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Ashley POV

I walk off of the plane after Sharon with Aiden wrapped against my chest since he is still sleeping. I can tell by the way she is quiet that she is upset with right now. So from what experience I know not to say anything and let her be.

The three of us are quiet as we get into the car that Izzy is driving. The roads are pretty much empty since it is around 3 am.

"Take me home" Sharon finally speaks "you go get her... if I see jasmine right now ima be in jail" I tried to occupy myself with my nails so that it wouldn't seem like I was listening.

Izzy didn't say anything but sighed before exiting off he freeway. He drove around with ease before pulled into a nice suburban neighborhood before pulling into a curved driveway.

"Ashley let me show you in so y'all can get some rest" Sharon speaks before opening her door getting out.

"Yes ma'am" I say lowly before getting out as well. I grab Aidens car seat seeing him knocked out as Izzy is grabbing all of our bags from the car. I follow Sharon up to the front door where she reveals a nicely styled home. The smell of clean linen and Lysol hit my nose as I walked in. As soon as you walked in you could see the dining room to the left as well as the formal living on the right. We headed straight upstairs where she showed me a room.

"This was Izzys old room. I made it more comfortable just in case I have extra guess over... but it's mostly the same" I take in the decent sized room which has a queen sized bed as well as posters, pictures, and shoe boxes hanging on the wall

"Thank you" I smile to her as I take Aiden out of his seat and placing him on the bed. As I place pillows around him, Izzy walks in with our bags sitting them in the corner.

"You straight?" Izzy says to me as I plug my phone into the outlet.

"Yes I'm fine" I say giving him a small smile before walking up to him wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Ima be back in a lil bit gone head and get some sleep ma" he says kissing my forehead.

"I'll try baby" I kiss his lips softly before pulling away

" my moms room down stairs by the kitchen if you need anything while I'm gone" I nod my head stepping out my sweat pants leaving me in my panties and tee shirt.

"Be safe baby" I say giving him one last kiss before he walks out and I climb into bed.

Izzy POV

I get back into the car before speeding off towards my dad house. He went and bailed her out when it happened. It ain't take me long to get there since the roads were empty and he don't live that far.

"Dad I'm outside" I speak in the phone

"It's open come in" he says as I turn the car off hopping out. I walk up the steps before opening the door to the quiet house. As I come in I see Jas and my dad walking down. She has on her book bag and is carrying an attitude on her face.

"Hey dad" I say dapping him up as Jas walks out the door to the car. I don't know what her problem is with me but she gone have to chuck that shit up.

"Ion know what's been going on with her son" my dad shakes his head "one day she my little girl then the next she acting out" he says sighing

"We gone figure it out... but let me get back to me house I got my girl and son over there" I tell him

"Please don't tell me you brought that Nique girl up here" he shakes his head at me

"Na pops... Ashley" I says as realization hits him

"Ohh... well bring them by I wanna see my grandson" he says dapping me up again before I head back outside to see Jas sitting in the passenger seat with her arms crossed.

"What's your problem man." I say starting the car back up

"I don't have one" she says lowly almost inaudible

"Huh?.... speak up" I say pulling onto the road.

"I said I don't have a problem" she says rolling her eyes.

"You might wanna chill out on that attitude unless you wanna get yo ass beat when we get to the house cause moms already want to" I speed onto the empty freeway.

"She upset" she gone ask that dumb ass question

"Now why would you ask that." I shake my head. "Jumping a girl really jas? With a knife?" I ask her

"She was talking a lot of mess so...." she stares out the window

"Do you here yourself?" I look ahead. " I could understand if you were defending yourself but damn Jas what was you gone do stab her?"

"yeah. Maybe" she answers.

"And then what? What if she died?" I pull into the neighborhood

"I don't know" she responds

"Exactly you don't know. You better then this Jas" I pull in the driveway

"And what about you? You were better than fighting and selling drugs" she says

"Yeah and I know that now. What if you get kicked out of all those programs you got into huh? What about that scholarship you been working hard for? What if they see this on your record and decide they don't want a attempted murder on their campus?" I park the car "you ain't thinking about all the outcomes. Hanging with these people who do that type of shit ain't gone get you nowhere at all. And I can say that cause I been there and did that. You got so much more going for yourself Jas that's all I'm saying." I finish seeing that she is crying

"I'm sorry I just thought that I was doing the right thing by sticking by my friends and I wasn't thinking I'm sorry" she sobbed as I hug her over the center console.

