Page 103 of Love me Like XO

“On some other shit, you ready to be a father?”

He nodded. “Hell yeah, like I ain’t been out here stressing like one. Niggas is tired of sitting on the sidelines. Put me in coach.”

I chuckled, “Sidelines nigga?”

“Yeah. It’s all on her right now. Carrying them, taking care of them from within. You know all that good shit, but when they get here it will be on both of us and not just her. The shit -that be going on right now be having a nigga feeling helpless.”

I nodded. “Then you got that shit because time is definitely barreling down for you. Now it’s time for me to work on my two for one sale.”

He laughed hard as hell. “Nigga that shit wasn’t planned.”

“Probably not, but I’m planning and manifesting mine. Way I see it is niggas hit the lottery. How the fuck you pop off two, and get two boys? Fuck is the secret. Henny, white liquor? Wine.”

By now my boy was cracking up but I was serious as a motherfucking heartbeat. “Yo, ass is stupid.”

“What, because I’m inquisitive? I be needing to know shit, so I can game the system just like you.”

“I didn’t game no fucking system, goofy. We were just reckless as fuck and it thinking about kids or any of that. Outta all the time we messed around I probably used a condom once, that for me that fucking nuts. Unlike me as fuck, but that’s me. Guess my mine had to realize already what my body already knew.”

I nodded.

ZERO

My eyes rested in Empress as she walked back and forth from the closet to the bedroom trying to find something to wear. Where the fuck she was going I didn’t know, but I wouldn’t pry until she tried dot the door.

“You’re just gonna watch me get dressed?” her question pierced the air. She was in a good mood this morning which I was grateful for because some mornings/ days were hard. She tried not to admit it, but I saw it in her eyes.

“Yeah, unless you finna tell me where we going.” Hell yeah I inserted myself in her plans.

She giggled. “Well if you come on we can get some breakfast and go to Target.”

“The fuck we going to Target for?” I was down with the breakfast part, but Target was fucking pushing it. Empress would get her ass in there and fill up the fucking cart with inches of bullshit.

“Because I feel good and I know the sex of my babies. So, I just wanna look around for a few. Maybe pick up a few things.”

“Maybe? Baby girl tell that lie to somebody who doesn’t know your ass.” Throwing my legs over the side of the bed, I sat there for a minute, before I was on my feet.

“Well you know me.”

I laughed and made my way toward the bathroom to get myself together. We needed to have that conversation about living arrangements, but first I was ‘bout to feed her ass and get her where I needed her. The best conversations to have with baby girl right now was when she was fresh off the dick or eating.

When I was finished getting my shit together, and about to start getting dressed, I rejoined her in the bedroom. She was sitting back on the bed, looking at me. After a while it felt odd, because her eyes followed my every damn move for about ten minutes straight. N.

“Do you think we should move in together?” Her voice filled the room right when I turned around to look at her.

“You had to be reading my mind because I was just thinking about that shit. Ain’t no way we both about to lug two newborns from house to house.”

She nodded. “You already thought about it?”

“Hell yeah, just thought I was about to sling dick to deliver the thought.” I pulled my shirt over my head.

“Sling dick to deliver a thought. Sounds Zero-ish. Now can we go to target and discuss this.”

“What is there to discuss?” I questioned looking her over as she sat her sexy ass on the bed.

“The fact that both of us have mortgages and love our spaces. How do we even do that?”

“Easy, you keep yo’ spot but move in with me. Plus you already know the thing with my shit. Only exists because the money gotta be legit. ”