Page 83 of Ony If It's You
“Yes, when I got on the jet yesterday.”
“Bet.” I nodded and stood with her in my arms. Turning around, I laid her in the bed and pulled the cover up over her body. “I got the kids, so get some rest.”
I left the house to get the kids after making sure their mother was good. I had her put me on their stuff at school to make sure that I could pick them up. She was always stretching herself thin trying to do everything for everybody, so the places I could help and make shit easier on her, I did.
The twins were elated when they saw that it was me picking them up from school. As soon as we got back to the car and I got them situated in their seats, they were asking me to take their little asses somewhere. Messiah was asking to go to the gym. Since the first time that I’d let him roll with me, he was obsessed. Pres let him help him out around that mothafucka and he worked out with me. Jocey on the other hand was asking to gosee Ms. Phyllis and that was perfect because I needed to go there anyways.
When we pulled up to my pops’ crib, I helped the twins out and headed inside. Tandy was over the stove cooking as usual while the others were packaging up the plates. I didn’t bother to start with pleasantries, I was there for one thing and one thing only.
“Can I get a hotdog?” Jocey asked me.
“I’m hungry too.”
It had completely slipped my mind to stop and grab them some food because I was trying to get here to check shit.
“Ay, fix them some shit,” I said to Tandy.
“Oh my God, they are adorable, JV!” Jessica gushed over the twins.
“Who trust you to have their kids?” That was Rhonda’s ol’ hating ass. Bitch was my pops’ hoe and mad because I didn’t want her.
“Don’t fucking worry about it, just fix them some food, I’m about to holla at my pops.”
After lifting both of them onto the barstool, I went to search for my father. I traveled the long hallway all the way to the back where I found him in his bedroom. Ms. Phyllis was there too cleaning his room. It annoyed me a little considering that she didn’t even sleep in this mothafucka with him, but I wasn’t here for that.
“What’s good, beautiful?” I said to Ms. Phyllis, grabbing both of their attention.
“Hey, baby.” She beamed, stepping into my embrace.
“The twins are in the kitchen, go keep an eye on them for me.”
She quickly rushed out of the room to go find them. She loved the twins and Kehlani just as much as I did. My stomach clenched at the thought of me actually admitting that I loved awoman, but I did and I was glad that I did. She made it hard as a mothafucka not to, attitude and all.
“You’re carrying her kids around town with you now too? Tragic,” my pops said from his bed, shaking his head. His eyes remained glued to the TV.
“Don’t fucking worry about what I do withmykids, my nigga. Why the fuck you tell my girl that I was in the club with Kecia?”
“Was it a lie?” He finally looked my way wearing a smug grin.
“Yeah it was, mothafucka, and you know it. I didn’t invite that bitch to the fucking club.”
“She was there with you and there is video proof of it.” He shrugged.
“Yeah because you been acting like a bitch and pulling that hoe’s puppet strings and shit. Now that I think of it, it was probably you that set that shit up with Zoey too.”
“I’m just trying to get you back on track, JV, that’s all. You are at the peak of your career and you don’t need the distraction of a wife.”
“That’s just it, my nigga, it’smy careerandmy life. You’ve been spending way too much of your time worrying about me and what the fuck I got going on, so I’m gon’ lighten the load for you.”
“Lighten the load?” he repeated, confused.
“Yeah, you fired.”
“Fired?” he asked incredulously. “You can’t fire me!”
He’d hopped up from the bed enraged, but I was unmoved. He might be my father, but he knew what laying one finger on me would result in.
“I just did, mothafucka,” I said as I closed the space in between us. “Let’s get some shit clear right fucking now. I ain’t going for shit strange with you or nan other nigga or bitch when it comes to my mothafuckin’ wife, so I suggest you get word out.I’m done playing with you and them hoes for real. Consider this your final warning.”
