"I THOUGHT YOU CAME OVER HERE TO SEE ME," Corinne speaks up. "You doing homework." He tells her before going back to playing Peek-A-Boo with Jacobi.
"That you said you would help with." She pouts, holding up the Trigonometry textbook. "Fifteen minutes." He says making her roll her eyes.
Her mother was supposed to be babysitting her grandson but she ended up leaving, because her best friend's house got broken into and her friend was in another state so she was who the security company called.
"You want one?" He asks, looking up.
"One what?"
"A baby." He specifies.
"No. Do you?" She says. "Not right now." He mutters. "Why you don't want kids?" He asks. "Too scary." She mutters, continuing to use Socratic to check her work.
"The giving birth part?" She laughs shaking her head. "The being responsible for another human part." She says. "But that don't mean don't have them." He mutters.
"But...I'm black. My baby gone be black and I'm not sure if you noticed but they kill black people for being black around here. I'm not trying to be responsible and worry about somebody that's always gone be a target for being them." She tells him while doing the math for the next problem.
"That's not fair though," He says. "It's the truth though. I don't think it's fair to bring somebody into a world that set up for them to fail." She shrugs.
"Why don't you want kids right now?" She asks him.
"Too risky. Like I said people don't want smoke with you. They go for who they can get and a kid...my kid. That's just some I can't handle." He says. "But I think you could protect a kid or two." She whispers.
"Our kid?" He asks making her lookup. "I didn't say that." She tells him. "You sure? I could've sworn you said you think I could protect our kid." He teases, making her smile rolling eyes.
"Boy or a girl?" She asks.
"I want a daughter. I don't need nobody like me." He shakes his head. "You a lil difficult but I don't think I would mind another you." She says. "So all I gotta do is change your mind." He tells her. "I don't think so." She shakes her head.
She had been a part of the FTK movement for years.
"You do realize you never say no to me?" He asks. "You wanna make a deal?"
"You gone give me a daughter for my twenty-first birthday?" He smiles. "Why twenty-one?" She asks. "...But no. By the time I'm twenty-seven, I'll think about a baby." She says. "Think?" He asks. "We can have a baby." She never said no to him.
"I'm fine with that but I don't know why you think you think I'm not gone wife yo ass up by the time you twenty-seven." He says.
"Oh really?" She asks.
"Fasho, we can get married in Greece or some but before I make you a mommy...you gotta change this lil nigga diaper." He says, holding up the baby.
"Nah, you want a baby so bad, get that practice in." She says, putting down the textbook and binder. "You said think." He laughs, passing her the baby. "You a shitty ass babysitter."
"I like big kids more." He says. "But you want a daughter." She shakes her head. "Yeah." He nods watching her lay down the changing pad. "Yeah...we back to thinking about it." She tells him.
"Damn. I ruined it that fast?" He asks.
"Yep." She nods laying down the baby. "You can pass me the wipes." She adds pulling down his pants, before opening the onesie.
"Did he just pee on me?" She asks as soon as she opens the diaper.
"I got the diaper." He laughs. "It's not funny. He pee'd on me." She pouts. "He did. Go change, pissy." He teases. "I hate you." She shakes her head standing up. "You love me."
"And? I still don't like you right now." She pouts walking towards her room while he changes the diaper.
"Ummm...do you want to finish my trig for me though?" She pokes her head out the door. "No!" He shakes his head. "Please?" She asks, coming out of the room with her shirt in hand.
"Are you trying to bribe me with your titties?" He says looking up from the baby. "No. But you said that you would- my eyes are up here." She stops.
"They just look nice." He excuses himself while she puts the shirt on. "You a pervert." She says. "How many left?" He asks. "Two cause I'm smart and did the first eighteen myself when you said you would help me." She tells him before going to pick up her nephew. "I'll do the last two."
"I knew you loved me." She smiles before kissing the baby's cheek. "But you wasn't tryna give me kisses. You phony as hell." He shakes his head, doing the last two problems.
"Cause I don't know where your lips been."
"I can tell you a few places they can go." He tells her. "Where?" She says. "I know I said I could tell you but...I'd rather show you." He tells her.
"Now, how can you do that and you don't ever spend time with me when you here?" She asks, putting Jacobi in his mamaRoo. Every time he came to visit, Corinne would be in her room and he would be kicking it with her mom.
"Shorty, I'm on thin ice with them. You not finna ruin it." He tells her, pulling her closer to him.
