BESTFRIENDS

Love Hurts

Raheem P.O.V
"Your total is 12.09." I told the kind lady standing in the line among the million of other customers standing behind her. "She want five Whoppers added on to that too Tyra." I yelled towards one of the cooks far off in the back as I finished ringing up more orders. Burger King is pretty packed today and normally its kind of slow in here. I lifted my hat off my head and rubbed my hands across it because I was breaking a sweat trying to move so fast.

"Hey. Welcome to Burger King, what would you like to order." I asked the next upcoming customer as I was putting money in the cash register from the one before. "For you to take your son. I'm going shopping with some of my girls." I didn't even bother to notice that it was even Reina as I was putting the money away. She can be so conniving.

"Are you serious. Reina I'm at work." I said looking around at all the attention we were gaining and stating the obvious. "So! I don't care about this little 99 cent job. This baby is your job, now take him." Its been weeks and I been begging her to see my son and its now that she bring him and of all the places, my job.

I shook my head back and forth. "Reina don't do this. This job paying for his diapers and the clothes on his back though." She scoffed like I haven't been doing my duties as a father. I give her my fxcking last and she know it. "Fuck this job and take him." She put the car seat on the floor with the bag inside, and leaned him over the counter.

"What is wrong with you? You really doing this?" I looked at her furiously and she still held him up with a straight face and said, "Take him." I took him only because she was causing a much bigger scene and I now had a crowd of grouchy customers I had to tend too.

"Bye." She walked off pushing her way through the crowd like she was all that and then some. Just like that she left. She so damn petty. "Whats going on?" Jason and another one my coworkers asked.

I sighed heavily and said, "I gotta take him to my pops. Can one of y'all cover for me." "Yeah I get on break in two minutes so yeah." Jason stepped up and took my shift and I thanked him. I'm glad to have somebody like him to depend on. I knew he'd be there for me.

"I promise I'll pay you back." I told him on my way out. "No need just go ahead and be careful." I rocked Junior in my arm and went around the counter to grab his car seat and bag from the floor. Everybody was staring at me and I knew this was so unprofessional. I wanted to flick them all off because I was pissed but I just walked out.

I'm glad my manager wasn't here to see this but I'm sure some one will tell him. News like this don't fly past him with the multiple gossipers I work with. I buckled my son in before carrying him out to my car. I unlocked my door and put him in the back before getting in the front. I still can't believe she just did that.

As I start moving on the road it took me a little minute to get there, but once I did pops was coming in too so I backed out so he could park in front of me. "What you doing here? I thought you had to work during these hours." He asked me. "I was at work but I got an unexpected little surprise at work." I pulled the baby out the car seat and pops ran over and took him from my arms. I been real skeptical about bringing the baby over so this his first time he really seeing the baby since he was born.

"That mother of his finally letting me see my grand son." "Yep." I lied. It was always me who prevented him from seeing my son but I told him that Reina did it. "He so handsome and so big. What y'all putting in his milk." I really didn't have time to have a conversation with him right now so I cut this meeting short and got to the point.

"Well pops I need you to watch him. I have to get back to work." I said hoping he wouldn't have a problem doing this for me. "You asking or you telling." He rose his thick uni brow up to his wrinkled forehead and I didn't have time for his games right now. "Pops please. I'm asking." I begged. "Go ahead. I got him."