"Would you come back to NC with me?" Darius look up at Ni after placing his fork down on his plate.
"For fuckin what?" Ni got irritated just from the thought of going back there. She left her whole past back in that state and she didn't want to relive NOTHING.
"Pops been asking bout you, he said Ma ready to meet Sevyn." Darius shrugged, standing up and walking towards the trash can to dump the remains of the plate in the trash and throwing his fork in the sink.
"To be honest, i don't give a fuck. Where was this same energy when Ma put me out and sent me back to a fucking psychopath? Then she blamed me when you got shot, when i already blamed myself for that shit. I don't want my son around her, period." Tanija popped her neck to emphasize she was really standing on that shit.
"Well damn, it's just fuck Ma huh. The woman that raised us?" He sat back down at the table and tilted his head towards Ni.
"That lady ain't raise shit of me, I don't know that woman... honestly. Dad can come visit though, but I can't see myself going down there... not right now. I'll be immature and childish i don't care, she threw me all the way off" Ni shook her head, throwing her plate away and walking back into her room.
"So you just gone walk away, bruh. Youn got no real reason why you can't give her another chance. You already struggling bad enough, you NEED the extra help." He followed behind her, still trying to prove his point.
"I don't need a motherfucking thing from them, i been doing just fine on my own. Yeah, I WISH things went differently but they didn't. It is what the fuck it is now leave me alone. Youn need me to go see them folks, them YO people." Ni rolled her eyes and turned over towards her phone, zoning out from her brother.
"You trying to act like you grew so much, you still the same hurt ass little girl deep down. You need some real healing." Darius shook his head.
"Stop trynna tell me what the fuck I need!!" Tanija finally snapped on her brother, throwing the nearest object at her brother. Instantly, she got flashbacks of Tae throwing objects at her which made her emotional.
Maybe she wasn't healed all the way, and maybe this could be a step towards closure with her parents.
All Darius could do was shake his head as he walked out of the apartment and into his own.
Immediately, Ni buried her head in her pillow as she cried nonstop.
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"Sevyn, leave that shit alone!" Ni popped his hand making him let the remote go and fleeing away in his walker giggling.
"You piss me off." Ni rolled her eyes, snatching the remote and sitting back down on the couch watching the newest episode of Baddies Caribbean.
"Dada, dada, dada." He repeatedly babbled in the corner while he played with the interactive toys on the walker.
"Boy—" Ni laughed in irony as another unknown number popped up on her phone.
"What you want." Ni mugged the phone.
"This is a collect call from inmate 'Deontae Cooper' in the Wake County Jail. All calls from inmates are recorded. To accept charges, please say 'Accept Call.'"
Ni immediately hung up the phone. "You have a whole wife and kids, why are you calling ME from jail?"
The same number called again. "This is a collect call from inmate 'Pleaseee answer' in the Wake County Jail. All calls from inmates are recorded. To accept charges, please say 'Accept Call.'"
"Bruhhhhhh, accept call." Ni sighed, waiting for the call to connect.
"Ni bro, I fucked up... Ion got nobody else to call." Tae huffed on the other line.
"Clearly...what the fuck do you want." She sighed into the speaker.
"I gotta tell you something bruh...I got a whole family, well had."
Ni listening closely as he confessed to everything.
"Shorty set me up bruh, she killed herself and made it look like i did that shit and i swear Ni I didn't. They only saying that because of my last conviction, but you can help me. Tell them I changed, Tanija. Tell em that ain't me!" He basically pleaded over the phone.
For a split second, Ni fell for it. Deep down she wanted to believe everything he was saying was true and get her family back, but she was trying to turn over a new leaf for her and her son. She didn't want to repeat the same karmic cycle she seemed to be stuck in.
"Go to hell, Deontae. You can rot in there for all I care!" Ni snared before angrily hanging up the phone.
She looked up from her phone and noticed Sevyn wasn't in her line of sight. He must've wandered off while she was on the phone with Tae.
"SEVYN!" Ni jumped up from the couch, searching for her son in the kitchen, her bedroom, then finally the bathroom.
"Oh my fucking goshhhhhh." Ni caught him near the toilet with his hand reaching in the toilet bowl.
"You bad asf son." Ni shook her head, pulling him up from the walker and taking him to his room. She laid him down in the crib which made him pull himself up and cry.
"Hushhhh!" Ni sighed, bending down in his drawers to find him a change of clothes.
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Now Playing: Let Me Know - Blo
Ni sat on the balcony of her apartment as she put the pearled wood to her lips and lit it.
She looked out over rails at the cars that filled the road, living their normal lives. Tanija felt like a waste of potential, ain't no way her life was meant to go like this.
Her phone rang which broke her thoughts. "Damn, somebody always fucking calling me." Ni said to herself irritated.
"Hello." She answered, fixing her tone.
"Aye bitch, you keep fuckin with my nigga ima come find you and spit on yo fuckin son ya hear me!" A female yelled into the phone with her friends clearly laughing in the background.
"That'll be yo last day living BITCH, DEAD HOMIES." Ni stood up, putting out the blunt.
"I don't even know you OR your nigga lil mama." She added, popping her neck to add that extra UMPH.
"My name Asiaaaaaa boo, MELLY'S BITCH, and i told yo punk ass PERSONALLY you can die bout that and that's a threat bitch." The girl exclaimed before hanging up.
Ni's mouth hung open before immediately calling her brother while barging into the house.
"COME GET MY MOTHER FUCKIN BABY BECAUSE IM GOING TO JAIL TODAY."
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with each chapter this book gets harder and harder to write chile😗
