Faith

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August

"Dad look!"

Putting my attention on Nai, she smiled at me before doing one of her stunts off the diving board into the pool.

We been in Miami three days now and was waiting on the rest of the squad to get here. We would be boarding in two days and Nai still didn't know.

"Babe food's ready!"

Looking behind me Misty stood there with a smile on her face.

"Aight!" I nodded. "Naima, lunch time!" I called.

"Ok!" She smiled.

I hadn't asked Misty anything bout them pills I found but I had done a Google search on them and if that's what she was using em for an ain't tell me then their was gon be some problems in this house.

"Babe you good, you been unusually quiet since we got here?" She asked as we sat.

"Yea I'm good, you good?" I looked at ha.

"I am!" She nodded and smiled.

As I sat there, she stood there and we just stared at each other. We both knew when one of us weren't being one hundred but we would see who would break first.

"Why are y'all being so weird!" Nai said breaking our concentration.

"Eat." Misty said putting Nai's plate in front of her.

"Can we go to tha beach after? My friend Imani messaged me saying she would be thea"

"What beach?" I asked.

"Hold on!" She raised ha finger as she scrolled through ha phone.

Shaking ma head, I just laughed at how she was being.

"South beach."

"Ya up fa it?" I asked Misty.

"Sure why not."she agreed.

"Aight well when maw wakes up we can organize."

"Yea."

Lunch was quiet which was unusual for this family and anyone would be able to tell.

"Momma?"

"Yea sweet pea!" Misty smiled at her.

"Did dad tell you that I said I on board for this new baby?" She smiled.

"No he didn't!" Misty looked at me. "Babe you keeping secrets from me?" She said jokingliy.

"Like you are!" I mumbled.

"What was that?" She asked looking at me.

"I said it slipped ma mind!" I smiled.

"Oh ok" she nodded then went back to Nai.

This shit was beginning to bother me more than it was before. Not the fact that something maybe wrong, but the fact that she would keep something this from me.

I needed ta know fa sure what that shit was for and only one person could help a nigga with that.

"- Hey momma C, this gon be odd but watchu know bout Clomid?"

Looking up from ma phone, I'd seen Misty and Nai staring at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Nai asked you a question." She laughed.

"Oh shit...wassup sweet pea." I smiled.

"I asked if we would be staying in Florida for the rest of summer, because if we are, I wanna go visit maw in Houston."