Chapter 22
Chapter
Twenty-Two
SETH
I glanced over at Shiloh who was pulling himself up and banging on the living room table. He was ten months and ready to walk any day now. He made a weird face, and I just knew this lil nigga wasn’t shitting after I had just bathed and got him dressed.
“Shiloh, don’t do that to me. We already running late,” I said as I walked over to him, I didn’t need to check his pamper because the smell hit the moment, I got close to him.
“God damn, Shiloh. Your shit shouldn’t smell like mines,” I joked as I walked over to the diaper bag and grabbed the wipes and pampers to change him.
I scooped his little ass up and tossed him on the couch before I realized he had shitted all out of his pamper and onto his clothes.
“Oh, this what we doing?” I asked him as I started to undress him.
I swear he never did this with Stormi. The out the diaper on to the clothes shits were a foreign thing to her.
He saved them all for me. I caught his smile as I cleaned him up with the wipes but decided to go ahead and give him another bath.
Once I got Shiloh cleaned and dressed again, S3 finally came down the stairs. I was happy he was dressed until I looked down at his shirt and saw the red juice stain.
Remember, no red juice. Stormi’s voice replayed in my head.
Fuck! I got to start listening to her when it comes to what to give them.
Shit would’ve saved me a diaper change with Shiloh and an outfit change with S3.
Daddy life was kicking my ass, but I wouldn’t trade it for nothing in the world.
But I was considering getting a nanny. Between the boys, another baby on the way, and both Stormi and I running full-time businesses, we could use the help.
Well, I could use the help. Stormi could do this shit with her eyes closed.
She was never late for anything. She remembered every school event, business meeting, and holiday there was.
After I changed S3 outfit and got the boys loaded into the car, I put the address Stormi sent me to meet her at into the GPS and drove straight there. It said 25 minutes away I was supposed to meet her at 3pm and here it was 2:45pm.
“Mommy going to kill us for having her wait,” I said, looking back at S3 and Shiloh who seemed to be unbothered with anything that was going on. They both were so tuned into whatever was on their tablets, and I loved it. Best thing I could’ve brought.
My phone screen lit up, and I just knew it was my wife trying to find out where the fuck I was, but to my surprise, it was Rich. He had been gone for about two weeks now. Decided to take a little vacation to clear his mind on some stuff.
“Housewife Seth,” his voice came through the Bluetooth loud with him laughing at his own joke before I could.
“Haha, nigga. What up?” I asked.
“Nothing much just checking in on the fam.”
“Shit, good; your godsons over here stressing me out,” I added.
“Better show them young niggas who boss; especially with another on the way,” he joked.
“Yeah, I need my princess to come in and show them,” I said, looking back at my boys who were still lost in their tablets.
“You really think this one a girl?” he asked.
“Shit, I’m hoping. I need a daddy’s girl. I’m surrounded by mama boys.”
“I got to prepare for a god daughter. Need to make a call and get some shit shipped in for them boys who think they going to be hanging around,” Rich said and I knew he wasn’t joking.
“That’s why I pray she shaped like me. Don’t need her with none of those hips and ass her mom has,” I said laughing.
“I’m going to let you go. Make sure you call and let me know what we having,” Rich said as he ended the call.
I looked over at the GPS and it said ten minutes away.
I shot Stormi a text letting her know. I knew she was excited.
Today we found out what our third child gender.
We decided to do a smaller intimate gender reveal; just me, her and the boys.
We didn’t want family to have to keep flying in and out of town since we had Shiloh and S3 birthday party coming up soon.
I knew these niggas wouldn’t mind. It was nothing to jump on the private jet and come celebrate but we all were running business and had things to handle.
I was planning on surprising Stormi with a baby shower anyways with the help of Ari.
I pulled into the parking lot of the address and saw it was an aquarium.
I raised my brow, unsure of why she wanted to do it here, but I grabbed the boys and headed to the entrance.
I glanced around and saw my pregnant wife at the cookie stand stuffing her face with a cookie while she and a guy talked.
I walked up to her, pulling her into my arms and planting kisses all over her.
I didn’t need to claim what was already mine.
I just needed to see and feel her. She had been gone all morning doing some work at the recovery homes she was opening in the next few month.
