The cookout consisted of delicious foods made from every auntie,grandmom, cousin that could whip that shit with their soul. Chris made it very known that he was throwing a cookout at his house and all his family including Kayden's and Peanut's could come. Even the gang. There was enough food for everybody. Chris opened up his pool in the backyard and managed the bar beside it.

"Aye auntie Flo, uncle Maurice, Aunt Jackie, Cousin Poodie, Cousin Demarcus, And Uncle Jermaine" Chris greeted with no stop to breath as he smiled and hugged everybody.

"You still baggin' the bitches nephew" Uncle Jermaine chirped, winking his eye exaggeratedly. Chris coughed up a laugh and opened up a bottle of Henny. "Hey now.. dont open no henny around me thats how I got ya auntie hip dislocated" he chuckled with a few coughs. Chris scrunched his face up and hid the bottle slowly.

Uncle Jermaine stood up and moved his hips to the cook out music being blasted from the speakers. "Henny make me do henny-thing, ain't that right Debra" He shouted to Chris's aunt Debra across the yard, thrusting his hip back n' forth. She shook her head in shame and continued talking amongst the other aunties. "Aye Jermaine sit down" Chris said jokingly while fixing drinks.

"Ya'll ain' no fun. I know I'm old but that don't mean I can't get my beak wet" Jermaine shook his head but Chris spit out his Henny out at the same time. "I gotta go he too much for me ya'll" Chris patted Jermaine's back as he gave himself a proud smile.

"Enjoying ya'll time?" Chris patted Gina's and Kayden's back with too much eagerness.

"The party just getting started" Kayden said rolling up a big blunt beside Gina as she rested her head against his shoulder. The gang surrounded Kayden, doing the exact same thing as him or talking amongst themselves. Chris peaked through the back door to see the front door and to his phone every now and then.

"Twerk contest?" Chris shouted for everybody to hear. A bunch of cheers and screams erupted a second after, causing Chris to grin. The females giggled and took off any extra belonging to set to the side.

"Damn look who has arrived" Kayden shouted grinning, standing up with his arms wide open to the new comer. Chris turned his head and widened his eyes at the person Kayden was opening his arms for.

Just like Gina was.

She was more stuck and felt her heart begin to race. Chris glanced at Gina and shook his head as he observed her reaction. Everything was true.

"Rico, my boy. How you been?" Kayden said as he embraced him and patted his back a couple times. Rico came in style with a polo t-shirt, tan dickie set and fresh G fazo sneakers that resembled the color of cocoaine. He had new sets of tattoos on his hands and around his neck. Females were staring with no remorse.

As everybody greeted Rico, Gina kept her gaze to the floor,. Kayden sat down beside her and tucked his perfectly rolled blunt onto his ear. "You okay baby?" He said bringing her close by scooting closer.

Gina looked up and cleared her throat,nodding her head. He motioned for her to sit on his lap and she slipped on comfortably. Kayden leaned back and rubbed her back. "I've been good Kayden,making sure my hood is good and I've been maintaining well. I heard Chris was having this cook out. Thought I'd stop by and see what was crackin'" he grinned, showing his pearly white teeth off.

"My nigga you dripped out!" Chris yelled, running over to dap him up. Rico began laughing. "Hell yeah you know what time it is boy" he said as soon as they slapped hands and started the well known handshake that ended with a connected snap of their fingers. "This joint lit I wouldn't lie" Rico said pouring himself a glass of E&J.

Chris sat beside Rico and the rest of the gang. A hour later, everybody was blazed. "Roll up again ya'll" Chris said pulling out more weed from his pockets. "We need more backwoods" Kayden coughed as he threw the roach blunt into the trash.

"Nigga we don't throw those" Chris yelled, feeling his heart race as he seen it land inside.

"Nigga it's a roach. It's gon burn my damn fingers" Kayden whined,sucking his teeth. Chris gritted at him and felt the urge to laugh.

"Nigga you pass them roaches to me. They boost ya high forreal" Chris squinted his eyes at the last wrap he had so he could peel it open and empty the guts out.

"You a roach killaaaaa'" Rico joked.

"Somebody at the door" A girl that submerged from inside said. Chris threw the almost peeled chocolate wrap to Kayden and hopped over everybody's feet and legs quickly. "Damn who he waiting for" Rico joked while breaking up particles of weed into his wrap.

"He been actin' weird lately" Kayden said, almost to himself. Gina looked around and felt the weird energy of something about to happen. But she then shrugged off the feeling because she knew what was at stake if she was to slip up.

She might die.

"Look who stopped by ya'll" Chris shouted loud enough for everybody to hear him. It was time for shit to go down.

"Na-..Natasha?" Kayden blinked, dropping his drink all over Gina's flip flops making it sticky. "Babe!" She shouted as she stood up and jumped up and down.

Natasha kept her eyes glued on Kayden as she stepped into the backyard slowly. Gina looked up and stopped worrying about her sticky feet, growing angry at the two staring at each other.

