He’s a Thug, but He’s My Thug

Chapter 15: Montana And Kids

The next day I had woke up and was so happy that I was finally leaving the hospital. Caine was borrowing one of his homeboys cars so he could come pick me up and spend time with me. We decided that we needed some alone time and talk things over and I would spend the night again but in all honesty, I just wanted to go to sleep in a bed that was comfortable! All that talking s**t out about us was fine, even great; it can wait until I wake up though.

I looked at my phone and saw that it was 12:44 p.m. Caine was supposed to be here 40 minutes ago. His ass better be in traffic that's all I know. I sat on the uncomfortable bed and looked at my phone when Montana's words rang through my brain. "Just hit my line when yo' nigga ain't acting right." Well at this point in time my nigga wasn't acting right. "Maybe I should call him." I said to myself. The second I got to Montana's name in my phone I heard the door open and saw Caine. "Hey babe." I locked my phone and stood up. "You're late!" I said rolling my neck and folding my arms across my chest. He smacked his lips and said "I know Shawty, my homeboy was tripping!" He said grabbing my bags and stuff that Tyree gave me. "Yeah, ok!" I said as I rolled my eyes; helping him with my stuff. As we walked out my room I went to the front desk to sign myself out and I ran into Montana.

"What's crackin, Shorty?" He said. I smiled. "Hey, what's up?" He licked his lips; so sexy! "Where yo' man at?" I immediately stopped smiling and started looking for Caine. I saw he was gone so I assumed he was already on the elevator. "Putting my stuff in the car I guess." I told Montana. He nodded his head as I came to realize I saw a dude in a wheel chair sitting next to Montana. He was light skin and skinny with a low cut and brown eyes and a slightly big nose. He wasn't all that cute but he was definately a looker if he wasn't next to Montana. "This yo' friend you told me about?" I asked him. He looked at the dude and said "Aw yeah! My bad Shorty. Annah this the homeboy Scottie, Scottie this finna be my new boo, Annah!" He winked at me when he introduced me as his "finna be boo." I giggled a little and said "Its nice meeting you, I hope you feel better." He grabbed my hand and said "Same to you, damn you fine!" I rolled my eyes at him but said thank you. "Im finna go get my s**t bruh." Scottie told Montana. "Aight bruh!" He replied. He looked at me and said "So what you finna do?" I finnished signing the last line on the release forms and told him I was going over Caine's house to get some sleep; he laughed when he heard me mention Caine. Um, what the hell was funny?

I looked at him with a confused face and said, "What's funny?" He laughed some more before licking his lips. Why was that so sexy? "Nothing, Shorty!" He finnally replied to me as he leaned on the counter. I saw Caine in the elevator and grabbed my stuff. "Yeah, ok." I said before I walked away. As I started walking I felt Montana's eyes following me. I heard him say "Nice rappin' wit' ya' again, Shorty." I looked over my shoulder and said, "The pleasure was all yours." He laughed and walked over to his homeboy as I made my way to the elevator and got inside before I hugged Caine. He kissed me and said "Sorry for being late, babe." I nodded my head and said "It's ok; just take me back to your house." He smiled and said "I got you, Ma." Before starting a makeout session with me. We made our way to the car and started driving home. While he drove he put his hand on my thigh and rubbed it up and down going towards my inner thigh. I knew where this was going so I had to stop him before he got started. Instead of just pushing his hand off I just grabbed it and held his hand in mine for the rest of the car ride.

We got to the house about 30 minutes later we arrived at the house. "Finnally!" I said when we pulled up to the house. Caine put the car in park and laughed. "Happy to be at your second home?" He asked me. I nodded as I got out the car and started grabbing my things before Caine stopped me. "Get your purse and phone. I got everything else." I smiled and said "Ok, Kendrick." He smiled, I guess happy that I finnally stopped calling him Caine, showing that I was no longer mad at him. He gave me the house key so I could get inside and settled. The first place I went to was Caine's room. I put my purse on the love seat and sat my phone on his nightstand that was on the left side of Caine's bed. I kicked off my pair of pink and white air max's and got under the covers. Once I finnally got comfortable I let out a sigh of satissfaction. "Ooh, yes! I missed this bed!" I said out loud thinking no one was here to hear me. Until I heard a familiar voice say "It missed you too!" I looked up laughing and saw Caine putting my stuff by my purse. "Babe, you can't be sneaking up on me like that!" I said to him. He caime over to me taking his jacket and his shirt off revealing his once 8 but now 12 pack. Damn, my baby been working out while I was gone. He then kissed me a few times on the lips and said "My bad, I won't sneak up on you no more." I smiled and said, "Good!" He laughed and pulled down his jeans, leaving him in his basketball shorts, socks, and boxers. He threw the covers off of me and climbed on top, kissing me from my lips, to my neck, to my chest, then leading back up with licks and him sucking too.

