Brittany Hills Chronicles: Act 2

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Tomorrow was Carter's gender reveal party so me, Fat Daddy, Brian, and Romeraux were all setting up the decorations while Jasmine kept Bianca busy and Tay, Xion, Khris, and Dejon distracted Carter. Actually, decorating helped distract me more than anything.... Montez was back and I had to admit the dude had balls because he didn't seem to care one way or the other if the truth got out about what he did to Ronnie and Victoria's stupid ass was protecting that nigga. I couldn't wait for Vince to get back, he was almost finished with his first year of college and promised to come with me on the tour..... speaking of that I had some tough decisions to make; after going over the contract I would make enough money to get me outta Brittany Hills and into my own place and since I was turning eighteen in a couple weeks I was really starting to think if I wanted to stay there or get my own place.... hell technically I could move back into my old house if I wanted but....... I loved the group home and I would feel weird not being around my brothers and that's how I looked at all of them, they were my brothers but I also felt like me staying there was taking the spot of another dude who needed a home......... whatever I would make my decision soon, I just wanted to finish up and get back to the house.

"Ayy Brian what color should I wear tomorrow blue or red?" I asked because I really wanted to know the sex of Carter and Bianca's baby but Brian just looked at me and smirked because he was the only person who knew the gender and so far he had been tight-lipped about it. "Aight can I at least get a hint? I mean I kinda need to know these things since I'm the godfather and I wanna buy the baby something special." I said but Brian just walked into the kitchen.

"I'm telling you it's a boy.... Carter has been too happy lately and you know how it is with him, whenever he's happy it's only a matter of time before something fucks up his entire mood and he's ready to fight." Fat Daddy said and I hated to admit it but he had a point.

"Nah I think it's a girl.... I mean Carter deserves a little bit of joy and I know my bro has his heart set on a little girl, plus I think Carter has been on a roll with luck lately; I mean yesterday we were walking through the mall and this nigga found like three hundred dollars just sitting in the parking garage. The way that niggas luck is going I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up with twin girls." Romeraux said and I shrugged, after all the last night talks me and Carter have had (when he's not on the phone with Xion) I knew Carter just wanted a healthy baby.

After we finished decorating me and Romeraux went back to the house, when we walked inside everyone was just standing in the living room with the same shocked expression. When I started to ask what was going on Jace told me to just watch.... at first I didn't see anything besides Carter and Xion playing checkers. Then Xion started cheating, moving pieces around in the most awkward positions..... now something about my boy Carter is he hated cheaters, ironic I know but when it came to games he would be ready to fight if he caught you cheating so when Xion was clearly started cheating in Carter's face I assumed Carter would explode like he did on everybody else because he took all games seriously, so when he just smiled and shook his head I understood why everyone was so shocked.

"I don't get it.... hell if I make a mistake in chess he be ready to smack me in the face with the board but when Xion cheats he just smiles and shrugs it off. And he's been doing it all day, we were playing Uno and Xion was hiding cards and Carter didn't say a single word....." Jace said shaking his head.

"Ayy he's happy.... after the year he had last year, he deserves it. I gotta take this call." I said walking out the living room and walking into the office. "Wassup Cordell?" I asked sitting down, every time I got a call from one of them I was expecting them to tell me I was off the tour, I don't know why but it was a fear I had.

"We're going to be in Columbus tomorrow night for a show and we figured you'd want to stop by maybe if there's time you could perform your little song." Cordell said and my heart started pounding in my chest. "I think it will be a good test to see if you really got it, I would hate for you to get on stage and freeze up in front of all those people." Cordell said and somehow I stammered out a quick response and he told me they would call me tomorrow with the details.