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The sound of Xiari's apartment door bell ranged repeatedly as she washed up ZureΓ©. She scrunched up her face up, confusedly since she knew she hadn't invited anyone over and it was 8pm at night.

Most of her friends or associates were doing homework or getting ready for classes right now, the only thing she could think of was that they needed to borrow something from her.

"Hmm hold the rag phats, I be right back." Mook told her handing her the small baby rag so she could play with her few toys in the tub.

After that she left out the bathroom, making sure to leave the door wide open before going down the short hall. She entered her comfortable living room, walking pass her couch and getting to the front door to look through her peephole.

After seeing who it was she looked away squinting her eyes confusedly but nonetheless opened up the door.

"What are you doing here?" She said now facing him, her hand on her hip.

"Ain't you said if I wanna see her than visit ha? That's what I'm doing." Yhukani looked down at her, eyes low and red indicating he had just smoked not too long ago.

She hummed and opened her door wider, welcoming him in. Closing the door behind her, she locked it and turned around to face him growing nervous by his quiet presence.

His long locs were pushed into a ponytail allowing her to see the full view of his face, all black on with his black nike bookbag held in his left hand.

His smell was nice. It was a mixture of his favorite cologne and the weed still lingering on him and Xiari loved it.

He looked nice but she'd fail to admit that.

It was bad enough he'd caught her staring and and made eye contact with her, holding until she looked away.

"You can sit on the couch, i be right back." She cleared her throat before walking away. Yhukani watch as her figure faded off down the hall, hearing the small splashes of water indicating that zureΓ© must've been in the bathroom.

He then looked over at the couch against the wall in the living room and walked over to it before sitting his bag down on the side. Afterwards he pulled his hoodie off leaving him in a simple black Nike tee.

He looked around her apartment, seeing as it was his first time being there and admired the well kept space. It was a nice size, decorated with grey and white colors with a hint of green throughout.

Her kitchen was large and white with marble countering which lit up on the open space flow in into the living room perfectly.

She had pictures hung out through her apartment as well. Most of them were family pictures but their were a few with just Azureè, just Mook and just the both of them.

One of the pictures that caught his eyes the most was the picture of Xiari pregnant. Her hair was out full and fluffy all over the place.

She was eating apple slices and a small container of caramel was placed beside her however her face looked hella annoyed.

She looked to be 5, maybe six or seven months pregnant actually since her stomach was poking and showing through her shirt, a hand was placed on her belly which he figured was probably the reason she was so irritated, and in the background you could see pink balloons filled up in the kitchen.

He couldn't stop looking at her.

It was a reality check since he'd missed everything, not that's he'd done it purposely and known in the first place.

If she'd informed him from the jump he knew he would've stepped up automatically. He his ownself didn't have a father figure growing up and he always told himself if he ever had kids he didn't want them growing up like him.

He just wished he would've known about zureΓ© sooner to prevent even being absent like that even if it was only for two years.

Then there's Xiari.

Seeing her pregnant with his child right now, all alone stung a bit. If he'd just did right the first time, he would've been standing right next to her.

"Kani?" Xiari called out to him, Azuree on her hip dressed in her pajamas for bed. Yhukani looked up from the picture on the tv stand, looking over at the two and Azuree instantly smiled at him.

"Daddy." She cheesed holding her hands out for him, attempting to get out of her mothers hold.

"Wassup phats." Yhukani walked over to them and grabbed her out Xiari's hands, kissing her chubby cheek and pulling her into a welcoming hug.

"You smell good." He mumbled.

"I-I wash." Azuree told him. "With soap."

"Das wassup, you my big girl."

"Mhmm." She giggled as Yhukani tickled her stomach. Xiari smiled at the interaction and flopped down on the couch, playing with the knotless braids in her head.

"You stay wimmie?" ZureΓ© asked pulling on one of her dads dreads a bit. She liked playing with his hair. It was one of her favorite things to do.

"Yeah I stay witchu princess." He hummed kissing her cheek and walking over to the couch.

Xiari scrunched up her face. "Just invite yaself in huh?"

"Nah you invited me in. I just knocked onna door." He shook his head taking a seat next to her with Azureè on his lap.

"I ain't say you could stay though smart ass." Xiari chuckled playfully rolling her eyes.

"Stop cussing front of my daughter."

"Boy." Xiari laughed and shook her head. "I'm sorry phats."

She leaned in and kissed her cheek seeing her laying peacefully in Yhukani arms. She knew she would be falling asleep soon. It was already late and the fact she'd just took a warm bath, laying in her dad's arms now Xiari knew she would go to sleep faster.

"Come on let's watch a movie." Xiari suggested getting up to grab the remote from her tv stand. "Whatchu wanna watch phats?"

