Homecoming Pt. 3

Toussaint 64

I sat in the front pew of my mother's funeral trying not to cry, growing up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti it wasn't acceptable for a boy to cry so  held back my tears and tried to figure out my next plan. As far as I knew my mom didn't have any family and my dad died in the 2010 earthquake, so I was on my own after the funeral I remember walking through the streets not exactly sad but determined until this nice ass car pulled up beside me. When the dude stepped out he radiated money and power, the dude walked over to me and stared at me for a second before smirking,

"My name is Zyshaun, your mother was a distant cousin of mine." He said sticking out his hand, I've never seen this dude before in my life but there was something about his eyes that were familiar. I shook his hand and he smirked. "You hungry kid?" He said and I nodded before he led me to his car. That was the first time I meet my 'dad' and ever since then I've never looked back.................. I rolled over on the couch in Noah's room and looked at his goofy looking ass, something was different about him, he just seemed happy all the time and it was annoying as fuck. I picked up my pillow and threw it at him.......

"Man wake your bitch ass up." I said laughing as he jumped up quickly and looked around confused. "Nigga get dressed we got somewhere to be....." I said getting up, grabbed my bag of clothes and went upstairs.

"Good morning Toussaint." Grandma Angela said, I walked over and kissed her on the cheek and winked at Tonya's sexy ass before sitting at the table.

"Me and Noah are about to go to the barbershop." I said digging into a plate of food she sat in front of me.

"Are you telling me or are you asking me?" She said and I smirked.

"Grandma may me and Noah go to the barbershop? I'm getting tired of these....." I said running my hand through my dreads and smiling. "I think it's time for a new look."

"I don't care but make sure y'all are back before one, I think your dad and Khalil are taking y'all somewhere today." She said I nodded and quickly finished my breakfast before running upstairs and getting ready, when I was dressed and ready Noah was sitting on the couch waiting. "One o'clock Toussaint....... don't make me come looking for y'all." She said as we walked out the door and got in the car with my personal driver, I couldn't wait until I was old enough to drive. We got to the barbershop and Noah looked at me like I was crazy....

"Are you sure you wanna do this Saint? Bro you've been growing your hair since I met you, you sure this has nothing to do with what happened with Uncle Zy." Noah asked and I shrugged, maybe I was doing this because of that, maybe not but I was doing it and there was no changing my mind.

"What's been up with you though? You've been in a good mood since the cookout and I'm starting to think you finally......." I looked at Noah and his ears turned bright red and before I could dig deeper it was my turn to get my haircut but we were definitely going to talk about this later.

"So what do you think our dads want to talk about?" Noah asked while I looked in the mirror and was pleased with what I saw.

"I don't know and I don't care....... what I wanna talk about is why you've been in such a good mood?" I asked and Noah started blushing again. "Did you and Jade......."

"Look why can't I just be happy that I'm about to have another sibling, my aunt just got married and had a baby the same day, summer is about to start and me and Jade are in a good place?" Noah said and I shook my head and smiled.

"Whatever Noah let's just get back to the house before Grandma kills us and by us I mean me........." I said looking around for my driver.

"Well what do we have here........" Someone said from behind me and I turned to see those dude Cain and Caleb standing there, I didn't trust these dudes and right on time. "It's good to see y'all." One of them said before walking out smiling. These dudes were planning something the only question was what?

We got back to the house where my dad and Uncle Khalil were waiting, when my dad saw me he shook his head and smiled, he has been harassing me about my hair for the longest so I bet he was glad I got it cut and even though I was still pissed at him. After taking another shower I walked back into the living room where it looked like my dad and Uncle Khalil were arguing about something.

"Are we still leaving?" I asked and Uncle Khalil didn't say anything he just got up and walked out to his car and waited, I looked at Noah who just shrugged. The car ride to where ever it was we were going was silent so I decided to text Noah to see what was going on with our dads.

ME: What happened?

NOAH: I told them about Cain and Caleb and they started arguing, then your dad said something about not being appreciated and it got worse until G-ma told them to stop acting like kids and they've been acting like women ever since.

ME: I should've stayed home -_- and you should've kept your mouth shut.

ME: So are you going to tell me what happened with you and Jade or not?

Instead of answering Noah put his phone in his pocket and pretended to go to sleep, I didn't want to press him about something I kinda figured happened so I decided to break this awkward silence between my dad and uncle.

"Are y'all going to fight?" I asked and they both started laughing.

"Nah just having a disagreement...... brothers do that sometimes ain't that right Zy?" Uncle Khalil said smiling.

"Fuck you Khalil." My dad said trying not to smile. We got to this park and they stood on opposite end of the trail and I figured they were going to do the divide and conquer tactic, so I when I started walking to my dad and he shook his head I was surprised. "You're going to walk with Khalil, Noah's coming with me." My dad said pulling Noah and they started walking leaving me with my uncle. For the first quarter mile it was silent except for birds and shyt until Uncle Khalil started talking.

"You know your dad is sorry about that shyt that happened right? I know he's said it already but it's really fucking with him." He said and I shrugged, I bet he was sorry. "He's just not the type of person to admit it........ he's had a harder life than you realize." Uncle Khalil went on to tell me about how my dad got left in the park by his mom when he was a kid and everything he went through up until they met in college, he told me about how my dad almost died over some girl, he told me stories about my dad that were hard to believe but then again they really weren't. "One of the happiest times I've ever seen Zyshaun was the day he could finally call you his son and I know he can be a dick sometimes but that's just how he is......... and some times I don't appreciate everything he's done for our family. Which brings me to you." He said glancing at me.

"What did I do?" I asked confused.

"Zyshaun is a business man and in his line of work he has to be in control of everything and when you started disrespecting him he reacted badly...... not saying that's an excuse but it's the truth and yeah he could've told you about him and Yuri but at the same time he doesn't have to tell you who he's sleeping with because he's the parent." Uncle Khalil said.

"So are you saying it's right for him to be messing with someone who's old enough to be my big brother?" I asked.

"It's not my place to say whether it's right or not but they make each other happy which is all I want for everyone in my family and if anyone deserves to get some happiness it's your dad for everything he's sacrificed." Uncle Khalil said and I had to admit he had a point, we spent the rest of the time talking about everything under the sun and it really put things into perspective and made me appreciate my dad a lot more.

We met up with my dad and Noah and they traded off leaving me and my dad alone. We started walking and didn't say anything but we really didn't have too because that's just how we were, I didn't need words to understand what he was thinking because in a lot of ways we were just alike, we would both do anything for the people we cared about so when our eyes met I knew that I didn't have to worry about Cain and Caleb because my dad would handle it.................................