Playing With Fire

Chapter 52: Where's Your Loyalty?

Jhene:

To start breakfast, I grabbed a frying pan and began cooking some eggs with turkey bacon and pancakes. Halfway through is when I felt a strong pair of arms wrap around my waist and then the feel of his stumble against my shoulder. "Good morning baby, What you cooking? It smells good" he said kissing me on the neck.
"Breakfast babe" I smiled as I removed the pancakes from the stove before they could burn and set them on a plate. Smiling he turned me around to face him and then took the spatula out of my hand and placed it down on the side. He then leaned down to give me a kiss, but quickly I doged it and then playfully pushed him away from me.
"You just gonna play a man that way Jhene?" He said trying his best not to laugh.
"Go and sit down so I can bring you this plate!" I ordered with a smile, he grinned in response biting on his bottom lip and then began walking backwards towards the breakfast bar. "So you waiting on your man now huh?" he chuckled sitting up on the stool. I shot him a look and then rolled my eyes turning back around.
"Boy don't be acting surprised" I said fixing him a plate. Once I was done I brought it over to him and then walked back over to the counter to pour myself a cup of coffee. I don't know what it was but whenever I cooked, after I'd finished I never had the appetite to eat straight away. It's like I had to wait I while before I felt hungry enough to eat something. I simultaneously added the coffee into my cup whilst adding the water and began stirring. "So what you gonna do today?" He asked me sparking up the usual conversation of the morning.
"Mm, nothing much" I took a sip of my coffee and then decided it was way to hot to drink already. "The girls are supposed to be coming over here though" I continued, today was my day off and I needed some hang time with my girls just to chill and have fun. It had been a while since we all hung out together and I was seriously missing their crazy asses. He nodded his head and then stuffed his mouth with a piece of pancake. "Y'all just going to chill or you going out?"
"Nah, we're just gonna chill. I don't wanna go anywhere today, I don't wanna spend any money" I chortled,I walked over to my fridge and then took out the small carton of milk adding it to my brewing coffee.
"So where's Asia at?" Marlon asked as he began digging into his eggs.
"She's at Daycare" I mumbled.
"Oh you took her already? That was fast"
"No actually Chris came by earlier to take her, you was asleep" I explained not bothering to turn around, I heard the metal from the cutlery hit the plate as Marlon put his fork down at the mention of Chris' name. These past couple weeks had been really weird. Everything between me and Chris was running so smoothly, a little too smoothly, and that was something Marlon definitely disapproved of. He never actually voiced his disapproval but it was all in his demeanour. Whenever Chris came by Marlon made sure he was over here which made it difficult for us to ever be alone.
"So why didn't you wake me up?" He asked me. I turned around to face him and then raised my left eyebrow.
"Uh, because it was early and you was sleeping..." I spoke in a duh tone. "Besides, he didn't stay long, he just picked her up and left" I shrugged, I picked up my cup and took a sip of my coffee, Marlon stared me down for a second before he got up from his seat and walked out of the kitchen without so much of another word leaving his plate still full of food. I looked at him weird and then sighed as I placed my cup back on the counter and then reluctantly followed him out of the kitchen and down the hallway towards my bedroom. When I walked in he'd begun dressing himself grabbing clothes left and right from the draw I had set up for him whenever he stayed over here. I stood in my threshold and watched as he paced back and forth dragging on his clothes and then walked in and leaned on my dresser folding my arms "Marlon what's the issue?" I finally asked him drawing tired of the silence that had consumed the room.
"Nothing" he looked over at me, I scrunched up my lip in a yeah right manner, clearly there was something wrong, with the mention of Chris being here his whole demeanour once again changed. "
"Marlon you know there's nothing you need to worry about right?" I said skeptically.
"Whatcha mean?" He asked as he sat on the edge of my bed lacing up his black Timberland boots.
"With me and Chris. There's nothing you need to worry about..."I falsely reassured him. He looked up at me and then stood up dressed in his 501 Levi Jeans a Black button down and his Gold Presidental Rolex and smiled.
"You don't have to tell me that baby, I trust you" he said as he walked over and kissed me. I smiled faintly and then looked away. "I don't expect you to be fooling around with no nigga in a relationship already. Besides I don't believe your that type of girl. You got too much respect to just play yourself like that" he concluded. Immediately a streak of guilt ran through my body, I did have respect for myself but little did he know he'd just said described what I'd been doing these past 2 weeks to a tee. Creeping.
"Mhm" I muttered not saying a word after. I figured the quieter I stayed, the less incriminating I would look. Marlon smiled and then let go of me and walked past to pick up his duffle bag.
"So where you off too?"'I asked changing the conversation.
"I just got a few things I need to do today" he said as he began emptying his draw and placing the clothes back into his duffle, "You know next week I'm gonna be going back to New York for a few days so I need to sort things out before I leave" he said, I nodded my head. "Speaking of New York, have you thought about what I asked you?" He questioned. Marlon wanted me to go back to New York with him, just to support I guess, he had some showcase to attend called FreshBeats in New York where producers and record labels would go and look for new talent and whatever. It usually went on for about a week and every night different gigs would happen where upcoming rappers/singers got to showcase there talent. It was pretty dope. Now of course usually I would jump at any given opportunity to go back home, y'all know New York was my everything but this time I wasn't too sure. I still had to work and plus I didn't wanna keep bringing Asia back and fourth between states, that 6 hour journey wore me out so weren't no telling what it done to her and there was absolutely no way I was leaving her over here again. Not after the last time when Tae practically gave her away. And then of course, there was the thought of me telling Chris that Asia and I were going back home with Marlon. Even though it would only be for a week. I was POSITIVE, he'd have something to say about it; already he was shifty about Marlon even staying over here so me telling him I was about to leave and be 6 hours away on the other side of the country with him; I couldn't be asked to deal with the drama.
"Marlon I don't know..." I sighed playing with my fingers "I still gotta go to work and I can't just take time off like that, and plus I don't wanna leave Asia again"
"Who said you had to leave her, you can bring her with you"
"We gon be turnt up in clubs every night, I can't bring her" I laughed
"You ain't got family in New York?" He asked
"Of course I do, but everybody I trust enough to leave her with is over here. You know how I am about leaving Asia places"
"Hmm...well think about it, I'm leaving Friday so you got 3 days to figure out what you wanna do" he said. I nodded my head yes and then leaned up off the dresser as he picked up his duffle and threw it over his shoulder "I'm out, I'll call you later" he said kissing me on the lips one last time. I smiled and then followed him downstairs walking him out. Once he got into his Mercedes I waved as he pulled off and then walked back inside before my phone began ringing. Quickly I ran back up the stairs to retrieve my phone. "Hello?" I said breathing heavily from being out of breath.
"Eww, what you doing breathing like that hoe?" Tae asked, I began laughing and then sat on the edge of my bed to catch my breath.
"Shut up, I just ran up the stairs. What do you want anyway?"
"I'm coming over. I'm bored and I'm going through it so I need to talk to you about some stuff" she huffed dramatically.
"What you mean you going through it? What happened?" I chuckled
"Me and Trey got into it this morning so I need to leave before I stab his black ass in the throat today" she said bluntly. I laughed again this time shaking my head.
"Aight well Lana and Tiki coming over here aswell soo..."
"What?! Alana coming over there? I should drop kick that bitch! She told me she hung over so she staying at the crib today!" we both laughed
"That sounds about right. When she called me she sounded hungover anyway" I explained
"Mhm. Well imma be over there shortly so listen out for me!" She replied. "Aight" We both said our goodbyes before we hung up the phone and I went into the bathroom to get washed and dressed.

