Chapter 20

It had been about four months since I found out that I was pregnant. I still had two months to go before I would graduate for high school and five to go before I would have my baby. I would find out what my baby is during my appointment next month.

About a month ago Marcus had broke up with his girlfriend. He told me he did it because she was getting to be a little too clingy but I knew the real reason was because of me. Ever since then he had spent as much time with me as possible.

Everybody in school including the teachers knew I was pregnant so I got a little slack when it came down to missing days of school.

Today is Friday and I am having a cookout for my all my friends which is a lot of people.

"Damn sis I know you pregnant and all but you can get yo ass up and help do something" Shante yelled form the kitchen. She was putting the hamburgers and hotdogs on a tray to go outside and be put on the grill.

Over the past few months me and Shante had grown really close and it was now like we had known that we were sisters all our lives. She helped through the pregnancy and made sure that I took my vitamins and stuff like that. The only bad thing was that she hated Marcus and when I say hated she hated his ass more then the thought of liking girls.

"I'm coming, damn " I lifted my self up off the couch and went to the backyard where mostly all of my friends were. It was hot as hell outside and I didn't feel comfortable at all. I wasn't big, big but I sure as hell was getting there fast . I was showing now and some of my clothes were getting to small for me. Mainly the really cute ones.

"Whoa baby hold up let help you over to the table under the shade" Marcus said running from the grill over to help me. He had gotten worst with being so damn over protective as the months had passed. I just sighed and let him help me because I didn't feel like arguing with him.

All of my home girls were chilling at the table. I sat down in the seat right next to Monae and Passion.

"Damn yo ass is getting big you gone look like a damn house after a while" Passion said laughing while drinking her cup of vodka.

"Shut the hell up cause after I have my baby I'm gone get my sexy figure back" I said while looking longingly at the bottle of vodka sitting right in my face.

"You never had a sexy body so what is there to get back" Passion retorted everybody started laughing and I just sat there looking at that bottle like a sad alcoholic. I hadn't had a drink in four months ever since me and Marcus found out I was pregnant he never even let me take a sip of liquor.

"Aww look at the pregnant woman all sad cause she cant have nothing to drink" Nicole said a across the table obviously picking up on how sad I was looking at that bottle.

"Yall know what this is exactly why I should have stayed my pregnant ass in my cool living room and watched my cartoons damn it" I said crossing my arms over my stomach and pouting.

"No you shouldn't have cause we about to play cards and that's one thing you can do even if you is pregnant" Tasha said taking a stack of cards from beside her beer.

I turned the chair around that way I was facing everybody and Tasha dealt out everybody hand.

"What yall over here playing" Lamont said coming up behind me and taking a long drag of his blunt and then blowing it around me. I use to actually like the smell of burning weed now it just made me sick to my stomach.

"Tunk and we playing for money so yo broke ass better gone on back over there and help Marcus cook my damn food" Tasha said after she took a swigg of her beer.

"I got money so deal me in" before I knew most of the guys were crowded around my backyard table which was a huge like square and we were all playing, laughing and telling jokes. I had won about six hands and had about fifty dollars to show for it.

The food had finished and was done about fifteen minutes after we had started playing. So we did what normal black people did at cookouts laughed, ate played cards and made fun of each other.

It was starting to get late so Shante had lit up the Tiki lights around the backyard and sprayed some of that stuff that kept mosquitoes away. My sister was the greatest she did all of that just to make sure I stayed comfortable.

"Hey who car is that" Yolanda asked I turned around and saw a burgundy Sadan I had seen the car before I just forgot who it belonged to. Marcus immediately got up and then I saw her his ex girlfriend. I laid my cards down on the table and followed him to front yard where she was now standing.

"What do you want Desire" Marcus said and I knew he was mad by the way his voice sounded.

"I want you back baby " she said, she was holding something in her hand but I couldn't tell what it was because she had her hands behind her back.

"That's not possible I have to think about my future family now " he said pointing to me "I aint got time to be playing games no more I'm about to be a dad"

"Well then let me fix that for you baby" Desire said and that's when what she was holding came into view. Desire swung her arm around and sitting in her hands was a gun she pointed it at my stomach

I immediately wished I had stayed my ass at the card table and kept playing and let Marcus handle this. Suddenly there was a ear piercing bang and then someone screamed and everything around me went black.