Terminal 1

A New Kind of....Mess

5 weeks later...

"Girl whatcha fanning yourself for?.." Mia asked laughing at Fatima on their FaceTime call.

"Girl, when was the last time Nicholas wrote you a letter?" "Bitch never..." "Exactly." Fatima chuckled, folding the letter and placing it in an envelope.

"Since he's been gone to bootcamp I've only heard his voice maybe twice. But THESE LETTERS..." she falls dramatically.

Mia bursts into laughter, "You stupid." "But I'm serious." She says, with a chuckle getting up from the floor. "At first things were normal." She elaborates, "He'll send home letters like, "Hey Babe." "I miss you." "What have you and Munchkin been doing?" type stuff and then when he calls it's like, "Hey Mamas, I only got 30 seconds I love you and give everyone a kiss for me. Make sure you sign for your flowers." She mocked then Mia asked.

"I thought he wasn't able to do anything in bootcamp?" "He's not." Fatima answered. "Supposedly he set up an agreement with a florist to make sure that Iyonna, Big Ma, Amanda, and I all get flowers while he's away." She shrugged then added. "But lately those flowers come around the same time as his letters home and girl..."

"Peanut missing that Cupcake..." "EVERY CRUMB HONEY, EVERY CRUMP!" Fatima reiterates as they laugh again.

"But seriously, Mi." gazing down at her wedding ring, smiling. "I miss him like crazy.." "I'm sure you do but it's only 2 more weeks. You can do this..." "Mimi." "Yame..." "Here they go..." Mia and Fatima huffed.

Fatima picks up Iyonna, while Mia places MJ into the camera.

"HI!!" They say happily to each other waving their little hands.

Iyonna and MJ start to baby talk through their own little conversation, "Girl. Gimme my damn phone..." Mia screams at MJ who decided to take her mothers phone from the stand and wobble herself from the bed.

"No Momma." "Fatima, hang up so you won't be a witness to a murder.." "You better leave my Niecey Pooh alone." She chuckled, "But listen. I'll call you later anyway. I gotta run some errands..." "You mean, go to Target. Sephora, Barnes and Noble, and Starbucks?" Mia listed sarcastically.

"Hoe, you don't know my life." Fatima clapped with seriousness while laughing.

"Whatever. Love you lots." "Love you more." "Bye...." As they hung up.

Iyonna starts to cry. "Aweee Baby. It's ok. You'll talk to your bestie again soon." She snickered, while soothing her as she took Iyonna into her arms and headed downstairs.

Over the past month and a half, Fatima was more than grateful for her village.

First, handed her new apartment over to her mother and father and moved in with Big Ma.

She figured since she's there most of the time anyway, why not. Plus Donovan got out of jail a week after Zac left so being with Big Ma just made sense all the way around.

MJ and Iyonna have become tighter than Mia and Fatima. Since their first visit to Texas and now the girls feel like every time Fatima and Mia are on the phone, they need to be on the phone too.

Fatima purchased the girls an IPad so they can talk freely without interrupting the "adult" conversation. But that plan is a continuous epic fail because they rarely ever use it to do so. 

Amanda is still going strong and so is Big Ma. After the wedding Latrice and Priscilla went home, however Latrice came back to help with the transition. Although she wasn't much help because Beverly and Richard had it covered, she kept her sister company nonetheless, until they all went back to Texas.