Welp! Here's another chapter for you all to read, thank you for the comments, please keep them coming, but until than enjoy this chater...
Kendra
"Eighty bucks down the drain, thanks a lot Joshua." I touched my hair while sighing and rolling my eyes. Jey was sitting at the foot of his bed smiling at me and playing with his fingers. He reached over and ran his fingers through it a few times before shrugging.
"I'll pay for you to get it done over, trust me it's well worth it and more." He leaned his body over and kissed my lips tenderly. I held the sheets tightly and couldn't help but to smile.
"I can't believe we've been up here all night and most of the day." I looked around at the room and fell back onto the pillows while Jey hovered over me. He started planting kisses all over my face until I just grabbed him and kissed him fully on the lips.
"When you're getting good loving nothing seems to really matter." I blushed and pushed him away and jumped out of bed.
"True, but my little ass is worn the hell out! I need food, water, something." Jey stood up in all his glory and grabbed me.
"Well let's go cook than." He put me over his shoulder and we made our way downstairs and into his over the top kitchen. I was screaming the whole time and playfully hitting his back with my little fist.
Jey finally sat me down on the counter and I watched him pick up his apron and start getting out pots and pans. I covered my mouth and tried to hold in my laughter, but once he started grabbing food out of the fridge a few giggles escape and Jey looked over at me.
"What?" He asked before putting water in two pots and started washing off a few tomatoes and cucumbers.
"You're just wearing an apron Jey." He stopped what he was doing and looked down at himself.
"Yeah and? I don't want anything to pop on me so this will protect me." I was still laughing until he pulled me down and grabbed another apron and put it over my head and spun me around.
"You come over here and start cutting these up Miss Fits Of Giggles. I will do the hard stuff." The whole time he was talking he was tying the apron around my waist and planting kisses from behind my ear down to my shoulder. He turned me around and kissed my neck before letting me go
"Fine, but I don't like being stuck with the bitch work." I mocked hurt while I got a knife from the holder and started dicing the tomatoes and cucumbers.
"Oh stop it, besides, this is what Jimmy does every morning-" I rolled my eyes and held a hand up.
"Please don't bring him up…please." Jey grabbed some pasta from a cabinet over my head and made a noise before throwing it into the boiling pot of water and seasoning it.
"Uh oh, that bad?" I stopped cutting and cut my eyes at him.
"Worse and I don't want to talk about it." Jey walked behind me and brushed up against me while going back to the fridge.
"Well we don't have to talk about him, either one of them. Let's just enjoy this weekend, just the two of us." I smiled and went back to work.
"Now that I can do, what are you making?" Jey grabbed some chicken and sat it to the side while looking around.
"What are WE making you mean?" I shrugged and decided to go along with it.
"Yeah." Jey grabbed some brown sugar and soy sauce.
"It's a surprise, but trust me, you will love it." He kissed my check and started throwing things in a pot.
I smacked my lips and finished dicing everything up and putting it into a bowl and washed my hands
"You know I love everything you cook, you have a real gift Uce-" Jey tasted his sauce and nodded his head in approval.
"Thank you, but can you not call me Uce? I've been balls deep in you and having you call me that feels weird.
I smacked him on the ass kind of hard, but before he could react I wrapped my arms around his waist.
"Well excuse me, Joshua. I didn't mean any harm or mean to make you feel uncomfortable. Jey looked over his shoulder at me when I said his name in a dramatic dreamy voice before laying the chicken in his sauce slowly.
"Oh you a smart ass huh?" I couldn't help but to laugh and moved away from him.
"Since I was born, but I am going upstairs and take a shower…maybe while I'm here we can get around to me doing something to your hair." Jey never looked up, but I did get a middle finger thrown in my direction. I smiled and walked out of the kitchen and went back up the steps.
I walked back downstairs in one of his shirts and a towel around my head. I yawned into my hand and walked into the kitchen to see Jey eating.
"Well thanks for waiting for me…shit." I bumped him while walking over to my plate and picking up my fork. Jey sucked some sauce off his thumb while smirking.
"You take hour long showers, no way in hell I was waiting for you…and why do you have that damn towel on your head?" My hand went straight to the towel and I forward my brows.
"My hair is wet." Jey eyed me for a minute. He put a fork full of food in his mouth and sat up straight; still looking at me. It wasn't until he swallowed before he pointed at my head with his fork.
You have maybe three inches of hair now. Let that shit air dry, it's only going to take a minute." My mouth dropped and I picked up a roll and threw it at him.
"Shut up! Remember my hair was much longer than yours kid!" Jey caught the roll and took a bite out of it. I smacked my lips and started eating.
"Yeah I know, I loved that hair, why did you chop it all off?" I shrugged and nodded towards his.
"I could ask you the same thing. When I saw you some years ago you had something like a temp/fade kind of thing going on. I wanted to cry." Jey rolled his eyes and finished his food and stood up. I saw he now had on black sweats. He placed his plate and fork in the sink and turned around and picked up his cup and took a few sips.
