Big Mistake

Hidden Secret

"Hidden secrets are like phone conversations.  You get to talkin' too much, that one person eavesdrops, and now everyone knows your business." -Yamesia

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Three days before Malcolm's twenty-sixth birthday...

"One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...eighth...nine...ten! Alright, now let's get to these jumping jacks, Brielle." Malcolm said to his new student, Brielle Jackson.

Brielle's parents signed her up for one of Malcolm's exercising classes, due to her just having a baby, they wanted her to get some of her excess weight off.

Malcolm was busy working the past few days, since Paris and Precious went out of town to meet up with President Barack Obama for a private meeting. He misses his baby dearly but she encouraged him to keep hisself busy while she went away.

Paris and Mrs. Vaughn always go out of town on business meeting with the president and First Lady Michelle Obama to do business with them. Precious and Isaac, Sr. are entrepreneurs that travel across the globe from time to time. Now, with this you may think that they never had enough time with Isaac, Jr. nor Paris, but that's not the case.

Paris and Isaac always attended with their parents on the trips, up until Isaac reached high school, that's when he had to stop going. Paris, on the other hand, with her being nine years younger than him, she always continued to go on the trios, but they stopped as well when she first got in ninth grade.

But now that she's older, she made it a mission to go as often as she can with them. She even helps out making some tough decisions her parents can't seem to see eye-to-eye on.

And the Vaughns don't just conduct business with Barack and Michelle Obama, they do it with any president who comes into office, like they have been for the past forty years.

"Okay. This is working out great, Malcolm. I thank you for helping me get my body back. My baby put a lot of weight on me." Brielle stressed as she continued to run in place, along with Malcolm who was right beside her.

They had finished the thirty jumping jacks and now were running in place for ten minutes.

"No problem, Brielle. This is my career, this is what I went to school to do. Although I've been doing it longer than these past four years." He responded, still jogging in place on the soft carpet of his gym.

"That's incredible. I could tell anyway by the way your body is shaped. Whoever your woman is must be lucky to have you." She responded, cheesing from ear to ear.

"Oh, you have no idea."

Before Brielle could respond, her phone started ringing inside of her gym bag.

She stopped her running and ran over to her bag, grabbing her phone out of its many pockets.

"Umm, this is my best friend, she's keeping my baby today and I wanna see what she wants."

He nodded his head, stopping in his running spot. "Go ahead." He told her, panting for air since he was somewhat out of breath.

Malcolm is really used to all of the working out since he's been doing it from the start of middle school.

"No no that's fine...if he's cranky then he may need a nap...uh huh..." Brielle carried on her conversation with her best friend.