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It took a cool minute to find Nari and Juju. When I did, I had to laugh at the two of them. Nari was over in an innertube while Juju was pushing her through the lazy river. Hopping down in the water I caught up to them.
“Boo.” I whispered into Juju ear before reaching into the water.
“Daddy!” He squealed. Hoisting him up I sat him on my shoulder and nudged the innertube forward.
“Somebody finally woke up.” Nari rolled her eyes.
“Yeah. I had to sleep that liquor off.”
“Good thing you’re here now. He wants to go to the wave pool.” Nari hopped out of the innertube and shoved it away from her. “You can take him while I go get me another drink.”
“Tito ordered lunch. He supposed to come find us when it’s ready.”
“We can go do that then.” She shared. The three of us played in the water until we reached the front of the wave pool. When we stepped out Nari and I grabbed Juju’s hand and the three of us walked over to where Tito was sitting.
When we got back to the table Shunta and her kids was at the table with him. Juju shook his hands loose and took off running for the table. The server had brought the medicine so after popping both pills in my mouth I hurriedly downed some water so that I could put something on my stomach before Juju decided he was ready to get back in the pool.
We sat around the table kicking shit while the kids talked. Nari and Shunta had decided that the adults would come over to the crib later on this evening so we could chill and play cards. They was busy making plans while I was busy checking Nari out. The cream two piece she wore came from her line and lookeddamn good against her milk chocolate skin. I had to look away to keep my body from betraying me by reacting. They had barely finished making plans when Juju shared that he was done eating and ready to go.
“Lil ass ain’t ate shit.” I mumbled, after peeping the half-eaten taco on his plate. Instead of arguing with him I let everybody know that we would be back. Hand in hand the two of us walked back to the pool area.
“You wanna go up close?” I asked.
“I don’t know.” He stared at the pool like his lil ass was scared.
“Aye.” Getting eye level I asked. “You scared?”
“No.” He shook his head.
“Good.” I adjusted the straps on his life vest before pulling him deeper into the water. “Before the water start, they gone blow a horn. That’s when the water gone start waving. Hold on to me and I got you.”
“Okay.” He tried to smile but I knew his lil ass was scared as hell. Juju could swim; we paid good money for his lessons. Plus, anytime the weather permitted we were always in the pool at the crib. I ain’t mind him being scared as long as he knew I wouldn’t let nothing happen to him.
The minute the horn blew I promise his eyes got bucked as hell. To ease his fears, I spun him around and put his back to my chest and held him to me. “Get ready.” I yelled when the waves started to pick up.
The first wave that crashed into us pushed us back a lil bit. Every time one would rush us Juju lil ass would grab my wrist. “I got you. I ain’t gone let nothing happen” I chuckled.
When it was over Juju decided that he was no longer scared and wanted to go again. So that’s what we did. Eventually Nariah, Shunta, and the other kids joined us. We stayed in there until Juju wanted to slide.
Today was all about him so I had no problem letting him drag me all across the park. The more time I spent hanging with my son the more my feelings for anything else dissipated. We wanted Juju to enjoy himself and judging by the huge smile on his face I would say we accomplished it. We had a few more days to go and if today was indicative on how things would play out then I was good. My focus was on making sure that smile on Juju face stayed there permanently. I would deal with the rest of the shit when we made it back to Atlanta.
nariah
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Slouchingdown in my chair I nodded my head to the song playing through the speaker. I let Shunta convince me to have everybody over tonight and my ass was regretting it. I had one too many shots of tequila and now I was eyeing my baby daddy.
Last night when the two of us was talking I had temporarily forgot who the fuck I was and got in my feelings. So much so that I ended up crying myself to sleep last night. When I woke up this morning, I prayed to God that he let whatever love I had for Julius disappear.
I was over being hurt and feeling like the nigga ain’t care ‘bout my feelings. I knew Julius loved me just like he knew I loved him. But together we just didn’t work, and I was okay with that. If we never found our way back to each other I was cool with that as well.
However, sitting here right now slightly inebriated had me wanting to climb in his lap and let him fuck my frustrations away. When we left the water park Julius had came home and showered. The blue Louis Vuitton swim trunks he had on were short and had his meaty thigh on display, not only that I could see that familiar bulge resting against his thigh.
“Fucking Reposado.” I fussed under my breath before sliding my shades up from my eyes. Julius looked at me and winked like he could tell the salacious thoughts running through my mind. The way I hopped out of my chair you would’ve thought it was on fire. Something was on fire, and I promise it wasn’t that chair. “Riah.” I called over my shoulder. “Come inside with me real quick.”
As soon and my sister was near, I looped my arm through hers and drug her inside of the house. Shutting the door behind us I leaned with my back against it, causing Lariah to stare at me like I had lost my mind.
“You good?” She questioned.