About an hour later which made the time something to 12, I was washed and dressed in a pair of house shorts and a white belly top with some Huff socks. I wasn't planning on going anywhere today so I wasn't too fussed about my appearance. I grabbed my phone off charge and then left out my room and headed back downstairs just in time for my door to knock, figuring it was Tae already I didn't bother asking who it was as I opened the door. "Trey must have really pissed you off huh?" I laughed as I began walking back down the hallway.
"Whatcha mean?" that familiar husky voice spoke. A big smile spread across my face as I turned around and instead Chris stood on the other side of the door. "Hey you, I thought you was Tae" I laughed skipping over to him.
"Tae? I look like Tae to you?" He chuckled
"No but she was coming over here so I thought you was her already" I smiled pulling him further into the house. I peeped my head out the door getting a good look around before I closed it and locked the bottom, just incase. "I didn't know you was coming back over here anyway" I said to him as I turned back around to face him
"I wasn't, but then I wanted to see you again so I figured I'd come chill with you today" he shrugged nonchalantly, another smile broke out on my face
"Aww Babe!" I cooed kissing his cheek
"That nigga still here?" He asked glancing up the stairs
"No, he's gone to work, he won't be back until way later"
"Good, can you give me some love girl" he smiled and then pulled me closer to him! I giggled and wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips a couple times. He cupped both of my ass cheeks in his hands as he squeezed my ass gently. I pulled away first and then looked up at him as he licked his lips seductively at me causing me to laugh at him. "Why you laughing?" He asked me
"You tryna be all sexy but you got my lipgloss on your lips" I giggled and then used my thumb to wipe the remains of my lipgloss away from his lips.
"Damn" he closed his eyes regretfully "Did that mess up my fly?" he asked me
"Yeah kinda..." We both began laughing
"I was wondering what that sweet stuff was" he chuckled licking his lips again.
"Your so stupid" I laughed and then kissed him again. I then grabbed hold of his hand and walked us down towards the living room where I was headed before the door knocked. "So what you doing today then?" Chris asked as he sat down on the couch, I grabbed the two remotes from the coffee table and handed them to him knowing he was gonna tell me to put the TV on some sort of sports shit. I then sat down next to him and shrugged. "I dunno nothing, the girls said they coming over here so I guess we gon chill"
"Ah fuck that, I ain't chilling here then" he laughed shaking his head no.
"Whatcha mean you not chilling here! Why not!" I pouted pushing his shoulder
"Fix yo lip! And I ain't about to chill with you if your girls coming over, them bitches annoying" he laughed again.
"Shut up! Your annoying!"
"Nah man, Y'ALL annoying, all of y'all. Be talking so much shit" he laughed.
"I hate you!" I mugged him.
"I love you too mama" he smiled cutely at me, I laughed faintly and then rolled my eyes.
"Mhm whatever, you ain't leaving now though" I said taking his hat off his head.
"Yeah I'll chill till the first one comes, then I'm ghosting" he smirked scratching his head. Once again I rolled my eyes, he was so typical; this was typical Chris behaviour.
"That's not fair, You wanna leave me because my friends are coming over? I chill with you and your friends all the time, wassup bruh?"
"My friends ain't annoying like yours though, I ain't tryna hear them talking shit about nothing" he laughed. "I come to chill with you alone, not you and your home girls"
"Hmm..." I scrunched my lip up whatever
"It's aight baby, I'll come back. Just after them bitches are gone" he chuckled pulling me into him.
"Yeah well make sure you do..." I mumbled getting comfortable in his lap "And don't refer to my friends as bitches"
"Yeah, yeah whatever" Chris chuckled, picking up the remote and turning up the TV. I looked over at it and then sighed when I realised what I was going to be forced to watch for the next hour and a half of my life.

***

Chris was well into the Game, every so often he'd have his little outbursts cussing out the players on the opposing team as if he was actually playing himself. It was kinda funny to watch but neither the less I was bored out of my mind highly uninterested in what was going on. Whenever the game was on Chris completely zoned out from everybody else, meaning even though physically I was there sat right on his lap, I wasn't THERE in his eyes, nobody was except him, 24 players on a basketball court and a 50 inch television screen. "Babe?" I called to him sitting up slightly.
"Hm?" He muttered not taking his eyes from the screen.
"I got something I need to tell you..." I quietly trailed off. As expected he ignored me the first time to focused on what was in front of him "Chris!" I called to him
"Yeah?...yeah, what's up?" He asked finally pulling his eyes away from the game. I figured now would be a good time to let him know about Marlon wanting me to go outta town with him. Even though I already know the outcome of me telling him this, I figured it was worth a try. I picked up the remote and then paused the game
"Damn what's up you pausing the game nshit?" He chuckled.
"Well...I'm kinda going back to New York for a little bit..." I told him. As expected Chris scrunched his face and then raised his right brow.
"For what? What you going back for? He questioned
"Erm, don't get pissed aight..."
"What man?" He tutted, already he was becoming annoyed. I sighed and then looked down at the Stussy print graphic on his tee. "Marlon wants me to go with him to a talent showcase for the week" I explained lowly for a moment he didn't say anything so I looked at him wondering if he had heard
"So you think you going?" He asked sarcastically with a blank expression. I sighed and looked down frowning.
"Chris it's his showcase, I at least gotta go-"
"You think I give a fuck about some nigga showcase?" he asked interrupting me, "You ain't going to no motherfucking New York with nobody Jhene so you better tell that nigga you can't make it..."
"Can you at least be reasonable Chris?"
"I am being reasonable Jhene. So I'm supposed to be cool with you flying out with this nigga? And you gonna take my daughter with you? Fuck outta here blood, you ain't going its that simple!" He yelled at me as if I was a little child.
"Fine! Damn, I'll tell him I can't go!"
"I know you finna tell him that! You ain't gotta tell me!" He kissed his teeth. I stared at him and then rolled my eyes getting off him, I knew he would act this way but he was seriously being an ass right now, yelling at me as if I was his 4 year old daughter.

