𝐎𝐌𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓
Meena looked at her now ex boyfriend with a neutral face. She wanted to keep her emotions kept inside because she knew that he just wouldn't understand.
"I just came by to bring Jahleel back." He said watching as his son ran around the house pulling all of his toys back out the toy box.
"Ok." She said quietly before walking away back into the kitchen where she was preparing dinner for her friends and family. They would be coming over for a game night so she decided to make small dishes to help feed their liquor.
Meena wasn't sad about the breakup anymore. She knew that it probably was best for her and Mario to separate. She understood that she came on high strung at times and also did the most about things that weren't that serious but she didn't know what she could do to change that.
"I wanna talk to you about a schedule between us. That way I can still be in his life even though I ain't staying here with y'all no more." He expressed following her into the kitchen.
"Ok." She said looking at him. She was trying the listening factor of things but it was kind of hard considering there were things she felt like he needed to know. "We will be out of town next weekend. We're taking the kids to Walt Disney."
He looked at her confused. "Since when?"
He didn't remember ever talking with her about taking Jahleel anywhere. He thought she would have to discuss that with him first.
"Since this morning. I was going to tell you when you called me. Remember, I'm blocked." She said before chuckling bitterly. She didn't understand why he had to go as far as blocking her number.
He chuckled. "You can't decide he going without talking to me first though, right?" He said with his eyebrow raised. "Stop playing with me."
"Can we not argue?" She said. "I don't feel like it. If you don't want him to go then I'll call Mama and DeMaya and tell them he can't go."
He huffed before looking at her in aggravation. "I'm not saying I don't want him to go. What I'm saying is we need to discuss shit first before you make a decision for my son."
"Our son." She corrected. "But you're right. We both need to communicate with each other for the sake of our son regardless of whatever is going on with us."
He nodded. "Exactly. You ain't as dumb as I thought."
She smacked her lips. "Boy, you can't even read but I digress." She clapped back. She checked the oven before closing it. The food was taking too long to be done and she hated that. She wasn't a very patient person.
She opened the pot of greens stirred it a little bit before closing them again. Mario watched her as she moved around the kitchen. He couldn't stop staring at the sudden glow in her face. She looked so pretty to him even though she wasn't dressed up.
She woke a pajama set with her bonnet. She had shorts on that displayed her right leg sleeve. Regardless, he thought she liked nice.
"What you making?" He asked breaking the silence between the two. He watched as she grabbed a stick of butter and threw them into the pan of candy yams. She grabbed the cinnamon and sprinkled it on top.
"I'm making Sunday Dinner. Everybody coming over" She said before smiling at him hard. She was excited about making Sunday dinner because she would be having everybody over for Dinner. She never hosted Sunday Dinner so she was anxious as to how it would go.
"Everybody?" He questioned. He didn't expect them to allow Meena to host Sunday Dinner considering she never did it before. Sunday Dinner was a thing more so for Deniya and Granny to prepare. "Why your mom and then ain't doing it?"
"I offered." She said with a shrug. "Wanna taste some of the stuffed chicken when it's done?"
He frowned and eyed her before shaking his head. He leaned back in the seat and folded his arms watching as she moved around the kitchen. She cleaned up small areas as she waited for the mac and cheese to be done. "I'll just wait till it's dinner time."
She nodded before pushing her lips out some. "Your coming to dinner?" She asked before lifting her eyebrow. She didn't expect for him to want to come to dinner considering they were broken up. He expressed during the break up that he would not only be done with her but her family as well.
"I can't?" He asked. "I always come."
"You said you were done with me and my family. I just thought you meant Sunday Dinners too. Excuse me for holding you to your word." She said, he scoffed before shaking his head.
"You just wanna fuss with me." He said.
"I don't. I'm holding you accountable to everything that you said Mario. I don't mind you coming but that's what you said when we broke up." She said eyeing him, he nodded his head.
"I see." He said before looking down at his phone. The message caught me off guard slightly but he knew what to expect. The message was from Dejhari. He was requesting for him to get in contact with a connect that they both promised not to work with again.
He didn't understand considering all of the issues that man brought into their lives continuously. He even played a large part in their previous sentence.
"I'll be over later. I have to go handle this."
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Dejhari leaned down and kissed Kataleya repeatedly as she stood with her arms wrapped around his waist. They were in the kitchen and she had just prepared breakfast for them. Kaneeya sat in her high chair eating and kicking as she watched her ipad.
"What do you have planned for today?" She asked as he eyed her face. He took the chance to study her face as she stood there in his arms. He couldn't help but think about their night prior. Kat was doing unbelievable things during their session.
