by Lucinda John
As soon as she left, Stacks closed then locked the door. Walking over to me, he took a seat on my desk pulling me in between his legs. Rubbing my belly, he pressed his ear to my stomach listening for the baby’s heartbeat.
“Amia Lashay Jones. You like that name?” he asked still listening to the baby’s kicks.
“It’s a nice name.”
“That’s what we’re naming my princess,” he said looking up at me. “Why you fucking with me, Lala?” he asked throwing me off.
“What are you talking about Anthony?”
“Why you smiling up in some nigga’s face while you pregnant with me child.”
“Why are you eavesdropping on my conversation?!” I snapped.
“Don’t try to change the subject.”
“Stacks, we are no longer together. I am free to do as I please.”
“Not while you carrying my damn child. Let me find out you in the next nigga’s face while my baby in ya. It ain’t gon’ be nothing nice,” he threatened.
“Yeah whatever,” I replied breaking away from him.
“What are you doing for the baby shower?” he asked.
“Nothing. I don’t want one.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t, damn! I got work to do; let yourself out,” I said grabbing the charts then walking out of my office.
I did my rounds then gave everybody their orders for when I was gone. After making notes of everything that needed to be ordered, I went to my office to put everything in.
When I walked in my office, Stacks was still there sleeping on my futon. Rolling my eyes, I powered on my computer and began putting in the orders. Once I finished, I made sure everything was forwarded to my email before preparing to leave. Stacks was still sleeping, so I turned off the lights and closed the door behind me.
Chapter 14
Kandi
Terri was working my every nerve. I was so pissed that Ralph sent his mother to do the job he was supposed to be doing. Lisa had his nose so wide open that he forgot about the responsibility he had over here. All of that was about to change, though.
I waited until Terri went to sleep and crept into the kitchen. Grabbing the orange juice, I mixed it with some castor oil and drunk it. The nasty taste of the castor oil left a bitter taste in my mouth so I rinsed my mouth out with water. Discarding the bottle, I went back to bed and waited for the contractions to start.
I was now thirty six weeks and considered full term so there wouldn’t be any harm done to my son. I needed this baby to hurry up and come out so that I could have Ralph all to myself. Maybe if Ralph saw how happy we looked together he would reconsider being with Lisa so that we could be a family.
I was having a dream that Ralph, the baby, and I was on the beach chilling, having family time when I was hit with a sharp pain.
“Ahhhhhhh shit!” I yelled out. “Mama heeeeeeeelp!!!” I called out for Terri doubling over.
“What I told you about calling me mama child, it’s Terri!” she said walking in the room.
Rolling my eyes, I held on to my stomach and prepared myself for another contraction.
“In labor or not, you roll your eyes at me one more time and I’mma snatch them out your sockets and hand them to you!”
“Mmmmmmm OMG!!!!!!!” I screamed out in agonizing pain. “Oh God.”
“Did you call on God while you was on the D?” Terri was beginning to dance on my last nerve. “Chy, just breathe. Let me go get dressed,” she said walking out the room.
Crawling to my phone, I picked it up and called Ralph. The phone rang until it went to voicemail. Frustrated, I called him over and over again praying that he would answer the phone, but he never did.
“Hang up that phone, I already called him,” Terri said walking in the room dressed in a baby blue and white Nike jogging suit, with a pair of baby blue and white Air Max. I couldn’t believe this shit. I was in labor and this bitch was in the bathroom getting cute and shit.
Helping me up, she grabbed my slides and placed them on my feet. She walked me to the car then went back in the house to get my bags. After she loaded up the car, she pulled of heading towards the hospital.
After I was settled into my room, a nurse came in to check and see if I was dilated.
“Oh my God! What is that?” Terri said pointing at my pussy. “Good God, you should be ashamed of yourself over here looking like Forest Gump and shit! The stores do sell Veet!” she rambled on causing the nurse to chuckle.
