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I didn't wanna write this because the votes made me mad and I was about to do this how I did Laylani book but chile.. vote and comment because this mf OVER 😎😎😎😎😎😎


"No it's my mine daddy said so!" Namiko snatched her iPad back from her Semaj and they began fighting. Whenever they fought their parents felt alarmed because they really tried taking each others heads off. Real deal swinging and stomping one another out.

"Sit the fuck down. Now." Laylani looked at both of them who were in tears, watching them sit back down on the couch quietly.

"Why you being mean to my kids?" Taylin mugged her.

"I'm not they acting an ass. Ma you almost done I'm hungry? I ain't had no good food in forever."

"You married to a basketball player complaining over some damn collard greens and fried chicken. Leave me the fuck alone and stop cussing in my house lil girl."

Jade looked around confused. He'd never been in a house with an actual family it. Kambren was in the kitchen bothering his mom, Kaidence was in the den making tiktoks, Isys was sitting on the couch on her phone, Jay was cooking with her mom and Zion, and Elias was shooting dice with Nasir, Aaron, Xander, and Iman at the top of the steps.

"Who else supposed to be coming today ma?" Jay looked at Naomi.

"Your aunty Raina and Shay was supposed to come but Jaleah got a gymnastics meet and Raina sugar daddy took her to South Korea for the next few weeks."

"Need me one of him.." Zion rolled her eyes.

"Don't let that man hear you a- oh yeah." Jaylani looked at her aunt remembering both of them were partially deaf, ignoring the slight mug she gave her.

"India come here! Where that boy at?" Naomi looked around the corner seeing Elijah and Namiko toddler talking. She was looking for her niece and her boyfriend though.

"She upstairs sleep and he sitting on the couch uncomfortable." Jaylani grabbed a piece of chicken off the trey and drizzled hot sauce all over it.

"Why she sleep- oh yeah she's pregnant. Bring him in here."

"He's shy."

"Xander was a little funny acting too. So was your uncle." Zion shrugged feeling Aaron walk by and hug her.

"Hey ma."

"How your boyfriend get here on time and you late?"

"Leave me alone I'm here. Where the original Aaron at? He owe me $40."

"I don't owe you shit. I said nephew can I have $40 and you said yes. I never asked to borrow it. I said can I have it!" Aaron screamed from the top of the stairs

"You sell drugs and you bothering me-"

"Because I didn't have no change! You in my business?! Yeah don't do that!"

"Girl I said bring that boy in here why yo ugly ass still in my face?" Naomi looked at her daughter who was leaned over the counter eating her drum stick.

"Don't be mad if he just nod at everything you say and turn his ass back around." Jay rolled her eyes at her momma and walked into the living room. He had his air pods in and was playing with a sudoku cube.

"My momma wanna talk to you." She tapped the spot next to him remembering that he didn't like being touched.

"What I do?"

"Nothing we just southern and country. We got collard greens, corn bread, candied yams, fried chicken, fried pork chops, fried tilapia, baked macaroni and cheese, sweet tea, lemonade, water, and momma pulling out the snow cone machine when everybody done eating and we all go to the back to get in the pool." She explained while he stood up and followed her to the kitchen.

It took him a second to process everything because the accent was throwing him off.

"Everybody gotta go swimming?"

"No but you gotta come outside and everybody gotta wait thirty minutes before they can get in the pool after dinner." She picked her chicken leg up off of the counter when they got in the kitchen.

"Hey how you doing?"

"Yo." Zion waves and her sister looked at her sideways. "Girl not everybody a country bumpkin. Black ass Paula Deen. I'm from Harlem not the hicks. You rock that good enough for the both of us."

"I'm good."

"You hungry?" She looked at him and saw him turn around like he was looking for India.

"I'm okay."

"If you wanna go get her you can. She's upstairs sleeping in the fourth room on the left side of the hallway." Naomi shrugged.Β  He probably wasn't used to being around a girls family, or people in general. He was obviously introverted but she could tell he wasn't being rude.

