Enjoy. This can still be a Key Glock fan fiction even if he doesn't end up with Lay 💙

Lay's bags were already packed but her heart was heavy. Deciding to sign over her rights to no longer be Eli's legal parent was hard. She didn't know if she was reacting off of her own emotions toward Key or if she was genuinely doing what is best for herself and Eli. She shook the thought to the back of her mind or at least she tried to until Marlee came into the room.

"Sissy, I need advice!" Marlee said plopping down on her bed, Eli was in her bed for her nap before her dad came and picked her up in thirty minutes or so. "You and Golden weren't getting nasty in here were you?" Marlee sat up on the bed and scrunched her face up.

"Okay babe, I need some but you first. What's up? Stop playing, I am not gay." Lay rolled her eyes but deep down yesterday with Golden had her feeling some kinda way. Marlee gave her the 'bitch please' look.

"I like Faith, but I love Ronny. Ronny and I aren't together and we haven't defined our relationship but I'm lowkey ready to settle down. Faith tried to go down on me yesterday but I stopped her. You know me I don't pass up no head for nobody." Marlee sighed flopping back down on the bed.

"Damn, I love Ronny too. I know this Faith girl doesn't have you head over heels for her already. Her vibe must be live. I'm not sure sis, don't make the same mistake I did. Just communicate with both girls." Lay stuffed her sleeping mask in her bag.

"So you think I should tell Ronny? She is, and she's cold. She's the sweetest lil thing too, I think you would like her. I tried communicating to Faith and she walked out." Marlee went into more detail about what she told Faith.

"She might've just felt rejected sis. Try reaching out to her again. Let her know you're interested and then after that, if she still pushes back she is not the one for you." Chalynn shrugged, Marlee nodded her head taking in what she was saying.

"I will try that and let you know. So what's up with you?" Marlee asked taking a deep breath, she picked her phone up and sent Faith a quick text.

"So I went to therapy yesterday. He opened my eyes to a lot and with that being said, Elianna isn't Key's baby. I'm going to sign my rights away as her legal parent." Lay waited for Marlee to react.

"Damn Lay. That's my girl though. I mean can we still see her? I understand where you're coming from but what about the trauma you're inflicting on her? You're her mother regardless if she's your biological child or Key's you knew the risks when you signed the first time. You know I support any and every decision but just make sure you think it through." Marlee was sad to hear that Elianna might not be in their everyday lives anymore.

"I'm going to pray on it." That was all that she said, her mind was made up and she didn't think she was going to change it.

"On the real though. Wassup with you and Golden. You want me to teach you how to eat the cat?" Marlee wiggled her eyebrows causing her sister to bust out laughing. The smile Lay wore on her face was a clear indication.

"My lil honey bun. I don't know Mar, I feel like since I've already fucked one of his friends it would be hella wrong of me to go there with Golden. I don't wanna over complicate shit either. If she wasn't so tied to Key and I was in a good head space I would try it but since she is and I'm not. Plus I feel like Golden is too good for me, I don't know. We'll see." Lay giggled thinking about the lil trip they were about to take.

"Look how you smiling LayLay. I haven't seen you smile like that since you and Key were on good terms. You deserve the fucking world okay? Don't forget that. I see the way Golden looks at you. I'm hurt it wasn't me but whatever. Go for it." Marlee encouraged, Lay nodded her head.

"I might after I heal myself. Thank you, sis." Chalynn kissed Marlee's cheek as there was a knock on the door.

*

Golden opened the front door for Key, that was her nigga for sure but she hated how he treated Lay. She of course didn't know the entire story but just knowing how he dogged her blew her.

"Wassup G?" Key asked walking into the small apartment.

"Nothin much playa." That was all she said before handing him, Eli's diaper bag.

Marlee and Lay came out of the room smiling and

laughing with Eli on her mom's hip. Golden looked at Chalynn from her painted toes, past her short brown legs, her beautiful baby bump, and her breasts which were now growing much larger. Her face wore a slight smile and Golden didn't realize how she was smiling at Lay. She licked her lips accidentally.

