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  When her mother found out, she fought her own child because at one time she had been the wife on the cheating side of a married man.

  “Why is she even coming? Her ass hasn’t been around the family since when?” Lawrynn asked, shaking her head.

  The cousins made their way around the backyard speaking to family and friends. This was the cookout to be at every summer. The yard was a block long and was always packed with people. Lawrynn and Nell always stood off to the side joking on everybody and everything that was going down.

  “Hoochie ass cousin alert,” Nell said barely above a whisper.

  “Hey cousins,” Nikki said walking over to the pair.

  “Hey,” they both dryly responded as they took in what Nikki had on.

  Neither of them could understand who would come to a cookout in a backyard with six-inch heels on and a dress that needed to be worn to an Instagram photo shoot instead of a cookout.

  “How y’all doing?” she asked.

  Neither of them replied. Nikki rolled her eyes then tugged on her dress as if that would make it longer.

  “Where’s Pain?” a deep male voice said from behind them.

  “Hey Murder, what are you doing later on?” Nikki asked.

  He continued to wait for Lawrynn to answer, ignoring Nikki in expert fashion.

  “He’s in the kitchen playing dominoes with the fellas,” Lawrynn answered.

  He gave a head nod and walked toward the back door of the house.

  “Told you his ass is just weird,” Nell said before they both fell out laughing. They watched as Nikki walked toward the house, no doubt following Murder. “You better go in there and watch that hoe,” Nell said.

  “If he gets with her hoe ass knowing she’s a hoe and my cousin, he was never really mine,” Lawrynn replied.

  She was long over the days of running behind any man to make sure he ‘acts right.’

  “You gonna mess around, and we gonna have to fight both of them. I’m telling you that good shit, but you ain’t gotta listen to me,” Nell said.

  Lawrynn thought about what she said. She realized that her cousin could be right on the money. Acknowledging the correctness of the statement still didn’t motivate her to go in there and watch a damn thing. Nell and Lawrynn stayed in the backyard playing with the little kids, line dancing with the old folks, and just having a good time. It was getting dark when she saw Pain walking across the yard in her direction.

  “Babygirl, I gotta go help moms move some shit. Here go the keys. Murder’s gonna drop me off. Your mom fixed my plate already since you were out here acting like a big ass kid all damn day,” Pain said.

  She knew he was looking for an argument, but she wasn’t giving his ass one. Nell was standing behind Pain looking at him like she knew he was lying through his teeth and his fronts that he had in his mouth.

  “Okay,” was her only response.

  She looked around but didn’t see Murder, so she figured he had already gone to his car. Pain shook his head and walked away.

  “If he was going to his mama’s house, why he wanna argue before he left? Niggas ain’t shit,” Nell said.

  “He claims he wonders why I don’t wanna move in with his ass. This right here is why. Although I haven’t been confronted by any females or no shit like that, I still feel like he’s out here on some bullshit. That’s why I go home at night, and so does he,” she told her cousin.

  This was Lawrynn’s first time saying out loud what she’d been thinking for the past few months. She couldn’t keep denying her gut feeling even if their relationship did start off as some kind of hood fairytale.

  “I hear ya, boo. Always follow your instincts. Them shits don’t be wrong, believe me,” Nell said.

  The rest of the night, the ladies stayed having fun with the family and friends until the mosquitoes started biting. Lawrynn made her way through the yard and into the house telling everyone good night. She thought about calling Pain but quickly pushed the thought out of her head. Upon getting home, she headed straight for the shower after putting her phone on the charger. It wasn’t until she was on her way to get a bottle of water that she saw the note on the fridge.

  Law Baby,

  I left my key to your spot on the counter. I’m out and we done.

  Pain

  “This motherfucker here,” she said to no one but herself while shaking her head.

  Lawrynn balled up the paper and threw it in the trash, and then she sat on the couch and turned the TV on. Not wasting another moment, she got up to get her phone, so she could have her locks changed. Yeah, he left his key, but niggas out here be with the shits these days. He could have another key somewhere in the cut. She wasn’t taking any chances with him or any other nigga for that matter.

