His Forever Love (West Family) Book1

Chapter 2

Iris’s POV

Ugh! I’m so pissed, right now. Why can’t Milo just leave his stupid family alone? I knew his family barbeque was tonight, I was just hoping that he wouldn’t go. I know that was a long shot though because they are a close knit group but I didn’t care I thought for once he would choose me over them. I was going to plan a romantic dinner for us tonight. I had it all planned out, I was going to cook my baby some dinner and give him a nice bath for he can sleep through the night. While he was asleep mommy and daddy was going to have some fun time together. I was going to cook Milo’s favorite food, which is meatloaf and mashed potatoes with sweet cream corn on the side, then I was going to pamper him real nice and get him in the mood to make love to me like he use to, I think it was time to make another baby. We haven’t made love in a couple of months and I don’t know why.

Milo and I use to be so good together; I don’t know where it went wrong. I knew he was starting to drift away from me. I can just feel it that’s why I think its time for another baby, if I got pregnant again I knew for a fact he wouldn’t leave me, he wouldn’t even think about it because Milo is an honorable man I knew he wouldn’t want his children without 2 parents in a loving home.

I had a feeling that his family had something to do with this new attitude of his. I don’t care what Milo said I know deep down in my gut that his family didn’t like me; they only tolerated me because of our son Kenny. If I never had Kenny they would’ve been wanted me out of their lives but I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to trap Milo if it is the last thing I do.

I got pregnant with Kenny on purpose to get Milo to stick around because I knew he was a family man. I knew if I got pregnant he wouldn’t go anywhere, he had 2 loving parents in his life so he wanted to give our son that too and that’s probably the only reason he haven’t left yet.

I want the finer things in life but I don’t want to work hard myself to get it. I deserve to be spoiled and get what I want. Milo is going to be that person to give it to me. If I have to trap him and have his babies then that’s what I’m going to do, I don’t care I’m going to get what I want and nobody is going to stop me.

I’m not big on family, I don’t talk to my mom and I damn sure don’t talk to my dad, plus I’m the only child so I don’t have any siblings. Only if I can get rid of his family I will be able to put my entire plan in motion to get Milo to do what I want him to do.

The West Family is huge and honestly when I first met them I was very uncomfortable because I never been around a family that large. It took some getting use to but honestly I wasn’t use to it at all. They tried being nice to me at first and I was interacting with them at first too but it became too hard to keep up with trying to be nice and act like I care when I really don’t. Its hard being fake but I think they was starting to get the feeling that I didn’t want to get to know them and you know what, they’ll be right. I was very stand offish and antisocial when I was around them. They would talk to me and try to get to know me but I would just look at them like I didn’t hear them, I didn’t care about getting to know them I just wanted Milo to myself.

When I first met Milo it was at a club on the beach in Miami, Florida. I was there for a girl’s weekend while he was there to celebrate his birthday with his family and friends. When I first saw him walk into the club I thought DAMNNNNNN I had to get with that. I swear Milo was the sexist man I ever seen. A lot of people ask me how can I think that when he has a twin brother. I can tell them apart because Milo has hazel green eyes and Nikko has hazel brown eyes. I knew he was going to be mines from the moment I saw him, the only difference was, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia and he lived in Phoenix, Arizona but we made it work for awhile until he finally talked me into moving here with him.

I was sitting on the couch trying to find something to watch on TV when my phone rang. I looked down at the caller ID to see it was my friend LaToya, I picked it up still irritated “Hello” I said still annoyed.

“Hey girl what you up to?” asked LaToya

“Nothing just sitting here trying to find something to watch on TV.”

“Ugh! That sounds boring. How about you come out with me tonight?”

“No, I told Milo I’ll stay in the house tonight.” I said with a little irritation in my voice.

“Milo isn’t your f*****g daddy. Plus Corey has been asking about you.”

“I told you I’m not doing that s**t again. If Milo finds out that will be the end of us for sure.”

“Milo won’t find out. s**t I’m not going to tell him, are you?”

“Well no, but you remember what happened last time we did that I’m not trying to get that f****d up again.”

“Then don’t, stop when you know that you hit your limit. s**t you a grown ass woman you know what you can tolerate and what you can’t. Where’s Milo’s boring ass at anyways?”

“Heffa I told you about talking about my man. He’s at his parents’ house for some barbeque get together for his sister and her best friends; Kenny is over there with them too.”

“I still can’t believe that they still haven’t figured out what you’re trying to do.”

“No, they haven’t and they won’t either. You’re the only person that knows the truth and I would like to keep it that way.”

“b***h now you know I’m not going to say nothing but since you aren’t doing anything how about you come out with me tonight.”