Gina observed this 'Natasha' chick and felt an odd pang of jealousy grow inside of her. Not to forget how Kayden gave her look he always gave Gina.

All those tattoos on her curvy caramel skin made it hard not to fall in love. She had on a white crop top with spaghetti straps and black tights with see through material. Her toes were polished white along with her fingernails but every other finger had sparkly silver glitter painted on them. Natasha's big hoops dangled from her ears and her lashes were naturally long.

Gina only had on a bright orange fitted dress and black sunglasses parched ontop of her head.

Chris observed Natasha approvingly and mentally high-five'd her for coming in whoop ass clothing.

"Who is that babe?" Gina nudged Kayden a little too hard. Kayden look back at Gina with a dazed look as if he just seen a ghost.

Natasha was about to say something to Kayden but flickered her eyes onto Gina and was completely stuck. "I-..uh...umm just came to stop by. Hang out with ya'll" she gulped, fluttering her eyes around the area seeing it was packed with people minding their business. Rico eyed Natasha up and down, gazing at her curves. But mostly at her expression of seeing Gina.

It wasn't a jealous type of look, it was a scared 'i've seen you before' type of look. Rico had to investigate before a cat fight would eventually break out. He seen how jumpy Chris was to get the door as if he was expecting Natasha. But for what?

As the cook out went on, Chris was being twerked on with hundred of females from instagram that he invited surrounding him. Kayden looked over and seen how much fun Chris was having. He was happy that Chris seemed to be over Kimberly. He also remembered how Chris let one of his close aunties take care of his child to give him time to himself. He would probably be ready in a couple days to be a full time parent.

"So Kayden, who is she?" Gina pressed as she folded her arms. Kayden stood in the kitchen looking out the window at everybody. Every-time his eyes would glide onto Natasha his heart would race. "You heard me?" Gina said, following wit a poke to his arm. Kayden blinked and stared at her.

"My ex, Natasha" he coughed out, squinting his eyes forward to ease the pull on how hard it was to tell Gina about the mysterious girl. Gina wondered in what part of Kayden's life did she appear in. Rico told her everything but he left out this one.

"Should I be worried let me know now" She pressed once more, tapping her foot against the cold floor. Kayden flashed his eyes at her quickly, feeling guilty that he actually had to reassure his baby that she had nothing to worry about. "My fault baby, you have nothing to worry about. Im gonna be honest with you and I want you to understand me. I haven't seen that girl since she ran off on me. She broke my heart. I had to force myself to forget her and now here she is. After a couple years... she just shows up like this was easy." Kayden sighed, grasping Gina's hand and massaging her knuckles with his thumb.

"I promise you have nothing to worry about. I would never hurt you. Not like before. Its a new me willing to never look back and make the same mistakes".

Gina felt dizzy inside, as if she could throw up. He was saying all the right things.

To the wrong person.

A tear slipped from her eye lid, causing Kayden to wipe the stain it left away. He leaned forward and kissed her forward. Natasha watched the whole scene from her seat and sipped her water slowly.

"Natasha? Is it?" Rico began, getting her attention. She gulped and nodded her head. "I've never seen you before" he said before sipping his drink.

Natasha fiddled with her acrylic nails and sighed. "I don't.. be around these parts like I use to. I was a ..bad girl that went good and never looked back you could say" she said, impressed by her choice of words. Rico nodded his head slowly trying to understand where she fit into Kayden's story.

"Why did the relationship end?" He sat back, waiting for the last piece to make sense that is if she tells the truth.

"It ended becaus—"

"And we're back" Gina greeted everybody with smiles with Kayden in hand behind her. Natasha cleared her throat and looked away. Gina noticed and felt the need to cut her eye. Kayden sat down first beside Rico and pulled Gina down onto his lap.

"Uncle Jermaine get off aunt Debra, damn!" Chris shouted as he witnessed his uncle bumping his auntie from his mom side from behind. "Get them!" He told to one of his oldest cousins that was near by. Chris excused himself from the females and went to sit back down with the rest of the gang.

"I miss Peanut no lie" Chris said smiling. Kayden shot his head up from his phone and watched Chris's expression falter every second.

"Come on bro" Gina had already gotten up as Kayden raised from his seat to pick the drunken Chris up and take him inside.

"So you must be Gina" Natasha said, finally breaking the ice. She could see how uncomfortable Gina was but then she couldn't read her anymore as Gina's eyes lit up with a perfect smile.

"Yes! And you must be his ex. I've heard good things about you" Gina chirped, twitching her eye while placing her leg over the other. Rico and the rest of the guys felt the tension thicken by each second. Natasha felt the lies slip out Gina's mouth like water on hot concrete.

She was full of shit, of course. Natasha had to keep her anger in just for a little longer. No matter how hard it was. This girl could not know who she was.