Like a sulking child I got off his lap and went and plopped down on the couch at the opposite end of him and folded my arms. From my perhiptial I could see him looking at me but I kept my focus on the paused TV ahead. "I don't know why you sitting over there looking like I just killed yo damn puppy" he said trying to be funny.
"Shut the fuck up yo"I mumbled. Chris chuckled and then scooted up closer to me and pulled me in throwing his arm over my shoulder, rudely I shrugged him off. "Why you being like that?" He asked turning my chin towards him.
"Because Chris, I don't like when you talk to me like I'm a kid!"
"Well if you don't say stupid ass things I wouldn't have to talk to you like a kid"
"So what, you saying I'm stupid now?" I asked getting an attitude.
"No. What I am saying is you saying stupid ass shit to me thinking imma be cool with it. Why the fuck would you tell me you going to New York with this nigga thinking I ain't gonna say something?"
"Whatever shut up, I dont wanna talk about this no more, your just over exaggerating as per-usual" I rolled my eyes and then picked up the remote changing the channel to something I wanted to watch. Fuck his bitch ass game.
"Nah I wanna talk about this" he said grabbing the remote from me and turning off the TV, I huffed and covered my face quietly cussing under my breath "So let me get this straight,cause I'm clearly tripping" Chris said moving my hands from my face "You want me to allow you to go all the way to the otherside of the country with some nigga you barely even know and my child just because he wants you to go with him?"
"Nigga I LIVE in New York. You do remember that right?" I looked over at him. Clearly he'd forgotten, if I wanted to go back home for a week I shouldn't have to ask him for his permission, what the hell?
"Nah but you ain't going there because YOU tryna go. You going there because this nigga wants you to go. Don't try that smart shit with me Jhene"
"Okay so what if I just go. What are you gonna do?" I questioned.
"Play that game and see what happens" he warned me. "Go head, try!"
I kissed my teeth and then rolled my eyes "whatever!"
"Yeah gon keep rolling your fucking eyes until they drop out ya fucking head. That's what you gone do. Come ruin my God damn mood with some bullshit" he mumbled getting up and leaving the room. I rolled my eyes at him again and then slumped in the seat frowning. He was so damn extra sometimes!
***
After about 15 minutes of me sulking in the living room my face was damn well aching from frowning so damn hard and Chris still hadn't returned to the living room. So I decided to go find him.
Being fake mad was just too much energy for me to be honest. I knew from the get go he wasn't gonna have me going anywhere with Marlon, so really I was just being mad extra asking him in the first place. I got up from the couch and then headed out the room to the kitchen where I assumed he was. Which I was correct. He'd even shut the door on me. I pushed it open and immedietly smelt why he'd done it and why he was gone for so long, he was really in here smoking up my damn kitchen! I swear if I wasn't tryna make up with him right now I would have cussed his ass out. He knew I hated the smell of weed around me. Especially in my own crib. Putting aside my annoyance I closed the door behind me. "Babe?" I called sweetly to him but just like when he was watching the game he completely ignored my existence and continued smoking his joint. I sighed and then walked up to him and hugged his waist from behind "...babe?"
"What Jhene?" He huffed
"Baby why you mad at me now?" I said. He kissed his teeth loudly and then took another pull from his joint. I pouted and then hugged him tighter. "Can you not be mad at me please?" I asked tilting my head to the side so I could get a look of his face but he still ignored me. I didn't even understand why he was being like this. All I did was tell him something I wasn't really gonna do. It wasn't that serious. Recieving complete air from him I huffed and then rested my forehead on his back. "I don't even understand why your mad, I only said one thing" I mumbled. He abruptly pulled my arms from around him and then turned to face me scowling
"Are you acting dumb on purpose Jhene?" he questioned.
"How? All I said to you Chris is Me and Asia are going back to New York with Marlon-" I stopped talking. Ok maybe I could see where he was coming from now.
"Aight, so would you be cool if I said me and Asia finna go outta town with Jen for a week, with just each other?" he asked me, I didnt say anything, instead I kissed my teeth and looked away. "Exactly, you wouldn't want me going any place alone with her so what makes you think imma be cool with you going with him?"
"Okay, you made your point. I get it" I sighed "I wasn't really gonna go anyway. I was just saying..."
"So you telling me dumb ass shit for no reason? Just to piss me off Jhene?"
"No!...I dunno. Okay yes..." I admitted
"Man you annoying me today, I'm outta here" he said putting out his joint
"Noooo!" I laughed hugging him again to stop him from leaving "Get off cuh!" He tried to shrug me off but I held tighter laughing
"Babe I'm sorryyyy!"
"Yo let go Jhene"
"Noo. I don't want you to leave me, I'll even make you a sandwich!" I laughed bribing him "Just don't go home yet!" Chris paused for a second contemplating my offer. "...What sandwich you finna make me?" He asked. I smiled shaking my head at him. I swear it should be illegal for me to know him so damn good, there was always 2 things that you could use to bribe Chris into doing whatever you wanted him to and that was Food or Sex, say you was gonna give him either, he was your little puppet on a string. It worked everytime.
"I'll make you whatever you want."
"I want a grilled Bacon, chicken & cheese sandwich with that sweet chilli sauce you put on everything in it" he said.
"Turkey bacon?..." I raised my brow
"I know you! And I want some Koolaid, cause you always got Koolaid"
"Aight babe I got you" I laughed, he smiled pleased with himself.
"That's what I'm talambout" he chuckled picking up his joint again and relighting it. "Chris don't smoke that in here!"
"Shut yo ass up" he mumbled doing exactly what I asked him not to do and lighting up his joint. I kissed my teeth and leaned over him pushing open the window. That's the least he could of done! "What?" I asked as he stood there staring at me.
"Gone!" He said pointing to the stove
"I swear boy you lucky I love you!" I rolled my eyes sauntering over to the fridge to take out the needed to make his fat ass a sandwich.

