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[CHAPTER FOURTEEN] "Placing the blame where it belongs."

Zein's birthday party,

As the twins turned four months old, Zein turned two. Mariah threw her a princess party and invited some girls from the daycare, Tiffany's little kids and Dawson's kids. Nicole's nieces and cousins came and Kip came to help out.

"I love their little outfits." Mariah dressed them similar but never identical and always kept them in their own colors. And Zein was all over pink in her Cinderella dress. The guys were outside by the cars. And Deandre had baby Hollis.

"Thanks boo. I figured if we look nice, we look like we got it all together."

"And you do." Kip said laughing.

"Hey ladies.." More of Deandre's family approached them at the cake table. She didn't want to have the party at her house because she didn't have to clean up after the party. So she rented out at a table at the kids place close to her house. After the girls were born, Lucinda stayed dropping off a dish every other night so Mariah wouldn't have to cook. She had to pump less often because Maryam and Dawsyn weren't latching but she wanted them to have breast milk for the first couple of months so she pumped a little bit.

Mariah didn't want things to be awkward so she told her family to be nice but she really didn't expect Lucinda to start anything at a kids event.

Mariah didn't want the girls being passed around so only she and Nicole held the girls. But they couldn't stop Maryam from trying to get down and crawl around on everyone.

"How's everything going Kaia?" Tiffany asked.

"I finally found a buyer for the truck."

"Whose truck?" Lucinda asked putting her plate down.

"Dawson's truck." Mariah could tell Lucinda wasn't aware of them selling the truck but she knew all about it. Kaia called Deandre and asked him if it was okay. Now that Dawson was gone, she needed some money to keep them afloat for a while. Both Darin and Deandre made the decision to sell it.

"Who told you, you could sell Dawson's truck?"

"Well I spoke with the guys about it, I'm sorry that I didn't ask you." Lucinda stood there with her arms crossed.

"Maybe we should-" Mariah tried to jump in to bring the tension down but Lucinda didn't like that. "You don't speak. This is a family matter." She barked at Mariah in front of everybody.

"Now hold on just a minute." Vena said standing up.

"Ma it's okay." Mariah grabbed the girls and started to strap them into their stroller. Nicole's sister started grabbing her kids coats. They could tell things were going left.

Vena pushed Mariah hand off her and pointed at Lucinda, "Talk to my daughter like that again and ima show you something."

"Are you threatening me?" While Mariah tried to grab her mom, Kip stood in front of Lucinda as her bodyguard. Michaela came in late with a gift in her hand when she saw the commotion, she quickly went to her mom to see what was happening, "What's going on!?"

"Baby it's a promise. I be damned if I watch you disrespect her like that, no ma'am." Vena yelled as she grabbed her purse and jacket. She turned to Michaela, "We don't get down like that, is she crazy!"

"It's about to get real ratchet up in here." One of Lucinda's nieces said.

"Ratchet?" Michaela questioned as she walked her mom out. "That outfit is ratchet girl."

"Don't have me around those weirdos Mariah, I'm telling you, I'm not gonna keep playing little games with her old disrespectful ass." When Vena stepped out the building. Her rant caught the attention of the guys and they all walked over.