Bad Boy (DeVante Swing)

Heaven Sent

Arrington Noel DeGrate
July 4, 2005

"Lord if it isn't the other dude with a face tattoo. I blame you Mike. You probably encouraged that damn ponytail too." I said to Mike as he walked in with presents for DJ's birthday party.

"It's not even that bad. He got good hair." Mike said hugging me. I rolled my eyes at his comment.

Today DJ turns one so Donald decided we should have a birthday party for him. I was just going to give him a cupcake and watch Blue's Clues with him all day, but this is fine. It's only close family and friends here. I've been running around all day like a chicken with its head cut off. Especially when it came to DJ. He started walking a couple months ago, but now he's starting to climb things. You can't leave him by himself, he'll get into everything. Zyla who is now three going on thirty is now gaining independence. She likes picking out her clothes, reading her little baby bible, and singing songs. Donald is teaching her how to play piano as well.

Oh and I forgot to mention I am 4 months pregnant with twins. Yes, I will be living in a house with 4 kids under 5. Pray for my sanity.

"Look at my beautiful wife working hard in the kitchen." Donald said kissing my forehead.

"Yeah well your wife is tired husband. Tired and fat."

He laughed rubbing my belly. "You're not fat, you're gorgeous. Look you're glowing." I sighed. "Ok how about this? You go lay down. The party is about to end soon anyways and I'll clean up everything. I'll give the kids a bath, put them to bed, and rub your feet."

"You expect the kids to go to sleep at 4 pm?" I said with a blank face.

"We all know Zyla don't turn down naps. The girl loves sleeping just as much as eating. She's a miniature you. Now DJ.. He's going to be a hassle, but I got it."

I chuckled. "I love you babe. I'll go lay down after he blows out his candle and eats some cake." He nodded kissing my forehead.

I brought the cake out to the backyard and took DJ from JoJo. We all sung him happy birthday as he tried to rip my shirt open because he wanted some milk. We're trying to ween him off because I'm pregnant now, but he does not care. He's like give me the titties bitch. He ate some of his cake and eventually grew restless which means he needed to take a nap. Zyla passed out on the couch in the living room. She looked so adorable.

As the party ended some stayed back to help us clean up the house. Dalvin put Zyla in her bed to sleep and when they all left it was around 7. I was turning off the lights in the kitchen and walked in the living room seeing De knocked out on the couch. I chuckled as he laid there with his hand in his pants. I bent down to his level and kissed his forehead down to his lips.

He opened his eyes and smiled. "I didn't realize I fell asleep. My legs were tired so I sat here."

"It's alright.. Come on daddy let's go to bed. You know you getting old, we gotta get you in bed by 8." I said helping him off the couch. He flicked my forehead.

"Shut up, you're only 3 years younger than me. You right there with me." I laughed.

"I'm still young baby, I'm not even 33 yet."

"Okay and I'm not 36 yet, so what's good?" He said smacking my ass as we walked up the stairs.

"You better stop that freaky stuff, that's why we got two in the oven and two sleeping now." He held me from behind as we walked in the room.

"I don't care, I love it. I can't wait till these two come out then we can have 7 more."

I stale faced him as I laid in bed. "Nah I'm okay... Dis tew much."

He laughed. "One more please?"

"I'll tell you what, if you and Jodeci make another album then I'll have one more child."

He smirked. "Alright."

"If you cut off that ponytail we can make the doctor give us triplets."

"Nah, one is cool." I slammed my feet against the bed groaning. This nigga and that damn rat. I'm literally going to cut that shit off. I say that knowing good and damn well I'm not because I know if he was to cut my hair I'd chop off his balls.

"That's only IF you guys make another album. I mean all four of you, not just K-Ci and JoJo doing something."

"It'll happen. Trust me." He said smirking as he got between my legs. "Tell the twins scoot over cause daddy's coming in."

We both laughed hysterically. "You're such a fucking weirdo. Don't ever say that again."

"Sounded good in my head." He said trying to recover from his laughing spell. Once he calmed down he laid his head on my stomach and started kissing all over it. "This is the good life. Hey you lil niggas. It's daddy, what's the weather like in there?"

I laughed. "Probably like a swimming pool since they're in fluid."

"Would you hush woman? I'm talking to the babies. Geesh." He said putting his head back on my stomach. I pulled his hair and he slapped my thigh. "Quit playing, shit hurt."

"Shut yo cry baby ass up."

"What you think it is?"

"It's a boy and a girl."

"Why you so confident?"

"I don't know, I had a dream about it. I prayed to God about it and he told me it's a boy and a girl. It'll all be confirmed next week at the appointment."

"Guess we gotta start looking for more names then." He said rubbing my thighs. Eventually his strokes started to get lighter and then they stopped. I looked down to see him sleeping. I placed my hand on the back of his neck and smiled.

I'm just glad things are finally looking up.

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Excuse any errors.