Los Angeles, California
Friday, January 14
Beyoncé

"Bitch bowl!" I yelled at Kelly. Her, me, Kelly, and the rest of Onika's friends had gone bowling. Onika was supposed to come but right before, she said she wasn't feeling well. I didn't push her. I thought things were off but before I left, she was as normal as can be.

"Beyoncé you're not wearing that." Onika came in the room, crunching on a green grape.

"What's wrong with it?"

She grabbed me by my shirt, loosely. Like she was looking inside. "You see them titties? I do. Bet they do too. You seen them legs? I do. Bet they do too. You not wearing it."

"Come on now."

"You look real damn good. Come here gimme a kiss."

I leaned down and kissed her. She tried pulling the shirt off of me. I grabbed her tiny hands. "Onika come on baby. I'm wearing it."

"But please?"

"No girl, you are so selfish." I smiled against her lips. She pouted. "I'm wearing it. You can wear whatever you want the next time."

"Fine."

"How am I supposed to bowl when I don't know what I'm doing?!" Kelly yelled. I smiled at her.

I started feeling something in my gut so I turned to my side and saw Carol sitting there watching me. She wasn't even trying to hide it and she wasn't here with anybody else. She was just watching. What in the absolute fuck?

"You see her?" I asked Saiyr. I pointed.

She looked back then turned up her nose. "Why is she staring like that? Isn't that Nika's mama?"

"Yeah. How you know that?"

"She came to our job bragging about how she was Nika's mom and how she came back into her life and how she loved her so much or whatever. Nika never figured out that even happened. She left before Oika could even come out of her office."

So both of these bitches were weird as hell? I knew exactly why Gaia wanted Onika and I dead but we didn't do shit to Carol. She was just following behind this little bitch and that pissed me off. How the fuck you that old and still a follower? Fucking elementary kid.

"Did anybody even think about telling Onika?"

She shook her head. "Nah, we just thought since it was her mother that it didn't matter so much."

"Y'all should tell your boss about everything, EVERYTHING and if you don't tell her, you should tell her wife, me."

"Alright."

Getting sick and tired of Carol staring at me, I went right up to her. "Why you staring at us? What's going on?"

"Where is my daughter? She isn't at her home obviously because she's not answering the door for me and she's not here and you are with a bunch of women and your breasts out. Does she know about this?"

I shook my head. No she did not imply that I'm cheating on her, especially with the friends that ONIKA brought into my life. I just know she didn't.

"I'm not cheating on her, let's get that out of the way. But where she is has nothing to do with you. She's your daughter, not your wife and why the hell are you HERE?"

"Don't worry." She picked up her purse and left.

Hell nah. Now I'm extra skeptical.

I called Nika but she didn't answer her phone. Now I was worried. She always answered her phone, even when she was angry with me which she was right now. It just wasn't like Onika. She cared too much.

"Hey can you call Nika? She's not answering the phone for me." I said as I walked up to them.

"Yeah." Meagan called Onika and when they started talking, it was just a reaction and I snatched the phone out of her hand.

"Are you fucking serious Onika? You can't answer the phone for me but you can answer the phone for Meagan?"

"Beyonce leave me alone."

"What do you mean 'leave you alone'? You were just cool, why the fuck you acting out now? You need some dick or something? You good?"

She chuckled. "Get off my phone."

"Why you not at the house? What the hell yo mama doing at the bowling alley talkin' 'bout you not there?"

"Because I'm not there. Contrary to popular belief, I have shit to do and a store opening up tonight. Please don't stress me out right now."

"Ain't nobody trying to stress you out. I'm asking you what you need. Don't take your anger out on me, just admit you were in the wrong."

"In the wrong for what?!" She yelled. "You know the fuck what? Goodbye Beyonce. Your daughter is with Taylor."

"I need you to get home so we can talk. Go home right now."

"Beyoncé no. I have things to do."

"And we can handle them at home or go back to your office when we're done but right now, I need you to go home. I am not asking."

"And I'm not listening." She hung up the phone.

I nodded my head and handed Meagan her phone back. I reached in my pocket and grabbed a wad of cash and gave it to Meagan. "I'm leaving. This is for my absence. If Onika doesn't answer her phone, she's getting fucked or she's dead. This could go either way."

