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Atlanta, GA

November 15th

Saturday

"Hi, pawpaw!" Both Kennedi and Sarayah squealed when Adonis opened the door with the biggest smile on his face. "There's my girls!" He picked them both up and kissed their cheeks.

Matthias walked past them, going into the living room and putting their duffle bags down since they were spending a night. "Whea' is y'all's mommy?" Adonis asked after closing the door and putting them down.

"At home" Kennedi shrugged, and Rayah nodded in agreement. Adonis furrowed his eyebrows a little then looked at his son who just sighed.

He smiled back at the girls "Yo' Meme and GG in the kitchen. Y'all better go say hey befo' they get jealous" He teased. They both laughed and took off their shoes before they took off running to the kitchen.

Matthias didn't even feel the need to tell them to stop running because one of his moms was going to do it.

"Everything wit' you and Lani aight?" Adonis raised his eyebrow.

Matthias nodded "Yeah, it's jus' that time of the year fa' her," He said. They were now in November and Matthias could see the change in Ailani.

Last week was her brother's birthday and yesterday was her dad's birthday then next week was their death anniversary. He had been wondering why she hadn't been eating as much but this was telling him all he needed to know.

Adonis's eyes widened "Right, she okay? Ima give her a call later" He said, Matthias just shrugged.

"She says she aight but I hear her cryin' in the shower every morning. She barely has been goin' ta' work these past two weeks and I know she was definitely out of it last yesterday because she didn't even get out of the bed or come out of the room" He sighed. "I brought the girls over here since that keep askin' and so they didn't have to see her today. Usually, we'll do it like a family thing but she wouldn't get out of bed" He explained.

Adonis nodded "It's a hard thing for her. Even tho it was years ago, it feels like it just happens all over again every year" He said, Matthias nodded.

"I'on know what ta' do. Sometimes she doesn't wanna be bothered by me" He said. Matthias never experienced losing people close to him so he honestly didn't know what to say or how to say it.

"Jus' gotta be there as much as she lets you. Don't let her push you away tho, though it's not gonna be good, and knowing Lani, she might push you to the limit"

Matthias furrowed his eyebrows "Whatchu' mean?" He asked.

"Some people hurt others because they hurt. She might say something off the wall to have you thinkin' why. But certain shit, don't let it get ta' you. Unless it was straight up disrespectful" He explained.

Matthias nodded, he honestly never thought about it like that. "You think she would do that?" He asked.

Adonis shrugged "It's not tellin' wit' someone that's grievin'. But it was just a heads up, she probably won't" He said and patted his shoulder then walked off.

Matthias sighed before following behind him to the kitchen to say hello to his moms.

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"Bubba" Matthias heard a soft voice as he typed at his computer in his office. He looked up and saw Ailani wrapped in a blanket while holding the Bouquet of sunflowers...

"Yeah? You okay? Do you need anything?" He quickly got up from his seat and moved around his desk.

She slightly smiled and shook her head "No I just wanted to thank you for the flowers. They're really pretty" She said as he walked in front of her. He leaned down to kiss her temple.

"M-my granny told you?" She asked lowly.

He nodded "Yeah, I was already at the store getting you some flowers when she called me and said how much you loved sunflowers" He wrapped his arms around her waist.

She lightly chuckled, "Malachi used to steal these from my daddy's flower shop every week just to give me one. He used ta' say I was his sunflower and sunflowers get flowers" She smiled staring at the flowers. He just listened since he felt like she needed that listening ear right now.

"Yo' pops owned a flower shop?" He asked, she nodded "Yeah called Jay's Flowers." She said "But umm, before the police caught my mom, she set the shop on fire after what she did to us" She shook his head and his eyes widened.

"I usually am sad but not this sad during this time so I'm sorry. I-Ima gets it together" She sniffled and sadly smiled at him.

"Noo, baby take yo' time. You have the right to be sad, you're still grieving and that's okay." He assured her. Matthias would never make her feel bad for being hurt over something so deep like this.

She lost the two most important people in her life and if she wanted to grieve and be sad about it, he was going to give her that comfort to do that.

"I feel like it hurts more since my Psychopath ass birth giver keeps writing to me" She rolled her eyes, and he raised his eyebrow "She writes you from jail?" He asked.