She didn't see the reason of gloating because Dejhari had worn her out. She could barely get out of bed that morning and that wasn't something she wanted to admit to him.
"Baby?" She called out shaking him out his thoughts. He shook his head before kissing her forehead. "Did you hear me?"
"Nah, my bad. What did you ask me?" He asked feeling a bit of guilt. He knew she didn't like it when he didn't answer her. She always would get mad and that sometimes led to an petty argument that he didn't feel like dealing with.
"What are you doing today?" She asked again.
He thought on his day but he couldn't figure stuff out. "I gotta few places to be," He said. "Ion know where to go first but I have to go to pick some stuff up from the mall, I gotta few meetings around the city. Nothing too much." He explained, she nodded.
"Meena said something about a family dinner so what time are you going to be back so we can go?" She asked. "She wants me to bring Nene with us."
He shrugged lightly. "Ion know if Ima be back in time for us to go together so I might just gotta meet y'all there." He explained. Kataleya couldn't help but to frown her face up. She didn't understand.
"We usually always go together." She said.
"Yeah but Meena told us about this shit last minute. I been had plans for today. I got meetings and shit so Ion know how long it might take. Ion want y'all waiting around for me and then we be late and shit." He said as she stood there with a slight frown.
"Ok." She said waving him off. It didn't even matter to her. She didn't want to press him out so she just grabbed her plate of breakfast and sat down at the bar. She began spreading the syrup all over her plate as she sat there with her tongue cupped on her top lip in excitement.
"You look like a cartoon." He said laughing, she smacked her lips and looked at him. "You do. Pouring your syrup like that and shit. You look like you finna fuck that shit up."
She started laughing. "Whatever boy," She said. "I'm so hungry this morning. Like I don't know why."
"Worked up a appetite." He said with a shrug before looking back at her noticing how she was scarfing down her pancakes. "You can slow down on your food though. It's not gonna run away."
She looked up from her plate as she chewed. "I didn't notice I was eating fast. Sorry that me getting my nourishment is an issue for you boney ass."
He busted out laughing. "Stop playing with me."
"And if anything, you eat just like this. I saw you last night tryna literally fit my whole being into your mouth." She said in rebuttal, he laughed harder.
"Yeah ard Muga," He said. "I was enjoying myself."
"Mhm. You shouldn't even be hungry. I'm sure you ate enough for the both of us." She replied.
"That's why I'm hungry." He said grabbing them something to drink from the fridge. He decided on some apple juice because he knew how Kat felt about Orange. "I appreciate you for going grocery shopping. Ion ever do that shit so thank you."
She nodded. "I figured since I'm back over here a lot I should probably get us some food and stuff. I wanna start cooking more." She explained. "It's no big deal."
"Yeah but I'm just telling you that I appreciate it." He said walking over to her. He sat next to her where his plate sat and started to say his grace. He then started to eat his food.
He looked over at Kaneeya and watched as she ate her pancakes slowly with her leg up in the seat. She watched her show Doc Mcstuffins as she played with her hair with her other hand. "The food good."
Kataleya looked over at him with a wide smile. "You like it? I did good this time huh?" She questioned.
"Hell yeah," He said. "These good."
He noticed how quiet she was but he didn't say anything. He knew she felt some type of way about him not coming along with them to the family dinner but he thought him meeting them there would be fine.
Kataleya didn't like the idea but she didn't say anything because she just didn't want to argue. She didn't see the point in them continuously fussing. She decided that she would just deal with it as much as she could. "You irritated with me?" He asked looking over at her before sticking some pancakes in his mouth.
"Kind of." She said. "But it's fine."
"I got meetings. I got stuff to do." He expressed. "Do you want to just come by the office and wait till I'm done? We can do it that way if it's that serious."
She shook her head. "It's not. It's fine."
"I don't want you keep saying it's fine." He said. "I know you gotta attitude about it. I don't want you mad at me and shit so what you want me to do?"
"I don't want you to do anything. I understand that you're busy so It's nothing to do but just accept that. I'll see you at Meena's house. It's not that serious." She expressed before leaning over and kissing his cheek.
He eyed her nervously as she walked around from her seat and began cleaning the kitchen. "And plus, I have some things I need to get done today."
"Like what?" He questioned. He didn't remember her having anything to do considering she was done with school for this semester.
"Um," She said. "I have to go and run some errands with my mom. Pick up some gifts from a few stores."
"Gifts?" He said. "What gifts?"
She smirked a little to herself. She liked when Dejhari questioned her about her day the same way she questioned him about his. She liked to know every detail he had planned for his day before it started and how everything turned out in the end.