Jade got up and walked up the big stair case, getting stopped by Nasir before he could walk by.

"We need to talk."

"About what?" He scratched the back of his neck in discomfort. Sometimes he forgot India had a big ass family and being around this many people was fucking with his inner peace.

"You stopped for her?"

"Stopped what?"

"Stopped working for me."

"Oh. Yeah. When we got serious I slowed down but stopped for real when my ex popped up with my son for the first time." He nodded.

"Good. Take care of her and your kids. Took me a while to tie everything up but that shit is behind me too. I missed a lot of basketball games and shit, you don't want that. Be there for your kids and her. She never really had a father so we all she got besides you, so be careful. I'm not down with the corny threats so I'm leaving it at that. You know what is." Nasir patted his back and bent down to pick his dice back up.

Jade looked over at Xander wondering if he was aware of what had happened with Jay a while back and saw him nod slowly.

"He knows."

"You two cool anyway?"

"I have a metal plate in my head, epileptic seizures, PTSD-"

"You making it seem like I tried to kill you. Relax." Nasir looked at him sideways.

"You shot me in my head. Did you not expect me to die?"

"Not really. You strong. Lil crackhead. You can go now." Nasir moved out of the way and Jade walked past him. "Wait."

"What else?"

"How many kids you got?"

"Two. Well one technically."

"Including abortion babies?" Elias raised an eyebrow.

"Three." He mumbled, walking away quickly before they could ask him something else and hearing the other men laugh.

Jade walked down the long hallway and just knew which room she was in because the amazing world of gumball was playing. When the door opened she was laid out in her back sleeping.

"Dee." Jade shook her leg and she sat up slowly. She didn't feel like talking so she pulled him forward and threw her leg over him, falling right back asleep.

"You gotta get up."

"What time is it?"

"Five. Your aunty cooked come on."

"The food done?"

"Yeah. Get up."

"Okay." India sat up and fixed the bed then jumped into her slippers, sliding past him and her uncles like she wasn't just knocked the fuck out.

"You give her a five hour energy or something?"

"No her pregnant ass smell that food. Ain't y'all vegetarians?" Xander looked at him confused.

"She fell off the wagon weeks ago. Me being vegetarian was eh because I never ate meat like that anyway. It's a more responsible option but I don't have time to keep going to the doctor and making sure my diet is okay."

"You tell her about the house yet?" He heard her in the kitchen and turned hack around.

"Y'all moving?" Tay sat up.

"Yeah down here. She always cry about missing her family so why not."

"Hell no. I already got six women and one nigga dropping they shit in the guest rooms when they mad at whoever they at home with. Keep her ass up there."

"Who? Zion be coming here?" Elias looked over at him.

"Yes. Zion, Lay, Jay, Shay, Raina, and Namiko bad ass facetime me on her iPad talking about running away anytime somebody tell her no. Don't forget to mention Aaron who leaves whenever Iman comes home ten minutes late, crying talking about how you cheating on him." Nasir was getting a headache just talking about it.

"This is ghetto." Jade frowned.

"You staying in Georgia or closer to Atlanta?"

"Atlanta. Like Buckhead. I found a house with a lot of grass and it's like three minutes out from a lake. I have a big dog and I want him to have more space to run and all that. India don't care about shit like that though she be inside all day."

"Naomi retired last year and don't do shit but cook. Tired of looking at her all day.."

"You better shut the fuck up!" She peeked her head around the corner.

"How big is this place?" Jade noticed the echo when she yelled at him.

"Seven rooms and nine bathrooms. A den, a living room. A kitchen, the basement, the attic, the pool, sauna, theatre room, and a gym. I only go in my room and the kitchen though. Only wanted it because it feels nice to say when people come over." Nasir sighed contently remembering the satisfaction he felt after paying off the house and not having a mortgage anymore.

"That's why yo daughter act the way she do." Xander sighed.

"She don't act no type of way shut up."

"Spoiled. Her first car was a luxury coupe and she crashed it within the first month. Y'all solution to her shitty driving was getting her car fixed then buying her a new one at graduation. She asked for a new apartment because she didn't like her neighbors and got a condo. Every birthday she got a new cartier brace-"

"I get it." Nasir looked at him.

