Nala is still asleep next to me and its time for us to get up. I tickle her stomach and her eyes pop open. She turns the other way and I pull her to me and get up carrying her just like that.
Walking into the kitchen I hear faintly 'Late Night' by Trey Songz feat. Juicy J playing. Cardo is rapping along to Juicy J's part. He wraps his arms around both of us and kisses my lips. He grabs Nala from me and she immediately wakes up.
"Good Morning to you, the birds are chirping." He sings to her. She just giggles and wraps her arms around him as they dance around the kitchen to 'Flex' by Rich Homie Quan. I see the grits start to over flow and I run to stir them and turn the heat off. This dude is still dancing with Nala like he doesn't even see his failed experiment.
I take them off the heat and grab a towel to clean up his mess. As soon as the song is over he looks my way with a smirk and I roll my eyes back. He sits Nala down and starts singing 'Love in this Club'. I turn around and walk away from him. Of course his childish ass wanted to play so he trapped me in between the counter and him.
"Obviously you want me to beat you up." he said as he bit my ear and licked it.
"I'd like to see you try it." I trail off walking away from him.
"Gone be the death of me." he said looking up at the ceiling, more so talking to himself.
I walk back into the living room to see Nala in front of the tv watching her movie about planets we bought her. That's her favorite movie in the world. I pass her and she is so lost in the movie that she doesn't even notice us passing her.
After breakfast I get in the shower while Cardo gets Nala ready. As soon as I get out Cardo walks in having a full conversation with Nala. I heard something about the stars and I zoned out and got dressed.
"Mommy?" I hear Nala say.
"Huh?" I answer looking up at her in front of me.
"Can we go to the moon one day?" she looks so excited. How can I tell her no?
"Maybe one day...." I conclude getting up and grabbing her hand. We walk in the living room and I grab my car keys and my purse.
"She going with you?" Cardo follows me to the front door.
"Yeah. Did you want her?" I ask him.
"Yeah....."
"Where are you two going?" I ask him smartly.
"Riding around."
"Are drugs going to be around? You going to that drug house?"
He cuts his eyes at me as he bites his lip. I look at him confused as he holds the bridge of his nose and takes a deep breath. "Nala go in there and watch cartoon a little longer." he looks at her with a smile. When she walks out he looks back up at me and grabs my hand dragging me into the kitchen. When we make it there I snatch my hand back from him.
He turns around and looks like he's about to hit me. I dare him to with my facial expression. I promise if he does we're just going to be fighting in front of Nala because I'm not going to let him just hit me. No matter how wrong or right I am."What the hell was that? Don't ever talk about that shit around her! Understand?" he grits his teeth.
"Can you talk to me like your equal and not your child, understood?" I mock his tone rolling my eyes. He takes a deep breath and licks his lips. He walks towards me and pushes me up against the counter and looks me in the eyes with a sincere look.
"Please don't bring up that drug shit when we're around Nala?" He said more calmly with a respectful tone.
"What if she gets hurt? What if you get hurt? What if something happens?" I ask him again looking into his eyes.
"I gotta check up but I won't be there for long, I promise." he tells me.
"Alright but be careful." I kiss his cheek and walk out of the kitchen.
"Nala!" I call out.
"Ma'am?" she asks in a little voice.
"You gone spend a few hours with daddy, Okay?"
"Okay." she said still looking a little scared.
"What's wrong with you?" I ask her picking her up.
"Was daddy gonna hurt you?" she asks on the verge of tears.
"No baby. Daddy would never hurt me or you, okay?" I tell her kissing her forehead. She nods before I put her down and she walks back into the living room.
I walk out the door reluctantly realizing I was highly prepared to fight his ass and I didn't even think about how Nala would take that. I hope she talks to Cardo about it so she can hear him say it.
I walk down the stairs I see a boy walking up the stairs to my house. Soon I realize it's the boy from the other day when I went to San Fran. He smiles brightly at me and I smile back.
"Hey." he speaks.
"Hey." I say back.
After that we don't say anything else to each other and I continue my walk down the stairs. Then he grabs me and I snatch away quickly. He puts his hands up in surrender and I look at him like he's crazy.
"My bad. I just want to know your name." he explains.
"Lena." I say with attitude but he brushes it off and continues to speak to me.
We talk while he walks me to my car. Before I know it Cardo is walking up on us looking angry as fuck with Nala holding his hand. He gives the dude an evil look and the boy smirks back at him. I mean has the smuggest look on his face.
"Cyrus?" Cardo questions with a quirked eyebrow.
"Hey bro." Cyrus smiles.
"What the- What are you doing?" he asks him calmly.
"I was just being nice." Cyrus replies in a duh tone. Then he walks back up to the house. He must know Cardo from the trap house. He does look a little familiar to me. He reminds me of Miss Selina.
"Where you said you was going?" Cardo asks me like nothing just happened.
"Who is that?" I nod over towards Cyrus who is backing out of the driveway.
"One of my new friends." he replies but I can tell he's keeping something from me.
"Okay." I shrug before getting in my car and starting the ignition. He moves out the way and walks away.