"Yeah, I used to read them and they were just her apologizing and asking if I could help her get out. I-I hate her" She admitted "I know it's bad to say and to have that in my heart and I'm a hypocrite for telling the girls not to do it but I can't see myself ever forgiving her or ever trying to. She toured me and my dad for years since I was 4 and was able to remember things." She said getting angry.

"And that bitch has the audacity to ask me to forgive her because God forgave her and I should be able to do the same. Bitch Ion giva' fuck who forgave you, My dad and brother are gone because she wouldn't let us go. I could have been paralyzed and died because she-she" She broke down crying and he hugged her.

"To hell with her, I have to live with the-the memories every single day. I-I have to live knowing I was saved and my dad and brother weren't able to be saved. I-I have to live knowing they will never come back and tell me everything is okay" She cried into his chest breaking his heart.

He wished he could take a little bit of the pain away. He wished he could give her that security that things get better over time but with something like this? he honestly didn't know if it would.

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🎶My mama said "love is the answer"

So when I call you better answer me🎶

Moments by Jhené Aiko played inside the house. Ailani kicked her feet while sitting on the counter and Matthias let her taste the sauce he made off the spoon.

"Umm, just a little salt. Don't overdo it tho." She said, licking her lips after tasting the spaghetti sauce he personally makes.

He lightly laughed, putting the spoon in the sink "I don't overdo Anahi" He rolled his neck a little bit at her. She smiled "I didn't say you did Zakai. I'm just reminding you" She sassied at him.

He curled his nose up "Okay Kennedi" He joked, going back to the food he was making.

Lani looked down at her phone, going to Instagram before watching people's stories. She wasn't really on social media like that mostly all the time she was posting for her business. Or sometimes she posted her tik toks.

She laughed after watching Jabari's story and he was in the strip club with Ruben and Keith. "Bari is gonna be celebratin' all month now that his divorce is final" She laughed. She was happy his divorce was finally settled. He looked so much happier and was as down about it anymore like he used to be.

"Hell yeah, He been drunk since Thursday after court"

Ailani shook her head "I was tryin' so hard not to laugh at her when she was crying on the floor after trying to run after him. The junk had me almost in tears" She started laughing.

"She looked like a damn fool." Matthias shook his head.

"Just like yo' baby mama when she didn't show up ta' court" She smirked, Matthias heavily rolled his eyes while putting the top on the pot.

"Still don't understand how she gonna try ta' send me to court then not show up," He said, putting the Ingredients back in the refrigerator.

"At least they might dismiss it and you win" Ailani shrugged. She was glad all of this was going to be over soon and they didn't have to worry about Cora anymore.

"Yeah but her not showin' up is weird. But it helped me out cause she clearly doesn't care 'bout Ken like she made it seem" He said, she nodded in agreement.

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Ailani smiled and answered, waiting for it to connect "Hey girl hey! " Brooklyn smiled into the camera. Lani raised her eyebrow at her smiling extra harder than usual.

"Hey, bookie, why you smilin' so hard?" She asked, looking at her background seeing she was in her dorm room.

Brooklyn smirked "Girl Soren jus' beat da' fuck outta my back! I— HE WHAT?!" Matthias cut her off, snapping his head in Lani's direction.

Both Lani's and Brook's eyes widened before the dial tone went off, motioning Brook had hung up. Lani busted out laughing at the look he was giving her.

"Bubba, she is what? about ta' be 19. She can be havin' sex" She laughed. He scoffed "No, the fuck she can't. She ain' allowed to have sex until she 50 going on 80" He rolled his eyes, walking in between her legs.

She laughed even harder, wrapping her arms around his neck. Seeing how overprotective he was over his sisters made her always wonder if Malachi had been the same way.

"You sayin' you wasn't havin' sex at her age?" She asked.

"No. I was a virgin until I met you" He smiled and pecked her lips. She busted out laughing at him and his lies.

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Atlanta, GA

November 16th

Sunday

"Mommy!" Sarayah beamed, jumping off the sofa when she saw Ailani walk into the living room of Matthias's parent's house.

"Hey, jellybean!" She returned the same excitement, lifting her up and kissing her cheeks. "I missed you" She cooed as Rayah wrapped her arms around her neck.

