Chapter 20
A’yanna Joseph
The longer I sat in this house the madder I got.
Initially everyone didn’t leave right away.
Frankee talked me off the edge. Her presence kept me calm when I really wanted to tear Niko’s house up.
Even Niko’s brother’s helped keep my mind off Niko and Maddie.
I appreciated how they all embraced me even when Niko wasn’t around.
We all laughed and kicked it for another hour before another situation arose between Reya and Nakeem.
Nakeem’s disrespectful side reared it’s ugly head when he saw Reya texting another nigga.
Apparently he didn’t like that, he called her every name but her first name.
Which made her leave causing Nakeem’ kids to get flustered.
Then Nakeem and Titon kind of exchanged words when Titon told him he was wrong for how he talked to Reya.
Nakeem stormed out after that. Titon left with Tianna.
Then Yaro, Frankee and their daughters left because it was getting late.
Leaving me alone to stew on my own thoughts.
I was fine for a few hours since Zuriyah woke up hungry, then shitted all over the place.
I had to give Zuriyah a bath, fed her greedy ass again before she was ready to fall back asleep.
When I got in the shower myself that’s when my mind really started to get the best of me.
I started feeling like Niko was tryna play me for a bird.
I kept picturing him laid up with Maddie rubbing her stomach and tell her he loved her.
While I’m sitting over here like a fucking dummy waiting for the nigga to call me.
Which he never did so I blocked his stupid ass because if anything he should have been blowing my phone down to apologize for not defending our daughter.
When midnight hit and I still hadn’t heard from him.
I started packing all my shit up that I’d brought over here.
I didn’t even grabbed any of Zuriyah’s because she already had hella stuff at my house.
Niko could keep all the cheap ass shit he’d bought.
Granted nothing he bought was cheap but I didn’t care I was mad as fuck.
It took me a minute to call for a, Ryde, basically a taxi service in Beaumont.
I was trying to give Niko a chance to show up before I went hte fuck hom and ignored him for a few days.
I didn’t care if it seemed childish or not.
When it came to protecting Zuriyah I would go against whoever.
Niko let Maddie say one too many things about our daughter and I wasn’t feeling him.
By two I was over it and Zuriyah and I were waiting for our Ryde drive by the front door.
If Niko wanted to be with Maddie then he was free to do what he wanted I wouldn’t be around for it.
We could figure out some kind of schedule for him to get Zuriyah on his own time.
That’s how I should have gone about this in the first fucking place.
I hated taking my baby out this late but I was getting the fuck it of here.
As I watched the Ryde share driver pull up I opened the door.
“Yanna?” The male driver asked getting out of the car to open the back door for me.
”Yeah“ I replied as I smiled at him politely.
“You need help or you got it?” The Ryde driver flirt with me. I can admit he was nice on the eyes but triggered now my mind was far from entertaining another nigga. I slide Zuriyah into the backseat and was I was halfway in the car.
”If you don’t mind putti-“ My words got caught in my throat.
“What the fuck is you doing?” Niko barked at me his voice filled with rage as he held his slightly sagging jeans up with one hand as he sped walking in my direction.
“Huh?” I fearfully asked clueless on what else I should say. The anger in Niko’s eyes was something I had never see before. He looked like a raging bull as he approached us.
”Is everything okay?” The Ryde driver asked, looking at me nervously.
“Umm honestly if I were you I would hurry up and get in the fucking car!” I hurriedly screeched to the Ryde drive trying to get inside the car before Niko got to me.
I was too slow, Niko's enraged face was all I seen as I watched him effortlessly lift me out the car. “Get the fuck out this car,” He growled through clenched teeth.
“My dude don’t grab her like that!” the Ryde driver said, pulling at Niko’s arm, causing him to almost drop me but he was able to keep his grip on me.
“Bitch! Don’t put yo’ mutha fuckin’ hands on me!” I heard Niko bark as I looked over and saw the Ryde driver's nose gushing with blood.
“Niko!” I yelled in horror trying to get back to my feet.
“Don’t scream my name! Yo ho’ bringing niggas to my house?” Niko sat me on the ground giving me a death stare. “Get my fuckin’ daughter out that car!” He demanded as he hiked up his pants. He focused his attention back on the Ryde driver. Viciously punching him in the face.
“No, no, no Niko calm down!” I said grabbing his arm to prevent him from hitting the Ryder drive again.
“You defending this nigga?” Niko looked at me crazily and I was fearful for the drive with how black Niko’s eyes got.
