Buried Treasure (a boondocks fanfiction)

Family

Flashback chapter No POV
Washington DC
At cousin Cathy's
September 2nd
17 year old Jazmine DuBois was 9 months pregnant & expecting a girl. She could go into labor any day now but the peanut was taking her precious time. Her parents & the remaining Freemans was here to see her give birth.
    Even tho she was quit sad her two other friends(Cindy and Caesar) aren't here she was still grateful she had her family. Senior year started without her and she caught up on her schoolwork online. She wants to go back to school a month after she has the baby.
      There was still no word on her unborn child's father. Huey Freeman had been officially missing for months. No leads. It's like he just vanished from the face of the earth.
       Jazmine still couldn't believe she was having his baby & he wasn't here to witness it. Her baby and her best friend will never meet. They'll never know each other. Huey will never know he has a daughter out there in this world.
       Jazmine is giving the baby up for adoption to this perfect couple she found. They was so grateful because they desperately wanted a child. Today she was signing the the paperwork to make everything official. She's having an open adoption that way her daughter will know she's adopted and she get updates & visits.
      Riley still wasn't thrilled with the adoption. Yes it's Jazmine decision but it's Huey's baby too. This baby is a family member. He tried his best to convince her to keep the baby but she just wasn't budging. He was tired of it anyway. Every time they'd talk about it she breakdown crying about Huey. She's not the only one hurting.
         ***DING DONG***
Cousin Cathy Opened the door to let the guest in.
"JAZMINE! SOMEONE HERE TO SEE YOU!"
"OK SEND THEM IN!"
Jazmine thought it was the couple. They was supposed to meet her parents and sign the papers. But it wasn't. It was actually Lisa,the woman that worked for the adoption agency.
"Where's Regina & Ricky?" Jazmine asked confused.
Lisa explains to The DuBois and their heavily pregnant daughter about the mishap with the Lukes. 
Regina and Ricky Luke was an upper middle class African American couple that lived in a suburban neighborhood in Washington with a white picket fence & 2 Dobermans. Regina did real estate and her husband was a Fireman.
Recently Regina had trouble conceiving
so they decided to give adoption a shot.
Jazmine thought they was perfect and choose them for her baby.
What Jazmine didn't know was the Lukes was black republicans that supported Bush during his presidency. All it took was one google search on her child's father and his record.
Thousands of results flooded in of Huey Freeman preaching that Jesus was black,Ronald Reagan being the devil, the conspiracy about the government " lying" about 9/11 and his hunger strike against B.E.T gaining headlines but the most shocking of all was the boy had been a domestic terrorist since he was 8. There even a video of him in a high speed chase driving a school bus and a mug shot when he was 10. The Lukes wouldn't feel comfortable with the biological child of a radical leftist terrorist and definitely wasn't down with the PC generation so they canceled the adoption.
That set Jazmine and her raging hormones off.
"WHAT!?!"
"Now Ms.DuBois we can find another family or just put her in foster care."
"HELL NO!! I DON'T WANT TO LOOK ANYMORE! YOU'RE NOT PUTTING MY BABY IN A FOSTER HOME!"
"Ms.Dubois I'm sorry things didn't work out with the Lukes."
"Sorry? They 'desperately' wanted a baby and suddenly they don't because of who her dad is? He fucking RETIRED! "
"Jazmine calm down." Her father said
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN?"
"Jazmine please." Her mother pleaded "just relax for the baby."
"I thought your slogan said 'homes for all babies' ?" Jazmine said to Lisa
"We can still find..." 
"JUST GO. I'll take care of her myself."
To avoid being yelled at more Lisa grabbed her bag and got the fuck out of there.
Jazmine still crying waddled to the kitchen and took out a entire dish of lasagna and 3 different flavors of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
"Jazmine you aren't going to eat all that are you?" Her mother asked
"Watch me!" She spat back as she tried to climb up the stairs.
"Sweetie just sit down." Her father told her.
"Just leave me alone."she made it upstairs and into the room with the delicious foods.
"God Sarah what are we going to do with her?"
Sarah had to think for a moment. She thought that maybe she could......she quickly brushed off the thought because she thought it was silly and couldn't pull it off.
     Riley felt bad for Jazmine but at the same time he was glad. Jazmine is going to keep the baby now and he gets to see his little niece every day.
The next morning
September 3rd.
"MOMMY! HELP PLEASE."
Sarah went into the bathroom where Jazmine was taking a bath.
"Baby what's wrong?"
"I think I'm in labor."
"What? Ok how far are the contractions?"
"I don't know I've been in pain for a while."
"Jazmine why didn't you say anything?"
"Because I didn't know if they was Braxton Hicks or not and I wanted to wait."
"Did your water break?"
"I'm not sure."
Sarah came back with a towel and Jazmine's robe.
"Ok I'm going to get daddy and the others just hold on."
     Tom drove to the hospital but the traffic was so bad they was stuck for an hour & 30 minutes but they made it on time or so they thought.
    Due to Jazmine waiting so long and the traffic it was practically time. She needed to be rushed to a room.
"I WANT DRUGS! I WANT DRUGS!"
"I'm afraid it's too late. Your baby is on the way" the nurse that wheeled her to the room confirmed.
"Mommy? Daddy?" She turned to Sarah and Tom "I promise I won't have sex again!I'm sorry I had sex with a terrorist! I'm sorry just please give me drugs." She whined
"We're sorry honey but there's nothing we can do."
"I WANNA GO HOME! I CHANGED MY MIND! Just let me go home I don't wanna do this anymore." The pregnant teen cried
"Jazmine there's no turning back. We're having a beautiful healthy baby."
