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Chapter 5 ~ Stranger

I think we may be In a different book On a different page You said you are different But you're the same Stranger. Familiar time, familiar place Starting to feel the familiar shame Cause I know what you have come here for. You know my name, you know my face, But you don't know me? you must be crazy. Or I must be crazy. or is it maybe... I've been here times before and I've said yes, meaning no but oh... Alot of shit has changed. lot of shit has changed. Lot of lot of shit has changed.

~Jhene Aiko

Olivia

After the situation with Jeremiah and Aiden, Aiden moved out and hasn't spoken to J. J acts like he doesnt care but I know for a fact that he does, and that it's bothering him. Aiden is distant when I talk to him but i know that Marie and Maurice talk to him more than I do.

But I know what I need to do, because I've known where Avery was for all of these years. I know that sounds bad but it's not even that. I knew that Aiden would eventually want to know who his mother was, and I wasn't gonna keep her from him. I knew she was dating a drug dealer and her three other kids with him, it's not hard to find out what's going on in the streets when your name is Boudreaux.

I know that once I do this, Jeremiah and I will fight and I'm not looking forward to it, but I want Aiden to know where he comes from and no matter what, that I'm his mother and that he has me in his corner.

Getting out of the car, I grabbed my purse and strutted across the parking lot into her building. If I was the mistress of a big time drug dealer and I gave him children, I would force him to put me in a nicer apartment building instead of this slum ghetto shit she's in. But I'm in no position to judge her.

Knocking on the door, I stood there waiting for the door to open, however, complete silence. I furrowed my brow, this heffa don't have a job, so how is she not home.

I knock again, but this time, I hear moaning. Loud as hell moaning.

I rolled my eyes. I knew I needed to calm down before I get pissed. I already knew that I was going to regret this in some way.

This time, I started by banging on the door and I heard from inside the apartment:

“AVERY HURRY THE FUCK UP!!!” “WHAT!”

So much attitude, I pushed my hair behind my ear in time for her to open the door. I knew she was shocked, simply because she stood there staring at me.

"Olivia?" She choked out.

I looked at her attire, and I knew that this wasn't a good time, but time had run out for this situation.

"We need to talk." I spoke lowly

"Now isn't a good time." She hurried and said trying to close the door on me. I put my foot in between the door and my hand to stop it.

"It's about Aiden. You can talk to me now, or you can kiss what I have to say about him goodbye."

She immediately stopped once I mentioned him,

"Is he okay?" I could hear her voice breaking at the thought that he was in immediate danger, I slightly felt for her, but that went away just as quick as it came.

"Yes, we just need to talk Avery."

I saw that she was contemplating allowing me in the apartment but she froze when she heard a voice.

"I thought I told you to hurry the fuck up, who the fuck is at the door?" He said

She didn't respond as quick as he wanted I guess and he swung the door open, looking at me.

"Who the fuck are you?" He spoke menacingly, Avery stayed silent and stood behind him.

"I'm here to talk to Avery, we have a mutual family member." I was totally unfazed. Men like him didn't scare me, especially the way I grew up.

"Too bad, you can't talk to her."

I sighed, "Look, I need to speak with Avery now."

"Like I said bitch, You can't talk to her. Now get off my doorstep before I hurt you." He cut his eyes at me.

Avery gasped, "King, leave her a-"

She immediately shut up once he turned around to look at her.

"Look, I don't care who you are or what family member that you have in common with my girl. All I know is you need to leave now, before I find you and your family and kill them."

I was getting pissed. Like sir, you really don't want no beef with me, but since you do. Let's go.

"I guess you use this line a lot huh? You don't scare me. I want you to find out who I am, an think about how you come at me the next time, alright Caleb Taylor?"

He was shocked that I knew his name because his whole mouth dropped. Exactly.