"Oop," Marlee said scratching her head and giggling cause she peeped.

"Bye, mama," Eli said kissing Lay's cheek.

"Bye, my baby. Be good for your daddy. I'll see you when I get back okay?" Chalynn planted multiple kisses on Elianna causing her to giggle. She handed the baby to her dad.

"So where you going and who going with you?" Key asked switching the little girl in his arms.

"That's my cue." Marlee dapped Key up before going back to the room.

Golden followed suit so she could let them talk about whatever it was they were going to discuss.

"Golden, can I talk to you for a second?" Marlee asked as she walked back to her room.

"Yes?" Marlee shut the door behind Golden.

"Look, I'm not mad you chose my sister over me it's all good. But, just be gentle with her okay? She's very vulnerable."

"She doesn't want me, Marlee. We're seriously just friends. I just wanted to take her on this retreat so that she could have some relaxation." Golden shrugged, this conversation was making her think otherwise.

"Trust me. I know when she's feeling somebody." Mar gave a serious face to let her know she wasn't playing.

"I'll take care of her. I promise."

*

"Wow Goldie, how did you get a private jet?" Lay asked as she stepped outside of the car that bring them to the private jet.

"I may or may not know somebody." She shrugged helping Lay up the stairs of the jet.

"I love it." Chalynn got situated in her seat before taking her slides off. She loved flying, so much that she wanted to fly a plane or helicopter.

"Would you two like anything to eat or drink?" The flight attendant asked, Lay contemplated for a second.

"Mm, can I have a pineapple, mango, and banana smoothie? Just like a taste of pineapple because my baby doesn't like it." Chalynn smiled sweetly at the attendant who smiled just as sweet back.

"How far are you? My baby hated pineapple as well but now that's all she eats." The flight attendant laughed, Golden just sat back and watched the two interact together. It was a pleasure seeing Lay smile so much, Golden came around a time that she had nothing to smile about. After Laura, the flight attendant, touched Lay's stomach and let out about 6 our's and aww's she finally left to go get her smoothie.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" Lay asked once she turned her focus back to Goldie.

"I have never seen you smile so much before, it looks great on you." Golden complimented smiling herself.

"For a moment there, I lost myself but I can feel myself slowly starting to walk into who I am now." For the first time in months, Chalynn felt liberated.

"I'm excited to get to know you I'm sure she's great." Her statement was so genuine Lay could feel it ripple down her body causing her to blush and shift in her seat. Laura brought back her smoothie and a pillow along with an extra blanket so that she would be comfortable. Laura showed her how to recline her seat, after that Lay shoved her feet in Goldens lap for her to rub, and then she was out for the rest of the flight.

*

Lay yawned as she heard the sound of birds chirping out of the window. She rubbed her eyes and looked around the small cottage, the other side of the bed was untouched so she knew Golden had slept elsewhere.

"Honey?" She called out her voice a little bit hoarse, she drew back the fluffy white covers and swung her feet over the bed. The smell of bacon, waffles, grits, and hash brown's made her mouth water. Soft Erykah Badu played through the cottage. She followed her nose to the small kitchen placing one hand on her stomach and the other on her back. Once she finally made it to the kitchen, she watched Golden cooking and singing along to the music.

Golden, was dressed in her normal attire, a sports bra with sweats and her hair pulled on top of her head in a bun. Her very toned stomach was enough for Lay to gawk over but she was also very pretty. The tattoos that covered her body like a sweater made more than just her mouth water. Goldens soft pink lips stretched into a smile as she noticed Lay staring at her.

"You like what you see?" G asked causing Lay to walk over and playfully mush her head to distract her from being embarrassed.

"Mm. I don't know what I was even looking at, you so damn light skin I barely saw you there." Chalynn shrugged and stole a piece of bacon off of the plate. "How did you get me in here?" She wondered washing her hands so she could get ready to eat.

"I just carried you." Golden shrugged turning down the music.

"I slept that whole time? That's crazy. I must've been very tired." Lay hadn't even noticed how tired she had been because she was always on the go.

