Mature content

August 24th

Raina's leg shook uncontrollably as she resisted the urge to smack the fuck shit out of Elena who continued pulling the neck of her shirt down at the table.

"Do it again girl I swear to god." She said through gritted teeth, jacking her shirt back up.

"Stop touching me!" She snapped, making Naomi and everyone else look up from their plate including Namiko.

"Ooo." Namiko said with her mouth wide, making the same noise her dad made when she did stuff she wasn't supposed to do.

"I will fuck you up Elena I don't know what yo daddy lettin you do in dirty ass Baltimore.. but you're not grown. Pull that damn shirt up before I send you flying across this room."

"I'm definitely grown! When you was 17 you-"

"You wanna make the same mistakes as me?"

"You're a hypocrite for condemning me for doing the same shit you did!"

"First all, cuss at me again your head going into that wall, second of all, I didn't have anyone to show me otherwise, my brother was a whore and my parents didn't care. I care and I've went out of my way to show you I care but you brush me off. You wanna fuck any and everybody that looks your way do it, but don't make it seem like I ain't teach you any better! It's your life and you're living it your way despite me trying to steer you in the right path." Raina explained in frustration, tears streaming down her face as she tried getting through to the girl.

She tried so hard, she tried and tried and tried but Elena just didn't care. Then Raina was left in an uncomfortable situation because people judged her and believed she was the reason for Elena's ways when all she did was try to make the girl a better person.

It's not like Raina went and bought her skimpy clothes, she left her money to shop on her own because when she bought Elena clothes the girl wouldn't wear them. When she tried going shopping with Elena the girl would disappear.

"Whatever. You're a hypocrite, you did the same th-"

Naomi wanted to interject but she hated when people got in the middle of her talking to her kids so she was going to be quiet.

There was an obvious lack of consideration on Elena's part and Raina desperately wanted to be understanding despite that. Naomi couldn't form an opinion on that because her kids weren't like that at all.

People thought Nasir and Naomi were bad parents because their kids cursed and had smart ass mouths but all of those people had kids who struggled in school, had speech delays, couldn't talk in front of others with confidence, and more. Not only that but they respected adults that respected their parents and them, they understood that respect was a mutual thing and they absolutely listened to adults in authority.

So anyone who called her a bad parent could kiss her ass.

"I wasn't doing all of this."

"You were, daddy told me, you're mad at me for the way I am and you try to call me out in front of everybody but I don't care, ain't nobody in this rooms parenting any better than yours." She said spitefully, folding her arms and leaning back.

"Ooo."

"You talking about my momma?" Jaylani asked with a confused expression, wondering who she was referring to.

"Yes, what about it? All y'all bad as hell, cursing and fighting and y'all don't respect adults."

"Bitch you don't either.. so what's your point? We might curse but we not whores with Wendy Williams shape and Katt Williams bobs. I'm actually graduating when I'm supposed to, bitch you're not. Don't be mad at us because you hate yourself and you can't close your damn legs." Jaylani said calmly, digging into her baked potato while Xander tried hiding his laugh.

"I-"

"You tried fucking my boyfriend and Laylani's boyfriend and she still nice to you till this day. If I was who I used to be bitch you'd be half way across this table getting your head beat the fuck in but I don't do that anymore. Sorry aunty Raina but this bitch is retarded."

"Girl tried? They both came o-"

"Don't start that lying shit. You young as hell and I'm grown, been that way." Taylin said flatly, scrolling through his phone as Laylani's head laid on his shoulder. She didn't care, it was above her at this point.

"I'm leaving." Raina sighed tired and blew kisses at everybody, turning around in confusion with Elena got up too.

"What?"

"Find your grown ass some transportation, call that grown married nigga you brag on for a ride, since I don't do shit for you and never have." Raina retorted, making everybody choke and laugh quietly.

"Ooo."

"You really ain't shit." Elena shook her head and Raina stifled a laugh before drawing her hand back and slapping the taste out of her mouth.