Azureè silently though about it, glancing towards the tv. "Trollz." She answered.

"I knew you was finna say that, you always wanna watch that girl." Xiari huffed and went to Netflix.

She was just gonna turn on the first family movie that look interesting since she was honestly tired of watching trollz over and over again.

"Me like trollz mom." ZureΓ© spoke tiredly, lifting her head up a bit when she noticed her mom not going on the Hulu app.

"I know, I'm tired watching that though mama let's find something else okay?" Xiari spoke. Azureè hesitated but nodded laying her head back down.

Xiari ended up settling on sing 2 since they had watched the first one a while back and ZureΓ© liked it. She didn't really feel like looking for anything else either knowing that in the next 10-20 minutes zureΓ© would probably be asleep.

As the movie played, Xiari looked over at Yhukani who's eyes were glued to the tv. His hands were rubbing up and down ZureΓ©'s back as she snuggled closer to him, hands holding a grip on his shirt.

"Why you staring?" He asked breaking away from the tv and instead turning to face her.

Xiari shrugged and looked away. "Ion know."

"Weirdo." Yhukani chuckled and she playfully rolled her eyes. She turned back to look at her tv and continue watching the movie.

30 minutes in she looked down at Yhukani's lap to see zureΓ© sleeping peacefully. She thanked god silently, glad this wouldn't be a whole night thing with her daughter.

Often times ZureΓ© would try and fight her sleep.

"You want me to go lay her down?" Xiari offered.

"I got it, which room is hers." Yhukani spoke beginning to stand up, his frame towering over Mook's.

"Right down the hall. She got her name on her door." Xiari informed and he nodded. He left out the living room and Xiari was left to continue watching the movie.

Shortly Yhukani came back and sat down on the couch tiredly. Xiari was ready to go sleep but not just quite yet. She had some lingering thoughts on her mind, mainly about Kani and she wanted to get them off her chest.

She was nervous about asking him anythingβ€”fearing that he'd close her offβ€”but she guessed it was worth a try.

"Kani can I ask you some?" She asked and he looked over at her. He looked at her weirdly before slowly nodding his head.

"Why you and Kyler wasn't cool? You never told me." She asked nervously playing with her fingers.

She could see his posture stiffen as he looked at her almost coldly. He always gotten so defensive whenever she brought the topic up so she wanted to know what was so serious that caused the two's fall out.

From her understanding, it was mainly Yhukani who had the hate towards the boy.

"Why you asking me that mook?" He blankly stared at her.

"Cause I wanna know." She frowned. "It's the least you could tell me."

He sighed at her words and looked off to the wall. The subject was a touchy subject for him. He hated even reliving that day especially knowing he never fully gotten over it.

"He use to date my lil sister but.." he paused his sentence. "He got her killed."

Xiari's eyes widened, as her face fell suprised. Sister? She hadn't even known he had another sister other than Zakiyah.

She definitely wasn't even expecting him to say something like that in the first place. She thought the fued was over an ex girlfriend or somethingβ€”something petty.

Now she could see it was far much more than that.

"You had another sister?" She asked and he nodded his head not being able to keep eye contact with her.

"What was her name?" She asked.

"Zatia." He answered. She thought about it, hearing the name ring a bell. It sounded familiar and after a while she remembered that story being on the news.

It was a double shooting that happened in one of the gas stations in Houston. Zatia was killed in the crossfire.

"Gas station shooting?" Xiari asked.

"You remember that?" Yhukani dryly chuckled. It was all over the news how could she not remember.

Everyone was so hurt since an innocent young girl was caught in the mist of gang violence that had nothing to do with her. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Yeah it was all over the news." Xiari shrugged. "I'm sorry about that. I didn't know he had something to do with that, no wonder you ain't fuck with him."

"You ain't gotta apologize, that's on his own behalf Mook." He spoke now turning too look over, staring into her eyes.

"I probably wouldn't have even blamed him if it was actually accidental but he ain't listen cause I already warned him about them niggas being there. Him thinking he billy bad ass still went anyways then decided to bring my lil sister with him."

"Now ha life gone... all cause he couldn't follow simple directions." He shook his head relieving the day as he spoke. Xiari just let him speak and listened. This was the most he'd even opened up to her.

"Then he tried to make it seem like he ain't know when we was clearly texting an hour before that. I woulda killed him my damn self if it wasn't for Yas telling me ta leave it alone."

"Yas as in your older brother?" Xiari asked.

"Yeah. He more calm then me. He ain't want me doing shit to jeopardize my record even more ." Kani informed."I still ended up going to jail so it wasn't no point."

Xiari playfully rolled her eyes at that and shook her head. "Why you went to jail anyways?"

