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

Life is Hard

I went I to Logan's room and did the same. Brittany and Chris didn't know this but I recently changed my will to have them take Logan if anything ever happened to me and Star as a collective. With what I was about to do I knew they would be taking her. Inside her bag I placed a letter to Brittany. I wrote it when I first tested myself and Logan and I made the decision to give it to Brittany only if the test came back that I wasn't the father. Now that I did, the next part of my phase would start.

Brittany

"I don't know babe he just told me to come get Jr." Chris and me were headed over to Micheal and Star's house to pick up my baby. I hoped he was okay. I know if the results came back that he wasn't he would be super hurt. He was in love with Star and told me on several occasions that he wanted to propose to her but he wanted to make sure his family was his family. I guess I could understand what he meant.

"I hope everything came out okay with the test." Chris said. "I know me too." We finally pulled up to his house. I sat in the car. "You okay?" "I just have a bad feeling." All of sudden my stomach was doing flips and it had nothing to do with the baby. "You sure it's not baby boy in there?" "No I'm uneasy. " I said almost coming to tears. " Try to calm down baby." Chris said leaning over to me kissing my cheek. I shook my head yes and we climbed out the truck heading into the house.

Micheal had Logan and Jr waiting for us. It was strange because we never took Logan. Briasha really didn't see eye to eye with us and I'm sure she didn't know about this arrangement. "Did Bri okay this?" Chris asked. "Nah, I just need her to be focused when I talk to her so can y'all please take them both, I don't want them here if we start to argue." "I get that." Chris said. Chris started to pick up the carseat, "Wait." Mike said, "I really appreciate and love  y'all man. Thank you for always being there for me." I titled my head to the side. "We love you too Mikey." I told him but I couldn't get out of his gaze. "You sure you okay?" "I just been thinking. Nothing serious. I just love y'all." He came over to us hugging us both, but he squeezed me so hard it brought tears to my eyes. 

He picked up Logan's carseat and we walked back out to the car. He helped strap in both kids. "See y'all soon." He told us waving good bye.

Micheal

Briasha finally came down the stairs after 3 hours. I don't know what took her so long. "Babe where is Logan?" She asked. "Brittany and Chris took her and Jr." "What? Why would you let that bitch take my daughter?" "Watch your mouth man!" I yelled and she scoffed at me. "Are you seriously about to do this right now Micheal? After everything we been through." "Shut up Briasha. You don't get to talk about her or our son! So like I said watch your fucking mouth!"

I clung to the paperwork. "What is that?" She asked. "Reciepts." I said. She squinted. "The nigga Chris saw you with, when did you start fucking him?" "I told you it was before you. " "So you just gone keep lying to me?" "I'm not lying to you baby." I slung the papers over to her and she stared hard at them. "This isn't right. This can't be right." She said shaking her head dramatically.  "And why did you have our daughter tested?" "That's your concern? Not the fact that you keep lying to me or the fact that Logan may not be my daughter. You gone come at me about having her tested. Are you serious?" "She's yours Micheal I promise you." She started crying.

I shook my head. "Stop lying to me!" I screamed at her. "Just fucking stop!" I pulled the gun out that I had in my pocket and pointed it directly at her. "Micheal what the fuck are you doing?" "I want the truth now Star!" I could see her shaking from where I stood.

Omniscient

Micheal held on tightly to the gun keeping it pointed at a terrified Briasha. She was literally shaking where she stood, and tears streamed down her cheeks. "Please don't do this Micheal we can talk about this." He stared at her coldly. "What you wanna talk about huh? You wanna talk about how you hate my son so much, how you hate my friends. How you cheated on me and got pregnant by another nigga and made me think our  little girl was really mine? You know how much I love my kids. What would you do this to me?" Micheal yelled. He let the tears flow continuously as his vision begin to blur. "I love you Briasha, you know how much I loved you." "Loved? You don't love me anymore?"

"What did I do? How could you hurt me?" "I'm sorry baby. I'm so sorry." She kept repeating.  Micheal shook his head.

