Unprepared (A Jamal Lyon Story)

Chapter 3

Jamal's POV

Jamal is daydreaming
Some times I just don't get Karter. She is not like that 'I hate you I love you' type of chick. She is a 'shut the fuck up or I'll rip your dick off' type of girl. Now that she is pregnant her whole mood changed. I really do want to be in her and my child's life but with my dad breathing my neck it's just so hard to focus on mines. When there's cameras around he acts like he accepts the fact that I'm gay but behind closed doors he makes slick jokes about it.

While Jamal is in the studio writing a song there is a conversation going on outside the room.

Cookie: LUCIOUS!!
Lucious:  what Cookie
Cookie: where's my baby
Lucious: Well your looking at him right now
Cookie: I don't see nothing of importance. Where's my real baby Jamal.
Lucious: I don't know where your daughter is Cookie
Cookie: Shut your lil stupid ass up
Lucious: That's not what you was saying before you got pregnant with my kids
Cookie: JAMAL!!!!! ignoring lucious's slick comment and walking in the studio booth that Jamal was in

Cookie: Jamal there you are I been looking for you
Jamal:....
Cookie: Jamal.................Jamal.......... JAMAL!!!...
Jamal:...
Smack!!!!!!!!!!!
Jamal: Ow. That shit hurt
Cookie: Don't you here me calling you lil boy
Jamal: Sorry Ma. Rubbing the back of his neck
Cookie: what's up with you
Jamal: Nothing it's just nothing
Cookie: Jamal you know you can tell me anything right
Jamal:...
Cookie: Please tell me what's going on. Like I said you can tell me everything.
Jamal: I...we... Uh... Ok... I went to the club two months ago and I meet this girl gco
Cookie: And you want her to be signed
Jamal: no that's not it I got her gco
Cookie: you got her to overcome her stage fright by singing a song
Jamal: NO! I GOT HER PREGNANT OK!
Cookie is shocked by Jamal's outburst
Jamal: She is pregnant with my baby and I denied it by accident and when I went to her house yesterday she had the paternity test that I asked for her to get and when I went to check it out there was a custody form next to it. She was going to terminate my parental rights. And now I don't know what to do.
Cookie: then take me to her so we can talk this out
Jamal: looks at clock it's 12:00 she's at work already
Cookie: well we gonna give here a little surprise
Jamal:....
Cookie: So is you gonna tell me where she work at or you finna stand there looking stupid
Jamal: I uh... don't know where she work at.
Cookie: Sucks her teeth at Jamal. So you telling me that you managed to get her pregnant but don't have audacity to figure out where she work.
Jamal: all I know where she lives and that she works 12 hours a day at her job
Cookie: then we are gonna go to her house right now.
Jamal: her shift finishes at 6pm
Cookie: Oh well. To be early is to be on time
Hakeem and Andre walks into the studio booth
Hakeem: On time for what?
Andre: Where y'all going?
Cookie: no where that concerns you.
Andre: you mean nothing that concerns Lucious.
Cookie: boy don't get smart with me
Hakeem: Jamal where was y'all going
Jamal: we was going to visit someone
Andre: So I'm guessing that 'someone' is so important that even mom couldn't say anything about it
Hakeem: so who is it. You got a new boyfriend or something
Jamal: glares at Hakeem
Cookie: Shut up Hakeem. Jamal if you don't want to tell alright but they are your brothers they have to know
Jamal: Yall going to be uncles
Hakeem: wtf. Did you have a kid with ya boyfriend.
Cookie grabs a broom
Cookie: Say something slick again lil boy before I give you lesson #2
Andre: You got a girl pregnant
Jamal: Yeah
Hakeem: I thought you was gay Mal.
Jamal: I am. It's just.... We were drunk
Cookie: How far along is she
Jamal: she is 2 months pregnant
Cookie: Which college did she go to
Jamal: she went to...wait why do that matter
Cookie: well I wanna know what type of ivy league hoe trying to get my son into giving her money for a baby that probably don't even exist
Jamal: This is why I don't like talking to you about any of my life problems.
Cookie: look Jamal I'm sorry okay. I just want to protect my child.
Jamal: how do you think she felt by almost terminating my parental rights. I would have never gotten to see my child. She is trying to protect our child. Probably cuz she knows what's going on in this messed up family and she doesn't want her child to grow up spoiled, selfish, rude, and cold hearted.
Hakeem: wait... How come I never seen her.
Andre: you right y'all two would have been all over magazines
Hakeem: So I guess you was fucking this hoe on the low
Cookie: Oh Shut up stupid
Jamal: We met at a mall and I accidentally bumped into her and we started talking, which lead to me finding out that she was my best friend from middle school, the only person who didn't judge me because of my sexuality. Every day in middle school when everyone found out I was gay she was the only one who didn't bully me for who I was and everyday she kept telling shake off all those  So on and so forth we went to a party a started catching up. Blah blah blah boom I got her pregnant.
Hakeem: Bravo that was the best explanation in the world.
Jamal: Oh well I don't got time to put out every single detail. Y'all wanna see her or not cuz we been in here for 5 hours and she about to leave her job in an hour.
Every one in the room stands in silence
Cookie: Well...IS Y'ALL GONNA STAND HERE AND LOOK STUPID OR WE GONNA GO SEE HIS CHILD'S MOMMA! GO GET IN THE GOD DAMN CAR!
Everyone in the room but Cookie runs out to get in the car
Cookie: laughs I love seeing them run like they some lil kids
To be continued