It was a weird time at the Jones residence, the two sisters weren't speaking and Bria loved every bit of it. "So what time is Key coming over?" Bria asked, Marlee ease dropped as she ate her favorite cereal.

"Eh, I'm not sure." Bria nodded her head as she ate the bacon off of her plate. "Key's coming over?" Marlee asked but all she received back from Chalynn was silence.

All she asked for from Marlee was respect and she couldn't even give her that so she had nothing to say to her.

She knew he was busy with his album release because this whole week at work that's what she had been playing on the station. They were going steady, both of their lives got busy so quick so this was the first time she was going to see him since they kissed.

Chalynn hadn't realized that Bria went upstairs and changed into some booty shorts and a see thru white top that displayed her breasts. Marlee scoffed, if Chalynn wasn't going to check her she wasn't going to say anything either.

The brief knock at the door made them all turn their heads, "I'll get it." Bria skipped to the door, her ass hanging out of her shorts.

She opened the door with a wide smile, "Hi Key, how are you? She asked showcasing all of her teeth, Key wasn't attracted to women who tried their hardest to get his attention.

"Dang Bria, can you let him get into the house?" Chalynn giggled with her hand on her hip. Looking Key up and down with her eyes she bit her lip before moving away from the door.

He walked into the house taking his Jordan's off at the entrance, Bria closed and locked the door behind him. She peeped his Glock in his waist band and smiled to herself.

"What's up lil bit?" Key hugged Marlee who was not her typical self. "Your girlfriend is mad at me still and I miss her but it's cool." Chalynn's heart melted, she missed her sister too but she had a point to prove. And Key wasn't her boyfriend yet.

"I'll talk to her for you but what you said was disrespectful." He assured her and she perked up a little.

"Thank you, I know and I tried to apologize but she won't listen and YT2, hard as hell. You did your thing." Marlee smiled for the first time this week, Key knew how much they loved each other and he was definitely going to talk to Chalynn about it.

"You know I murder everything I do. I got you." He said popping his collar cockily. Chalynn cleared her throat, "What about me?" She asked in a pouty voice.

"I'm coming, I gotta greet everybody else first sheesh." Key chuckled as he walked to the kitchen where Chalynn was standing, Bria watched as Key placed both hands on Chalynn's ass and kissed her lips softly.

She giggled as he kissed all over face, "What's up baby girl?" He asked stealing a piece of bacon off her plate.

"Not too much of anything." She said honestly, "You know you need to talk to my homie Marlee. Y'all can't keep beefing, y'all blood." He told her as he released her, Bria came into the kitchen and grabbed something to drink.

"Can you put a robe on? I have company." Chalynn said politely, she hadn't noticed until now that she had on some skimpy outfit.

"Ha." Marlee laughed as she put her bowl into the dishwasher.

"What's wrong with what I have on? Key doesn't mind does he?" Bria asked leaning up against the counter.

Chalynn stood in front of her soon to be boyfriend and looked at Bria with her arms crossed and her hip cocked.

"Whether or not he's checking for you doesn't matter. I asked you to put a robe on." Key loved an assertive woman and to see Chalynn finally put her foot down to Bria was amazing.

"Okay, can I use yours though I don't have one." Chalynn nodded her head and watched her best friend put an extra switch in her walk the way the women at the restaurant had.

"Finally." Marlee mumbled plopping down on the couch.

Key looked at the calendar in Lays kitchen and realized her birthday was just a few short weeks away.

He decided to not speak on it but made a mental note. "I made you, your own plate. No need to keep taking my bacon." Lay laughed grabbing his plate from out of the oven.

The steam still coming off of the food, Chalynn put his plate on the table and grabbed him some orange juice and a napkin.

"This looks good thank you." Saying a quick prayer he bit into his spinach and cheese omelet. Chalynn sat next to him with her plate as Marlee came to the table as well.

"Can I go with y'all today?" She asked, Key looked at Chalynn. She shrugged and Marlee ran upstairs to get dressed.

"I only made a reservation for just the two of us." Lay sighed finishing up her plate.

"It's cool, little bit can hang with me today. I'm just going to the studio." She nodded her head, she didn't believe Key would let anything happen to her little sister but she was always weary leaving her with men.

He must have saw the look on her face because he grabbed her hand causing her to look at him.

"The way I wouldn't let anything happen to you, I wouldn't let anything happen to her." She nodded her head as footsteps came down the stairs.

"I wanna come too." Bria said, she was dressed in real clothing now, tight ass jeans with a black long sleeved shirt.