  Lawrynn was done trying to do the relationship thing. From here on out, it was all about her, and her alone.

  Chapter 3

  “I told you his ass was a hoe. He was just a hoe who covered his tracks. I say we go over to Auntie’s house and give our hoe ass cousin some good old fashion love taps,” Nell told Lawrynn.

  Lawrynn had just come from her doctor’s appointment. She was somewhat surprised to find Pain and her cousin Nikki at the doctor’s office as well. The hurtful part was that they were together at the doctor. Lawrynn wasted no time calling Nell for her to get ready because she was on her way to pick her up. That way, she could fill her in on the bullshit of the day. It had been months since Pain left that punk ass note for her, but she was still pissed at the sight of them today.

  “Fuck him and her. How the hell could he do that? She’s my fucking cousin,” Lawrynn fussed.

  “Our cousin is a hoe. I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out that she tried to fuck one of your brothers. The bitch is sick in the fucking head. How long have they been fucking? That’s my damn question,” Nell said.

  Lawrynn wondered the same thing. How the hell could he do some shit like this? Her own fucking cousin though, her blood cousin. Nikki was the biggest hoe on the east coast, but it still hurt that Pain had taken the bait. Lawrynn wiped her tears, deciding that she had cried long enough over a man who couldn’t have been hers. They were together for almost two years, but she still felt like she had given his ass too many tears.

  “Let’s go catch a movie or something. Everything will be alright, cousin. It’s his fucking loss. I hope he don’t think that she’s gonna be half the woman you were to him. If she’s not lying on her back, that hoe out of her fucking element,” Nell told her cousin.

  Seeing her cousin in all this pain behind Pain’s punk ass leaving her was only pissing her off. Yes, she was mad about it being their cousin Nikki that he left her for, but it took two to tango. Nikki would fuck anything, anywhere, and at any time. It was Pain who owed Lawrynn loyalty. So, the way Nell saw it, Pain was more at fault than Nikki’s hoe ass.

  “I don’t feel like going to the movies. We could go to the mall, though. That way I can find something to buy to help me feel better,” Lawrynn said.

  “Cousin, you’re so much better than me. I would be right at that nigga’s door ready to go to war with him and that hoe ass cousin of ours. The more I hurt, the more I get to punch you in the face and the nuts,” Nell told Lawrynn, causing them both to laugh.

  It was good to see Lawrynn laugh. She had been crying for the past two days.

  “Let me go change and get myself together. I know my eyes are all puffy and shit by now,” Lawrynn said.

  “Just hurry the hell up. Those tears might help you get up under a big Rock built type of nigga tonight,” Nell said, making Lawrynn stop in her tracks to look at her funny. “Don’t look at me like that. You know the best way to get over an old boyfriend is to get up under some strange-ass, big dick nigga with no expectations,” Nell said.

  “That sounds like you’re telling me to go out here and be a hoe,” Lawrynn responded.

  “Is that what you heard?” Nell asked sarcastically before falling out laughing.

 
; “I’m done with niggas for a while,” Lawrynn said.

  “Umm, does that mean you ’bout to be a lesbian, nun, or a chocolate trophy for a white man somewhere?” Nell asked her.