“Ugh! Fine I’ll be ready in an hour.”

“Alright, see you then, bye.”

Milo’s POV

I walked into my parents’ home with my sleeping son Kenny on my hip. I followed the sound of loud music to the backyard, they are having a welcome home party for my baby sister Tamala and her best friends Adairia and Alli Jenkins they are coming home from college. Those three have been the best of friends since they were practically in diapers so they been part of the family for a long time. I walked up to my dad who was barbequing some ribs on the grill.

“What’s up Dad?” I said. My dad gave me a huge bear hug with a wide grin on his face, “Hey son, how are you?” said my dad. To say that Chance West and I are close would be an understatement. Dad, Nikko and I could be past off as triplets, a lot of the time we are. My dad looked that young, Nikko is my identical twin brother we’re thick as thieves.

“I’m doing well dad, just trying to be the best father that I can be with raising a 2 year old.” I said while looking down at my son sleeping in my arms. This is my pride and joy.

“Oh, son I know you are doing a great job raising him because you were raised by the best.”

I laughed at that but it was the truth I know my dad is the best. “Let me go lay Kenny down and I’ll be right back to help you with the grill.” Dad gave me a nod and went to check on the ribs. I went into the house and put Kenny down in the room that my parents’ setup for him every time he comes over, my parents loved their grandson to death with him being the first and only grandchild born, he is spoiled beyond belief. When I went back outside I realized there was a few more family and friends that showed up but I was looking for the queen of the house my mother. My mother is my heart I would do anything for the woman who gave birth to me. I found her over by the dessert table setting it up with Mrs. Jenkins, I tiptoed up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist and whispered in her ear “Hey gorgeous, how are you?” I asked and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. She spun around and wrapped her arms around me screaming, “Hi my baby I’m doing just fine, how are you?” she asked. “I’m doing good as well ma.” I turned around and gave Mrs. Jenkins the same greeting, “Hey, momma Jenkins, how are you?”

“I’m doing good Milo baby.” Mrs. Jenkins said.

“Where’s my grandbaby?” my mother asked.

“He’s in his room taking a nap. When we got here he was already asleep so I laid him down in his room. When are Tamala and the Jenkins twins suppose to be here?”

“I think in about an hour to an hour and a half. Your sister called saying they running behind because they got a flat tire. They were waiting on AAA to show up when I spoke to her about 45 minutes ago. They were about 2 hours away but you know how your sister drives, they will get here in no time.”

“Why, didn’t you call me I would’ve gone to get them?”

“Baby its OK. They said they are fine and that they’ll be on there way once AAA fixes their tire. They will call me when he gets there, stop worrying OK.” I gave a nod I didn’t like the thought of my baby sister being stranded on the side of the road but I knew she was safe because I taught her how to defend herself and she is one feisty woman nobody would want to go up against her.

Miranda West is a beautiful woman she gets mistaking for her kids sister all the time. It’s hard to believe she pushed out 3 sets of twins and has 12 children. She got a body like a model, people swear she was a model back in her days but truly she wasn’t. Mom is the sweetest woman you would want to meet. She takes care of her family; she loves and adores them so much there’s nothing she wouldn’t do for them.

A few minutes later I was helping my dad on the grill and engaging in conversation. “So…how’s it going with Iris?” my dad asked. I gave my dad a long sigh. “I was wondering when you was going to get around to asking me about her but everything is pretty much the same. She still be partying just about every night and having random people coming in and out the house when I asked her multiple times not to do that. Our baby lives there and you never know what might happen, you can’t be too trusting of everybody, you know what I mean?” My dad just nodded and said “I know exactly what you mean. You’re right you can’t be too trusting of people. God forbid that somebody come in there and try to rob y’all then what will you do.” I can always count on my dad telling me the truth and keeping it all the way 100 with me not sugar coating anything. “That’s exactly what I’m saying dad like I swear she acts like she don’t have a kid. You know she got pregnant on purpose to keep me around because she knew I would do the honorable thing by being in my son’s life and try giving him a family like what I had but she acts like she doesn’t want him, like he’s not even there anymore, that pisses me off more than anything.” Dad just looked at me, his first born and could see the stress lines forming on my forehead. My dad hated seeing me like this, he and the rest of the family tried to get to know her and were nice to her but for some reason she wouldn’t allow them close to her. I knew my family and friends was starting to dislike her but they would never voice that out loud. Iris only thought about herself. If she was miserable than she was going to make everybody else’s life around her miserable too, she didn’t care about nobody but herself. If it didn’t have nothing to do with her than she didn’t give a damn. That’s why she wasn’t here at the welcome home party for my sister and her best friends. But dad was staying out of it because he didn’t like getting in his children’s business he let us live our lives.

