me with Marie." He says. I nodded. "I know my brother doesn't like him, My dad is and has been iffy about him since ive moved out here. Mom follows behind dad. My cousins, well one of them hooked up with Griffin and spilled stupid fake rumors. And my sisters just want me to be happy." I say. "To be fucking honest... Their opinions don't matter-" "Yes it does!"I say slamming my hands on the table. "That's where you're wrong. You're family wants you to be with someone they picked. Do they have someone they like in their eye?" He asked me. "Logan..." I trail off. He pointed at me and took a sip of his drink. "Stay away from him." He says. My eyes widened and my heart dropped. "That's my best friend, we don't see or talk everyday." I say. He shrugged. "Still stay away from him?" I asked him. "No, just don't let your parents come in-between you and Bryce." He says. "Thank you Cam." I say rubbing my stomach. "Plus you're pregnant you don't wanna be upset or you're gonna have mean twins." He jokes. I smacked my lips and laughed. "Whatever, they're gonna be mean regardless. Look who's their mother." I say pointing at myself. "They gone be money hustlers. You sure you want me to have the gender of the babies?" He says holding up the envelope. "Yes, Mary is turning into Blake and can't keep a secret" I say.

"Mary what?" Mary says coming into the kitchen. "You can't keep a secret for shit." I say turning my head. She flipped me off. "What the fuck ever." She says opening the fridge. And as soon she opened the fridge the boys came running from every which way. "MAL!" Jaden yells and bear hugs me. "Heyyy" I say hugging him. "I haven't seen you in like four days." He says. "It's been two, chill" I laughed. "When are you thinking about doing the gender reveal?" Josh asked me. "You guys are planning the party?!" Griffin, Mary and Blake all say in a unison. "I got the genders today." I say smiling. "What is it? Let me see!" Mary says trying to grab the envelope from Cam. "She definitely told me not for you to see it." He laughs. "Aww man, she likes you now." She says fake pouting.

 "Where's baby daddy?" Griffin asked me. I shrugged. "That's a good fucking question." I say picking up my phone. As I was just about to call him Josh took my phone. "What the fuck." I say still holding my hand up like my phone was still in my hand. "What are you doing tomorrow?" He asked me. I looked confused. "Nothing why?" I say. "We have somewhere to be." He says. "Like where?" I say confused. He picked up Gianna and he whispered something to her. "We're going on a family vacation!" She cheers out. My eyes widened and I laughed. "Whattt where we going boo?"I asked her. He whispered where we're going in her ear. "Mexicooo" She sings. My jaw dropped. "I told ya'll she'd be excited." Griffin says drinking his water. "Do half of yall have passports?" I say looking around the room. They went silent. "Exactly." I say laughing. "Nah were just going to Malibu" Josh says. I smacked my lips. "I thought we were going out of the state, fuck!" I say rolling my arms. "Mommy!" Gianna yells at me. I sighed and pulled a dollar out from behind my phone and gave it to her. "Period best. Make her go broke." Mary says. "Shut the fuck up."I say threw my teeth. "Huh Maleah? What was that?" Griffin says putting his hand to his ear. I flipped him off. "Give her another dollar." He says. "Imma give her a ten and cuss you out." I say looking at him. 

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6:45pm

I walked to the backyard where Blake and Gianna we're playing on the little play place the boys bought for her. I honestly think they use it more than her because one of them is always on it. "Don't throw the gnome at me." Noah says scaring me and scared to sit down next to me. I looked up at him and then looked around for Dixie. "Uhh, sure?" I say scooting over. He sat next to me. "Whats up?" I say just scrolling through twitter. "Um, nothing much how was your brothers shower?" He asked me. I didn't tell anyone about this shower except for the ones who went. "It was messy per usual dealing with me" I say shrugging. He chuckled. "To be really honest, I don't like us not talking." He says. Well you should've thought about that before you're jealous girlfriend got in the middle of us. "Oh..." I say nodding. His face dropped when I said that. "I don't want out friendship to just fall off or something stupid." He says. "See that's where you're wrong Noah..." I say moving the pillow for me to lean back further. "Our friendship didn't fall off over something stupid. Our friendship is over because of multiple things." I say shaking my head. "Not true, it's because you and Dixie don't get along." He says biting the side of his lip. I  snickered and looked at him. "That's one of the reason, another reason is that Dixie has never liked me even when I was only here as an assistant because her and Addison were fucking besties." I say looking at him. He scoffed and shook his head.  "Whatever, are you gonna take any accountability?" He asked. My eyes widened and my jaw dropped, are you fucking serious Noah. "You're shitting me right now? How about you take some fucking accountability and say Hey Maleah I actually fucking loved you and didn't say anything because I was already talking to Dixie and you and Bryce were already a thing. I knew he didn't really love you at the time but im not gonna let you know because you hurt me so lets you get hurt for once." I say changing my voice to sound like him. He was lost for words. "Exactly, I didn't want our friendship to end but you let your girlfriend come between us." I say trying to get up. "Like Bryce did us." He says and I stopped in my tracks. "Like Bryce did what? Every time Bryce brought your name up I shut that shit down like we were fucking. Why? Because you were my best friend. You we're the person I worked out with. The person who would go to the gas station with me at two am. Nobody else. So you keep playing this victim with the boys and Dixie... But not fucking me" I say getting up and walking into the house.