The truth was that he was severely depressed. Between knowing Briasha cheated on him and knowing that possibly Logan wasn't his and his still strong love for Brittany he couldn't stand his life anymore. He felt like he didn't deserve his family, friends, or his children.

"I don't want to be in a world where you will continue to hurt me Bri." He spoke lowly. " "I won't babe. I promise I won't hurt you anymore." "I know." At this moment he cocked the gun shooting Briasha directly between the eyes. He then turned the gun on himself pointing the steel to his head. He pulled the trigger again falling to the floor. His cell phone vibrating on the table.

Chris

"Babe!" Chris called from upstairs. He was unpacking the kids bags and found the letter from Micheal.  "Yes love?" Brittany said walking in the room. "Something here for you." He said passing her the envelope with her name on it. She took it, sat down on the couch in the room, and opened it.

Dear Brittany,
I wanted to write you this because I knew if I told you what I was planning to do it would never happen. The way you've grown over this year and a half and fought your demons, I guess I'm still fighting mine.  Please know this, I never stopped loving you. In fact, I'm madly in love with you and being away from you has always been hard for me. You were my first real love and in so sorry. I love our son, nothing made me happier more then the day he was born and knowing that I'm making the choice to leave you guys makes me devastated. 

"Wait what does this mean?" Brittany spoke out loud. "What is it?" "This letter Micheal said he's leaving us." "Huh?"

"Let me finish reading. She started reading the letter aloud.
"I changed my will and I want you and Chris to get custody of Logan because Briasha won't be around to do it. I turned over my company to you and Chris just like it should've been this whole time. Everything in my personal account is yours and Jr's. There's 150,000. I set up a trust for lil man he can have it when he's 21 as long as he finishes school and goes to college.  I set one up for Logan as well with the same conditions. Please take care of my babies. Make sure Chris takes good care of you too. I love you so much and I hope you can forgive me.

She finished reading and couldn't even speak with all the crying she was doing. "Chris we need to go, get the kids in the car we need to go!"

Omniscient

Brittany and Chris reached the house and it was surrounded by first responders. "Baby stay here." Chris begged but she didn't listen. She hopped out running as fast as she could until an officer grabbed her. "Mamn, you can't go inside." "Let me go our friend lives here! Micheal!" She screamed.  Chris reached her and the officer. "Let me go!" She yelled once again. "She's pregnant please let her go." Chris said taking Brittany's arm away from the officer. "Please, we have their children just tell us what happened." Chris already expected the worse after hearing Brittany read the other letter to him.

"I can't say much but it seems like a suicide/homicide. There doesn't seem to be a break in or anything and we found some papers and a note on the kitchen table. "So you telling me my bestfriend is dead?" Chris asked and for the first time he broke down. "I'm sorry. We'll have more information shortly." The officer walked away going over to a guy wearing a suit. He came back over to them.

"Good evening folks I'm detective Lance with LAPD, could you tell us when you last spoke to man or the woman inside?" "Micheal, his name is Micheal, and she's Briasha." "I'm sorry. When was the last time you saw or spoke to Micheal or Briasha? "We just saw them almost an hour ago, he asked us to come pick up the kids." "Did he seem upset?" "Not extremely. I mean it wasn't out of the ordinary. He gave us hugs, said he loved us and that was it." Brittany sniffed. She handed the detective the letter she had been clinging to. "He left this in his daughter's baby bag my husband found it when he was unpacking her things."

The detective scanned over the letter, lifting his eyes to meet Brittany's. "I'm so sorry for your loss." He told them. At this point the bodies were being carried from the house. "Micheal!" Brittany shrieked as she ran up to one of the bags, not even knowing if it was him or not. "Come on baby. Calm down." Chris said trying to pull her away. She cried over the bag the carriers pulling it away and Chris trying to pull her away.

He walked her to the car were the kids were still sleeping. He went over to the Detective speaking with him one last time.