𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱

𝐙𝐀𝐇𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐘𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐒
"𝐓𝐀𝐈"
𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 | 𝟓𝐏𝐌

"Before was was was, was was is." Dino spoke with a confused look on his face.

"Wha—"

Cutting Zayoni, Von's freak of the week off, I snatched the blunt from Dino's grasp and sucked my teeth.

"Don't even ask." I grumbled while taking a pull from the now small ass blunt in front of me. "I hate getting high with these niggas."

"Imagine shooting at yo opps car and yo bitch jump out running."

"Imagine being cute enough to get a girl." Poody sighed dramatically. "All these hoes want me for is Johnny and he isn't big enough to share."

"Johnny?"

"His dick." I blew out smoke and handed the blunt to Von. "You'll get used to them little lady."

"Little lady my ass, I'm sure she's older than you."

"I couldn't give a motherfuck how old she is, I'll call her whatever the fuck I wa— when's your birthday?"

"November the fifth, when's yours?"

"August the nineteenth, you got a problem with me calling you little lady?"

"I mea—"

"Good." I scoffed and threw my feet across Dino's lap. "When you get off house arrest nigga?"

"I don't know." He threw his head back. "I may have been intoxicated when I was in court, they ain't test me so blame them not me. My mama hid the letter they sent after so it's not even like I can check, I'm itching to get this motherfucker off though."

"Speaking on Miss Shae, when she get off work?"

"Couple'a hours."

"How the fuck you even get caught nigga, ain't you used to run track? You're the faster fucker I know, you oughta be ashamed of yourself." I joked.

"My leg was hurting a lil bit." He shifted in his seat uncomfortably. "The further I ran, the more it throbbed. Bust that corner by the blue corner store, tried to jump a gate and that big heffa grabbed me."

"GOIN OUT SAD! Gotta be quicker than that." Von mimicked the advert.

"What happened to your leg?"

"That shit don't matter." Poody waved me off. "He got caught and dassit."

"Shut the fuck up Azhani, I wasn't talking to you. What happened to your leg Saint?"

"Not the governments." Zayoni mumbled and held her hand out for the blunt. "Hannit hea Dayvon."

"Come and get it." He winked and bit his bottom lip. "You know I like that rough shit."

"Hello." I clicked in Dino's face repeatedly. "Earth to Saint Williams, fuck happened to yo leg?"

"I hurt it at training, fuck Banneker." He shifted in his seat a little. "Pass the damn blunt Zayoni."

"Don't try to change the sub—"

"You hogged this shit for twenty minutes, I'm not passing a fuck thing." She cut me off.

"I've got short nigga syndrome, talk to me nice or don't talk to me at all cause I'll hurt yo fucking feelings ma'am." Dino bucked at Zayoni and began scratching his temple. "Any of y'all got Vaseline?"

Most definitely questioning him further once everybody leaves

"For what?"

"I saw a video on Instagram of somebody taking their ankle shit off with Vaseline and a plastic bag. Mama got bags under the sink but it's no Vaseline in this motherfucker."

"Where's Kam'rn?" Von nudged me, taking my attention of Dino's quest. "Ain't y'all meet before you got here?"

"Naw." I answered. "We were on the phone but I don't know where she is now, let me text her."

Kam'rn💙
Today 5:19 pm

Wya thottie?

With Nukey and Bari
You wit Poody nem?

Yeah..
Fuck wrong witchu?

Nothing, why?

You never text this bland, where's the emojis and shit 🤨

My bad lmao
Can we talk later? Hmu when you get home

Talk about what?

I can't tell you over the phone
Anybody gon be at yours later?

Salem's with her bf and Sahmir's with Maw
Idk where Quise at but he won't bother us if he's in his room

See you in an hour?

Let me pack my shit now before I forget

💘💘

"She's with Jabari and Nukey." I cracked my neck. "I'ma see her later on, how you gon get it off."

"Gather round everybody." Dino beamed and took a seat on the floor. "If I slip it off y'all owe me twenty."

"Twenty my nuts bitch, take it off first."

Getting situated, Dino slipped a plastic bag under his ankle monitor and massaged a little Vaseline on his ankle and the inside of the bag.

