Unbreakable (13 page)

Shaniqua covered her face with her hand and
shook her head “I can’t hold on. This shit hurts,” she said.

Dre walked over to her nervously unsure of
what to do. He began rubbing her head “I’m here Shaniqua,” he said.
She removed her hand from over her face and looked at him; although
she was in pain, she gave him a weak smile because he never called
her Shaniqua. She almost forgot she was about to have a baby until
the doctor came in

“Okay Miss. Holmes you ready to bring your
bundle of joy in the world?” she asked rolling the stool in front
of her ready to deliver the baby. “Wow she is ready to come out.
Give me one big push,” Dr. Brown said and Shaniqua did as she was
told while squeezing Dre hand.

Dre peeked down there like a fool and looked
as if he was about to throw up. Shaniqua shook her head and gave
the Dr. another big push then heard baby girl crying. “It’s a
girl,” Dr. Brown said.

“Daddy do you want to cut the cord?” she
asked Dre and he did. They nurse held the baby up so Shaniqua could
see her before rushing her over to clean her. Once she was cleaned,
they brought her back over to Shaniqua to let her hold her. She
looked at her baby girl then looked back at Dre with a blank
expression.

“So what are we gonna name her?” he
asked.

“I don’t know yet,” she said in a raspy voice
staring at her daughter. It was like holding Ray’Shun all over
again. They nurse took her to her room and took the baby to nursery
for whatever reason they do. About an hour later they were bring
her in the room.

Shaniqua had been eyeing Dre hard after
hearing him whispering on the phone to someone thinking she was
asleep.

“I don’t give a fuck what you want to do. We
made a deal and now you want to back out,” she heard him say “Well
I’m good on my end so you just keep playing your part and we’ll all
be happy in the end,” she heard him say before he disconnected the
call.

She stared at Dre wondering what was going
through his head as he held their daughter before she cleared her
throat wanting to question him but she had other things on her mind
He seem to be happy so she shrug her shoulders.

“I know what I wanna name her Dre,” she
said.

He looked at her. “What?” he asked her with a
weak smile.

“Shaniyah Desiree.”

“Mitchell?” he asked referring to his last
name.

Shaniqua looked at him confused. “Unless you
don’t want to sign the birth certificate.”

“I was just asking baby,” he said with a big
smile.

“Ray’Shun has his father last name so it’s
only right she has her father last name also. Right?”

“Yeah,” he said walking over the bed. “I love
you baby,” he said kissing her on the lips

“I love you too,” she said.

All that was on Ronny mind
was getting his family back, he was willing to leave the streets
alone and get out of the game and focus more on Shaniqua and do
right by her this time around. If only she would stop tripping and
give him another chance. Although they have broken up plenty of
times before she have ran to the arms of the next nigga or been
away from him this long. He already didn’t like the fact that her
so-called boyfriend was around his son but then she up and moved
away with that nigga after she aborted his baby.

Ronny felt himself becoming angry as he
pulled the blunt he had been smoking on a little too hard causing
him to choke. He was so into his thoughts that he forgot Denise was
laying on the bed beside him “Damn, you okay?” she looked up and
asked him.

He looked down at her and frowned. “You
really wanna know?” he asked with an attitude.

She quickly sat up in the bed “You can quit
looking at me like that because I didn’t do it,” she said rolling
her neck. She folded her arms underneath her breasts and continued.
“Now yes I wanna know what got you mugging the fuck out of me like
I’m your fucking problem.” She was sick of the way Ronny had been
treating her, like she was just a jump off.

He chuckled and put his blunt out because he
knew after telling her what was on his mind he was more than likely
gonna have to slap the shit out of her. After putting his blunt
out, he turned to face her still wearing a frown.

“For one you can stop rolling your fucking
neck at me before I snap that bitch. And two, you are my fucking
problem,” he said looking her dead in the eyes “Because of you I
don’t have my fucking wife or my son here.”

