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“Forreal, I thought you was tryna get some dick, and I ain’t have time for that. But the fact remains the first thing outta yo’ mouth should have been about my seed.”

“I guess.” Niko was too full of himself if he thought I was that desperate to call him for some dick. It was good, but not good enough for me to beg for it. He had me fucked up and confused with them other weak bitches he dealt with.

“I guess my ass. You ain’t got shit else?” Niko asked, cutting his eyes at me.

“No.” I wasn’t about to keep going back and forth with Niko. He felt how he felt, and I felt how I felt. Maybe I should have felt bad about not telling him, but I didn’t. I wanted to protect my peace at the end of the day. From the way Niko was acting, I made the right decision.

“So, I didn’t deserve the right to know about my seed?”

“You know now, don’t you?” I plainly replied. I figured he’d be mad, but he was dragging this situation out. It might have been my hormones that had me so annoyed with this conversation.

“You bitches is outta fucking order.” Niko bitterly chuckled. “How far along are you?”

“Bitch? Don’t call me outta my name, Niko.” He looked at me with a blank expression, he didn’t even blink. “Stop staring at me, weirdo.” I turned my lips up at him.

“You should be seven or eight months.”

“Seven months, I’ll be eight on the twenty-fifth.”

“What we having?”

“A girl.”

“You got a name picked out?”

“Nope.” I couldn’t think of one yet.

“Let me pick it out. It’s the least you can do.”

“Niko, don’t piss me off,” I said, cutting my eyes over to him.

“Take yo’ own advice,” he cooly said with a warning in his gaze. “I’ma be right back,” Niko said, opening his door, causing me to look around, and I noticed we were back in the parking lot of the restaurant we were just at.

“Where you going?” I asked, rolling my window down

“To get Sunshyne, we finna drop her off real quick.”

“We who? I’m not going nowhere with you. We can finish this conversation later.”

“Nah, I’m not done talking to you.”

“Okay, well, call me later.” I went to open the door, but Niko leaned against it, preventing me from opening it.

“Yanna, sit yo’ ass back. You riding with me to take Sunshyne to Yaro’s. I’m not asking, I’m tellin’ you. We not done talking, and I don’t trust yo’ ass to not disappear on a nigga. We can get something to eat on the way.”

“Whatever,” I grumbled, sitting back in the seat, folding my arms. I only stayed in his truck because I wanted to eat something. Not because Niko told me to. It was still fuck him.

Chapter 12

Niko Freeman

A Week Later

A nigga went from no kids to two kids in a matter of a fucking day. I still wasn’t fucking with Maddie ‘cause of the shit she did. What type of bitch got herself fucking pregnant? I was the shit, but I wasn’t the shit to the point bitches needed to trap a nigga. I’m sure it was a million other niggas out there that would happily take Maddie as their bitch, but it wasn’t me. That ship had sailed between Maddie and me. Her sneaking and getting an abortion, I couldn’t get past that shit and instead of dragging our relationship out knowing how I felt I wanted to end it. Her being pregnant wasn’t going to change my mind. As much as I wanted to raise my seed under the same roof, I couldn't see myself faking it. I was too real of a nigga to be fake about shit I did. Maddie wanted to make shit difficult and fight me on everything. She tried to pull the guilt card, she wanted me to feel bad for leaving while she was pregnant. But I didn’t get her pregnant, she got her mutha fuckin’ self pregnant, so there wasnt shit for me to feel bad for. If she hadn’t taken it upon herself to get herself pregnant, she wouldn’t have to worry about being a single mama. I was gonna be there for my seed all the way. I wasn’t missing anything when it came to my seed, despite how he/she came into existence.

I was letting Maddie keep the house we stayed in together. She wasn’t finna have to worry about bills. She could chill her entire pregnancy ‘cause I still planned to break bread with her until she got on her feet. It didn’t need to be said, my seed wouldn’t want for shit. If she was smart, she’d use her pregnancy time to figure out what she wanted to do with herself, instead of tryna run a nigga crazy. Maddie needed to count her blessings that I wasn’t a fuck nigga. I could have said fuck her and my seed just off the strength of what she did. Most niggas would have made her ass disappear, but I wasn’t cut like that. On top of Maddie and me having history, I might have felt like fuck her, but I still cared for her wellbeing. Maddie wasn’t the bitch for me, but I still wanted her to live a good life. More so now knowing we were finna be co-parenting.

Yanna caught a nigga all the way off guard. When she turned around, my heart skipped a beat. I really did miss not talking to her over these last few months. I know the time we spent together was short, but Yanna made a nigga feel like we’d known each other our entire lives. Talking to her was like talking to my better half. She really heard a nigga when he talked, and she wasn’t just into a nigga ‘cause he had money. Honestly, Yanna had never pried into my finances. She went with the flow of shit, and I hated that I cut her off tryna do right by Maddie’s trifling ass. I had been tempted to call her a few times, but knowing how her mean ass operated, she wouldn’t have answered my calls.