  “I’ll be right back, crazy,” Lawrynn while laughing.

  ~~~

  “You need to feel better after all the money you’ve spent in here today,” Nell told Lawrynn.

  Lawrynn simply gave her cousin the finger.

  “Yo, Lawrynn, you here by yourself?” the ladies heard a male voice ask.

  They both turned to see Murder standing behind them with a female on his arm.

  “Real funny, Murder,” Lawrynn said and glared at him.

  “Yo, are you alright? You look like you’ve been crying?” Murder asked.

  The female on his arm balled her face up.

  “I think you would be crying too if you found out that the person you’ve been in a relationship with left you to be with your cousin,” Lawrynn said. Murder’s face balled up as if he didn’t know what was going on. “Don’t act like you didn’t know Pain was fucking around with my cousin Nikki,” she told him.

  “This is the first I’ve heard of it. That’s fucked up, though,” Murder said, shaking his head. He knew all about Pain creeping, but not with her cousin. That shit was just fucked up. “Yo, if you need somebody to talk to, just hit me up,” he told her before he could stop himself.

  “What you mean?” the female asked him.

  “Man, shut the fuck up and just stand there, alright?” he snapped.

  “Why would I want to talk to you? You’re his boy, which means you know already. Me call you to talk. Yeah, picture that shit. Nah, I’m good love, enjoy,” she told him before walking away with her cousin by her side.

  “Who the hell was that?” the girl asked Murder as he watched Lawrynn and Nell walk away.

  “Say something else, and I’m gonna leave your ass here,” Murder told her as he took out his phone to call Pain and see what the hell was going on. “Aye, I just saw Law Baby and she said you broke up with her to be with her cousin. Please tell me you not moving like those niggas on Jerry Springer in real life man,” he said to Pain.

  “How did she look?” Pain asked Murder.

  “Like somebody who just got fucked over,” Murder said. “You know you fucked up, right? You just opened the way for a real nigga to slide in there and treat her right. She was a good one. You fucked her up for everybody,” Murder said.

  “Damn, nigga, are you fucking her? You sound like you’re her groupie out here and shit. I did what I had to do. She’ll bounce back,” Pain said.

  “How the fuck you sound talking ’bout she’ll bounce back? You had a good girl, and your dumb ass blew it. Any nigga out here would love the ground she walks on. All that for a damn hoe that’s fucked everybody you know but me. If I called her ass right now, she’d be ready and willing. That’s the bitch you chose over a woman like Law Baby. You gotta be the dumbest nigga on the planet,” Murder told him.

  “Nigga, you sound like you want her ass. Just know that her and Nikki are cousins, nigga. That means they’re cut from the same cloth. Just because you haven’t heard about Lawrynn being a hoe don’t mean she’s not one. Maybe you should go ’head and try your hand since you like her ass so much. You might can teach her ass a few things. She’s boring as fuck in the bed nigga,” Pain said and laughed.

  “You showing ya inner bitch now, nigga. Don’t tempt my black ass. She’s just what I’m looking for. On some real shit, I had my eyes on her that night at the club while you was out fucking the bottle bitch. Keep talking that shit, and I’ll be just the nigga to bring the freak out of her ass. I’m just the real nigga to do it. You know I don’t do that cheating shit, so me being faithful to her will make the shit even better,” Murder said, feeling his dick get hard by just thinking about getting inside Lawrynn.

  “Shoot ya fucking shot, nigga. Don’t let me stop ya,” Pain told him, knowing he didn’t mean the words he just said.

  In his mind, Lawrynn would never go for Murder. She was always telling him that he looked creepy to her or he scared her. No way in hell Murder would end up with Lawrynn.

  The way Murder saw it, he could be the real nigga who showed her how it should be done. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts about Lawrynn that he got in the car and pulled off, not even allowing his lady friend to get in the car. His phone went off, and he ended the call, only for it to go off again.

  “Who the fuck is this?” he said when he answered the phone.

  “Murder, you left me at the mall,” she said with an attitude.

  He looked over at the passenger seat, only just now remembering that he did come to the mall with somebody.

  “Damn, my bad. Do you have your purse and shit with you?” he asked.

  “Yeah, why?”

  “Well then, walk your ass across the street and catch the bus. How dumb are you to even let me pull off and you not try to get my attention?” Murder asked her.

  “I was calling your name, but you acted like you didn’t hear me,” she whined into the phone.

  “Damn, that’s fucked up. My bad, but you still gotta take the bus home, shorty. I ain’t turning around,” he said before ending the call.

  Chapter 4

