What I Learned In L.A. (Sequel to What I learned at Hope Springs)

New Business

"Brittany. Please come here." I asked her this time. She walked into my arms. "I'm sorry. I never want you to do anything that you don't want to do. You understand me?" She shook her head yes. "I never should have touched you like that. I've been slacking on my meds and tomorrow I'm gonna go to the doctor so I can get all new prescriptions." "I didn't know you stopped taking them." "I did. I shouldn't have. I'm gonna fix this okay. I want to set an good example for our kids." I said kissing her forehead. "I love you." "I love you too Chris." she said leaning into a full kiss.

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Micheal

It was the day of the baby shower and everything was wierd. All of Briasha's friends and family were here. Of course my mom and Mama Joyce were here and Mama Joyce had already asked about Brittany and Chris and I had to make uo a lie about them being out of town. I know she didn't believe me though. I missed them, we had never been apart for this long and I really didn't know how to fix this or if it could be fixed. My mom walked over as stood bavk while Bri took pictures with everyone. "Mikey baby. You need to call them. They should have been here." I sighed, everytging she was telling me was the truth, I was just too stubborn to accept it.

"Mama, you don't understand. We said things to each other. We were all mad and emotional. I'm not even sure if we can fix the relationship." I said and hearing it out loud made me more  sad. She hugged me, "Just call them. Y'all been through too much for things to end like this." I shook my head yea and looked over at Briasha who had the hugest smile on her face. Did I want to ruin our relationship?

Chris

I was sitting on the couch on the laptop going through some emails when my phone rang. I just answered without looking at the screen. "Hello." "Chris. Its Mike man. Please don't hang up." I was tempted to hang up but something was telling me not too. "I'm not hanging up...whats up." I answered. "I know its been some months and we haven't talked since that day. I just needed to apologize. You my best friend and regardless of everything that happenrd between us, I don't want that to keep us apart nigga. You like my brother, and I'm sorry." He said. I sighed. "You dying or something?" "Nah man." He laughed a little. "I'm just at my baby shower and I miss you. Wish y'all was here. We never missed moments like this with each other. Its just weird that yall aint here ya know."

"Baby shower huh?" "Yea...its a girl." I said and Chris laughed. He knew I was scared of lil girls. I didn't wanna be raising no lil know it all, fast ass, nasty lil girl. "She gonna be something else. You know that right?" He asked. I laughed, "Yea. That's what I'm afraid of, she needs to be locked up." "She aint even out the jail yet bruh." We both laughed, then I heard Brittany in the background. "Baby. I'm starving." She whined and that almost made me cry. She was always whining to get her way. "Who you talking to?" She asked. I guess he passed her the phone because next thing I hear is her. "Hello?" "Hey Britt Bratt." I said nervous. "Mikey? Omg!" She screamed. "Yea. Hey." I smiled hard. "I been thinking about y'all a lot. I miss y'all. I really miss y'all. I fucked up but I wanna fix our friendship. Ya know, if that's okay with you and Chris." "We would love that." She said. "Where are you? Lets get food I'm starving." She said so excited.

"I'm at my baby shower." I ssid. "He's having a girl babe." I heard Chris say in the background. "A girl...wow." "I know. I'm screwed." I said laughing. "Well. I'm sure we've missed so much, could we come over today and play catch up. You know if you guys aren't to tired." "No... that would be dope. I would love that." "What about Briasha?" She asked and I felt my face frown up. "You just gotta get to know her. She's amazing man." "How about 7ish. I'll bring Jr. He misses you too." That made me feel a little better. I haven't seen my son in months.

"7 is great. I can't wait to see y'all." I said. "Okay. We'll see you then." I eneded the call to see Briasha walking out with my mom. "Baby. Where were you we're about to cut the cake." "Just making a phone call." I said shaking my phone in the air. She pecked my lips. "I hope it was important enough to miss half of the shower." "It was...I talked to Chris and Brittany." She frowned her face up like she was mad. "Why?" She asked sadly. "Because I miss them. I miss my son." She peeked over her shoulder at my mom. "Whatever." She said through gritted teeth. "Come on you two back to the party." My mom said. I guess she could sense something was wrong. I shook my head and walked passed Briasha into the party.