Rubbing the bag using his left hand, he added some more Vaseline and managed to kick the ankle monitor using his right foot.

A/N: Saw this shit on IG bout a week ago and sent it straight to my male cousins, every little helps 😹

"I just know not." I dropped my jaw in shock. "Teach me."

"Shut up." Dayvon mugged and mushed me away. "Naw foreal though, anybody record? I want that shit in slow motion too."

-

TWO HOURS LATER

"Hey favorite friend of mine." I put on a fake smile as I let Kam'rn into the house. "You ate today?"

"I haven't eaten today, I'm not hungry either."

Once she'd closed the door behind her, I took hold of Kam's hand and jogged upstairs. Kicking my bedroom door open, I sat on my nail seat and gestured for her to sit opposite me.

"Might as well fix them bitches now that you're finally here." Grabbing one of her hands, I examined the acrylics and shook my head in business mode. "You need a new set, they've grown out too much for an infill."

"Okay."

Taking out my nail tips and file, I put some Brent Faiyaz and got to work.

"So uh." Kam cleared her throat. "How've you been?"

What?

"We were chopping it up about rappers this morning, you know exactly how I've been. Nothing's changed much in five hours and I haven't forgotten about your news either, don't try that small talk shit with me."

Kam'rn began to shift in her seat, before dropping her head and twiddling her thumbs.

"What's wrong twin?"

"I don't know what to do Tai." She sniffed wildly as tears streamed down her face unexpectedly. "I ain't never expect this shit to happen and I don't know what to do."

"Wait wait wait." I got up, walked around the table and patted her awkwardly. "What happened?"

I can't deal with tears

"I do— Tyaire I don't know what to do." She cried.

"Come on." Leading Kam'rn to my bed, I sat down with my legs crossed and waited for her to calm down. "You know I'm not good with that crying shit so I'ma just wait for you to co-"

"I'm pregnant." She threw his head back. "What I'ma do Tai?"

"Wait what? Pregna— how?"

"Whatchu you mean how? From fucking."

"Who's the daddy?"

"I ca—"

"Fuck y'all in here making noise about?" Quise barged into my room. "Somebody stole one of yo wigs or su— what's wrong with Kam'rn?"

"Tell him to get out." She spoke lowly, hid her face and wiped her nose with the back of her hand.

"Close my fucking door Marquise."

"Someone did sum to you?" He furrowed his brows and sat on my nail table. "Talk."

"Don't worry about her nig—"

My phone began to ring which overpowered my voice. Identifying the caller as Nairo, I declined and turned my attention back to Marquise.

"Why you still in he—"

"What's wrong with you?" He pressed, totally ignoring my existence. "You on yo period or sum?"

"Fuck is it to you?" I felt my chest start to get hot. "Kam's business is none of yours nigga, let us talk pregnancy in peace you fucking pest."

"Tyai—"

"Pregnancy?" Marquise's eyes darted between the two of us. "You having a baby?"

"No shit." I retorted. "Ian mean to let that slip, my fault Ka— STOP FUCKING CALLING ME!"

Snatching my phone up, I brushed past Quise and ran downstairs leaving him alone with Kam'rn.

-

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐒
"𝐃𝐄𝐔𝐂𝐄"
𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 | 𝟖:𝟎𝟖𝐏𝐌

"Please tell me she's joking." I clenched my jaw and stared at Kam's face which was fresh with tears. "You pregnant foreal?"

This shit has to be fucking prank

"Marquise I—"

"It's mine?"

"Of course it's yours, who else have I been with?"

"How the fuck I'm posed to know? You could've been with the whole of Atlanta and I wouldn't have a fucking clue."

"Don't pull that card on me nigga." She wiped her tears as her breathing intensified. "We've been fucking with each other for nearly a year. You came to my house a month into us sneaking around and made me delete all the niggas in my phone while you watched. I've had sex with two people in my seventeen years of living, you and Trell. I haven't seen Trell since the end of last year and you and I have been having unprotected sex for as long as I can remember."

"I pull out though." I counteracted her argument. "That unprotected shit don't mean nun."

"But Marqu—"

"Fuck going on in here?"

"Close my fucking door nigga."

"This isn't your room, it's Tai's." Sahmir snaked his neck. "Ian got to close shit."

