$ugar ($outh $ide $ugar $equel)

-Clyde.

February 9th, 2019

It had been months since the tour ended and the baby belly was getting obvious, and don't get me wrong. I didn't hate it, but I did not like it. I loved the fact that, yeah I was growing a tiny human of the man i loved.

But I was so scared, I had my village. Everyone knew by now, except for the internet, there had been rumors but we hadn't confirmed or denied them.

We all were sitting in the living room of Gus's house he bought in NOLA, the only person who wasn't there was Nick and Kev, Me and Ari were cuddled up on his couch, Gus took a picture, grinning and laughing.

"What's funny?" Ari asked which made Gus laugh even harder, "Y'all" Gus said jumping onto the couch, laying up on Ari.

"How?" Ari asked, Gus showed us the photo,  Ari has his hand on my stomach, my legs draped across his lap. Ari smiled, "Send me that" Ari asked and Gus nodded, after a minute Ari's phone went off.

"When are y'all dropping the next album?" Gus asked and Ari shrugged, "Me and Scott haven't decided yet" Ari told Gus, "When are you?" I asked him.

"Well, my estate is still dropping my shit, so I don't really plan on dropping stuff anytime soon" Gus told us and I nodded.

"What bout you, you haven't dropped in like, a year?" Gus asked me and I shrugged, "Probably gonna wait for the baby" I told him, "But if you do it now... You wouldn't have to worry about an album for awhile and could focus on the baby" Gus told me

"I agree, but I still wanna wait" I told him and he nodded, "I think me and Scott should drop something from the new album, I'm kind of bored" Ari said and we chuckled.

"What?" Ari asked, "Y'all just drop music whenever you get bored, I'm barely dropping shit" I said and they chuckled.

"How y'all finna have a kid but don't got shit" Tracy said coming down the stairs, his hair tucked under that same hat.

"Mann, don't worry bout it" I said, "I promise when y'all have that kid, I'm taking it Louie shopping" Tracy said, "Do you even have the money for that" I said, Tracy hitting me in my arm.

"You know I do" Tracy said and I rolled my eyes, "Suree" I said laughing.

"Is it a boy or a girl y'all?" Tracy asked, "Yeah you been keeping it a secret for months" Gus said and Me and Ari just chuckled, "You'll find out" I said, Ari's phone pinged, he picked it up

Long necked giraffe cousin: Tryna slide by, can talk about album?

Da cherry: suree, angel w me

Long necked giraffe cousin: tell lil ma I said hey, and other lil ma

Da cherry: coo.

"Nigga, it's a girl?" Tracy yelled, his eyes bulging out his head more then normal, "Yes" Ari said and Tracy about jumped with joy.

"Fuck yeaaa, little Angel, fuck you Ari!" Gus yelled which made Ari laugh, "Fuck you too" he said, taking my hand and helping me up.

"See y'all later opps" Ari said, as we walked out the door, he opened the car door for me, I got in the passenger seat, putting my hands in the pocket of my hoodie.

Ari started the car up, I was completely lost in my thoughts, he pulled out the driveway, driving to Scott's house.

Once we got there, I got out the car walking in the house and straight to his bathroom, throwing up in the toilet, and it was everything.

Ruby walked and sat down next to Scott, "She might?" Scott asked, "Yeah, she still can't keep nothing down" Ruby told Scott, who just nodded.

"We need to drop sum shyt, I'm bored" Ruby said talking his phone out his back pocket, "We do.. its been a minute" Scott said scrolling on his laptop through the music.

Ruby was completely zoned out, Scott basically talking to himself about the album. "Aristos" Scott said, Ruby turned his head and looked at Scott, "shit.., sorry, what'd you say?" Ruby asked and Scott just shook his head.

"Nevermind cuz, what's up?" Scott asked Ruby, "shits bugging me.." Ruby said softly, "What is?" Scott asked, "The closer and closer that date gets, I realize how unready I am for a kid" Ruby said.

"Man, you only got like.. shid.. two months?" Scott said, "I know, my house ain't even set up for a kid" Ruby told Scott, "I feel like it's bugging me bad, and Angel just.. she's calm" Ruby said and Scott shook his head.

"I know that girl better then anybody on this planet, I see that panic in her face" Scott said, "but, she seems so ready, and shes off that shit.. and.." Ruby said and Scotts eyes widen, "Hollon, your still using?" Scott asked, "Yeah.. but fuck.. you know how it is" Ruby said

"That's not an excuse, Dude you got a kid on the way, you don't got a choice nomo.." Scott said, "yeah, it's just hard to get sober knowing you are, feel like I'm letting you down.." Ruby asked, "Don't worry bout it" Scott told him and Ari nodded.

Both of the boys went silent, they didn't have anything to say to each other.

"Let's just work on this album" Scott said finally, and Ruby nodded.

The boys say in the studio for hours, I walked in after some time, sitting down on that little area Scott has.

I laid my head on that squishy he always had in there, I could absolutely not get comfortable anymore, every little thing made my back hurt, and even my sides, I could not wait for this baby to drop.

I closed my eyes, sighing to myself, I heard Ruby take a picture to which I put my middle finger up too, "yeah yeah, love you too" he said and Scott chuckled.

Ruby turned back forwards to the screen of Scott's arrangement of computers, Ruby scrolled through his phone, going to his public Instagram account, he looked over at Scott.

"Is this a bad idea...?" Ruby asked and Scott shook his head no, "it's not" Scott told him, "plus it's up to you" Scott told Ruby, So much has happened to them recently, Scott's one year of sobriety was coming up, and now Ruby was ready.

He clicked on that plus button, and scrolled to post he sighed for a second, clicking on the picture Gus has took of us, clicking on that song everyone knew, CLYDE, and clicked post, no caption, no context. Nothing.

"Now, was that so hard?" Scott asked, and Ruby shrugged, Eventually Ruby's phone started going off, mainly texts from his distant friends or people they'd worked with who he hadn't talked to in awhile.

The one comment that stuck out was Shakewell,

'damnn man, congrats, miss y'all, should work together soon'

"Your turn" Scott said, "for what..?" Ruby said barely looking up from his phone, Scott pointed to the ultrasound photo Ruby had in his phone.

"For her, and for angel, you gotta get it together cuz, you gotta" Scott told Ruby, and Ruby nodded.

"I will."