I Know You Can't Speak

Part 23:

I had been so wrapped up in having Faith early that I didn't bother to call Lawrence. I hadn't even been able to call him and tell him about the altercation with Mercedes at my job but I was too tired to even engage in that convo with him. After calling him once and getting no response I got ready to go to sleep.

"I'll call him when I wake up" I told myself. The next morning, I tried calling him again and again, I got no response. I texted him a picture of Faith showing him that she was born with the message: "You missed your daughter being born..." attached and waited for him to reply. He never did and it wasn't until 7 in the evening that I found out why.

"Bitch ain't this Lawrence?" Aiyana said to me as she passed me her phone. She was still at the hospital with me and Faith. Taking her phone, she had somehow found Mercedes's Facebook and on it was a picture of her with her babies.

"This bitch had her babies too?" I said as I passed the phone back, completely forgetting why I was given it in the first place.

"Yeah but fuck that! Look closely!" She told me as I looked again. Mercedes was in the bed with one baby and the other was being held by a person you whose face you couldn't see in the mirror behind her. All the picture showed was a body from the neck on down. Her caption read:

"His babymomma straight y'all know they hate her" with an emoji attached. I wouldn't have thought it was Lawrence if the man in the picture didn't have on the exact same outfit that I had last saw Lawrence in.

"Yana imma kill him!" I said as tears welled up in my eyes.

"Don't cry girl! He's a piece of shit! Fuck him! Faith don't need him!" She started going off but all I could think about was how he had the audacity, after everything that had happened to be there with her and her kids and not me and mine. I began to see black.

"Aiyana what hospital is that?" I asked calmly.

"I don't know it doesn't say" she said as she looked at me.

"You think it's the same one as me?" I asked calmly.

"This bitch seems obsessed. I wouldn't be surprised." She retorted. I tried calling Lawrence again but still no answer. Just then, Deja came walking into my room.

"Congrats sis!" She said as she hugged me.
She had a bunch of congrats balloons and pink flowers and teddy bears.

"I just saw Lawrence leaving was he up here?" She asked as we both looked at her in shock, not saying a word.

"So it is this hospital!" I screamed.

"What's this hospital? And was he up here? Cus he acted like he didn't see me when he was leaving" she said again.

"No he wasn't here with me, he was here with that bitch Mercedes!" I snapped as I began to explain to Deja what was going on. She said nothing as she left out of the room and minutes later came back.

"Where you go?" I asked her as she walked back in the room.

"I went downstairs to see if she had the same last name as her dad and she doesn't. Cus I was gonna see if he came back and fuck him and her up" Deja said matter of factly.

"She's not worth it" I told Deja.

"Oh but she was worth you going into early labor and possibly losing your job right?" Aiyana asked.

"Absolutely" I said as we all started laughing.

"All this fuss she causing and the bitch don't even have the same last name as her dad. Her mom been a hoe" Deja said as we all started laughing.