Denise looked as if he was crazy “I can’t
even believe you just let that bullshit roll off your tongue,” she
shook her head. “For one, that bitch is not your fucking wife.
Never have been and from the looks of it she never will be because
you can’t seem to keep your dick in your pants”

“Don’t call her no bitch,” he said cutting
her off

She waved him off and continued, “For two,
I’m not the reason for shit. Yeah I gave you my number but it was
you that chose to call me. You could have easily ripped the number
up but you didn’t. So you not having your
GIRL
or son here
is on yo ass,” she said mushing the side of his head.

“Don’t put your fucking hands on me again,”
he said through clench teeth

“You ain’t gonna do shit if I do,” she said
sliding off the bed “Sitting up here still in love with that hoe
that ain’t even thinking about your ass. Hello Ron, the bitch done
moved on with her life. That’s why your ass want let me move in you
with you because you still think she want you when she don’t,” she
said putting on her clothes.

Ronny got off the bed and began putting on
his clothes also because he was seconds away from putting his foot
in her ass “Nah, I want let you move in here because I don’t want
yo ass. Never have and never will. Why the fuck you think I only
let you come over for a few hours?” he paused not giving her a
chance to answer “Because you just a jump off, an easy fuck. Hell
you see half of the time I want even let you come to my crib, I
just come to your
SISTER
house and get my dick sucked in my
car”

“You know what Ron, Fuck you. I can’t tell
you don’t want me, you was show risking your family for this jump
off”

“Yeah and that was a big ass mistake. I lost
a Boss Bitch over a Needy Bitch,” he said shaking his head
laughing

“Needy? Really? I don’t need you Ron”

Ronny laughed as if she told the funniest
joke. “You don’t
NEED
me? I can’t tell, much as your ass
always calling
NEEDING
a fucking ride or
NEEDING
some
money”

She was starting to get tired of his mouth
and him laughing at her wasn’t making it any better “And you always
giving it up too”

He laughed again “Girl you killing me. Are
you fucking serious? I guess you think you had a pay master, huh?”
he asked her but didn’t give her a chance to answer. “Well let me
school you sweetheart you need to ask for more than twenty dollars
to have a pay master.” He grabbed both cheeks with one hand and
gave it a squeeze. “Twenty dollars is nothing to a boss, remember
that. Now get the fuck out my house,” he said walking out the
bedroom.

“Fuck you and your house Ron,” she said
walking behind him.

Ronny smiled, “You just mad cause I won’t let
you move in this bitch.”

“You gonna wish I did move in here when you
still living alone waiting on that bitch to come back,” she said as
they reached the bottom step “Learn how to keep your dick in your
pants then you wouldn’t have to worry about that bitch living
you.”

Ronny had enough of her mouth, he already
warned her about calling Shaniqua out her name, but she kept doing
it. He grabbed her by the neck and yoked her up “What the fuck I
tell you about calling her a bitch?” he asked dragging her to the
door. She was trying to move his hand be he would only tighten up
his grip. He opened the door, threw her out roughly, closed, and
locked the door behind him. He saw her purse laying on the floor
and picked it up walking back towards the door he opened it and
threw it out.

******

Shaniqua was so in love with her baby girl
and though her and Ray’Shun had different daddies Shaniqua still
found it strange how much they resembles. The only difference was
their eyes. Ray’Shun had light green eyes like his father and
Shaniyah had gray eyes that neither her nor Dre had. She knew that
Shaniyah wasn’t Ronny, although they didn’t use a condom last time
they had sex she was already pregnant. Then her mind went to before
she left for Maryland. She watched him put on a condom though.
“This shit is crazy,”
she said looking down at her baby
girl.

“Mama, Can I feed Niyah?” Ray’Shun asked as
he ran into the living room.

“Sure baby, go wash your hands first,” she
said and smiled as he took off running towards the bathroom.
Between him and Dre, she didn’t know who was working her nerves the
most about the baby.

“Okay mama,” he said getting back in the
couch. She placed Shaniyah in his arm carefully and helped him feed
her.

Dre walked in wearing a big smile “Look at my
beautiful family,” he said sitting on the couch with them. He
kissed Shaniqua on the cheek “I want us to go out tonight,” he
said.

“You know we can’t do that. I don’t have
anyone to watch my kids.”

