His Forever Love (West Family) Book1

Chapter 4

Iris’s POV

It was around 2 in the morning when I got back home from hanging out with LaToya and her friends. I was so drunk and high right now I can barely function straight. I kicked off my shoes at the door and went to the room. I see that Milo didn’t come in tonight, so I was glad that I made it home before he did, for he wouldn’t know that I went out. Milo hates when I party every night, he told me on multiple occasions that he doesn’t like it and doesn’t want our son around it but I don’t listen because I don’t care. I’m going to do what I want regardless. I’m a grown ass woman; Milo can’t tell me what to do. I know his ass isn’t going anywhere so I’m going to continue to do what I want. He thinks because we have a child that I can’t have fun and that’s not the case, child or no child I’m going to do me regardless.

I sat down on the bed and called Milo to see where he’s at, I know sometimes after family parties his parents have people stay over especially if they drink too much. He answered on the third ring “Hello.” He said into the phone. In the background I can still hear loud music playing so I knew they were still partying.

“Milo, where you at?” I said yelling into the phone over the loud music.

“Still at my parents’ house.”

“When will you be home?”

“I’m not coming home tonight; I’m going to sleep here.”

I was furious at this point. How dare he not come home? He didn’t even take the time to let me know. His family probably has something to do with this; I swear I can’t stand them. I know they have something to do with this new attitude of his. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT COMING HOME MILO?” I screamed into the phone.

“Just what I said Iris. I’m not coming home tonight. Kenny and I are staying at my parents’ house, so don’t wait up.”

“My son is not staying over those peoples house Milo. You bring my son home NOW.”

“No I’m not going to bring him home and he is already sleeping. I’m hanging up now there’s nothing else to say.” He said then hangs up in my face. UGH, I through the phone across the room, luckily it didn’t break but honestly I wouldn’t care if it did or didn’t, I would just make Milo buy me a new one anyways. I can’t believe this s**t. Why can’t I control him? Why can’t I make him do what I want him to do? I need to get rid of his family, I know I won’t be able to take them all but at least drift them apart from Milo. I need to do something drastic to get them to stop talking to him. I sat on the bed and tried calling him back but he didn’t answer. After the 4th phone call he finally picks up the phone.

“What do you want Iris?” he said with irritation in his voice.

“What do you mean what do I want? I want you to come home with my son NOW.”

“Like I told you before I’m not coming home tonight. Kenny is already asleep and I’m not driving home this late at night.”

“Your ass should’ve been home anyways, it’s going on 3 in the morning.”

“For one Iris I’m a grown ass man I don’t answer to you or anybody else for that matter and for two you got your nerve talking about somebody being out late at night when you always out late at night and there are times when you don’t even come home so chill with the bullshit because I’m not buying it.”

“If you don’t bring my son home now Milo, I swear….”

“You swear what, Iris?” he said cutting me off. “You’re not going to do nothing so how about you take your drunken ass to sleep and wake up again with a new attitude.”

I gasped. I can’t believe how he just talked to me and in front of everybody. I know he didn’t step away from the group to talk to me because I can still hear them in the background.

“HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT MILO AND IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY? I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU WILL EMBRASS ME IN FRONT OF THOSE PEOPLE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? AND I’M NOT DRUNK I BEEN AT HOME ALL NIGHT WATCHING TV AND WAITING ON YOU TO COME HOME, I HAD A GLASS OF WINE OR 2 BUT I’M NOT DRUNK.”

“You can tell that lie to somebody else who doesn’t know you Iris. I know you’re drunk because your words are slurring and did you forget I have a ring camera and it tells me when someone stepped on to my porch. And you are what’s wrong with me Iris, I’m tired of this bullshit and the back and forth with you, and I’m done.”

“Done? What you mean you’re done?” I said panicking.

“Just what I said Iris, I’m done so don’t wait up.” he said and hung up on me again.

I was so pissed you could see fire coming out of my ears. He can’t be done until I say his done. He is my meal ticket to getting everything I want. I picked up my purse and left the house.

Milo’s POV

A few hours later…

The party at my parents’ house was still in full swing it was nearing 4 in the morning and a lot of us are still up. The kids and most of the women went to bed already, the men are in my dads’ man cave drinking beer and playing games. When my parents throw a big party like this, they have family and friends stay over because they don’t want anybody driving home late at night or drunk. You never know what might happen so they are just being cautious. Mom and Pop’s house is like a mansion, and it can fit my whole family and our group of friends.

I was deep in thought thinking about the conversation I just had with Iris. I didn’t want to break up with her or not in that manner but I just couldn’t take her nagging anymore it was getting so irritating. She knows ever time my family throws a party that nobody leaves the house because they don’t want anyone driving home so I don’t know why she is acting like this. She really thought I would believe her when she said she stayed at home all night she must forgot that I have a camera and it tells me when somebody either stepped on my porch or on my property no matter if you are leaving or coming it will definitely tell me. I was brought out of my thoughts when my dad tapped my shoulder trying to get my attention. He was looking at me with a very worry look on his face.