"I pay the bills in the motherfucker so everything you see belongs to me. Close the door before I have to get up and do it myself."

"Bitch." He muttered and slammed the door violently as he sulked off.

Turning my attention back to Kam'rn, I exhaled through my nostrils and sat higher on the table. After a few minutes of silence, minus Kam's sniffles, I cleared my throat and attempted to carry on the conversation.

"How you gon tell yo mama?"

"I don't know." She cried, snot rushing out of her nose. "I don't know what to do in general."

"Bari nem know?"

"No." She shook her head rapidly. "You can't tell them either."

"It's my baby fore— when did you find out?"

"This morning, my period ain't come in a lil minute and I knew something wasn't right. I stole a couple'a pregnancy tests from mama's bathroom and they all came out positi—"

"You got em on you?"

"Why the fuck would I bring six pregnancy tests with me to my best friend's house? They're buried in my closet."

"I hope you know you aren't keeping it."

"Come again?"

"You aren't keeping that baby Kam'rn, I'll pay for the damn abortion if I have to. I've already got a child that I barely se— well I'm looking after him now but that's not the point. You can't keep it and that's that."

"Fuck you mean that's that? Marquise I—"

"Conversation over." I dismissed her and travelled towards the door slowly.

"I'm NOT killing my fucking chi—"

"Keep yo damn voice down." I hissed at a panting Kam'rn. "You want everybody to find out I'm the daddy? All hell would break the fuck loose. I shouldn't even talk to you for too long, never mind fuck. If you don't kill'at baby then you have to deal with the fucking consequences, I'll deny that kid like Peter did Jesus."

And will

"They won't fi— find out Quisey." She choked on her tears. "I'll just tell them that I don't know who the dad is and call it a day."

"You and I both know it's not that easy. Bari treats you like his fucking daughter, he'll press you and press you until you tell the truth. Not knowing the father of your child is impossible. Fuck you gon do when they find out it's me? Jabari will lose his fucking mind and Tyaire won't talk to you for a lil minute."

"Tyaire's just as bad as the both of us." She mugged. "She'll understand, trust me."

"Fuck you mean?" I edged closer to her. "Just as bad as us in what sense, fuck Tai been doing?"

"Nothing, I don't know why I said it."

"Yes the fuck you do Kam'rn, elaborate."

"I— back the fuck up before I lose my shit. Don't try to brush over the fact that you just said you'd pay for an abortion. We aren't kids, we both knew that us sneaking around would have consequences. We'd either get caught or get bored of each other, we could never go public and I'm cool with that."

"You are a kid." I sucked my teeth. "That's the fucking problem, you haven't even left high school yet Kam."

"That didn't appear to be a problem when we first started fucking."

"Well it is now and you aren't keeping that baby."

"But that isn't fair Marquise." The waterworks commenced again. "It takes two people to make a baby. I can't remember us ever using a condom, why're you acting like this is so unexpected?"

"Cause it is." I scrunched my face up in annoyance. "You think I wanted a kid with you? I was under the impression that you were on birth control."

"Don't say it like that." Glancing down at her tear stained shirt, she turned back to me angrily. "Was Kassius planned?"

"No but Kassi—"

"Do you love him?"

"Fuck type of question is that? Of course I do."

"Exactly." She stressed. "I'm sure you weren't ready to become a father at sixteen but look at you now. I see the way your eyes sparkle when you're around him, why can't you see that for our baby Quise?"

"You can't compare Kass to the unborn lil thing in your stomach Kam Kam. Cassidy and I were together at one point, me and you shouldn't even be alone in a room. Two totally different relationships, I see where you're coming from but I still don't give a fuck. You can't have that baby Kam'rn."

"But why Marquise." She teared up again, throwing her arms up in frustration. "I didn't ask for this shit and I sure ain't happy about it, but we just have to accept it. You telling me to get an abortion before even considering my feelings towards the situation doesn't sit right with me, you think I want to be pregnant? My mama and brother won't talk to me for weeks and Nukey'a start acting funny. Once they find out that you're the father the silent treatment will start again and I probably won't be allowed to kick it with Tyaire again. Why would I purposely sabotage all of the relationships that mean the most to me?"

