Bet On It. (Short Story)

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"How many ladies in the house, how many ladies in the house without a spouse?

-Kanye West

Sienna

"Alright Ms. Sienna, you are fully nine months! You can go into labor at any time, so I'm putting you on bed rest, and I mean it Sienna. Your always working and last month you started bleeding, so I'm not taking any chances with you. Bed rest, do you understand?"

Yes, Dr. Phillips." I pouted.

She laughed. "You'll be fine honey, you're in you're last trimester. Be happy!"

"Ok,ok, but how's the baby? Is he fine? I don't hear a heartbeat."

"Oh child, he's fine, I just didn't turn on his heart monitor, see." She said turning on the monitor.

I heard his heart beat and sighed in relief. "Where's Cairo by the way?"

"He couldn't make it." I shrugged. Cairo made up some lame ass excuse, talkin bout he couldn't come cause he's busy with work, but in the background I heard Shay's hoe ass. How could you put a seasonal bitch in front of you're child?! At this point I could care less, if this is the way he wants to act then we both can play some games.

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"Hey boo! I'm sooo sorry I've been M.I.A., work is crazy!" Lacie confessed. We went out for lunch, I needed to talk to someone about my life!

"It's fine, the salon has been pretty busy too. Girl theres so much drama in my life!" I sighed heavily.

"What's been going on? I'm worried about you."

"Lace, it's so hard, balancing this pregnancy and work, I'm just tired. Then Cairo and I had a discussion about us, he told me he didn't want to be together, so know he's with some gold digging bitch named Shay. She's always pulling him away from me and Ahzeer. Today was my appointment and he told me he had work to do, but then I hear the bitch in the background giggling. I could've punched him right through the phone!"

"Do I have to whip some ass?! You know I will Sienna! You know I will! Cairo done lost his jack rabbit, high yellow mind!" She ranted. I couldn't help but laugh. Lacie tends to twitch when she's upset.

"Lace calm down!"

"No, hell no! Let's go! We're gonna go see his bitch ass, and let the bitch be there, let the bitch be there! Imma tear that ass up!" She yelled grabbing my arm.

I know not to try and talk Lacie out of things when she's mad, so I didn't even try. I honestly wasn't mad, I was more nonchalant about the whole situation anyway. I left my car in the lot and followed her to her truck. She was ranting and raving all the way to the trap. I had to tell her ass to shut up most of the drive.

"Hey Lacie, hey Sienna." One of the guards said.

"Hey Tony, is Cairo here?" Lace asked.

He nodded his head. "Yea and so is G. Y'all can go right in."

We smiled and made our way in. Gerald was sitting down counting money and smoking a blunt. We walked over to him. "What y'all doing here, ain't you spose to be at woke Lacie?"

"Nigga, don't question me. Where the hell is Cairo?"

"Upstairs with Shay." Lacie turned to me with apologetic eyes. I honestly didn't care at this point. Cairo made his decision and it wasn't his son. There was no reason for me to be here. I got up from the couch with the help of Gerald who was now looking confused and tried to walk back out. "Si-" "No Lacie, he made his decision. You know what, I was better off without him! But no, you wanted me to tell him. I could've raised my son all by my fuckin self! So no, I don't need anymore of your help. If you wanna go rip his head off and the broad that he's with be my guest, but I don't give a fuck about them."