Page 108 of Love me Like XO

“What is sh?—”

“Nothing we can discuss right now. Is your business squared away?” I asked as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me into him.

“Almost. I missed yo’ ass.” He glanced around at my handiwork, before his eyes rested on my face.

“Did you really?”

“Hell yeah, you know I did. The question is while your ass is in this bossy mode, did you miss me.”

“With everything in me. Had me missing you touching me.”

“I’m touching you right now, what you wanna do ‘bout that?”

I laughed, looking around. “Nothing because people are arriving, you need to go put on your blue and I need to go make sure everything is good.”

His eyes rested on me in a way like he was trying to tempt me.

“Please, go get dressed. Then after all of this is over we can see about that miss you action.” I winked, before I pulled from his embrace.

“We’ll see,” he tossed behind me.

When I turned around and looked at him he was licking his lips, beckoning for me to sneak off with him, but I shook my head no. Then I proceeded to go over and greet my grandmother’s sister who was walking through the back gate. Couldn’t stand this old ho or her daughter, but to get away from Malik’s hold on me, I strutted over to them. I had to get it together.

“This is nice, cute little party,” my cousin Evelyn back hand complimented with her nice nasty big back ass.

I had to chuckle to keep from calling her big back ass out.

“Tuesday, you made it. You and the family,” my grandmother’s voice seeped into my eardrums.

“Yes, yes. I came to support.” She had that fake ass smile plastered over her face.

“Well, we came. Hey, Tete.” My cousin hugged my grandmother.

Instead of standing there being as phony as they were being I departed. I found my way into the house to my sister. Well my other sister, because Cis’s ass was now on the porch helping Asha with the cradle shaped cooler.

When I got in the house I expected to be banging on the door because Empress and Zero would for sure lock a door and be on that one-on-one shit. However of I couldn’t do it then neither could they. However when I walked in, Em was standing at the kitchen table eating one of the pigs in a blanket while Zero stood behind her holding two bear shaped brown plates. She was loading them both up, but only taking his choices on the one with the least amount of food.

“You know big mama would’ve made that plate for you.”

“She would’ve, but currently she’s too fucking busy entertaining her rude big back ass sister and all of them. She’s good I just wanna chill.”

I chuckled. “You know she loves those people.”

“Doesn’t mean I have to. Why didn’t you tell me about Cis’s drama? Shit was getting interesting until my baby daddy walked in talking about people outside waiting on me.”

I couldn’t stop laughing at her because this pregnancy Em was my favorite. She already didn’t have a filter before, but during the pregnancy she gave not one fuck about anything that came out of her mouth.

“Chill, Em. They’re here to celebrate you,” Zero coolly responded.

“Everybody else, but not the big backpack.”

Now that earned a chuckle from him. “C’mon man, let’s go take a seat so you can eat all this shit. Good looking on the shirt, sis’.”

I smiled. “Anytime and I told you it had to match hers.” I took them both with the proudest smile.

They both had on powder blue, except she wore a fitted summer dress with the continuous F pattern lining the dress. She didn’t want designer, but fuck that I was balling for sis and my peanuts. Especially because Zero said to spare no expense. His polo was the same material and color which put everything together perfectly. The colors for the baby shower were powder blue and kaki. The kaki was because of the brown bear and the bear themed baby shower.

“Y’all are both so fucking uppity. How am I gonna wear this expensive ass dress after I’m no longer pregnant?”