Key and Chalynn looked at each other, "Marlee and Key are going to hang out and I'm going to the spa with Ms. Keisha." Bria looked at Lay, "I can't go with either of ya'll ?" She asked, Lay opened her mouth to try and work her into either one of their plans.

"Nah." Key spoke for her, "You gone let this nigga speak for you?" She asked, crossing her arms across her chest.

"Call your friend so we can go."

*

Key huffed as Bria sat in his backseat snapping pictures of herself. Marlee sat in the front, Chalynn wanted her to come so bad then she can sit in the backseat with her.

"Don't do that." Lay told her noticing Key getting upset. Bria put her phone in her purse and looked out the window. "Thank you for letting me come." She rubbed Chalynn's hand, Lay smiled small at her and nodded her head.

"Come on. Ima walk ya'll inside." Everybody got out the car including Marlee so she could speak to his mom. Walking into the spa Bria looked around, it was huge and it looked very expensive. Bria made money but she didn't make Chalynn's kind of money.

"Hey babies." Ms. Keisha waved them over, she had a glass of champagne in her hand and her pink robe on already.

"Hi Ms. Keisha, long time no see." Marlee stated, Ms Keisha looked at her and shook her head.

"Mhm, I haven't seen you in awhile." Marlee embraced the woman, "I know I'll be back next week." She released her and Chalynn gave the next hug and then Key. Ms. Keisha wasn't fond of Bria, it was as if everybody could tell she was weird except for Chalynn.

"Hi Ms. Keisha." Bria waved sweetly but the older woman wasn't fooled. She waved at Bria, "Alright we're heading out." Marlee and Key said their goodbyes as they walked out of the spa. All three of them walked to the back towards the lockers so that they could get changed into their robes. They were first going to get massages, because this spa had the best masseuses.

"Right this way ladies." The instructor said as they walked outside the locker room.

They went in together and laid on the massage beds covering themselves up with the sheets. "I see that you gave him another chance." Keisha smirked, she was happy to know that her son was with a good woman.

"Yes, we're taking it very slow but I like being around him. We even had our first kiss the other day." Chalynn cheesed like a little school girl, Bria gasped to herself Chalynn hadn't told her that they even kissed for the first time.

"Yes, I can't wait to plan the wedding." His mom laughed, she was happy to see Chalynn date again after her last relationship.

"I know, Bryson tore me apart and I'm not going to go to into it but I still have the scars from him. The physical and mental ones." Keisha listened to her talk as the masseuses came in, they each told them what pressure they wanted and continued talking as they received their treatments.

"Key is nothing like him but I will tell you he does have issues and you can decide if that's really what you want or not. Growing up with out his mother or his father in his life being raised by his grandma and his auntie can cause a lot of trauma. Along with growing up in the hood and seeing the things that he saw." She knew her son had different personalities and those different personalities came out at different times.

"Really ? He's been nothing but a gentleman to me." Chalynn was a little puzzled, of course she'd heard interviews of him speaking on different parts of himself or how he didn't want to speak on them.

"There are times. I am just letting you know now, he needs a woman who can stick beside him and help him through it. I know he won't put his hands on you or anything but he can get into these ... moods." Bria listened intently to the conversation, she didn't know what she was going to do with the information but she was taking it all in. Lay didn't mind sticking beside a man through thick and thin but if he was anything like mentally abusive she couldn't deal with that.

"I'm here. I'm scared but I'm here." She let out her breath, she was beginning to really like Key but she was still very scared of him and the fact that he could hurt her heart.

*

"What should I know about your sister?" Key asked as they sat at the studio eating snacks.

"She's stubborn as hell, she's scared to love again and when she does she loves hard. She's very selfless will give anybody the shirt off her back. When our mom threw me out, she was right there to pick me up even though her ex Bryson didn't want me there she didn't care." She spoke thinking about how much she loved her older sister even though she was sort of strict.

"We come from the hood too, don't let her fool you. Chalynn wasn't always saddity." She turned her attention back on the beats that key was making. Key took in all the information that her little sister provided him and definitely made a mental note to check into who Chalynn really was. She nodded her head listening to them and softly began to rap along to them.

"Uh oh, are you a rapper Marlee?" Key joked as he lit his wood. Marlee looked at it and he passed it to her, "I dabble a little bit." She handed it back to him and headed towards the recording booth.

"On the count of 3." He replayed the beat and counted down from three, Marlee took off and she actually sounded good.

