You and You Only: Chapter 6 - Daddy & Mama
Nick visits Cam's mom....a day in his life...
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Jeje- Thank you and I am really sorry for the wait, I had so much school work to do! Lol. And yes I will continue it!
Kslater- I know right???? They have to be two most stubborn people on the face of the planet...and you'll find out who the baby's mother is
Anna- Thank you and you shall receive more!
Les :)- Thanks you really think so? That's awesome, thank you! Yeah I know maybe I should calm down on the drama huh? And just keep waiting the ending will not disappoint!
Yari- Ahhhhhh don't read so much it hurts lol. But thank you so so much! And I won't disappoint Scouts Honor (Lol I'm so not a Scout let me stop hehe)
Justine.A- Yes, indeed they are! Thank you and wait and see :-)
Jessie N.- Thank you very much!
Tavita K- Ah I cannot say, but you should, so check out 'Like The Stars Colliding' that's Leia's story and her dramas that cover her life from three years ago to the present day. And you will find out, and ugh lol man you catch on quick, I was hoping I could sneak that one in...but alas. Yeah Nick...he's retarded and Nia is beautiful isn't she? Yeah Sharise will have a belly really soon. and yes you shall find out as well.
Aish- Thank you for reading my stories and sadly no, I don't think I will ever continue 'If I'm not worthy of your love' because most of it is based on an experience that I really want to forget and idk the 16th chapter should be somewhere with my articles. And thank you, lol yeah I know a whole lot of people hate Nick right now...sheeshhhhh he's always effin up!
Lizle K- Thank you so muchhhhhhh...and I'm sure that coming from you, that is true! You always seem to comment on the top of the line stories so anything you comment on I read. Thank you again :-)
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Nicks POV
Cam's heavy head lolled to the side as I leaned into the backseat of the car and buckled him into his car seat.
"My Lil Man getting big. Ain't that right boy?"
Silence.
I grimaced at him.....it's not as if I expected him to wake up suddenly and say something...but he could've at least shifted....
He had no care in the world.....just chillin....like his daddy used to do.
"That's my Man." I kissed his forehead, "MWAH."
I thought of Jerome from Martin Lawrence, "Das mah boi, das mah boi right there."
He did open his eyes at that...but only to frown at me. Cameron then proceeded to glare at me as if I was the most hateful person on earth and turned his head.
"Oh so NOW you wanna turn your head."
His answer was a loud snore.
"Alright, Imma leave you alone. But don't you forget who wears the big draws in the family."
I scrunched my face up comically and stepped away from the car. For my imaginary audience I pulled up my pants and puffed up my chest. Next I flexed the muscles in my arms, held them up and curled my arms as the cartoons dramatized muscular men. I kissed at each round muscle in my arms and walked around the car as if I was the hulk.
"Whatcha know bout that boy?"
A woman jogging by eyed me suspiciously.
I could feel the heat in my neck rising to my face and dropped my arms.
"Just entertaining my son....ain't nothing fishy going on over here."
She shook her head and continued running, her long brown ponytail bounced in the moonlight and the silver light illuminated her pale white skin eerily.
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Alexia came out at the first knock and spread her arms wide open for Cameron.
"Hey baby boy, you been good for mommy?" Cam nodded his head at Alexia before closing his eyes. A soft snore followed suit.
"He might be up later...."
"Oh, here let me take him."
Her thin small hands reached out to hold him against her fragile body.
I thought of her when the baby was first-born.
She hadn't collapsed onto her bed as I had heard other women do. Alexia sat upright in bed, holding Cam in her arms and looking at him as if he was completely alien.
"He looks like you."
I grinned, "Yeah he does." I made my way over to her bedside and kneeled right there with the gloves still on my hands.
"Man, my boy, that's my boy."
"So he is yours."
"I told you he was....ain't no way he could be his."
I had always been sure that Cam was mines, I didn't care how many guys Alexia had slept with after we broke up, I knew he was mines.
And there he was bundled up in a blue blanket, tiny translucent like fingers curling and uncurling. His tiny mouth opened,but nothing came out. Silent Screamer.....my baby.
"Beautiful isn't he?"
A single tear slid down her cheek.
She's happy.
I smiled, I was happy too, not happy enough to cry, but happy that he was finally in the world, where I could see him and talk to him.
"You happy?"
She nodded slowly. Her skin looked sickly and her body had barely been able to carry Cameron the entire nine months.
Her lips moved,but I heard nothing. I kissed her cheek and beamed down at Cam.
"I don't want to marry you."