I let out soft moans forgetting that I wasn't supposed to have s*x and letting him do as he did. I soon felt something slide down my legs and saw that Caine was pulling my pants off. He looked at my p***y and looked up at me with this big ass grin on his face. I looked at him confused and he nodded his head back to my area. I looked down and saw that I was soaked. I frowned and looked up at Caine. "Babe, don't be mad at what I'm finna tell you." I said to him. He slowly frowned and said, "What is it?" I sat up and broke the bad news to Caine and told him how my father spoke to me as my doctor and not my father. Caine was upset as hell but he tried not to trip off of it. He rolled over on his side of the bed and I layed my head on his chest. "So we just gone go to sleep?" I asked him. He nodded and wrapped his arm around me. I put my hand on his chest and started rubbing his chest. He kissed me on my forehead before saying "Goodnight babe." I told him "Good night" and fell asleep in his arms.

~*~

I woke up and saw that Caine wasn't next to me. I looked around the room and saw that he wasn't on his loveseat playing his Xbox like he normally would be when I woke up without him. For some reason the room looked different. I don't know how but it just did. I stood up and my legs felt weak but I could still manage to walk. I had put some sweat pants on and walked upstairs and looked everywhere for Caine. Bathroom, kitchen, dinning room, living room, the upstairs bed rooms; He wasn't in any of them! The only thing I could find was that the whole house looked different. I Then went outside to see if he was around and he wasn't. I know this nigga didn't leave me home alone. I pulled out my phone and dialed his number. "This nigga got me more bent than bendy straws if he think he was going to leave me here alone. I'ma f**k around and call Montana" I said as I called Caine. I then looked around the neighborhood as I waited for Caine to answer and saw that the hood looked different too! The f**k was going on? I then felt a tug on my sweat pants so I turned around and saw a very pretty little girl. She was light skin with big dark brown eyes. She had a blue floral scarf on her head and looked about two years old. I hung up the phone when I realized I wasn't getting an answer and knealed down to talk to the little girl. "Hi, Cutie." I said to her and she smiled. "Hi" she replied back. "What are you doing out here?" I asked her. She walked around the yard, taking large steps and said "I wanted to play outside."

I nodded my head. I remember those days back in the Lou when I was little. Always running outside and never wanting to come in. I then decided to ask the little girl for her name. "My name is Malaika." She said in a cheerful voice as she spun herself around. I liked the name Malaika. Malaika was african for "angel" and I had a mindset a long time ago that I wanted to name my first daughter Malaika. "That's a pretty name." I told her. She laughed and said, "Thank you!!" I sat on Caine's porch watching her play and sing when I thought about it. Where was her mother? "Malaika, sweetheart, where's your Mommy?" I asked her. She stopped playing and said "She's out here with me." I looked around and saw that it was just me and her outside. "Malaika, there's no one out here besides us." She looked at me and said, "I know, you're my mommy!" I looked at her like she was crazy. "Malaika, I don't have any kids, especially as old as you. I just lost my baby." I told her. She smiled and said. "Mommy that was two years ago. I'm an angel, just like the name you would have gave me if my step-grandma never killed me." She explained to me.I sat there puzzled and deciding not to believe her. "No, you can't be my daughter!" I yelled. She walked up to me until she was all up in my face and said, "Ek is lief vir jou mamma." (which means "I love you, mommy" in African). She stood back and faded away in the air.

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My phone woke me up out of the dream I was having about my miscarried baby. I looked to my right and saw Caine was still asleep. I wiggled out of his grip and looked to see who was waking me up from my beautiful nightmare. I looked at the caller ID and it said "HCO Boss Man" I answered the phone and said, "Hello?"

