I sat on the couch across from Landon while watching tv.

"Aye Sam?"he whispered and I looked at him.

"I got some to tell you but you gotta promise me that you ain't gone tell nobody!"

"I already know, you wrecked your car!"I said while looking back at the tv.

"Mmcht. Nah man!"

"What?"

"Promise me you gone keep this between me and you only! Don't even tell the twins!"

"Yes brother!"

"Aight Erica's pregnant"

"Who is Erica!?"I exclaimed before gasping.

"Oh my gosh she's preg—"I said aloud before he shushed me and hit me upside my head.

"Ouch!"

"This stays between me and you Sam! Don't even talk to Erica about it. If you tell somebody, ima hurt you"

"How much pain is it gonna be?"

"Just know it's gone be excruciating"he said and I cringed.

"Okay well my lips are sealed"

"Bet!"

"I got something to tell you too"I said while looking at him.

"Wassup?"

"I think dad and our mother are back together"

"Why you think that?"

"Umm because I caught them having sex when we we—"I began to say before my dad and mama walked in here.

"Hey kids!"my mama said while lifting her sunglasses onto her forehead.

"Hi!"I exclaimed while raising my eyebrows at Landon as he had his mouth gaped open.

"What y'all in hur talking bout?"my dad asked us as they walked into the kitchen with all of the different food bags they had.

"Oh nothing, we just watching a tv"Landon said.

"Oh Aight, who asked for Chipotle?"

"Meeee!!"I exclaimed while going in the kitchen to get my food.

"Thank y'all!"I said while hugging my parents.

"Thank me, ya dad didn't buy shit!"my mama said.

"Oop"I chuckled.

"Where's Sienna?"

"She's upstairs somewhere"

"Sienna!!!!"she yelled and Sienna ran in here with her hamster in one hand and lizard on her head.

"Yea?"

"Here's your food"she said while handing her a Chick-fil-A bag.

"Aye that's mines"Landon said while grabbing the bag from her.

"No it's not!"she said while kicking him causing him to let it go and I laughed.

"Mmcht yea it is!"

"Landon no it is not, there's other bags over here!"I said while looking at him.

"Oh my bad Sisi"

"Y'all ass crazy"my dad said while shaking his head before walking out of the kitchen.

"Okay everybody has their food right?"my mama asked us and I nodded.

"When are the twins coming back?"I asked her.

"Whenever your grandparents decide they want to bring them back"she said while stuffing a fry in her mouth.

I grabbed one of her fries and she popped my hand.

"Go get one of ya daddy's fries, he ain't gone eat all of em"

"Nah I'm good, I wanted one of yours though"

"We'll you ain't getting these baby"she said while putting her stuff back into the bag and leaving also.

"Yea they're together again most definitely!"I whispered.

"You don't really know that though"Landon said and I squinted my eyes at him.

"I saw them having sex!"

"They could just be sneaky links and please don't say that while I'm eating"

"A sneaky link can become a relationship and the sex was very wild!"

"Mmcht bro stop saying that and technically they were already in a relationship."

"Exactly so they never left, I bet they had sex on the day of their divorce"

"Aight I'm done talking to you"Landon said while walking out of the kitchen and I laughed.

If my parents are back together I'm here for it but they need to cut the toxic shit.

"Lontrell, where you at?"I asked as I walked into his bedroom.

When I got all the way inside, I sat my food down on the dresser.

He was in the bathroom with the door closed.

"What are you doing?"I asked him as I knocked on the door.

"Don't come in here mane"he said and I opened the door.

Of course he was taking a shit.

"Mane get yo ass outta hur"

"I wanna talk to you about something"

"While I'm shitting, you can't wait?"

"No"I said while climbing onto the counter after closing the door.

We were far away from each other but he could still see me.

"You need to clean this bathroom, all these damn condom wrappers!"

"Them ain't no fucking condom wrappers it's chocolate wrappers!"he said while rolling his eyes at me and I laughed.

"Get to talking or get yo ass out...damn nigga can't even shit in piece"

"Okay AnTways, I'm thinking about closing The Sweet Street Castle"

"Hold up"he said and I heard a terd drop in the toilet.