"You gotta think for yourself Jas. And they ain't your friends if they got you doing stuff that'll fuck your life up. Allowing other people to make decisions for you gone have you in the same situation you in now. Facing charges and shit" I chuckle "but naa forreal you gotta watch who you hang around cause everybody not yo friend" I pull away as she wipes her tears.

"Now let's go in this house. If I was you i would pray" I say heading in the house as I see my momma sitting in the living room with a glass of liquor in her hand. My momma don't drink unless she mad or sad so i know she upset.

"Jasmine come sit down" she says softly as Jas looks to me with pleading eyes "ain't nothing he can do lil girl.. now I ain't gone say it again" she says before Jas goes and sits down farthest away from her. I stand in the frame trying to make sure Jas don't get it too bad even if she deserves it.

"Gone on upstairs Israel. Ashley still up waiting on you" she says as I look to Jas one more time before going up the stairs. I push the room door open quietly revealing Ashley awake on her phone with a sleeping Santana on her side.

"Why you still up ash" I take off my shirt before my shoes getting into the bed. Listen man I'm tired I will take a shower again in the morning

"Couldn't sleep" she closes her phone before reaching over Santana to put it on the side table.

"Well come on mama" I tell her as I wrap my arms around her waist kissing her shoulder before closing my eyes.

Ashley POV

I wake up to the sound of Aiden whining beside me. I look over to see him not even crying.

"What's wrong papa..." I say quietly before I get out of bed trying not to wake Israel. I hold him before grabbing his bag and placing it on the bed so I can wipe him down. I change his diaper and decide to leave on his nightclothes so he can eat without getting some more clothes dirty. After I am done I give him his pacifier and turn on the tv to hold him while I get dressed. I am as quiet as possible as I brush my teeth and all with the door open so I can keep an eye on Aiden. I place a simple long body con dress on and some slides before going downstairs to feed Aiden. Before Israel left he let me know that his milk was in the fridge.

As I get downstairs the smell of bacon hits my nose making me smile. I love to eat.

"Good morning ma " I speak to Sharon who is cooking.

"Good morning Ashley baby" she says turning around to me before smiling at Aiden

"Hey my cutie" she says kissing his cheek as he scrunches his face up.

"Don't mind him. He's just hungry" I laugh. "You mind if I get his milk out of your fridge" I ask as she laughs

"Ashley you ain't gotta ask me baby, you are family now, gone head" she turns back to her food as I go grab the milk out of the fridge before heating it up. I'm not giving him as much because I've been giving him baby food for the past week. He has been liking it so far so that's good.

As I sit down before begin feeding Aiden his bottle. His doctor told me to give the bottle first so that's what I've been doing. As Aiden is finishing, Izzy walks down the stairs bare chested.

"Good morning ma" he says to his mother stealing a piece of bacon behind her back before coming over to me.

"Good morning baby" he kisses me before kissing Aiden who I am trying to get to burp. After he burps I wipe his house before getting his small bowl of banana, mango and apple purée.

"Slow down bubby" I laugh as my greedy baby tries to take the spoon

"Morning" I hear before looking up to see Jasmine coming to sit down at the table. "I didn't know she was here" She says referring to me. I chose not to say anything since I am a grown woman and she is a child.

"Jasmine"

"Jas" Israel and Sharon both say at the same time

"Don't be rude" Sharon says glaring at her

"It's fine..." I speak as I wipe Aidens mouth " how are you Jasmine we haven't seen each other in a while" I speak smiling trying to be polite.

"I'm fine." She says dryly rolling her eyes. Welp I tried. I don't know what her problem is with me at this point. I would really like for us to at least have some type of relationship since I am in a relationship with her brother and we have a whole child.

