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Megan
I wake up and annoy the shit out of Normani.
"Mani!" I semi-scream, semi-whisper into her ear. "Mani!"
She pounces on me, hovering over like a lioness. She's so perfect. Some of her braids pool out from under her scarf.
"I'm making breakfast this morning." I tell her as I settle my arms on her waist.
She hooks her hand onto my front. My eyes widen as she kisses me again.
"Fuck you."
She smirks.
"You're so beautiful."
"Don't even get me started on you Megan, you're so goddamn, finga' lickin' go——"
*ding dong*
The doorbell rings throughout the empty house. As usual 4oe goes crazy and the cats stretch and meow.
"I'll get that, baby."
"Okay."
She sneaks a kiss as I slip on my crocs and robe and head towards the door.
It continues festering as I'm on my way.
I open the door and see what looks to be that same kid. Maybe a Girl Scout trying to meet her goal for cookies. But then I realize this girl is definitely not a Girl Scout.
"Good morning, how are you?"
"I'm fine how are you ma'am? I need to speak to Normani Hamilton please."
"Sure."
I see Normani peering from behind the stairs.
I pretend to call out and look for her.
"Sorry, she's up in the shower or something. I can take whatever message you want for her."
"Tell her that my father left her something." She hands me a box with an attitude and walks away.
I really need to know now. Normani being nervous to even answer doors when she got over that for months ago, tells me everything I need to know. I close the door. Ontop of that, this girl has been appearing on our security cameras for a minute now. And when I say that, I mean about two weeks. Nonstop, almost round the same time
"I'm opening this shit up. Normani, you know that girl? She a cousin?"
Normani figdets.
"Baby. I'm not mad at you. She just had an annoying ass attitude so early in the morning." I come to her and grab her hand. "Normani. Please come talk to me about this baby..."
I find myself having to corner her from going up stairs. I put my hand under her chin and lift it.
"Look, you can't keep this from me. We literally have someone that we don't—- that I don't know. This is an invasion of privacy. Someone coming to our home, or-or or—-" I stutter and then huff realizing I need to calm down. "I don't know, someone sending their child here to bother us, to get to you and this is where I need you to say something. We both see her on the security cameras at the front door almost daily. You have to tell me. I have the right to defend my woman and my home. Especially after this past year."
Upon seeing that Normani will say nothing, I decided to just go after this girl who is till on my driveway.
The morning sun burns my face more than my frustration is.
I lived the past, paid for it, and now want nothing more than to just forget this.
"You're gonna tell me what your intentions are?"
She begins to look very familiar to me the more I look at her. She's about a little taller than Normani. Has familiar looking eyes and nose. She's a little lighter than I with brown hair and some box braids in. She looks to be no older than 15 or 16...
She seems to be dressed in a private school uniform. Which makes semi-sense at 9:40 something in the morning. But why is she here instead of in class?
She then pulls out a picture.
"Give this to Normani, she should know me."
"Huh? How old are you? Why are you trespassing on my property? What's your name?"
"Listen, lady, just give this to Normani. and tell her to give me a call"
A car then approaches and she starts backing up towards it nervously.
She then disappears down the street in the vehicle, looking at me from the back window. As if pleading.
She went from looking malicious to pleading. As if we were her last resort.
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"That girl is that Nigga's KID?!"
I've never screamed so loud in my life. Tears inexplicably begin to escape from my eyes.
"Is she yours?"
I find it in me to calm down. even after trying to stop and catch my breath, I find myself breathing and almost letting out shrill wheezes.
"Is she yours?" I ask slower, spacing the words out. "I tried to be gentle and calm with you, because I've understood that Joshua's death and leading up to it was a nightmare, but I need you to find it in yourself to look at this picture again and look me in the eyes and tell me, did you birth this child? Is she yours? I want a direct answer, I feel I deserve to know."
We're in the living room and she sits down. I take a seat as well because I've been pacing around the couch for the past 20 minutes. I hold her hand and look into her eyes, in hopes of reassuring her that support her and am ready for whatever answer she gives me. I understand that my outburst may have made her hesitant.
"Not mine, but Joshua was married before me, That's his daughter from that marriage. Ive seen her and interacted Witcher a handful of times. but you know how custody goes, mothers always win."
"Thank you for telling me. Thank you." This is the first time Normani has said more than 20 words at a time. "Why do you think she's been ringing the doorbell angry?"
"Resentment. That's all I can think of."
She comes in for a hug. The first thing I think of was how concerned Teyana was for "family" once she got put up. Now that I think of it, maybe she was thinking about the girl. Who knows if Teyana even knew of this girl's existence. I had no idea until now and I worked for the man so many years.
I feel bad. I feel I was too hostile.
"Normani, I'm sorry I spoke to you like that. Even out of anger and confusion, It wasn't okay. I should've given you the time and space to feel comfortable."
"It's okay Megan. I keep a lot to myself. I feel like you had the right."
I sigh. " What's her name? She left her phone number I'm thinking what if she came over for dinner, and we sort out everything out. Figure out if... I don't know... shit, she might even be crying for help."
"Samira, Yeah, I'll call her and actually I was thinking, what if I spoke with her first and then you can, I think there are things that I want to discuss to her, that maybe, she just didn't understand or maybe things she just doesn't know. Things happened in a very messy manner and... I think I owe it to her to have the truth."
________ Hiii I missed you guys so much
So sorry for lack of updates I've been to myself a lot more lately and finally found the time to post just now
I kinda put writing on the back burner but I've now started to actually sit down and finish I completed chapters so I hope that you guys can forgive my negligence