"Annah! You need to come to work today! It's getting hectic down here!" I heard my boss Mr. Smith plead through the phone. Mr. Smith was a very nice spanish man, he was in his mid 20's and was a little big. All and all he was a nice man though. "What time do you need me?" I asked. He replied fast and said "As soon as possible!" I replied with a "Ok" and hung up the phone. I looked over at Caine and shook him awake. "Baby?" I said to him. He rolled over on his side and pulled the covers over him some more. "I am not finna play with this nigga." I thought to myself. I shook him harder and said "Baby, get up! I need you to take me to work!" He grunted and sat up. "Where at, baee'?" I told him at Sherewood Mall and he grunted some more until I gave him my puppy dog eyes. "Go get ready for work, man!" He said. I kissed him and put my pants and shoes on so I could go across the street and get ready,

I took a quick shower and put on my dark blue Hollister polo shirt with some Hollister jean shorts and threw on a pair of dark blue and white jordans. I threw my hair into a messy bun and put on some eyeliner before walking out the house. I walked towards the car and saw Caine was already waiting on me in the car. I walked over to the passenger's side and strapped myself in. We rode in the car for ten minutes in silence which made me feel weird. I felt that Caine was still tired so I decided to plugg my phone up to the radio and play some music to wake him up. I decided to play Kendrick Lamar "b***h, Don't Kill My Vibe" because I knew he liked that song and it would wake him up. We bobbed our heads to the music and sang along to the lyrics. A few minutes passed and Caine still wasn't talking to me! I knew he was awake by now so he had to be upset about something. I looked at him and said "Babe, why you not talking to me?" Keeping his eyes on the road he shook his head as if nothing was wrong but I knew better. I folded my arms and said "Baby, tell me!"

Still not taking his eyes off the road he pulled into the Sherwood Mall parking lot and put the car in park and finally opened his mouth to speak. "Annah, who is Montana?" He asked me. My eyes almost grew wider but I knew he would have thought it was something more than what it really was. I don't know why but I lied and said "Nobody, why?" Still not making any eye contact he replied "I woke up and heard you saying you was gone call some nigga named Montana in your sleep." Damn, I forgot I talked in my sleep at times. I looked at him and said "Baby it was just a dream. I don't know nobody named Montana." He finally looked at me and he caught me pouting and he hated when I would pout because he said I was so ugly. He smacked his lips and said "Stop making that face man." I laughed and so did he. "Call me when you get off so I can come get you, baby." I nodded my head and kissed him before telling him bye and getting out the car.

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Mr. Smith wasn't lying! Hollister was packed today! Everybody was comming in and out like today was Black Friday or the day after Christmas and they were so rude and disrespectful! People were trying on clothes and just throwing them anywhere and it was pissing me off! Everybody knows Hollister is made like a closet so it made me wonder how other people's closets at home looked. I decided to take over the check out counter for my co-worker Jalisa while she went on break and I just got more agittated. The customers were being real rude and just acting a ass today. It took all my strength not to go off on some of them until I saw this little girl running around the store. She looked around 5 years of age and was caramel skin. She had braids all over her head and was wearing a khaki skirt with a yellow uniform shirt and black and white Nike high tops on. She was knocking down sweatpants and t-shits off the displays and screaming through out the store. Luckily Jalisa came back from break so I could go get the stuff the little girl was throwing off the displays and put them back up.

I went over to where the girl was now knocking over the hoodies and started picking them back up but the girl was steady knocking them down again. Right when I was about to yell at the little girl I heard a familular voice yell "Teianna, get yo' ass over here girl!" I looked at the little girl run to whoever was calling her name as I picked up the hoodies that she knocked over. I soon heard the same familular voice call my name and I looked up and dropped the hoodies back on the ground when I saw who it was. "Montana?" As much as I was happy to see him again I didn't want to at the same time. I couldn't have nothing goin on with Montana if I wanted things to work out with Caine and I. Besides something about Montana felt iffy.