"So Jas how is everything going? Israel told me about your scholarship opportunity. I know some people who run non profits I could send them your way if you'd like" I try and engage in some form of conversation. From what I've heard from Israel and Sharon she is a very smart and impressive girl so I thought It'll be nice.

"I think I'm good" she says not making eye contact. I see Sharon giving her the eye out of the corner of mine and Izzy sighs running his hand over his face.

"Okay well let me know if you change your mind" I smile As she doesn't reply.

It wasn't long before we began to eat the breakfast that Sharon had cooked. I stayed quiet mostly as I tried to ignore jasmines slick comments. That's when Aiden began crying. It seemed to be a call from god. I don't know why Jas doesn't like me but I'm not about to sit here and listen to a teenager get smart with me. Jesus be my shepherd.

"I got him babe" I take him from Israel's arms before walking back upstairs to settle him. I haven't seen Aiden this cranky before so I was a little confused as to why he was acting this way.

Izzy POV

"What's wrong with you Jas" I ask her as soon as Ashley was out of earshot. Ashley was over here tryna be nice and offer her scholarships for school and shit which she ain't have to do. But has over here being a asshole. I love my sister to death but ion know what her problem is.

"What do you mean." She continues to eat.

"You being rude to that girl for no reason" my mom says.

"I am not" she says

"The hell you are" my mom snaps back "Ashley was tryna be nice and have a conversation with you" she says to Jas "offer to help you n shit. If I were her I wouldn't offer your spoiled ass a goddamn thang." She scoffs

"Well I just don't think I like her like that. I like Nique better" she says the last part lowly.

"Don't even bring that girl up. And wasn't she rude the first time you met her?" My mom says regarding the way Nique acting towards Jas. Jas just stayed quiet and ate her food.

"Ian telling you that y'all gotta he friends but Ashley ain't did nothing to you Jas." I say shaking my head. "I love you jas but you getting out of line" I done lost my damn appetite.

"You so busy being disrespectful that you ain't even pay no mind to your nephew who you've never seen in person" my mom says before I stand up stretching out my arms

"Ma you need help cleaning up" I ask her as I get up from the table

"No baby Your sister gone help me" she say as Jas rolls her eyes. I don't know what is wrong with that girl.

I take the chance to go check on Ashley since she ain't been back downstairs yet. I open the door to see her on the bed rocking a whining Santana.

Ashley POV

My poor baby got gas.

I got him to settle down a little bit but he is obviously still cranky.

"It's okay bubby" I hold him as I dial my mothers number. I'm trying not to panic so I decide to call her so I could have an idea of what to do.

"Mom Aidens got gas and he's really cranky and he won't stop crying I don't know-"I say in one breath before she cuts me off.

"Ashley calm down. Lay Aiden down." I follow her instructions "bicycle his legs a few times..."

"Okay..." I respond as i bicycle his legs

"Pull then towards you... and push them to his chest" she says as Aiden passes gas and I let go of a breath I didn't know I was holding

"Thank you mommy" I say as I pick Aiden up giving him kisses "I'll y'all to you later" I hang up the phone before picking him up again. I can tell that he is still cranky so I sit down on the bed and rock him so he can calm down.

"He straight?" I look up to see Israel walking in the room

"Yes he just had some gas" I say as he pulls out his bag before pulling out some fresh clothes

"I'm sorry about my sister... she just going through something rn" he says as I give a half smile

"It's okay baby... she's fine" i answer. It's not really my place to comment on her behavior.

"It's not just okay Ashley you ain't did nothing to her" he says stopping his movement

"It's fine really baby..." I say again as he just sighs getting his clothes out of his suitcase.

"My dad wanna see y'all so we gone head ova there after while, that's cool?" He asks me as he brushes his waves

"Yeah baby that's fine" I say before he goes into the attached restroom to take a shower.

"You ready to meet grandpa bubby" I say to Aiden before I sit him up on the bed. He's getting betttr at trying to hold himself up. In a few weeks my baby will be able to sit up by hisself.

I grab Aidens bag once again to grab him a outfit to wear today. The weather here is pretty warm here so I'll keep his outfit simple today pulling out a onesie, some navy blue joggers, as well some cute little Jordan's with a matching pacifier holder to attach to his shirt.