"Oh really? That's good. How did you and Kayden meet if you don't mind me asking" she said relaxing herself by resting her elbow on her knee, chin in her hand. Gina felt confusion set in as she didn't see Natasha as a threat anymore. Even though she wanted her to leave, she actually wanted to talk to this female.

"We umm.. well. I was walking by the corner store, Chris and Peanut was there and Kayden spoke to me and it just started from there. He couldn't keep his eyes off me. I was shy at first." Gina reminisced and smiled to herself as she remembered Peanut fooling around eating his bag of chips and juice at hand. It seemed so long ago after everything that happened. "Typical Kayden" Natasha said to herself but it came out loud.

Gina scrunched her face up, confused as to what she meant by that.

"Whatchu' mean 'Typical Kayden'?" She asked folding her arms. " You tryna say I wasn't the only girl and he usually picks girls up from a corner and I just happened to be the lucky one?"

Natasha widened her eyes and waved her hands in-front of her, aware that Gina was pissed off. Rico shifted his seat to the right to avoid a drink being sprayed on him.

"That came out wrong, well it was correct but you weren't suppose to hear that" Natasha rolled her eyes and mentally face palmed herself.

Gina forced herself not to act out at the cookout. It was clear homegirl didn't wanna go through anything serious. She slid her toes back into her flip flops with ease. But Natasha took notice and everything was off the table.

"You was on shit?" Natasha raised her voice, tilting her head to the side, getting up, and taking her earrings out. "You disrespecting me on the low like I ain catch on so wasssup?" Gina jumped up abruptly.

Chris and Kayden were in the living room having their own problem. "Get up bro" Kayden demanded as he pulled at Chris's arm while he laid flat out on the floor. "This cook out turned into a party" he chuckled, swinging his arms and legs as if he was making a snow angel.

"Bro, get up. I gotta go sit with my girl" Kayden grunted irritatedly. Chris then began light weight as he picked himself off of the floor. "Theres suppose to be a fight going on" Chris whispered. His eyes were red and low while his lips were coy into a smile. "Don't tell Kayden but Natasha was invited to fight Gina" he whispered even lower.

Kayden dropped Chris and ran towards the backyard

"Oopsieee.. think I told Kayden... bad chris. Bad!"

Chris pulled himself up off the floor and trip ran into the same direction Kayden went. He landed up against the door frame and seen Kayden run into the middle of Gina and Natasha.

"Whooopp herr ASSS NATASHHAAA" chris shouted. Kayden looked at Chris in disgust as he cheered on a girl fight. Gina flicked her flip flops across the yard and took her shades from the top of her head and threw those behind her.

Natasha slipped out her scarf and wrapped her hair up. All her neck tats were visible to the naked eye.

She pushed the bench all the way back and stepped back to where it originally was. "Kayden move out her way so I can dick this bitch real rap" Natasha said glaring at Gina. Kayden kept hold of Gina's arm, blocking Natasha from seeing Gina fully. "Yo whatchu tryn fight my bitch for like what yo" he said scrunchin his face up.

"Yo im not tryn hear allat. You know that I know ion play that hot shit im boutta spin this bitch." Natasha said flaring her nostrils out walking back and forth.

"Stop rapping bitch and run up" Gina shouted, trying to get past Kayden but was stopped every attempt. By this time, everybody in Chris's backyard witnessed this event with phones and iPads recording.

"You not fighting her yo"

"Who the fuck are you to tell me who im finna fight if I say im boutta beat this bitch up that mean im finna beat this bitch the fuck up fuck is you talkin?"

Natasha studied his body language and noticed Kayden was getting fed up. "Chri— never the fuck mind" Kayden shook his head in shame as he thought on how he couldn't rely on drunk Chris right now. "Let's just speak on facts right now.. uhkay?" Chris slurred with another bottle in his hand

"Is my damn nephew drunk?" Jermaine asked from afar.

"Poodie get ya damn cousin off the ground. He's tryna watch the fight but can't get up" Jermaine shouted.

"Fuck I'm life alert all of a sudden?" Poodie sneered as he grabbed a seat, dragged it to Chris and set him in it. Chris's head leaned back as he smiled goofily with his eyes closed.

"This shit boutta get real."

"I'm hearing you started this" Poodie said , questioning Chris. He shrugged his shoulder and took another swig of Hennessy. "Cause Gina gotta go" Chris whispered, way too loud.

"Why?"

Chris didn't know the last question asked of him was from Kayden but he kept talking.

"Rico and Gina know each other and ever since she popped into the picture. People been dying. I've come up with a theory that the two parents Kayden killed a while back was—"

"—Gina's parents" Natasha finished for Chris, staring into Kayden's eyes while he shook his head with shock laced into his eyes. Rico reached for his piece but soon noticed Chris's and Kayden's gang reach for their piece, surrounding him while daring him with their eyes to make the wrong move.

"Aye Natashaaaa.. how you know?!" Chris scream yelled, laughing to himself. Natasha shook her head and fought the tears from coming in.

"Because I... was there"