You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. - Shannon L. Alder

Two Months Later...

Zee...

After two months of silents, I decided to come face to face with my enemy. I talked to Bricks and my father and they told me whatever makes me comfortable, to do it. I didn't want anyone with me, or around me. I had some shit to get of my chest and some yelling just might come in to play. I don't even care if she's embarrassed.

The door buzzes and opens. Viola walks in with a tan jumpsuit and cuffs around her wrist. Her hair is in two braids, with grays just sticking out in the front of her head. Her eyes have bags and honestly she looks her age. The guards sit her down in front of me, and I put my hands in my lap under the table. I swear I was ready the slap the piss out of her, but I need to keep my cool.

"Hello Zee." She greets with a smile. I exhale heavily shaking my head as my leg shakes vigorously.

"It's Zemyna to you." I correct. The smile slowly deceases her face in defeat. I guess she thought she could lie longer then expected but no. Not any more.

"Why yo? Why me?" I question as I feel my chest growing tight. Viola looks down in her lap in shame, playing her thumbs is silence.

"You separated me from my family. My brothers and sisters who wanted to meet me since the day I was born yo. Zara told me they asked about me and you made up excuses. I'm sick or can't be around people that I don't know, yet you got me staying with stranger who wasn't even my fucking father." I snap through gritted teeth. Viola swallows with no type of feeling or emotion.

"You know before I got married. I was like you. Scared to love, afraid that I might get hurt or abused domestically. I mean I went through it as a child and usually victims of that trauma, go right back to that comfort when they get older. Because that's all they know and feel as though they deserve. But not me! I wasn't going to become something I'm not, because I deserve better! And if it wasn't for Tyrone, Lisa, the twins and Jefe for showing that to me. I'd be like you. Fucking miserable, setting up people, trying to make a happy life for myself knowing It won't happen! You wanted everybody to suffer like you did, but what did you suffer from Viola huh? One hit?" I question as tears blur my vision.

Viola just stares at me coldly, rolling her tongue around in her mouth. I let the tears fall, not for her, but for myself. Tears I held back for years at a time. I shake my head wiping my tears.

"I wish, I could get mad at the world for one got damn hit!"

"I got hit twice." She mumbles angrily. I clap my hands in sarcasm, as to say good for you. By now all the attention was on us.

"Twice! Fucking twice! At least you can count the shit on your fucking hand! I'm pass my fucking pinky toe yo! I lost got damn count!" I grit. She says nothing avoiding eye contact.

"You know I could really slap the fuck out chu for what you did to me. Leaving me in the hands of a man that wanted nothing to do but hurt me, while you went to be a snake in the grass in a warehouse. That man beat me till I bled one night, and you didn't do shit!" I exclaim standing to my feet. The guards come over towards me but I hold my hand up to them I'm fine and not to touch me. I stand up, smoothing out my dress. She looks at me with tears in her eyes as I scold her with hate and disgust.

"I can't understand how a mother can let a man hurt her child, and not think how wrong it is. I look at my babies everyday! Every fucking day, crying tears of joy and sadness! Like how could someone do what you let Dimitri do to me! And not feel not the least bit heartbroken that someone hurt your flesh and blood. Your baby, that you went through pain yourself to give birth to! 74 hours with Imani and Imer! 74, three got damn days! And you think Ima let something happen to them?!" I questions screw face, pointing to myself.

Viola sniffs, clenching her back teeth with angered eyes. She wasn't giving a damn what I was talking about, but I didn't care. She was just going to hear everything I had to say, no matter if she likes the truth or not. 

"So why Viola. Why hurt me?"

"I don't owe you an explanation on why I did the shit I did. You already know the answer. I'm pretty sure Cornelius nosy ass told you everything you needed to know." She shrugs.

"But I wanna hear it from your mouth! I deserve the right!" I retort, slamming down on the table.

"You don't deserve shit!" She exclaims. I slap the fuck outta her, and her head slowly turns toward me in anger. The guard grabs my arm, and I snatch away from him removing myself from the metal table grilling Viola. 

"You killed both my grandfathers, you killed Tyrone, Dimitri and Xavier which those two I don't really give a fuck about. Xavier wasn't with me anyway, after all that shit I did for him. He turned out to be just like you, Ryan and Lia. Fake! You brainwashed people, into your sick little game and look where it got you!" 

"Death row." She chuckles.