She was a real boss jugging all her roles with no sweat.
“Hey, husband,” she spoke, smiling after I released her.
And like clockwork Shiloh reached and cried to be in her arms.
“I don’t know what you going to do when the new baby come. You going to be stuck with me” I said teasing Shiloh who was unfazed while in his mama’s arms now eating her cookie.
“Leave my handsome face alone,” she said as she headed him another cookie and gave the last one to S3. I was happy I didn’t want one.
“Lil nigga getting replaced,” I teased, tickling him.
“Never,” she said, kissing his cheeks.
“This where we doing the gender reveal?” I asked.
“Yes, I thought it would be nice for the boys to see the aquarium with the different fish. S3 and his class went here on a field trip, and he hasn’t stopped talking about it since.
And Shiloh now has this obsession with sharks since S3 brought him home the white shark teddy bear,” she explained as she finished her water and tossed it in the trash.
We walked around the aquarium, visiting all the tanks of different fish and sea creatures.
The boys were having the time of their lives Stormi snapped every picture she could think of for memories and I watched as all their face light up at everything there was to see here.
We went into a small room that had a picnic set up on the floor but was surrounded by an aquarium, the floor both sides and the sky.
“It’s fish on the roof and the floor!” S3 screamed as we walked further into the space.
“It’s beautiful right?” Stormi asked.
She put Shiloh down, who hit at the floor trying to get the fish he quickly found his way to S3 and used S3’s shirt to pull his self up next to his brother.
“Have you talked to Imani” Stormi walked over and asked.
“For what?” I questioned looking confused.
“She’s been MIA for a while now,” she replied.
“She knows how to reach out when she wants to see her son. When he asks for her, which he rarely does, I call and she doesn’t pick up,” I said.
I watched as her mind began to wonder and I quickly brought her back.
“Hey, today is your day. When Imani wants to be a mother, she will; for now, S3 good,” I said pulling her lips and kissing them.
“Hey S3 and Shiloh, I heard you have a new baby brother or sister on the way,” a voice said as a mermaid swam up to the glass, grabbing the boy’s attention.
Shiloh went right to kissing the glass with his fresh ass.
“Ready to find out what mommy is having?” She asked and S3 nodded on cue and Shiloh slammed his heavy ass hand on the glass.
“Go get your son,” Stormi said as I grabbed her hand and we walked over to the boys.
The lights dimmed and each fish tank glowed a different color until everything went black and all four fish tanks lit up blue.
“Congratulations on the new baby brother,” the mermaid said as she held up a congratulation sign and the sonagram showing it’s a boy.
“Another boy,” Stormi repeated laughing and kissing my lips.
“Just when I thought I was getting my princess. Guess we can try again,” I said, pulling my wife closer.
“Two under two is going to be enough for a while,” she said smiling.
I laughed, shaking it off. I was getting my girl. I didn’t care how many times I had to try.
“Stormi, can we name him Spiderman?” S3 asked running up to us.
“Ummm that can be his nickname,” she replied, smiling and turning to me.
“God damn nigga that mean I’m going to get stuck with all the daughters” Rich said walking into the room surprising us all.
“What you doing here thought you was still on Vacation” Stormi asked Rich as they embraced each other in a hug before he dapped me up.
“Couldn’t miss what my third god child was about to be” he said.
“Another boy” I announced.
“Damn I’m going to have to cancel the tea set and doll house I had being delivered to the house” Rich said as a knocked came to the door.
Stormi and I both looked over at each other.
“Oh, some other people wanted to come and celebrate to” Rich said as everybody walked through the door all smiles and jokes about me having another boy and not the princess I was hoping for.
I dapped up all my friends who had turned into family as they filled the space. Everybody holding gift bags and boxes of pampers and wipes. I loved that no matter what our family was always there for us even when we told them they didn’t have to be.
I watched as Ari pulled Stormi away to a nearby corner and she hugged and congratulated her.
Looking around this room everything in my life was complete.
I didn’t get the daughter I wanted but I knew she would be here sometime in the future for now I was happy with my queen and three kings.
My wife was happy my sons were healthy and I was finally being the man I knew my pops would be proud of.