305 Lovin' 4: The Finale

by Diamond Johnson

  Oh, I also couldn’t have a baby right now because it’s official, your girl is now a Hurricane! It came in the mail yesterday that I was accepted into the University of Miami for the spring semester as a transfer student. I said it myself that I was going to walk that stage and make my mama proud, and I was doing just that. Now, in another two years, I would be walking it again, only his time I would be earning my Bachelor’s degree. But that’s enough about me. Peace and blessings!

  Toya

  “Oh my God, Dre, please put that damn game down and come and get one of your sons from out of here,” I hollered downstairs from the bedroom. Yes, you absolutely heard me right, it read one of your sons, which only means that three months ago, I had given birth to twin boys, who we named Darrel Malik Davis and Devonte Isiah Davis. Diandre had jinxed me with having twin boys and these two kept me busy all of the time. Here I was trying to finish up some paper work and I had both boys in their play pen next to my bed and they were screaming and carrying on, distracting me from the task at hand.

  “What’s all of that fussing about?”

  Dre came into the room and I wanted so badly to knock his ass out one good time. Oh, I forgot to mention, not only did I have a pair of twin boys who were bad as hell and wasn’t even walking yet, but I went to the doctor’s office yesterday and found out that I was thirteen weeks pregnant AGAIN!! This is what happened when you didn’t follow the doctor’s orders and wait the six weeks that you were supposed to until you could have sex again. I wasn’t even mad at Dre for it because I knew exactly what I was doing when I opened up my legs for him.

  “My little angels in here giving Mommy a hard time?” Dre asked. He went over took them out of their cribs, putting both of them in either arm. I watched as they immediately stopped all of the previous noises that they were making with me and cooed at their father. Dre was a great father and he spoiled the hell out of his sons. I picked up my laptop along with my paperwork and was about to walk out of the room, but Dre told me to wait. He placed the boys back in the crib and came after me.

  “What’s wrong with you, T? You good?” he asked, stepping out in the hall with me.

  He took the things out of my hands and set them down on the floor. I looked at this man, who I had grown to love, and I couldn’t help but to smile at him.

  “Yeah, I’m good. I was just going to let you bond with them while I went downstairs,” I said.

  He pulled me close to him and placed his hands on my ass and squeezed. I wrapped my arms around his neck and gently kissed his lips.

  “You know I can’t wait until next month, when we finally make this shit official,” Dre said, referring to our wedding. I looked up at him and smiled because I couldn’t wait either.

  “Me either baby, even though I may have to get fitted again because I’ve gained weight. When I went to try the dress on the last time, I wasn’t pregnant yet,” I told him.

  “Whatever you have to do to make our day special, you go ahead and do that,” he told me.

  I was so happy that I gave love a chance with this man because he had been doing a damn good job at keeping me happy. Dre and I may not have been perfect, but we were practicing every day on being the best soulmates to each other that we could be. Who would have thought that that same thugged out nigga I met at his coming home party at the club would be the man that I popped out a set of twins for and was carrying another on the way, and someone who I was about to marry in a matter of weeks. It was funny as hell the cards that life will throw your way. I planned to spend eternity with this man. That’s it for now, y’all. Peace!

  Jaquan

  “Say I feel like going on

  You know

  I feel like going on

  Going on

  Say the storm may be raging and the stars

  may seem too high

  Lord

  I feel like going on”

  The sound of the choir singing as I sat front row at my father’s funeral soothed me a bit. It’s sad because as quickly as I had gotten to know him, is as quickly as he was taken away from me. I couldn’t even be selfish and ask God why. One because as a child, I was always taught to never question God, and two, this man lying in this casket looked at peace. I could tell that when he was around us, he was in lots of pain, and now he was finally able to rest.

  It was unfortunate that Monae and I had to lose our father to AIDS, but I’m just glad that he was able to spend the last year with us, and I was able to get rid of all of those ill feelings that I had for him in my heart after all of these years. But I know one thing, the absence of him in my life as a child made sure I was always there for my two children. I never wanted them to grow up hating me and questioning why I was never there.

  In attendance at the funeral were my dad’s other two daughters, Dominique and Denisha. They were younger than me and Monae, and a part of me wondered why my dad had chosen to raise them and not us. Hell, that was the past and I was over it but I was looking forward to having a relationship with them. Life was way too short to live as if I didn’t have other siblings existing, besides I’m pretty sure that it would make our father proud.

  “You okay, baby?” Charlie asked me, after they had said one final prayer at the cemetery, and I dropped my white rose on his casket.

  “I’m good, lil mama. I got the most beautiful wife in the world, the two prettiest babies. I’m good, baby,” I said, pulling her into me and giving her a hug.

  I would think about my father every day, and I was going to miss him something serious because before he left this earth, the two of us had made a bond that couldn’t be broken.

  And this was the life of Jaquan Hakeem Williams. I’ve been through some shit in life, but I didn’t let that shit have anything on my future. That’s my story, you either accept it or you don’t. I’m out. Peace and blessings.

  “Keep your dream alive.

  Understand to achieve anything

  Requires faith and belief in yourself, vison,

  Hard work, determination, and dedication.

  Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

  -Gail Devers

  The end!!!

  Reading Group Guide

  Do you think the sexuality of Jaquan and Monae’s father was reason enough for him to not be in his kids’ lives throughout the years?

  Do you think that Monae and Jaquan should have been so forgiving toward their father or should they have chosen to reject him because of his absence?

  Do you think that Chantel deserves her happiness with Davion? Or is he too much of a good man for her?

  Did you think that James received the proper Karma or should Dre have been the one to seek his revenge for him?

  Do you think that Jaquan should have handled Chantel a different way when he ran into her at the club with Davion? Since, she took part in the kidnapping of his daughter.

  How do you feel about Toya getting the abortion? Should she have waited to have the baby and find out the paternity? Or did you agree with the action that she took?

  How do you feel about Monae’s and Quay’s relationship? Do they have what it takes to have a “till death do us part” relationship?

  How do you feel about Charlie fighting while she was pregnant? Do you feel like she should have waited until after her pregnancy, or was it okay for her to handle the situation the way she did when she ran into Nita at the mall?

  What was your reaction to Dre proposing to Toya at the baby shower? Did you see that coming?

  Last but not least, who is your favorite 305 Lovin’ couple and why?

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