To Live and Die in L.A. Pt. 2 (FINISHED)

Chapter 16: It's Life

Friday, February 10th
1:00 PM
Paris Brooks-

"Found it! Found her ass on Facebook." I said as I scrolled through Angel's Facebook page on my laptop.

"You got a Facebook page?" Adrian asked as he walked over to my desk that I was sitting at.

"Fake one. Her name is Penny Trayshin." I laughed.

"Who is her?"

"My fake account, nigga!"

"Why that name?" He chucked.

"Say it fast." I rolled my eye, assuming he would've got the joke by now.

"Penny Trayshin...Penny Trayshin...Pennytrayshin... ohhhhh penetration!!" He laughed.

"You're slow." I said as I turned back around to my computer.

"Where it say she live?" He asked.

"It says San Diego...Chula Vista." I said, examining her page.

"Shiiit, tryna go?" He asked.

"Ima have Lex go to baby house and ask about Kia. He'll do it. Then if she there ima go down there and see what's up."

"What's the point? We don't need nothing from her." Adrian said.

"Yeah, we don't, but what I wanna know is why Angel knows her and why she knows her and my niece's business. I knew that lil bitch was trouble from the jump."

"No. I don't need you going down there getting all stressed out and amped up for no reason. And I damn sure don't need you fighting nobody no more. So no, you not going." He said from the island in our kitchen.

I stood up and walked over there.

"I do what I want. Lightskin ass nigga." I said in his face, eye level with him because he was sitting down.

"You not going no where if I say you not." He said.

"Boy watch me." I folded my arms.

"What?" He said as he stood up, now towering over me.

"Ok sit down." I said as he walked all up on me.

"Nah you was doing all that talking." He kept walking closer to me, now backing me into a wall.

"Okayyyy please sit down." I said as I looked up at him and attempted to push his chest.

He grabbed my face, and kissed me—aggressive as hell.

I was on super soak 3000...if you know, you know

"Ole scary ass." Adrian said as he broke the kiss and walked away.

"Yup." I said as I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the room.

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4:30 PM

"Girl you know I will! Just send me baby address and I'll go sometime this week or next week after class." Alexys said over FaceTime.

I just told him about everything that happened with Angel, and like I expected, he was down to go to her house!

"Alright ima send it right now"

"Ok. How my nephew doing? You stressing him out?"

"Yep!" Adrian yelled from the background.

"Shut up! And no he's good he just been getting bigger, little by little, each day." I said.

"Damnnn bestie everybody having babies and shit." Lex said.

"I know, huh."

"I wish my nigga would come get me pregnant—like I wanna have a baby the fuck"

"Get off my phone." I laughed.

"No for real though I think I wanna adopt."

"You sh—holdon, Kyla calling me ima call you back." I said to Lex before hanging up and answering Kyla's call.

"Hello?" I said into the phone.

"Wassup, cousin? Long time no speak." She said, giving me shady energy.

It has been a while since we've talked...it was like a few months before Adrian got home that I last talked to her.

"I knowww, I been-"

"Why I gotta find out through your Instagram that you're having a baby? Like that's some shit you tell me personally...what happened to our relationship Paris?" She cut me off.

That really pissed me off. One, because bitch don't cut me off while I'm talking. Two, baby the phone works both ways.

"Kyla. Ima say this and I don't mean to sound rude and unfiltered. But, every time you've called me, it's either to talk about your shitty ass relationship with your boyfriend, irrelevant drama going on in south central that I couldn't care less about, or some other fuck shit. Don't call me on no hostile shit acting like the phone don't work both ways. No, I didn't immediately call you to tell you but you know why? Because our relationship isn't the same like it used to be and you just weren't at the top of my mind. So there you go." I said.

"Mm. First off, if our relationship ain't the same no more it's cause of you. Your boyfriend get out of jail and you forget about me. But oh I bet you told Alexys right away, right?"

"Girl first of all quit acting fucking sensitive like I owe you my attention. Second of all, he's my FIANCÉ—not my boyfriend, but of course you wouldn't know that because we don't talk no more. But guess what, Ky? That happens in life. And yes, I did tell Lex right away. Why? Cause Lex and I have a completely different relationship than you and me now and it wasn't always like that."

"Alright Paris whatever. Congrats on the baby tho. And your engagement." She said before hanging up.

Fuck outta here.

"Baby you good?" Adrian said as he walked up behind me.

"Yep." I said, trying to hold back tears.

I don't know why I was teary eyed, maybe it was the hormones again—hell I can never tell anymore.