"What up, Shorty?" He asked me. I laughed and said "You stalking me?" He laughed and shook his head. "Naw, Shorty. Just taking my bad ass daughter shopping." "Daughter?" I thought to myself. How old was he if he had a daughter that was 5 years old? He then introduced me to his little bad ass daughter and made her apologize for knocking all the clothes over. She was so adorable and seemed so innocent after she apologized but even Momma said that the Devil was once an angel himself. Montana offered to take me to lunch but I told him I had to work. "Take a break!" He asked me. I was about to open my mouth to say "I can't." Until another co-worker of mine named Hellen butted into our conversation and said "Go ahead Annah, I'll cover your shift for you." Montana looked at me with those sexy brown eyes and said "You free now." I smiled and then started thinking of excuses. "What about your daughter?" I asked. "She can play on the little playground set they got in the food court." He explained. Realizing I didn't have any other excuses I agreed.

We went down to the food court and decided on what to eat. Montana got Subway and his daughter and I got some Pandora Express and he paid for both of our meals. Of course I wasn't impressed because anybody can buy Panda Express. Instead of eating, his daughter Teianna had went straight to the playground and Montana and I talked as we ate. "So, Montana. How old are you?" I asked him deciding not to beat around the bush. Between bites of his sub sandwich he said. "24." Damn, I never talked to anyone that much older than me before. "How old are you?" He asked me. I told him I was 17. He looked up at me and said "You look like a grown ass woman, Shorty!" I laughed a little and nodded. "I been told." I replied to him. He started laughing. "Why everytime we talk to each other we eating?" I laughed almost choking on my sparkling water and said, "I don't know, you tell me." He shrugged his shoulders as he continued to eat.

While we sat and conversed a little longer I learned about Montana. He had 6 brothers and sisters on his Mothers side; 5 brothers and one girl and on his Father's side he had 17 more brothers and sisters; 7 brothers, 4 sisters, and the other 6 he never met. His relationship, if it could even be called that, with his baby's momma, Kacey, wasn't all that great either. They met when Montana was 19 at a club called The Hot Spot. What was once a one night stand soon turned into a relationship between Montana and Kacey so they could make things better for little Teianna and so she could have both parents in the picture; The american dream right? Wrong! Montana told me that he caught Kacey fuckin another nigga in his house, on his couch that he paid for. The second he saw that, he shot the nigga in his side and made his ass leave the house butt naked. Montana took the nigga's clothes and the couch and sat them on fire outside. Luckily, Teianna was at Montana's Aunt Jahiema's house spending time with her cousins Karson and Kree. Montana immediately forced Kacey to take a paternity test and was relieved to find out that Teianna was his after all. He still didn't let Kacey slide with that though. He kicked her out the house and told her the only time she was allowed to come pick up Teianna for the weekends. They kept up with this arrangement for the last 2 years now. I was but then again I wasn't in shock when I heard his and Kacey's story. Shocked because the hoe had the audacity to f**k another nigga in this man's home and then not shocked because these hoes out here for everybody. I wanted to tell him that he should have known when she let him hit it on the first night but I was in no place to talk because one: It wasn't my place to say that; and two: I had f****d Caine the first week I had met him. s**t, at least I waited a few days after I met him.

"That's some deep s**t, bruh!" I told Montana. He nodded and said "s**t, Shorty, it's life! Ain't no way around it!" I nodded and said "True." I then looked at my phone and saw that my 15 minute break was over. I pouted and looked up at Montana and he caught on to what I was about to say before I could even open my mouth. He took a sip of his Sprite and said "Yo' break over, huh, Shorty?" I nodded sadly. I didn't want to leave but I had to go make that money. "Go ahead, Shorty. We got each others numbers. We'll hit each other up when we wanna spend some time together." I nodded and said "Ok." before giving him a hug goodbye and going back to Hollister Hell.

~*~

Damn, today was a long day. I was glad that it was about to be over. It was now 9:49 p.m. and the mall closed at 10:00. I had texted Caine 2 hours ago and told him to come get me at exactly 10:00 so I could get the hell out of this hell whole. He promised he would be on time and when 10:00 came around I was happy that he lived up to his promise. I locked up the store and started walking towards the parking lot but when I got there I was in for a surprise. Caine wasn't alone. He was talking to someone else next to him. As long as it wasn't no female I wasn't trippin well that was until I got closer. I would've stopped where I was but I had to make sure who it was. Oh s**t. Was it? It was! The infamous, Montana. What the f**k was he doing talking to Caine?