“Well son if you’re that unhappy why are you torturing yourself by still being with her?” dad asked

“Because dad I want to give Kenny the same family home that I had. I had 2 loving parents in the home to love me and take care of me and I want that for my son too.”

“You can give him that without being with his mother. You can find a great woman who will love you and your son like he was her own child. You don’t have to be with Iris for that.”

“But that’s his mother I can’t just put the mother of my child on the streets dad.”

“I understand that, I’m not telling you to put her on the streets. What I’m saying is that you have to also start thinking about Kenny’s wellbeing too. You don’t want to come home one day and something seriously bad had happened because she was too drunk or too high to take care of her son. Come up with a different strategy to get through to her.”

I sat there thinking about everything that my dad said but there is one thing that is bothering me so I had to ask “Hey dad can I ask you a serious question and you be 110% honest with me?” I asked. He looked at me curious to what I might want to know. He gave me a nod to go ahead and continue.

“Did you or anybody else say something to Iris to make her show dislike and hate towards y’all?” I asked.

“No, I didn’t say or do anything to her, you know I don’t roll like that if I had a problem with her I would’ve told you first and let you handle that. That’s your place not mine and as far as anybody else I don’t think they said anything either. Why do you ask? Did she say we said something to her?”

“No, she didn’t say y’all said anything it’s just that she got it in her head that y’all don’t like her. That if she never had Kenny y’all would’ve been wanted her gone.”

My dad just shook his head not understanding that “but y’all was together 2 years before Kenny was even born so if we would’ve wanted her gone we would’ve said so before Kenny got here.”

“I know I just don’t understand why she don’t like y’all and won’t come around.”

“Well Milo that’s something you might want to look into because honestly a lot of us have been talking and we were wondering the saying thing. We didn’t know if we offended her or not, we would like to know too.”

I sat there thinking for a moment and I knew my dad was right about everything. I do have to look into why Iris acts the way she do when it came to my family. I knew she didn’t keep in contact with her family and that could be the reason why she don’t want to come around mines but I think it goes deeper than that too because something just seem suspicious about that when we been together going almost on 5 years.

I had another thought come to mind, I would die if anything happened to my son, he is my baby, and he is my whole world, that’s another reason why I really needed to look into what was going on, my dad gave me a lot to think about.

Grant it I wanted to be settled down and married before I had kids but God had other plans for me. I welcomed this blessing into my life with no hesitation.

I was so deep in thought when my twin started snapping and clapping his hands in my face trying to get my attention, I blinked a few times before answering him.

“What’s up Nikko? When did you get here?” I asked.

“Just a few minutes ago. What had you so deep in thought? You know I can feel when you’re stressed out and I do not like this feeling I’m having right now.” He said while sitting down next to me. “I’ll tell you later brother; it’s just a lot on my mind right now. I’ll be back I’m bout to go check on Kenny.” Before I could walk away I seen my son running towards me screaming, “Dada, Dada” I couldn’t help but smile he is the reason my heart beeps, he gives me reason to keep living and to keep pushing everyday. He jumps up in my arms giving me a big hug. “Hey little man, how was your nap?”

“It was gud dada”

“Hey little man” said Nikko. Kenny turned around looking for the other voice that sounded identical to mines, it still amazed me that Kenny knew who his dad were when Nikko and I are identical twins, and the only difference is that I have hazel green eyes and Nikko has hazel brown eyes but other than that we look just alike. Kenny jumped out my arms and was now sitting in his uncles lap “Hi, Uncle Neno.” Kenny said while laughing because Nikko was tickling him.

“Hey doesn’t grandpa get some love too.” Dad said.

“Don’t be jealous dad.” Nikko said. Dad popped Nikko upside the head and took Kenny away from him, showering him with kisses. Everybody loved Kenny he was such a good baby, they fought over him all the time.

“When Thing 1, Thing 2, and Thing 3 suppose to get here” Nikko asked.

I couldn’t help but laugh he always was messing with them because they never went anywhere without each other and they were always giving him problems while growing up that’s why I was their favorite.

“They should be here soon. They had a flat tire on the way here so they were waiting on AAA to come and change it.”

“Why didn’t nobody tell me I would’ve went and got them.”

“I said the same thing when mom told me. She said that they were safe plus you know Tamala isn’t going to let anybody bother them.”

“Hahahaha you right about that we did teach her how to defend herself and she feisty as hell.”

“Ok, everybody the girls will be pulling up soon. Everybody get in position.” My mom yelled across the yard.

A few moments later we hear the girls walking around the house and we all screamed SURPRISE.