My neck stiffened, yet I was still able to turn to her.
"W-what?"
"I don't want to marry you."
I looked for the engagement ring on her finger,but it wasn't there. I looked around the room for it and then I saw it there, lying on the nightstand next to her.
"Baby, don't say that."
"Its true...I wouldn't be with you....if it wasn't for him..."
Him....she couldn't even say his name. Her eyes lingered on him for a moment before looking at me with a stony expression.
"I don't..." I cleared my throat and attempted to smile, "I don't believe you."
"What the f*ck is wrong with you Nick? Can't you hear?"
I leaned back on the heels of my feet,barely falling backwards.
So I had spent all this time with the mother of my child for her to deny me?
"Yeah...I hear you."
I licked my dry lips and all thoughts of happiness from Cam's birth were clouded by her revelation.
"I don't want you.....and I don't want him"
Alexia struggled to sit up, and when she did she held the baby out to me. I took him slowly, staring at her as I felt his tiny weight growing in my arms.
"But...he's your son, he's ours. Our son. OUR son." I emphasized.
"He's YOUR son."
She turned away from us, shifting the blankets around her to cover her head.
I stood up with little Cam in my arms. His little fist held onto the edge of his blue blanket and his mouth gaped open as if he was gasping for air. I pressed my cheek gently against his and whispered into his ear.
"Mommy don't want you, but I do."
I could feel the muscles in my forehead constricting and my teeth bit my bottom lip until I could taste the blood forming. I rocked his little body in my arms and found the strength to walk, and I walked all the way to the nursery. I gave him over to the nurse and took a seat to watch his little chest rise and fall.
I.....don't.....want.....him
"I got him." I pushed past her carefully and pushed the rest of the door open with my right shoulder. I could feel her behind me breathing heavily from.....from whatever she had been doing before me and Cam showed up.
"What the hell...."
I surveyed the living room warily; mess was all over the place. There were beer cans on the carpeted floor and wine glasses overturned on the coffee table in her living room.
"Alexia." I groaned.
I stepped over crap,and crap and crap and CRAP! I looked over my shoulder to look at her. There she stood behind me biting the side of her bottom lip, her hair natural and flat-ironed to the tip of her shoulders.
"I can't keep bringing him here, if you don't clean up sh*t!" I muttered.
I made my way to his room, which was adjacent to hers. I switched the light on in his room and saw all the mess on his floor.
"F*ck." I swore under my breath.
"Nick what is it now?! Damn it! Every time you come over you have sh*t to say. Just drop him off and get the f*ck out!"
"Shhh!"
I laid Cam on his changing table and stripped him of his clothes.
"No, don't you SHHH me! This is my house, show me some respect and stop treating me like a child! I know what I'm doing! I'm older than you!"
I laughed as I changed Cam's diaper and threw it in the garbage bin next to the changing table.
"By one year, by one year only. And I wouldn't treat you like a child if you didn't act like one."
Alexia pushed me roughly to the side and changed Cams diaper going on with her tirade.
"I am his mother and I know how to take care of him!"
I crossed my arms and laughed again, "A mother...a mother right. I'm his mama and his daddy...since day one. Since day one so don't you try that bull crap with me, cuz I'm not taking it...you can spin that sh*t to your sugar daddies."
"And you weren't saying that all the times we messed around."
"Free sex is free sex." I growled back.
"And it's your fault! It's your FAULT I have a baby."
"Take responsibilities for your action...if you're so much older than me then you should act like it! I didn't force your legs open, and neither did those other guys you're so used to screwing. Who is it now? Who are you hoeing yourself out to now?"
She whipped around to face me, "No f*cking body. I have my own money, I have my degree and I make good money. I just want you to respect me!"
I kicked one of Cams toy cars to the side, "Treat him as if he is your child and I will respect you."
"Are you done b*tching cuz I need to put my son to bed. Can you leave? Please?"
I nodded my head and exhaled.
"Yeah I'm through."
"Fabulous."
I could feel the hate dripping through her words, and there was plenty there to drip drip drip. I couldn't understand why she didn't want to take responsibility for her actions. Why couldn't she love MY baby as much as I did. Hell I didn't have the parts to form a baby by myself. When were her motherly instincts going to come in?
I pushed past her once again and kissed Cam on the forehead. My son was handsome, so beautiful and I loved him.
"I'll be back for MY son soon."
I turned from her and stepped over the many toys she hadn't picked up. I left out the room breathing in and out to control my anger.
"Asshole."
I knew she wanted me to hear that.
"B*tch." I retorted staring straight ahead.
