"Skinny mini." I said to O as I came in the basement where he was working out.
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He turned off the music as I handed him a bottle of water.
"You getting skinny babe." I told O.
He sat down on one of the benches. I noticed he was getting noticeably leaner and losing muscle mass. He wasn't as bulked up as he usually was. He was looking more like a track star, with a lean build.
"That's all this stress y'all putting me through." He said through sips of water. "Next thing you know, my hair gon be coming out."
I chuckled and massaged his shoulders. "Stop exaggerating."
"You'll live. Just like daddy gon have too." I sat next to him.
"You know he's gonna be so mad." O eyed me.
"I know." I sighed. "And I'm just like dreading it because my whole life he wasn't there. We finally get to this place where we are good. Livy and K-Man love him. He's in there lives. And I just feel like now, everything is going to go south again. He entrusted me with Deanna, because he didn't want her to leave Baton Rouge anyway. And this happens. I just feel like I failed him."
"Unh-Unh we not finna do that K." O said as I wiped my eyes.
"I just feel like I spent my entire life dealing with him leaving. I finally broke down the wall. And I just feel like he's going to want nothing to do with me again."
"But Kenya it is not your fault."
"But it is O. He sent her to live with us. She was under our care to get an education, not a baby. And I try to be a supportive sister because I know its hard for her. But me and Brandon literally had this conversation with her. And I told her O, i said I'm trusting you Deanna. Just don't get pregnant." I smacked my lips and rolled my eyes. "Like its not fucking hard."
"Kenya." Odell said trying to get me to calm down.
"She had a father her whole life Odell. So this means nothing to her. But me? Do you know how good it feels to finally be able to call him daddy? To hear him say he's proud of me when he hears the new things Karol's Cosmetics is doing? Or to finally have a family to visit at dinner that is mine? Or to have him send me birthday and Christmas cards? But because she wanted to be stupid, that could possibly be all gone for me. And guess what she won't care because she's just happy Shep gave her the fucking time of day."
O looked at the door. Anna was there.
"Deanna." I turned around.
She ran off.
I sighed at rubbed my head like I had a headache. I went upstairs after her.
"Deanna, I didn't mean that."
"Whatever Kenya." She said packing her things.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it. I'm stupid remember."
"Deanna, I was speaking out of anger."
"Well you don't have to speak to me anymore. I'm moving in with Shep."
"With Shep?"
"Yes. He added my name to the deed on his house. So I don't have to be your burden anymore." She brushed passed me with a duffle bag of her things and went downstairs.
I was gonna follow her, but Kenyon woke up from his nap and started crying.
I sighed and went in there to him.
"Come here man." I picked him up.
I smelled his bum.
"You need a diaper change." I told him and proceeded to change his diaper.
"Where she go?" O came in there to me.
"To Shep's I guess. She says she's moving in. I can't deal with that right now. I have my on children to worry about."
"Boy y'all are not gonna be happy until I'm a damn skeleton. Where my chocolate princess? She the only one who don't put baba through stress."
"Sleep on our bed. Please don't wake her O." I told him as he left out.
I rolled my eyes at the drama I saw coming. Jesus help us.
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Sorry it was short. I didn't have that much time. Ill make up for it. And I don't want to hear you heauxs complaining because I update frequently when I don't have too. Let me live 😂😂
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