This lady was really fucking with me. I was so close to jumping out this bed and slapping the shit out of her. As soon as I got home from having the baby, I was putting her ass out.
“I’ll be back to shave you,” the nurse said.
“Nurse, you gon’ need a weed whacker to tackle that. Lawd I know I taught my son better than this.”
Rolling my eyes, I closed them and worked on my breathing. Labor was kicking my ass and to top it all off, Ralph wasn’t here to hold my hand. Grabbing my phone, I sent him a text for the fifteenth time begging him to come.
“Kandi?”
“Yes Terri!” I snapped.
“Watch your tone when you’re talking to me.”
“What do you want Terri?”
“I want to make something clear,” she said getting in my face. “I’mma keep it one hundred with you, I don’t like you. The only reason I’m here is because that could possibly be my grandchild, and I said possibly because you look like a young thot. Ralph is happy with Lisa and if you fuck that up for him then you gon’ have to see me. I ain’t dumb, I know the game; I played and beat the game,” she said throwing the empty bottle of castor oil at me.
When Ralph finally decided to come, the tension in the air was so thick that you could cut it with a knife. Seeing him instantly made my heart melt. Just the sight of him made my contractions less painful. Ralph was going to be with me and I didn’t have a problem eliminating anyone who had a problem with it.
“What did I miss?” he asked kissing his mom on the cheeks.
“Her hairy ass pussy! Got damn Ralph, you was sticking your dick in that bush?”
“Ma chill.”
“No Ralph, I know I taught you proper hygiene. Good lawd, when she opened her legs I thought she had on some fur draws,” she said causing Ralph to laugh.
“Okay, let’s check how far dilated you are,” the doctor said walking in the room.
“Beware, an untamed animal is underneath that gown,” Terri said pissing me off.
“Get the fuck out!” I finally snapped.
“Who the fuck you talking to?”
“You bitch! Get the fuck out my room before I have your wanna be ass escorted out.”
If Ralph didn’t catch her in time she would have grabbed me. I was so sick and tired of that mouth of hers that I ain’t give a fuck. I didn’t care that I just disrespected the guy’s that I wanted to be with, mother. I was just so sick and tired of her and that damn mouth.
“Kandi you need to chill out,” Ralph said.
“No, tell your mother to chill out.”
“Ralph baby, I’m about to go before I catch a case. Call me when you get those DNA results. Oh and Kandi, you will never be his main bitch, so get used to being a side hoe, bitch!” she said tossing a cup of ice water at me before walking out.
I expected Ralph to get up and leave with his mother, but instead he took a seat in the chair next to me. I started to say something but he lifted his hand up, cutting me off. I watched as he texted on his phone, with a huge smile on his face. My gut was telling me it was Lisa. I was so sick of that bitch.
“Kandi, because your labor is progressing very slowly, I am going to have to prep you for a C-section,” the doctor said checking my cervix again.
“I’m going to give it a few more hours. If no progression is made then I’ll have to go in and take him out.”
“Don’t cry, it’s gon’ be straight.” Ralph finally said
to me.
“It’s just so scared,” I responded.
“My lil’ man a soldier. He gon’ be good.”
“What about us?”
“Kandi, not now.”
“I need us to be together, Ralph. I can’t do this alone,” I cried.
“You not doing it alone, I’m here.”
“But you’re with Lisa.”
“That doesn’t matter Kandi, I’m here,” he said kissing me on the forehead.
It was almost eight at night when the doctor decided to perform an emergency C-section. After ten minutes of cutting, tugging, and pulling on my belly, Raphael Jaamal Wilkerson was born. His cries filled the room, bringing tears of joy to my eyes. I only got to see him for a brief moment but that was all I needed to fall in love with him.
When they finally wheeled me into my room, I spotted Ralph playing with the baby. I was so exhausted the only thing I wanted to do was sleep. The nurse brought the baby to me and assisted me with breastfeeding. Taking a good look at my baby, he was all Ralph. There shouldn’t be any doubt that Raphael was his, but he still wanted the DNA test done.