I locked the door from the inside out and slammed it so she could here. Mama would get on my later for cursing Alexia out. I was sure that Alexia would pick up the phone in tears later and dial my mama crying hysterically. Then mama would call me and curse me out until I agreed to call Alexia back and treat her better. And I couldn't say anything, I couldn't say, 'But mama'.
I shrugged it all off, it was just a matter of a couple of hours and then she would call me and find some way to compare me to my fool ass daddy. I would have to bite my tongue to keep from b*tchin about it all.
Two hours later as I laid in my bed my phone buzzed. I sat up and rubbed the skin between my nose.
"Hello." I answered gruffly.
"Nick!"
I rolled my eyes, "Yes Claire."
So mama had Claire to call.....lovely. I could picture her sitting in bed next to mama bouncing four-year old Eric up and down. That's how it had been since I'd left home, mama by herself with Claire and Erin...and my Dad....probably somewhere in hell.
I could also picture her sneering into the phone while twirling one long curly brown strand around her pale white index finger, doing mama's dirty work.
"Mama said you have some explaining to do."
"Uh huh...tell me."
"She said you know what's wrong."
"Claire how old are you?"
"Thirteen." She chirped proudly.
"Well yeah you ain't grown, let me talk to mama."
"She's not here."
"Where is she?"
"Out."
"With whom!?"
"A man."
"And she left you home alone?"
"Noooooooo STUPID! Erin is here with me....Erin come say hey to Nick."
I smacked my forehead. What the hell was my mama doing out...and with a man?! She better sit her old ass down somewhere!
"Nickkkkkkkk!" Erin roared into the phone.
"Hey buddyyyyyyyy!"
"I wanna see Cam!"
"Ok buddy, I'll bring him over to see you later, k lil man?
"YEAH!"
"Hey lemme talk to Clair bud."
"K."
"Ay Cici, when mama get home, tell her I have some choice words for her."
"Yeah yeah whatever."
"And I bet not hear of no boys over there...or I'm goin in."
"Kiss my ass."
"Ay, that either, don't be cursing little girl."
"Yeah yeah yeah."
"Bye girl."
"Bye Nick." Both screamed in unison.
I hung up the phone and fell back on my pillows. The coolness from the fabric soothed my hot back...but it didn't soothe my thoughts.
And I had a lot of thoughts.
Jeje- Thank you and I am really sorry for the wait, I had so much school work to do! Lol. And yes I will continue it!
Kslater- I know right???? They have to be two most stubborn people on the face of the planet...and you'll find out who the baby's mother is
Anna- Thank you and you shall receive more!
Les :)- Thanks you really think so? That's awesome, thank you! Yeah I know maybe I should calm down on the drama huh? And just keep waiting the ending will not disappoint!
Yari- Ahhhhhh don't read so much it hurts lol. But thank you so so much! And I won't disappoint Scouts Honor (Lol I'm so not a Scout let me stop hehe)
Justine.A- Yes, indeed they are! Thank you and wait and see :-)
Jessie N.- Thank you very much!
Tavita K- Ah I cannot say, but you should, so check out 'Like The Stars Colliding' that's Leia's story and her dramas that cover her life from three years ago to the present day. And you will find out, and ugh lol man you catch on quick, I was hoping I could sneak that one in...but alas. Yeah Nick...he's retarded and Nia is beautiful isn't she? Yeah Sharise will have a belly really soon. and yes you shall find out as well.
Aish- Thank you for reading my stories and sadly no, I don't think I will ever continue 'If I'm not worthy of your love' because most of it is based on an experience that I really want to forget and idk the 16th chapter should be somewhere with my articles. And thank you, lol yeah I know a whole lot of people hate Nick right now...sheeshhhhh he's always effin up!
Lizle K- Thank you so muchhhhhhh...and I'm sure that coming from you, that is true! You always seem to comment on the top of the line stories so anything you comment on I read. Thank you again :-)
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Nicks POV
Cam's heavy head lolled to the side as I leaned into the backseat of the car and buckled him into his car seat.
"My Lil Man getting big. Ain't that right boy?"
Silence.
I grimaced at him.....it's not as if I expected him to wake up suddenly and say something...but he could've at least shifted....
He had no care in the world.....just chillin....like his daddy used to do.
"That's my Man." I kissed his forehead, "MWAH."
I thought of Jerome from Martin Lawrence, "Das mah boi, das mah boi right there."
He did open his eyes at that...but only to frown at me. Cameron then proceeded to glare at me as if I was the most hateful person on earth and turned his head.
