Love Lock Down

Chapter 29 (Leroi Sr./Leroi Jr.)

I walk up to the door and it is silent. I started to knock, but I wasn't feelin that so I twisted the knob and walked on in. I see Leroi and some girl staring at me from upstairs. I nod to them  and walk around to where my baby mama and her husband were sitting at the kitchen table.

"So what's the problem?" I said reaching into my waistband.

"It seems that that he," she said pointing at Curtis,"Has put his hands on our son."

"Oh really?" I said rubbing my chin. I could feel my blood starting to boil when Leroi burst into the room.

"Mama what you mean our son? This dude is my daddy?!"

""Yeah young nigga I am ya pops, but we can trip on that later. Right now I need to holla at Brent."

"Who is Brent?' Asked Judy looking back and forth at us.

"Brent is this bitch niggas real name."

I saw that he was taking too long to get up so I walked over to help him by snatching him up by his collar.

"Hey Big Roi I didn't know he was your son man I'm so...."

"Save all that shit nigga and take a walk with me." I said releasing his collar. He walked out of the house with me and I left  them to untangle the shit they needed to untangle.

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Navette was standing behind me as I looked at mama. My chest was heaving up and down like I had ran a damn marathon. What the fuck else was she hiding from me I wondered.

"Ma you wasn't gonna tell me? I don't know much about him, but I know Petey is his son."

"Leroi I did what I had to  do to keep you from being a thug. I didn't want you getting locked up like his other boys." She said as she started rubbing her temples. I was about to reply when my timer went off for the lasagna. Navette took the liberty  of taking it out and finishing  up the salad. She looked at the broken knife and shook her head before throwing it away.

"Ma you ain't got no right making decisions for me." I said clenching my jaw.

"Boy the decision to have you was even my decision so don't tell me what I have a right to do or not you understand me!!! You can talk that shit to Curtis or anybody else, but that smart ass mouth is too much for me!!!"

I rolled my eyes up in my head and crossed my arms. Mama stood up in my face which really pissed me off. I started breathing hard cause I wanted to hit her ass.

"Oh you upset, you mad, well guess what, I am sorry that I didn't tell you sooner, but nobody in this house has the right to have an attitude cause I pay every bill and sign every check!!!"

"Yeah okay so you just like these other women out here you all about money?"

SLAP!!!!

I never saw the slap coming,but I damn sho felt it. I held my jaw in disbelief.

"Let me tell you something lil boy. Working a job that kept me gone for 12-14 hours while raising you alone was no easy feat!! If you wanna be mad then be mad, I don't care. But if you ever check me in my own damn house make sure you got one of your own to go to. You understand me?!"

I couldn't say nothing I was too mad. Navette had finished and started to grab plates. I knew she felt uncomfortable, and I hated she had to see all this. I was still glaring at mama when "pops" and Curtis walked back in.I could tell Curtis had been pistol-whipped because his jaw on the right side looked broken, and his bottom lip was split in two and swollen. His eyes was the color purple and I'm not talking about  the movie. "Pops" saw me eye-balling him so he spoke up.

"Aye Curt gone and get ya shit packed bruh and don't take too long cause you leavin when I leave.

Curtis hobbled past as best as he could considering that he had probably been hit on his legs too.

"So what you feelin? You standin there lookin like you mad or something." He said sitting down at the table.

"Maybe I am mad cause why the......"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Watch what you say to me cause I don't respond well to negative energy. Aye lil mama I don't know what you cooked, but a nigga hungry let me get a plate and some cold water aight.

Navette looked back at him, but she was clearly not about to object. With him and mama looking at

Him and mama just kept staring at me.

"What yall want me to say? ain't happy about this. I went 16 years without knowing who you was, but you saw me in the streets. You ain't never acknowledge me like you did with Petey and Grayson so why now?" I asked looking into his eyes.

"Look Leroi your mama asked me to stay away cause of my lifestyle. I done been, shot, stabbed, pistol-whipped, and left for dead many times. Judy was the type that liked the square niggas and that wasn't me."

"Now what a minute. Don't blame this on me. I said if you got your life together you could see him. You the one that chose not to give up your lifestyle.

"Yeah true, but you was the only one with a problem. I could've been got yall out of here."

"Well I don't accept no money from drug dealers."

"I don't deal in drugs I am a phone salesman." He said smiling.

I had to laugh at that cause dude was reminding me of Sweet daddy from Good times. I was starting to get hungry. Navette made plates for mama and um...him and then she made us plates. We sat down to eat, but not before mama did a ten minute prayer. Me and pops kept lookin up at each other laughing and Navette was rolling her eyes. When he left he told me to call him and he made Curtis carry every single one of his bags to the car. I watched them drive off and I went upstairs to go to bed while mama and Navette got to work on Shayla's dress.