Clemency. ✓

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Shawn Carter,

Marjorie opened the front door of their home, then we embraced each other. Lori finally made the appointment and sent me the time and date. Now the day has the come. The same day Beyoncé will be back. Which is also the same day I'll be telling her that I got my ex-girlfriend and baby mama pregnant again.

How are you, Shawn?" She asked.

"I'm good and you?"

"I'm great. I would offer you some breakfast but we all woke up late just in time to get ready for the appointment. So we're just gonna pick something up in the way out."

"That's fine."

"You go upstairs if you want. Shai will probably be happy to see you. Maybe she'll get off her Mom's nerve." She said.

I jogged upstairs to meet Shai coming out the bedroom in her pajamas.

"DADDYYYYYY." She screamed jumping in my arms.

"Hi beautiful." I grinned. "How are you?"

"Good." She said laid her head in my shoulder, I kissed her forehead. "Daddy, I missed you."

"I missed you too." I said knocking on the door. "Your Mama dressed?"

"Mhmm." She nodded, opening the door.

Her two sisters were sitting on her sofa as Lori was grabbing her over the shoulder bag.

"Hello." I spoke.

"Hi." They said.

"Alright, Shai. Mommy and Daddy are gonna go. You stay here with Granddaddy and we'll be back in a little while, okay?"

"Where are you going?" She asked.

"We have to do something without little girls. We'll be back." She said. "You be good, okay?"

"Okay." She said hugging her, then me. "Bye!"

I followed everyone downstairs where I grabbed my keys off the counter. They rode together in Lori's car. I followed behind in my own. They pulled into the Chick-Fil-A drive-thru. I saw Lori getting out to come get in the passenger seat of my car. I unlocked the door.

"Sorry, I need to talk you." She said.

I didn't say anything. I just let her in.

"Whatchu want to eat?"

"Uh just a small hash brown is fine. I told my Mom I wasn't hungry but she told me I needed to eat something."

"Something to drink?"

"Lemonade."

After I ordered our food, I followed her mother to the maternity center. The two of us sat in the car to eat before going in.

"Whatchu wanna talk about?" I asked.

"Everything." She said.

"Everything with what?" I asked.

"This and everything that's been going on with me and Bey." She said. "I'm just really....sorry about this. Um....getting pregnant was never my intentions and I just feel like I was finally getting to the point where I didn't really care about what you and Bey were doing. Now this and...I feel like this is just gonna start the drama all over again."

"Yeah. I mean I feel like she knows something cause she called me like 'is there something that happened' and so on. Lauren apparently found out from somebody you knew and she was asking me 21 questions and shit."