"Oh so NOW you wanna turn your head."
His answer was a loud snore.
"Alright, Imma leave you alone. But don't you forget who wears the big draws in the family."
I scrunched my face up comically and stepped away from the car. For my imaginary audience I pulled up my pants and puffed up my chest. Next I flexed the muscles in my arms, held them up and curled my arms as the cartoons dramatized muscular men. I kissed at each round muscle in my arms and walked around the car as if I was the hulk.
"Whatcha know bout that boy?"
A woman jogging by eyed me suspiciously.
I could feel the heat in my neck rising to my face and dropped my arms.
"Just entertaining my son....ain't nothing fishy going on over here."
She shook her head and continued running, her long brown ponytail bounced in the moonlight and the silver light illuminated her pale white skin eerily.
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Alexia came out at the first knock and spread her arms wide open for Cameron.
"Hey baby boy, you been good for mommy?" Cam nodded his head at Alexia before closing his eyes. A soft snore followed suit.
"He might be up later...."
"Oh, here let me take him."
Her thin small hands reached out to hold him against her fragile body.
I thought of her when the baby was first-born.
She hadn't collapsed onto her bed as I had heard other women do. Alexia sat upright in bed, holding Cam in her arms and looking at him as if he was completely alien.
"He looks like you."
I grinned, "Yeah he does." I made my way over to her bedside and kneeled right there with the gloves still on my hands.
"Man, my boy, that's my boy."
"So he is yours."
"I told you he was....ain't no way he could be his."
I had always been sure that Cam was mines, I didn't care how many guys Alexia had slept with after we broke up, I knew he was mines.
And there he was bundled up in a blue blanket, tiny translucent like fingers curling and uncurling. His tiny mouth opened,but nothing came out. Silent Screamer.....my baby.
"Beautiful isn't he?"
A single tear slid down her cheek.
She's happy.
I smiled, I was happy too, not happy enough to cry, but happy that he was finally in the world, where I could see him and talk to him.
"You happy?"
She nodded slowly. Her skin looked sickly and her body had barely been able to carry Cameron the entire nine months.
Her lips moved,but I heard nothing. I kissed her cheek and beamed down at Cam.
"I don't want to marry you."
My neck stiffened, yet I was still able to turn to her.
"W-what?"
"I don't want to marry you."
I looked for the engagement ring on her finger,but it wasn't there. I looked around the room for it and then I saw it there, lying on the nightstand next to her.
"Baby, don't say that."
"Its true...I wouldn't be with you....if it wasn't for him..."
Him....she couldn't even say his name. Her eyes lingered on him for a moment before looking at me with a stony expression.
"I don't..." I cleared my throat and attempted to smile, "I don't believe you."
"What the f*ck is wrong with you Nick? Can't you hear?"
I leaned back on the heels of my feet,barely falling backwards.
So I had spent all this time with the mother of my child for her to deny me?
"Yeah...I hear you."
I licked my dry lips and all thoughts of happiness from Cam's birth were clouded by her revelation.
"I don't want you.....and I don't want him"
Alexia struggled to sit up, and when she did she held the baby out to me. I took him slowly, staring at her as I felt his tiny weight growing in my arms.
"But...he's your son, he's ours. Our son. OUR son." I emphasized.
"He's YOUR son."
She turned away from us, shifting the blankets around her to cover her head.
I stood up with little Cam in my arms. His little fist held onto the edge of his blue blanket and his mouth gaped open as if he was gasping for air. I pressed my cheek gently against his and whispered into his ear.
"Mommy don't want you, but I do."
I could feel the muscles in my forehead constricting and my teeth bit my bottom lip until I could taste the blood forming. I rocked his little body in my arms and found the strength to walk, and I walked all the way to the nursery. I gave him over to the nurse and took a seat to watch his little chest rise and fall.
I.....don't.....want.....him
"I got him." I pushed past her carefully and pushed the rest of the door open with my right shoulder. I could feel her behind me breathing heavily from.....from whatever she had been doing before me and Cam showed up.
"What the hell...."
I surveyed the living room warily; mess was all over the place. There were beer cans on the carpeted floor and wine glasses overturned on the coffee table in her living room.
"Alexia." I groaned.
I stepped over crap,and crap and crap and CRAP! I looked over my shoulder to look at her. There she stood behind me biting the side of her bottom lip, her hair natural and flat-ironed to the tip of her shoulders.
"I can't keep bringing him here, if you don't clean up sh*t!" I muttered.
I made my way to his room, which was adjacent to hers. I switched the light on in his room and saw all the mess on his floor.