"Then I got stuck with materialistic boujie ass-"

"She was materialistic and boujie when y'all met. You took her shopping for her 16th birthday, got her hair and nails done, then took her Houston's." Her dad looked at him crazy. It wasn't like he was the only reason she was spoiled.

"Mind your business." Xander walked down the stairs hearing Zion day the food was ready again.

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Serenity sat on her couch watching the middle aged white men unpack and organize all of her stuff while gossip girl played on the TV. She was also on live showing people how she plucked her wigs on her hair page.

"Everybody doing hair classes and shit. Nah I'm good that's too much. And remember I'm located in Atlanta now so my booking site down until I find a new studi- you used to be on gang shit now sis do hai- I never gang banged." She stopped what she was saying to read a comment then laughed.

Nellybanks you saying you wasn't hanging with mad woo niggas in high school?

"I was around them niggas because I was with one but I'm not on that shit and I never said I was." Serenity scrunched her face up. She fought a lot in high school because of her temper but that was it.

Nellybanks who?

"My business." She shook her head and heard the front door open.

"Yo. We was just at this place called Two Urban Licks or something shit, trash. She at the park with Eli and it's hot as fuck outside so hello." He pushed her legs down to make room for himself and fell back tiredly on the couch.

"Then be quiet because I'm on live." She went back to reading her comments and saw Elena join.

Serenity and Elena were friends but fell out when Elena posted herself with Jade on Instagram. They'd been friends since she met him and when they stopped talking and she was pregnant.. she was still in contact with Elena. Elena was her shoulder to cry on and she thought they were really friends.

lenabebe lol.

"Bitch I'll spit on you. Real shit." Serenity's face went straight.

"Stupid bitch I didn't even say shit to you, always starting with- oh you not talking to me. Never mind." Jade closed his eyes again after seeing she was arguing with someone on live. He was supposed to be in his spot minding his business.

lenabebe it's not that serious. That shit is so old Ren. We weren't even that close at the time.

"It's all the way that serious. You saying we wasn't that close like I wasn't ready to pass the fuck out in your room while you wiped my tears because he was with his friends talking bout 'ion know nobody named Serenity'. It's funny now that I'm older but that was the end of the world to me and you acted like you was my friend just to get dogged out worse than I did. Now you wanna be friends again? Bitch please."

"Why you talking bout that?" Jade scrunched his face up in discomfort. He used to be such an asshole. Hearing or talking about it made his stomach hurt.

"Because this stupid bitch keep bothering me. I don't even care about you like no more but that don't mean I'm fucking with a bitch that did me dirty over you. Weird ass girl."

"Who you even arguing with? She ugly?" He picked her phone up and read the comments even though she told him not to. He was bored as hell.

Being around Serenity wasn't weird at all for either of them. They were friends at one point so after growing up and moving past their childish teenage drama it wasn't that hard to remember why they interacted in the first place.

India wasn't bothered by it because it was obvious they'd grown out of each other completely. It was a been there, done that, and won't do it again because I honestly can't stand you kind of thing.

lenabebe well it looks like you sucking up to the nigga again like he don't hate you so does it matter?

"I don't know why everybody think I hate you."

"Because you always saying you hate me..?"

"Oh. Whatever. Get off live let's play call of duty." Jade ended it then tossed her phone back on the couch, getting up to turn her tv on. He heard his phone ring and smiled knowing it meant it was time to go again.

"You was here five minutes too long. I'm sure that's her get out my house. At least you can't randomly come here when you get bored now." Serenity shooed him away, dangling her single key and he shrugged.

Jade was about to answer but India hung up and just texted him saying to come back down.

Since he helped her get her last apartment he had the spare key in case she did or was doing some annoying shit, then they began getting along so he just used it whenever he felt like eating the food out of her fridge or when India was working and he was bored.

"I have one too. What y'all be saying? Whompppppp!" He dangled his too and began walking out.

