Hell On An Angel 2

Duron 9

I got up early as I always had to get DJ ready for school, since that night he's gone from not saying anything to saying small sentences; usually just 'yes' or 'no' but it was more than I have been getting. I knew I had to take baby steps with him after the traumatic shyt he's been through, it kinda sucked that for the first time since I came up here I wouldn't be able to pick him up from school but there was no telling how long I was going to be working and since DJ was going to be living with me permanently I had to get my money up. I dropped DJ off at school then went to pick my mom up from the airport, dropped her off at the apartment I was renting out and drove to the studio. I was supposed to be meeting up with that dude Kekoa so we could start working on his album.... last time I saw him I told him to have an idea of what he wanted but he was kind of a diva and he expected me to do all the work, which wasn't going to happen....... I walked down the hall and heard laughter coming from the studio and I prayed that this nigga didn't have his entourage with him or even worse groupies...........

"So Torian had my ass in there begging, I mean I was climbing up the wall and he me in there sounding like a Jamaican.... 'No Baybee no stop mon....' I swear that dude got my heart....." Devin said and I froze damn I would've never suspected he got down, I knew his brother was married to a dude but I didn't know he was gay too.

"Duron glad you could make it." Zyshaun Prater said standing up. "This is my little brother Devin Cunningham, he's going to be watching and learning from you..... so offer him the same respect you would give me. Don't worry the kid is gifted he might be able to lend some advice as well, he works on all of Young Mon's music....." Zyshaun said.

"Damn that was you?" I asked impressed.

"Aight I'm going to leave y'all to it..... Kekoa should be here any minute but I gotta fly back to Houston." Zyshaun said walking out leaving me with Devin, the few minutes turned into a few hours but that gave me time to get to know Devin and it confirmed everything I thought about him; he was extremely cocky but where I was wrong was he was extremely likable he actually reminded me a little bit of myself. Finally Kekoa walked in like he wasn't late as fuck and I was already irritated............ we had met once before and I could see his attitude hadn't changed much since then.

"Sorry late night y'all know how it is, let's get started......" Kekoa said sitting down. "Aight so what are we doing, I kinda figured you would have something together since the last time I saw you and I hope it's good because I'm trying to record at the most two songs today......" Kekoa said.

"Nah you were supposed to come up with a concept for you album and send it to me, then my job as the producer would be to control the session and make changes to the music as well as supervise. But since you haven't....." I felt myself getting pissed when Devin interjected.

"Here, I was going to give this song to Lafayette or Kaylis but their albums are done already, plus Laf isn't really into EDM (Electronic Dance Music) and I know that's kinda your style." Devin said getting up and we got started...... Devin Cunningham was a life saver and even Kekoa was happy with the three songs we got finished, I think my favorite so far was this ballad Devin has written called 'You Who Stole My Heart' or 'Blaze's Ballad' as he had it written in his notebook, just listening to it reminded me of me and Elijah's relationship, back when things were simple and I wasn't a fuck up......

"Aight well that's enough for me, I'll let y'all assistant work on the finish project and we can meet up again in a couple days to continue." Kekoa said walking out.

"I can't fuckin stand that dude......" I said as I began listening to the song again to see if there was anything that needed to be changed. "But I'll be damned if his punk ass can't sing." I said shaking my head and I noticed Devin trying not to laugh. "Is there something funny?" I asked.

"Nah..... but you'll see soon enough." He said gathering his belongings. "I'll be back in a few I gotta go get my other brothers Cam and Legacy from the mall." Devin said walking out leaving me to finish. Once I was done I decided to head home and be with my son, I walked through the door and my mom was sitting on the couch and I could tell she cleaned up because the air smelled like straight Pine-Sol.

"Your brother wants you to call him and pick that up, you weren't raised in the ghetto." My mom said as I threw my stuff on the couch.

"Ma... me and DJ got a system that works for us and it's throw your stuff anywhere and clean up once you can't see the carpet..... and I have nothing to say to Diante until he stops hanging out with Genesis." I said grabbing a beer and Capri-Sun out the refrigerator and walked into DJ's room, I tried to hand him the beer and he smiled.... for the first time in weeks I got a smile out of him and that shyt almost made me cry. I tossed him the Capri-Sun and sat on the corner of his bed.

"Can I have some?" He said pointing to my beer.

"Nah maybe when you turn thirteen I'll let you have ONE but until then....." Then he gave me the saddest look I've ever seen. "Man here..... just a sip DJ." I watched as he took a sip and spit it out quickly.

"It's nasty dad....." He said wiping his mouth.

"Well you asked for it, but look I'll be back in a couple minutes what do you want to eat?" I asked and he shrugged. I guess I could go get some McDonald's or something quick since I didn't feel like cooking, I walked back into the living where my mom had moved my stuff and she was on the phone.

"Here.... your OTHER brother wants to talk to you." She said walking into the kitchen and began cooking, I didn't have any issues with my youngest brother De'Veon so I had no problem talking to him.

"Wassup De'Veon?" I asked sitting down.

"Shyt chillin how is DJ doing?" De'Veon asked and I gave him a quick rundown of how he was slowly starting to return to his old self but we still had a long way to go. "That's wassup..... so are you coming back any time soon?" He asked and I knew him well enough to know that something was bothering him.

"I'm not sure yet..... why wassup? Diante still being a bag of dicks?" I asked.

"Nah I just..... I just need someone to talk to about a lot of stuff and you know I've never been able to talk to Diante, his only advice would be to shoot first and ask questions later. I kinda feel sorry for him and Unique's baby...... but it doesn't matter I'll just wait until you get back down here, you'll be back before summer right?" De'Veon asked.

"Yeah I gotta be home for Elijah's graduation, De'Veon are you alright? You know you can talk to me about anything right?" I asked.

"Yeah I know Doonie..... it's just...... Diante just walked in I'll call you later." De'Veon said hanging up. I gave my mom back her phone and walked back to DJ's room, I spent the rest of the night chillin with my son and listening to my mom nag about stupid shyt until DJ fell asleep and I walked back into the living room.

"Mom if I knew you were going to complain the whole time I would've had dad come out here...... matter fact why don't y'all trade places? You can go home and look after Unique and dad can come out here with me and DJ?" I asked.

"Because your dad is needed back home to watch after your twin...... we're not certain and we don't have any proof but even been hearing rumors that your brother hits that girl Unique and well......." My mom said quietly and I prayed my brother wasn't that stupid but then I remembered who we were dealing with here.

"His ass needs to be back in jail and y'all need to let his ass sit there and not bail him out for the hundredth time...... Diante isn't going to learn until it's too late and even then he might not care..... I'm pretty messed up but I've got nothing on Diante." I said sitting down.

"I just don't know where I went wrong..... Diante is a lunatic, De'Veon is........ and you are a sex feen who will hump anything. No wonder why Elijah left you......" My mom paused then covered her mouth. "Duron I'm sorry that was out of line." She said and I nodded.

"Goodnight mom......" I said getting up and walking to my room, damn that shyt hurt like hell to hear but it was the truth. I pulled out my phone and looked at Elijah's number for about ten minutes, as badly as I wanted to call him as badly as my brain was telling me to quit him my heart was screaming for me to call him but I wasn't ready for him.... not yet...........