*30 minutes later*
I was finishing washing up the dishes I'd used when I heard the front door buzz. Figuring Chris would get it I continued drying down the sides when I buzzed for a second time.
"BABE the door!" I heard loud mouth Chris yell from the sitting room. I rolled my eyes and dropped the tea towel on the side and sauntered out the kitchen to answer to intercom seeing as he wouldnt do it. "Why your lazy ass ain't answer it then?" I mumbled
"I'm a guest" he chuckled starting on the second half of his sandwich. I kissed my teeth guest my ass! I picked up the buzzer and the camera came on showing who it was downstairs
"Zamnnnn I got a phat booty at my dou!" I laughed looking at Tae in some small ass daisy dukes through the intercom, she turned around smiling so that she was facing the camera and then blew me a kiss.
"Buzz me up bitch so I can come give yo sexy ass some!" she joked along, we both laughed and then I hung up the buzzer and buzzed her up. I then opened the front door for Tae and walked over to the couch and sat on Chris' lap as he finished the last his sandwich "Who dat?" he asked with a lump of food in the side of his cheek.
"Tae" I mumbled wiping some crumbs away from his mouth. "I swear you eat like you and Asia the same age" I shook my head.
"Shut up" he laughed licking the Chilli sauce from his lips, "So y'all going out or you staying here?"
"I think we going out a little later" I shrugged, I didn't even know what we were doing all I knew was all the girls were coming over here today, we were gonna drink, chill and have have a good ass time.
"Don't go out later" Chris said.
"Why not?"
"Because I don't want you to. I want you to stay home and spend time with me" he threw me the cutest smile. A smile broke out all over my face before I playfully I rolled my eyes at him
"Your not cute Chris" I mumbled and then leaned down to kiss him. Slipping my tongue into his mouth, he didn't hesitate to reciprocate the kiss with just as much passion. I let out small muffled moan in his mouth as he pulled me closer into him and then let his hands slide down and rest on the sides of my thighs. Before we could get carried away though we heard the front door push open "Oooooh, sucky sucky now!" Tae teased as she walked through the door, I pulled away from Chris and then smiled looking over at the door. "Yep, this is exactly how y'all made the first baby!" she commented making both me and Chris laugh
"Taetizzle!" He yelled holding up his hand for her to dap him
"Waddup yo!" she smiled dapping him up.
"Ew, you fake as fuck son!" I mugged him, just earlier this nigga said she was annoying now she 'Taetizzle' da homie?
"Why?" He smiled
"Tae just before you came this nigga said you were annoying, now you his homie!" I blasted his shit
"Oh word lightskin? That's how it is?" Tae laughed putting her bag on the arm of the couch.
"Not you!" Chris laughed "not Tae, I weren't talking about Tae, I was talking about them other bitches you be with. Tae my nigga!" he justified looking at me.
"LIES!" I yelled laughing
"Man shut yo fuck ass up! Tae know she my dawg!" Chris pushed me off him. I continued laughing and then went to sit back on his lap. "Where you going?" He asked pushing me away before I could sit down.
"Word? You just gone hoe me like that?" I asked trying to sit down again.
"Nah why you coming back on me? Move!" He laughed pushing me away again
"Chrisssssss! Stop being mean to me yo!" I pouted stamping my foot.
"Nah man, I don't want yo fat ass sitting on me no mo" he smiled. I opened my mouth in offense, "Aight I'm sorry, come here" he smiled opening up his arms to me again, I mugged the shit out of him before I rolled my eyes. Who he tryna kid after he just played me like that "You not gonna come, you gon diss me like that?" He laughed
"Go away me and my fat ass I ain't fucking with you then" I rolled my eyes and then went and sat on the coffee table instead. Tae laughed at us shaking her head and then sat down on the opposite couch. "So what happened with you and Trey today? Why he got you all mad nshit?" I laughed starting up conversation, Tae huffed dramatically and then pulled her feet up on the couch and flipped her wild hair over her shoulder. "Ugh I'm not fucking with that nigga today, he tripping!" she kissed her teeth.
"Over what? Why he trippin?"
"Jhene!" Chris shouted rudely interrupting our conversation. Tae stopped talking and then looked over at him to see what he had to say unlike me who kept my vision on Tae, I knew he had nothing useful to say anyway.
"Girl please, just ignore the noise and continue" I rolled my eyes. Tae laughed "Yeah, I aint fucking with him because he stay talking to me like he my daddy, like nigga I am not your child!" She continued
"JHENE!" Chris yelled once more, once again I ignored him.
"Oh I DEFINETLY know the kind!" I replied side eyeing the shit out of him "They be thinking they can tell you what to do nshit!"
"Right! I'm just over it, I think I need a girlfriend or some shit because I can not deal with these overprotective ass niggas! Like can I live?!"
"So you just gon sit there and ignore me witcho rude ass?" Chris asked making Tae laugh.
"Word. Girl I feel you, I got this one nigga who just be sweating my shit so damn hard-" I said ignoring Chris.
"Jhene don't get yo little ass torn up now" he laughed
"You see what I mean girl? Sweating..." That's when he picked up the cushion laying next to him and launched it straight at me smacking me in the head.
"Yo are you serious my dude?" I laughed throwing it back at him, quickly he caught it and then dropped it back on the couch
"Stop ignoring me then!" he smiled
"No, Both me and my fat ass ain't fucking with you right now" I laughed
"Ok I'm sorry, I didn't meant it" he apologised. "Now come lay in my arms baby before I leave. I wanna love you" he smiled
"No nigga, fuck you!" I flipped him the bird.
"Why you fronting like you don't wanna come over here to me though?" He laughed "Tae why your cousin always tryna front in front of niggas! She only acting up because you here, if not she'd be right here all over me as usual" He smirked looking at me; I rolled my eyes at him
"Don't worry, I believe you" Tae agreed with him, quickly I shot her a deadly look, you see this shit.
"You're a Carter! Where the fuck is your loyalty at bitch?" I asked her causing her to laugh.
"Jhene shut yo frontin ass up, and get up. Acting like you don't wanna go over there and smooch with him anyway. Girl you ain't fooling nobody!" Tae laughed waving me off.
"Exactly!" Chris yelled.
"Chris shut up!" I laughed.
"What?" He crossed his brows and got up from the couch like he was finna do something, quickly I stood up and ran to the otherside of the room laughing.
"Why you running? Punk ass" he said walking towards me.
"Chris I'm not playing with you behave!" I yelled holding out my hands in protection as I walked backwards. My back soon enough hit the wall when I realised I was stuck, Chris laughed and then turned back around, "Thats what I thought"
"Punk ass..."
"What was that?" He asked turning around again.
"Nothing" I started laughing again.
"Nah you still talking shit so what was that?" He smirked walking back up to me.
"Nothingggg! I didn't even say anything!"
"Look at yo face, lying ass!" he laughed as he mushed my face with his hand causing me to stumble back a little.
"Are you crazy nigga?" I laughed punching his arm.
"You swear you can fight me huh?" Chris chortled.
"I can, I will, let's go! Bang to bang" I smirked balling up my fists. Both Chris and Tae looked at each other and then began laughing hard at me as if I was some kind of joke "I don't know why you laughing dawg!" I frowned.
"We play bang to bang, I guarantee one bang I'll knock you ass out" Chris said inbetween laughter
"Jump then homie!" I said jabbing him in his arm again
"Jhene you really tryna get knocked out tonight huh?" Tae laughed, Chris looked at her smirking and nodded his head in agreeance with her.
"Fuck yo agreeing with her for punk?!" I laughed punching him once again, I swear to God I was feeling myself something tough right now. With quickness Chris turned around and looked at me crazy ready to grab me. I screamed and quickly jumped back before he could and then stood there laughing.
"You see this scared shit?" He said to Tae "Man I ain't fucking with you no more" he laughed walking away again. He then sat back on the couch and picked up his Koolaid taking a long sip.
"Yo ain't nobody scared of you bro" I waved him off not moving from where I was.
"Yeah ok. That's why your punk ass ain't moved yet huh?" He chuckled. I smirked
"Nuh uh. This my crib I walk where I wanna walk bitch!" I said confidently walking over to him, Chris smirked and then pretended to get up like he was gonna do something. Once again like a punk I squealed and quickly jumped back from him. All of us began laughing. "Nah you a punk for real! I swear I thought you was realer than this babe" Chris laughed
"Chris stop playing now!" I whinged stamping my foot.
"I ain't even doing anything, it's you talking all the shit" he continued to laugh. I smiled
"Aight imma stop,let me get past now..."
"Gon...ain't nobody stoping you" he signalled his hand for the way. I hesitated at first thinking he was gonna get back up, but once he sat back comfortably in his seat I took my chance to walk past him and go into the kitchen to make a quick drink. But of course I was Jhene and as usual my mouth had a mind of its own, there was no way I could get by him without something slick passing my lips. "Bitch ass nigga" is what I mumbled as I walked past him to go into the kitchen. Before I could even make it Chris laughed and the turned around with quickness. "Come here!" He playfully demanded as he yanked the back of my shorts causing me to me to fall over the arm of the couch and straight into his lap. I laughed as he wrapped his strong arms around me into a position where I could hardly move let alone get out of, "You know you talk soooo much shit my nigga!" he said poking me in my side.
"Chris your hurting me, I can't breath!" I screamed
"You think I give a fuck? Talk shit now girl!" He laughed still poking me.
"Nooo Tae help meeee!"
"Shut yo ass up, Tae ain't finna help shit"
"For real girl, you on your own" she said causing both her and Chris laugh.
"Fine fuck you then bitch!" I yelled trying to wiggle my way out from undef Chris
"Why you yelling for!" Chris yelled and slapped the side of my bare thigh.
"Oww Chris that hurttttttt!"
"Good! Need to teach yo ass a lesson!" he laughed doing it once again.
"Chris quit it!" I yelled biting the side of his arm seeing as that was the only thing I could do right now.
"Word? You biting me now?" He laughed pulling his arm away, he looked down at it and then frowned his brows crazy.
"Nooo Baby I'm sorry stopppp!" I quickly squealed apologising. I just knew me doing that was gonna give him more reasons to play like this.
"Oh my God Jhene, you are such a punk..." Tae laughed shaking her head
"Bitch you shut the fuck up!"
"YOU shut the fuck up yelling witcho loud ass!" Chris replied.
"Aight, Im sorry. Let's be friends again ok?" I smiled cutely at him. Chris smacked his teeth and then pulled me back up to sit properly "I should really beat your ass for this slick ass mouth you got" he said as he flicked my lip.
"No" I pouted.
"Actually what I should do is just put you up on top of that table and make you spread them pretty legs for a nigga again, that'll shut that ass up" He whispered in my ear and then smirked looking down at me.
"Oh my...Shut up" I laughed quickly covering my face from the blush that was appearing; he was so inapropriate at times! Chris chuckled and then leaned forward so I fell backwards in the cushions and then nuzzled his face in my neck as he started kissing along my skin. "Chris quit, Tae is here!" I giggled trying to push him away from me but this nigga wouldn't let up for shit.
"So what, Tae don't care" he chortled as he continued to suck on my neck, bad thing was neck kisses was my biggest turn on so I was actually loving him doing this but come on, how uncomfortable this must have been for Tae sitting here with us right now "Chrisss!" I whinged.
"Hmm?" He mumbled
"Stop, get up" I squirmed.
"Y'all nigga's are crazy" Tae said as she got up and sauntered out of the room leaving us alone.
"Oh my God Chris, you made her leave!" I said trying to push him off again, he shrugged again pushing my hands away. Finally I just gave up and closed my eyes enjoying the soft touch of his lips making out against my skin. I ran my fingers up and down the back of his head and neck; softly caressing his nape. In between kisses I felt him chuckle against my skin as a slight moan left my lips once he kissed my spot bellow my ear.
After a short while I opened my eyes as Chris suddenly just stopped kissing on my neck. I looked at him weird as he stared down at me with a slightly pleased smirk on his lips. He then sat up pulling me with him and licked his lips."So...you chill?" He asked smiling. He couldn't be serious right now!
"Are you for real? No nigga move!" I frowned pushing him away from me.
"What's wrong?" He laughed, I side eyed the shit outta him, he knew exactly what was wrong! How he gonna be kissing on me like that and then just stop suddenly when I'm finally getting into it. What kind of shit was that?! Now I had all types of feelings going on in my body right now because of his stupid ass.
"I hate you sometimes. You dead wrong!" I scowled at him
"Whatttt?"
"Don't talk to me yo" I laughed
"You horny now huh?" He laughed
"Fuck you!"
"Babe we can't. Tae here" he smiled cutely, I rolled my eyes and then got up from the couch "Where you going?" He asked laughing, I smacked my teeth and then grabbed his plate from the sandwich I'd made him and walked out of the room ignoring his stupid laughter.

