"Mommyyy! Mommaaa!" I heard Eissa's high pitched cries come through the baby monitor. He has been having a hard time sleeping lately and I think it's because we got him a new crib. We had to get a new one because he was quickly growing out of his other one. I rolled over and covered my ears. Maybe Eissa will stop crying if we ignore him.
"Mommyyy!"
"Toni..." Janet mumbled while poking me.
"I'm going baby." I got up and turned the volume down on the baby monitor. I walked to his room and turned on the light. When Eissa saw me, he cried louder with his arms up.
"Papa I'm right here, stop crying." I picked him up and he laid his head on my shoulder. I rubbed his back, trying to call him down. I walked over to the changing table and laid him down. I quickly changed his diaper and headed downstairs with him in my arms. Maybe he's hungry. I made a small bottle for him and went back to his room. By this time, Eissa cries had died down. I held him in my arms turned off the light before sitting down in the rocking chair. I put the bottle to his mouth and he shook his head.
"No!" Eissa whined and pushed it away.
"You don't want this?" He shook his head.
"So why didn't you tell me that when I was making it?"
"For you." He pointed at me and all I could do was laugh.
"Okay Papa." I wiped his eyes and kissed his cheek. I placed the bottle on the nightstand and held him tight.
"Go back to sleep Eis."
"Not tired." I heard him say.
"Yes you are, close your eyes Papa."
"Momma?"
"Momma is sleeping." He wiggled in my arms and I sighed. Have more kids they say.
"Go momma."
"Momma doesn't want you with her. She thinks you're annoying." I joked with him and he giggled.
"You 'ying."
"Nuh-uh momma loves me."
"Momma wuvs Papa." I kissed his cheek and he rubbed his eyes again. He crawled to my chest and laid his head on me. I grabbed a blanket and put it over the both of us. I rubbed his back and he soon fell asleep.
So much for saying that he wasn't tired. I slowly got up and when I went to put Eissa in his crib, he woke up.
Alright I'm not about to play this game with him.
"Nooo mommy." Eissa whined.
"Okay, okay." I whispered and sat back in the rocking chair. With the way he's acting, I might have to sleep in this uncomfortable chair.
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Nobody's POV
The next morning Janet was awoken by Toni's phone ringing. It has been ringing for about five minutes and Toni has yet to answer Janet rubbed her eyes and spoke.
"Baby answer your phone." When she didn't hear her wife respond she grew concerned. Rolling over in bed, she didn't see Toni next to her.
"Baby?" She so happened to look at the baby monitor and saw Toni still in Eissa's room. She smiled and walked to bathroom. Once she was finished doing her hygiene, she grabbed Toni's phone and headed to her son's room. She put Toni's phone on the dresser and carefully picked up Eissa, placing him in his crib. She put the blanket over him and rubbed his back.
"Baby." Janet whispered and lightly shook Toni. She pushed Janet's hands away causing her to chuckle. Toni's eyes fluttered open and she looked at her wife.
"You play way too much."
"I didn't even do anything. You slept in here baby?"
"Yes, he wouldn't let me leave." Toni got up from the rocking chair and stretched.
"Tamar called you like ten times." She nodded and took her phone from Janet. The couple walked back to their room while Toni called her sister back.
"Hello?"
"Hey T, did I wake you?"
"No what's the matter? You sound off?" She put the phone on speaker and headed to the bathroom.
"I need to talk to you. Can you come over please?"
"Yeah, I'll be there in like an hour."
"Okay." Tamar hung up and Janet looked at her.
"Is she okay?"
"I don't know. She just told me to come over."
"Okay, I hope everything is alright with her."
"Me too..."
Tamar and Vince's House
Toni arrived at her sister's house and knocked on the door. Vince opened the door and invited Toni inside.
"Tamar's upstairs." He said and Toni nodded. She placed her purse on the couch and headed upstairs. The door was already open so she walked in seeing her sister sitting on the bed.
"Hi Tay." Toni smiled.
"Hi T." They hugged and Toni sat at the edge of the bed.
"Is everything okay?"
"Nope. Before I called you we were getting ready to leave and Vince says that he needs to talk to me. He then proceeds to tell me that I'm fired. That the producers from The Real just told him that."
"What? Why? That's all they said?" Toni asked in a confused tone.
"I don't know. Vince told me that they said that I don't get along with the cast mates—"
"The girls on the show? They were just here."
"That's what I'm saying like... I don't understand."
"There has to be more to it because that's not making any sense."
"Apparently I don't get along with my friends or people I thought that was my friends. The show for me was a chance to be myself and share my stories. I think I'm more stunned than you. I don't get along with production..."
"I'm sorry Tay." Toni said and got up to hug her sister. Tamar sniffled,
"I don't even know what I did wrong."
"I'm so sorry Tay." She rubbed her side.
"I'm so humiliated, I don't know what to do. I don't understand. I don't know what I did wrong." She cried into Toni's chest and all she could do was comfort her. She knows that Tamar has a big personality, she speaks her mind and they probably don't know how to handle that.
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•Eissa?
•Tamar?
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