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"Don't be mad at him, Tiana. It was my plan." My mother's laughter finally died down as Dominic looked at her in amusement.

"I told him you would jump off the deep end. It all comes with the pregnancy." She waved me off as I stood there with wet eyes.

"I'm sorry, baby." Dominic apologized again and I pouted with a nod.

"Okay but just stop hurting me. It's not funny anymore." I expressed and he nodded, bending down to kiss my lips.

"Aight, baby. No more jokes."

"I love you." He kissed my lips again, rubbing my stomach.

"I love you too."

Epilogue

Tiana

8pm

2 days after due date

"Tiana." Deja sung my name in a sing song voice as I sat on the couch with the worst stomach pains on the planet.

"Leave me the fuck alone." I rolled my eyes, not in the mood for her or her hype energy right now.

"Oh so now the monster's being rude?" She laughed at me, considering we were just buddy buddy earlier.

"Mama is just not feeling it today." Hailey, Leek's new girlfriend laughed as she rubbed my stomach. I didn't know her that well but she's been around for a while now and she automatically clung to me, wanting to be friends.

"Listen, I'm really not. So please just stop talking to me, the both of you." I explained to them but they both sat down next to me anyway and I couldn't help but to roll my eyes.

Sitting there feeling like a whale, they both began to rub my stomach while all of the guys in the house paid us no mind at all. There were so many men in here, sitting around playing cards, drinking and being loud and all I could think of was "why don't they have to go through any of this?"

"Do you think Amiri's going to come out tonight, T?" Hailey asked, breaking me away from my anger filled thoughts.

"I don't know." I grumbled, feeling myself becoming emotional.

"He's being so stubborn and we've tried everything at this point so.." I trailed off, speaking barely above a whisper.

I was 2 days past my due date and completely miserable. The doctor's wouldn't do anything for me, they'd told me to just wait it out. But at this point, I didn't want to wait any longer, I was ready for Amiri to be here.

"Don't worry. He'll come." She assured, still rubbing my belly as I sat there, beginning to enjoy it.

Moment later, the front door abruptly opened, making us all look up.

"Yeah, nigga. I was just saying that." I heard Dom laughing as he came into the house with Leek and Zay behind him.

"Damn, it's packed in here." He went onto say, looking around.

"Yo, what up, Dom." Everybody spoke.

"What's up y'all?" He spoke, making his way over to us girls.

"Hey, Dominic." Hailey waved.

"What's up, kid?" Deja spoke.

"What's up yall. What's this a party?" He asked jokingly making Deja shrug. They were all her friends.

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