He looked back at me and I looked at him.

"You not gone say nothing?"

"That's my response. Allat you just said was bullshit! What you closing it for?"

"Cause I'm going into real estate!"

"Going into real estate!? Suhan pick one fucking job, it doesn't work like that!"

"That's going to be my one job besides doing hostings!!"

"Aight so what the fuck that gotta do with the restaurant!?"

"That I won't be managing it anymore"

"Aight so what you want me to do?"

"Take ownership of it again!"

"The judge handed it over to you Suhan that's all you, if you wanna do that then do that. What's gone be yo source of income if something comes up and you stop hosting or ya sells ain't going up at ya store or the houses you showing ain't selling? Anything can happen."

"Yea you're right anything can happen, shit the restaurant can even get shut down temporarily or permanently. There's nothing I'll be able to do about it, especially if it's by law"

"Oh so you just gone lose it all?"

"Okay my store is never gonna get shut down regardless of the government or law, e-Commerce still works."

"Aight let's say e-Commerce doesn't work, what now?"

"Then I share money with you"I said and he raised his eyebrows causing me to laugh.

"If you wouldn't have divorced my ass then we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now"

"Right because you'd still be trying to control what I do"

"I never controlled what you did before"

"Yes you did Lontrell, I couldn't work neither did I have my own source of income. Every business contract I signed your name went on the paper too!"

"Let's talk about why my name went on them papers though. Every time there was a contract that needed to be signed who asked me if I could sign? You did. Why? Cause you thought that it'll be better if I handled all of the big shit while you just handled everything on the floor! Suhan we both went back to school and took the classes. Not one time did they say that because you were married you'd have to decide on the legal structure, partnership. You chose that, did that to yourself so don't try and make it seem like I put a gun to your head and made you sit on your ass all day!!!"

"I'm not saying you put a gun to my head and made me sit on my ass all day, but you did make most decisions for me! I had no mouthpiece, I couldn't decide on shit! When we would go out in public and they'd ask us all of those fucking questions, who answered most of them!? You di—"

"Suhan what the fuck does that have to do with anything? You talking about the public and shit, I'm speaking on a more private level. This ain't got shit to do with no interviewer or none of that shit! You say I made most decisions for you, tell me how!"

"Okay so with money! I had no control over what transactions were being made. I didn't have a say in any of our businesses, such as marketing and promoting! If I did make any settlement, you'd go behind my back and switch the shit around! You never consulted me about any decisions you made! When we did have meetings to go to and people wanted to see the both of us it was 'Oh Suhan was busy with the kids she couldn't come in today', type shit like that! You never included me, it's like I was never your wife!"

"Man that's bullshit and you know it is! Just because you were fucking submissive and as you would put it 'did anything for your man' don't try to blame me for your fucked up mindset! You allowed these things to fucking happen Suhan, you never said shit to me about any of this!

"Submissive!? Submissive Lontrell!? I was never submissive and if I were it was only in bed! You know that anytime I had something to fucking say I said it and if I didn't it was because I knew I'd end up with a fucking black eye! On a bad day I'd end up with two fucking black eyes, all because you didn't know how marriage worked! All because you couldn't fucking communicate!! All because you're a fucking narcissist and a fucking abuser!"I yelled at him while crying harder.

"I couldn't communicate? Look who's talking, the one with the problem now"he chuckled while getting undressed and getting into the shower.

I rolled my eyes before walking out of the bathroom and slamming the door.

"You good mama?"Sam asked me as her and Landon laid on the bed in here.

I couldn't even think straight, I just nodded while going to Lontrell's dresser and grabbing one of his blunts and lighters.

"Oooh ma!"Landon said while following me out the patio door.

"Landon please go back inside right now"I said while firing the blunt up and hitting it.

"Can I hit one time please?"

"No Landon, damn!!!"

He backed off and went back inside leaving me alone.

When I tell y'all I smoked that whole damn blunt up by myself, I did.

Lontrell had me stressed the fuck out.