He smiled “I knew you was gonna say that but
I was talking about all of us. I wanna us to have a family night
out,” he said

Shaniqua smiled at him “Okay sure. Lord knows
I need to get out this house,” she said

“I figured you did. We leaving at 7,” he let
her know. He got off the couch and got the baby from Ray’Shun. He
kissed her before giving her to Shaniqua then picked Ray’Shun up
“Come on man, we’re going to get a haircut,” he said.

He bent down, kissed Shaniqua on the
forehead. “Tell mama we’ll be back,” he said to Ray’Shun, and he
did what he was told. Shaniqua couldn’t help but smile. Although
she felt like a piece of her was missing, she still felt she was
blessed to have Dre in her life and to be a father figure for her
son.

“Okay lil mama, it’s just me and you,” she
said to her baby girl.

She looked at the clock seeing that it was
already three o’clock so after feeding and burping her baby girl
she decided to go upstairs to find her something to where. She laid
her daughter in her bassinet they kept in their bedroom and began
searching through her closet for something to wear. In the middle
of that, her phone rung and she rolled her eyes already knowing who
it was. She kept searching through her closet ignoring it. After
ringing for the third time, she stormed out of the closet and
snatched it up peeking to make sure her baby was still sleep.

“Yeah,” she answered

“Why do I have to keep blowing up your phone
for you to answer? And why you never return my calls?” Ronny yelled
on the other end of the phone “All I want to do is talk to my
son.”

Shaniqua felt so bad for keeping Ray’Shun
away from Ronny. She never meant for things to be the way it was.
She knew it was killing Ronny and Ray’Shun to be apart but she was
gonna fix things and they was gonna reunite in due time “I was
downstairs Ronny and didn’t hear my phone,” she lied

“Man whatever. Let me speak to my son?” he
demanded angrily

She sigh didn’t really want to tell him that
Dre took him to get a haircut “He’s gone to get a haircut
Ronny”

“What I tell you about that Shaniqua? You
know I’m really trying to be nice but that nice guy shit is about
to end,” he paused “You took my son from me, you won’t let me see
him and now you barely letting me talk to him. Do you want me to
take you to court Shan? Because I will”

“Ronny you know I don’t want that,” she said
sadly

“I can’t tell. You told me that you moving up
there wouldn’t affect my relationship with my son. Is it that
nigga?”

“No,” she said quickly “I promise I’ll have
him to call you when he gets back Ronny,” she said looking over at
her baby that was trying to wake up

“Okay Shaniqua and I promise you if my lil
nigga don’t call me tonight I will catch the first flight to
Maryland and you or that fuck nigga won’t like it.” With that, he
hung up.

Shaniqua threw her phone on the bed and
covered her face with her hand “Lord give me strength,” she said
out loud before getting up to check on her baby. About two hours
later, she heard the front door open and close. She heard footsteps
coming up the stairs and in walked Ray’Shun wearing a devious
smile. She eyed him for a minute as he stood in the middle of the
bedroom floor not saying a word.

“What’s up lil man?” Shaniqua finally
asked.

His little smile grew bigger and he looked
back at the door as Dre was walking in with red roses and a gift
bag.

“Aw is this for me?” she asked with a smile
as she took the bag and roses and sat on the bed. She opened the
bag and pulled out a long black elegant dress. It was dipped low in
the back and showed off all the curves her baby girl gave her. Out
of nowhere, Ray’Shun came over and gave her a box that was wrapped.
She tore the wrapping paper off and opened the box taking out a
pair of Chanel heels. They were beautiful.

“I picked them out mama,” Ray’Shun said
proudly smiling

“Thank you baby. They are beautiful,” she
said hugging him and kissing him. She looked up and Dre and hugged
and kiss him. He walked out the room and quickly came back in his
and Ray’Shun tuxedo.

“What the hell? Y’all did this in two hours?”
she asked confused.

Dre laughed. “No. Me and my lil homie got all
this a couple of days ago,” he said as they high fived one another.
He handed her another bag with a little pink newborn dress.
Shaniqua tried to hold in the tears that were threaten to fall but
fail at that.

They all got dress and headed to the
restaurant. They walked in and to her surprise Brooke and her five
kids and husband was already inside waiting. First time ran through
Shaniqua mind was ‘
what in the hell is going on?’
as they
walked over to the table to join them