"I'm a guy, and it was too hot for that shit, Jimmy cut his after you left." I rolled my eyes and continued to eat. After some time I shrugged and answered his question.
"I was tired of people tugging my hair. Touching it and asking was it real. It's annoying-" Jey finished his drink and put the cup in the sink and gave me a sneaky smile.
"So you didn't like it when I pulled your hair?" I eyed him while he made his way around the table in the kitchen until he disappeared behind me. Before I could say anything the towel was off my head and tossed onto the table.
"It's a difference while having sex Jey, but random people tugging on it, it's crazy. Like if I walked up to you and tugged on your hair-" I turned around in my chair and grabbed a handful of his hair and before I could finish he grabbed me up.
"Let me show you what I would do." Hit bit down on my chin softly and carried me upstairs.
"What are you thinking about?" I damn near jumped out of my skin and gave birth when I heard Jimmy behind me.
I was in the kitchen making a BLT…well two of them because I was that hungry. I was washing the lettuces when out of nowhere I started to think back to that weekend I stayed with Jey a few years ago. I took a few deep breaths and smiled weakly while pushing my hair that was now in a bob out of my face.
"Nothing, just thinking about this little girl finally jumping ship." Jimmy kissed my temple while rubbing my belly and laughed a bit.
"A few more months baby, but trust me, I can't wait either. I know she's going to have fat cheeks like her mother." I eyed him while he played with my hair and smacked his hand away.
"My cheeks are not that fat; it just looks that way because my dimples are so deep." Jimmy made a noise while trying to pick up a piece of bacon.
"Jimmy I will hurt you." He moved his hand back and took a few steps back.
"Well damn, it's like that now?" I looked him over and nodded my head.
"You do not know how bad I want these…but how was your day?" Jimmy sat up on the counter and watched me spread mayonnaise on the four pieces of whole wheat bread slices.
"It was cool, Jaye came through with Joey, and ate." I raised a brow and glanced at him.
"He didn't work today?" Jimmy shook his head and picked up a piece of tomato.
"No, she Jaye-" I thought my eyes were going to bug out.
"Say word." Jimmy nodded his head while chewing.
"Word." I blinked a few times and mouthed "wow" while putting my sandwiches together.
"That's crazy, was your brother surprised?" I was putting the last piece of bacon on the second sandwich when I saw Jimmy mouth wide opened. I sighed and put it in his mouth and watched him chew in satisfaction.
"Yeah he was. It was kind of weird, I wonder if they had a fight or something." I bit my lip and stayed quite. Jimmy stopped chewing and leaned down until he was looking at me eye level.
"Dani?" I glanced at him and went back to what I was doing.
"What?" Jimmy lifted my chin up with his index finger and gave me a warning look.
"What do you know?" We played a staring game until I moved my chin away with a sigh.
"They broke up, they haven't been together most of the year." Jimmy moved back obviously shocked and placed his fist to his mouth.
"Whaaaat? Why?" I gave him a knowing look and he sighed and jumped down off the counter.
"Are you serious? Truth be told they were never a real couple, if it wasn't for Joey he would have dropped Jaye a while ago." My mouth dropped and I watched him open the fridge door and look inside.
"Are you serious?" Jimmy pulled out some lunch meat and cheese and nodded his head.
"Hell yeah. Baby Jey hasn't gotten over you." I stopped moving and felt a chill go down my back…what was I hearing?
"What do you mean?" Jimmy smirked and started setting everything up and reached over and took some lettuces I had left over.
"Dani I'm his twin, I know what he's feeling and he can't keep shit from me, he still loves you. I see it when he comes around…he's very protective of you." I watched him move around and talk as if what he was saying wasn't anything. Like saying his brother still loves me is so normal.
"And you don't care?" I finally spoke and he stopped making his sandwich and looked at me like I was crazy.
"Of course I care, why do you think I wasn't too made at you when he told me what you two did? If anything I would hurt him not you." He ate a piece a sharp cheddar cheese and nodded his head in approval.
"So what are you saying, I can't believe I'm hearing this." Jimmy finished his sandwich and took a big bite out of it.
"I'm not going to do anything until he crosses the line." I placed my hands on my hips and glared at him.
"And what's crossing the line?" Jimmy tapped my nose with his finger and walked out the kitchen with his sandwich, not saying anything else about it.
So he finally cracked and confessed huh? You know life would be a lot easier if you would have stayed with me my love-" I cut my eyes at Stephen and went back to putting the books people left on the tables back into their proper places…with Stephen's help.
"Oh shut up, but this is ridiculous. He told me that mess last month and I try to stay away from Jey now at all cost, whenever he comes by I lock myself somewhere." I put up the last book in the mystery section and started to go into criminal law.
"Tell Jimmy how he's acting." I stopped waddling and looked back at him.