"Yo, this shit is hot." Taurus exclaimed as he walked into the studio right as she started recording. Key shushed him as she was finishing up. Marlee looked at Taurus and blushed, he was definitely checking her out and she didn't mind one bit. He was fine. She took the headphones off her ear and set them on the mic before walking out of the booth.

"Yo Key, who's this?" He asked him tapping his shoulder, "Her name is Marlee." He didn't disclose too much information because him and Chalynn were not official yet.

"Put me on." He asked, "Put your self on." Key chuckled as Marlee walked out of the booth.

"My name is Marlee, and you can have my number." She said boldly taking her seat next to her future brother in law.

"Your sister is not gone kill me man. You better clear that with her." Marlee didn't care what her sister had to say about who she was dating, she was grown in her eyes and that's all that mattered.

*

After getting their nails and toes done and chatting some more the ladies were heading towards check out because Key was on his way to pick them up.

"Ms. Keisha it was so nice seeing you. Is your back better?" Chalynn asked giving her a quick hug and grabbing her platinum card from her purse,

"Much better. You know you're always welcome to come over or just text me whenever you want." Lay nodded her head, "Ms. Jones, you and Ms. Cathey are paid for however, your other guest owes still." Chalynn was puzzled at how they were already paid for. "Must've been Key." His mother shrugged her shoulders because it wasn't her.

"Okay how much is it?" Bria asked pulling her wallet out of her purse. "1,366.98." He stated precisely, she laughed mockingly. She didn't have that kind of money for a massage.

"Umm .. the massage wasn't even that good for me to pay over a band for it." She said slamming her hand on the counter.

Chalynn was genuinely appalled, "Ma'am if you didn't like the service we could have switched out your masseuse but due to you not saying anything we can't take anything off." Bria began to get furious, "I would like to speak to a manager." She yelled.

"I'm sorry Marco there's no need for that. Just charge it to my account." Chalynn said, her cheeks red with embarrassment.

"Yes ma'am." He charged her account. Bria had gotten her way. She knew that Chalynn would pay for her if she caused enough ruckus because Chalynn hated negative attention being brought to her.

"Whew chile." Keisha said as they left the establishment, Key pulled up right on time and made sure his mother made it safely to her car. Marlee was in the back on her phone and she was happy, she was not about to sit by Bria after what just happened in the spa.

Sensing her annoyance Key put his hand on her thigh, "You alright?" He asked driving off, he would've taken them to his house but Bria was there and he didn't trust her so she for sure wasn't going to see where he lived at.

"Yeah." She looked out the window, Bria just kept pissing her off today and she was starting to wonder if her living with them was a bad idea. When they finally got outside Chalynn's apartment, Marlee got out but Bria decided to stay in just in case they wanted to go somewhere else.

"What's up?" Lay asked Bria, as if to say 'get out.'

"Nothing, are you going to cook dinner?" She asked her best friend, "Yes." Bria got out of the car and waltzed into the house.

"She acted a fucking fool inside of the spa. Salty cause her stuff wasn't paid for so she was going to cuss out the manager, I ended up paying for it." Lay laid her head on the window and looked over at Key.

"You need to stop babying that girl. Does she even have a job?" He asked her, she shook her head now and he mockingly laughed.

"Wouldn't be staying at my house." He mumbled, "What are you about to go do?" She asked changing the subject.

"I got some things to take care of and then go back to the crib." She nodded her head, trying not to get triggered. "Okay, text me when you get in the house." He nodded his head and peeped Bria looking out of the window, he grabbed Lay's face and kissed her.

Her attitude almost immediately melting away. "I wanna go, but I have work tomorrow." He kissed her one last time before she hopped out and walked into the house.

Later that night it thunder-stormed so loudly that it woke Marlee from her sleep, she hated thunder storms and usually when they happened she would go into Chalynn's room. Her feet moved faster than her brain as she walked down the hallway and knocked on her door.

"Yes?" Chalynn called out sleepily, Marlee opened the door, yawned and made her way to her sisters bed.

"Sissy, can I sleep with you?" She asked rubbing her eyes, Chalynn didn't verbally respond she just peeled back the covers and rolled over. Marlee climbed in the bed with her favorite pillow, "I love you .." Marlee whispered sadly, Chalynn huffed and put her foot on Marlee in response.

Before closing her eyes Marlee smiled softly, she knew she was wearing her sister down.

A/N

Shit is sweet now but ummm .. its finna heat up !!

Come on Chalynn talk to your lil sister ..

Key really not fucking wit Bria