Clemency. ✓

30

Shawn Carter,

I rang the doorbell of the Harvey's million dollar LA home. I waited until the front door opened opened so I could be attacked by my baby. She did just that too. She screamed and laughed as I kissed her all over her face.

"DADDY, STOP!" She screamed.

"Nope!" I chuckled.

She was damn near having a laughing attack.

"Daddy love you!"

"Love you too." She said. "Daddy, come have some breakfast with me."

"Daddy already ate." I told her. "Hey, how y'all doing?" I spoke to Lori's family, who were enjoying a large breakfast buffet at the table.

"Good." Everyone spoke.

"Daddy, sit down." Shai said standing up in the chair. "Take a load off."

I scrunched my eyebrows at her vocabulary, everyone else was laughing their asses off.

"Why you so grown?" I asked.

"I'm not." She smiled.

"Okay, wait, look." I unlocked my phone. "Daddy gotta show you something."

"What?"

I pulled up a picture of Dria holding the baby in the hospital bed. Then I swiped to let her watch a video I took of him as they cleaned him off. I cut the volume up so she could hear the cries.

"THAT'S MY TT DRIA'S BABY, DADDY." She screamed, jumping up and down excitedly.

"I know. She had him early this morning." I told her.

"Did she?" Marjorie asked. "Let me see!"

Her coming to see turned into everyone coming to see.

"Did he come early?" She asked.

"Yeah. He's healthy though." I nodded. "They said he was fine. 8 lbs 9 oz."

"Wow! Congratulations you and her!" She said.

"Thank you!"

"Wait, what are we looking at?" Lori asked coming around the corner.

"Mommy, my TT had the baby this morning." Shai said.

"Already?" She asked.

"Something was going on with the fluid or whatever so they had to give her a c-section. Everything went fine though. Probably the least expected thing we would've though happened on this trip, but you know."

"We're just glad to have a healthy mother and baby." Her aunt, Marie, spoke.

"Yes ma'am." I replied.

"Daddy, can we go see him?"

"Yeah, you gotta finish your food and get dressed though." I told her.

"Okay, Daddy." She called again.

"Huh?"

"Can I have a baby brother?" She asked.

I chuckled, "Uh Ion know. Why?"

"Cause I just want one." She said. "I want you and BB to have a boy baby so I can have a little brother to play with."