A/N: Guys it's MAY it's 2:40 AM and I'm not in my right frame of mind because [laughs] I'm in the kitchen typing and what I just thought of I'm telling y'all way off the wall! I just started laughing. Trust me y'all at this time I should be in bed. Even if I were in bed I'd jump on my laptop to type this and the humor isn't included more than likely that will be in the next post. Lol…. Pretty heavy stuff here.
Happy Reading. Mini update... any errors I'll come back and fix. I'm a stickler about that. UGH...
Mercedes' POV
"WHUP TANK'S PUNK BITCH ASS DADDY! BEAT HIM LIKE THE SHIT HE IS!" TJ yelled.
"THADDEUS JOSHUA EVANS-JONES!"
"What?" He shrugged his shoulders and answered in an annoyed tone.
"TJ you don't answer me in that tone this is your warning you go on another rant of any of those 8 words you aren't supposed to say you are getting popped in your mouth."
"Who are they beating on?" My mother asked me coming over to the window.
"Tank." I told her I saw out my peripheral vision she went into the kitchen and grabbed the broom started to unscrew it. "Mom, what are you doing?"
"I'm about to go outside and join in on this beat down of the year."
"No, put the stick down." I reached for and she pulled back.
"Mercedes Renee Jones if I were you I'd move out of your mothers way I have a bone to pick better yet a sorry excuse for a man to beat." She pushed me to the side and went outside I returned to my place I had beside TJ to watch all of this unfold.
"Beat his fucking crusty ass granny!" TJ yelled he knew he looked up at me and tried to make a run for it I reached out and grabbed him and turned him to face me and he had both hands over his mouth.
"Move your hands."
He shook his head no. "Thaddeus Joshua Evans, that wasn't a question and didn't call for you to give me an answer, I said for you to move your hands from your mouth, move them." Slowly he moved them so I could have access to his mouth I popped him twice. "Didn't I tell you to not say those words?"
"Y-Y-Yeah."
"Why did just go on a mini rant sounding like a little Redd Foxx?"
"I-I-I d-d-don't k-know." He wiped his eyes crying sniffing and coughing.
"Go over there and sit on the couch and calm yourself down and I want you think of those words because I'm going to ask you later what each one of those words mean. Go." TJ walked over to the couch and laid down crying into the pillow. I went outside. "STOP IT GUYS! STOP! STOP!"
"NO MERCEDES! NO! NO! GO BACK IN THE HOUSE!"
They continued fighting.
TJ's POV
I had calmed down just a little from when mommy popped me in my mouth I heard a knock at the door and I sat up seeing it was Aunt Santana and Gabby.
"Hi Aunt T-Tana. Hi G-Gabby." Aunt Tana gave me a hug and stood up and looked around placing her purse on the table.
"Where are your parents and why are you crying?"
She asked me sitting beside me on the couch. "M-Mommy p-popped m-me i-in m-my m-mouth b-b-because I-I s-s-said b-b-bad words s-s-she t-told me n-not t-t-o s-say b-but I-I s-s-say them a-anyway."
"TJ! Why would you do that?! You know better than that!"
I shrugged my shoulders and I heard mommy yell. "STOP FIGHTING! DADDY! PAWPAW! STOP! SAM! J3! MOM! UNCLE JULIUS! JJ! NOOO!"
"What's going on outside?"
"T-Tank." I answered Aunt Santana darted to the window Gabby and peered over the couch and she was smiling hard she dropped to her knees and I think she said a prayer.
"Jesús ya sabes que he estado orando acerca de este día desde que me enteré de él yo sólo quiero decir que usted y la oración funciona gracias! ¿No se lo hagas! [translation: Jesus you know I've been praying about this day since I found about him I just want to say thank you and prayer works! Won't he do it!]
She got up and took off her heels and ran outside Gabby and me went over to the window and saw her push Rick out the way and she started hitting Tank she would hit him with one shoe and while the other shoe was in the air she hit him with the other like she was drumming out a beat.
"SANTANA?! SANTANA! NOOOO!" Mommy yelled. "This is getting out of hand! DO I NEED TO CALL THE POLICE?!" She yelled as both Rick and Tank stop throwing punches and running back to where they came from and J3 and Aunt Santana made chase after them and I went back and got on the couch.
Sam's POV
Thought I would come home after going grocery shopping, help carry the groceries into the house and spend time with TJ and 'Cedes, imagine my surprise when she yelled to us that PawPaw, JJ, and J3 were fighting I truly thought they were at each other but when I saw it was Tank I grabbed my bat and went in on him and this other guy I recognized from yesterday. They just ran off J3 and Santana ran after them because 'Cedes said she might call the cops.
"PawPaw you got a mean left hook I didn't know that you could throw down like that?"
"Well I used to fight back in the old days and Trink, Link, Kink, Brink, Krunk, Twist whatever the hell his name is got a taste of Dynamite Too Sharp. I still got it." PawPaw started punching the air.
"Yeah, you do I'll help you inside." I helped PawPaw inside and I returned outside J3 and Tana had returned and they started picking up all of the furniture that was now unusable.
"Sam, baby is you okay?"
"I'm fine." 'Cedes was checking me for any marks or bruises. "Where's TJ? When did Santana show up?" I pointed to her.
"Inside on the couch I had to pop him in his mouth because he wanted to be a little Redd Foxx, dropping curse words with ease. I don't know I looked back and she was out there with her heels in hand swinging up a storm."
"Okay. You and I we'll talk to TJ again about him and those 8 words. How are you?"
"I'm good. I think." I pulled her into a hug.