I walked into the kitchen where Tae was stood at the stove, she turned around as she heard me walk in and the smirked chewing on something "Y'all done sucking face now?" She chuckled eating another piece of the turkey bacon I had left over from earlier.
"That's why you came in here?" I laughed at her. I dropped the plate in the sink and then ran the tap over it ridding it from the Chilli sauce left on the side.
"Hell yeah, third wheeling is hella awkward yo" she laughed shaking her head.
"Aww my bad. We finished now" I smiled turning off the tap and pouring some Sprite for myself into a cup.
"FYI, y'all are rude as fuck, you have no common curtesy towards y'all guest" she let me know.
"Whatchu talking bout? Bitch I was entertaining one of my guests I'll have you know" I laughed
"By sucking off his face? That's entertaining right..."
"Well he ain't complaining. If you was as fine as him you would get that sort of treatment too" I joked.
"Oh I'm sorry girl" she said holding up her hands "we can't all be yellow with big ass lips, shit" she laughed
"Bitch shut up, his lips ain't that big!" I laughed slapping her shoulders
"Oh okay Jhene..."
"Fuck you! I'll take my babes big ass lips any day, more shit to kiss on actually!" I shrugged
"Yeah more shits to suffocate yo ass too" she retorted, we both laughed.
"Man hush, You coming back through?" I asked her
"Yeah, now y'all finished" she said taking another piece of bacon from the plate and then following behind me. As we walked back into the sitting room Chris was wrapping up a conversation on the phone "Yeah nigga I'll holla when I'm near...aight that's what's up...yeah...aight cool" I sat back next to him and watched as he hung up the phone and grabbed his hat from the couch arm, fitting it onto his head. "You leaving now?" I asked, he nodded yes pushing his phone into his pocket. "Where you going?"
"To meet Mijo and Bow, play some ball" he shrugged standing up from the seat.
"You gonna pick up Asia from Daycare right?" I asked
"Yeah, she finish at 3?"
"Uh huh. Don't be late for her please"
"I won't. Gimme a kiss" he said leaning down towards me. I sat up on my knees and then kissed him lovingly on the lips. "I'll see you later aight" he mumbled pulling away
"Aight" I smiled
"Tae!" Chris yelled holding out his hand to dap her "I'll holla at you" he laughed.
"Boy whatever" she laughed dapping him anyway. I watched and smiled as he grabbed his car keys off the side and then left out the front door my eyes staying glued to his sexy ass the whole entire time.
"Oh my God" Tae chuckled shaking her head
"What?" I asked her as I finally peeled my eyes away from the front door.
"...Girl you are soo sprung!" Tae laughed at me. I smiled looking over at her and then rolled my eyes.
"Shut up Tae, I ain't sprung!"
"Yes you are! Look at yo damn face, that nigga got yo ass wide open and you ain't even know it!"
"Aight maybe just a little bit" I giggled admittedly. Truth be told I probably was a little sprung on him; I could admit it. Especially these past few weeks, I was just happy being around him, even if we wasn't doing much. Almost everything he done made me smile and almost everytime I saw him my heart fluttered. Just to think back to 2-3 months ago when I thought hated him; it was so crazy, how things between us had completely taken a left turn to how we were originally were.
"So are y'all back together now?" Tae questioned with a huge smile on her face, I giggled again and shook my head no.
"We just kicking it" I told her. Tae looked at me as if to say yeah right, and then scrunched her lips up in the same manor.
"Mhm, you got this nigga sucking on yo neck but you just 'kicking it' with him? Y'all asses are together, you might as well gon make it official already" she said
"Nah we good. Plus we got things we need to sort out, I don't want to rush into anything right now" I admitted. As much as I would like to be officially back with Chris, I knew right now that wasn't going to happen. We both had way too much to sort out before we could even picture that being the case again. With him still some what being with Jen and of course Marlon still being very much active in my picture; us being official was the least of our worries.
"So if he asks you to be his girlfriend again you gon say no to him?" she smirked knowingly.
"C'mon yo!" I laughed "But he ain't asked so I ain't claiming it"
"Jhene wither you know it or not, you is cuffed already bitch, you might as well claim that D as yours while you can!" Tae chuckled.
"Listen, I don't need to claim what I already know is mines"
"Oop! Get it girl!" Tae hollered
"Believe that" I giggled.
"So what happened with ol'girl he was dealing with?" she asked referring to Jen.
"I don't know, I don't care" I shrugged,
"So you just gonna steal her man and she ain't even know it huh?" she joked, I smacked my teeth throwing her a stank face. "No, I can't steal what's not hers in the first place actually!" I said with an attitude. Tae laughed and then wagged her finger at me "Jhene your a bad, bad girl!" she said, once again I shrugged
"Bitch ion care" I smirked; I couldn't give a flying fuck about Jens triflin ass. If Chris wanted her thats exactly where he'd be; over there with her. I wasn't forcing him or 'stealing' him away from anyone or anywhere, I didn't need to. At the end of the day, a man will be where HE wants to be, it's that simple.
"You think she knows about y'all though?" Tae questioned, I shrugged again "If you say you don't care one more time Jhene!" Tae warned be before I could speak, I laughed shaking my head
"That's how I feel though! I don't care Tae! Fuck her, until she brings her crazy ass and steps to me again ain't nobody thinking about that girl or her feelings"
"Damn...I feel kinda sorry for ol'girl though..." she admitted, my brows furrowed as she spoke
"For what?!" I asked her.
"I mean shit Jhene, her mans cheating on her, cuffing nshit" she chuckled
"She cheating on her man too! Whatchu mean!" I yelled. Jen was no where near innocent in this, I could understand if she was completely 100 but that bitch was a different kind of sneaky, she didn't deserve anyone's damn sympathy especially when she was out doing exactly the same thing Chris was.
"Word?!" Tae asked completely shocked "how you know she cheating too?" She questioned
"I just do, so I don't know why you over there feeling sorry for the bitch, everything that happens she brings on her damn self!" I rolled my eyes.
"Damn...all y'all in a sticky ass situation then" Tae laughed
"Not really. I'm good over here" I shrugged
"Yeah, not when your real man finds out you cuffing with baby daddy on the low though" Tae said
"Shut up Lashontae" I rolled my eyes
"Mhm, you playing with fire girl, just don't get burnt on the way out" she laughed. Once again I rolled my eyes not wanting to hear what else she had to say on this topic. As if I didn't already know I was doing Marlon wrong, I didn't need to be reminded of if as well.
Thankfully before Tae could go on our conversation was interrupted by the sounds of my intercom buzzing once again letting us know Tiki and Lana had arrived. "Ooh they here! Nae quick get the drinksss!," she yelled as she got up to go and answer the door for the two. I laughed at her overly hype ass and silently prayed to God they had gotten here when they did. I then sauntered to my kitchen to get the drinks as requested. Grabbing 3 shot Glasses and 4 Wine glasses I soon heard the excited screams of Alana and Tae loud asses greeting each other. Shaking my head I got a small bottle of Patron from the side and a bottle of Burnetts and then made my way back to the living room to greet the others."Wassup bitches!" I yelled entering the room again.
"Yessss girlfriend, brang that liquor over here!" Alana gestured to me. I smiled and then put the glasses in the table along with the drinks Alana of course had brought with her. I then quickly gave her and Tiki a hug.
"Sexy baby mama, how my nephew doing?" I asked kissing her cheek, Tiki huffed and then rolled her eyes, I already knew that she was just tired of being pregnant and ready for the baby to come any day now.
"Yo seriously, this lil nigga needs to hurry up, I'm tired of being a fat fuck bitch!" She kissed her teeth causing us to all laugh.
"T you ain't fat, you pregnant!"
"No Jhene I'm fat! You wasn't this big when you were pregnant with Asia! I'm sure Bow just about ready to leave my big swollen ass" she complained once again causing us all to laugh at her.
"When's your due date?" Alana asked her
"17th"
"That's in like a week and a bit girl you good" Alana said opening up the bottle of patron. I quietly laughed watching her, this bitch was still hung over AND looked the part, dressed in a red pair of basketball shorts a white vest with a fendi headscarf wrapped around her head and a pair of over sized glasses hiding the bags under her eye yet her ass was still managing to pop bottles.
"Not when you been pregant for 9months it don't feel like that!" Tiki said rubbing her stomach.
"Y'all picked a name yet?" Tae asked her
"We put it down to 2 so we gonna see when he comes what suites him the most but it's between Zaye and Kai"
"Ooh I like Zaye" Tae said with a smile.
"You only like it because it rhymes with Tae stupid" I side eyed her pouring each of us other than Tiki a shot of patron, she laughed and then waved me off.
"Yeah enough about my lil nigga now, I know I can't drink but can we turn up please!" Tiki said taking off her jacket
"Shit I'm ready! I'm still hung the fuck over but fuck it lets drinkkkk!" Alana hollered backing her shot.
"Bitch you couldn't even wait for us?!" Tae screwed her
"I know right!" I added "damn alcoholic!"
"Fuck y'all" she laughed pouring herself another. I shook my head at her, today was definitely gonna be something else.
***
We'd been in the crib drinking, eating and having a good time for at least 2 hours now. As the Drinks continued to flow I was pretty sure we all other than Tiki were a little waved.
