When I walked out of the room my legs were still a little weak from the nervousness i felt about telling him but its subsiding. I crossed my arms over my belly as I walked down the stairs. Nala was sitting down on Carlos' lap and she was crying into his shirt. I looked at Carlos and he was smirking. Walking closer to them I watch Nala hop out of his lap and run to my legs. She cried for me to pick her up, tugging on my skirt. I picked her up and placed her on my hip. "What's wrong with mama's baby?" I ask her sitting down in the love seat.
Ray has Ryder asleep in his arms and he is laughing quietly. Danny stood up covering his mouth and he put one finger up walking out. I looked at all of them like they were crazy. Nala's little sniffles broke my heart as I looked at her face and saw how hard she was crying. Her breath was stuttering and her nose was running. "You don't want to tell Mama what's wrong?" I look at her trying again.
Just as she was about to speak Cardo walks in. He sees me and smiles but I look away and back at Nala. She sees Cardo and holds onto me tighter. She looks a little scared. "What's wrong with Nay?" Cardo's brow furrows.
"Did y'all forget she was down here?" Ray looks at us critically but I can tell there is still a lot of humor there. "You scared her to death with all that screaming."
"Yeah you did. Baby girl thought you were killing Lena, Ricky." Carlos said. "This wasn't the time for y'all to argue and shit with Nay just down the stairs listening to everything. She always seeing y'all argue, you think she used to it?" I shake my head answering his question. "Exactly."
"Nala, I would never hurt your mommy." Cardo kneels down looking her in the face. Lies. Tears still fall down her face and she looks the other way. "Nala." he calls her name. She turns his way a little still crying. "I wouldn't hurt you either." He rubs her back and she leans up and wipes her eyes.
"Promise." she asks him still sniffling.
"I cross my heart baby girl." he looks at her and she smiles. He grabs her from my lap and pulls her into his arms. She grabs his neck and they walk out and into the kitchen.
"Well, well, well." Carlos stands up with a slick ass smirk.
"Well, well, well my ass. Ain't nobody got time to play with you Carlos." I brush him off with my hand.
"So you pregnated? Look at your ass. How many months you is? You look like you past ready to pop." He sits next to me. I slap his arm and Ray laughs at him. Danny comes in right on time. Oh lord. He sits down on the floor next to where I'm sits and he turns to where he is facing me.
"I am only 6 months actually." I say as I mush Danny's head. "It's looking like a boy." I smile looking at them.
"Looking like?" Ray questioned.
"Well, the baby wouldn't open its legs so we could see." I shrugged.
"I heard girls don't be opening they legs in ultrasounds." Carlos suggests.
"Y'all want it to be a girl so you can spoil her just like Nala." I roll me eyes.
"I'm glad you know." Danny laughs.
Cardo walks in with Nala on his hip but he stops short when he sees all of them.
"You sleepy?" I ask her as she crawls into my side laying her head on my stomach. I rub her back and look at Ryder who is back asleep on my stomach. Why are they so attracted to my stomach? I let them fall asleep while everyone sits down.
"We need to discuss some safety issues." Ray said.
"Go get Elisa." I look at Danny because he's closest to where her room is. He smiles before getting up. "I said 'get' her not 'fuck' her okay?" he laughs and disappears down that hall. "Elisa is apart of this family now and she should be at these type of things." I looks at Them. They nod and sit up straighter. Elisa walks in with her cheeks red and Danny is following looking straight at her ass.
"Hey." Elisa walks in and she rubs Nala's back and Ryder's before rubbing my stomach. I smile at her and scattered 'hey's' come from the guys. "What's up?"
"Family meeting." I say looking at Ray because he's the one who called it.
"We need some things put out in the open about the trap. Alot has happened and I think you should know since you out doing shit and you need to tell us what you know because I know you, Carlos, and Danny had something to do with Drik's trap house mass murder." Ray looks at me.
"Elisa will you get Nala?" She nods and I lean up picking Ryder up with me. We take them in her room and lay them on the bed. Walking back in I can hear Elisa's breath. I look back at her and her face is pale. She looks a little scared and I sit back down with her sitting next to me. "Yes all you said is true but I was only-"
"So you did help kill them Niggahs?" Cardo looks at me in disbelief.
"Yes but they had almost killed you and I-"
"You killed some damn people! How the hell?" He yells at me.
"I found out somethings unlike you because you were laid up in a hospital bed because someone tried to kill you in front of your daughter ." I yell back at him.
"Yo chill all that damn yelling ain't necessary and that's not why I wanted to have this meeting." Ray looks at me and Cardo and I sit back in my chair because I was ready to pounce on his ass. "Alright Lena what did you find out."
"That Drik called that Hit on Cardo and he probably pulled the trigger because when I asked his puppet who tried to kill him he said Drik." I say crossing my arms.
"Damn that's what we thought but now its confirmed." Carlos rubs his chin. "While you were gone we also found out some things about your dad, mom, and aunt's death." He continues.
I sit up straighter and look him dead in his eyes. My ears open more for anything that can shes light on why they were all murdered. "What?" I gulp and take a deep breath. Elisa sits up too rubbing my back and looking at Carlos wanting to hear too.
"They were all connected and uh-"
"Uh-what? Tell me." I look at him with wide eyes.
"It was Drik."
"What was Drik?" I look at him turning my head to the side.
"He had something to do with your mothers death-" I stopped listening after that. My babies daddies father killed my mother. My inspiration, my light, and my best friend. Cardo's dad took the only one who I could tell anything to. I felt tears falling down my eyes and I looked at the floor as my vision got blurry from tears. All I've done is cry since I've been in all this bullshit. It gets old when all you do is get hurt from every good thing. "Lena...." Carlos stands up and kneels in front me. "We're going to get him."
I shake my head and wipe my tears. "No you guys do what you want. I quit I'm done with all of this. All I want is my children safe and they have been born into all of this drug shit. I don't want revenge I want to be free from all of this. I don't want to be fucked with." I stand up and walk to the stairs. "Cardo....." I turn around looking at him. "I shouldn't make you choose. You can be apart of this if you want but I won't do it nor will Nala and our son." With that I waddled up the stairs.
