For the love of Heaven (ON HOLD)

27|Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1 month later

Christmas Day

Christmas officially marked 2 months of me being pregnant and so far I've been to the doctor 3 times.. My doctor has made it a big deal for me to give my diet a big 360 turn and I was more than willing to comply because I needed to change my diet anyway regardless of me being pregnant. Omar had no problem feeding me and I managed to gain a good 15lbs just from living with him.

I also worked up the courage to tell my mom because Omar and I were spending Christmas at her house. When I finally told her she was quiet, I could she didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed, she begin to yell telling me how irresponsible I was, then hold her tongue and ask me about my health, if I was going to finish school with a baby, did we know the gender and have we been thinking about names.. honestly to all those questions I had no answers, not even a clue. for the second time in my life I had no idea what was going nor what could happen next but I did know that at this point anything was possible and I knew that I could be a mother go to school and be exceptionally good daughter and girlfriend to my mom and Omar and that's what I intended to do, I will not use my child as a disability or an excuse as to why I can't accomplish my goals.

We all sat at the kitchen table with every holiday oriented food in front of us in the center. My mom dad long ago made up the tradition to celebrate the company of the family before we open gifts, meaning that we ate breakfast, went and visited all the family and collected our gifts, got the chance to catch up and laugh and appreciate family. It didn't make sense to me as a kid, but now, as an almost adult I'm less materialistic.

After we'd arrive back we would gather around the dinner table, like how we are now, we would go around the table and speak on what we were thankful for, and yes I know it isn't thanksgiving but my mom made it clear that we're supposed to be thankful for all blessings year-round and after we ate that's when we'd open gifts. As I got older and demanded less and less gifts each year I finally realized how important family is and I now regret being without my mom for over 2 months. I was so stuck on the thought that my mom didn't want me back that I avoided her and wasted time instead working out our differences.

My mom and everyone else at the table lifted their head up as she finished saying the prayer "amen." We all said in unison.

My mom turned to me and placed her hand on top of mine and squeezed it. "I'm so happy you're here Heaven.." she smiled.

"I missed you.." I said I felt my tears began to stream down face. For the past days I been feeling the symptoms of pregnancy start to kick in. Morning sickness and overactive hormones. There was never a moment that I wasn't crying.

My mom wiped my tears away and pushed my freshly pressed hair behind my ear.

~*~

I sat on the couch with a full belly. My mom, Omar, my favorite uncle Bobby, his wife Diane their daughters, my twin cousins Riley and Rachel, who were a year under me, my bougie aunt Caroline, and her broke no good boyfriend that's too young for her and for whatever reason kept eyeing me across the room, and her 7 year old son Jalen all sat around in our living room. We were getting ready to open gifts. I snuggled up under Omar because I knew I didn't get anything, and I was extremely tired from eating everything in sight.

"Heaven.." I looked up and my mom handed me me three small gifts.

"You actually got me something?" I said in a surprised sarcastic tone

"Of course I did," she smiled.

As everyone separated their gifts there was a knock on the door.

"Heaven can you get that, I think that's your cousin Yasmin and uncle Henry."

I got up and damn near ran to the door. Yasmin was my favorite cousin, she lived in Colorado though so I only ever got to see her on holidays or, unfortunately, at funerals.

I opened the door to a tall, slim thick figure, freckled face, with long black hair.

"Yasssyyyyy!" I screamed.

"Heavennnnn!" We both hugged eachother.

"I missed you too girl.. let me in its cold out here!" We both laughed. One thing I loved about Uncle Henry and Yasmin was even though they moved into a big ass house in Colorado they knew exactly where they came from. They weren't too excited about moving up there anyway. But uncle Henry got a job offer that he couldn't refuse and he was making almost triple the pay.

"Hey uncle." He hugged me extra tight not knowing his own strength, they were the only ones in the family that were tall.

"Hey my favorite niece!!"

As she and my uncle walked in I closed the door behind her.

"Wait Terrence is out there."

My eyes widened "Terrence is out there?"

"Yeah he's just standing out there, he said he wasn't ready to come inside until he spoke to you.. what's up with him I thought y'all hated eachother?"

"It's a long story, you got a lot of catching up to do.."

She looked over "I see.. who is that on the couch next to auntie."

"My baby Omar."

"Ohhh Heaven got herself a man.."

I giggled "don't stare too hard he's mine."

She chuckled "now we've shared a lot of things but men ain't one of them."

"Right.."

"Mhmm now Ima make my way to the kitchen, yo girl hasn't ate since she left Colorado.."

"Lies, yo girl ate all the road trip snacks.." Uncle Henry butted in.

"Daddy stop telling my business!"

"It's the truth.. I'm the one that should be hungry.."

We all laughed

"Okay.. I'll go outside and talk to him,"

I put on my ugg boots and my coat. I walked outside and sure enough Terrence's car was out there. We locked eyes and he got out of the drivers side and at the same time the passenger door opened as well..

"Lucky?"

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Soooo, y'all been asking for me to bring lucky back... here ya go..

So what do y'all think Terrence wants to talk to Heaven about?

where has he been?

And what does lucky want?

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I need y'all to pray for my area as y'all know I do live in south Florida and right now as I type we are in the middle of hurricane Irma, everyone's power is out and the storm has not let up yet. We don't know how bad the damage is so let's all pray for the best.. my family is safe, the flooding isn't bad but like I said we're still in the middle of it and you never know.