"Avery, you know where to find me." I told her and I walked away. I knew within a few hours she would pop up at my office.

~~~~~~~~~

"Um, Mrs. Lavigne, someone is asking to speak with you?" My Assistant Carrie told me.

"Tell whomever it is, that I'm busy" I spoke back. I had at least 15 cases to review before I left today, and I was supposed to leave 45 minutes ago.

"She said it's about your son, Aiden?"

"Send her in."

As soon as I hung up the phone, Avery walked in, with her son and daughter walking in behind her.

"Can I sit?" She asked

I nodded, and she sat in front of my desk and spoke to her kids:

"Please don't touch anything, we can't afford it anyways."

She looked around my office and I looked at her kids, the boy didn't look over 10 years old and I could tell the daughter was about 2 or 3. The little boy looked like Aiden did when he was that age, and it made me smile.

"So, what's the matter with Aiden?' She spoke softly, the Avery I knew was never this quiet or calm. I knew she was still on drugs, but at the same time, she was bold back then, what happened?

"Nothing is wrong with him. He and Jeremiah got into a fight, Aiden wants to meet you."

She looked up at me, and her face brightened with the possibility of seeing Aiden again. But as soon as it came, it fell.

She immediately started shaking her head, "He can't meet me like this, I just- No I don't want to meet him."

I reached out across my desk and handed her a picture of Aiden and Maurice together.

"On the left is Aiden and the right is Maurice. They've been best friends since literally forever. Everyone forgets that Marie is twins with Reese. They all think that Aiden and Reese are twins. He still has the allergy to peanuts, hates avocados, loves his family, and that includes you, Avery. Don't shut him out without meeting him. You haven't seen him in years."

"The last time I saw him, I almost killed him. You were right to take him away from me."

I sighed, "Look, Jeremiah doesn't want you to be near him at all. I'm going against my husband so that my child can know his mother. He wants to know you, and I'm sure he'd love to meet your children. Please reconsider."

She stayed silent for awhile and just stared at my picture of the boys.

"Fine, I'll agree to meeting him. But you and Jeremiah need to be there."

Two steps forward, get knocked down one million steps back.

Fuck.

Kamani

I love having a sister, but I hate having her as a roommate. This bitch is the sloppiest bitch of my entire life!! We’re juniors in college at the University of San Diego, living off-campus, and all I know, is that if Mommy and Daddy walk in here. Daddy is going to stop paying the rent!

“Kamari Alessandri Boudreaux! if you don’t clean this shit now! You know Momma and Daddy are coming today!” I nagged.

This heffa comes out her damn room, scratches her bald ass head and proceeds to say

“Oh shiiiiiit. That’s today?” She laughs

“AND YOURE HIGH!!!”

“Mani shut up before you blow my high and blow a gasket.” She chuckled.

“Nigga. You know damn well-“

I was cut off because that was our mother ringing the doorbell. Mari’s eyes bugged out of her head and she tried to get up everything as soon as she could.

“See, I told your dumbass.” I chuckled and watched her scramble to clean up her shit.

I went to the door, expecting my parents, but it was only mom and our little brother.

“Mani!!!” He yelled and Jumped into my arms

“Hi Zacky! I missed you.”

“I missed you too! Where’s Mari?” He asked, coming out of our hug

“Somewhere in her room I guess,” I shrugged and let them both in.

While Zack went to find Mari, I turned towards mom.

“Where’s Dad?”

She rolled her eyes, “We got into a fight, he and Callie had a ‘Prior engagement’ and couldn’t make it up here. He said he was going to call you all.”

I shook my head, “I didn’t receive a call from him. How do you feel about all of this?”

She shrugged her shoulders and sat on our couch“I don’t feel any way. Your father and I have been divorced for a long time now, and he’s been with Callie. So, if he wants to chose his girlfriend over his children, that’s his fault.”

“But did he have to basically wife up his mistress?” I asked

She shrugged again, “I don’t have a problem with that.”

I rolled my eyes, because I knew my mom was pissed, she hasn’t really dated anyone since dad and let’s be real, we all know they still fuck on the regualr. I just don’t understand why they don’t get back together. It would make our life so much simpler.

“Hi Mommy.” Mari finally carried her bald ass out here, and Zack was behind her chuckling.

Mom just rolled her eyes, seeing right through her bullshit. “Kamari, don’t hi mommy me, your ass is lifted”

Zack and I just cackled. It was hilarious.

~~~~~~~

After being in with Mom and our bro all day, we all decided to chill out at Mari’s and I’s house. We loved having family time and even more so, watching movies together.

I was making popcorn, and Mom was talking to Mari, while Zack was on his phone, when my phone started to vibrate. I looked at my watch seeing a FaceTime between Kahliea and I.

What the fuck, I thought. Something must be wrong or someone has died cause Lea barely calls me.

I answered the phone, “Lea, what’s wrong?”

She sighed, “I’m here with Marie and Domi.”

All my cousins together? Who died!

“Is my dad okay?” I got scared,

“He’s fine.” She chuckled, kinda darkly.

“So what’s up, what’s the matter?”

“You been on social media?” Dominique asked me

I shook my head, “Been with the fam all day.”

Before they could even finish, I heard Zack yell, “You’ve got to be fuckin kidding me!!!!”

I guess that caught my mom’s and sister’s attention, I came out the kitchen, looking at him crazy.

He knew not to cuss, mom doesn’t do that.

“Xavier Valentine Zackary Boudreaux III, I did not raise you to speak like this, now what’s going on?” Mom questioned.

“DAD’S ENGAGED!” He yelled out showing us the phone, Callie had posted a video on instagram today, and basically saying Dad proposed.

“Is this what y’all wanted to tell me?” I said looking down at my phone.

“Yeah.” Ree mumbled.

“I’ll call y’all back.” I didn’t even wait for an answer, I just hung up.