Before I had a chance to reply Niko pulled a gun from the back of his pants.
“Nigga!” Yaro screamed, “He a fuckin’ Ryde driver. Calm yo’ ass down.”
Niko whipped back around peering at me evilly. His chest rapidly rising and falling as ragged breaths left his body.
“I don’t know who he is, Niko I swear, Yaro isn’t lying. Look,” I said picking up my phone with shaky hands, clicking on the Ryde app, I showed Niko the request for a ride.
He exhaled, frowning deeply at the driver. “Get yo’ bitch ass up.” Niko nudged the driver’s leg with his foot.
“Iii’m sorrrry,” The driver cried slowing trying to stand up.
“My bad G, I thought you was tryna fuck with my baby mama,” Niko said in what was supposed to be an apologetic tone but came off more cocky than anything.
“Can I go?” He nervously asked looking like he was about to cry.
“This is an unfortunate accident, right?” Niko said giving a threatening glare at the driver, who nodded in understanding. Niko got Zuriyah out the car then said. “Go head.”
“You outta yo’ fucking mind.” Yaro chuckled breaking the silence. “You good bro? Or do I need to stay here and referee?” Yaro asked joking like his crazy ass brother almost killing somebody wasn’t a big deal.
“We straight.” Niko calmly said but his eyes told a different story, he was still pissed.
“Alright. Sis call me if you need me,” Yaro said winking at me. “Aye, crazy ass don’t forget about my block party next week,” Yaro sai giving Niko head nod.
I wanted to scream for Yaro to stay or beg him to take me home. However, I felt that would only make this situation worse. So I kept my mouth closed.
“You really think I’m a bitch ass nigga?” Niko growled stepping in my personal space.
“Back up Niko,” I demanded, pushing him back.
I might have been scared of Niko right now but I wasn’t about to let him bully me. Not when he left me to go lay up with his disrespectful trout mouth bitch ass baby mama.
Niko let out a sinister chuckle as he backed up a few feet. He looked down at Zuriyah in her carseat. He bent down picking her car seat up.
“Bring yo’ gooofy ass in the house,” he said menacingly. Childishly Niko bumped me into my shoulder as he walked past me into the house. I really contemplated taking my ass on. Dealing with Niko was finna turn all my hair grey.
After a good ten minutes I sluggishly made my way in the house.
Niko and Zuriyah were nowhere in sight. I knew Niko wasn’t gonna do anything to our daughter.
Instead of looking for him I made my way to the kitchen, over to Niko’s wine rack.
Popping open my favorite blueberry wine I poured myself the biggest glass I could.
I took a sip letting the wine calm my nerves.
Niko had me moving and acting all out of my character, I hated it.
I never allowed a nigga to throw me off my rocker.
I barely knew when I was coming or going when I had to deal with Niko.
What made it worse was he wasn’t my nigga nor was I getting any dick.
I had no reason to running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
“I should beat yo’ ass,” Niko whispered in my ear scaring the fuck out of me. Sending my wine flying out the glass all over the two of us.
”Niko!” I yelled whipping around furiously. “Why the fuck would you do that?” I asked through clenched teeth and my eyes in slits. I wanted to choke the fuck out of him for scaring me like that. Now we, mainly me, we’re covered in wine.
”I see what type of shit you be on?” Niko grunted grilling me from head to toe.
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” I spat slamming the wine glass on the counter.
“You the type of broad that ah do some bullshit then try to play the victim.”
”My nigga I’m nobodies victim. I’m just not finna let no nigga or bitch treat me or my daughter any type of way.” I fiercely snaked my head from side to side.
“Bru,” Niko said, smacking his hands on the container trapping me in between him and the counter.
With his face inches from mine. “Stop sayin’ that shit.
Zuriyah ain’t only your daughter.” He breathed a hard angry breath through his nose.
I guess Niko called himself being pissed but I could careless. He wasn’t the only one pissed off.
“Could have fooled the fuck outta me.” I sarcastically replied, rolling my eyes as hard as I could.
“Since I found out about my daughter I ain’t let up off her fuck outta here with that weak ass shit.”
”Right but you let a bitch you was fucking speak bad about my daughter,” I pettily said.
”I ain’t let her do shit. I checked her ass.”
”When? While you was laid up with her saggy titty in yo’ mouth?” I sarcastically spat, glaring at him.
Niko gave me a hard stare as he ran his tongue across his teeth, slowly a smile spread across his face.