"I've tried to be there for you emotionally and you push me away, I put clothes on your back and food in your mouth despite you moving to another city to whore with grown men, since you grown... you got this." Raina put both hands up and walked out, woahing on her way out of the door.

When Elena continued sitting at the table Jaylani chewed the last piece of ice in her cup then hurled it at her.

"Get out my house bitch." She said rudely, grabbing Xanders cup and eating the ice out of his.

"Ian welcome you to my shit." Xander mugged her and got up to buy more ice as Elena headed for the front door.

He walked to the kitchen as the chattering in the dining room grew and heard they infamous tap of long ugly basic nail salon acrylics tapping on the counter.

"I just wanted to tell you.. before I go and all.. you'll never be good enough for her, she'll never want you the way you want her and she doesn't love you the way you want her to. Why would she want you and your parents don't? Oh right, you're a charity case. So before you try tossing me to the side again remember that we're the same." Elena walked in between his legs and ran her hand up his shirt, getting a good feel on him before he could push her away.

Xander surprised her when his hand went to her neck and pulled her close, eliminating the space between them as her body pressed against his.

It felt good until his grip tightened around her neck painfully, squeezing harder and harder as she scratched at his hand.

"Touch me again I'll be the last person you touch bitch."

Elena continued clawing at his hand when she felt herself go lightheaded and he let go, pushing her back against the island.

"Still wanna fuck?" He asked coldly, looking her in the eye as tears streamed down her face.

"S-sorry." Elena stood up and adjusted her skirt from when it rose earlier before trying to scramble away.

"Dumb whore."

-

Xander tried staying focused on the game as he fell in and out of sleep while Tez and Chubbs played with a bunch of other niggas on the court.

"You good?" Chubbs asked in confusion, seeing his friends bloodshot eyes.

"Yeah, yeah of course." He mumbled, unsure of that answer.

He wasn't too high to function but he was too high to give a damn about what was going on. It'd been a minute since he took a Percocet and he felt so relieved, like coming home to a clean room and sleeping after a long day of school.

Nothing felt better than being high. Well almost nothing.

"Xander?" Jaylani walked up to him and grabbed his face in confusion, seeing him for the first time in days since he'd randomly disappeared from dinner.

"Move." He sucked his teeth and snatched away to put his head down again. It was way too bright outside.

"What the fuck are you doing?" She grabbed his face again and forced his head up before dropping it and going into his pockets.

"Move! I said stop!" He pushed her hands away but she brought them right back, digging in his pockets knowing he must've had something on him with how high he was.

She felt around and snatched the 3 pills in saran wrap out of his pants pocket before looking at him in shock.

"You serious? For what?" Her eyes watered and he noticed so he looked away shrugging.

"Ion know." He said honestly, scratching at his palms when he felt his anxiety levels go through the roof but he was too out of it to have an attack.

He felt gross, caught, disgusting, all of the above. It didn't feel wrong until he saw the disappointment on her face.

"Lets go." Jay grabbed him up and away as Tez and Chubbs shook their head.

They tried their best with him but when Xander wanted to do something he was going to do it. If they'd tried going in his pockets the way Jay did he would've put bullets in them and they knew that so they didn't, she was the only one with that kind of authority over him.

"I'm like her Jay, I'm like her, she told me I was and she's right, I don't listen and because I don't listen no one cares about me, you don't love me Jay you feel bad for me." Xander felt his eyes water for the first time in years as he rambled endlessly to her in the car.

It caught her off guard, she'd never seen him cry before. Through his dad being hospitalized and on his death bed, through his mom willingly giving up her parental rights, through almost dying multiple times.. he'd never shedded a single tear.

Yet here he was falling apart.

"No-"

His hands dug into his palms harder and she opened them forcefully so he wouldn't scratch his skin open in the process, giving him a straw to chew on as he went through the climax of his attack, throwing his head back against the seat as he fought off an overdose as well.

"Keep pushing, I love you Xander, I love you." She whispered in his ear as he let out low pained groans in attempts to ignore the need to fall into the deep sleep calling his name. He knew that if he did he probably wouldn't wake up.

