“What? Yanna, you’re pregnant? By who?”
“I don’t fucking know, okay! Yes, I am pregnant and don’t know who my baby daddy is, so you can go ahead and say it too. I’m a hoe, a dirty, dumb bitch, and all that. I get it.”
“You know damn well I wasn’t going to say anything like that. I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on.”
“I mean, she basically just summed it up for you, Troi Baby.”
“I don’t even know why the hell I came here. I’m leaving.” Yanna stood from the step, but Layla stepped down to stop her.
“You don’t need to be driving right now. Come inside and talk to me for a minute.”
“I’ll be fine, Mumma Lay.”
Yanna inched her way around Kas and attempted to get to her Jeep.
“Wait for me, Yanna, I’m coming with you.”
“No, you don’t have to do that. I just want to be alone.”
“Yea, she needs to get used to that. On some real shit, Jaiyanna, you don’t have shit to say to me ever. I fucking mean that, yo ass is dead to me! On Layla.”
“Don’t put that shit on me, boy. You need to calm the hell down, andbothof y’all let me talk to you.”
“I do not want to talk to that bitch ever! And she better not bring that fucking baby around trying to pin it on me. Take that shit to that other nigga!
Yanna was now leaning against the rear of her Jeep, doubled over, bawling her eyes out from the words Kas spoke. She wanted nothing more than to hop in her vehicle and take off, but her feet wouldn’t move. She was rendered immobile as if her body was forcing her to hear Kas’ berating as some form of punishment.
“She got the nerve to be crying like she’s the one who’s fucking destroyed. What the hell did I do to deserve you, Jaiyanna? Why would God put you in my life to fuck me up like this? Gone end up just like yo mumma, and---”
“You!” Onyx pointed to Kas, stopping his statement because he was taking it way too far. He’d come outside a few moments earlier and was beyond disappointed in the way his brother was handling the situation. “Take yo ass in the house!”
“Nah, Nyx, I---”
“In the fucking house, now!”
Knowing not to play with his brother, Kas tossed Yanna one more hate filled look before storming toward his house.
“Jaiyanna, give me yo keys and get in the passenger seat.”
Yanna didn’t protest; she handed Onyx her keys and slid into her Jeep.
“Wait, where you going? You taking her home?”
“Baby, can you let me handle this, please?”
“But… Onyx, she’s---”
“I know, Baby, I know. Trust me, I got her.” Onyx gave his mother a quick glance for her reassurance as well. He jumped into the driver’s seat of Yanna’s Jeep and zoomed off.
“What did I do? What did I do?” Yanna repeated to herself, head resting on her window. The look of hurt on Kas’ face replayed through her mind like a reel. She was disgusted with herself. She’d spent so much of her life trying not to become like her mother that she’d somehow become her father. Making shitty decisions and breaking hearts in the process. She’d subjected Kas to the very thing she’d been terrified of her entire life.
“You hurt my brother.”
“I hurt him… I--- I don’t know what’s wrong with me. There’s nobody in this world that understands me like Kas. I’ve always been a mess, and Troi is usually my rock, but then she had you. Kas took her place, and most nights he was all I had. How could I be so stupid?”
“You’re a human being, that’s how. I know for a fact my brother done fucked up more than a few times. He created that little seed of doubt, then he tried to fix it, but you just kept watering the muh’fucka.”
“You don’t understand.”
