Page 65 of Love U Down II

“A’ight, Twin. Ain’t no more crying and shit. Pick your head up and look at me.” He slid his finger beneath my chin and lifted it. “What do you need?”

“Just this.” I forced a small smile and sniffled when I felt tears swelling in my eyes. “I’m really grateful that I have you,” I admitted. “And you get to be my family now.”

“That’s fucking right.” He smiled. “And ay, sooner or later we’ll really be our own little family.” His hand trailed from my back to my stomach and he wagged his eyebrows, earning a laugh from me.

“I can’t wait.”

“I mean, we can get started right now.”

“Getting pregnant when you allegedly have a damn near newborn is insane, Berlin.”

He scoffed. “There you go doing the impossible, baby.”

“Oh yeah? And what’s that?”

“You finally said some shit that made my dick soft.” He pushed me lightly. “Get off me with that stupid ass shit, Myome.”

I tightened my arms around him and laughed against his neck.

“You know that was funny.”

“Nah. It really wasn’t but I’m glad you find me getting slandered funny though. It says a lot about our marriage, Twin.”

“Baby, stop. It was a joke.” I kissed his cheek and he turned so we could kiss properly.

“Don’t even play like that. I ain’t got no fucking kids and any kids that I ever have will have, at least mostly, a mentally stable mama.”

“Mostly mentally stable?” I repeated.

“That’s right. You know yo’ ass a lil crazy, Yo.”

“Let that DNA test not look right in a few days and I’ll show you fucking crazy, Berlin.”

“Myome, I’ll go to your parents’ house and fuck yo’ daddy up for you playing with me. Cut the jokes before he has a matching ass whooping to go with the rest of the family.”

I paused and my eyebrows dipped together.

“The rest of my family?”

“Yeah. My mama beat up your mama and Rome fought Major.”

“When?”

“Earlier today,” he said simply. “I told you and them what would happen if they played with you. They played and the consequences were what they were.”

I paused for a second then climbed out of his lap and leaned back against the soundboard to face him fully.

“How’d you get your mom to fight my mom?”

“I picked up the phone and said ‘ay, they got Myome crying and shit. Come beat they ass’ and she pulled up.”

“Just like that?”

“Just like that. She loves yo’ lil pretty ass almost as much as I do.”

Drix looked up at me with a huge smile. I cut my eyes at him but a smile slipped over my face anyway.

“I love your family,” I admitted.