"How did you get-"

"I bought it."

"My names the only one on the lease though."

"I got a key when I signed off on it then I put your name on it. Use your brain Serenity Daniels. I only come bother you when India tells me to so complain to her."

"You lying out yo ass-"

"No I'm not. She be like 'you need to find something to do I know you see my doing something Jade! Go bother Serenity damn!' And I ask if you actually home and she be like 'yes I just talked to her go away.' Then boom I be waking you up to play wii sports with me." He shrugged.

Serenity just looked at him speechlessly. He was literally a child.

"Bye. Get out."

"You so selfish. You living the baby momma dream. I don't lil baby you. And look at how you talk to me, bye." Jade walked out quickly and she just squinted her eyes. Something was definitely wrong with him.

His attitude was extremely different than usually. She didn't recognize it but to Zeik it seemed likeΒ  he'd unraveled within the past two years. He'd always been a funny acting introvert without a filter but at after Ochean he'd became really uptight and even more standoffish than before. He seemed like the Jade Zeik first met.

Still an asshole though.

When they were back on the road India even noticed his upbeatness and looked at him skeptically. He still had his stank face and attitude he just seemed to have way more energy than usual. They'd been in the car for thirty minutes and he hadn't told to shut up for singing not one time.

"You cheated on me?"

"Girl what?"

"You been so nice and positive lately. Well kinda. You cheated on me." She said matter a factly, making him just look at her and laugh.

"No I've just been feeling good."

"Mhm.. I'm hungry." India rolled her eyes, watching Jade drive by a bunch of restaurants she'd never been to before.

"You can eat in like an hour. We almost there so relax."

"Ouuu Houston's? I saw that on Instagram. They have good steaks and stuff. I want a Hawaiian steak with steak fries and sweet tea. I might go vegetarian again after I give birth but I'm over it at this point.." India sighed, rubbing her stomach while Eli sat in the back seat watching a movie on a tablet.

"Dad my charger?" He sat up realizing his AirPods had made that beep noise.

"I don't know. Look." He shrugged and India noticed them driving into a wooded area.

"You about to kill me or something?"

"No shut up."

"Where we going?"

"Home."

"Huh?" She sat up and looked at him confused until he pulled into a large drive way. This looked like her aunty Naomi's house a little.

"Nothing."

"We at my aunty house? We can't be because she don't live over here so nevermind. Where we at?"

India looked at it and smiled. The flowers out front were the same ones Naomi and Zion kept in the front during spring. Aside from when she came down here recently and a few years back she'd never really seen actual houses before. Brooklyn was so compact everyone just stayed in town houses, condos, or apartments.

"Here." Jade put the car and park and handed her one of the keys on his chain. The bow of the key was heart shaped and had little diamonds on it. Eli got out and walked up to the front step casually like he'd been there before.

"Is this..." she looked at the key then at him then at the house and let out a laugh of disbelief.

"Yes now go in. Dramatic ass." India ran up to him and jumped in his arms and he just laughed. Seeing her happy or excited felt good no matter what mood he'd been in. He was tired as hell and annoyed because people in Georgia couldn't drive for shit but she just flipped everything upside down for him. Eli made him happy too but they were both mutual grouches that normally grouched together.

"It's hot open ittt." Eli stood up and jiggled the door knob.

"Stop crying and go inside girl." He let her down and she wiped her eyes, running to the door and unlocking it.

"Jade how big is this place? The hell?"

"Six rooms, seven bathrooms, five thousand six hundred square feet.Β  Your closet, our room, Eli's room, the baby's room, and two guest rooms. And it was being foreclosed because the person that was here before couldnt afford it anymore so I paid like sixty percent-"

"I'm not as smart as you save the nerd talk. I don't know what that shit means." India walked behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, swaying from side to side happily while they moved through the house. She felt like her heart was beating out of her chest.

Eli looked back at them then walked up stairs to his room. Gross.

"Where's he going?"

"His room."

"His stuff is here already?"

"Everything is here already."

"How? We left yesterday morning-"

"As soon we

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