Beauty and the beast

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             "Baby?" Dae said from the side of me. "Hm?" I mumbled with my eyes still closed. "Let's go get married." "What?" My eyes popped open. "Yeah, let's go get married." "Right now?" I sat up. "Like right now." He looked at me seriously. "Just us? Like we ain't gone tell nobody? My parents and sister ain't gone never forgive me." I sat up. "Like don't you gotta have a witness or something?" "Baby I been up all night doing research and I made us an appointment. We gone go do our marriage license then we gone do a lil ceremony."

             "Bae how we gone do all this today? And how you got an appointment just like that?" "Just know I got pull everywhere. Nie you gone marry a nigga or not?" "Yes!" I threw my arms around him. "Oh my gosh I need a dress. Can we please tell some of our family?" I gave him the puppy dog eyes. "Yeah." He laughed. "I ain't inviting nobody but my two grandmas." He shrugged. "You not gone do Armani and Twon like that." I softly popped his hand.

"Ight well my grandmas, Twon and Mani." "I wish the boys wasn't in school." I pouted. "Should we go get them?" "Hell nah, let them stay where they at." He shook his head. "You are so mean." I shook my head as I picked up my phone. I made a groupchat with me, Jade, Mimi, and KD telling them to come to my house ASAP. Seconds later they all responded with either an "okay" or "coming". "I ain't mean, ion need all four of they bad asses running round."

All four of the boys live with us now and I love it, the house is never boring or quiet. Xavier and Marquis spend some weekends or days with their moms but Jaquan and Mason don't. Once she kicked Jaquan out, they wanted nothing to do with her. "Speaking of the boys, Jaquan is turning fifteen this month, what we doing for him?" "It's a club that do teen nights, imma rent the whole club out and let him and his friends rock out." He shrugged.

"Imma do a party bus first then have the bus take em to the club." "Oou that sound like so much fun." "Yeah I had heard him on the phone saying he wanted to do either or so why not do both? I got the money for it." "You are such a good brother." I kissed his cheek. "I be trying man. And Marquis birthday on Christmas, ion know what imma do for him." He shook his head. "His cry baby ass be wanting everything." "Oou that's the worse birthday to have." I made a face.

"It damn sholl is. You know they be having that fair shit round Christmas time, might take him and a bunch of his cousins and classmates. Or I might do a lil party room at one of them jump places." Hearing him talk about his brothers only made me fall deeper in love with him. "I picked the right person to build a life with." I caressed his face softly. "Why you say that?" He grabbed my hand and kissed it. "You're just perfect baby." He grabbed his face and brought it to his.

            Our lips softly clashed. Our sweet little moment was interrupted by bangs on the door. "Man who the fuck?" He pulled away from me quickly. Dae hopped out the bed and over to the dresser. "Boy that's probably the girls and KD, relax." I jumped out of bed too as he rummaged through the clothes and pulled out a gun. "You don't know that." He started walking out the room. "Um yes I do being that I told them to come over here." I followed behind him.

The banging started again as we made our way down the stairs. "Who is it?" Dae shouted as we reached the door. "Boy open this damn door, y'all hear us!" Jade shouted back. "Man." He sucked his teeth as he unlocked the door and opened it. "Hey Glock, where our sister?" Jade pushed past him and came in, Mimi and KD right behind her. I looked at all of them crazy as I stared at their hands. Jade had mace and a switchblade, Mimi had a taser and KD had his gun in his hand.

"Why the fuck y'all got all these weapons?" I tilted my head to the side. "You texted us like it was an emergency, like we was going to war or something." Mimi stressed. "Hold the fuck on, y'all thought I did sum to her?" Glock looked offended. "Boy hell nah." Jade waved him off. "Boy you the least of our worries, you don't want us to jump you again." Mimi waved him off as well. "Man you got me fucked up." He sucked his teeth.