Drinks were flowing, and the conversation was heating up as it took a left turn and got extremely x-rated. With these 3 bitches I should have known it wouldn't have been long before sex became the topic of our conversation. We all fell out laughing as Alana just got finished telling us about this one time her mom nearly caught her having sex in the back of her car. She and this dude she was seeing decided it would be a good idea to skip school and go have sex in her driveway, only her mom came home early from work and pulled up behind them.
"That was the most terrifying day of my life! Then I had her calling my phone like Lani you home?, your cars parked up in the driveway. I had to be lying like yeah Ma, I decided to walk to school today meanwhile I'm in the driveway half naked with this nigga junk still in me!"
"Oh my God that is fucking hilarious!" Tae screamed laughter.
"Yo I swear I stopped fucking for like a month after that!" She giggled shaking her head.
"No shit like that has ever happened to me before thank God!" I laughed
"You ain't never been caught having sex before?" Alana said
"Nope" I shook my head.
"Bitch yous a lie! I remember that one time I was at home and you and Chris were upstairs in your room going at it like some damn animals on heat!"
"What?! When!" I laughed
"That time y'all were fighting like all day and me and Juan were at the house. All I remember is one minute we could hear you cussing his ass out throwing shit, the next minute you screaming like yo ass was dying or some something!"
"Oh my God that's not getting caught though! That's just you hearing shit" I laughed "I ain't never been caught in the act!"
"You ain't lived then bitch" Tae chortled.
"Shit I used to get caught all the time!" Tiki laughed taking a sip of her apple juice.
"Damn right! This bitches mama was forever catching her fucking in the house!" I laughed along with her.
"It was so bad, I didn't even use close the door or anything. I was so damn use to it. I was like bitch you gon hear me moan at least you know what I'm doing, shit!" She said causing us to all laugh again.
"Y'all are crazy!" Tae laughed as she poured herself another glass of Malibu. "Aight, next question, what's y'alls so favourite positions? Mines on missionary baby" She laughed.
"Straight up doggy style!" Alana laughed,
"Imma Ducati bitch" Tiki smirked winking her eye, both Alana and Tae looked over at her like what the fuck causing me to laugh out seeing as I was the only person who understood what she meant.
"Heyy you a Riderrrrr!" I teased her, we slapped hands and then both fell out laughing.
"Yep, y'all are definitely best friends" Alana shook her head at us.
"Mhm girl, that's exactly why your pregnant now!" Tae joked on Tiki, Tiki smiled and then shrugged her shoulders proudly "Jhene?" Tae asked.
"I'm with Lana. Straight from the back baby" I winked sipping my drink.
"Booo y'all whack" Tae chuckled holding up her hand.
"Whatchu mean witcho plain missionary ass! Name me ONE woman who don't like doggy style!" Alana cut in, Tae rolled her eyes and then shrugged.
"I don't care for doggy style, gimme missionary over that shit" she laughed
"Man fuck missionary! That's for fat chicks, they lazy!" Alana rolled her eyes, once again, we all laughed at her.
"Lana shut the fuck up, you stupid yo" Tae replied.
"What it's true! You can't be laying on yo back the whole time! Get the fuck up and burn some calories bitch!"
"No shut up. I just don't care for no nigga hitting me from the back like some hoe" Tae laughed
"Tae bye! You ain't gotta be hoe" Tiki added
"That's every hoes position. The nigga don't be wanting to see they face so he be like 'baby let me get it from the back" she laughed
"And that's exactly why you and Trey are beefing now!" I said causing everybody to laugh.
"Jhenee, Jhene Carter don't go there!" She laughed warning me.
"Y'all beefing?" Alana asked
"Man fuck that nigga, I ain't fucking with him until later on tonight. Until then he's on time out" she giggled.
"Damn you just using my nigga like that?" I said with a smirk
"Girl yes. I'm drinking so later on I will have needs that only he can fulfil" she smiled
"You mad at him but you finna give him some later on? Tae you crazy" Alana said shaking her head.
"Listen when you mad at yo nigga and he mad at you that's the best kind of sex you finna have!"
"Word!" Both Tikira and I agreed with her
"Well I ain't got no man, I forgot what that angry shit feels like" Alana chuckled sympathetically into her glass.
"Lani we need to find you a man" I said
"I don't want a man, I don't want to be anyone's girlfriend that's too much headache. I just want a nigga whose down to fuck when I wanna fuck, shit, nothing more nothing less, I ain't tryna get cuffed by nobody" she admitted.
"You are foul as hell!" Tae screwed her face at her.
"No, I'm real as hell. Like my bitch K Michelle said, I just wanna fuck and not fall in love, I ain't here for the pain I just want sex that don't mean a thang!" she laughed. Sympathetically I shook my head at her, with a mindset Alana had I couldn't wait to meet the nigga who finally changed her crazy ass ways.
"Whatever bitch, your just a whore" Tae laughed, Alana chuckled shaking her head.
"I'll take it, fuck it!"
"Okay I got another one question for y'all" Tae said "if you had to marry the last person you had sex with, would you be happy?" Everybody murmed at her good question and then the room fell silent, "Alana?" she looked at her first.
"The last nigga I had sex with?" She questioned.
"Yes, you do remember the last person you had sex with right?" Tae smirked
"Bitch dont play me! And hellllllll to the no!" She laughed waving her hands dramatically "Nuh, Nooo!" Everybody laughed along with her
"Who was it that you dissin em so hard!" Tikira asked her.
"Just some dude I met at the club day before last. His dick game was trash, some little 3 stroke creep ass motherfucker, nigga didn't even last longer than me before his shit went limp. I was like, really?" She chuckled shaking her head "Man I'll pass on that whack sex for the rest of my life!"
"That's what you get for fucking random niggas from the club hoe!" Tae laughed
"True...but shit, a bitch needed some dick" She shrugged.
"Lani baby, your really a hoe" I sympathised causing her to burst out laughing.
"I am not a hoe! I just have hoe tendencies, I can admit it" she sipped the rest of her drink. I smiled shaking my head, you see this is why I loved Alana, she was do damn honest.
"Anyway, I know you would marry Bow I ain't even gonna ask you Tikira" Tae said skipping past her.
"How you know I last fucked Bow though?!" Tikira announced, everybody looked at her crazy.
"With that big ass belly and his first born growing inside you I really hope he was!" she yelled.
"Yeah you right" Tiki laughed "I'd marry my boo..."
"Mhm, Jhene?" Tae smirked looking at me, "last person you had sex with...would you be happy?" I smiled and put my head down, trust Tae to come up with questions like this. "You would come up with a question like this Lashontae!" I rolled my eyes.
"Just answer the damn question bitch! Would you be happy marrying the last nigga you fucked?" She cocked her brow knowingly, a small smirk on her face. I laughed and gulped down the rest of my drink, she really wasn't slick.
"Yeah..." I shrugged with a light laugh.
"Really!?" her eyes widened in shock; I laughed lightly again.
"Yeah. Why not?..."
"So if he got down on one knee right now in front of you, you'd marry him?" She grinned; I playfully smacked my teeth
"You tried it! that wasn't the question hoe!"
"Awwww you would, you cute!" she giggled, I rolled my eyes and waved my hand at her dramatics.
"Word? You'd marry Marlon Jhene?" Alana asked causing Tae to burst out laughing "What?" she then asked in confusion.
"Just ignore her, she being stupid!" I chuckled looking at Tae still cracking up.
"No I wanna know the joke too! Y'all bitches over here laughing n shit!" Tiki added
"Right!" Alana agreed, "Fill us in!"
"It's nothing! I don't even know why Tae's laughing!" I lied, I knew damn well why that bitch was over there dying right now.
"Yes you do, Tae why you laughing?" Tiki asked her,
"Ask Jhene why I'm laughing!" Tiki smacked her teeth at us.
"Fuck y'all then"
"No I wanna know! I asked if you'd marry Marlon and y'all start laughing, what the hell?" Alana frowned.
"Yeah she might marry him if that was the last nigga she fucked!" Tae said as she burst into laughter, immediately both their eyes widened in shock and astonishment, "Whatttt?! Who'd you fuck?!" Alana yelled at me.
"Nobody! Oh my God!"
"Yous a liarrrr, you got some bomb ass dick that got you wanting to marry the nigga and you aint tryna say who? Tae who did she fuck that she'd fucking marry too?!" Alana asked. Tae laughed even harder and then looked over at me.
"Guess!" She smiled
"Do I know him?" Alana questioned
"Uh huh..."
"What he look like?"
"He cute and he got big lips" Tae smirked looking at me, I huffed and rolled my eyes, I swear I hated her sometimes.
"Ty?..." Alana asked skeptically
"What?!" I yelled in offense looking over at her, she had to have lost her mind thinking of him out of ALL people.
"I guess not" she laughed flipping her hair over her shoulder.
"I should punch you dead in the face yo!"
"My bad, shit! She said he cute and he got big lips, plus y'all hella close!"
"Girl bye! I would never fuck Ty that's fucking disgusting!"
"Don't be acting like he ugly Jhene"
"Well then you go hop on!"
"I'm trying! Shit!"
"Ew, you a hoe for real" I said in disgust
"Whatever" she chuckled "Tae who did she fuck?"
"Somebody that starts with babyyy and ends with daddyyy!" she winked, immedietly Alana gasped, slapping her hands to her mouth; I looked at her and rolled my eyes, I deadass wanted to punch her, why the hell was she being so dramatic!
"No waaaay! You fucked Chris Jhene?!" she yelled at me louder than she needed too!
"Be quiet! What the hell's wrong witchu?!" I pushed her
"Sorry. For real though, you fucked him?" She asked. I huffed and looked over at Tae with a look of annoyance. This was all her doing. Tae stayed with a slight grin on her face, all a while Tiki stayed silent. "Well?!.." Alana probed me along, anxiously waiting for me to tell her.
"Yes aight! Damn, yes me and Chris had sex again! What the hell is the big deal yo, it don't even matter, it's not that serious..." I shrugged off,
