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"Now explain to me what happened" Lexi said to Mercy. Lexi, Mercy and Selena were at the Cheesecake Factory talking and catching up. 

"Him and I were having a... let's say discussion. We were talking about having a child. Which by the way, I've been telling him no about. I'm 21 years old with a 3 year old and I'm about to adopt another child who isn't even in preschool. And then he wants to have another baby on top of all that. I explained to him how that would affect me and it would have no affection on him at all, physically or financially. In his mind, I was being disrespectful and blah, then he basically accused me of not wanting to compromise and broke up with me-ish"

Lexi and Selena were staring at Mercy processing what she explained to them. "So basically he over reacted" Selena concluded. 

"My brother is a mess! He acts just like daddy. Always accusing and blowing shit out of proportion. Mercy be careful. I know how daddy is, and I know how much of daddy is-"

"Oh! Girl stop saying daddy! About to make me call Adrian real quick" Selena joked as she picked up her phone and dropped it back on the table. Mercy and Lexi shook their heads and chuckled at Selena. Lexi continued on with what she was saying.

"My father is a total control freak, and the more and more I hear about this, the more and more I worry. He's turning into our dad"

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A few days later

"I need to talk to you about King" Mercy said to Nia. They were both sitting in Nia's living room while the kids were upstairs hanging with their Aunt Lexi. The kids only see Lexi but so much since her head is always in her books.

Nia threw her arms in the air. "He cheated again?! Where my belt at?" Nia said as she started to unbuckle her pants. Mercy quickly put her arms out and stopped Nia from accidentally mooning her. 

"No. No he didn't cheat." Mercy assured. Nia fixed her pants and gave all her attention to Mercy. "He keeps pressuring me to have his kid or kids. I haven't heard from him in a few days. He hasn't come by to see the kids, or Zion for that matter. I'm not sure if we broke up or what. I talked to Lexi about it, and she's worried. She said that he's starting to act like... Him. And I want to know if there's anyway that I can.. stop it." 

Nia bit her lip and ran her fingers through her hair in a stressful motion. "Damn, I was worried about that happening. There is a way you can stop it. And it's what I didn't do. Keep doing what you're doing. Put your foot down, I didn't do that and it ended up with my kids and I in danger. Hell, he tried to kill his kids because I didn't put my foot down. Just be careful, when putting your foot down. I know he wouldn't hit you, but I don't know what alternative he would take to not hit you"

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Mercy and Nia's conversation was replaying in Mercy's head all day. Both of the women talked it through and Nia gave Mercy very valuable information and advice. Mercy is a little bit iffy about going through with the advice, but if it means King not turning into Brian, then oh damn well. It has to happen.

Mercy was at her house with the kids. The hearing is tomorrow, and she wants to spend time with her daughter and soon to be son.

They were all watching the Transformers. It's Marjae's favorite movie. And Mercy watches it just to look at Optimus Prime. She finds him to be very attractive. And Zion just likes watching the fighting.

He's a very aggressive baby.

About mid-way through the movie, Mercy heard the lock to the front door unlock. Her eyebrows furrowed as she listened. The person cleared their throat, and Mercy knew who it was. King.

"Mercy?" He called out. Mercy didn't answer. She knew he would listen to the sound of TV. And sure enough, he did.

"You didn't hear me calling your name?" He asked as he stood behind her.
Marjae turned about and looked at King.

"KING!" She yelled as she stood on the couch and jumped into his arms.

"Hey! What's up Jae?" He said as he hugged her. He kissed all over her face and neck and she broke out into a fit of giggles.

Zion was trying to stand up, so Mercy decided to help him up. "Da-da" He kept saying, to get King's attention. King grabbed Zion with Marjae still in his hands. "How you doin' lil' man?" Zion responded in baby gibberish.

King put the kids back down on the couch, and they're attention returned back to the movie. King tapped Mercy on her shoulder, grabbing her attention. "Let me talk to you for a minute" She sighed and stood up, walking past King and upstairs to her bedroom.

When they both got upstairs, Mercy stood in the middle of her bedroom with her arms crossed, staring at King with a blank stare. "You mad at me?" Mercy rolled her eyes, realizing that she's dealing with an overgrown child.

"Where have you been? I went by the barbershop to see where you were and the head barber told me that you took a week off. What's going on?"

"I just needed some time, to myself. I was stressing. I'm sorry, I just needed to go MIA for a moment. It won't happen ag-"

"How the hell am I supposed to know it won't happen again?" Mercy interrupted.

"I don't know"

"How am I supposed to know that whenever we get into argument, you won't take a week off of our relationship, or our family for that matter?"

"I don't know. Listen, I've been thinking. And I realized that it was wrong of me to pressure you into giving me a baby. I'm sorry. I really am. I don't know what I was thinking. The time when I was alone, I compared everything that I did to you, to what my dad did to my mom. He tried to pressure her into giving him another baby. It almost happened, until she had a miscarriage and he beat her for it. I'm sorry, baby. We can do whatever you want. We can go as slow as you want or how fast you want to go. Whatever you want."

"... We need to end this."

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Oh damn.

Alright y'all, I didn't update yesterday, because I had a lot of things to do.

But I'm back. And I'm really feeling this.

OH, Happy Veterans Day!

Update Thursday!

Oh, this is for my older readers. What are some good colleges for education?

Preferably not overly expensive.

I'm looking at colleges, and I'm going to start applying soon.

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