A/N

Pay attention ... that's all I'm going to say.

Same day Lay leaves the hospital ...

Markeyvius sat outside his home and shook his head. He hadn't let a tear drop about the loss of one of his children but it was eating him up. The fact that he and Lay weren't on good terms was eating him up as well. He loved that girl with his heart and soul and the fact he couldn't just hug her and console her while she laid in the hospital bed crying destroyed him.

He hadn't smoked or drank any lean since he came back from his trip but he was feeling inclined to do so now.

Letting down his visor mirror a pre rolled blunt fell into his lap. He tried to shake away the urge to light it up but he smacked his lips and found a lighter.

"Fuck it." He held the blunt to his lips and sparked it. Taking a few puffs from it he reclined his seat back a little bit and took a deep breath. Before he knew it his fingers were burning from the roach left from his blunt. Quickly he put it out and put it in an empty water bottle.

Sighing, he focused his gaze on the pretty blue sky and before he knew it he was lost in his own thoughts.

Flashback

11 Wks Ago

"Get it Eli." Lay giggled as the baby sat in the middle of the floor dancing to her fathers music. Eli drooled everywhere as she smiled. Lay danced around her and smiled as well, she was just happy to be in that moment and to have Markeyvius home.

"That's my niece, get it baby." Marlee pumped her up as they all danced around her, Key came back from the kitchen with her sippy cup and began to hand it to her.

"Go head mama." He chuckled listening to his own voice. Lay giggled wrapping her arms around her man, she couldn't believe how happy they were. He just about melted in her arms, he always felt so secure when it came to her and being in her presence.

He bent down and pecked her lips as a different song came on.

"Ya'll so in love, I love to see it." Marlee recorded a video of them and smiled as she saved it to her phone. It was nice to see that her sister was being loved properly. Eli started to whine a little bit as she noticed she wasn't getting as much attention.

"Oh girl!" Lay laughed picking her up continuing to sway her hips to Better by Pink $weat. Eli clapped her hands beginning to be her usual happy self again.

Key came behind Lay and began to grind himself into her causing Lay to look back at him at smirk. He rubbed his hands up and down her hips and planted a soft kiss on her neck causing her to shudder. His touch sent shockwaves through her body.

"Don't make me put this baby down." She continued to sway her hips realizing her step daughter was sleeping.

"Gone head." He slapped her ass ready to pipe her down.

"Nasty asses, gimme my niece. Ima take her for a walk." Marlee stated but Lay was scared of sleeping with Markeyvius.

"Nah it's cool. Dinner is about to be ready, wake her up. She will be up all night." Lay instructed as Marlee took the baby out of her arms.

"What you being scared for?" He asked her raising his eyebrow, she never denied dick from him but this time. Something was telling her not to do it.

"Mm .. I gotta shower first." She lied, well it wasn't a lie but she had showered this morning.

When dinner was done, Lay made everybody's plates. Key and Marlee were playing 2K on the PS5 being loud as hell. Lay was between cooking meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans and making sure the baby was awake because she had taken her shower before finishing dinner.

Key would sneak glances at Lay while she was cooking, her hair was tied up on the top of her head, she had on a gray maxi dress with no bra. She was lost in her own world tasting the items as she cooked them. She picked up her wine and sipped it to prepare herself.

"She's a baddie ain't she?" Marlee joked catching him staring at her.

"She does something to me .. can't explain it." He shook his head chuckling.

"You do the same to her." Marlee said honestly, she could only pray to find a love like what they have.

"Come eat niggas." Lay sat every plate on the table and cut up Eli's food into non choking pieces. After they said their grace they all dug in and had conversation amongst themselves. Eli was eating for a little and then she started falling in her food.

"I'm gonna go put her in Marlee's room." Lay cleaned her face up and carried her into Marlee's room. She had a play pen in there that she slept in.

"Check it." Key pulled out a little box with a ring in it.

"You gone propose?" Marlee gasped whispering.

"Eventually, this a promise ring." He told her, Marlee nodded her head cheesing.

"My nigga whipped." The two laughed out loud and Lay ran back down the stairs with the baby monitor.

"What yall talking about?" She asked sitting back down to her plate.

"He said he finna put a baby in you." Marlee scraped her plate clean and put the left over food away.

"Tuh."

*

Lay and Key were in her bathroom washing their faces and brushing their teeth. He looked at her through the mirror.