"Not a big deal my ass! You and Chris!" Alana yelled again, "That's fucking huge!"
"How?"
"Because, it's you and Chris! That's like...that's like...bitch gimme a celebrity couple that's like!" Alana laughed looking at Tae.
"Erm...Jay-z and Beyonce!"
"Bitch you tried!" Alana laughed hard, "They dysfunctional on and off asses over here ain't nun like King Bey and her man"
"Oh my God Alana shut the fuck up already!" I rolled my eyes.
"So wait, are y'all back together now? Or y'all just wanted to fuck?" she inquired leaning in, before I even had the chance to reply Tae did for me.
"They back together! You should have seen them earlier before y'all came they were so cute all hugged up, kissing nshit over there" she pointed to the couch.
"Guuuurl! You is hot mama! I gotta give you your props, you doing it right bitch" Alana laughed giving me a high five.
"What are you talking about Lana" I chuckled
"You doing it right! EVERY bitch should have two nigga's. One for the money, and the other for the Sex"
"Alana since you know so much which is which?" Tae asked her
"Clearly that other nigga showering this bitch with gifts, got her iced out nshit. So Chris gotta be the other nigga
who's giving her that good wood"
"Girl listen, I don't need any nigga for the money, I ain't a sloppy bitch, I got my own" I said pointing around my condo "And secondly, don't get it twisted, my boy is more than just a nigga keeping me satisfied with a dick. He's special I'll have you know" I laughed
"Oop! Let her know Nae, ride for your nigga dawg!" Tae hollerd. I laughed and nodded my head in agreeance.
"Oh word Jhene?" 'Tikira finally spoke after staying silent this whole time. I looked over at her and the look on her face already told me what she thought, clearly she wasn't impressed by my revelation. I sighed and then looked away from her.
"Leave it Tikira" I mumbled under my breath before taking the last sip of my drink.
"Yeah whatever yo..." She rolled her eyes with a slight attitude, I looked back over at her and then frowned.
"What's the problem Tiki?" I questioned.
"Nothing. Next question Tae..." She swiftly shut me down, Tae looked between us with a look of discomfort saturating both hers and Alana's face. Clearly the rooms tension had just gone from 0 to 100 in a matter of seconds. I continued to stare at Tiki until she finally looked back in my direction. "What?" she asked with a blank expression.
"Why are you being like this Tikira?"
"Like what Jhene?"
"Like this! Is there a problem with me talking to Chris again or something?" I asked her because clearly her attitude just stemmed from his name being brought up in reference with me.
"I don't care who you talk to Jhene, do what you wanna do. It's your life" she replied. I laughed and shook my head at her.
"Your such a bitch sometimes Tikira. Seriously..." I mumbled.
"Well ain't this a bit pot calling kettle black" she quickly retorted.
"Word?"
"I said it didn't I" she shrugged, Tae and Alana both looked between the both of us as we stared each other down, I really couldn't understand why she was acting this way, she was acting like a complete bitch and all for no reason. I knew she didn't like him, or at least he wasn't her favourite person in the world, but even so as her best friend you'd think she'd be happy at the fact that I was happy. Even if I didn't like Bow, I would never be this way just out of the fact that he was the one who made her happy, for that reason alone I would at least try and put my dislike aside, and be happy for her. Not Tikira though.
"Aight y'all stop the bickering now please" Tae spoke first
"No I'm not gonna stop!" I replied, "You over here killing the vibe and acting like a complete bitch for no reason Tiki!"
"Ain't nobody acting like a bitch Jhene! You sitting here dwelling on something that doesn't need to be dwelled on. Aight so you fucked the nigga so what, its not the first time you did it! I'm tryna continue with the game and you still bringing this shit up?!" She argued.
"Y'all really about to sit here and argue over this dumb shit?" Alana sighed
"What do you mean it's not the first time I did it? What are you getting at Tikira?" I asked her completely ignoring what Alana said.
"Im saying exactly what it sounds like Jhene! It ain't the first time you fucked the nigga since you been back and it ain't gonna be the last time either so what's the big fucking deal!"
"Do you know what Tikira you trippin, I ain't even gonna bother with you right now" I said getting up from the couch, I weren't about to sit here and argue with my bestfriend over some petty shit that could easily be avoided.
"I'm trippin because what I'm saying is the truth?" she said before I could leave "You over here proudly fucking niggas in relationship and you laughing and joking as if its normal, girl bye" she mumbled sipping the last of her juice.
"Hold up. Who the fuck are you to judge though?" I raised up, "You must have forgotten I've known you since before Bow, and just cause you all holy and in a relationship now don't think I don't remember times when YOU used to do the same shit Tikira"
"Do the same? I ain't never fucked
any niggas who were IN a relationship Jhene, You better keep it cute with that shit ma!" Tikira snapped standing up too, that's when both Alana and Tae too stood up.
"Yeah instead you just went around fucking every nigga with a dick attached to them, that's what you did!" I retorted
"Aight y'all come on, Stop now" Tae yelled getting in between us but I slapped her hand away.
"No don't fucking tell me to stop! I'm tired of this Holy Mary acting ass bitch always having something to say!"
"Yo Jhene, please don't get your ass hurt today!" She warned me sternly.
"Why what you gon do? Beat me with your 9 months pregnant ass? Bitch please, sit the fuck down before your water breaks, you doing too much" I replied
"Jhene!" Tae snickered covering my mouth
"No stop it Tae!" I quickly brushed her hands away from my mouth, if she thought I was going to shut up in my own house she was crazy; it had been a very long time since me and Tikira argued like this, but it was something that was way overdue. I just never thought it would be over something as trivial as this. "Aight y'all this is stupid, ain't no need to fight over this" Alana said.
"Yeah listen to how stupid it sounds, you over here arguing acting jealous over my relationship with somebody else"
"Jealous Jhene? Really? Girl You went from being wifey to the side bitch, but I'm jealous? I'm sorry? Where they do that at again hoe?" she laughed
"Hoe?" I matched her laugh "I'm sorry, remind me how long it took for Bow to get up in it again?" I asked her
"The same amount of time it took for Chris to convince you he'll ever leave his actual girlfriend for you" she retorted and then shrugged nonchalantly. At this point both our mouths had gotten the best of us and right now we both were very unapologetic with what we had to say about one another. Bad thing about it was that we both had hot tempers and slick ass tongues when we were pissed off, and before when we were younger our mouths always resulted in us fighting wither it was against each other or somebody else.
"So is that all you got for me T? Because he's in a relationship?"
"Bitch I don't need anymore. He's in a relationship Jhene! Wither he wants to be with her or not, he's still there! Your the same bitch who had a problem when his other bitch was doing the same thing to you, she was a hoe then so if your doing exactly what she was doing, what does that make you Jhene?!"
"Do you know what, I don't give a fuck! If that makes me a hoe too, I'll take the title. I'm a big ass hoe for fucking with the same nigga I been fucking with since I was 17 years old. I aint been ran through like some of us but if that means imma hoe too well then shit imma hoe! But at the end of the day Tikira, when I comes down to it, it don't matter if you or anybody else gets it I got it! I know who and what I got and I know what's mines so I don't need nobody else's input or opinion on whatever the fuck it is me and Chris be doing because it ain't got shit to do with y'all anyway!"
"Don't nobody give a fuck about you and Chris stupid ass relationship son! But if you stopped running your motherfucking mouth about it EVERTIME y'all argue nobody would have to put they input in bitch!" She argued
"You got just one more mothefucking time to call me a bitch again Tikira" I warned her. Tikira laughed and then stepped forward
"Bitch" she said allowing the B to pop from her mouth "Whatchu gon do?" without hesitation Tae and Alan both grabbed the two of us to prevent what was brewing to happen. "Yo let go of me!" I shouted at Tae who'd turned me
Around and was walking me towards the door. "No Nae, go in the kitchen!"
"I ain't going in the damn kitchen let go!"
"Nah y'all ain't about to fight each other up in here" she said forcefully dragging me away towards the kitchen, when we go to the door she quickly pushed me inside and closed the door behind her leaning on it. "Move from the door Tae" I huffed. I don't why she thought she needed to drag me away like some naughty child, but she needed to move!
"Yo can you chill?" She said
"What you mean can I chill when she's the one starting shit? Move from the door!"
"Jhene you know she pregnant. Her hormones are allowing her to talk out her ass. Ignore her!"
"Nah son! Fuck that hormones BS! What she was saying was exactly how she feels, don't tell me anything about her hormones acting up!" I yelled back. I was tired of her being able to talk shit because of her hormones. Yeah pregnancy made you act up but there was a line. What Tikira was saying in there had nothing to do with her hormones, that was her true feelings. She didn't like Chris and what she said about me was exactly what she thought, I ain't stupid!
"Jhene please just stay in here, y'all been friends for too long to be fighting each other. Just stay in here until y'all cool down aight?" Tae said. I smacked my teeth and then looked off to the side "You gonna stay in here Jhene?"
"Yes damn!" I tutted.
"Thank you!" Tae smiled as she made her way back out the kitchen.