   The nurses got Jazmine situated in her room where she's was set to deliver. Sarah and Riley(per Jazmines request) was right there holding her hands.& encouraging her.The doctor came in and she was finally ready to push.
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       Baby DuBois was born screaming her head off at 2:15 weighting 6LBs & 3 ounces. Uncle Reezy cut the umbilical cord of course.Right now she was all cleaned up and swaddled feeding from mommy's breast.She didn't want to get attached but she failed. Jazmine was completely in love.
      She was the perfect combination of her mommy and her daddy but definitely was her dads twin(in Jazmines opinion). Jazmine doesn't think she has what it takes to be a mother. How was she going to raise this child when she's a child herself? She wasn't even good enough to keep Huey around.
    Her mother & father walked into the room to check on baby & mommy.
"Jazmine honey how is everything?"
"Mommy I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm gonna have to leave school."
"Jazmine Elizabeth, you shall not do such a thing."
"But I have a baby now. I have to work to support her." Jazmine cried.
"Look Jazmine, Daddy and I are going for coffee we'll be in the cafeteria if you need us."
      In the cafeteria Sarah was thinking about her silly little idea again.
It could work. You can start over, Jazmine can graduate school and have everything she's ever wanted. Just tell Tom.
And she went through with it. She told Tom her plans. She was crazy enough to make this work. The couple went back to Jazmine and baby. They gathered Riley and Robert for the announcement.
"Sarah I just don't think it will work."
"Pipe down Tom we just gotta try."
"But it's Jazmines....."
"Shhh.....we are here to help her just go with it."
"Fine."
The couple walked in with the Freemans behind them.
"Jazmine we have something we want to ask you."her mother spoke
"Ok mommy."
"I was thinking....what if WE took the baby...while you got an education."
"What? What are you saying?"
"What if Daddy and I looked after her for a while and we tell people she's our child? Just at least until you get on your feet?"
"So I won't get to be her mom?"
Tom stepped in but more firmly.
"Now Jazmine you still will have some motherly responsibly. You will feed her. You will watch her when your mother and I can't. You will play with her. You will put her back to sleep if you have to. You will be a role model to this little girl."
"We just wanna help." Her mother continued "all we ask is that you finish high school,go to college and a home so you can take care of her properly when you both are ready."
Jazmine didn't know what too say. She was really conflicted. Her baby did need two parents that could provide stability for her.
"You'd do that? But aren't there things you want to do instead of being tide down with a baby?"
"It's perfectly fine. We'll do everything we can until you take her whenever you wants."
"Really?" Jazmine said with a hint of excitement
"Yes."
Riley was pissed. Why the hell is Jazmine trying to get rid of this baby so bad? If a man left his child with his mother you'd call him a deadbeat. Riley and grandad should have a say, she's a Freeman too.
"So what about us? She's our family too."
"Now Riley" Sarah answered him "you know you and Robert are family to us and you've been so supportive of Jazmine. Tom & I are going to see to it that she calls you guys uncle
and grandad."
Robert was fine with that. He's never had a girl before. As long as he didn't have to raise it he didn't care what they did. But for Riley that wasn't enough. He felt like Jazmine should be a mother.
"Jazzy you just gone give them yo baby?"
"Riley we aren't taking her away from Jazmine. We're just going to be responsible and care for her until Jazmine gets everything she needs."
"But y'all gotta tell people it's yours?"
"She doesn't have to tell anyone if she doesn't want to. It's not their business. Our girl doesn't need everyone's opinions"
That sounds like straight up bullshit.
Riley just huffed and sat in the nearest seat. He agreed that he and grandad would keep it between them but that doesn't mean he liked it. He just knows Jazmine is going to regret this.For now he's going to focus on watching his niece grow up.
      To be honest when Jazmine said she was pregnant Sarah realized she failed Jaz as her mother and that wasn't even the main reason. Tom and his fears rubbed off on Jazmine turning her into a paranoid child version of him. She was a 10 year old that thought Santa was Jesus, hid under her bed for two years because she was terrified of terrorist(the irony) and until Huey showed up Jazmine hated her heritage and her identity as a mixed raced black woman. Jazmine hated her afro hair and her caramel skin. All the other little girls tortured her daughter because she didn't look like them. The worst was Sarah sat back and did nothing about it. Huey was the only one to get Jazmine to fully love herself and all her features. It took a while tho.
      And you know what really hurts? Sarah wanted to have another baby so bad but she couldn't get pregnant again. She kept trying & trying until she gave up. The fact that her teenager could have one reckless night with some boy that didn't even care about her could get pregnant and she couldn't didn't make any sense and reminded her of that hurt.
     With this new baby Sarah could start over and raise her the right way. She'd raise the baby the way Huey would have and she will NOT let Tom screw this one up.
"Now Princess your first duty is to give her a name." Tom spoke to his daughter. "What will you call her?"
     Jazmine hadn't really thought of a name for her baby girl. She was going to leave that up to the Lukes to decide at first. She thought "Treasure" because her baby was something so valuable and precious that cherished the most. When she remembered she was little & Huey saying he liked the name "Nala" when they watched the lion king together. She played around with it inserting a Y in the middle.
Eureka that's it! It's perfect and it certainly fits her.
"Nyla. Nyla Treasure DuBois."

/end chapter/
That's how Nyla was born and the DuBois got her. Everything just went down hill from there. Thanks for the support don't forget to vote and comment.