  “I can’t believe this hoe is having my kid,” Pain told Murder as they were chilling in Murder’s barber shop.

  Murder just looked at his friend and shook his head.

  “That’s what happens when you fuck her raw with your dumb ass,” Murder said.

  “Man, this shit wasn’t supposed to get this far. Now my pops is all in my ear talking ’bout I need to marry her to make her an honest woman and shit like that,” Pain said.

  “Are you sure the baby is yours? I wouldn’t marry shit until I get a blood test,” Murder said.

  “What the fuck you trying to say?” Pain asked him as if he had no clue where this was going.

  “You know what the fuck I’m saying. You was out here living foul as fuck, and you know it. When you and Nikki started fucking around, you knew she was Law Baby’s cousin. You still had to be a nigga and get a sample of the one pussy that has more miles on it than the starship enterprise,” he said.

  “I just got caught up. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” Pain said.

  “What did you think was gonna happen when you kept fucking her?”

  Pain ran his hand down his face three times before looking up at the ceiling. He didn’t mean for this shit between him and Nikki to amount to anything more than a fuck. Yet, here he was with a baby on the way with a known hoe and still loving the hoe’s cousin. He hadn’t heard from his ‘Law Baby’ since that day at the cookout almost six months ago. He had tried to call her, but she had changed her number, blocked him on all her social media, and moved on his ass.

  It was crazy because he knew she was still close to the hood, he just never ran into her. His phone started to ring, and he knew exactly who it was.

  “What, man?” he answered.

  “Is that how you talk to your baby mama? When are you coming this way?” she asked.

  “I’m not, why?”

  “I think I need to move in with you until the baby is born, so I told my rent man I was moving next month,” she said as if what she was saying made perfect sense.

  “Why the fuck would you do that? You better call his ass back and say you was just fucking around,” he yelled.

  Pain could see Murder laughing and shaking his head beside him.

  “Look, if we gonna be a family, then we should stay in the same house. I’m not raising our child in two separate houses,” she told him.

  Instead of arguing with Nikki, Pain just ended the call. He stood to his feet and shoved his hands into the pockets of his not too baggy but not tight jeans. “I’m going to the liquor store. I need a fucking bottle. You gonna walk with me?” he asked Murder.

  “I’ll walk with you, but we’re not holding hands, with your gay sounding ass,” Murder said and
laughed.

  The longtime friends headed to the door. “I’ll be back. I’m going down here to the liquor spot,” he told the barbers who were busy cutting heads. He knew his friend had fucked up the day he told him that he had broken things off with Law Baby in the first place. “What you gonna do?” Murder asked Pain.

  “The fuck if I know. She doesn’t clean, cook, or even know how to have a decent conversation. If we not talking about some bullshit reality TV or some Instagram beef, we have very little to say. Her fucking pussy is killer and the head will put a nigga to sleep. On top of that, she don’t care which hole I fuck or about bringing other bitches home,” Pain said.

  “I don’t need to know all that shit. All of that is well and good, but you’re not the only nigga she be doing that shit with. Why you think her asshole and pussy hole so fucking big? Shit, I’m surprised she ain’t said shit about having a three-way relationship. She don’t care what you do as long as she’s a part of it. It’s just funny that out of all the niggas in the hood, young and old, you’re the one she wanna pin a fucking kid on. I’m sure her cum dump ass been knocked up before now,” Murder said, not holding his tongue or sparing any of his friend’s feelings.

  “Man, that’s a low blow,” Pain said.

  “No, it ain’t. You got with a hoe so y’all could be hoes together without any arguments. You just didn’t think you would be getting ready to have a hoe ass kid running around. You left Law Baby because she was too damn good for you in the first place. Now you want me to sit up here and try to console you because you’ve fucked up, but I’m not,” Murder said.

  “You didn’t even fuck with Law Baby like that when I was with her. Now you got a lot of shit to say,” Pain said.

  “You’re right, so all I’m gonna say is you fucked up,” Murder said, cutting the conversation short.

  The truth of the matter was he liked Law Baby. In fact, he was the one who gave her the name Law baby in the first place. Law Baby was what a nigga like him needed in his life. True enough, he hadn’t noticed what a good catch she was until Pain got with her and started talking about her all the time. Around that time, he noticed what a fucked up individual his boy was. Sleeping with Nikki wasn’t the first fucked up thing he did while he was with Law Baby. He had witnessed some shit that made Murder pray to never have a daughter in the future.