"I got your mom and grandmas a few gifts." She said.
"A few gifts?" He questioned. "What you get them?"
"Some weed." She said with a shrug, his eyebrows raised in shock causing her to laugh. "What?"
"I know you ain't get them no weed." He said. "That must be for me or sum."
She rolled her eyes. "Boy no, I got them some stuff from Saks. Its a surprise. I'll show it at the dinner."
"What you get me?" He asked looking at her with a smile, she shrugged as she washed the pan out. She wanted to hurry and finish getting things cleaned so she could go and get ready for her day. "Hm baby?"
"I didn't get you shit." She said honestly. "I didn't have the time to put your order in but if I see anything you might like when I go in then I'll get you something."
He shook his head. "Youn gotta get me nothing, I got enough stuff." He said before smirking. "But if you see-"
"Yes I know," She said cutting him off mid sentence. "If I see a nice pair of jeans to get you a pair. I know."
"Thank you Mama."
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"Haven't had my period since I took Dejhari back." Kataleya said with a shrug. Treasure eyes bucked as they sat in her room. Kaneeya sat on her floor playing with blocks and her barbie dolls.
"What? That's been three months." She said.
Kataleya shrugged. "Yeah, I know. I don't think it's that serious. I can't even have kids."
Treasure smacked her lips. "Bitch you never know. One of Doom's seeds probably snuck and made it to that egg. You never know." She said. "You need to take a test like asap."
"Why?" Kat said with a frown. "It's just going to come back negative. I can't get pregnant."
"Ok but you should take a test just to be sure Mama. You literally never know. I thought I couldn't get pregnant and then bam I had an abortion." She explained, Kat just shook her head.
"I don't wanna think I'm pregnant and then I'm not. That's just going to make me sad." She said rolling her eyes as tears fell down her face. "I can't."
"Don't cry Mama," She said wiping her eyes. "You just need to be sure. I have some tests we can take now."
Kataleya sniffed. "If I am pregnant, my mother is taking Kaneeya back. I don't care if she's ready or not."
"Let's just take the test and then we'll figure it out when we get there. Ok?" She said, Kataleya nodded.
She didn't really want to take the test because she was afraid of what the results would be. She was sure that she wouldn't be able to have children so the fact that there was a small chance had her anxious. It was almost as if she didn't believe it.
She hoped that she would be able to have Dejhari's child so she wasn't 100% against it but if she couldn't it would make her sad. If the test came back negative, she knew it would make her sad. So she rather just wait until she started showing or had real symptoms.
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"Who's that texting your phone?" Kataleya asked sitting next to Dejhari. They were at Meena's house waiting for family dinner to begin. Everybody was there, even Mario. "It keeps going off."
"This weirdo keep texting me and shit." He said, she put her hand out and eyed him.
"Give me your phone."
He passed her the phone and she looked at the name. Her eyebrows furrowed as she looked at the messages the girl was sending. She didn't understand what the messages were at all.
Destiny
You changed the locks?
You've been being weird.
What's going on?
"Changed the locks?" She reiterated before looking over at him with a frown. "The locks to what?"
She knew nothing about a Destiny or any locks. She hoped that the girl was just being delusional over Dejhari. She hoped he had nothing to do with her at all. She thought all the girls that caused problems in their relationship was behind them. She thought all of that was behind her. She didn't understand where all the drama was coming from?
"She tripping." He said shaking his head. "I haven't been dealing with her at all so I don't even know what she means."
"You haven't been dealing with her?" She repeated. "We've been back together for months now so I would hope not. Don't play in my face right now."
He smacked his lips. "I'm not."
She looked around the living room and noticed that's everyone was in their own conversations so she stood up from the couch and walked outside onto the porch. She sat down and unlocked his phone. She began going through the messages.
She never went through Dejhari's phone so it was a odd thing for her to do. She didn't want to start thinking that she was over exaggerating but she needed to know what the girl meant by locks.
"Muga," He said. "I don't have nothing going on with nobody but you. I don't even see why you acting like that cause I don't play like that and you know that."
"Ok but what the fuck does she means by locks?" She said standing up off of the chair. "You gave her a key to the house? What does she mean?"
He smacked his lips. "I was fucking with her but I stopped once we got back together. She had a key for one day but I took it back. She must've had a copy made."
Her eyes bucked. "A key for one day?"
"Yeah," He said. "I was outta town and I needed her to pick me up a few things and mail them. I'm done with her. I have nothing to do with her no more since I been back with you." He explained.
Kataleya just stood there with her arms folded.
"I don't cheat. I wouldn't do that to you."
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Y'all think he lying?
Something quick until next chapter 😭