"Zaria." Jayceon kissed all over her face trying to wake her up. "Mamas time to get up." He mumbled kissing her cheeks. She moved around but didn't wake up. "Ma come on or ima be late for work." Jayceon smirked. Zaria sucked her teeth. "Nigga you don't even have a job." She said flipping over.
"So what? Wake up mamas you gotta get dressed."
After a ton of arguing Zaria finally got up and saw it was 2 in the afternoon. She got up and did her hygiene while Jayceon went in the living room. Taliah was taking her father back home and the rest of us were in the living room chilling. Aaliyah was playing with toys she found in the closet while Javon was on his phone.
After a couple of minutes Zaria came downstairs wearing a white power puff girls spaghetti strap crop top with grey leggings. She matched them with a pair of grey, red and white huaraches. She kept her hair in a low messy ponytail.
"Mommy Z!" Aaliyah said running to Zaria but tripped and fell. Zaria picked her up and saw she was starting to cry. "Hey Liyah don't cry its gonna be alright. We all fall." Zaria said but Aaliyah cried anyway.
Zaria poured some juice into her cup and she was quiet. She sat in between Javon and Jayceon with Aaliyah on her lap. "Sleeping beauty finally woke up." Javon smirked. "Yeah i did." Zaria said. They all talked and had fun until Taliah came back.
"Whats up hoes and bitches." She said sitting on Javon's lap. Javon wrapped his arms around her waist. "What y'all wanna do today?" Zaria asked them. "Nothing. It's raining outside." Taliah rolled her eyes.
"We can binge watch some shit." Zaria suggested and they all sat down and watched some random movie.
*****
Zaria stood up feeling weird and she had this voice in her head telling her to see her mom. "Hey, you good?" Jayceon asked her. "Im fine. I wanna visit my mom." Zaria sais grabbing her keys and Jayceon looked at her weird. He still doesn't completely trust her and since this was the same exact excuse she made last time this had him on edge.
"Zari wait." Jayceon said and Zaria looked at him. "Did you quit?" He asked her and she nodded. "When you told me you loved me i told Ghost i no longer worked for him." She said. "I promise you. This time i really am seeing my mom." Zaria reassured him.
"Im coming with you." This hurt Zaria a little because Jayceon still doesn't trust her but she didn't blame him. She lied to him repeatedly about her whereabouts. "Okay. Just stay in the car." They left the apartment and drove to the hospital when they got there Jayceon stayed in the car and Zaria went inside.
"Hi can i see Jalia Thomas please?" Zaria asked. "Room 204." Zaria went to buy some flowers and went to her room. When she saw her family she got a little nervous. "What you doing here?" One of her aunts asked nastily. "Listen. I know you guys hate me and i get why but. I thought about it and even tho she never loved me i still wanted to see how she was doing."
Zaria said. Her cousin, Kailey, walked up to her and hugged her. Kailey was Zaria's oldest cousin and they were like best friends. "Zari i missed you." After their hug Zaria went into the room and saw her mother laying in a hospital bed with all these tubes.
She sat the flowers down and sat down. "Zaria." Her mother breathed. "Yeah. Its me." She said looking around. "Take that envelope and when you get home read it." Her mother instruced. Zaria picked up the envelope and put it in her purse.
"Zaria im dying and your my daughter. I will never see tomorrow so i wanna take this time to apologize. That day in Bronx. You were right. There is a piece of me that loves you and will always love you. I let my emotions get in the way of me being a mother and now its far too late to start. So Zaria im sorry for being the cause of your pain. I'm sorry." She said.