The nurse came in and swabbed my baby mouth and I couldn’t lie, I was feeling a bit salty; but if this is what he needed to ease his mind then I was all in. I overheard him talking to Terri telling her that the results would be in the following day. I was happy her ass wasn’t here. This was a happy moment and her unfiltered mouth would have said something to fuck it all up.
“Nurse, do you think I’ll be able to stay overnight with them?” Ralph said flagging down the nurse.
“Of course, that sofa turns into a bed. I’ll be back with some fresh blankets and pillows.”
“Thank you,” Ralph said reaching for the baby.
I handed him over with a smile on my face. I wanted to get up and do the Shmoney dance, but I still wasn’t able to feel my legs. The fact that Ralph wanted to stay the night with us spoke volumes. He could have easily gone home to that bitch, but he wanted to stay here with us.
The next morning the doctor came to check on my incision. The pain medicine finally wore off and I was in a great deal of pain. I swallowed the two Percocets they gave me with a glass of ice cold water, and waited for the effects of the drug to hit me. The pain I was feeling… I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy; well maybe I would wish it on Terri’s ass.
When the doctor came back in the room, he handed Ralph a white envelope and walked back out. I assumed it was the results that were enclosed inside. Placing the envelope on the table, Ralph continued playing with the baby. He was calm but on the other hand I was anxious as hell. I wanted to yell at his ass and tell him to read the damn results but I decided against it.
“Is this my grandson,” Terri’s ass said walking in the room causing me to roll my eyes.
She picked up the baby and started examining his every feature. It was if she was trying to detect if Raphael was Ralph’s or not. Catching on to what she was doing, Ralph handed his mother the envelope and she handed him back the baby. She tore it open with one of her long cotton-candy pink fingernails.
I studied her eyes as it scanned back and forth across the paper. I was trying to read her facial expression, but it was blank. My heart started beating fast, but I didn’t know why. For some reason I began to get nervous as my palms started to sweat. A smirk spread across her face as she threw the paper down and walked out of the room.
My heart then sank as I felt the wall of the room close in on me. Ralph got up and placed the sleeping baby in the bassinet. He then picked up the test results and his eyes scanned through just like his mother’s did just a few seconds ago. He placed the paper down and walked out of the room.
I wanted to scream and shout because I didn’t know what was going on. I was hit with a sharp pain as I tried to get out of bed. Taking a deep breath, I slowly swung my feet around and carefully got up. My legs felt like a ton of bricks as I tried to lift them and walk. When I finally made it to the table the paper was on, I picked it up and scanned through it. Putting the paper down, I pushed through the pain and started doing the Shmoney dance. Ralph was 99.9% Raphael’s father.
Chapter 15
Lisa
Things between Ralph and I was slowly coming to an end. I spent countless night in bed crying trying to figure out how things were going so left. A part of me knew this was going to happen once Kandi had the baby, but the other part of me was wishing the baby wasn’t his. I wasn’t dumb; I knew Ralph had that child tested the moment he burst out that hoe’s coochie, so the fact the he was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for her, led me to believe that Raphael was his.
I can’t remember the last time Ralph and I spent time together. If he wasn’t working then he was at that bitch’s house and when he did bring his black ass home, then she was blowing up his phone using that baby to guilt him into coming over there.
All of that was about to come to an end today though. Dressed in a pair of gym shorts, a tank top, and Timberland boots, I was ready for war. I was prepared to stomp both of their asses if I had to. Motherfuckers must have forgotten I was missing a few important screws.
Meek Mills was screaming murder in my ears as I whipped my Lexus down 153rd Street, heading towards that bitch’s house. I still was pissed at the fact he bought her a house in the same neighborhood we lived in. I pulled up to her house and just as I expected, Ralph’s car was parked next to hers like he lived there.