**

"Why is the damn door locked?" I mumbled to myself. I took a bobby pin out of my hair and picked the lock until it was open and I could see Onika stressing herself. "Onika!"

"Beyoncé how in the absolute fuck did you get in my office?"

"I opened the door maybe?"

"It was locked."

"Don't even worry about all that. We're talking even though you said you weren't going home. We're gonna talk." I sat down on her couch that was by the door. I popped one of the Jolly Ranchers in my mouth, watching her fine ass pace around her office. She looked so good in the outfit she wore today.

"Beyoncé why you gotta be a damn bug? Leave me alone."

"Come here."

When she was close enough, I grabbed her hand and sat her on my lap. "I'm serious about wanting to talk to you Onika. You said you're not with the arguing shit anymore, neither am I. It's not me against you, it's me and you against them. I wanna know why you're not answering the phone for me but can answer for Meagan."

"BECAUSE I didn't wanna talk to you. You're making me mad with all this shit about my mama and my sister."

"Because those bitches are grimy and you don't need to be so naive. I love you so much baby girl but you're not acting like you right now. It's because these people are your blood that's got your head so fucked up."

"They aren't bad people Beyoncé. You just want my time."

"I have your time mama, I don't care about that shit. I care about you being safe. With these bitches, you're not and neither is my daughter. That's the ONLY thing I'm worried about. I don't know why you didn't analyze that bitch before you brought her into our lives anyway."

"Why you acting? Like it wasn't you that brought Carol into our lives?"

"What did I JUST tell you?! It's not me against you. Stop trying to make it be."

"There's nothing wrong with Gaia or my mother. Stop trying to make it be."

"Yeah see cause no. Shit would be different if Gaia was trying to fuck me right? Why are you making up excuses for this GROWN ASS WOMAN." At this point, I was getting mad. She wasn't listening to me. She only wanted to hear what SHE had to say. Goddamn narcissist.

"I'm not making excuses for her. I just don't see how she's a bad person."

"Her and your mother are bad people. The other day I heard them downstairs talking about how I needed to go first and then you then Cavalli." At the mention of Cavalli's name, her ears perked up. I knew they would. "They don't wanna be your family Onika, they want to kill us. They didn't come back into your life for no reason. I know it hurts not to have nobody and you really wanted them to be good people but your mother is a pathological liar. She said Genie's your dad so she could find out where he was and once she did that, she'd tell Gaia so they could make their plan. Baby you not blind. See some shit."

"It just doesn't make sense."

"What doesn't?"

"Why do people wanna hurt us so bad? We can't have no one genuine in our lives besides the ones we got now."

She looked at me then sighed. "The three of us are going to brunch tomorrow."

"You're taking me or you're not going."

"I can't take you, they'll think something is up."

"Do you think I give a fuck what those snake ass bitches think about me coming to a BRUNCH? Whatever they say in front of you, they can definitely say in front of me. If not, they don't need to say it." 

"You right."

"I know I am."

Omniscient

Gaia and Carol had other plans. Gaia wanted revenge and she wanted it in the bloodiest ways. She wanted everyone Onika had even come in contact with dead. She wanted Onika to suffer for what her significant other had done to her father.

Gaia thought that Onika knew that Genie was her father and still killed him but she had the story completely wrong and had the bad guys mixed up as well. She didn't wanna hear it though.

Carol's heart was cold from the moment she gave birth to Onika. Carol was jealous as soon as she saw Onika's pretty little face. And Onika couldn't remember it but up until she was two years old, Carol and Genie had raised her abusively. Since Carol was jealous of her daughter, she did everything in her power to make sure Onika wasn't desirable. To Genie, she was his money maker so after the blatant misfortune Carol caused to her face or her body, Genie patched her up. To her parents, Onika was either a punching bag or another money scam.

Still, Onika came out on top. Beautiful, desirable, and intoxicating. Now, Carol hated to see that she was in love, let alone in love with someone who was also beautiful. She was bitter.

"What is this brunch for in the first place?" Carol asked Gaia.

"Answers. They don't know what we're doing. Onika trusts me and she's so desperate for some family that she won't even think about what Beyoncé has to say. The plan is working. They're falling apart right before our eyes. No matter what Beyoncé says, against me, her word is nothing."
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