"You don't want a baby by me?" He asked her seriously, the way she dismissed Marlee's joke made him feel some type of way.

"Of course baby. After a ring. I'll have 50 babies by you." She placed a kiss on his cheek.

Chalynn turned on a show and lit the candles in the room. She dimmed the lights in her room to create a nice little vibe.

"Let me rub yo feet ma." He said grabbing the aveeno from the dresser.

"This how you gone do me when I'm pregnant papa?" Lay smiled laying back down as he sat at the foot of the bed. Lay turned on if loving you is wrong, Key hated watching that show but since she was obsessed with it he had to put up with it.

"Yes. You gone be spoiled as hell. You gone have my son." He kissed her foot and pumped some lotion into his hand before gliding it over her foot.

"Mhm. You know my feet been hurtin." Lay relaxed a little into the bed before watching her show. She knew after the sound she had just made that wasn't about to be possible.

Moving from her foot, he went upwards toward her vagina and softly began to rub her clit. She gasped and watched as he opened her legs more. Every time they had sex it was quick, there was never a time that it was slow and intimate. He always fucked her. Rough like she likes it but she was craving a little something different.

Key was on the same page. He crawled up between her legs and smiled down at her.

"Why you keep looking at me like that?" Lay asked returning the smile.

"I'm finna show you." Wasting no more time he kissed her sweetly, sucking her bottom lip and waiting for her to invite his tongue into her mouth. Slowly they began to explore each other's mouths. Stripped down in his boxers with no shirt on he began to grow in between her legs.

"Mm." She moaned softly in between the kiss, the kiss alone had her hot and she was ready for him. He however, was going to take his time with her.

Breaking the kiss he began to softly suck her neck just hard enough to break the skin.

"Shit." Lay moaned squirming under his grip.

"It hurt?" He asked letting off her neck.

"No baby." Key continued what he was doing slowly lifting her maxi dress over her head. He looked down at her breasts before spending time sucking on both. Key kissed down the stomach that was going to carry his seed one day and devoured her pussy.

Her clit had become so swole during all the foreplay. Almost as soon as he licked and sucked it she had came all over his goatee. Lays legs were wrapped around his neck as she rode out her second orgasm. Sweat beads appeared over her forehead.

Still shaking Lay released her legs from around Key and laid back on the bed taking long deep breaths trying to catch her breath. This was the first time Markeyvius had went down on her and she thoroughly enjoyed herself.

"You want me to turn around?" She asked, she knew that was his favorite position.

"Stay just like that." Lay damn near ripped his drawls off of his body, he shook his head at her eagerness.

"Let's try it raw." She bit her lip, she was curious to feel him bare.

"You sure?" He asked peeling the condom off and checking her face to see if she was serious. Instead of responding with words she pulled him towards her body and opened her legs wider.

Markeyvius pulled the sheet over the lower half of his body and aligned himself with her entrance. Lay quickly grabbed the remote and turned on some r&b music. Donell Jones' Where I Wanna Be started playing on the television.

"I'm ready now." She giggled, he tucked one hand under her waist and one on her cheek as he entered her. He planted sweet soft kisses on her lips until she got adjusted to his size. Her hands came on both sides of his back right below his shoulder blades, lightly scratching.

"Fuck Lay." He groaned as he stroked her slowly, they held eye contact and Lay felt her soul interlock with his. He removed her hands from his back and put them above her head. Key held her hands and continued to provide her with slow long strokes.

Chalynn's legs began to shake all over again as she felt her orgasm reaching it's peak. As if she was about to trap him, she wrapped her legs around his waist and tears continued to fall from her eyes.

"Am I hurting you?" He looked concerned and stopped completely inside of her.

"No, I- ... Don't stop." She moaned closing her eyes, he kissed her tears away and continued stroking her as if his life depended on it.

"Open yo eyes. Watch me make love to you." Key blinked back his own tears, he felt the same thing she had. He didn't want Lay to see him emotional so he quickly wiped his face before she opened her eyes and stuffed his face in her neck until he got it together.

"Im finna come." Lay moaned loudly, clawing at his back. The tears that escaped her eyes were tears of love. She was no longer in lust with him, but now she was in love. As they both came together he forgot that he was in her raw. They sat there for five minutes, no one spoke or moved. Little did they know, their child was created in love. This was the night that they conceived and the night their souls connected.

