A/N: So 2nd to last chapter. Gonna make this short: enjoy and sorry for the delay. Oh and s/o to GKMC (good kid, m.A.A.d. city) because number one: King Kendrick and number two: the storytelling on that album is so advanced and just to another level that I could listen to it on repeat for days and not get bored, and have it have the same affect on me every day. And also s/o to Makaveli's (Tupac's) The Don Killuminati: The Seven Day Theory.
P.S. beware the plot twists! Seriously though. There's some rough, unexpected shit in here, and though I may make you more confused because of the screwed up segways I made for each new category, of sorts, will confuse you, but I'm kinda sorta revealing every single last thing in this chapter to the point where it's not even funny.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE BOONDOCKS
"Come on, the puffy haired, obviously mixed one just took Mr. Boss of Cindy out. We can do it," Hiro persuades Cindy, referring to Jazmine and Huey.
"What about Caesar?"
"Out."
"And Valerie?"
"Playing upstairs."
"And Ming?"
"I'll be joining you two," says Ming, emerging from the curtains.
"Huh? Oh hell naw!" Cindy exclaims.
"Come on, why not?" Hiro asks in a persuading tone.
"Yeah, let's see the black girl emerge from the blonde one everyone sees," Ming further persuades.
"Oh, is that what this is about? You have a Black fetish or something? Huh? That's why you couldn't stay off of Huey's dick?" Cindy asks sarcastically.
"Just like you couldn't stay off of this Asian one… still can't," Ming fires back, putting her right hand where Hiro's began to get hard.
Cindy storms from what's actually just a few feet away, and raises her hand to slap Ming, when suddenly Hiro grabs her waist and pulls her in close. He pulls her face to his, and begins to forcibly kiss her. Just then, Valerie comes running down from upstairs.
"Cin', I have a question!" She calls in a naïve manner; one that Jazmine may have possessed as a child. And just then, she sees her mom and Hiro kissing, with Ming watching lustfully. Cindy finally manages to pull away, here, and Ming begins to walk to the door.
Valerie makes a noise that sounds she is going to sob, but wants to hold it in.
"Valerie!" Cindy calls, finally showing her motherly senses. "Let me out! I need to talk to my daughter!" Cindy continues to call out, trying to get to Valerie, but Ming continues to guard off the door.
"Well, if you wanted someone else's opinion on this, Cindy," Hiro starts, "I wouldn't consider her to be your daughter. "
Meanwhile…
"Huey, I think you should sit down for this one."
"Jazmine, I've received much worse news while standing up. Or eating, swimming, exercising… and other various activities or at other various events where receiving bad news is on the bottom of my list."
"Are you trying to impress me or something, Freeman? You could've just simply said that you've received bad news in much worse positions and been done. You didn't need to add all that."
"Whatever, Jazmine. Just tell me what bad news you wanted to inform me of today."
"Stop it, Freeman. I'm about to not tell you… I don't give you bad news everyday."
"Uhh, yah, you do. Tuesday it was that a light bulb broke. Wednesday it was that the sink stopped working. Yesterday it was that my office is cutting my salary because I'm technically working in two offices because I've been working at the one about 45 minutes away from here, plus the one closer to home. And today you have… whatever the hell it is you wanna tell me right now."
"Exactly. If you wanna know, sit down."
Huey finally gives in, and with the roll of his eyes, he sits on a bench him and Jazmine stumble upon; Jazmine sitting just a few inches away from him.
"Cindy's cheating on you… with Hiro." Jazmine watches Huey's face, but sees no change in emotion. "You're just gonna sit there? Like it's nothing? Your wife, who you've been dating for years, just cheats on you? It's been a year of cheating. Caesar knows, too. That's why he's been coming to your house more… to try to get Cindy to stop." For a moment, neither of them make a noise, and as they block out the voices around them, they sit in a moment of silence.
"I always figured she did… I knew she started a little more than a year ago… I just didn't know with who," Huey finally says, breaking the silence.
"So are you gonna do something about this whole cheating thing?"
"No… she can get STDs if she wants to. I'm just waiting for the court orders to come back to see if I was ruled full custody of Valerie or not."
"Custody? Court orders?.. you already divorced her?"
"Divorced her, working out custody."
"Since when?"
"Dammit; since you came back, Jazmine. When you left, it was like my one little tiny ray of sunshine, which held naivety and pureness and so much more—gone. Completely gone. I thought I could build new rays out of things that the average adult seemed to possess. Got a wife, got a kid, got a job, insurance… everything. But my ray never grew back. It never fuckin' grew back. But when you came back into my life, Jazmine… my old ray was formed once again, and new ones as well. And I know that it's only been a matter of months Jazmine but dammit you made me happy again. I mean, of course Valerie made me happy, and she assembled the broken pieces of the ray you used to light up, you were still the one. You were still the fuckin' one to light it up again. And, Jazmine… I need you in my life. I know I probably sound like a sorry ass loser right now, but I fucking need you in my life. I know I was never good with emotions, but Jazmine I've always loved you, and I always will. Forever will I love you, Jazmine Dubois."
"And forever will I love you, Huey Freeman," Jazmine responds, enclosing her arms around Huey's waist in a tight, rare, loving hug.
Meanwhile…
"What do you mean she's not my daughter?!" Cindy half questions, half yells.
"Why the hell do you think she calls you by your first name instead of 'mom'? Because she already knows what's happened. She's known that we've had relations for longer than I can remember, Cindy, and… has been traumatized. She stopped calling you 'mom' after she didn't recognize you anymore… you were a cheater, to her; not a mother."
