That Unforgettable Moment

Chapter Sixteen

Aaliyah

Words can't describe with this s**t that's displaying right in front of my eyes. My brother's ex-girlfriend, his first love since freshman year of high school, is here in this house. Pregnant by my cousin Rayshawn?! I couldn't believe it.

My heart is in tears for DJ when he'll see all of this. He used to adore Elena, all of us did. We thought she was cool and was really in love with DJ. We even welcomed her in our family with open arms. He even dreamed of marrying this chick one day. He had is whole future planned out with her.

Sadly, all of that came crashing down when we had to attend that dreadful family reunion two years back. On my mother's side, they've decided to throw that bullshit down here in L.A.

My mother was happy to see them or whatever, but like I've said: me and DJ don't associate with our cousins at all. Anyway, DJ decided he wanted to invite Elena to the family reunion with us since it was down here, but little did he know that it was the biggest mistake he ever made.

While DJ was going to get something to drink for himself and some food for her, Elena disappeared all of a sudden. He asked me if I had seen her and I said no. He'd asked everyone else if they had seen her and they all said the same response: "no." It was like he was looking for his little lost puppy or something.

Little did he know, when he was on his way to look around the porter potties, he saw her and Rayshawn coming out of the porter together. He went in full rage when he witnessed them coming out adjusting there clothes. Smiling all happy and s**t. I felt so hurt for my brother.

He looked distraught, heartbroken, and torn to pieces. He had that look in his eyes that looked like he was ready to kill someone. Sooner or later, he started charging at Rayshawn and tackled him to the ground. They were both tumbling and going at it on a hot summer day. My brother had the most upper strength though. 

DJ was sitting on top of him throwing jabs at him from left to right. Rayshawn almost choked him, but my brother was winning. I knew that DJ was fighting him out of a broken heart. It took my dad, Rayshawn's dad, and two of my other uncles to pull them apart.

Now her ass is here in this house, under our roof, in our living room, standing next to Rayshawn pregnant with his child. Now to be honest here, the girl is dumb to even get involved with this i***t in the first place. He ain't nothing but a f**k boy b***h ass nigga.

"You got to be freaking kidding me?" I said dryly with an irritated expression on my face.

"Aaliyah!" My father sternly hissed at me. I looked over at his direction and he shook head letting me know not to say anything else.

"But Dad..." I whined.

"Hush child!"

I rolled my eyes and scoffed at his monstrosity while crossing my arms. There was nothing but silence and tension in the room until Elena cleared her throat.

"Well, it's nice seeing you all again." She awkwardly greeted us. I just stood there not saying much with my arms still crossed.

"Um, it's nice seeing you as well Elena." My mom said, "Aaliyah honey, why don't you show Jasmine to your room."

"Mom do I-"

"Now!" She cut me off.

"Ugh! C'mon!!" I huffed as Jasmine was following me to my room.

"So..." I trailed off as I was getting the extra mattress ready for her, "this is where you'll be sleeping." I threw it down along with some sheets, a blanket, and a couple of pillows.

"Oh hell no!" She scoffed and I looked at her as if she's crazy or something. "I ain't sleeping on that damn mattress! Why don't you sleep on it since I'm the guest?" She said with a f****d up prissy attitude. See, this is why I can't stand her ass.

"You got me f****d up!" I sucked my teeth. "Where else are you going to sleep? The couch? The floor? Outside where all bitches like you sleep at?" I asked her. "So, If I were you I'd lay my ass on that damn mattress."

She looked vexed after what I just said to her, but I don't really care. It's bad enough that she is sleeping in my room. Why the f**k would I allow her to sleep in my bed?

"Well, like I've said: I'm the guest here, so out of curtesy of your hospitality," she was talking to me like I'm remedial or some s**t, "you should allow me to sleep in your bed instead of the mattress." She said being arrogant.

"I am not allowing you to do none of that s**t! This is my house, my room, my space you are invading. My mom is damn there making you my obnoxious roommate. So, DEAL WITH IT!!" I gritted at her and walked out of the room.

I don't want to be anywhere near this b***h. In fact, I don't want to be in this house as of right now. So basically, I called up Sabrina to see if we hang out right now. I just hope she is not too busy. I do not want to be in this house any longer. I am hoping that I don't catch her being preoccupied with my brother like I did the last time I called him.

"Hey girl!" She answered.

"Oh! Thank God I didn't catch you with my brother right now!" I said in relief.

"No, I'm at home chilling right now. Why what's up?" She giggled.

"Girl, please come and get me out of this house!" I pleaded.