"F*ck." I swore under my breath.
"Nick what is it now?! Damn it! Every time you come over you have sh*t to say. Just drop him off and get the f*ck out!"
"Shhh!"
I laid Cam on his changing table and stripped him of his clothes.
"No, don't you SHHH me! This is my house, show me some respect and stop treating me like a child! I know what I'm doing! I'm older than you!"
I laughed as I changed Cam's diaper and threw it in the garbage bin next to the changing table.
"By one year, by one year only. And I wouldn't treat you like a child if you didn't act like one."
Alexia pushed me roughly to the side and changed Cams diaper going on with her tirade.
"I am his mother and I know how to take care of him!"
I crossed my arms and laughed again, "A mother...a mother right. I'm his mama and his daddy...since day one. Since day one so don't you try that bull crap with me, cuz I'm not taking it...you can spin that sh*t to your sugar daddies."
"And you weren't saying that all the times we messed around."
"Free sex is free sex." I growled back.
"And it's your fault! It's your FAULT I have a baby."
"Take responsibilities for your action...if you're so much older than me then you should act like it! I didn't force your legs open, and neither did those other guys you're so used to screwing. Who is it now? Who are you hoeing yourself out to now?"
She whipped around to face me, "No f*cking body. I have my own money, I have my degree and I make good money. I just want you to respect me!"
I kicked one of Cams toy cars to the side, "Treat him as if he is your child and I will respect you."
"Are you done b*tching cuz I need to put my son to bed. Can you leave? Please?"
I nodded my head and exhaled.
"Yeah I'm through."
"Fabulous."
I could feel the hate dripping through her words, and there was plenty there to drip drip drip. I couldn't understand why she didn't want to take responsibility for her actions. Why couldn't she love MY baby as much as I did. Hell I didn't have the parts to form a baby by myself. When were her motherly instincts going to come in?
I pushed past her once again and kissed Cam on the forehead. My son was handsome, so beautiful and I loved him.
"I'll be back for MY son soon."
I turned from her and stepped over the many toys she hadn't picked up. I left out the room breathing in and out to control my anger.
"Asshole."
I knew she wanted me to hear that.
"B*tch." I retorted staring straight ahead.
I locked the door from the inside out and slammed it so she could here. Mama would get on my later for cursing Alexia out. I was sure that Alexia would pick up the phone in tears later and dial my mama crying hysterically. Then mama would call me and curse me out until I agreed to call Alexia back and treat her better. And I couldn't say anything, I couldn't say, 'But mama'.
I shrugged it all off, it was just a matter of a couple of hours and then she would call me and find some way to compare me to my fool ass daddy. I would have to bite my tongue to keep from b*tchin about it all.
Two hours later as I laid in my bed my phone buzzed. I sat up and rubbed the skin between my nose.
"Hello." I answered gruffly.
"Nick!"
I rolled my eyes, "Yes Claire."
So mama had Claire to call.....lovely. I could picture her sitting in bed next to mama bouncing four-year old Eric up and down. That's how it had been since I'd left home, mama by herself with Claire and Erin...and my Dad....probably somewhere in hell.
I could also picture her sneering into the phone while twirling one long curly brown strand around her pale white index finger, doing mama's dirty work.
"Mama said you have some explaining to do."
"Uh huh...tell me."
"She said you know what's wrong."
"Claire how old are you?"
"Thirteen." She chirped proudly.
"Well yeah you ain't grown, let me talk to mama."
"She's not here."
"Where is she?"
"Out."
"With whom!?"
"A man."
"And she left you home alone?"
"Noooooooo STUPID! Erin is here with me....Erin come say hey to Nick."
I smacked my forehead. What the hell was my mama doing out...and with a man?! She better sit her old ass down somewhere!
"Nickkkkkkkk!" Erin roared into the phone.
"Hey buddyyyyyyyy!"
"I wanna see Cam!"
"Ok buddy, I'll bring him over to see you later, k lil man?
"YEAH!"
"Hey lemme talk to Clair bud."
"K."
"Ay Cici, when mama get home, tell her I have some choice words for her."
"Yeah yeah whatever."
"And I bet not hear of no boys over there...or I'm goin in."
"Kiss my ass."
"Ay, that either, don't be cursing little girl."
"Yeah yeah yeah."
"Bye girl."
"Bye Nick." Both screamed in unison.
I hung up the phone and fell back on my pillows. The coolness from the fabric soothed my hot back...but it didn't soothe my thoughts.
And I had a lot of thoughts.
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