***
I was left in this kitchen for nearly half an hour before I heard Tikira's and Tae voice arguing with one another. I could hear Tae protesting against Tiki coming into the kitchen but Tiki saying otherwise, "I ain't gon do nothing to her,I just need to get my purse so I can go, damn!" I heard Tiki yell, which was on the kitchen table before she walked in. She looked at me briefly before she walked over to her purse and picked it up not saying a word. I smacked my teeth and then turned back around, if she wasn't gonna say anything neither was I, this whole thing went down because of her anyway. "I don't care if you mad Jhene and I'm not about to apologise for what I think" she said breaking the silence, "But what I will say is despite what you may think I ain't jealous of you and Chris' relationship. If anything i'm happy if your happy. But at the same time that's not gonna change the way I feel about dude. I don't like him period, and after everything you went through because of him, I don't want to see you back in that space. I only got your best interest at heart"

I scoffed "Tikira, you don't even have a real reason not to like him, you've never even given him a chance and you know that"

"Yeah maybe you right Jhene, but in the past you ain't exactly helped paint the perfect picture of dude to me. I only know what YOU tell me, so if for a long period of time you tell me the nigga ain't shit, why should I believe any different now?" she asked. Maybe she was right, I could see how my hurt in the past helped paint Chris in a bad light in Tikira's eyes, but still that gave her no right to disrepect him or my decisions.
"You should believe it because you should know back then I was in a totally different space. I wasn't even myself and you know I wasn't. So yeah it's my bad that for a long period of time I was hurt and angry and you was the only person I could talk to. But if you took as much energy as you do to dislike him, to actually get to know him you would know he's not a bad person, and he really genuinely loves me and he knows he fucked up before but he's sorry for it"

Tikira raised her brow in a yeah right sought of manner, I swear she was just so damn difficult all the time. I kissed my teeth and huffed, no matter what I said she wasn't about to give him a break, so I was done trying. "Do you know what T forget it, you don't have to like him because at the end of the day it isnt gonna change what me and him are doing. I would have just thought as my best friend you would have at least tried"

"Well I'm sorry Jhene. I can't force something I don't feel, that would mean me being fake"
"No it would mean you being mature Tikira. Mature enough to let go of any ill feelings you have towards him and start over like I did"
"Jhene, you do know you already got a boyfriend right?" she suddenly asked as if I was dumb.
"Yeah, I know that Tikira damn!" I kissed my teeth" But I also know what I want;
WHO I want, I'm sorry but im not about to feel guilty for finally following what my hearts been telling me to do all this time.

"Aight, whatever. Do what you want, what your 'heart' is telling you to do Jhene, just make sure you know what you doing and you don't end up in a situation that's outta your control, once again. Because right now your playing a fucked up game with people's feelings and it's only gonna end in one way" she said.
"And what's that?" I asked her
"Come on use your head Jhene, your not stupid! But I'm not about to sit here and just watch this shit happen again"
I didn't know if me saying what I was gonna say was the right thing to say right now but with the way I was feeling in the moment, I couldn't even care, I was sick and tired of somebody always feeling the need to voice their opinions when it came down to what I did with my own life."Well don't worry Tikira, you ain't gotta sit around and watch anything happen" I said to her
"And what's that supposed to mean Jhene?" she questioned raising her brow.

"It means exactly what it sounds like. Clearly you've already got your mind made up about Chris and it's not gonna change and he's not going anywhere anytime soon, so if me being with him means we can't be cool no more then it is what it is..." I mumbled the last bit. Tikira stared at me blank for a moment, a sweep of hurt formed in her eyes before she scoffed lightly. "Word Jhene?" she asked sounding shocked. I shrugged but stayed silent, I figured I'd said enough already. She scoffed again before she picked up her purse "Fine thats cool" she muttered before heading towards the door without so much of another word. Suddenly a rush of guilt ran over me.

"Tiki wait..." I called out, quickly I was beginning to regret saying what I'd just said to her. Even though I didn't agree with her feelings towards Chris and I wished she could put aside everything and actually get to know him herself, I didn't wanna lose my best friend over it; we'd been friends for way too long and been through way too much together for this to happen. Instead of stopping she put her hand up signalling to me she didn't wanna hear it. I sighed in deep regret wishing I could take back what I'd said. I know exactly what it must have looked like to her; I'd basically just told her if it came down to it, I'd choose Chris rather than keep our friendship of 10 years. Which wasn't even true. I'd rather not choose between either; they both were just as important to me.

Just as Tikira was walking out, Chris came walking in with Asia from daycare. "Sup" he cordially greeted her with a nod. Tikira unenthusiastically raised her eyebrows what's up in return before she slid past him and walked off. Chris eyed her a little longer and the turned and looked over at me confused, "What's up with her?" He asked walking inside the kitchen, he put Asia on her feet and then dropped her bag on the breakfast bar.

"Nothing" I mumbled watching down the hallway as Tikira left out, slamming the front door behind her. Chris looked at the door and then looked back at me still confused. "Y'all good?" slowly I shook my head.

"I think I just ruined our friendship..."