I walked out of my job and thankfully my car was already running, I fuckin loved my remote starter because it was cold as fuck and I was ready to get inside my warm ass car, my boss Icon was coo as fuck. I let him know that me and De'Veon got our own place and we'd be moving in a week or so and he gave us the entire week off to get settled, paid time off were my three favorite words because that meant I didn't have to do shyt besides check my bank account to make sure my funds were in there. I hopped in my car and checked my messages, I saw a couple from De'Veon reminding me to check the schedule, then one from Antwan saying that we needed to talk, and the last one was from that nigga Myles, why he was texting me I'd never know but I didn't respond to one-word texts. As I pulled away from the warehouse where we worked I had a decision to make, I could go home and sleep in my own bed for a change, plus there was the whole packing situation.... Or I could go lay up with my nigga for the night and possibly get into some things. For me the choice was easy...... I pulled up to Doonie's house thirty minutes later and saw him standing outside smoking, something must've happened for Doonie to be smoking so I wasn't sure I made the right choice in coming here.
"Everything good Big Bro?" I asked walking up the stairs and dappin him up.
"Yeah DJ is having a bad day, misses his mom and shyt and De'Vaughn is fussy so Elijah is in there with them while I take a small break." Doonie said and he sounded stressed. "Don't worry, I'm good... just need a minute to center myself."
"Lemme guess, it's that party Big Dawg is throwing in a few days." I said and Doonie nodded. "Shyt don't go.... I mean me and De'Veon are going, I'm sure you're not going to miss shyt." I said and Doonie shrugged. "Let me get in this damn house, it's cold as fuck...." I said walking into the house and was greeted by the sound of kids screaming.
"There's food in the kitchen, I know you're probably hungry." Elijah said as I walked over to them, I took De'Vaughn from him and he instantly started to settle down, he was still crying but at least he wasn't screaming. "Thank you..." Elijah said slightly relieved, though DJ was still crying into Elijah's chest, I couldn't imagine losing my mom much less being the one to find her, especially at that age.
"No problem, I'm going to take him upstairs with me and he chill with me and De'Veon, I'll let you handle....." I nodded towards DJ and Elijah understood. When I got up to De'Veon's room he was lying across his bed just looking up at the ceiling, if I wasn't holding his nephew I probably would've done something childish but I had to chill because I didn't want anything happening to De'Vaughn on my watch.
"Why'd you bring his crying ass in here?" De'Veon asked without looking up, I looked down at De'Vaughn who was chillin in my arms, in fact, he was trying to put his foot in his mouth and if a random person were to walk in they wouldn't have believed that he was just crying.
"Nigga you know you love him.... stop acting all hard and shyt." I said sitting on his couch.
"I love that little nigga to death but I got a headache and he's a fuckin crybaby..... how was work?" De'Veon asked sitting up slowly, he looked exhausted but I could see he was trying to put on a strong front.
"It was coo... Icon gave us some paid time off until we get settled into the new place." I said and De'Veon smiled. "You know he's going to make us pay for these days off, watch he's going to make us move pallets from the time we clock in....." I said gently bouncing De'Vaughn on my lap.
"I mean there is another way we could make money....." De'Veon said looking away from me. "Look just hear me out before you shut me down, I'm legal, you're legal, I'm sexy... you're aight, we already got a little following on social media.... why not capitalize off of it." De'Veon said.
"No.... my mom already told me that if she gets a hint that I'm fuckin online she'll kill me, and she was dead serious." I said knowing that she would probably just cry and make me feel guilty as fuck. "It's bad enough that she thinks she's not going to have grandchildren, add that to the stress about my uncle and..... nah it's not worth the headache, I'm a freak but that's not something I'm comfortable with just yet.... if you wanna make one I'll support it but.... I can be your cameraman." I said smiling.