"And exactly how do you know all this?" Cindy questions Hiro, and this time Ming answers.
"Because Caesar went to your house much more often, who also witnessed you two having sex, and he basically helped Valerie cope with it; being that Huey was unaware of the issue and you could care less, and just wanted to hop on the first dick you saw. Caesar cared, Huey was clueless. And Caesar, being Hiro's adopted brother, articulated these responses when telling Hiro off. This day was meant to happen, Cindy. That day was meant to happen, Cindy. Both days were and will be days of revelation, Cindy. And the next revelation is going to happen in practically no time…"
Just then, they heard the door open, and footsteps from upstairs running down, before calling out "Uncle Ceez!" in a cheery tone/voice.
Next, the door opened once again, and this time the same cheery voice, which belonged to Valerie, called out "Mommy, Daddy!" after seeing Jazmine and Huey walk through the door.
"Let her go," Hiro commands Ming; using his right hand to shoo Cindy out and checking his nails on his left hand. Cindy begins to run down the stairs, eager to stop Valerie from calling anyone else mommy, mama, mother, or anything else of that matter.
"Uncle Ceez," Valerie grabs his attention, to which he smirks back.
"Let's put on a show," he finishes Valerie's sentence, and they call for attention in Hiro's household.
"Cin', I would be surprised if I met a mother worse than you. The most you've done for me is breastfeed me, and that was six to seven years ago. Plus, you switched to bottle as soon as you could. Dad, I'm not mad at you. I wish you could've paid more attention to me, but I understand that you were never really happy and probably, at this point, will never be happy in a household where my biological mother can run anything she chooses because, technically speaking, it's 'her household'. Even though she doesn't pay for anything. And Jazmine, if it's okay with you, I'm gonna call you 'mom' from now on. You are, essentially, the perfect mother for someone like me. I mean, we both had blondes as mothers who were completely, totally, utterly comfortable with flaunting their bodies, and doing whatever they can to fill their desires; my mother's being pleasure and yours being crack, marijuana and money. Also, thank you for sharing those stories from your childhood with me. I never really had that type of thing, and just that I was able to relate at 7 years old so well really helped me. After you told me that, I no longer feared school. I walked into school with much confidence, holding my head up high, ignoring the biracial stereotypes getting thrown at me, and ignoring those who roasted Cindy for flaunting her body. I was able to block out the people that didn't like me, and I was able to spend more time with those who cared about me; like you and Uncle Ceez."
The seven year old looks around the room once more, post eyeing each person individually that she made comments on, in order; Cindy, Huey, then Jazmine.
"I agree with every word Valerie said," Caesar steps in now. "And I heavily believe that Jazmine, if you're up to it, to be Valerie's, well, mom. As for Hiro and Ming, fuck y'all. Too damn tired of keeping your secret." Huey now laughs a bit, but tries to cover it by making a fake cough. Caesar then turns to Cindy. "Cindy… I know you knew I loved you. You always knew. And I know you were just using me and playing with my emotions by getting me to do things for you, persuading me and never actually even giving me a hug. And I know that I let you. But that is no more. I can't keep up with you when all you do is hurt the ones that I love, that actually do love me back."
"Well sorry to hear your sob story, Caesar, but high school love doesn't fuckin' last," Cindy starts off, harder than expected. "Look at my apparent high school love. Our product, Valerie, now hates me. My own daughter. And Hiro just became something that ruined the marriage I forced. You know, I wish I could just go back in time, and make Riley and I right. Riley was my real high school love. I don't know what I've been doing this past year or so… but none of it compares to the time I spent with Riley."
"So is that why you tied a nigga up?" Riley asks with obvious frustration.
"How'd you get here?"
"Tied up?"
"Are you okay, man?"
"What did she do to you, Uncle Reez?" These questions and more get thrown at Riley at the simultaneously.
"The bitch wanted to distract Huey when y'all came here so that he wouldn't realize all the contact between her and Hiro. So when Valerie made that damn Lego building, she threw it in one of the bins outside, and then tied me up in a sack, said it was Valerie's structure, and put it in your office. And this was only after she tied me up and kept me in some random closet, and sent herself the army text from my phone.
"How I got here is simple. Huey left his keys on the table in his office, and after I finally managed to escape, I took his car keys and rode up here.
"And, yea, I'm fine now. But I want nothing more than to get away from the crazy bitch who basically got into our youth lives to ruin our adult lives."
"Ditto," Huey says, and turns around to leave with Riley.
"No, you can't just leave like this! You can't just leave me here! I gave you years of my life, and produced a child! I deserve more! You can't just do this to me and get away with it!" Cindy screams at the top of her lungs while beginning to cry.
"I think you're forgetting, egg donor, that we have witnesses that can lock you up," Valerie insults her mother.
And with that, the sane part of the crew left; ready to reinvent a better life.
A/N: ASK QUESTIONS. Anything that was too hella confusing (because I actually added probably about 1,300 words of stuff I didn't plan on adding originally. But I added it at the end. So if you're confused (because I didn't get to go over this and I still need to finish my homework) then ask me ANY questions in the reviews. Just make sure that it's like a legit question. And I promise I will answer it next chapter. Which is the last chapter. Plus shoutouts. Please do. I'm gonna say (rare) FIVE REVIEWS until the next chapter, because it's the last one. Sorry.