A Series Of Events: The Carters (continued)

No Boys

"Ok byeeee!" Blue said hanging up her FaceTime call with one of her friends from school.
Her dad just so happened to be walking by her room. She looked like a little teenager on the phone, laying upside down on a plush bean bag chair with her legs dangling over the top of the seat. It killed him she's only eight but she's growing up entirely too fast for his liking.
"Who was that?" He asked after he was done peeking in on her.
"Daddyyy" she sighed he was always sneaking up on her.
"You're not gonna tell me?"
"It was just my friend from school."
"What you doing on your phone now?" He asked curious if she'd actually tell him. If she had secrets at eight they had problems.
"Tik tok" she turned around her phone to show him.
"You kids and your tik tok" Jay shook his head.
"Me and Rumi did one yesterday. It was like this one."

"You had Rumi dancing on your mom's good countertops?" He asked.
Blue giggled.
"Ok you laughing don't let her find out" he warned.
"Daddy it was just for fun and no ones gonna tell on us, right?" She tested.
"It's not me you have to worry about, sometimes your mom watches the cameras and if Sir saw you he probably already told her" he was joking about the last part.
"Well Sir wouldn't cooperate when we were filming that's why he's not in the video, so I wouldn't be surprised."
"What other kind of stuff do you do on your phone" he asked changing the subject.
"What do you mean?" She asked confused.
"Like what do you do on your phone?" There was an app Beyoncé told him about once they decided to give her a phone that monitors what she does and locks her apps at a certain time but he wasn't interested in that he wanted to be able to have honest conversations with her without having to find out from an app.
"Games, talk, text, apps like Disney plus" she called off everything she could think of off the top of her head. "Oh and take pictures!"
She was her mother's child if she felt her outfit was cute there was pictures to be taken.
"You're being safe like how we taught you right? Private social media, not giving your phone number to people we don't approve of, stuff like that?"
She smiled and nodded yes.
"Good" he smiled and tightly hugged her, like she always did she fought to get out of her father's grasp.
"Don't fight it lefty" he said still holding onto her.
She giggled still fighting. After a while he let go.
"Are you done with your gazillion questions?" She asked.
"Nah one more, you don't be talking to boys on this phone right?" She was growing up and unfortunately boys were apart of that. It made him think back to when they went to the Super Bowl this year and she begged him to wear a shirt that revealed her belly slightly. If it were up to him the answer would be no, but he was doubled team by his wife and daughter, he eventually lost that battle.

He was happy when she got cold later that night and changed.
"Daddyyy!" She groaned embarrassed.
"That wasn't a no lemme see" he said reaching for her phone.
"Daddd!" She put the phone out of his reach.
"Oh you hiding it from me now? There must be boys in there."
"Mommy said it was ok" she defended.
"Oh? .. MOMMY!!" Jay yelled to his wife.
Not too long after she walked in with Sir.
"He said mommy not Sir" Blue said with a little attitude.
"Blue cut it out that's not nice" her mother warned. "I was called?"
"You gave Blue permission to have boys in her phone?!"
She waved him off "Jay please they're classmates and from dance."
"What do you and these boys talk about lemme see" he attempted to grab the phone again.
"Mommm" she whined.
"Jay control yourself" she chuckled at him acting ridiculously over nothing. If he was overreacting like this over nothing now, wait until she actually has a boyfriend and then he has to do it all over again with Rumi.
"Why don't you want to show me the phone lefty we have secrets now?"
"No daddy you're just being crazy!" She told him.
"You got Egypt's number in there?" He hadn't quite let go of Egypt, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats son, kissing Blue when the two were just toddlers.
"Oh gosh" Blue was beyond embarrassed now.
Somehow Sir must've sensed the tension in the room because he punched his father in the leg.
"Owe! Sir" he said rubbing his leg.
"Yeah baba! Tell your father to get a grip!" Beyoncé encouraged.
Blue was now doubled over in laughter.
"Blue just tell your dad he's the only boy you love so he can sleep at night" her mother said.
"You and Sir are the only boys I love" Blue gave her dad a convincing smile.
Jay sighed he could live with that for now. He would be checking that app now that he knows there's boys involved though.
When her dad was out the room Blue was relieved.
"You're not gonna tell him right?" Beyoncé knew Blue was referring to. The little school crush she'd told her about a few weeks ago. She is still in elementary school, if she didn't want to tell her dad about a little boy who always shares his snacks with her it wouldn't kill him not to know.
"No, I won't tell Blue if you want him to know that's up to you to tell him."
"Thanks mommy, after that I don't think he could handle it."
She was absolutely right about that.
"Maybe don't tell your dad about any boys you like for another .. like ten years" she laughed.
"By then maybe he'll be too busy asking Rumi a gazillion questions about her phone."
It wasn't easy for him to be deal with his oldest daughter growing up. He hoped that she would be as open and honest with him as she is now, forever.