Kaleah Miller hoisted her three-year old daughter, Kamille, up on her hip as she walked down the street with speed to make sure that she made the last train of the night. Her car was in the shop, her insurance was not paying for the expensive rental, and she simply didn't trust uber drivers, so the train was her only option to get home after her night class.
After nearly being the cause of two accidents and still missing the train, Kaleah took two buses home to her Chicago low-end apartment that she shared with her best friend, Sameera. She worked a midnight job as a CNA, which normally left Kaleah and Kamille alone during the weeknights.
As Kaleah began to insert and turn the key in the knob of the door to her apartment, the door was pulled open revealing Deon, Sameera's older brother and also Kamille's father. It was a sticky situation, as is.
When Sameera found out her best friend and her brother were messing around behind her back, she was heart broken and upset that the two never told her about them being exclusively together. She felt that she should have been first to know, especially with how close she was to them both, but both Kaleah and Deon decided it was best to leave Sameera in the dark because she'd only try to keep them apart. They knew of her never liking any of her friends to date her brothers, in which she had three, and Kaleah was no different.
No matter how much she trusted Kaleah and loved her, she never wanted her to date her brother because in their teens, he was nothing was a young, menage boy whose mind was on nothing but sex. She didn't want Kaleah to get hurt nor did she want to ever have to pick a side, if things went wrong so if they remained apart with a simple friendship, Sameera felt that was safe.
But before she knew it, Kaleah and Deon were in a serious relationship which soon grew intimate and sooner than later, she was expecting baby Kamille. The two didn't last but four months into the pregnancy before Deon decided that he wanted to go pro in the NBA, which required him to move to Boston because the Celtics offered him the best deal. While Kaleah tried to appeal the idea that she needed him to raise their baby on the way, Deon felt that opportunities like that didn't come to everybody, especially not someone with his background, and that she should support him in his endeavors.
Long story short, they ended in a messy breakup and Kaleah struggled with blood pressure problems for a period during her pregnancy because she was under loads of stress from Deon, her mother in her ear about an abortion, and school was a load in itself. Now, she was in medical school working to become the anesthesiologist that she always wanted to be.
Without being told, Deon told a sleeping Kamille from Kaleah's arms and kissed her forehead softly due to how light of a sleeper she was. Kaleah removed her key from the door, as she stepped into the cozy apartment and proceeded to lock the door. She could hear Deon's heavy footsteps against the floor and assumed he'd went to lay Kamille down in bed. Despite Deon and Kaleah's failed relationship, he was a good father to Kamille. He took a lot of trips in between Chicago and Boston after being drafted during the later stages of Kaleah's pregnancy because he didn't want to miss anything. He facetimed either her or Sameera every other day to keep in touch and be in the loop of what was going on, and when Kaleah went into labor, he came on the first flight after his away game in Memphis to be at her aid and see his daughter take her first breath on this Earth.
