Hell On Earth

Twenty:

Egypt Hoskins
July 12
1:13 pm

"Thank you"

I grabbed the Burger King bag from Christian and sat it in my lap while he drove off from the drive thru.

"How was the doctors appointment?" Tremaine asked while I held the phone to my left ear and reached in the bag handing Christian his food

"It was okay. Carson just didn't like the doctor touching him"

"You know wassup when I get back in August" Christian spoke into his phone with a grin to some girl he was on the phone with so I shook my head and finished talking to Tremaine

"How you liking it in Florida?"

"I love it" he chuckled "the people cool as hell, they stay lit and I been to the beach just about everyday"

"Mhmmm. I bet so, watching them girls on the beach I bet"

"No I be chillin"

I puckered my lips up "yeah okay"

"A straw in that bag?" Christian asked so I reached in the bag and grabbed a straw, giving it to him and I guess the girl he was talking to asked who he was talking to "yeah that my babymomma.... Remember I told you I had a son.... nah, she got her own nigga. We'on fuck with each other"

"Anyways, you thinkin bout possibly going to school out there?"

"Ion know yet. Ima keep an open mind to it though cause I'm fuckin with it. Now all we gotta do is getcho ass to start lookin"

"Well I am looking into one I thats not too far away. I just gotta make sure they got my major"

"Whatchu wanna do?"

"I'm really thinking about Social work?"

"Oh. hell yeah, you got that. When I come home we gone get on that together. And we going on a date as soon as I get back so you needa start thinking bout whatchu wanna do"

"A date?" A repeated making Christian look over at me

"Yeah a date. We ain been on a real one yet and we been together almost a year. So like I said, think about whatchu wanna do and Lemme know so I can make it happen. Ight?"

"Sure" I responded while I reached in the bag and grabbed a couple of fries and started eating them. "What time you go back to practice?"

"I need to get my ass up and get ready to go now. I'm supposed to be back at 1:30"

"Well you go ahead. I'll talk to you later"

"Ight. I love you"

"I love you too"

I hung up the phone and it's like as soon as I did so, Carson started crying so I turned around and pulled the top down on his car seat to look at him. His pacifier slipped out of his mouth so I put it right back in making him quiet down

"He probably hungry. I'll feed him when we get out the car"

"He probably is. His momma sittin right they eating in front of him" Christian told me while he drove and sipped from his drink

"And his daddy doing the same thing"

"I ain eating" he sarcastically shook his cup and I rolled my eyes

"Wassup witchu and Tremaine?"

I looked over at him again "Whatchu mean? We still together"

"Obviously" he chuckled

"What gotchu askin bout us?"

He shrugged then looked at me before licking his lips "I can't ask?"

Christian's hazel eyes stared at me for a few seconds before he let off a slight smile then looked back at the road. Lord knows I was so ready for him to go back to school already between his smart ass comments, uncomfortable stares and cocky attitude. I pray the only thing my baby got from him is his looks cause personality wise, I can't deal

His hand moved to the bottom of the wheel as he sat all the way back in his seat and laughed to himself before turning up the music a little and started rapping to the song but ended up turning it right back down after a few seconds to talk again

"You know I leave again in like 3 weeks"

"Yeah. And?"

"I told you I wanted to keep him at least once before I go back."

"And I said you could"

"But when?"

I shrugged while eating some more fries and Christian shook his head causing me to sigh

"When do you wanna keep him then. Cause honestly if you waiting on me to give you a day, you'll never get one because I'm so attached to him already"

"Lemme get him Saturday"

"You wanna keep him on a Saturday night?"

" yeah. What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing.. I mean you usually run the streets on Saturday nights"

"Well I'll have an excuse to keep my ass in the house"

"Well I guess you can keep him Saturday then. But Mae sure you don't do all that smoking and stuff"

Christian sucked his teeth with his face frowned up "why would I smoke around my son?"

"I was just saying. Fix yo face"

He side eyed me and pointed to the backseat "yo son back they. Last time I check my momma was at work right now"

"Well You'on gotta look at me like that"

"Like what?"

"How you was looking"

"I wasn't lookin no type of way"

"See you so used to frowning yo face up like that you'on even know when you do it but just know you do it a lot Christian"

He muttered something followed by a smirk so I just finished eating my fries while looking out the window