Mari was looking at Zack’s phone, he was pacing, and mom just stared off into space. I came over to Mari and read the post.

@Callie_California: Today, starts the rest of our lives together. My handsome husbae took me to my favorite beach in St. Lucia, and he proposed to me. I couldn’t be more excited, and not only are we getting married. Expect our twosome to become a threesome. Mommy and Daddy, established in 6 months!

Not only did he get engaged, he got her pregnant.

Now I’m pissed.

Dominic

Sitting down, I thought about the way that my life turned out to be.

I married the woman of my dreams, and I’m so glad that she is still with me after all of these years. Yes, my children cause me stress but, I love them all deeply. Angelique, Mason, Dominique, Madison, Major and Micah. Are all of my babies, and I wouldn’t trade them in for anyone else.

Which is why I am here. I love Angel and I love Dominique, but they don’t get along and they never have, I’m honestly sick of it. I need them to understand that at the end of the day, we only have each other.

“Hi Daddy.” Angel mumbled and sat down at the restaurant table.

I smiled at her, she had black hair, which I always loved, it reminded me of her mother when we were younger.

“What’s up? Why’d you call me here.” She quizzed

“I wanted a neutral place to talk, and the house is too busy nowadays.”

She nodded, “Okay, so what’s up?”

I sighed, I knew that my child had a short fuse, so I knew to tread lightly.

“Angel, I want to talk about your relationship with Dominique.”

She smacked her lips and rolled her eyes, “Daddy, Ion wanna talk about that shit.” She said, picking up her phone, now ignoring me.

“Marie, I’m not playing with you, listen to me.” I spoke sternly, she knew I was serious, so she placed her phone down.

“Now, look, I know you don’t fuck with her because of what you think happened back then with your mother, Katie and I, But at the end of the day Angel, you were a child and didn’t understand anything back then and regardless of what happened, she’s here, she’s your sister and you need to treat her as such.”

“No. I don’t.” She pursed her lips and folded her arms

“Look,-“ She cut me off.

“Daddy, no disrespect, but Andrea and I will never have a relationship. I don’t like her, I don’t like her mother. We should just move on, because no matter how many talks we have, nothing will change.”

I chuckled, “Okay Xavier.”

She looked at me confused, yet unbothered.

“You act like your mother’s father. He was a mean stubborn asshole.”

Scoffing, “Thanks Dad.”

“Look, I wish I had the chance to have a relationship with my siblings.” I told her

“You never got to meet them?”

My kids knew what happened to my dad and the story with my mom and I. I don’t even know how many siblings I have, all I know is that it is a lot of us. My father had multiple baby mommas.

I shook my head, “No, I believe I’m the youngest, and I’m in my 40s so, I know there’s some at least in like their 50s to 60s. Two of my older brothers died, and I never got to meet them. It’s a struggle Angel. Nique is really down and she needs all of us to be there for her.”

“Why do I have to-“

“She’s you sister. You took her to Planned parenthood. You have some protectiveness over her.”

“I dont like her, but I’m not that coldhearted Daddy.”

I smiled, “I know, so please reach out to her, have a conversation, her and her boyfriend broke up.”

“What a time to break up, when you’re stuck to each other for life by a baby.”

I shook my head, “Unfortunately, she told him that he may not be the father. I didn’t know my daughter was so promiscuous.”

All Angel could do was laugh, I looked at her,

“Angelique, it’s not funny.”

She shrugged, “I’ll talk to her daddy. But no promises on liking her.”

I smiled because I got my way, “That’s all I’m asking babygirl. Now-“ I picked up the menu and started to look at it, “Let’s hurry up and order, your mom is gonna be pissed that I had lunch at her favorite restaurant without her and I know you’re about to rack up a huge ass bill.”

She smiled devilishly, “You already know Daddy, been eyeing that Lobster tail.” She laughed.

Maurice

Smacking my lips, I ignored another one of her phone calls. This shit was annoying the hell out of me.

Aiden and Mason laughed and thought the shit was funny. It wasn't. I'm just trying to enjoy playing 2K with my brother and cousin and chill. I've been going through way too much for me to be this calm. Just as soon as I was starting to relax again, here she go, calling my damn phone.

"Nigga, just pick up the freaking phone. I'm tired of hearing the damn phone ring." Mason grumbled out, and Aiden clapped in agreement.

I rolled my eyes, and answered.

"What the fuck do you want Jada?" I asked.

"Damn, is that anyway to talk to your sister?" I heard Ree's voice.

My face scrunched up and I looked at my phone only to see Ree's face on my screen. Shit.

"Shit, my bad Ree, I thought you were Jada." I apologized

"Mhm. Still no way to answer the phone."

"Marie Angele, what do you want?"

"Nothing, Mommy wanted me to call to see if you had talked to Aye." She mumbled.

