Page 71 of All The Smoke
Kaori and I had been kicking shit heavily, getting to know each other better while preparing to bring our baby into the world. We’d finally made it to her first appointment and the doctor let us know she could find out the gender of the baby at the ten week mark which was why her mother was in town. They agreed to move our official meeting to today since she was now ten weeks along and her mother wanted to be there when she found out the baby’s gender. Plus, her pops had some shit going on and didn’t have his privileges so we weren’t able to see him when we originally planned.
“Naw, but deadass, fam, KK is good people,” Scoot said, jarring me from my thoughts. “She make it easy as fuck to love her for real.” A wide goofy ass grin spread across his face when he noticed me cutting my eyes at him. “Chill out, man.”
“You chill, mothafucka,” I countered. “I already ain’t with all that bro shit.”
“Nigga.” He guffawed. “If I wanted to hit KK, you think I would have waited all these years?”
“Elijah get the fuck out,” I spat as I climbed out of my car.
“Man, you gotta learn to relax.” He continued laughing as he shut my car door and headed for his own.
“What you ’bout to do?”
He smirked. “Make my rounds.”
“Your dick gon’ fall off, man.” I shook my head.
“Chill.” He laughed. “I just like to have a lil fun from time to time.”
“Whatever, bruh.” I chuckled. “Just hit me when you make it to your destination.”
“Heard you and give KK peoples my love and let them know you the reason me and Bino ain’t come because I know they gon’ ask. I’m the favorite.”
I didn’t even bother responding to his ass. Scoot loved being the center of attention so he deadass thought he was every fucking body’s favorite.
When I made it inside my crib I was met by the vanilla scent coming from the candle Kaori had burning in my shit. She complained about the incense I burned, claiming they smelled like burning wood, so she went to Light My Flame and bought an ass of candles and plug-ins.
Tossing my keys and shit on the counter, I headed to my bedroom. Kaori wasn’t in my room, but I heard the shower running. The time was bouncing around on my TV so I knew we had exactly two and half hours ’til we had to go to her grandmother’s. I hurried to shed my clothes then joined her in the bathroom.
“I tried to bathe before you got here,” she said without even turning around.
“Why?” I asked, circling her in my arms and kissing the side of her face. “You know a nigga loves to shower with you.”
“Right, and we’re always in here for hours.” She finally turned around and tossed her arms around my neck. “Where were you?”
“Went to get us them shoes.”
“You and Solo?”
“You and my other lil man too.” I smiled, looking down at her belly between us. Shit was still small because her little ass was small, but I could see my little person trying to make an appearance.
“Solomon, this might be a girl, and they aren’t going to be able to fit all of the shoes you’re buying.” She giggled. “We should just get like booties and stuff.”
“We can do that too, but he or she will eventually be able to wear them.”
She smiled. “They’re spoiled already. My mom isn’t going to make it until Tuesday. She harassed me and the doctor to see if we can get in first thing Monday morning instead.”
I chuckled and kissed her lips. “She’s just excited.”
“I know,” she groaned. “Have you called your parents back?”
Bishop had reached out to me several times about making another dumb ass appearance with him, but I wasn’t trying to go to them shits and I hadn’t felt like being bothered with them. I had enough on my plate dealing with Brianna’s stupid ass.
She had quickly become a thorn in my side since finding out about Kaori and our baby. Bitch couldn’t make one call or text without bringing it up. I would go and get my son, she would get to carrying on. She called Solo constantly to make sure he wasn’t around Kaori. Shit was irritating. She really was gon’ fuck around and make me choke her ass out.
She held out a cool week without letting me see him and took his tablet so I couldn’t call or text, but I pushed up and put some straightening on that shit. I didn’t give a fuck about her having an attitude, but she wasn’t gon’ interfere with me and my son. Bitch had even told him I was missing like that because I was having a new baby with KK. I was fuming because he was young as fuck and believed that shit, especially after not hearing from me like he normally would have. I wanted to beat his mama’s ass, but I decided against it because her ass wanted a reaction out of me. She wanted me to talk to her and shit, so I fixed her. I told Nini I would hit her up when I needed her to get Solo together and in exchange I would break her off with bread.
“Bae, did you?” Kaori asked again, jarring me from my thoughts.
