"Devin come get me!" Keisha said.
Stacy laughs hysterically.
"What's so damn funny?" Keisha asked.
"You!"
"I don't see anything funny, how the HELL am I the one in jail when I was tryna be the peace maker?!"
"Keish you were not trying to be no peace maker- not swinging like that you weren't." Dani said.
"Yes I was I calmly walked over to him to try and resolve things I even used my proper white girl voice, until he put his hand on me!" Keisha says.
"And why the hell didn't anyone help me?!"
"Keisha I have kids, I can't be going to jail." Devin said.
"What about you Joe you were talkin about what you were goin to do but you aint do s**t!"
"Keisha you were fighting an officer." Joe said.
"Yeah, yeah are you finna to come get me or nah I`m in here looking like big bird!"
"Aint nobody told you to put that on to begin with!" Rocky said.
"Rocky kiss my a**!"
"Nah I think I'll pass."
"Are you going to get me or what Devin?!" Keisha asked
"Um- I can't but Dani or Rocky can."
"No I can't, Johnathon and I have to look at venues." Rocky said.
"I thought you found one months ago?" Devin said.
"I have to go!" Rocky said turning on her heel.
"Rocky you hella f**ked up!" Keisha yelled.
"Yeah, Yeah." Rocky said walking out.
"I`ll go get her." Jessica said.
"Oh hell no- I aint ridin back with no Jessica!"
"Well then you're going to be sitting in jail, because no one wants to come get you!" Jessica said.
"Yal messed up, first yal let me get beat, now yal gonna let me sit in the stanky a** jail lookin like big bird- I`ll remember that!"
"Wouldn't you have your jail clothes by now?" Stacy asked.
"No they have me in a holdin cell."
"Well have fun!" Jessica said trying to hang the phone up.
"Shut up Jessica!"
"So aint nobody comin for me?"
"No- I told you nobody wanted to come get you, but me and you ruined that!" Jessica yelled.
"Shh- Joseph and Joanna are sleep!" Devin said.
"Yal messed up!"
"Fine I`ll go get her!" Joe says.
"You better come get me its yo fault I'm in here." Keisha said.
"How?"
"If you weren't such a damn hot head i wouldn't of had to go over there to try and calm things down."
"My bad."
"Yo bad- yo bad, you always runin yo mouth and you never think of the consequences."
"Thats because he thinks he's untouchable because his mom is a lawyer." Devin says.
"Well next time- wait wait a minute why aint Joe leave yet?"
"Shut up Keisha I'm heading out now, Stac- come with me?"
"Nope."
"Dani?"
"Sure."
"Yal aint s**t!" Keisha said.
"Bye Keisha." Devin said hanging up the phone
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"Yes mom I made it here safe." Jazmine said on the phone.
"How's he treating you?"
"Great- it's his wife that hates me."
"Well don't let her get to you, you're where you belong."
"Thanks mom- I love you." Jazmine said.
"I love you too."
"Are you doing what i told you to do?"
"Yes mom."
"Good girl."
"I flushed her anxiety pills down the toliet." Jamine says.
"What was her reaction to that?"
Jazmine shrugs as if she could see her and says.
"I don't know yet i just did it."
"How often does she take them?"
"Twice a day i think."
"So she'll notice soon."
"Alright well I'll talk to you after the test in two days."
"Alright baby."
Jazmine gets up and walks into the living room with the others when the front door opens, it's Joe, Dani and Keisha.
"That little b***h!" Keisha said running up to Jazmine and punches her
"HEY!" Devin yelled.
"You need to calm the hell down!" Joe said stepping in between the two.
"That little b***h called the police!" Keisha yelled.
"Keisha you don't know that." Richard says.
"Yes the hell I do!"
"I didn't do anything!" Jazmine said holding her face.
"You ah lie!"
"And you're insane!"
"You sat your little Casper lookin a** in your room and called the police."
"I wasn't even in my room."
" Then you sat somewhere else and did it, cause ya a** did it, thats why you sat yo a** at the door smirkin."
"I was laughing about how stupid you looked."
"That's enough- Jazmine go to your room!" Devin said.
"WHAT- she punched me!"
"Go!" Devin yelled.
"Dad?" Jazmine said.
"Just go." Joe said.
Jazmine mugs Keisha and then Devin and walks away.
"Keisha you can't be putting your hands on people like that!" Devin said.
"Oh shut up Devin!"
"Keish I`m serious!"
"Yeah, Yeah."
"KEISHA I know you're mad at the world, but you can't go around hitting people especially not my child!" Joe yelled in anger.
"She ain't your…"
"I think we all just need to go to sleep before anyone says anything they'd later regret." Devin said cutting her off as she holds her husband arm.
"Yeah I think you're right!" Richard said pulling Keisha back.
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"I can't believe Keisha!" Joe says flopping down on the bed in anger as he yanked his shirt from over his head.
Looking around her dresser for her pill bottles Devin says.
"You know Keisha."
"Yeah but this time she went too far- she put her hands on my daughter!"
"Jazmine's not your daughter." Devin says climbing in bed.
Joe snaps his head towards Devin.
"What she isn't."
"Stop saying that- she is just as much as my child as the others!"
"That's the thing she not JUST as much as your child as the others!"
"You don't know that!"
"No Joe YOU don't know that, that's why you're getting a dna test done in two days." Devin said.
"Devin I`m not talking about this anymore- I`m going to bed!" Joe said.
"Good!" Devin said turning over.
"One more thing, when I find out that she is mines your gonna start treating her like you do the others!"
"I thought you were going to sleep?"
"Devin I`m serious!"
"Yeah I know, and I do treat her exactly how I treat mines."
"Oh so you snatch all the kids by their arms?" Joe asked.
"Joe what are you talking about?"
"Jazmine told me when you walked back into the arena that night and you grabbed her by the arm and you left a bruise."
Devin flipped back over and said. "Did she tell you why I grabbed her by the arm?"
"Does it matter, you left a bruise."
"You know that new guy at work you got suspended for fighting- yeah i caught her making out with him, but I`m sure she told you that part too!"
Joe sighs and says. "Devin I`m…"
"I`m going to bed before we say something that we'll regret!" Devin says cutting him off.
Joe pushes back Devin's hair.
"Good night." Devin said pushing his hand back.
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It was twelve o`clock mid night and the house was sleep all except Jazmine who had wondered into Joe and Devin's room. Standing at the door way watching them as they slept, Jazmine slowly walks into their room without a sound, well almost without a sound until she ran into the dresser and knocks something off, Devin opens her eyes and stretched as Jazmine stood in the corner as quiet as a church mouse wondering if she seen her, when Devin turns around and throws her arm around Joe and falls back asleep. Tip toeing around the bed Jazmine steps in front of her dad and smiles and then reaches down and pushes back his wild hair and kisses him on the cheek and turns and walks out.