"Illegal gun charges." He answered. Xiari hummed nodding, going quiet.

"It's not hard to register a gun you know?" She chuckled making him smack his teeth.

"Is so when you got a criminal record smart ass."

"Riiiight." She dragged making the two laugh. She hadn't had talks like this in a while.

Especially ones where he was actually doing the talking. She sort've missed it, even if it only lasted for a little while.

"So you." Kani said gaining Xiari's attention. She looked up from her lap confusedly.

"You knew you was pregnant when you left that day?" Yhukani asked her, staring. It's always been a quiestion that lingered in the back of his mind. The signs of pregnancy were there he was just wondering if the both of them completely ignored it.

"No." Mook spoke honestly. "I found i was pregnant when my mom brought me a pregnancy test. My slow self didn't even think I could be pregnant even with the signs in my face."

She laughed and thought back to the day she found out she was having a baby. She cried upstairs in her room that whole day.

"What ya mom say when she found out?" He asked curiously.

"She was pissed at me. She ain't even know I was fucking yetβ€”none of them did." Xiari shrugged. "She yelled at me real bad and then when she calmed down she hugged me and left me by myself to come to terms with it."

"They ain't notice me putting innat work?" Yhukani raised his eyebrow.

"Boy please." Xiari laughed and looked away. Flashbacks of the way he pleased her body flooded in her mind before she quickly shook them off.

"They always saw me as innocent so no, they didnt." She chuckled.

"My brothers and My dad were the worst though. My dad was frustrated and in denial all at one time. At one point he was about to pull up on you but that's when I stopped him and told him that I um...didn't want you to know."

She nervously played with her fingers saying the last part. She could now see how ridiculous that sounded saying it out loud. It was a real bad move she made and she was realizing that.

"I wish he would've pulled up. Then I wouldn't have missed shit." Kani spoke sighing. "I still think about that shit."

"Think about what?" Xiari asked him curiously.

"You." He responded. "How you was during your pregnancy and shit like that."

Xiari's face fell into a 0 shape, thinking about it.

"I was crying my whole pregnancy. I know my family was annoyed." She chuckled.

"The whole time?" Yhukani asked in amusement and she nodded.

"Yep, I'm not exaggerating either." She emphasized. "I remember this one time I sent my older brother out to get me some vanilla ice cream from cold stone at like 9:00 at night. Surprisingly his mean ass got it for me but when he gave it to me it had alittle bit of chocolate icecream in it on the side I guess from the worker not washing the spoon before using a new flavor and I literally had a whole break down."

"I didn't even want it no more." She laughed. "And he said he wasn't going to go get me a new one so I cried even more."

"Damn it was that bad?" Yhukani laughed. He didn't know how emotional pregnant women were. Guess he'd have to find that out sometime in life his ownself.

"Mhmm. It was the worst" She sighed. "I hated being pregnant."

"You looked cute pregnant though." Yhukani complemented referring to the picture he'd seen earlier. Mook scrunched up her face confusedly.

"You ain't even see me pregnant." She stated.

"I saw that picture you got on yo tv stand. Dats you right?" He asked and she looked over at her Tv nodding.

"I did not look cute Kani. I looked stressed and a mess." She laughed. "That was the day I found out I was having a girl."

"You still looked good." He shrugged. He wished he was there to actually see her in person pregnant. He knew she'd look beautiful, especially with that pregnancy glow.

"You wanted a girl or nah?"

"I wanted nun. I was too busy upset the whole time to care." She bust out laughing and Yhukani mugged her.

"Aye don't play wit ma baby like that." He chuckled.

"Im just playing. I got over that after a good 4 months." She revealed. "But all jokes aside I didn't care what I had as long as the baby was healthy."

"Everybody was hoping for a boy though cause we don't have no more baby boys in the family no more." Mook explained. "I just knew I was having a boy."

"We ca make a boy right noβ€”boy bye." Xiari held her hand up while Yhukani laughed. He liked testing her patience.

"I'm just fucking witchu."

"Yeah you better be." She laughed, yawning. It was going on 10:00 now and she needed to be going to bed soon in order to wake up in time for her morning class. As much as she wanted to keep talking, she needed her rest.

"I'm finna go bed though, you good?" Xiari asked getting up from the couch before stretching.

"Mhmm," Yhukani mumbled tiredly, about to go to sleep his ownself.

"Ight well then goodnight Kani." She cut the tv off before beginning to trail out of the living room.

"Goodnight pooh."














Peaceful chapter how cuteeeeπŸ˜œπŸ™„πŸ™„

Thoughts? You expected that to be the reason for their beef? I mentioned the name Tia btw in chapter 37 but no one really picked up on it lol.

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