Jaylani wanted to freak out but she didn't while her boyfriend basically overdosed in front of her for the second time since they'd met.

The spasms continued for a few more moments until he shut his eyes and sucked in a big breath, throwing his head back onto the seat.

Then he cried.

He cried a lot.

He leaned over the seat and cried into her neck, letting out everything he'd held in from the past 7 years of his life. He'd never felt so vulnerable,

"It's okay. I'm not leaving you." She kissed the top of his head as his tears continuing staining her shoulder.

"Promise you won't leave me?" After a few minutes he sniffled and wrapped his arms around her, rubbing the side of her neck affectionately while his face remained in the other.

"As long as you let me."

Afterwords Jaylani drove home as he flushed himself out with the water she kept in her console, overwhelmed by the slight buzzing that was bothering him in both ears.

When they got to his house they showered silently and laid next to one another silently in attempts to process what had happened earlier.

"Who were you talking about earlier?" She asked quietly, tapping her long acrylics against his chest gently.

"Elena. She said some stuff I wanna forget, can we not talk about it?" He turned to look at her and she nodded in understanding.

"I love you, Laylani loves you, Naomi loves you, Aaron loves you, and Zion definitely loves you.."

His mind lingered on the names, not surprised that the four men he didn't expect her to say weren't said.

"And it might shock you but Tay loves you, my dad loves you, Elias loved you, and the other Aaron does too. They just have bad ways of showing it.."

"Aaron doesn't-"

"He took Deion's trust fund, you're gonna get that plus the one he already intended for you to have. He has money set to the side incase you wanna go to college, the extra Christmas presents that came for the last two years were from him, your name is in his will, and you're on his health insurance."

"That doesn't mean anything." Xander shook his head in denial, not believing any of that anyways. Besides the insurance thing.

"He wants more for you.. which is why he wants you to move back in with him and Xavier next week. No Deion and no Cali, he moved out. He loves you like a son and always has, he's just struggled with keeping Calina happy but I'm sure he's done with that if he moved out."

Jaylani kissed his cheek and a small smile came to his face at her words. Just a small one.

He kissed her chastely and tried pulling away but she leaned into it, sucking on his bottom lip and climbing over his body.

"Relax. Aaron and I-"

"So?" She rolled her eyes at his words and climbed out of her underwear when the wet spot in them grew larger as he continued talking. It was that easy.

"I'm tired, y-"

"Shut up damn. Nobody said you had to move, sit there and shut up." Jaylani mumbled in annoyance, pulling his dick out of his briefs.

"Yeah you're wild, r-"

The girl ignored him and took him into her mouth, wasting no time as she took one hand stroking what couldn't fit into her mouth.

She bobbed her head up and down as he shivered, taking his bottom lip in between his teeth to stay quiet. Jaylani pulled Xander out of her mouth and licked his whole shaft with ease while staring up at him.

"Fuck," he groaned out quietly, tossing his head back against the bedframe. Xander could hear her gag as she kept going, making him let out a deep breath of his own. The whole time he touched the back of her throat, she made sure to let her tongue swirl around his member.

"Damn," he mumbled, watching her remove her mouth from around him as she caught her breath, batting her eyes at him. Jay licked over her lips while her hands continuously stroked over his member until she spit on his member and went right back down.

"Move, shit." Xander groaned feeling himself release in her mouth, laughing and moaning at the same time. After she had swallowed she let his member fall out of her mouth and slapped it against her tongue, making him shiver some more.

Jaylani smiled up at him and he shook his head, pulling her shirt from over hers.

"Get up there." He nodded towards the headboard and she did exactly that, putting a deep arch in her back.

Xander rubbed the tip of his member against her as she let out a soft whimper and tried to move away from him already.

"Act like you know who you fuckin," Xander sucked his teeth and pulled her back to him by her waist knowing she was about to run. He pushed all of himself into her and she let out a choked moan, losing her arch immediately.