"Nobody's saying you trapped me Kam'r— isn't that more of a reason to kill that shit? You'd rather go through allat than get rid of the child?"

"I can't go through life knowing that I could've had a child by my side but don't because the nigga I was fucking, made me kill it for his own selfish reasons."

"Selfish reasons? Are you fucking cra— I swear on my son if you weren't with-child I'd have—" Stopping myself before I said or did something I'd regret later on, I sat down next to Kam'rn and swallowed hard. "Be honest bruh, you aren't ready to be a mama."

"I'm sure you weren't ready to be a father at sixteen either but voilà."

"Stop bringing shit back to me, it's getting old now. I certainly wasn't but my then girlfriend and I came to an agreement."

"You reminding me that Cassidy was once in a relationship with you is doing nothing but making me mad. Where's your precious ex now? Fucking and sucking whilst she should be looking after her son and you're sat here trying to pressure a seventeen year old into killing her unborn child, so much for your relationship bit—"

"Watch yo fucking mouth." I shoved her roughly. "I'm not Tyaire nigga, don't talk to me like that. Fuck you planning on doing then? Keep the baby and do what with it? Yo mama won't help you and neither will your siblings."

A seventeen year old trying to balance motherhood and school? Silly sausage

"I'll do my best to provide for the kid cause that's what the fuck a normal human being should do. You're acting way more immature than I am and that speaks volumes Marquise, I won't have an abortion because you're scared to get caught. Should've thought about that when you began fucking me raw."

"So you're keeping it?"

"An abortion is the last thing on my mind right now. Fix yo damn face too cause that won't make me think any different, if I was to have an abortion the reasonings behind it would be completely different to yours."

I can't listen to this shit anymore

"So it's fuck me?"

"Wha—"

"I contributed to the making of that child but I get no say? Tell me how the fuck that shit makes sense Kam'rn."

"I—"

"Exactly, it doesn't." I cut her off and stood up, scoffing slightly. "You don't give a fuck about anything I have to say and I think that's just adorable. Make this be the last time you ever speak to me, wether it's about babies or not."

"Marqu—"

"You ain't just hear what the fuck I just said? Unless it's about an abortion I don't want to hear anything that comes out of your mouth."

"You can't do tha—"

"Shut the fuck up." I sucked my teeth as I walked out, stomping my feet for dramatic effect. "You know where to find me if you want abortion money, let Bari come to me on some violent shit and I promise I won't hesitate to get shit on and popping."

Ain't shot nobody in a long time

"But Qui—"

"Fuck off."

-

𝐙𝐀𝐇𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐘𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐒
"𝐓𝐀𝐈"
𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 | 𝟖:𝟑𝟐𝐏𝐌

"Mmh." I bit my bottom lip as I let my feet dangle over the pool water. "What time you coming tomorrow?"

"Bout six-ish, you got school ainnit?"

"I can stay home if you want to see me earlier."

I like this nigga a lot and that makes me feel queasy, miss school for a NIGGA? I'm trippin

"Naw that's all good beautiful. I'll wait for you, get that education Miss Obama."

"Boy st—"

"Let me talk to you real qui— who you on the phone with?" Quise walked through the sliding doors. "That's a nigga on the phone?"

"No it is— let me call you back Nai— I'll text you okay?"

"Give me the phone Tyaire."

"Alright baby."

"Why would you say tha—"

"Baby?! Give me the fucking phone, I'm not playing." He jogged over to where I was sat, causing me to jump up and end the call. "Now."

"Fuck off Qui— MARQUISE!" Watching him grab my phone and throw it the ground angrily, I raised my fists and began throwing punches wherever I saw exposed skin. "You dumb, pussy bitch. Why the fuck would you do some shit like that? You don't pay my damn bill and you didn't pay for my phone either."

"I couldn't give a rats ass." He held onto my shirt and shook me roughly. "Who is he Tai?"

"Who's who?"

"Who's the nigga? Huh? You fucking in my house Tyaire? That's how much respect you got for me and my shit?!"

"What the fuck are you talking abo—"

"KAM'RN TOLD ME! WHO THE FUCK IS HE?!"

"Kam'rn told you what??" My eyes darted across his face for any indication of a lie. "She's capping."

"WHY