"Yeah, I'm sitting with him right now." I said looking at my little brother. I chuckled at all the times I tease him about being younger and he gets a whole attitude.

"Well tell him that he should come home, like the house, cause him and daddy gotta talk. Mommy got in touch with his birth mother."

Hearing this news made me sit up from the couch, 'Word?"

"Yup. You know Daddy pissed." Ree mumbled again.

I guess since I stopped playing the game, Aiden and Mason noticed, and both had concerned looks on their faces.

"What's going on?" Mason asked

"Nun, everything okay." I whispered to them so that I could still hear Ree.

"Anyways, I got to go Reese. I got class." She told me

"Yeah, Yeah, bye big head. Don't talk to no boys."

I could hear her rolls her eyes. "Whatever nigga, you not my daddy."

"We could bring him into this as well." I smirked.

"Goodbye Maurice Andre." and she hung up the phone.

"What was that all about?" Aiden asked.

I cleared my throat, thinking about how I was going to put this.

"Ree and Mom wanted to you to talk to Pops."

He scrunched up his face, "Why would I talk to him, when he was wrong in that shit?"

I sighed, "Look, you need to talk to Pops. Period, at the end of the day, he still our dad,"

"Again, why would I talk to him, he doesn't want me to find my mom and without his help, I don't know anything about her. So until he's read to have that conversation, I'm not saying shit." He started to get defensive, and that's worse than anything.

"Look, just talk to your dad. It may turn out different than what you think." Mason called out from the kitchen.

"Nigga, if it were you, would you talk to your dad about this shit?" Aiden accused.

"Aiden." I sighed.

"No, fuck that. Don't Aiden me! Why do I need to talk to dad so fuckin bad!!" He got up and started pacing. That's one thing that he got from our dad, his fuckin temper.

"Because," I sighed

"NIGGA WHAT!!"

"MOM GOT IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BIRTH MOM!"

When I said that Aiden just stared at me, and Mason came out the kitchen with a bitten sandwhich in his hand and his mouth full of food.

"Holy Shit." Mason said.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After that whole debacle at the penthouse, I went to my own apartment. I needed to chill and relax. My family was an entire mess and I didn't have the mental capacity to handle them.

It was raining and I honestly used to love the rain., but now all it did was made me sad.

I was sitting in the dark, and all I wanted to do was go to sleep, butI couldn’t. My brain wouldn’t shut the hell off and neither would my damn phone. Getting pissed that it was Jada, calling me for the 100th time today. I chucked my phone across the room and it finally turned off.

For only, 5 minutes later, my front door started to get pounded on.

“Nigga, what the fuck!” I threw the covers off of me and went to open the front door.

“NIGGA GIVE ME A DAMN MINUTE!!!”

I swung open the door, and there stood the love of my life, fully 9 months pregnant.

I sighed, “Did you not understand, that by me not answering your phone calls, that I don’t want to talk to you?” I spat at her.

“Reese, I know you’re mad but we need to talk.” She pleaded.

“First of all, I’m not ‘Reese’ to you anymore. So don’t call me that. And we don’t need to fucking talk. You did enough of that 7 months ago.”

7 months ago, my whole world changed. Jada and I have been together since we were 13 years old. I loved this girl, with everything in me. The night she told me that she was pregnant, I proposed to her. I had planned on doing that with or without the baby. She accepted, but forgot to mention that I wasn’t the father of her child.

I was so excited, had gotten pregnant before, but we were too young and both decided to have an abortion, and we never really spoke about it. But this was our baby and our chance to be a family. We were engaged for 3 months, and she never said a word. I bought baby clothes, set up a nursery, had names picked out and told my entire family. Only to get embarrassed.

She won’t tell me who the father is, but she did tell me it was a one night stand because we had broken up two weeks before, and got back together right after that. She wanted me to forgive her, but I don’t see how I could.

“Maurice, I’m sorry.” She started to cry, and it hurt me to see her cry, but I couldn’t show weakness.

I shifted my weight on my other leg, and slightly prayed I wouldn’t regret this.

“You’re here now, what do you want?”

At first, she wouldn’t look at me, “I wanted you to know, that the father doesn’t want anything to do with this baby. And that um-“

She cleared her throat, continuing. “I am giving the baby up for adoption, I found a nice family for him, I just want my old life back, I want you back. I love you.”

I stared at her, was she giving up her child because I broke up with her?

“You are giving up your child because I don’t want to be with you?”

She didn’t say anything, and that confirmed my answer.

“Jada, don’t do that because of me. Do that because you want to or actually need to. Don’t come to my door, saying you want me back and will give up your child, what kind of bullshit is that. Grow the hell up, stop playing with people’s feelings and do what you gotta do.”

She tried to answer back, but I shut the door in her face and walked back to my room.

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