Page 67 of What You Do To Me
“Star was getting her bath done. We’re about to make pizzas and cookies when they finish up,” I answered.
“That’s what’s up,” he responded. “Aye, I’m sorry I’m not there to help you and shit. I know it’s a lot dealing with the girls alone.” Although it was a lot and I missed him, I knew he had to handle business and I didn’t want to make him feel bad for not being here with us.
“No, you’re good babe. I’m grateful your family has been here to help me out,” I told him trying to ease his mind.
“Yeah, I know but it’s not the same. I’m just trying to get all this shit knocked out, so I don’t have to leave y’all like this again.” Lae was done eating now, so I pulled her off the boobto place her on my shoulder so she could burp. Jawan let out a groan at the sight of my breast. “Damn Tio, you teasing a nigga. Lay her down and go in the bathroom right quick,” he suggested as he adjusted himself.
I let out a light giggle and got ready to answer him before Rae came flying in our room. “All done mommy!” she exclaimed as she jumped up on the bed. “Daddy!” she screeched when she saw Jawan on the phone and reached for it.
“You have to calm down Rae Rae, sissy is sleeping, okay?” I said before I handed her the phone, all she offered me was a head nod.
“When are you coming home daddy? Mommy and me and Lae miss you this much,” she dropped the phone and stretched her arms wide. I heard her father laugh as I made my way out of my room and down to Lae’s. I laid her in her crib and covered her small body with her blanket, then grabbed the baby monitor on the way out. As I was making my way back into the room, Jarae was finishing up with her dad. She hopped off the bed and rushed my legs with the phone extended up to me. I smiled down at her and took the phone back right before she ran out of the room.
“Aight you’re alone, closed the door and lock it so you can show daddy something.” He laid back on the bed and got comfortable.
“No Jawan, Rae is waiting on me to make pizza and cookies with her,” I protested.
He sucked his teeth and groaned. “A nigga ain’t had no pussy in forever, just a few minutes baby. That’s all I need, I promise.”
I was putting my pajama set on as he was talking so I could join Star and Rae in the kitchen. “If you hurry up and bring your ass home then you could get as much pussy as you’d like,” I stated as a matter of fact.
“You think I ain’t been trying to hurry this shit up baby?” he asked in a frustrated tone. “I told you I’m trying to knock all this shit out so I ain’t gotta bring my ass back out here unless I want to.”
“I know that, and I understand that, but that also means that when you finish handling business, we can play as much as you want to,” I knew he wasn’t going to be happy about it, but I wanted him, not a toy or my hand.
“You’re not playing fair, Ma,” he whined.
“Yeah, well I agreed to two days not a week. Let me go get your child, call me in the morning?”
“You know I’ma call. I love y’all.”
“We love you more.” I hung up and went to save Rae’s hyper ass.
The final touch to tonight’s look was to apply a coat of my Pretty & Play lip gloss that I grabbed from my classmates daughter earlier. It took forever to get ready because I changed like five times. It seems like I had gained weight out of nowhere. I finally settled on a black “Start The Show” sequin dress that I ordered from Fashion Nova. After I was sure that everything was perfect, I made my way downstairs where my girls were waiting for me.
“Damn bestie, you look good as fuck tonight!” Chy hyped me.
“Yeah, sis that dress is bomb,” Star said.
I blushed at both of their compliments. “Thank you, guys.” The happy moment was short lived because not even a second later I burst into tears. Both Chy and Star ran over and wrapped their arms around me.
“What’s the matter, Tio?” Star asked as she grabbed a Kleenex off the table to dabbed my face.
“I just can’t believe that Jawan isn’t going to be here to bring my birthday in with me. He sounded so sad when we were on the phone and I didn’t want to make him feel bad about it.”
“You know he wouldn’t be missing this if he didn’t have to, but at least he promised you to make it up to you friend.”
“Right,” I sighed out. “Let’s just go out and have a good time, I’ll sulk later.”
I took a couple minutes to get my face back together, then we headed to the truck where Dirk was holding the door for us. We piled into the SUV then immediately started to take shots. I had tried to FaceTime Jawan a couple times but to no avail, they all went unanswered. That was weird to me because he always made sure to answer his phone for me no matter what. I was in the middle of sending him a text when Chy snatched my phone out of my hand and replaced it with a shot.
“Uh, uh friend. I know you’re in your feelings and you miss JJ but we’re turning up tonight. You know he is going to call you as soon as he can, in the meantime let’s get lit.”
“Ugh, fine,” I decided to just push the shit with Jawan to the back of my mind until later. We took a couple shots and smoked a blunt before we got to Lust, so I felt good as hell by the time we pulled up. Dirk got out to let us out then both he and Rex escorted us inside, one in the front and one in the back, up to the VIP section. DJ Tay gave us a major greeting and me a birthday shoutout as we made our way through the club.
When we got into the section a few of Jawan’s people were already seated up there along with their girlfriends and wives. We had bottles covering the table, the prettiest and baddest strippers that Miami had, and I hit Jawan’s safe for some ones so tonight was going to be one for the books.
Picking up the Patron, I poured three shots and took all of them. Meagan Thee Stallions “Body” dropped right as I poured shot number four and I grabbed my girls to head for the dancefloor. As soon as we got to the steps, Noah was ascending with a small rectangular box in his hand.
