As Time Goes By

Kylan 42

I knew the second my cousins walked in with Julio it was time to go, don't get me wrong I love my cousins but I knew every time Julio visited there was bound to be a fight. I knew Julio never started it but girls seemed to be attracted to his New York attitude, which usually caused dudes to get a little jealous and Julio never backed down from a fight. I left and decided to go chill with Trinity, Marcel and Cori who opted out of the party and were chillin at Noah's house but as soon as I got to the door I heard a bunch of people yelling and cheering and I already knew what was happening. I turned around expecting Julio to be fighting but instead it was JD and Alex..... well they're family so there was no point in me getting involved; I walked out to my car and found a letter from Rondell on my windshield but didn't even bother reading it, I just threw it on the ground and sped off I was over his bitch ass and there was nothing he could say that would change that. I walked in Noah's house and he directed me down to the basement where Saint, Trinity, Marcel, Cori, Joejoe, Danny,Mario, Tion Jr. and Ala'ven were all getting sloppy drunk.

"Damn what's the occasion?" I asked as Noah handed me a drink.

"Just excited, I found out what me and Jade are having and I wanted to celebrate, don't bother asking me either you'll just have to wait until the gender reveal party." Noah said smiling and for the first time since finding out Jade was pregnant he seemed genuinely happy about having another kid.

"So when is that?" I asked taking a shot of the drink and instantly regretted it, that shyt was like liquid fire.

"When we get back from Boston, which will be a couple days before Christmas. So we'll have get to chill a couple days before hand, now what was that nigga Rondell's address again I forgot?" Noah asked and almost slipped up and told him because he slid the question in there so smooth but I wasn't stupid enough to tell him because that would just cause more trouble.

"It doesn't really matter, my dad and them handled it so it's over...... what y'all need to be talking about is Armani trying to get Ivanna pregnant." I said knowing they would forget all about my problems and focus on that.

"WHAT?!" Saint said jumping up and falling right back down, yeah he was fucked up. My plan worked perfectly though because all they talked about for the next two hours was cutting Armani's dick off or preforming a homemade vasectomy. I was a little too drunk to drive home so I stood outside with Saint waiting for his driver when he put his hand on my shoulder. "If..... If that nigga Rondell triessss...... anything...... call thisss...... number and it'll be handled......." Saint said winking but he was so drunk it looked like he was having a seizure.

"So what are you going to do about Armani and Ivanna?" I asked as the car pulled up.

"We're just going to have a long talk......" Saint said smirking and I noticed that he got the same look Uncle Zyshaun got whenever he was feeling vindictive, so Armani better look out because Saint was in some ways worse than Uncle Zyshaun. Oh well I was too drunk to worry about Armani, that should've known Saint was going to find out eventually I just hope Saint didn't hurt him too bad....

The next morning I woke up and instantly knew Keirra was cooking, so I jumped took a quick shower, got dressed and ran downstairs to find my dad, Keirra and Cortez all sitting at the table already eating. Damn they couldn't wait..... I sat down and my dad slid a piece of paper across the table.

"What's this?" I asked not even reading it.

"A list of dudes you're not allowed to date and reasons why..... since you obviously have poor judgement I thought I should help you out, with a little help from Cortez." My dad said eyeing Keirra lustfully. I picked up the list and tried to figure out whether to laugh or be offended, you could tell this list was written by two straight men.