On our way to my house, I explained to her what was going on.
I told her the story from beginning to end.
She looked shocked.
We pulled infront of my building, "Are you serious ? Your pregnant by Charles ?"
I nodded.
I was ashamed.
"I can't believe it.." Zulia said shaking her head calmly.
I shrugged, "What should I do Zulia ? The baby is almost here and my mother is getting married soon. I'm so stressed out."
Zulia let out a big sigh, "the best thing I could tell you to do.. is to ride it out..I'm
Not going to lie girl..the situation is so fucked up."
I got teary eyed, "Yeah..I'm hurting man..I don't wanna loose my momma to this bull shit."
Zulia reached over and gave me a hug.
"We are going to get through this together. We are both single mothers now."
I let out a little laugh, "Yeah..it's crazy how life worked out."
Zulia's stay went from a couple days to a couple weeks.
It was pretty annoying.
Lilly cried all day every day.
Zulia just sat in my living room watching the Fire stick tv she brought to my house.
She never cleaned, never cooked, and never gave me money for her stay.
It was like I was her baby daddy.
All she ever did was talk about Hundo and how he a dead beat.
Every conversation was about him.
She would sleep through her baby cries and leave me to take care of her every night.
Lilly helped me with my parenting skills though. I fell in love with her even more. She was becoming my baby.
I started to believe that she thought I was her mother.
It got to the point where when Zulia picked her up, she would scream.
When I get her, she would smile and be calm.
I knew that Zulia peeped it.
I knew that made her jealous.
I was sitting on the couch feeding Lilly when my doorbell rang.
I opened the door to see Brittney standing there holding a paper in her hand crying her eyes out.
Her eyes were so puffy and red.