Page 118 of The Mob: Shio Cuppacio
Glee was crying hysterically on the couch while Glow’s chest was heaving.
“Now, Glow.”
“UUUUGHHHH!”
Glee jumped as Glow stormed down the hallway. We walked past two doors; one was a bathroom, the other was closed, and the third had a pink blanket spread across the middle of the bed where a baby slept peacefully. I was surprised she hadn’t woken up with all the damn ruckus they were making.
Entering Glow’s bedroom, it looked exactly like I imagined it would. Creams, golds, and neutrals flowed throughout the space. The only thing out of place was the comforter on her queen-sized bed. It looked like she had gotten straight out of bed and got on good bullshit.
Closing the door behind us, I stood there with my arms folded as I watched this crazy-ass girl pace and talk shit. I let her get her shit off until she started raising her voice.
“You gonna wake up the baby, Glow.”
Her head shot up at me with hate. “Fuck that baby! That baby shouldn’t even be here right now.”
This damn girl need a blunt or three.
“Aye…” Walking up in Glow’s personal space, she stood frozen, chest heaving. “That’s your niece at the end of the day, Glow. I know you mad and shit, but the baby here now. I’m sure she feels bad enough. Be dere for your sister, Glow.”
I wish I’d been there for my sister when she was pregnant by that old dude, but I was too young and too happy to think logically. That old nigga was giving her money to buy us food, shoes, and other stuff, so I was cooling, unaware as fuck. My sister was the most important girl in the world to me. Just by seeing the regret on Glee’s face, I could tell that she felt about herbig sister the same way I felt about mine. I had enough money to get my own place, but I was still in the spare room at Tuscany’s house. I loved my sister to death. I loved all of my siblings, but Tuscany, being the only girl, and knowing the sacrifices she made, had me holding her to a different standard.
“I… I…She’s just a kid, Tunan! A fucking kid! What the fuck will she do with a baby?”
“The baby here, Glow. You can either keep dwelling on the fact that she fucked up, or you can help her figure this shit out.”
“Nah!” Glow shook her head ferociously. “Nah, fuck that! I don’t even have a baby of my own! What the fuck am I gonna do? I can’t be rocking no baby! I got my own life to live!”
“It’sherbaby, Glow. Not yours. Help her… You ain’t gotta step in as the mother. But you can be a big sister and auntie.”
“She probably pregnant by a broke-ass college boy that doesn’t want shit to do with the baby! She didn’t answer my call for months! Monthsss! Still, I was putting money in her account and sending groceries. She was probably laying up with the nigga and letting him eat the groceries I paid for! Nobody showed up at the hospital for her. Nobody, Tunan! The only visitors she had were Pia’s little sister, Pearla, and me! Her best friend isn’t even here anymore, and I’m sure her ass was the fucking ringleader. My sister had her future mapped out! She was supposed to be a doctor! A fucking doctor! A future doctor let a broke-ass boy knock her up!”
“He ain’t broke,” I mumbled.
“What?”
“Nun, Glow. Just calm down. Everything gone be aite. I get why you mad and shit… But you can’t be mad forever.”
Glow wasn’t trying to hear shit I was saying, so I wasn’t going to keep trying to reason with her. But Leader, if he was the father, wasn’t broke by a long shot. The nigga was paid. He was behind bars, but his brother was still holding it down. It wasn’tmy place to tell Glow who her sister’s baby father was or what he had. Shit, I didn’t even know if he was the father. What I did know was that the girl Leader had mentioned was Glow’s little sister for damn sure. There was only one Glow who did food vlogging. Who Glee made a baby with was her business to tell, and until I saw the baby, I wasn’t saying shit to Leader either. I wasn’t no gossiping-ass nigga, especially about some shit I wasn’t sure about.
“You know what? She got me fucked up! The problem is, she has never had her ass beat before!” Glow nodded as she headed toward the door, but I grabbed her arm.
I pulled her back, but she swung on a nigga. I dodged her punch right in time, but she followed that shit up with another. Having no choice, I grabbed her in a bear hug, digging my chin in her shoulder.
“Tunan, get off me! Get the fuck off me!”
“I’m not ’bout to let you go fight that girl. She just had a baby, Glow. You just mad right now, and your heart is broken, but it’s gone heal. The disappointment gone let up, and when it do, you gonna be mad as hell at yourself for how you been acting, bruh. Pipe the fuck down.”
“I ain’t fucking piping down! A loser-ass nigga knocked my sister up and made her a single mother! He probably don’t even like her for real! Just wanted some ass! Glee so damn green and gullible!”
I closed my mouth like white people did when they passed a black person they didn’t know. Glow was going to eat all her fucking words because Leader most definitely liked her little sister. That nigga loved that girl. He damn near regretted that he hadn’t married her before they locked his ass up, even though she was way too young to be anyone's wife. He walked around like a lovesick puppy in our cell. The nigga wasn’t even pissed that he was about to have a book thrown at him; he was mad thathe wouldn’t be out to see her be great. When he was sentenced in March, the nigga got ten years, and all he cared about was that his family took care of his girl. I didn’t know who the chick was back then, but seeing her bawling on the couch now because her sister was basically telling her she wasn’t shit because she’d had a baby, had my chest tight. If Glow found out Leader was not only a fucking kingpin but in jail for a decade, she would probably have a heart attack.
“Let me go! You fucking lied to me too! Fuck both y’all! Shio is your brother, and you didn’t think to tell me that before we agreed to this fake-ass marriage, nigga? Do I look like a pass-around bitch to you? Y’all got me fucked up! I hate you!”
Glee kicked backward, getting me in the knee before I could stop her. With her arms still locked behind her back, I pushed her down on the bed and pulled her leggings down. I knew what would have her ass yelling a different tune.
“Tunan!” she gasped out, trying to wiggle from my hold.
Her glistening pussy wasn’t the same type of mad that the rest of her body was. Using my free hand, I slipped my dick out of my sweats and sank into her. Glow was doing too fucking much. She was mad at her sister, but she was sexually frustrated too. I could tell at the hospital she needed a release, but she was too in her head about our arrangement and shit. I could bet every dollar in my pocket that she was madder about wanting to fuck me than she was about her sister being a young mom.
