There's Nothing Left For Me

Seven

About 7 Weeks Later
Orlando POV

"You need help?" I stood at Drew's door. When I first heard him crying I figured she had him, but he's been crying for a good 11 minutes now.

"Please. I didn't want to wake you. I don't know what to do. I tried feeding him, I changed his diaper, rocked him a little. I don't know what I'm doing wrong." She stressed, rubbing her hand through her hair.

"It's alright to wake me Dray." I took Drew from her and grabbed his bottle. "I got him. Go get some rest." I kissed her forehead then walked out of his room.

"Alright boy what's wrong witcha? Gotchu momma stressing." I walked down the stairs and out the back door to the pool.

"You gon be fat with all these late night bottles lil man." I chuckled, laying back on the swinging pool chair to burp him.

"Naw, you a grown man." I laughed once he burped. I swung back and forth as he laid on my bare chest to put him to sleep.

"You leaving?" I asked Nia when I walked back in the house. She was already at the front door.

"Yeah. I don't feel like being here while you play house." I shook my head.

"Yeah you should go. I'll hit you up whenever." I mumbled, opening the door for her.

"Bye." I closed and locked the door the put the alarm back on. Afterwards, I placed the now finished bottle in the sink, turned all the lights off and went to place Andrew back in his crib.

"Dray you up?" I peaked in her room door.

"Slightly. He's sleep?" She asked.

"Yeah." I walked over to her bed and sat down.

"What'd you do?" She turned over to face me.

"That's something between him and I fat head." She giggled when I tapped her forehead.

"What's going on with you and ya girl? I heard what she said." I shrugged.

"I don't even care to begin witchu."

"If I'm in the way of y'all relationship, I can just-" I cut her off.

"You ain't in the way. She just jealous and I'll be damned if I let anybody call y'all out y'all names or let them think they can control shit. I've known you longer than her and Ima do my part and be there for Drew like I promised you. I don't care what anyone has to say about that either." I told her and she sighed.

"Okay."

"On a serious note, what's going on between you and my dude? Like one day y'all was all over each other, then the next you came home pouting. I ain't wanna say nothing, but we on the subject so talk." She huffed.

"When just got into a minor argument. And I don't have a car to go places on my own. That's all."

"A minor argument. Humph, it wasn't that minor cause you've been here all week." She sat up from the bed. Her tank was kinda twisted so I could see a part of her boobs.

"Tell me my shirt is twisted instead of staring you perv." I chuckled when she fixed it.

"He just got mad for the same reason Monia's mad. Saying how he wants to be there for Andrew. He asked me to move in and everything, but I told him no. Then he brought up the whole thing about you signing his birth certificate and stuff." I shook my head.

"I mean you ain't have no say so, I was signing that even if you kept saying no. That lets you know that you're not alone. I've never known Tashard to act like this tho." I said.