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It was now September and we had finally moved into our new house, I invited my mom and aunt over so I could give them a tour.

Over these last couple of months my aunt has been trying to get my mom to talk to me again and it worked because she agreed to come here today.

I was also making us dinner so I left Armani with Jace while I went grocery shopping. When I got back the house seemed empty but I heard loud music coming from out back.

"What is he doing?" I mumbled to myself as I opened to back door revealing Jace and some of his friends having a barbecue. I clenched my fist and walked over to him angrily as he held Armani.

"Jace!" I yelled over the music. "Hey baby you get everything you needed?"

"Why are all these people here?"

"Its Waka's birthday so I said they could come over here to celebrate." He shrugged. "Why?! Doesn't Waka have his own house?!"

"Why are you so miserable? Stop complaining." I crossed my arms and frowned. "No I'm not going to stop, did you forget my mom and aunt are coming over today?" I asked and his face dropped. He had obviously forgot. "Look and you got niggas here smoking around my daughter!"

"Give me my baby and tell your friends they gotta leave. NOW." I said, he sighed and kissed Armani, before handing her over to me.

I bit my lip watching as Nicki walked away. Usually I would get onto her about wearing these short ass shorts she was wearing but baby girl looked good.

•

"Since your annoying father already got so much food out there, there's no point in me cooking anymore is there?" I sighed as I sat on the couch with Mani on my lap.

"Nic?" I looked up to see Tez coming over to us. "Hey" I said awkwardly we haven't spoken since I went off at him and kicked him out of my house.

"I can't believe she's about to be 1, I feel like she was just born the other day." He reached for Armani and she held her arms out for him to pick her up.

"Tez I'm sorry, I take back what I said about you-"

"Nah what you said was right, I needed to hear it, I took in everything what you said and I working on co-parenting with Deja."

"Aww."

"I still fucked up what me and Chanel had tho."

"She'll get over it eventually just give her some more time." Just then Jace walked in talking all loud. "Your not cooking?" He asked whilst stuffing his mouth with a burger. "Nigga no, you got all that food, that I'm not about to waste."

"I gotta go."

"Bye Tez, Mani say bye."

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"Okay so this is the kitchen." I smiled as I led my aunt and mom into our kitchen. "Wow." My aunt gasped.

"I know right and look at this." I said as I opened the fridge. "Alright so over here is the second living room."

"Jace decided to have a party earlier so the back yard is a mess but you can see a little of it from this window."

•

We were upstairs and I was now showing them around the rooms. "This is meant to be Armani's room but she doesn't sleep in here, because she's spoiled."

"She grew out of her bed too, we've ordered a new one it should be here next week."

"The other rooms are still being decorated and look a complete mess so you can come over and see them another time." I said as we stood in my walk on closet.

"Jayceon is paying for all this for you?" My mom asked with an attitude. "Yes and it's for us." I corrected her.

"He must actually love you then." She said sarcastically and I was about to go off until I was cut off. "What do you mean by actually? Why do-"

"Yeah I actually love her." Jace interrupted as he snuck up on us.

"Let me speak to your mom real quick." He said to me. I nodded cautiously and headed downstairs.

"Helena I get you don't like me for some strange reason since you don't even know me but I love your daughter and I can't have you coming up in my house being all negative and upsetting her, I don't care if you're her mother I don't take disrespect from nobody." I said as soon as Nicki left.

She chuckled coldly. "Is that some kind of threat? You're trying to scare me? Are you forgetting who Nicki's father was? I've been witnessing REAL shit since I was 14 so your little threats do nothing."

"I'm not trying to threaten you, I just don't get where all this hate for me is coming from. Like Why do you hate me so much?" I asked, besides the Nico situation I hadn't done anything to harm this woman, and she still didn't know about that so I didn't know why she hated me so bad.

"Because you're just like him... Caine." She mumbled.

"And as crazy as it sounds I loved him with all my heart, even more than my own children at times but I still hoped Nicki wouldn't find a man like him and end up like me." She confessed.

"I'm not like nobody and neither is Nicki, she's not you." I stated.

She smirked and shook her head. "Jayceon you don't know her, I'm sure if you did, you wouldn't be fighting for her so bad." I stood confused watching as she walked towards the door, before she left she turned on her heels and spoke up again.

"I gave up having a relationship with Nicki a long time ago the only reason I'm here is because of my granddaughter and no one else."

•

"Today went better than I thought." Nicki sighed. Her mother and Aunty had left a little over an hour ago and now we were laying in bed watching some stupid reality show that Nicki was obsessed with.

"For the hood legend that he was its funny how you hardly talk about your dad." I said finally asking about something that had been on my mind since her mom said what she said.

"Where is this coming from Jace? Did my mom say something to you?" I shook my head. "No, I'm just trying to understand why she's such a bitch, was she like this with your dad."

"No way, they were together since they were kids, he spoiled her and let her get away with shit that nobody else could."

"Like what?"

"Like talking to him crazy. Their whole relationship was a fucking movie. That's why I find it corny when these weak ass Instagram couples call themselves the Bonnie & Clyde of this generation. Like from what I've seen growing up you can fuck Bonnie and fuck Clyde, these motherfuckss need to start calling themselves Helena & Caine." She said seriously.

I raised my eyebrows in shock. "Your mom was on her savage shit too?"

"When she needed to be. That's probably the only thing about her that I respect, how she rode hard for her nigga no matter what-" she paused and looked over at me. "Jace can I be honest with you?"

"I didn't really know my parents. My dad was always out doing business and my mom was away so much that I use to call my nanny 'mommy'."

"For real?"

"Yeah, people always think that being the daughter of Caine Jackson must have been the best shit ever but it isn't, I was born into some shit that I can never get out of."

"What do you mean?" I frowned. Suddenly she rolled over so her back was facing me. "Nothing." I heard her mumble. I ignored her and grabbed her waist, turning her back over to face me. "No you said 'never get out of' get out of what Nicki?"

"It's nothing, it wasn't meant to come out like that. It doesn't mean anything."

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This was rushed & I didn't get a chance to proof read, so please excuse any errors ✨🌹