Adairia’s POV

We finally made it to the West Family estate after waiting so long for AAA to come change our tire. A few minutes later we pulled into the driveway, getting out of the car we heard loud music playing, we followed it around to the back of the house. When we made it into the backyard family and friends was jumping from all different directions screaming SURPRISE. I could have sworn my heart stopped a little bit but I was just as happy to see everybody. I spotted my mom first and ran to her giving her a big hug, crying in her arms, I missed my mom so much. My mother was more than a mother to me she was my best friend, my twin sister Alli and I get our looks from her, Adele Jenkins is mixed with Puerto Rican and African American. My mother is a beautiful woman with her jet black hair and hazel green eyes, she got mistaking for a model on multiple occasions.

After I greeted my mother I went over to greet my grandmother MaDear giving her a big hug as well “Hi, MaDear, how are you?” I asked.

“I’m doing just fine baby. How’s my grandbaby doing?”

“I’m doing good, just glad to be home.”

“Well we’re glad to have you home baby.”

I looked around the yard because I had this feeling that somebody was watching me, when I looked over by the grill where most of the men was standing around talking, my breath got caught in my throat. There standing in blue jeans and a black v-neck t-shirt showing off is chest tattoo was Milo and he was standing there just staring at me with lust in his eyes. That gave me hope, was he finally starting to see me the way I see him, what about Iris aren’t they still together? Tamala didn’t tell me if they broke up or not and I know that’s something she would’ve told me for the simple fact, for one she doesn’t like Iris and for two she been wanting me to get with her brother for the longest.

MaDear was snapping her fingers in my face trying to get my attention. I blinked a few times turning my head in her direction, “I’m sorry MaDear I spaced out for a little bit.” I said.

“I see that Adairia. I was talking to you and your mind was completely somewhere else. I was telling you how proud I am of you and your sister. Are you and Alli going to go into business together like y’all always planned too?”

“We talked about it and its still up in the air. We haven’t shut down our dreams yet.”

“Never give up on your dreams baby.” MaDear said while patting my knee. “Now on to another problem.” She said.

“And what problem is that MaDear?”

“When are you finally going to tell Milo you’re in love with him?”

I looked down at the ground embarrassed that I got caught ogling him. I been in love with Milo ever since the time I fell off my bike when I was ten years old and he picked me up and carried me into the house, he took such good care of me, he been my fantasy boyfriend ever since.

“MaDear you know I can’t tell him I’m in love with him. He has a girlfriend and they have a son together.” I said a little sad.

“Girl nobody likes Iris and you know that. That heffa doesn’t care about nobody but herself. Plus you know she got pregnant on purpose to keep Milo around. Now don’t get me wrong we all love Kenny with our hearts we just can’t stand his momma.”

I couldn’t help but laugh, MaDear going to say whatever she got to say and doesn’t care if anybody is around or not. “MaDear I’m not going to tell him how I feel no matter how much we all dislike Iris. Where is she at anyways?”

“I guess she decided not to come but we don’t care. It’s not like she’s going to be missed. We can all do without that type of energy.”

MaDear is right about that we definitely didn’t need her energy. Every time she came around she didn’t speak to people, and she will look down her nose at people. One time her and Tamala got into it so bad that Tamala wouldn’t talk to Milo for a few months.

“MaDear I’m going to go grab something from the kitchen, do you want something?”

“No baby I’m alright.”

I nodded my head and walked into the kitchen and took a wine cooler out of the cooler that it was in and took a long drink from it when I felt somebody behind me. I didn’t have to turn around to know it was Milo. I knew it was him by the way my body was reacting to him whenever he was around. Neither one of us said anything yet. My heart was beating out of control. I took a deep breathe in before turning around to face the sexist man I ever seen. We haven’t been in a room by ourselves in a long time, we only been in a room twice by ourselves. The first time was when Tamala and I got really drunk at a party in high school and we had to call Milo to come get us. When he did he was not happy at all but he carried both of us to our rooms and put us to bed and that’s when I took that opportunity to be bold and kiss him. The second time was when he came to visit Tamala at college in our dorm room, Tamala wasn’t out of her class yet and I wasn’t feeling well that day, he took such great care of me before Tam got home that I kissed him again to say thank you and that was the hottest kiss I ever experienced with a guy, well technically Milo is the only guy I ever kissed. That was the main reason why I was so heart broken when I found out that Milo and Iris got together, I thought he was finally seeing me the way I saw him but I guess I was wrong. I was so embarrassed after that, I felt like such a fool. I’m glad I never told him how I really felt about him. Now here he is in the kitchen looking all sexy and s**t. I tried to look anywhere but at him, I couldn’t even run back out of the kitchen because he was blocking the entrance way.

“What’s up Dairia?”