“Yes dad, what’s up?”

“Are you ok, son? I overheard the conversation with you and Iris.”

“Yes I’m good Pops. I just can’t take all this nagging anymore. This has been going on for far too long. She knows that nobody is supposed to drive home if they had been drinking or if it’s too late at night, that’s you and moms number one rule with parties.”

“True but maybe you and Iris need to sit down and talk about everything before either of you make any type of decisions on your relationship. Remember you also have a son to think about.”

“Pops you know Milo can raise Kenny by his self without that evil witch by his side, he don’t need her.” My twin brother Nikko said.

“Shut up Nikko, you shouldn’t say stuff like that. That is still your nephews’ mother. Didn’t I teach you if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all?” My dad said while glaring at my brother.

“Yea but there isn’t nothing nice to say about that woman.” Nikko muttered under his breathe. I laughed because leave it to my twin brother to speak his mind. He’s the rebel out of the two of us. “He’s right Pops we all know Milo can raise Kenny without that girl, its not like she’s a good mother anyways. We all know she parties all the time and be neglecting Kenny, I don’t know why he still with her.” My brother Jonathan said, he is the next oldest after Nikko and I.

Everybody else in the room nodded their heads in agreement. Honestly I was shocked, my family never expressed their opinion about Iris except Nikko and my best friend Asher. My sister Tamala got into it bad with her one time but after that she didn’t even say anything bad about her, she just kept her distance and didn’t speak to her. I looked around the room at everybody shocked. “Have you all been feeling like this?” I asked. Everybody looked at each other before nodding their heads. “Why didn’t anybody say something?”

“Because we know how much you love her and we didn’t want to ruin our relationship with you by bad mouthing your girlfriend Milo.” My cousin Hunter said, he’s the most sensitive one out of all of us.

“Do the women feel the same way?”

It was my Uncle Tristen who spoke up, “Yes the women feel the same way Milo. Honestly they feel worse then we do because they are women and they are feisty as hell. They don’t want to see you hurt or being used by anybody especially a horrible person.”

“Look son we can’t make your decision for you, you have to make that yourself but you also have a son to think about in the process, think about how he will feel too. You and Iris needs to come to an agreement and understanding of how your relationship is going to go but don’t make any decision based on anger or how we feel about her because at the end of the day it don’t have anything to do with us. We will love you regardless and stand by you. If Iris is around we will keep our opinions to ourselves. But don’t make a decision without telling her how you feel first.” My father was always the peace maker out of everybody; he knew exactly what to say.

“You’re right Pops and I will talk to her just not tonight it’s too late to be talking about this.”

A few minutes later we all heard a big commotion coming from upstairs. We all started to run upstairs to see what was going on and when we got half way there I heard Iris screaming my name like a crazy person.

“Speaking of the devil literally and she will arrive.” Nikko mutters under his breath. Pops glared at him and popped him upside his head while trying to hold his own laughter.

“WHERE THE HELL IS MILO? GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY TAMALA AND GO GET MILO FOR ME RIGHT NOW.” Iris screamed so loudly she could’ve waked the whole neighborhood up. My heart started beating wildly when I heard my sisters name because Tamala don’t play. I told you she was feisty as hell but I also told you that I taught her how to defend herself so I know what my baby sister is capable of and I know she can do some damage to Iris. They did get into it before but that was pretty much a warning of what she can really do to her if she is provoked.

“Look here little girl, you not about to come into my parents house, waking everybody up and being disrespectful so turn back around and lets try this again with a whole new attitude.” Tamala said, you see what I mean Tam have a mouth on her and she do not play at all.

“LOOK TAMALA MOVE OUT OF MY WAY.”

“Or what? What are you going to do Iris?”

I finally made my way upstairs. “Iris what the hell is you doing here?” I said irritated because its 4 in the morning and she comes over here acting a damn fool.

“You hung up on me Milo and I wasn’t done talking to you. And now you don’t want to answer the phone because you around these people. You acting fake now because you around your family Milo, really?”

“b***h who the f**k are these people?” Tamala said while walking up on Iris but Adairia’s cousin Amar grabbed her, “Calm down little bit” he said to her while she was still trying to get to Iris. I glanced over at them a little suspiciously, hmmm I think Amar have a thing for my baby sister with the way he’s holding but I put that in the back of my mind for another day. I will definitely be addressing that later.

“Milo you better get this witch out of our parents home before I hurt her bad. I’m not about to let nobody disrespect my family at all.”

“NO I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE UNTIL MILO TALKS TO ME.”

“Y’all can talk outside, you’re not welcome here.” Tamala said gritting her teeth.

