Never Let IT Die

Strong Feelings...

                              3 weeks later........(1 month and a week pregnant)

Lucious grinned with pride as he peeped his little cub peeking out of Cookie's colorful Tom Ford dress as they walked down the hallways, toward Studio A, where Mal, Keem, and Tormentó were. Cookie glanced at him, and sighed. "What?" His grinned grew even wider. "I can't look at what I created? As a matter of fact..." He said, stepping in front of her and getting on his knees. "Lucious, what the HELL are you doing?!" She said, looking around. He placed his head on her stomach, said "I know what you are... And I want you to know Daddy loves you, baby boy..." And sealed it with a kiss. "Aww... I'll give you ya props, that was cute, but what makes you so sure it's a boy?" He shrugged and grabbed her hand as they continued towards the studio. "It's like, I've got this feeling, you know? Like how you knew our first baby was a gir... Oh shit, I'm sorry, Cooks!" He said as she dropped his hand and turned away from him. "Baby, I'm so sorry... I... I forgot about that, OK?" He said, wiping the tear away that had managed to slip from her eye as she nodded and sniffled. "Y'all stupid! Yo, I'ma bout to go fi-...Mom what's wrong?" Hakeem asked, whole demeanor changing as he rushed to her and Lucious. "It's nothing, I'm fine..." She said as Jamal and Tormentó walked towards them. "No, Ma, something's wrong, I know-" "Mal, I'm fine, just... Just give me a minute, OK? I'll be in there in a second." She said, walking away. Lucious looked in her direction, then turned to the kids. "Alright, y'all heard her, back in the studio... Ima go check on her, make sure she alright... Now, GO!" He said loudly and they ran back inside the studio. "No, she's not OK... Something's going on, man..." Mal said as he started to pace. "Yeah, I agree, they're hiding something, but what?" Hakeem said as he started to make a beat on the soundboard. "How do we even figure that out... I mean, they not gon tell us, we might as well just wait until they have enough confidence to do it..." Tormentó added, walking up to the keyboard section and playing a dark sound. "I guess... But with Lucious Lyon as our dad, well, who knows how deep that secret is?" .............