"With my brothers and father. My sister is doing okay right now and my mother likes you." She says wrapping her arms around his neck. It had been three weeks of their house-arrest and Demon was used to it. He didn't care about her family because they were cool people.
"You do realize I got a lil sister." He hugs her back. "And? You not this bad." She whines. "You they baby sister. They got a reason to be this bad." He says. "But we just friends. They have no reason to be this bad." She tells him. "Who said we was just friends?" He asks. "When you tell me we weren't?"
"Gimme a kiss." He tells her making her lean down kissing him softly. "We not just friends." He adds pulling her leg up making her straddle him. "Right, we best friends." She says.
"Best friends." He repeats before kissing her again.
"Mhmm." She hums.
"I don't think you understand what I'm saying to you." He tells her in between kisses. "I do understand. We working on us." She tells him settling her hands on his face. "I'm fine with that." He says. "You sure?" She asks, only for him to kiss her again.
"This doesn't answer my question." She says shifting as he moves his lips to her neck. "We good, ma." He tells her.
"Okay, you can kiss me again now." She says while he wraps his hand around her neck pulling her into the kiss. The few minutes of bliss created from them being content with their situation was interrupted by a phone ringing which scared the baby making him cry.
"You might um...want to do something about that." She adds pointing to his erection while holding the baby and the bottle after he ends his phone call. "I'mma see you at the game tomorrow." He says standing up. "You good?" She asks.
"I'm good. I'mma just let you know what happened when I call you tonight." He tells her. "Okay, stay safe." She says.
"Always." He mutters kissing her forehead. He walks out the doors making her look at the baby in her arms.
"It's just me and you, stink."
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Demon got out of the car in front of the Federal building seeing his father Victor, step-mother Jackie, sister Katrina, and grandmother Genevieve. "You can't do stuff like that. I thought you were dying." He tells his grandma hugging her.
"I'm fine, baby. Where were you? I could've sworn I heard a baby." She says.
"What were you doing with a baby, Adonis?" Jackie asks making him roll his eyes. He didn't have the best relationship with her despite knowing her his entire life.
"I smell perfume on you too," Katrina adds, hugging him. Corinne's Chanel perfume had a habit of locking in his clothes as his Creed did to hers.
"You got a girlfriend and ain't tell nobody?" Vic asks.
"Hopefully better than the last."
"Y'all got me out here with no explanation and y'all wanna question me?" He asks.
"We got time," Genevieve tells him. "Me and my friend. We was watching her nephew." He says.
"Babysitting?" Vic asks, shaking his head. "He tryna fu-" Katrina gets cut off by her grandmother popping her. "But he is," Vic says.
"Why are we here?" Demon asks. "For him." Genevieve smiles looking behind him. "You ain't think to tell me Pops was getting out?"
Pops was his grandfather. Andrej Dragić had been in the Federal prison in Chicago for the past six years for drug possession, murder, and embezzlement. He was supposed to be released in 2023.
"He didn't tell me until two weeks ago," Genevieve says. "I ain't ever going back to this bitch again. I hate it there." The older man immediately starts complaining. "Poppa." Katrina smiles before hugging the man. "I missed you so much, my love." He says, hugging her back. "I thought you were with Cece. What are you doing here?" He asks.
"Your wife."
"Pause...you told the man in jail about your girlfriend and not us?" Katrina exclaims.
"I'm his favorite person in this family. What did you expect?" Their grandfather asks, hugging his grandson.
"I don't have a girlfriend." He chimes in. "We don't care. Invite her out with us." Genevieve says. "I'd rather not." Demon shakes his head.
"Are you ashamed of us?" Jackie asks.
"Of you, most definitely." He tells her making Katrina laugh and Vic shakes his head.
"Y'all gone meet her when I want y'all to meet her." He mutters.
In all honesty, the reason Demon was avoiding introducing her to his family was because Priest and Vic could not get along. Demon was older so he knew more as to why they didn't get along but he knew his father didn't want anything to do with the Solis family while Priest was more nonchalant about it.
He wasn't sure how his father would react to him spending all the time he could with the man that he hated mosts daughter.
It was something that Demon would have to ease him into for sure but knowing his father, Demon knew he wasn't going for it but he also knew he wasn't letting Corinne go anywhere.
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a/n: so I decided for christmas imma upload twelve chapters so i'll have twenty five out because i find that very fitting and festive yk... and i appreciate y'all for all the views and reads however i would appreciate if y'all voted and commented more. it gives me an extra push to update so the more comments and votes the more i update cause i got a lot of chapters just sitting that y'all could have so please vote and comment! 💋