"First off, how did he find out where you all lived? Second I got my life! Get your life!" Mama and Pops asked coming over to us.
"I'll tell y'all in a minute we're going to have a family meeting in the game room and we'll talk about all of this."
"Who is going to watch TJ?"
"I'll watch TJ, hey Sam." Tana gave 'Cedes and I a hug.
"Hey what are you doing here? I asked 'Cedes and she said you just flew out here with your heels swinging. Good timing!"
"I just stopped by for a visit and the front door was opened so I welcomed myself in and TJ told me that y'all were outside going ham on Tank so I decided to join in and get in a few hits."
"Yeah, I wonder who that was beside me. Um…do you mind staying for a few hours 'Cedes and I are going into the game room to have a family discussion about this and a few other things."
"No, I don't mind at all. I'll watch TJ and I have Gabby here to keep him company."
"Thank you. Uncle JJ….damn I'm calling him Uncle JJ that's TJ uncle, JJ, Uncle Julius, and J3 let's go into the game room for a family discussion." I looked back and 'Cedes more than likely was already in there they walked by and I followed but first I wanted to check on TJ.
"TJ you okay?"
"Yes, daddy."
"Okay, mommy told me what you said and she and I will be talking to you later on this evening about those 8 words. You know better Thaddeus Joshua Evans."
"Yes sir." I rubbed his head.
"Hi Gabby."
"Hi Uncle Sammy." I gave her a hug.
"Tana, I'm going into the game room knock if anything happens my sister, mother and father they all keys so they should be the only ones showing up unless we'll have a ND family reunion and we had one of those a few days back."
I walked into the game room and closed and locked the door behind me and everyone was crowding around Mercedes asking her a bunch of questions.
"Hey! Hey!" I walked over to Mercedes and took her by the hand and she stood beside me.
"How did he find out where you lived? Y'all got to move?"
"Mama, I'm not moving Mercedes said the same thing last night and we're not. I already got one thing in place just have to get the other ball rolling."
"So, can someone fill me in on what he did to you Mercedes because all I know is that you left him?" Uncle Julius asked.
"Tank abused me okay, he smacked, hit me, said horrible things about me, made me feel like I was shit, raped or sexually assaulted had his way with me that's how TJ got here."
"What you mean that's how TJ got here?" J3 asked.
"He got me drunk one night and took my virginity and that night TJ was conceived."
"And you didn't abort the baby? Why did you stay with him? Has he ever hit TJ?"
"He said he used a condom so I believed him, I wasn't going to abort my son I wanted someone to love me and I could love them back and when I found out that I was pregnant everything got good for a while and then it started going downhill I didn't have no baby shower or nothing women do when they're pregnant. I drove myself to all of my appointments I took Lamaze classes alone, he wouldn't talk to me sometimes he gave me the silent treatment a few times the week TJ was born Tank and I got into an argument and I was back on the silent treatment I went into labor on Thursday the 26th of June and I was alone scared and I had to drive myself to the hospital I was in labor for 27 to around 30 hours by myself no one just me after TJ was born then he decides to show up with this crusty ass mother with some balloons, and edible arrangement, and I card that says, "I Love You", then he asked what was the baby name I told him TJ and I asked for the nursery to use his initials because I didn't want him to know my sons name, yeah my son, you'd think he'd want to know he probably thinks TJ stood for Tank Junior it does not. TJ stands for Thaddeus Joshua he's named after Sam, daddy and JJ. It's like he trapped me into staying with him because I was going to leave him, I was going to break up with him but that day he decided to have a party and that's that. Y'all don't know the hell I've been through that's just a taste of it."
I looked at everyone's faces and they all had the same expression of hurt, pain, disgust, her mother was crying her dad was crying I was crying. You could hear a pin drop hell a paper drop that's how silent we all were until Uncle Julius spoke.
"Has TJ ever seen Tank put his hands on you?"
"Y-Yes. I didn't know when he saw it but he did every time he'd hit me I'd runaway and leave TJ back, it hurt me leaving my son there not knowing that he was too being abused he'd drop him off at his mother house and she'd be saying things to TJ like, you are motherless child, how could she run off and leave your ass, your mother don't care for you at all." I wiped away her tears. "The last second to the last time I left I returned home and his mother was running off at her mouth I told her the reason why and she knows why but that's her son and she's going to stay in his corner. Everything that I went through it's my fault."
"What made you leave this final time?"
"TJ that night before we left for good Tank forced himself on me I heard TJ banging on the door crying, trying to get in there to help me I blacked out I couldn't take hearing TJ's cries and screams I came to the next morning got out of bed opened the door and there was TJ with a tear stained face, I picked him up and on the way to his room I was seesawing with the idea of staying or leaving, then his prayer he prayed played over in my mind and I was "go", I took a hamper full of my clothes, packed TJ some clothes put him in the back seat and we came here to Sam I never looked back since. Sam has been the best thing ever to come into my life besides our son."
"Good, 'Cedes you have a story there. It needs to be told. Your situation could help someone else who is in the same place you were once in. Don't hold all of this in and not share with the people I know it's going to take some time for you to want to share with your fans but this needs to be told. You need to call up some magazine, hit up your manager or publicist and have them set up something you have a voice that can deliver others."
Tank's POV
We got our ass beat!
"Shit!"
A/N: I'll be back in a few hours I'm going to get me some grub from Pizza Hut, y'all want something? Wings? A stuff crust pizza? Waffle fries? [Nobody] A'ight! I'll see you in a few hours the humor will come.
I'm BACK so I'm in front of my laptop and it's [7:54 PM] next chapter is in the works but I'm jamming to The Temptations "Ain't Too Proud To Beg".