My Brother's Keeper

Chapter 30: No Parts

"You want me to move this over for you?" Austin asked Mia as he was standing on the step ladder in front of the cabinet

"Yes please. Thank you Austin, you're a lifesaver."

"No problem, I know useless Dylan wouldn't be up here doing it for you." He said as she chuckled

"I don't think so, he's gotten a lot better at helping me out around the house, especially now that I'm pregnant."

"That's only because he doesn't want to feel guilty, trust me if you weren't carrying his baby, he'd have you climbing the walls like Spider-Man." He laughed as he was walking down the ladder and she playfully hit his arm

"Oh whatever."

"Nah, I'm just playing." He said as Dylan walked through the door and Austin smirked
"Speaking of Mr. Lazy, there he is."

"What?"

"Don't worry about him babe, he's just messing with you." Mia said stepping in front of him and gave him a hug

"What are you doing over here anyway? You got tired of spending your uncle's money and now you want to spend ours?"

"No, uncle's in trouble."

"In trouble? With who?"

"Auntie and so is Jeremiah."

"Oh shit, what happened?" Dylan asked intrigued

"Ok, first off I didn't know any of this was going on because I was in my room minding my own business when this was starting and yesterday I accidentally eavesdropped on auntie's conversation."

"I don't know how you can accidentally eavesdrop on someone's conversation, but go ahead."

"Alright, so apparently three weeks ago auntie and uncle were gonna get busy and then Jeremiah called. Unc promised he would be back but actually came back four hours later and auntie was pissed so she kicked him out of bed.
Yesterday, unc suspected auntie was cheating because he used a tracking device he had installed in her phone and saw she was going to some guys house everyday for the past three weeks and unc was going to confront auntie and the other man. Meanwhile, J rolls up concerned because he hasn't spoken to him since the night they went out. Unc tells J what's been going on and then J starts boosting unc to go handle it and now they both jump in the car and go over to this man's house.
They go in and J jacks the dude up while unc points a gun in his face and then auntie walks out the bathroom and explains everything to them and that she was helping him redecorate his house. So now as punishment J and unc basically have to clean the entire house and I refused to even be anywhere near it, so I called Jamia and asked could I stay here for the night."

Dylan chuckled, "Were you scared Dad or J were gonna make you help them?"

"No, I didn't want to piss off auntie anymore than she already is, so I quickly decided that my best option was to go ahead and stay out of her way because I don't want her snapping on me."

"Smart choice, but really not a bright move. You leave one pissed off woman and go to a moody-pregnant one." Dylan said as Mia smacked his arm and Dylan chuckled
"You see what I mean."

"I'm not moody."

"Yet, but give it some time. One of these days I'm just waiting for you to blow up at me for coming home late. If I were you, I would've just chilled at Diana's place for the night, she seems like the only one that doesn't have any drama going on at the moment. Aiden's in the shithole with Lil, Isaiah got baby momma drama, Mia's abusing me, shits fucked up around here."

"I'd rather take my chances here with y'all, Jamia didn't inherit the crazy gene in our family and she's less likely to snap on me so I'm good for the moment." Austin said as Dylan chuckled

"You got a point there, but she's bound to snap one day and not because it's in her but because I've fucked up in the past and I know I'm far from being out of the doghouse with her."

"You got that right, mister. You still have some more proving yourself to me to do before I even consider walking down the aisle." Jamia interjected

"See what I mean, my troubles are far from over, but I can say is that she's not as bad as mom or a Lil, at least I don't have a fear of getting stabbed during the night."

"Your mom stabbed your dad while he was asleep?" Jamia asked Dylan with concern

"Well no, grandma is the type to do something like that, but mom has other ways of torturing you, mostly psychological. And speaking of mom and dad, let's see what dad is up to right now." Dylan said as he pulled out his phone and started FaceTiming Ryan

It took about five rings before Ryan picked up. "Hey what's up, dad! How's it going?"

"Hey son, everything's good." Ryan whispered

"Why are you whispering? And why does it look like you're hiding? And why'd it take you so long to answer the phone?" He asked as Ryan scoffed

"Well damn, I can't do shit around here. You asking me all these questions like you the fucking police or some shit."

"My bad pops, I didn't mean to piss you off I'm sorry."

"Aye dad, who's that on the phone?" Jeremiah said in the background

"It's Dylan,"

"Oh, what's good homie! Long time no see! You need to bring your ass back to my place so I can beat you in basketball." Jeremiah said getting in the camera

"Oh please, you got lucky the last time, but I won't hold back this time for sure."

"Alright bet! And you can rest assure I will win, just like the last time."

Dylan smiled, "Ok mr. big talker we'll see when I make it over there, and I'll show you better than I can tell you that I'll be the winner." He said as Jeremiah started laughing

"Ok, you wait until I get home!"

"What is going on in here?" Valerie said as her voice scared both Ryan and Jeremiah as they flinched
"Are you on the phone right now? This is why you're in trouble right now!" She said as Dylan started to snicker but was trying to hold it in

"Dad are you in trouble right now?"

"No! I'm not.."

"Who is this?" Val asked taking the phone from Ryan

"Hey mommy it's me, I didn't know dad was in trouble, I was calling because I haven't spoken to him in awhile."

"Hi pumpkin, and unfortunately he's in trouble and he knows it as well as your other loud mouth brother here, who I heard down the hallway."

"Sorry." Jeremiah said

"Don't worry you will be. I hate to cut this short but your father and brother have some work to do."

"Ok, I'll talk to you all later, bye guys." He said as Val hung up the phone and Dylan burst out laughing and Austin did the same

"That was so wrong of you." Mia said as she tried her best not to laugh

"Pops is gonna kill me for that, but right now it's worth it!" Dylan said as he and Austin continued to laugh

I know it's been a hot minute since I posted on this one and I deeply apologize for that, I'll be working more on it during the week to come

I hope you've enjoyed this chapter and let me know what you think.

I'll check y'all in the next update and be breezy,
-NadineJB🏄🏽‍♂️🤙🏾