LUCIOUS & COOKIE: TUG OF WAR II (REMASTERED)

CURRENT AFFAIRS PT II

A Few Days Later...

Hakeem

I adjusted the volume of the radio inside of my Red Aston Martin as my eyes caught a glimps of a now sleeping Amon within the rear-view mirror. Arianna sitting next to him in her car seat, watching a movie on her tablet with the new limited edition, metallic pink Empire headphones dad had made especially for her last month, now covering her ears. 

I grinned at them both, my son and my daughter, he's getting so big and becoming busy as hell. She's just getting adjusted to the new shoulder length hair cut she had to get because somehow, some way, gum got stuck in her long curly locks a few weeks back.

Tianna divorced my ass because she said that she can't be married to a man who's in love with two women. I mean I coulda lied and told her that I don't have feelings for Laura, but she'd never believe me because after I arranged for them to meet one another, my now ex-wife, told me that she could see the love I have for Ari's mom in my eyes.

I'm still really honestly stuck between the two of them. They've both made me feel ways I've never felt before despite the numerous amounts of women I've had.

Slowly pulling into the valet area in front of my penthouse as the attendant opened my door, I climbed out and went to grab my kids from the back seat. My ass is a damn single father now, I went from two women to no woman at all but at least things are finally starting to look up on some spectrum. 

T, didn't try to clean me out in the divorce, and she even agreed to share custody of Amon with me as well. I'd love to get back with either one of my baby mama's but neither seems to be havin' it at this point. I'm honestly just lucky that we've all been pretty amicable, been able to maintain somewhat of a positive relationship for the children's sake.

After I unbuckled Amon's seat and pulled his blanket over the top to cover his face from the crisp morning air, I gripped his carrier then grabbed Ari by her hand. The attendant slowly eased the car away from us as we made our way inside so that I can get them settled. 

They're both with me for the next couple of days, but today, I've gotta get them both feed and dressed because finally my Lola Bear is awake so I'm takin' her new niece and nephew down to meet her. I was supposed to get them both last night, but I had to deal with some mess that Freda got into at the club, so I jumped up first thing this morning to grab them instead.

Outside of Gutta Life Drama, yesterday was like one of the happiest days of my life when I got the news about Lola finally being awake. That guilt has been eatin' me alive, cuz if I hadn't of lied so she could sneak out she'd of never ended up in the car with that dumb ass lil boy. 

The family waited damn near the entire day to visit, but they ran so many tests on her yesterday, that by the time she made it back to her room she was knocked out from the strong medications they have her on. 

The main thing tho is her memory...thus far she's been able to remember everybody important to her, but only bits and pieces from the week leading up to the accident or the night of.

I slid my keys into the door once we got off the elevator and to the top floor, Ari sprinted to the kitchen, that lil girl can eat...I inwardly chanted. "Hey slow down baby girl. I don't want you to fall or run into anything aight." I shouted her way then sat Amon down on the sofa before turning on the radio in the corner of the room, tossing my coat on the sofa, then grabbing him from the carrier, and heading towards his sister to get them both situated.

An hour and a half later...I've just gotten them both outta the tub, this kinda shit is new to me, but I think it's okay that I bathed them together. Besides, I didn't wanna leave either of them alone, so I put the baby bath in the tub next to Ari cuz I'm tryin to get outta here as soon as possible.