"I tried waking you up but you literally wouldn't budge. I can make your plate love, go ahead and sit down." Golden instructed making Lay's plate so she could enjoy this weekend to themselves. When they finally began to eat, after prayer, Golden wanted to discuss something with Lay but she could only hope that she didn't upset her.

"What's on your mind?" Lay smirked, she had been around her enough to know what some of her cues were.

"I. I don't know. I don't want to upset you or overstep." G began to play with her food, Lay was very fragile and she didn't want that on her.

"It's okay. Gone head." Chalynn gave her a reassuring smile to let her know that she was okay.

"If Eli is this attached to you and you allowed her to look at you like a mom and call you that. Why give her up?" Golden asked, for a second there was silence and she instantly regretted asking Lay what was on her mind.

"I just don't feel as though it's my place to raise a child that isn't mine or Key's for that matter." She started taking a sip from her smoothie.

"Mm. Just think about it." Golden dropped it after that but it lingered in Lay's mind.

*

Gold watched as Lay struggled with the different poses they were doing at the doula retreat.

"Honey. I need help." Lay whined as she tried to stand back up.

"Sunshine, like this." Golden demonstrated for her once again.

"Can you help me up?" Lay asked, they were currently in the chaturanga pose and she was struggling to try to get up while other mothers were getting up with ease.

"She's not even as big as me and she's struggling. Tuh." A pretty black girl laughed with her friend at Lay who was getting discouraged. Golden was fuming, this retreat was supposed to be open and judgment-free. Chalynn looked like she was trying not to cry.

"You doing so good pretty. Look at you, doing yoga after miscarrying one of your babies. Who would've thought?" Golden encouraged her, a wide smile grew over Chalynn's face. She helped her up off the floor and hugged her sweetly rubbing her hands up and down Lay Lay's back.

"Thank you my honey bear." Lay beamed, since she had been out of Atlanta stress had been lifted off her body. Someone came beside them and cleared their throat.

"If you two are done I would like to get back to my session." The instructor stated, if Lay wasn't darker skinned her cheeks would be so red with embarrassment.

They went back to their mats, "So, we're going to go into stretches for during birth." The instructor stated, she got on all fours and her partner got on their knees getting behind her. The partner placed his hands directly on her lower back and rubbed as they swayed back and forth and in circles.

"So the same thing that got us here is going to get us out of it?" One of the other girls shouted causing other girls to giggle.

Just Lay getting in that position turned her on. Golden gulped, but she had to remain professional. Especially because after they hugged some of her colleagues were watching the two of them.

Eventually, they went into a position where the mother was sitting upright and her legs were in the butterfly position Being in such an intimate position, and feeling the love and kindness radiate off of Golden fulfilled a missing piece in Chalynn. The whole rest of the day at the retreat went smoothly until Golden's friends appeared.

"Hey G papi. Who's this?" Renee spoke as two other masculine presenting women walked over to the pair. Lay was struggling to roll up her mat so of course, her partner helped her with that.

"This is Lay, she is my newest client. Remember, I told yall about her." Golden who usually was never embarrassed by that name currently was because Lay had her eyebrow raised inspecting all of the women.

"Mm. Can we speak to you outside?" Sondra asked looking between the two women, Golden looked over to Lay who was now uncomfortable. She became small under the four women's gaze and wanted to crawl up into her yoga mat and disappear. Golden caught on to this and grabbed her hand rubbing the back of it softly with her thumb.

"I'll be right back, Lay." She gave her a reassuring nod before heading out the door with her friends.

Lay whipped out her phone and saw a few missed texts from Key about Eli, so she opened them.

Bby Dad: How do you get her to stop crying for you?

Bby Dad: Call me sap.

Lay pressed the call button on her cell phone and called Key, "Yes Markeyvius?"

"She still in there screaming. You hear her?" He asked visibly upset, he didn't know if he wanted to keep her either at this point cause she wasn't his.