"Oh it's funny huh? Would it be funny if we all came to watch hmm? See your mouth foam, and your eyes roll back? You think that's funny?" She shrugs with a smile on her face. It's clear to me she doesn't value life at all. And you know what that's on her.

"Well, Ima end this last meeting with you on a happy note. You tried to take me down, but I'm living happy. I'm living happy with my husband and two kids, thinking about having another! Shit maybe even a whole damn football team. Who knows. I love my life, I value it very much. And to know that I'll be free of your antics forreal this time, brings joy to my broken and battered heart. So, I forgive you for the stupid, crazy and sick person you are. Hopefully they get you the help you need before they give you the chair. If not then, oh well." I shrug. I grab my bag, jumping back when she tries to grab me. The officers tackle her as she look at me in rage trying to get loose.

"Come on. She can't hurt you." Derrick assures. I nod, putting my bag over my shoulder as we make our way to the exit.

"You'll never be shit Zemyna! You never was! This isn't over!" I roll my eyes, shaking my head. She has no one to harm me. All her family members want nothing to do with her, and neither do my siblings. It's over she lost, and I won without even putting up a fight. She's week, she knows it. I'm just happy to know that Bricks and out family can finally live in peace. Like we should have been in the first place.  

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Three Weeks Later...

"Zee! Zee!" I hear Piper yell through the house. Imani starts to fuss causing me frustrations. Every time I try to lay her down, somebody has to wake her up.

"Yea. These big mouth people won't let you sleep? Your big headed brother can sleep through anything." I giggle to Imani, kissing her cheek. I rub her back, kissing her temple as she make little noises. I laugh, smoothing her soft silk hair down the back of her head. My little mix baby.

"Zee! I can't do it, I'm scared. Read them." Piper panics, fanning papers in my face. She went to get a DNA test with to see whose the father of her unborn a month ago. I know she told me she hope it's Chuck. For her sake I hope it is too.

"Give me my god baby." Piper coos, taking Imani from me. She cradles her in her arms, sitting down in the rocker as I take a seat in the recliner. I read both papers, blowing a breath.

"What, what's it say?" Piper questions.

"You sure you wanna know?" I question.

"Zee please!" She begs.

"Cornelius, Piper. Cornelius is the father." I tell her, standing to my feet. I turn to her as she furrows her brows in tears. I know she's afraid to tell him, but he needs to know. He has a right.

"Looks like Ima be a single mother." She sniffs, looking down at Imani as she plays with her hand.

"Piper don't say that. You don't know that."

"I do know that. You should of seen his attitude when we walked into that center. He mugged the fuck outta me, like he was ready to shoot my ass. It's like he felt I lied to him, but I didn't. He asked me if I was on the pill, I told him yea. He was about to f- freak me raw, but I told him no. We need a condom. I don't know what he has." She sighs, scratching her forehead.

"This is just too much. I gotta cancel my flight to Paris for fashion week, because my designs aren't done. I got distracted with morning sickness so much that I couldn't even work. How'd you do it, the throwing up the constant mood swings and body changing. It's annoying as fuck." I laugh, taking Imani from her, smiling as I kissed her little hand repeatedly.

"It's annoying, but when you feel that first kick Piper you whole mood about life changes. Just to know that something is living inside you, a little mini version of you and your spouse. You wonder if it will have your looks or his, maybe even your attitude. The point is Piper, it's all worth going through in the end. The mood swings, the constant eating and running to the bathroom, the cravings and throw up. Because once the little one is born, you can't help but to love him or her. It's life. A little life that you have to protect. Ain't that right mamas." I smile into laughter as Imani tries to talk to me, holding both my fingers in her little hands.

"I didn't think of it that way. What should I do Zee?"

"If I was you. I would tell him Piper. If he wants a child or not, he still has to take care of it and be in its life. Especially if you keep it. You know giving it up for adoption in an option." I explain.

"I'm not giving my baby up for adoption Zee. I'm keeping it so I guess I'll just have to tell him. And it's not because I need the money, because I can supply myself and the baby, I'm financially stable. I just want Cornelius to be in the baby's life, that's all." She sighs. I nod in understanding.

Listening to what Piper said though made me think. I mean if Cornelius wanted to hit raw, and asked if she was on the pill... I don't know. See Cornelius is confusing, and you can't really read him like you would anyone else. I wish Piper all the best though, but I believe Cornelius will step up. At least I hope.

Do you agree with Zee and how she handled the situation with Viola?

What do you predict Cornelius will say about Piper being pregnant with his child?