My Brothers Lover

Chapter 20

***One Year Later***
Nadia POV
"Да! Стоп! Положи." I yelled picking up my little one. "What?" Zoe asked. I laughed. "All I said was 'Aye! Stop! Put that down'." I said. I laughed at their facial expressions. It's been a year. A beautiful year too. Me and Davonté are engaged and on top of that, Zoe found someone else so Zariah could take a break. "Hi fam." Someone said walking through the door. We turned to see who it was. It was Matthew. "Daddy!" Veronica yelled. "Hey baby." He said picking her up and kissing her. "You're getting to be a big girl." Matthew said putting her down. She nodded her head and he smiled. Veronica looks like her daddy a lot more now. Her skin became lighter, she got hair like Isaiah, eyes like him, ears like him, but he keeps saying he's not the daddy. I sent him a picture.

ME: should b here w/ ur child buh u plying games 👏🏾

He responded in like 30 seconds.

ZAY: shut up

ME: man or nah

ZAY: nah

ME: she's enjoying someone else anyways since her own father isn't there 👨🏾🚫

ZAY: I just saw her last week

ME: exactly 😒 pitiful

And with that, I put our convo on do not disturb for an hour.

Matthew POV
That's right baby. I'm back and better than ever. I finally got Zoe and I play the role of the father. "Hey baby." I said kissing Zoe's temple. She smiled and said hey back. "How was work?" She asked taking off my coat. "A little slow today. We got the work done though. One of our clients lost their case so now they're mad and yelling at us. Literally." I stated. She rubbed my back and told me it would be okay. I smiled at her. "Hopefully." I said. She hugged and kissed me and went to give Veronica a bath. "C'mon." She said grabbing Veronica's hand as she got up. Veronica followed beside her and walked to the bathroom. Nadia came up and hugged me. "Hey." She said. I hugged her back. "Wassup." I asked. "Nothing. You know you're doing a great job at being Veronica's "father" right?" She asked. "Yeah. Thanks." I said. She nodded her head at me and walked over to her little one and Davonté.

Zoe POV
"No! Veronica ew stop!" I said as she sucked on her rag. I quickly took it out her mouth. "Spit it out." I said. She did the opposite and swallowed the water from the used rag. I popped her. "Ow!" She cried. "Mommy told you to spit it out and mommy's tired of telling you not to eat that." I said in third-person. "But mommy!" Veronica cried. I just ignored her. My baby is turning one tomorrow and she's still sucking on rags. After we were done, I dried off her body and did all her baby oil and lotion and put her clothes on her. "There." I said after I was done. "So what do you want for your birthday?" I asked my baby as I put her shoes on. She shrugged her shoulders. "Anywhere you wanna go?" I asked. "Chuck E. Cheese!" She yelled out. It was a good thing she asked for that cause I had already invited all her friends and everything there. I stood my little princess on her feet. I grabbed her jacket and we walked downstairs. "C'mon." I said. She followed behind me and we walked downstairs. "Where yall going?" Matthew asked as I put on Veronica's jacket. "Grocery shopping." I said. "I wanna go." He said getting off the couch and grabbing the keys. I nodded my head and we were on the way to Bi-Lo.

Isaiah POV
"Girl. Stop!" I said putting groceries back on the shelf. "I'm hungry though!" Aaliyah said. "You always hungry." I said. "Yo. Maybe I'm pregnant." She said. I thought back to when she first got pregnant.
***FLASHBACK***
"We can't keep the baby." I argued with Aaliyah. "Yes we can! We can just get jobs and-" she began before I cut her off. "No we can't 'Just get jobs' aight. We're getting an abortion and that's final!" I yelled storming out of the room.
***END FLASHBACK***
"If you're pregnant." I began breaking the flashback. "It'll be a good thing. We'll be expanding our family. You can even put a ring on it." She said waving her left hand in my face. She started singing single ladies and I just faked a smile at her. She kept throwing food in the basket like I was gonna pay for it. I walked away to go get some meet when I ran into Zoe standing there too. I decided I'd make a conversation. "Hey Zoe." I said. "Hey." She answered back. "Haven't talked in over a year." I stated. She nodded her head and brushed her bang out the way. "You look good!" I complimented her. "Thanks Zay." She answered. "Mommy!" A baby yelled running towards her nearly falling. Me and the baby made eye contact. "Is that Veronica?" I asked. She nodded her head. I walked up to the baby. "Hey Veronica! I'm your daddy." I said. She tilted her head. "No. That's daddy." She said pointing at Matthew. I straightened up and stared at Zoe. She stared back at me. "See. She's yours. Looks exactly like you and everything! I guess you were too dumb to notice it." She said handing Veronica off to Matthew. "Imma go check out." He said grabbing some meat. "I'll meet you in the car." She told him. They kissed and him and Veronica walked away. I stared at her forever. "I miss you." I admitted. "I missed you too." She said. We hugged. "So will you take me back? Please?" I asked her. "No. I missed you. Ed meaning past tense. Plus, there's Aaliyah." She said pointing to Aaliyah. Aaliyah came towards me with a basket full of junk food. "Thought you were getting meat? I understand she's a pig but, she don't count." Aaliyah said smacking on gum. I sighed. "That's my baby mama and sister. She ain't a pig." I said before Zoe said something and they started fighting. "Imma go." Zoe said mugging Aaliyah. "Quick hug before you go?" I asked. "No thanks. Hug yo girl." She said and with that she stormed off. I turned around to see Aaliyah mugging me. I just shook my head and took the basket. We went back to the ailes she got this food from and I put back everything I wasn't buying. "Stop putting it in the basket Aaliyah! We not buying it!" I yelled at her causing people to stare. She just dropped her face and let me finish. We checked out and we went home. I'm happy I finally got to see Zoe.