"Lemme speak to her." Key walked into the room where the baby was in her playpen screaming her head off for her mother. Lay looked up from the phone, Golden still hadn't returned. "Hey, mama's baby. I thought I told you not to do that?" Eli began to settle down at the sound of her voice.

"Mama." She whined reaching her arms up as if she wanted to be picked up.

"You gotta be good for daddy. You want me to sing to you?" Lay asked, she nodded her head while Key adjusted the phone so he could pick her up. Eli laid her head on his shoulder and he started rocking her back and forth while Lay sang a quick song to her and she was out within seconds.

"Th-" Lay quickly hung up the phone before he could say anything else that would probably piss her off. When she looked back up, Golden still hadn't made her way back into the room and Lay now was the only one left so she decided to go look for Golden. She wished she hadn't.

She peered across the corner and saw Renee all over Golden.

"Nae, come on. I told you I'm not on this anymore." Golden said pushing the girl off of her.

"Because of your client?" She asked with clear irritation in her voice.

"Exactly." Golden sighed.

"You always do this and then come running back to me. You always fall for your clients, it's like you feel some type of pity for them. Use them and then you're right back." Lay stomach dropped to her ass.

"You don't know what you're talking about. We're done, aight?" Before Lay could go back to where she was, Golden had already seen her standing there.

"You ready?" Lay asked switching the weight to her other foot. She was honestly ready for a nap and it was only 2 in the afternoon. Now she was rethinking her feelings about Golden.

"You gone ignore me the rest of the trip?" Golden asked Lay as they sat in the rental car they had to get around this weekend.

"It's nothin' to discuss. I'm not sure what I expected. It's cool." Lay nodded her head, she could only guess that females were the same as men.

"We not doing that. I can tell you're feeling me too. Your lil sister told me. I'm not Key, we gone communicate over here. What's on your mind." Golden turned the car off and gave her full attention to Chalynn.

"I need a nap." Chalynn opened the door to the car and unlocked the door to the cottage leaving Golden in the car by herself.

*

Golden didn't like how things were left off with Chalynn, but by the time she even got into the house, Lay was already down for her nap.

By the time she woke up, Golden had an idea. She didn't want to blow her chance with Lay before she even had one.

Lay yawned and stretched out of her nap, it was going on 4:30 pm and by the time she would get dressed, it would be around 5 or 5:15.

"Get dressed I wanna take you somewhere." Golden looked at a sleepy Lay.

"If there's no food, I'm not going." Lay expressed not wanting to get out of the fluffy bed.

"All of your faves. Hurry up."

By the time Lay had showered, gotten dressed, and done something to her hair she was tired all over again. She was going to go through because there's food.

"You better not let me fall," Lay mumbled, Golden had blindfolded her and was trying to keep it a surprise but every five seconds she was on her ass about not trusting her.

"I wouldn't do that to you. Okay, wait right here." Golden fixed her setup a little bit before taking the blindfold off.

"Oh my gosh, how did you know I wanted to do a picnic?" Lay gasped taking in the scenery, Golden shrugged.

"I just know." She stood there awkwardly until Lay came over and gave her a giant hug to thank her. With the help of her doula, Lay sat at the setup.

"I love this .. wow." Chalynn was in tears over such a small gesture. Honey took a seat beside her.

"What's the matter?" G asked rubbing her back softly.

"Nobody has ever done something so sweet for me before," Lay admitted, she couldn't think of a time Key had done something intimate like this for her. The fact that they weren't even together is what blew her.

"I just think that you deserve everything. I haven't been wanting to push up on you too much because I know what you've been going through but I can't lie and say I haven't noticed you. Let me clear up anything you may have heard today." Golden extended the olive branch.

"After the relationship, I've been in I feel like I deserved everything he did to me. All I heard was you make this a habit Golden. You fall for the moms you doula for. I don't want to be anyone's charity case and I don't need you to do for me romantically because you see firsthand what I've been through. I want genuine love, I can't lie and say I haven't felt a connection too but I also can't lie and say I wasn't scared by what I heard today." Lay admitted and Golden was just happy that she was opening up to her.