Official Girl 3 (18 page)

             
Amyricale started talking in her baby talk and clapping. I looked over at her and smiled. I’m so happy I made the choice to keep her over a year ago. She really is a miracle; our miracle.

             
I bent over to get a pot out the cabinet when I felt Mykell behind me. He kissed my neck and I turned around to look at him. He smiled but I could tell he was worried about something.

             
“Dada!” Amyricale squealed. That’s basically the only word that she says.

             
“Hey baby girl,” he tried to walk over to her but I stopped him.

             
He looked at me and we just stared into each other’s eyes for a minute. “Talk to me, what’s wrong?” I finally spoke.

             
He looked like he really didn’t want to say. He rubbed his hand over his waves and took a deep breath. “Pops just called to tell me that Candy has been looking for me.”

             
Candy? Not the bitch I had to beat at the hospital? What the hell?
I thought.

             
“Okay…why?” I said.

             
“She claims that we have a son together,” he said in a low voice.

             
I just looked at him waiting to say he was just playing but he never did. I swear it felt like my heart shattered.
Here we go again.
“How old is he?” I asked.

             
“Two but I don’t think he’s mine though, I always strapped up,” he said trying to explain himself.

             
I just shook my head and moved from around him and tried to walk away but he grabbed me. “Neicey…” he was cut off by Amyricale.

             
“Dada! Dada!” she said with her arms up waiting for him to pick her up. I just snatched my arm away. I grabbed my purse and keys before walking out the door.

             
Twenty minutes later I found myself at Kamil’s. Even with all the bullshit his cousin put me through, I still found it in my heart to forgive him and keep him close to me as a friend.

             
“Neicey, you need to understand that happened before y’all even thought about getting back together. He’s two and Amyricale just turned one. He didn’t step out on you this time, you’re engaged now so you need to sit down and talk to him about this. You can’t always run from your problems,” Kamil said after I told him what happened.

             
I just sighed and thought about what he just said.
He’s right.
“I know you’re right, let me go home so we can talk about this,” I said, getting up and giving Kamil a hug.

*    *    *

              When I got home I went to look for Mykell so we could talk. I found him and the kids laying in our bed watching a movie. “Mommy!” Romell yelled. He’s such a mama’s boy.

             
“Hey baby,” I said kissing his forehead. I looked at Mykell, “Let me holla at you real quick,” I said before leaving the room. “MJ, watch your sister and make sure she doesn’t fall out the bed,” I said over my shoulder.

             
We walked in the den. Mykell tried to speak but I put my hand up and stopped him. “I’m not mad at you, actually I’m not mad at all. This baby happened before we got back together. We can fly back to Detroit and see him and you can get a blood test done. If he is your son, that’s cool, I’ll accept him just like I did MJ.”

             
He looked like he was shocked at what I just said. “We?” he said.

             
“Yes, we. You’re crazy as hell if you think Imma let you go see that bitch alone. You already had that bitch thinking she was wifey, I don’t want her thinking that she doing something. I’m the wife, always have been, and always will be,” I said.

             
He just laughed and grabbed me, kissing my lips. “I love you Reneice,” he said.

             
“Don’t I know it?” I joked before walking out the room.

             
“You better know it,” he said slapping my ass.

             
“Pervert,” I laughed.

             
We went back to the room to finish watching
Despicable Me 2
as a family.

             
When I told Neicey about the possibility of me having another baby, I just knew she was going to leave a nigga,
again
. Instead my baby took it like a G and let me know she wasn’t going anywhere. I told Candy I would meet her at the Buffalo Wild Wings on Randolph St. Of course Neicey wanted to come, but I had no problem with that. I would know just by looking at the boy if he was mine or not.

             
“Let me check and make sure I brought my boyfriend,” Neicey said going through her purse.

             
“Yo, I thought I got rid of that damn gun,” I said pushing it back in her purse and looking around making sure no one had seen it.

             
“You did but this is Lakey’s,” she laughed.

             
“Crazy ass, always ready to pop some shit off,” I shook my head.

             
“That’s because yo hoes always acting up and you be letting em.” She rolled her eyes.

             
“Whatever,” I said.

             
“Yea, whatever,” she said, getting up.

             
“Yo where you going?” I asked.

             
“Damn, can I not go to the bathroom?”

             
“Can I come with you?” I asked giving her that look she loved.

             
She laughed and shook her head. “I already took care of you this morning.”

             
“So?”

             
She rolled her eyes and walked away, I followed her with my eyes the whole way. Right after she left, Candy walked in looking extra as hell with a damn fire engine red weave in her head. I looked at the little boy that was with her, his head looked like it ain’t been combed in forever and his clothes looked like they’re two sizes too small. I instantly shook my head. I looked at the boy’s eyes and no doubt they were hazel just like the rest of my kids. My heart fell to my stomach.

