Planning on Love

Earth to Mars.

 A few weeks later....

"You out here tellin all my shit to my sisters." Mars looked at TJ.

He knew he couldn't even really be mad knowing how close they all were.

"Meanwhile you ain't told no one you had a baby on tha way." He said. 

"I told you." TJ said and Mars sucked his teeth. 

"Yet you tha nigga thirsty for a baby you let your ex trap you and mad I told your sisters how you did my child god mother." He said and Mars shot him a look. 

He couldn't take TJ serious. 

"Your child's godmother?" Mars repeated. 

"Yea, and you the god dad so clear the shit up you got going on or Vince fa real going to kick you out the wedding." TJ said and Mars stared at him

The idea of him having a kid seemed far-fetched. 

TJ  was a playboy life of the party type. Mars knew because he was like that for a while as his right hand. That was until things changed. It was sometime after his mom passed.

"Ive known vince longer than you." Mars countered. 

"But we practically in-laws. His wifey is my sister-in-law." TJ reasoned. 

Mars sighed. 

"I fucked up okay." He admitted and TJ smiled. 

Mars was damn near perfect in everything so when things seemed to be falling apart TJ liked to come and save the day.

"Finally acceptance." TJ said flopping down into his lounge chair.

"Regan isn't who I want to be with but the doctor told me not to break up with her if I love my baby." Mars admitted. 

"She says she doesn't want to be a single parent and I get that but at the same time it feels like shes forcing me." Mars sighed in frustration. 

"I honestly didn't think it was my kid but now its like the Amber situation." Mars said and TJ rolled his eyes. 

"not this again." TJ said completely over the past

For Mars, it wasn't something he could just forget. 

"Seriously? Not this Amber shit again. TJ sighed.

"It's not the amber shit." Mars complained. 

"I get it but you were young to be honest any young man in your shoes would have likely done and said the same." TJ said to him for what he was sure was the 100th time. 

Tj knew that as much as Mars said otherwise he was still haunted. 

Amber was a memory that made Mars hate himself.  

She was just a young girl who wanted love, much more than anyone would be able to offer her. 

Amber was a girl that Mars had hooked up with as a teen. Like most boys his age it was short lived and to him it was nothing serious. Amber had become another name under his belt. She was the pretty senior who he had bagged his sophomore year. 

A few weeks after he broke things off she came to his locker saying she was pregnant. Mars always wore a condom so he wasn't even sure how that was even possible. It was only then he found out he didn't 'bag' her and that she actually bagged him. 

She had a crush on him, she had thought he was a senior but when she found it didn't stop her from flirting and it didn't stop her from poking holes in the condom she bought and forced him to use.  It was a trap, one he fell for.