Making sure Nina was tucked in the small of my back, I jumped out the car and knocked on the door. If it wasn’t for the baby I would have kicked that bitch down. I heard shuffling around then Ralph asked who was at the door like he owned the damn house. I didn’t respond, I just stood there with my arms crossed under my breasts.
“Who the fuck is it….. Lisa?” Ralph said snatching the door open.
“In the flesh. What’s up boo?”
“Shit. What you doing here?”
“I came here to ask you the same thing,” I said leaning against the door frame.
“You know I came to chill with my youngin’,” he replied, rubbing his hand across his fresh-cut boss fade.
“You see what time it is? That baby should be asleep by now. What you over here doing, watching him sleep?” I asked.
“Nah, he’s over here spending time with his family,” Kandi replied coming to the door in a Victoria’s Secret silk two-piece negligee. For a bitch that just had a baby six weeks ago she was looking real good. She had that baby fat pudge, but other than that sis was on point, I had to give it to her.
“That’s how we livin’?” I asked pointing at a half-naked Kandi.
“Nah bae, it ain’t even like that. Kandi, where the fuck are your clothes?” he asked sizing her up.
“By the bed where I left them,” she smirked.
I so badly wanted to smack that smile off her face, but I had to keep in mind of the infant that was sleeping in the house. I came here expecting to see him feeding the baby, not entertaining his baby mama. My feelings were hurt. The same nigga that was assuring me that I had nothing to worry about was the same one in this house with his half-naked baby mama. Silly me for thinking I could make things work with a nigga that had three kids by three different women.
“I’m good on you,” I said turning on my heels to walk away before the tears could fall.
“Lisa, baby wait,” I heard Ralph coming after me.
“Ralph, let that hoe go. You belong here with me and Raphael,” Kandi boldly said.
Turning around I tried to go for her but Ralph caught me in time. Carrying me to the car, he sat me on my trunk and stood between my legs. As hard as I tried to stop the tears from falling I couldn’t. He wiped the tears from my eyes, and pulled me closer to him.
“It ain’t what it look like,” he tried to explain.
“Looks like I interrupted you,” I replied looking down at my perfectly polished French tips.
“Look at m
e bae, I swear to you she ain’t have that on, she just threw it on when she heard you at the door. That’s on everything I love,” he pleaded.
“Man, I ain’t tryna hear that.”
“You should know me better than that.”
“I thought I knew you, but I was wrong. The Ralph I knew wouldn’t go days without checking in. I could have been fucking a nigga in our bed and you wouldn’t have known because you’re never there!”
He gripped my thighs, tightly squeezing them, stopping my blood from circulating through them.
“You had another nigga in my house?” he seethed with anger lacing his voice.
“Why should it matter if I did? It ain’t like you have been giving me play.”
“Fuck you mean it don’t matter,” he said squeezing my thighs tighter.
“Ouch! Damn stop!!” I yelled out.”
“Nah, you talking reckless. What nigga you had in my house?”
“Nobody damn, now can you stop! Unlike you I know how to respect my relationship.”
“You saying I don’t respect you?”
“Not when you have that half-naked hoe parading around the house just chillin’ and shit.”
“How much times I have to tell you she just put that on?”
“Right, you expect me to believe that shit?”
“It’s the truth.”
“Mmm hmm, but check me out, can you let me go? I got shit to do.”
“At this time of night?”
“Yup!!”
“Man chill, I’m about to go get my keys and follow you home,” he said letting my thighs go, leaving two big ass hand prints.
“I’m out.”
“Lisa, if you don’t sit your ass here and wait, I’mma fuck you up on some real nigga shit.”
“I got Nina, I ain’t never scared.”
“I gotta gangsta bitch ah kill for me.
Look.
I gotta gangsta bitch ah kill for me.
Wen I was broke she use to steal for me… yea
She like my pill wen it’s kickin in.
She go hard.
Yeah… yeah
She go hard.
She eat that dick.
Uh
Before she eat it she go clean that dick.
