Page 7 of So Special: Fanatic Love

Penny was far from a bum bitch. She was an executive at a top financial institution. She had all of her own shit, but for some reason had a mindset that she wanted a rich man to come up on. I figured she didn’t want to work as hard as she did. She could have whoever she wanted and generally did. She just couldn’t have me anymore.

She shuffled her feet with her head down for a few seconds. “That’s fine.” Her beady eyes got tight. “You don’t ever have to fucking worry about me again.”

“Dats the point, sweetheart. I literally just said that.” I opened my door. “Be safe out der on dat road. You know people ain’t know how to drive in Charlotte on normal days. E raining out der. Stay vigilant.”

She mumbled fuck you under her breath and stormed out. She stepped wrong or something because that heel saiddown goes Frazier!I shook my head, then said, “God don’t like ugly and He ain’t too fond a pretty either.” I did make sure she got up from the floor before I closed the door.

I called that girl over here to relax my mind. Now she had me more anxious with her aggie ass.Let me get in this shower so I can rest my mind for tomorrow.

Next Day…

I got to the clinic early because I requested to be let in through the back door. I didn’t need anyone to see me come in here and run to tell that. I asked my lawyer yesterday if I needed these folks to sign non-disclosures. He told me either way he would send over the forms for all the workers to sign. I was nervous as I sat in this conference room. I didn’t want them to take my blood until Katniss got here. The tech was going to come in here to draw the blood.

It was two-thirty-five when Katniss arrived. Her son came into the room first with a Ziplock baggie of what looked like Gerber Puffs. “I’m so sorry I’m late. He wouldn’t let me carry him and wanted to play run from mommy.” When she got close to him, lil man ran from her to the other side of the room. “Ashtan, why must we do this? Come here and say hi.”

He laughed at her, and my heart literally skipped a beat. Lil man was hell and that was even more of an indicator to me that he was probably my boy. “Oh, you straight.”

Ashtan walked over to me with a wide smile. He raised the hand that wasn’t holding his baggie and waved. “Hi, hi!” He reached in his baggie, pulled out a puff, then offered it to me. “Here.”

Katniss giggled. “My mama is trying to teach him the concept of sharing. I guess he’s taking to it.”

My smile was bright. “Thank you, lil man.” I took the puff from his hand. He stood there and looked at me like he was waiting for me to eat it. I put it in my mouth. His ass nodded at me, then ran off. “I guess dat nod is his you’re welcome.”

She sat two chairs away from me. “Pretty much.” She put her big ass bag on the table, then fidgeted with her hands while she looked at them. “Look,” she said once she lifted her head. “I’m sorry for never reaching out to you. I thought you would think I was trying to trap you on some scandalous ho shit because we used protection. I didn’t want the drama or for the blogs to get wind.” She took a breath. “I don’t really like attention like that. I’m sorry though.” Her eyes were soft. She turned in her seat to put her attention on Ashtan.

“E cool. I mean I woulda like to know I had a lil jit outchea, but e is what e is. He ain’t too old for me to come in his life like I always been der,” I said.Should I tell her we did fuck without protection? Yeah, I should.“Oh, and dat last time I was in Fat-fat, I didn’t strap up. My bad.”

She turned in her seat so fast, I thought she was going to fall out of it. “You what?” Her beautiful eyes were bucked. “Are you serious? Wow!” She tittered. “All this time, I thought I was going crazy.”

“Nah, you wasn’t. Being honest, I ain’t rememba until I saw you at the day care,” I admitted. I didn’t know what to say pastthat. I turned my attention to her son. His ass was spinning around. I waited to see if he was going to fall down.

Moments later, the tech came into the room. “Hey, guys. Are we ready?” the white lady asked with a smile.

“Oh, yes,” Katniss said. “Do you want to take the baby’s blood first?” When the lady said that was fine, she got up to get Ashtan.

Like I knew he would, he took off around the table. When he came around the table, I scooped him up. “Come here, lil man!” My hand tickled his stomach. I smiled when he erupted into laughter. I glanced at Katniss who smiled at our interaction. “Do you want to hold him while she do this?”

“Um, if he doesn’t cry, you can keep holding him,” she said. She sat there and watched the lady talk to Ashtan to make him comfortable. Nervousness was written all over Katniss’s face.

Lil man sat on my lap and watched the lady. His face was balled up like he was trying to figure out why she was talking to him. He watched her every move. When that lady stuck the needle into his arm, I just knew he was going to cut up. He didn’t make a peep. I peeked at Katniss, then said, “Oh, he bad, huh?”

She burst out laughing. “I’m going to say what my mother says. He’s not bad, he’s just very active.”

After she was done, I put him down. He went about his business as if that lady didn’t just stick a needle in his arm. I shook my head as the lady silently did what she had to do to take my blood. Once she was done, she stood. “Alright. Mr. Wilson, I know you asked for the results to be expedited, so we will have them available for you in forty-eight hours. Miss Roland, you filled out the intake form when you got here, so we will email the results to both of you as well as send an official copy via certified mail.”

“Dats cool,” I responded after I stood up. She gave me a final smile that I returned. Once she was gone, I turned to Katniss. “Ithink we should probably exchange numbers now. Ion wanna be havin’ to hit my baby mama up on IG.” I chuckled lowly.

She picked up her phone from the table. “Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. What’s your number?” She input it after I called it out to her. A few minutes later, my phone rang. “Now you have my number,” she said with a smile.

I saved her in my phone, then side-eyed her. “Aye, what you save me as in ya phone?” I was curious.

She stared at me for a moment before she turned her phone around so I could see the screen. I chuckled at her saved contact.The Asher Kane Baby Daddy.Her cheeks rose when our eyes connected. “Let me see what you saved me as.”

With no shame, I turned my phone around so she could see. I ain’t never been shamed about shit I’ve done. I proudly saved her asBaby Mama Fat-Fat.She threw me a side-eye. “I mean wha you want me to put, shit. You probably my baby mama and I call you Fat-fat.”

“I’m not going to do this with you.” She giggled as she reached behind her to grab Ashtan. He was not happy when she picked him up. “Boy, calm down. I swear ever since he started walking, all he wants to do is walk.”

I tittered. “As he should. So, I guess once we get da results, we ca get back up to discuss other shit. If he mine, I’ma wanna be in e life, so let set dat straight. I get what you sayin about the blogs and shit and I’ma make sure don’t nobody fuck wit y’all.”

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