I walked over to Iris and grabbed her by the arm and started walking her to the door when she stopped and looked over by the hallway. I looked over to see what have caught her attention and seen Adairia standing there with my son in her arms crying, trying to calm him down. Iris snatched her arm away from me and walked over to Adairia while screaming at me, “MILO YOU GOT ANOTHER CHICK IN HERE HOLDING MY BABY? GIVE ME MY BABY BITCH.” She said while trying to get Kenny out of Adairia’s arms. Adairia slapped her hand away and move Kenny out of her reach, “No, can’t you see how upset you made him by coming in her and acting like you don’t have any damn sense.”

“GIVE ME MY SON TRICK.”

“I said no so back up. I’m not giving him to you when you’re drunk as hell, I can smell the liquor on you from miles away.”

Iris went to raise her hand to slap Adairia but Tamala was already on her like white on rice, beating her face in. Iris was scratching Tamala’s arms trying to stop Tamala from punching her in the face but Tam wasn’t letting up at all, she kept throwing punch after punch on Iris. Some how Tamala manage to flip them over and put Iris in a choke hold. Finally we were able to get Tamala off of Iris, it took about three of us to break it up because when Tam fight she blackout bad, she don’t see nothing but red and black. Iris was holding her neck while trying to catch her breathe “b***h you almost killed me.” Iris spat to Tamala.

Tamala smirked, “And I would’ve taken great pleasure in doing it hoe.”

“OK. That’s enough, Adairia can you take Kenny back into the room and I’ll come in there in a few to check on him. Come on Iris, we’re going outside.” I said while grabbing her arm.

Once outside Iris turned around on me and started hitting me in my chest. I grabbed her wrists, “Stop Iris, what’s the matter with you, coming to my parents’ house acting crazy?”

“You hung up on me Milo and I wasn’t done talking to you. How dare you have another b***h in here holding my baby?”

“Don’t call Adairia out of her name again Iris; she didn’t do anything to you. You’re mad at her because she was calming our son down after you come in there showing your ass and acting crazy. Do you even care that you have upset him? And there is absolutely nothing to talk about Iris; I told you I wasn’t coming home. You know the number one rule that my parents have when they throw parties and I wasn’t going to be driving home when I have been drinking especially with our son in the car, that’s not safe at all.”

“Of course I care about Kenny Milo, he’s my son and I love him.”

“Then act like it Iris, coming in her acting crazy isn’t going to help anything.”

“Well you were ignoring my calls Milo, what was I suppose to do?”

‘You should’ve just waited until tomorrow when I would’ve came home Iris. You shouldn’t have come over here like this. You really need to apologies to my family for the way you acted.”

“Apologies to them? For what Milo? Your sister attacked me and you didn’t do anything to stop it.”

“Iris is you on drugs or something? You came over here yelling all through the house waking people up. s**t you might have waken up the whole neighborhood with the way you was acting.”

“Well I don’t care about that; tell me what you mean by you’re done.”

“It means what I said Iris. I’m done. I don’t know what have gotten into you lately but all this nagging and bitching about nothing I can’t take this s**t anymore.”

“My attitude? Are we really going to talk about my attitude Milo, when you’re the one whose attitude has changed?”

“No, my attitude only changed because of the way you been acting lately and it haven’t been only a few weeks that you been acting like this, it has been months Iris.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about Milo.”

“Really, well let refresh your memory. You don’t want me hanging out with my family, you don’t want our son to come over here, you don’t come to the gatherings anymore, you use to interact with everybody but now you are very standoffish and rude, you throw a temper tantrum every time you don’t get your way. Do I need to keep going?”

“Milo, it’s just sometimes I want you to myself. I can’t help but be selfish when it comes to you I love you so much and I don’t want to lose you. I feel like you are choosing your family over me.”

I looked at her like she has lost her mind because that didn’t make any sense. I barely see my family because I have been working on building my business for the first five years but the other five years, everybody has been busy with their own life so nobody had time to spend with each other. Yes, some of them do work for me but far as hanging out and chilling no we haven’t did that in a long time.

“Are you serious, right now Iris? I barely saw my family in the first 5 years of me building my and the other 5 years everybody been so busy, so I’m not choosing anybody over you.”

“I’m talking about the 5 years that we been together, Milo.” She said taking a deep breath, “Look Milo I’m sorry, OK. I don’t want to break up, please give us another chance I promise I’ll change. Please? I love you.” I walked over to Iris and lifted up her chin with my fingers, “I love you too Iris,” I said while bending down to give her a kiss.

“Come on lets go back inside and get some rest I can’t let you drive back home in this condition.”

“But your family doesn’t want me here.”

“True but they’re not going to allow you to drive back home drunk, my family isn’t like that. But you do need to go in there and apologies so come on, let go.” I said while walking back to the house.