"I missed you too! I made a cake" She smiled. Lani raised her eyebrows "You did? What kinda?" She asked, putting her down and glancing around the living room not seeing Kennedi.

"Okay we'll I helped Meme make a strawberry pound cake" she giggled, hugging Matthias. Kennedi came down the stairs, dragging her feet and a frown on her face.

"What's wrong Munchkin?" She asked, squatting down and opening her arms for her. Kennedi walked into her arms and put her head on her shoulder "My head hurts" She mumbled making Lani pout.

"Should've gone to sleep last night" Rayah mugged her.

"Shut up." Ken rolled her eyes at her "You shut up" Rayah rolled her neck making Lani's eyes widen.

"Both of yall shut up" Matthias frowned looking in between them. They both looked off to somewhere else "Apologize to each other now" He said.

Rayah folded her arms across her chest and frowned "I didn't do anything to her. It's her and she's annoying" She stormed off and went upstairs.

Matthias and Ailani looked at each other weirdly. The girls have been bickering this past week a lot. It confused both of them because that wasn't normally them.

"Such a baby" Ken mumbled "C'mon Mami, let's go see if Meme or GG got something for you to take for yo' head" Matthias shook his head, grabbing her hand and walking away.

Ailani sighed, standing up straight, and made her way upstairs to check on Rayah. She went into the room that she and Kennedi shared when they came over to his parent's house. She walked into the room seeing Rayah laying on her bed while coloring.

"What's wrong, Jellybean? Why are you and Ken being mean to each other?" She asked, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"It's her, not me" She grumbled, then huffed and threw the colored pencil down. This was a new behavior for Lani, she had never really seen Rayah with an attitude like this.

"You have to tell me why baby. Y'all have been mad at each other all week now. It's gone on for too long Alora" She said, calling her by her middle name.

"It's her! She wanted to make new friends at school and-and just forget about me" She raised her small voice. Lani furrowed her eyebrows "What do you mean forget about you?" She asked as Rayah sat up.

"On Monday we had a project in class and me and Ken always worked together but she worked with this girl that I don't know and don't care to know her name. " She rolled her eyes and looked off to the side.

Lani laughed to herself "Rayah, it's okay to make new friends and have other friends besides Ken. You do know that?" She asked.

"No, it's not. She is my sister, my best friend, and my only friend." Tears started to slip from her eyes making Lani no longer think it was funny.

"Nobody likes me and-and she's takin' Ken from me. We don't even play together anymore at recess because she wants to play with the other girl" She sniffed, wiping her face.

"Look at me" She turned her body to face her "Are people bullying you again? Be honest with me too" She said, eyeing her for a sign of change.

"No, they don't like me, mommy. I'm too quiet" Tears started to come out of her eyes "Now I have nobody because Ken doesn't want to be my friend anymore" She hiccuped.

"Aww baby that's not true" She wiped her face with the pads of her thumbs. "There is nothing wrong with you being quiet. If you only want to talk to people you are comfortable with, that's okay." She assured her.

Lani saw the problem now and it was just Rayah was being territorial over Ken. Sarayah never had friends, at her other school she got bullied but now that she has Ken, she doesn't want anyone else to be her friend. She wanted Ken to herself because she's her very first-ever friend.

"You and Ken are never going to stop being friends because she made a new one" She tried to tell her but Rayah shook her head.

"We're sisters Rayah. We can't stop being friends" Kennedi said as she came into the room with Matthias behind her.

"You don't play with me. It's like you forgot about me" She frowned.

"Joelle was just teaching me how to use the monkey bar because you don't like them. I didn't mean to leave you out" Ken said honestly and pouted.

Rayah rolled her eyes at the mention of Joelle making Lani and Matthias chuckle a little.

"She's really nice, Rayah. She can be both of our friends. Not sister tho" Ken smiled.

"What if she doesn't like me?" Rayah mumbled, playing with the bead in her hair. Kennedi scrunched up her face "Then I don't like her. Duh," She laughed, making Rayah smile.

Rayah nodded "Okay, I'll be her friend for now," She said.

"Aww, so adorable. Now hug it out" Lani smiled at them. She loved their bond, they were so adorable and always stood up for each other.

"Sisters by chance, friends by choice" Rayah and Ken put their sister bracelets together that they got a while ago from Matt.

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