Brittany

"Wow that was...something." I said. "Yea. It was." "Are you excited?" I asked Chris who didn't look like he was because he was in the middle of assembling a baby crib. "Babe. Did you hear me?" "Yea...I mean you sound a lil more excited then me." I scoffed making my way over to him. "Help me." I said holding my hand out so that he could help me sit down next to him. "You getting up by yourself?" He asked mr. "Bae come on." I whined. He stood up helping me sit down. "I'm excited about Mike...I'm not excited about HER." He confirmed. I wasn't either but I missed Mike and Jr. missed him even more. "Yea. Me too." I said. "Almost done." Chris said screwing the last screw in. He shook it to be sure it was secure. "Baby girl. This gonna be your bed. No sleeping with mommy and me." He spoke to my belly. I smiled, I couldn't wait to drop this baby. "It looks great babe." I said leaning in to kiss him. "Told you I had it." I had been teasing him about putting it together for the longest. It only took him a whole month to finish it.

We finished up the crib;placing pillows and a mobile of farm animals inside of it. We cleaned up the mess and headed out. Chris didn't want to show up empty handed without anything for the baby so we stopped and picked up a ton of diapers and wipes to gift them. Once we made it to their house I grabbed Jr and Chris got all of the boxes out. Mike just popped outside running to me first. "Hey Lil Man" he almost yelled taking him from my hands. They both had huge smiles on their faces. He hugged me in the process. "I miss y'all man. "Chris what's up bro!" He ran over to him doing the same. "Y'all come in man."

We followed him in the house. Briasha was in the kitchen drinking water. "Hey Briasha." I said not wanting to be rude. "Hey." she said rudely. I tollex my eyes, her she go with this bull. "Hey Chris." She said smiling once Chris showed his face. I smirked. "Whats up." He said with a look of confusion. He glanced at me questioning her behavior. I just shrugged my shoulders. "Y'all hungry man? We got some leftovers from the shower." "We good man." Chris answered.

Mike invited us to the living room. "We haven't just chilled like this in a while. I just want y'all to know how sorry I am for everything that went down between us. We been through worse shit and I don't see why we let that get the best of us."  Mike was pouring his fewlings out and Chris wore a look of disappointment amd anger. "Hey Mike man...look, how shit ended was foul man but we all know the reasons it did. Let's just move on from it." "You're right. No need to live in the past." He agreed.

"Oh great. Back to normal." Briasha said smartly. Mike sucked his teeth, but didn't speak on it. It was clear she was jealous of our relationship. We all talked and reminisced on old times while she sat in the corner and pouted."Can he stay over? Mike asked looking down at a sleeping Jr. "I can bring him home I got a few days off." "Oh yea. Of course...yea." I said. I did need a break. "You need me to get him settled?" I asked. "No. I got him." He answered. He stood up and carried him upstairs. "He has two outfits in here." I told Briasha who was just mugging us. "I don't care." She said simply. "He's not my child." Chris shook his head. "Baby come on." Chris told me. Mike was coming down, "y'all leaving man?" He asked. "Yea man, B craving icecream." He fake laughed. "We got two outfits and plenty of diapers in his bag man." "Ah yea. Thanks man." He said. He seemed happy and I wouldn't ruin that because of her.

We left the house. We were silent most of the ride. "Can you believe her?" I said. "We gonna have to deal with her because of him you know that right." Chris stated. "I know...she's just being real petty." "You really aint gotta say shit to her honestly." He said, it was true so I wouldn't debate him on it. As long we had Mike back, I was cool.

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If you're still reading this one, I'm so sorry for the delay. I lot have things have been happening in my life all of them bad so I took a step back.

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