I go ahead and pull out a short black body suit that has spaghetti straps and some Birkin stocks to wear. By the time I finished Izzy walked out the bathroom smelling damn delicious. I felt his hands go around my waist as his head rested in my neck.

"You smell good" I say folding some clothes back into my suit case

"I do ma?" He rumbles in my ear

"Yes you do" I say smiling "okay move baby I need to shower" I laugh as he moves back letting me go to the bathroom. I squeal as I feel a hand smack my rear as I am walking past. I turn and shake my head before going into the bathroom closing the door behind me.

After my shower I decided to just wear my hair is a pineapple on top of my head for now. After about 30 more minutes I walk out to see Izzy blowing bubbles in Aidens stomach causing him to laugh loudly.

I place my dirty clothes in a separate bag a brought before slipping on my shoes and grabbing my bag.

"You ready baby" I ask Israel before placing my necklace on

"Yeah baby.. ma and Jas coming with us" he says standing up

"Okay" I say before leaning over the bed and grabbing Aiden. "Let's go bubby" I whisper before we exit the room. As we get down the stairs I see Jas and Sharon standing by the door.

"Finally" I hear Jas mumble before we exit out of the front door and to the car.

"Ashley you can sit in the front" Sharon says to me as I buckle Aiden into his seat

"It's fine ma I'll sit back here" I smile before climbing in the back with Jas and Aiden in between us.

I occupy myself with Aiden mostly as we set off to his fathers house which was closer than I thought. We piled out as Izzy grabbed Aidens car seat out of the car and carried him to the door. Jas user her key to open the door letting us all in

"Hey y'all" a male voice speaks through the house. Then out of nowhere a tall, slender fairer skin man comes down the hall. I can tell that he is Izzys father no doubt.

"Hey dad" Izzy hugs his father and sharon stands there

"Dad this is my girl Ashley, Ashley this my dad Rodney " he introduces us

"It's nice to meet you" I hug him

"It's nice to finally meet you too Ashley... y'all come sit down" he says leading us to a family area

"Rod we need to talk about Jas" Sharon speaks up. I can tell by her body language she really doesn't want to be here

"Okay Sharon damn let me see my grandson first" he says laughing before exiting the room. He comes back wiping his hands with a paper towel before sitting beside me. I reach down to Aidens car seat and get him out as he tries to play with his hands.

"Stop bubby" I pull them from his mouth before handing him to Rodney.

"Damn you look just like your daddy did" he says causing me to laugh.

"Can I go?" Jas says annoyed before walking up the stairs.

"Don't mind her Ashley... she'll come around she just a big baby" he says smiling at me.

"Don't excuse her actions Rodney she getting out of line" Sharon says

"Okay Sharon" he says aloud " yo grandma tryna ruins my mood Aiden" he says where only I hear him since I am closest.

"It's about his time to eat do you want to feed him" I say pulling out a bottle from his bag. Rodney shakes his head before I give the bottle to Izzy to warm. After he comes back I hand Rodney the bottle and he begins feeding him

"y'all gone let me and Ashley talk" he says as Sharon rolls her eyes and Israel kisses my forehead before leaving.

"So Ashley...was Aiden planned or?" He says bluntly

"Oh no sir he wasn't" I laugh nervously before waiting for him to continue.

"And what do you do for a living? I'm just asking because I know a lot a women try and get over on my son. Especially that airhead Zonniqua" he says

"Well sir, i am a nurse Anesthetist and truthfully I have no reason to get over on your son. I have my own and was fully ready and able to take care of Aiden on my own but I wanted my son to have a father unlike I did. Eventually Israel and I grew closer and it developed into our relationship that we have now. It has nothing to do with your sons money or fame if anything I don't want anything to do with either one" I say bluntly to him. Of course I know he just wants to protect his son but I am the least of his worries.

"well Ashley I think I like you..." I let out a breath "you seem to have your head screwed on right. I just wanted to make sure cause the last girl my son brought here claimed I was mean to her. All that girl wanted was to take advantage of Israel and I could see straight through her" he says referring to Zonnique