࿐ྂDe Cero ࿐ྂ CNCO Fanfic

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Taking a deep breath in Aaliyah smoothed her blouse out, looking at herself in the mirror. She took a deep breath and let it out as if to calm herself down. Zabdiel came out of the bathroom struggling with his tie making her laugh as she turned to help him with it

"How are you feeling about today?" He asked as Aaliyah fixed his tie
"Nervous, like i'm about to puke everywhere" Aaliyah sighed
"Please not like your son" Zabdiel joked
"Hey he's your son too" Aaliyah said shoving him slightly
"He's a mommy's boy" Zabdiel said
"And Mia is a daddy's girl" Aaliyah stated
"Mmh, just like her mother" Zabdiel smirked
"Ew!" Aaliyah laughed
"we better get going before we're late" Zabdiel said taking Aaliyah's hand into his

They walked downstairs to see the twins laying on their playmats in the living room, Joel and Kendall cuddling on the couch watching the TV intently.

"Okay lovebirds here the situation. You will not leave my children out of your sight, do not carry them around when you wanna go do things, put them on high shelves, hand them anything because they will eat it. I pumped milk last night and there is formula so there is absolutely no reason my babies should go starving oh, and starve my children and i will lock you in the basement and feed you crackers for a month" Aaliyah swiftly listed

"Have i ever mentioned how much mother Aaliyah scares me?" Kendall whispered to Joel
"what was that Kenny?" Aaliyah said "If you got something to say, say it with your chest"
"No your highness" Kendall said quickly
"That's what i thought" Aaliyah smiled
"Call us if you need anything, we left the emergency contacts on the fridge" Zabdiel said "can i come back to find my children the way i left them?"
"Wait" Aaliyah said "wheres the skinny one?"
"Upstairs sleeping" Kendall answered
"Better tell him what i told you guys" Aaliyah warned "i'm not sure Ray wants to marry a bag of bones"
"Okay, see you guys when we see you guys" Zabdiel sighed
"Goodluck!"

The two got into the car, strapping up and making their way to the court house. When they arrived the court room was already rather packed without a single sighting of Dante, but it was only 7 minutes until the doors would close. Aaliyah scanned through the room, her eyes locked in with Dante's mothers, her heart dropped when she approached them

"I see you moved on pretty quickly" She spat without so much as a greeting
"I'll go sit" Zabdiel said kissing Aaliyah's cheek and leaving to take his seat
"Mrs Griever" Aaliyah said politely
"Aaliyah" She said coldly
"How are you?" Aaliyah said trying to make conversation
"My son is about to face a jury who'll probably fall for your crocodile tears and put him in jail forever so how do you think i feel?" She said bluntly
"Right, bad question then" Aaliyah said nervously "Look Mrs Griever i want you to know that i never meant to break your sons heart, it just got too much and when i broke up with him he spiralled out of control-
"because of you" she cut off
"Excuse me?" Aaliyah asked taken aback
"You're the reason Dante is broken, he's never been like this until you disappeared on him" She spat

Aaliyah blinked, trying to maintain composure
"Look with all respect due ma'am your son is a fucking psycho, he broke into our house, ambushed me and then proceeded to hit my head against the all like i was some TV remote" Aaliyah listed "You need to hear this but your son isn't okay ma'am and you need to check him before my boyfriend does it for you"

With that Aaliyah spun on her heel and sat next to Zabdiel
"How did that go?" he whispered
"Pure shit" Aaliyah answered
"All rise" The officer said as everyone came in

Everyone else seemed to disappear around Aaliyah the minute Dante walked in. He wore his state prison uniform with his hands and feet cuffed and bound together by a chain allowing him to take very small steps. He smirked at her before taking his seat, a smirk that ran chills down Aaliyah's spine