"Are you crazy, he would lose his mind and I do not want to be the cause of two brothers fighting. Besides, he already knows…kind of." I started walking again and heard Stephen chuckling behind me.
"So keeping the rest from him and having everyone else know but him is better? Danielle I hate to tell ya, but it will come out and when it does, it's going to be worse." I could only sigh because I knew it was true. I sat down at one of the nearby tables an thought about it for a moment.
"I'm going to talk to Jey one last time." Stephen stood in front of me and all I saw was worry written across his face.
"By yourself? I think that' a bad idea-" I felt the same way, but on the other hand, this is Jey. He may be going through something but he wouldn't hurt me and with me being pregnant, I didn't have anything to worry about…right?
"I will be fine Stephen-" Stephen cut his eyes at me and cut me off.
"When are you going to go see him?" I paused because I had to think when would be a good time. I bit down on my bottom lip while starting to ramble.
"Well Jimmy is working late tonight and Jey will have Joey tonight, so tonight." Stephen stooped down and placed his hands on my shoulders and gave me a reassuring smile.
"I will make sure I am free." I sighed and nod my head because I was not about to try an change his mind.
"Fine."
"Dani! What are you doing here?" Jey was holding a sleeping Joey and looked nothing short of shocked to see me on his doorstep.
"I need to talk to you, like really talk to you." Jey moved to the side and let me in. I looked around and saw a play pin in the middle of the living room floor and toys all over the place. I looked back at Jey and saw his hair was out and needed to be done and he was dressed in a white beater that had stains on it, grey sweat pants and white socks.
"What's going on-" I rolled my eyes and gave him a warning look.
"Don't play with me Joshua." Sensing the seriousness in my voice he went upstairs and a few minutes later came back without Joey and started cleaning up.
"Speak your peace-" I picked up a stuffed animal and threw it at his head.
"Cut it out Jey, what the hell is wrong with you?! Why are you acting so crazy?" Jey picked up the stuffed animal and threw it at my head, but I ducked.
"Stop throwing shit in my house and I'm not acting crazy-" I placed my hands on my hips and glared at him.
"Oh really? Jey you are scaring me, why do you wait damn near ten years to start trying to claim me? You have a great family and you are fucking up-" Jey smirked and continued to clean up while talking.
"Dani you are so consumed with Jimmy's bullshit you don't even realize what's going on or what's been going on for the past five years." I sat down in the chair near the front room and waited for him to finish.
"Jaye wasn't supposed to get pregnant, don't get me wrong I love her and I love Joey with all of my heart, but I never wanted her to be the mother of my children and you know that." I sat back in the chair and rolled my eyes. Are you serious!?
"Is this going back to the conversation we had before you went away to go to college, Jey that was ten years ago, ninety percent of the shit we did we didn't follow through with it. I'm supposed to be married with three children by now, with my own book store and-" Jey stopped cleaning and looked directly at me.
"Married to me." I clamped my mouth shut and looked down at my hands, not wanting to look at Jey, to scared of what his eyes would do me and I wanted to remain strong.
"Jey we were teenagers, things change, people change-" Jey plopped down on the couch and gave me a lazy look.
"If I want you, I can have you." I don't know what my face looked like, but it made Jey back track his last statement quick.
"I mean…damnit Dani! What happened?! What does Jimmy have that I don't?" I placed my head in my hands and laughed.
"What's so funny?" I shook my head before lifting it up.
"You know Jimmy asks me that all the time? You two are so much alike-" Jey rolled his eyes and glared at me.
"Well we are twins Danielle." I gave him the same look and stood up.
"I know that smart ass…ouch…" I held my side and a burp came up. Jey gave me a funny look while I rubbed my side close to my back.
"What's wrong with you?" I shook my head, but got that feeling again.
"I don't know, I just got this pain…nothing too bad." Jey stood up slowly while eyeing me closely.
"Dani, how long have you been getting these "pains"?" I shrugged while sitting down again.
"For like three days, but it's nothing. I think it's those false alarms my doc warned me about." Jey picked up his hoodie that was slung across the couch and left the room.
"Don't move!" I watched him go upstairs and shrugged. What was his problem I felt another pain and stood up only to feel and hear a gush. I looked down and saw some brownish red liquid…Oh hell!
Jey came back down with a still sleeping Joey and looked over at me and then looked at my feet.
"Shit! I knew it, let me put him in the truck and I'm coming back to get you." I nodded my head starting to freak out.
A few minutes later Jey came back in and grabbed my hand and started walking e out of the house.
"Jey I'm scared-" He nodded his head while locking up the house and helping me off the porch.
"I know you are baby, but I need you to stay calm right now. I'm taking you to the hospital-" I watched him open the passenger door and help me get in.
"Call Jimmy-" Jey nodded his head, but still looked a bit annoyed.
"I'll call Jimmy." He shut the door and ran around to the driver side and got in. He started the truck up and soon we were headed to the hospital.