             
She walked up smiling like the damn joker. She walked up and tried to hug me I was about to hug her back but I heard somebody clear their throat. I looked to see Neicey standing there. Candy rolled her eyes when she noticed Neicey.

             
“You could have left yo hoe where she was,” Candy said sitting down.

             
Out the corner of my eye I saw Neicey reaching in her purse. I grabbed it from her and put in on the other side of me. ”Watch yo mouth.” I glared at Candy.

             
“I’m the wife, bitch. A hoe is what you are,” Neicey said showing off her ring. “Anyways, we don’t need a blood test to know that this is his son, but it’s pretty clear that you don’t know how to take care of a damn child. Look at his head and his clothes. How the hell you step out the house making sure you look good but ya child looking a hot ass mess?” Neicey snapped.

             
I just sat back and let her say what she had to say simply because I agree with her.

             
“Bitch, what? I take damn good care of my son! Hell, since you think you know so damn much, have fun raising his ass. I don’t have time for a damn kid right now anyways,” she said getting up and leaving lil man sitting there.

             
My damn jaw hit the floor. How the hell can a mother just give up her child like that and not feel no type of remorse.
Trifling ass,
I thought. Niece was cussing under her breath as she walked around the booth to pick up lil man.

             
“Hey handsome, what’s your name?” she asked.

             
“Tyriq,” he said in a low voice, hugging Neicey’s neck tightly.

             
“Hello Tyriq, I’m Neicey and that man right there is your daddy,” she said handing him to me.

             
I put him on my lap and he laid his head on my chest. “Damn, he look just like MJ and Romell,” I said looking at him.

             
“Y’all are triplets. I’m happy Amyricale look like me.” Neicey chuckled.

             
“Whatever man.” I laughed with her.

             
“You hungry lil man?” I asked.

             
“Yes.” He nodded his head.

             
“Alright, we can eat then we’re going shopping, then Imma braid your hair,” Neicey said touching his hair. “He got some pretty hair.”

             
“Yes he do. That he gets from me.”

*    *    *

              Hours later, we we’re back in Florida. Neicey’s ass went all out for Tyriq, everything she saw at the mall that she wanted him to have, she grabbed. She treats MJ like he’s her son so I have no doubt in my mind that she’ll do the same for Tyriq. He takes to her very well.

             
I was sitting on the couch with Tyriq when Neicey came downstairs holding Amyricale with MJ and Romell right behind her.

             
“Alright boys, we have a new addition to the family. MJ, Romell, this is your brother Tyriq. Tyriq, these are your brothers and this little one here is your sister.”

             
Romell walked up to Tyriq and handed him his toy. “You want to play wit me?”

             
Tyriq took the toy and shook his head. “Come on, I show you my room.” The two took off running up the stairs and I just smiled.

             
“Ma and dad, I need for y’all to stop having all these kids. I’m almost fourteen and got like ten brothers and sisters. Oh, I also need for y’all to stop being so loud at night, don’t nobody wanna hear all that,” MJ said before smirking and running up the stairs after his brothers.

             
“Imma kill ya son,” Neicey said laughing.

             
“Be my guest,” I said as she lay on the couch with me and Amyricale.

             
I looked at the two most important women in my life and knew I wanted this shit forever. Just the six of us, Tyriq included.

             
Today would be the day that my fiancé and my potential baby daddy meet each other. I don’t know why I feel so nervous, but I do. Never in a million years would I have thought I would be in this situation; not knowing who the father of my child could be. That’s what I get though. I just put on my big girl panties and sucked it up. We have about three months before the baby gets here. Either way the paternity results come out, I know that my baby will be well loved and taken care of. Both Zamier and Ramone are stand up guys and I feel bad about putting them in this situation.

             
“Hey Meir, thanks for meeting up,” I said hugging him. “Zamier this is Ramone, Ramone this is Zamier,” I introduced the two.

             
“Wassup man,” Ramone said shaking Zamier’s hand.

             
“First off, let me say that me and Le’Lani talked and we agreed that if you are the father that we would let you be in its life. I have no problem with that. I wouldn’t want somebody to keep me from my daughter, so I wouldn’t keep somebody else from their child,” Ramone said.

             
“I appreciate that. Lani and I also talked and Imma tell you just like I told her, I respect you guy’s relationship. So you don’t have to worry about me trynna hook up with her behind yo back or nothing like that. When we did what we did, you two were separated but now that you are back together, I backed off,” Zamier confirmed.

             
“Well since we’re not sure who the father is right now, I want the both of you there when I give birth. I would hate for you to miss the birth,” I said.

             
“That’s fine but how do you feel about that?” Zamier asked Ramone.

             
“It’s cool,” he said.

             
I sighed feeling relieved. This meeting went way better than I thought it would. Today made me look at Mone in a different light. It reminded me of why I love him so much.

Two years later

             
In 24 hours I will be a married man. I can’t believe it. I’m finally doing it, marrying my soul mate. I was finally man enough to see what I had and know that I refused to lose her ever again.