Page 40 of So Special: Fanatic Love

Juliet displayed that ugly face again. “Wait, I thought this was only about Ashtan. Why is Ashan being included?”

“You crazy if you think I won’t be involved. If dat bitch ca put dirty clothes and shit on my nephew ta take pictures just ta sen to da blogs den there ain’t no tellin’ what she coulda done ta my son.” Tiara turned around to the few parents who stood in the lobby. “Y’all betta check y’all churn because dis bitch takin pictures of people babies and sayin dey neglectin dem.”

The oh my Gods and gasps that erupted in the lobby said a lot. Juliet wasted no time escorting the selected people into an empty classroom. She told the other two workers to bring Charia to the room. There were only two big seats in the classroom. Juliet had more chairs brought in from the breakroom.

She glared at Charia like she was the scum of the Earth or the end of her business. She was both. “First, Charia, did you do this? Oh, and don’t think about lying because this is your work email address on this email thread.”

This girl sat there still crying. She must have been experiencing phantom hits or some shit. Katniss gave Charia some serious face and body shots before I pulled my baby off her. Charia jumped in her seat when Juliet yelled for her to speak. “I was just trying to make some money.”

“By lying and risking the welfare of a child? Are you stupid?” Juliet pointed her finger at Charia. Through gritted teeth, she said, “I didn’t fucking raise you this way.”

Katniss stood up. When she burst out laughing, we all rose a brow. “Wait, this is your fucking daughter or something? Oh, now I know we’re about to blow this shit up and sue the fuck out of you!”

With a huff, Juliet admitted, “Yes, this stupid ass girl is my daughter. Look, I am so sorry about this. How can we rectify this? Based on the email, the young lady has no plan to release this false information, so it’s really no harm, no foul.”

The rage that came over me caused my jaw to tremble. The corners of my eyes tightened before I leaned forward. “Did you just fuckin say no harm, no muthafuckin foul? That can’t be what you said when your daughta inappropriately touched my fuckin son.”

Charia jumped out of her seat. “I did not touch your son inappropriately! I am not a pedophile! You got me fucked up,” she proclaimed.

Slap!Damn, Katniss was fast as fuck! No one saw the slap coming until Charia was slapped the fuck up. “Bitch, you sent pictures of my son’s penis via email covered in feces. You drew a fucking arrow on the picture with a note that we sent him here like that. That’s distribution of child pornography. Matter of fact, Mama Lina, call the police.”

“I been waitin for somebody ta tell me ta call dem boys. I was ca call em either way. I just wanted to make y’all think e been your choice.” Mama Lina took her phone out after she stood to her feet. “I ga be right out here.”

Juliet jumped to her feet. “No, please! We can work this out.”

“Girl, fuck you! Dem boys about to be on da way. Son, I bout to call ya lawyer,” my father let me know before he also pulled his phone out and left the room.

Juliet and her nasty ass daughter were both in tears now. Charia’s ass was about to go to jail, and more than likely, Juliet’s day care would be shut down.

My mother must have mentioned my damn name because the police got here in record time. They came into the room with us, assessed the situation, and got all of the information. My lawyer arrived shortly after for the legal assistance that was needed. The police decided to arrest both Juliet and Charia. When we got to the front of the building, there were news crews all over the place.

“I called them,” Daisy informed us. “Oh, this place is getting shut the hell down. We don’t know what she’s been doing. I’m not giving them a chance to do it to anyone else.”

For the next hour, we spoke to the media about what happened. We didn’t release the name of the blogger, but we thanked her for her integrity. Our support system stood behind us. I couldn’t wish for a better system. One thing I did know was when we got back to my mama’s house, I intended to love on my son and nephew.

A Little Time Later…

It had been busy as hell since everything happened with Katniss’s car getting vandalized, the catastrophe at the day care, the cases that Penny had pending against my sister, Daisy, and Katniss, as well as my practices.

Penny decided to drop all of the assault cases with the thought that Katniss would drop the vandalism case. Yeah, her dumb ass thought wrong. Not only was the vandalism case not dropped, but my baby also doubled down and got an order of protection. Daisy felt it was only right to inform Penny’s place of employment about the case and the order of protection. I wasn’t a nigga to gossip, but word was she was suspended without pay until the case was sorted out.

As far as the day care, once those licensing folks got word of what happened, they shut the center down immediately. Charia was still in jail because they were able to further prove that she did in fact send those pictures and email to Malessa. The dumb bitch didn’t realize that her phone backed up all the pictures she took on her Google drive. They searched on her work computer, phone, and personal computer. Not only were their pictures of my son, but there were also pictures of three others of my teammate’s children. She must have planned to do the same to them as well.

She was hit with distribution of child pornography, child neglect, and extortion. That million-dollar cash bond was a fool that none of her people could pay. We were also in the process of filing a lawsuit.

“She’s gonna like this. This thing is nice, boy. Shit, I might have to buy myself one,” Zane complimented.

We were at my mama’s house waiting for Daisy and Katniss to get here. It was funny, because now it was like my mama’s house was the meeting spot at the end of all of our days. My mother refused to allow me or Tiara to enroll her grandbabies in any day care center. Between her and Mama Raylen, our children were now in their care when we were busy.

“Yeah, my baby’s ga love it, but dat ain’t important. When you ga apologize ta dat damn girl? Y’all look stupid outcha ackin like y’all don’t wanna be wit each other knowin y’all do.” Zane and Daisy were getting on my damn nerves. This man had been moping around since the morning that she left his ass in his condo butt hurt. The way he looked at her when she was around said it all. She looked at him the same way.

Zane kissed his teeth. “Why should I apologize to her ass for telling the truth? Her ass is bogus as fuck.”

“Bogus fa what, my boy? Fa her not trustin’ you wit her heart when you a ho? You can’t be mad at her fa dat shit.” I knew he was shocked to hear me say that shit with a serious undertone. We joke all the time about his whorish ways. This was different though.

Zane rubbed his hand down his face. “Man, don’t do that shit. You act like you wasn’t out here fucking bitches before Kat. Plus, I haven’t been fucking these bitches since I started fucking Daisy. It’s like my dick committed before my mind, shit heart did.”

“Yeah, you right. I was outcha lettin my dick be great. The difference is I was more discrete. While you were fuckin bitches irresponsibly, I had des hos signin NDAs. You just recently started to care bout your image,” I pointed out. “Why should Daisy trust you?”

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