He laughed and she turned around to glare at him, readjusting with tears in her eyes. When he began drilling against her spot she cried out loudly, grabbing the sheets beneath her until his hands moved from her waist and held her wrists behind her back.

"F-fuck! Oh my god." She whined out and began scooting away at the overwhelming amount of pressure in her stomach.

"He can't save you." Xander smacked her ass roughly and she moaned louder, pushing her hand against his abs.

"Don't do that runnin' shit, throw that shit back."

-

"Why he not answering the phone?" Laylani asked with a stank attitude, hearing Xanders phone go to voicemail.

"He doin that lil wrist thing I taught him." He said quietly, finishing off the family sized bag of sour patch kids he'd been hiding.

"What that mean?"

"Huh?"

"Don't be influencing my baby to do that nasty heathen shit." She rolled her eyes and stuck her hand in the bag, feeling around for a blue one.

"He not your baby no more, he fucking raw and he got his license, that nigga grown now." Tay shook his head and laughed at the disgusted look on his face.

"You think that's so cute, you do realize the person he's fucking on is Jay right? The lil wrist thing you taught him.. he using that on your roll dog."

He froze up when what she said settled in for a moment it was like he couldn't breath. No way, she couldn't be serious.

"Forreal?"

"Duh bitch she's the only girl he's ever even liked, why would it be anyone else?"

"I don't know bruh, I can't do this. We gotta have a talk-"

"Oh now you wanna have a talk? You are so slow, I swear. Like you said, he fucking raw, knocking them ankles loose. Ain't that right?"

Namiko walked in randomly, not saying anything as she climbed up and into Tay's lap before putting her thumb on her mouth and falling asleep.

"Let me up for a second. I gotta go the the bathroom." He said in her ear, getting a glare in response.

The girl shook her head and laid it back down on his lap deciding he was gonna have to wait.

"She got a stank ass attitude." Tay mushed her head and she let out a cry before biting his wrist.

"She got it from you, always looking at people funny, rolling your eyes to the side, glaring, that's you." She ignored their little fight to the side of her and continued watching the wig video on the TV.

"I don't roll my eyes, that shit is gay."

"Then you gay because you roll your eyes all the way to the back of your head then make a stank face."

"You be lying bruh whatever."

"Get your stuff together because this is the last time we're meeting before I get my fat ass in that dress and walk." She choked on her chip and hit her chest, feeling heart burn attack her at the same time.

"Why we cant just go together?"

"We not supposed to see eachother the morning of out wedding day, it's bad luck or some shit like that. Iman and Andrew wanna go out with you for your bachelor party so y'all can do dumb shit that won't fly after tonight."

Laylani grunted as she sat up on the edge of the bed and walked to the bathroom.

"I don't even like my friends ion wanna go." He frowned at the idea and she rolled her eyes.

"You are so difficult. I'm giving you a chance to see some stripper ass and dabble in locker room banter and you wanna stay with me?" She asked as she washed her hands, already knowing his answer.

"Yes. Stripper ass is nasty, clubs smell like sweat and Hennessy, I'm back on my diet because the season is starting up soon, I need my sleep be-"

"You are such an old man!" Laylani plopped back on the bed and laughed hysterically, tearing up when she saw the look on his face.

"Seriously, I'm used to lil booty, all that ass be lookin sick now."

Tay looked down when Namiko stood up in his lap and frowned at him, noticing something different about him.

"Dada.." She reaches up in shock, noticing all of his hair missing. Without warning tears shot straight from her eyes and she fell back in a crying fit, randomly stopping to look and see if this was really happening.

"Why is she crying?" Laylani asked in confusion, seeing him laugh while their daughter sobbed.

"She think my hair is gone. Don't cry SuSu it's right here." Taylin picked her up and kissed all over her face, pulling his ponytail from behind him as she turned her head away, not wanting to look.

"Hm?" She turned back to him with one eye open then opened the other when she saw his hair.

"What a damn brat." He shook his head and she rolled her eyes again, scooting back onto his lap with a grin.

"Mm."

"Move I