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Noel Brooks

Tuesday, September 16

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Tuesday, September 16

"Babe! Bring me his bottle out of his diaper bag" I hollered to Kentrell as I tried to get my 3 month old nephew, Kaleb, quiet. I was watching him for the night while Dana and my momma both were at work and I was off

Kaleb was born June 4th and every since he's been on this earth I've been so in love with him. Elena, Kd, Boomer and Liyah started classes back and August and they all stay on campus not too far away at Louisiana state. Baby joe and Ben both are doing whatever and they still come to the house almost every day and then there's me. I stuck to taking my online classes and I've been doing such a great job. I also have a part time job as a server at this new restaurant one of Derek's friends opened up and the tips there are GREAT. Plus, I finally learned how to drive and just last month I got my license so momma and Derek surprised me with a Nissan Altima

Kentrell shuffled his way into the bedroom with the tv remote in his hand and a bottle in the other

"Why you all the way in here with him?" Kentrell asked as he handed me the bottle. I shook it up, took the top off and slipped it into kaleb's mouth

"Because, I don't feel like hearing you bitch again about him making too much noise while you watching tv"

"That's Cause you'on know how to get him quiet"

"I know what I'm doing so how about you shut up. What you know about kids?" I mumbled as I basically fought with kaleb to get the bottle in his mouth but he decided to cry instead

"Watch" Kentrell told me as he snatched the bottle from me and got in kaleb's face "AYE, SHUT UP"

Kaleb slowly grew quiet but his face looked like he wanted to tell Kentrell off if he was able to. Kentrell put the bottle in Kaleb's mouth and he started to suck on it, bawling his fist up while trying to hold it

"See. Y'all better stop babying that boy and treat him like a man"

I made a face with my lip frowned up "He's a whole baby Kentrell"

There was a knock on the door and Kentrell walked out of the room while I followed behind him

"I can't believe you just yelled at my nephew"

"Well you better believe it" Kentrell responded as he walked to the door and opened it

"Who is it?"

"Ion know what it is" he answered as he stepped to the side and Dana walked in mugging Kentrell

"Don't start with me stupid ass"

"And Kentrell just got him quiet too" I told dana as I carefully handed Kaleb to her, making sure he didn't drop the bottle. Dana arched up her brow and looked back at Kentrell

"You got my baby quiet?"

"Yup! I told y'all I'm good with kids" Kentrell boasted with a smile while I shook my head. I grabbed Kaleb's diaper bag and made sure everything was inside

"No baby. You not"

I zipped up the diaper bag and walked over to dana, who was putting Kaleb in his car seat. Once she was done I handed her his diaper bag and she threw it across her shoulder while Kentrell grabbed kaleb's car seat

"Noel, you work Friday?" Dana asked and I nodded

"Yeah. I work from noon till eight"

"And from eight thirty until Saturday morning she'll be busy on my dick" Kentrell chimed in with a smirk. Both Dana and I looked at him

"Go take Kaleb to the car. Nasty ass" I told kentrell and he laughed while walking out the door with the car seat. Once he was gone I looked at Dana again "what's wrong?"

"Deion hit me up out of the blue asking about my son when the last time I talked to this nigga was months ago when he said he didn't want anything to do with Kaleb"

"What made him call?" I asked her while I crossed my arms and she shrug

"Chileeee I wish I knew. When I told him MY son wasn't any of his concern he told me he was gonna come check on him himself then. Saying he'll be out here soon. I don't know how soon he's talking but I have to work Friday and mommas leaving with Derek for the weekend to go to the mountains, and the girl that watches Kaleb acts like she don't have no common sense so if Deion pops up at the house while she's watching him, she'll probably let him get my baby and if I find out that nigga been anywhere near my child I'll fu-"

"Chill out dana" I cut her off while laughing a little "Elena goes home on weekends, remember. She can probably watch him"

"She won't be home till Friday afternoon. She got classes that morning"

I placed my hand on my hip and looked at the ground, trying to think then looked at her again "Kentrell... ask him"

"Kentrell?"

"Yeah" I nodded "even though I tell him he's not, he really is great with kids. Besides he's obsessed with Kaleb himself but he just won't let nobody know it. And then that'll hopefully be some type of birth control for him since he wanna be a daddy so bad. I'll talk to him about it and I'll let you know tomorrow"

"Thank you so much. I owe you one" Dana thanked me as she pulled the strap of the diaper bag so it was no longer falling off of her shoulder and she headed out the door.

Although Dana and I haven't been the best of friends in the past, I love my sister with everything in me and I'm so glad we've built a better bond because right now in her life, we both need each other more than ever.. especially her. Besides dealing with her stupid ass babydaddy, she's been struggling with this whole single new mom thing. I honestly feel bad for her so I try to help her out as much as I can, but then again I can't do too much because I still have myself to take care of

"NO-ELLLL" Kentrell annoyingly yelled out my name as he walked back into the house, swinging his arms. He plopped down on the couch and I rolled my eyes

"What boy?"

"Whatchu cookin tonight?"

"I don't know. I was thinking about some spaghetti"

"Don't nobody want no spaghetti"

"Well I don't hear you throwing out any suggestions. What you wanna eat?"

He threw his arms across the back of the chair and smirked "you"

The look on my face immediately softened up and I couldn't help but smile a little. Kentrell grabbed my hand and pulled me onto his lap, gripping onto my thigh

"As nice as that sounds, I'm hungry now so that can wait till later"

"You say that now and watch later on you gone be busy on FaceTime with wither liyah or Elena ugly asses"

I smacked my lips and looked at him some type of way "don't do that. You act like I be on FaceTime with them all the time"

"You do. And if it ain't them, it's Dana. Just so you can watch Kaleb do nothing in the camera. You be talkin to that lil nigga and he don't understand a damn thing you say"

"Shut up" I frowned then slapped his chest "and speaking of Kaleb. Dana wanted to know if you could watch him until Elena come home from school"

"Me?" He asked, kind of surprised and I nodded. I began to explain to him what Dana told me and once I was done, he let off a nod and a shrug

"That's fine wimme. You know ain nobody coming nowhere near him as long as he around me"

"I know.. but just don't corrupt my nephew so early" I begged while I placed my hands on the side of his face and he started laughing, grabbing my hands

"I make no promises"

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