"You can't leave me."

"I promise I wont." He slid out of her, cleaned both of them up and got back into the bed cuddling her. They both fell asleep at pure bliss.

*

Markeyvius didn't realize he sat there with a smile on his face. His cheeks were damp, thinking about the day he fell in love with Chalynn. The day he knew he was in love with her. Then he blew that shit. He dried his face before pulling off towards his cousins house.

When he finally made it there he didn't know if he could put on a happy face after everything he could've went through. Before he knew it the door swung open.

"We haven't seen you in how long?" Mia asked putting her hand on her hip. She hadn't seen him in a long while and she knew her hubby missed his closest friend.

"I know. I'm sorry. So much shit been going on." He shook his head, walking in the door. He hugged her gently, she had those good sister hugs that everybody loved.

"Believe me, Keisha told me all about it. How you holding up?" She released him and took a step back closing the door.

"It's coo. Just glad one made it." Mia looked at him and shook her head. She could tell he was upset and it was eating at him but he was trying to take it to the chin.

"Okay. The kids are in there. I'm sure they would love to see you."

"Fasho." Key walked into the kids playroom after taking his shoes off.

"Cousin Key, we missed you. Where's Lay Lay?" The little boy asked, Key shook his head.

"She's at home brewing my baby. You still trying to take my lady?" He asked smiling at his lil cousin, he knew Tre had a big crush on Chalynn and even though they weren't together anymore he was still going to mess with him.

"That's my girl. You ain't know?" Tre laughed as Key tickled him.

"Can you bring Eli? I want somebody to play with." Aria asked, she was getting so big and beautiful.

"Fasho. What if I take all y'all for ice cream?" He asked, both kids started attacking him happily. He playfully fought back and they started yelling.

"What's allat commotion?" Dolph asked as he came into the room.

"Wassup g?" Key asked as he noticed his brother. They dapped up before playing with the kids a little while longer before going to the den.

"So what's going on bruh?" Dolph asked sparking up, Key was just coming down from his high. He told him exactly what was going on with Lay and the baby and how she lost one of them.

"Gah damn. You think it got sumn to do wit you slamming her against the wall the other day?" Dolph asked taking a pull from his blunt. Key sat and thought about it. He had noticed that she was sitting down a lot at the birthday party.

"Damn Dolph." Key hung his head and squeezed his eyes shut. He couldn't fathom him being the reason she lost one of the babies.

"Yo anger be the worst of you. Don't shit matter between y'all except them kids. I'm not blaming you cause I know. But ima hold you accountable." Dolph sat back in his chair.

"I miss her lil ass so much it don't make any sense. That was my girl dawg. I had a lil ring for her ass and everything. Then I fucked it up. I love her." He couldn't hold his tears back any longer. He broke out in complete sobs.

"Why don't you tell her if you love her so much?" Dolph asked, he already knew what it was but he was still going to be a listening ear.

"Cause she don't need to know that shit. She fucked the homie." He wiped his eyes with the back of his sleeve.

"Why she do that?" Dolph wasn't fucking with her sleeping with somebody so close to the family.

"Talm bout cause I fucked Bree and left her when she told me she was pregnant." He smacked his lips, as if it was unbelievable.

"Youon think that was foul?"

"I mean yeah .."He scratched the back of his head.

"I feel you, I understand why you'd be upset about her and Black but you did yo dirt too. She did that shit cause she tired of you playing with her. If you wanna be wit her ain't nobody gone blame you. If you gone be wit Bree, I fucks wit Bree. Do that. Whatever you do. Make sure them kids grow up in a good ass environment. Drop all that other shit Key, you see what happens when you stress that girl out." Dolph was speaking facts and that's exactly what he needed.

"How you deal wit being in love? Shit don't make you feel weak?" Key felt like a sap, crying over a woman and a lost child.

"I feel like a real ass man being in love, none like feeling secure wit yo woman." Dolph spoke, he loved it there with Mia and their two kids.

"Y'all been together forever, shit I'm trying to get like y'all. How I apologize?" He exhaled a deep breath.

"Every time you come over here you asking how to make it up to her. Pray on it."

"I think I need to apologize and move on. She prolly ain't never gone forgive me anyways." Dolph shrugged his shoulders.

"Won't know until you try."

*

A/N

Okay, I'm trying to get as close to z as possible.