"Why, what's up?" She repeated.

"My annoying ass cousins are here that's why!" I rubbed my head a little bit because I was feeling light headed again. I took a deep breath and sat on top of the staircase.

"I'm feeling light headed right now cause you don't have to got through what I'm going through right now. Can you please come and get me? You're not doing anything." I begged her this time.

"Alright." She huffed out, "I'll be over in twenty minutes, okay?"

"Okay." We both said our goodbyes and hung up the phone. I quickly got up and leaned against the wall for a minute. Then I went to the bathroom because I have to go pee. Soon as I got in, I did my business. I wiped myself after I was done and flushed the toilet. Then after, I started to wash my hands for a good 20 seconds.

I noticed that we're out of paper towels, so I knelt down at sink cabinet to get a new roll. As I knelt and looked for the paper towels I noticed something. This month is almost over and my menstrual cycle haven't even started yet. I started on time the last time. So why haven't I started it yet?

I'm beginning to get worried with myself. Although, I did noticed a few changes in my appearance. My hair has grew out alittle bit, I've gained some pounds lately, been getting these killer headaches since my birthday, on top of that, me vomiting since my the night of my birthday! I don't know what's happening, but I need to sort all of this out soon. I got out of the bathroom and headed to my room to get my jacket, keys, and purse. When I got to my door to open it, it was locked. 

"I know damn well she didn't..."I jiggled the door knob again, then I started banging on it. "Jasmine open this door!" I shouted as I was banging on it. There was no response so I banged on it again. "Jasmine! Open. The damn. Door!" All I could hear was her giggling and s**t. I had a thought of kicking it open until I heard the doorbell ring. It's probably Sabrina at the door.

I rushed down the stairs to get the door before my horny ass cousin does. Unfortunately, I was too damn late to reach the door. He opened it before I could reach the last step. "Well hello beautiful! What's up with you?" Rayshawn greeted her with flirtation in his voice. Sabrina just looked at him with disgust on her face.

"Not you!" She rejected him and walked passed him to get to me. "Hey Liyah, you ready?"

"I would have been ready if his damn sister didn't lock herself in my freaking room!" I exaggerated as Rayshawn just stood there and snickered, but his eyes still lies on Sabrina. I knew this was a bad idea for her to come inside while these people are still here.

"Girl I got you, I know how to pick a lock. All I need is a bobby pin."

"Oh I see you a crook now huh?" I grinned at her. She giggled as we're about to make our way upstairs, until Rayshawn stopped us by grabbing her by her wrist.

"Wait! I didn't catch your name baby?" Rayshawn asked Sabrina. I rolled my eyes at this desperate nigga.

"Rayshawn, she is off the market you know." I told him. "So?" He shrugged.

"You're really going to flirt with my friend knowing that you got a pregnant girl in here?" I furrowed my eyebrows as I questioned him.

"Again, so? She upstairs sleeping, she ain't got to know." He waved me off and turned his attention back to Sabrina.

"Anyway," he swerved me off and cleared his throat. "Your name beautiful?"

Sabrina scoffed as she begins to tell Rayshawn off. This is going to be good so I quickly took my phone out to record all of this. Hell, I might put this on either i********: or YouTube. "You just heard what Aaliyah said. I'm not single! As far as I know, your name isn't Deshawn James Jr. In fact, you're not even as sexy as him. So you're not getting s**t. Let alone my name." She set him straight.

His eyes had widen when he caught on to what she just said. Especially, hearing her say DJ's full name. He turned to me to see if she was telling the truth. I nodded my head and gave him that 'yep, that's all DJ's'  glare. He plastered a big wide grin across his face and turned back to Sabrina. I guess Rayshawn figured that he took DJ's girl once he can do it again. Little did he know that ain't about to happen this time. I know Sabrina wouldn't even dream of cheating on DJ. She's been waiting for far too long to get him, so why would she f**k that up?

"Well, my cousin ain't got to know s**t either, shawty. This could be our little secret. So what's up now?" This i***t here is going to say all that while I'm standing here? And recording?! He's even dumber than I thought. However, I see that he is really determined to get what/who he wants.

"n***o she just said..."

"Liyah let me handle this." She raised her hand cutting me off. I just stood back and continued on recording as she stood her ground.

"Listen, Rayshawn is it? I am not one them i***t girls that easily gives into you when you enchant them with your charm and whatnot. If you think I'm going to f**k around with you behind my boyfriend's back, you are loco! Soy una mujer de un hombre! I am a one man woman! And that man is your cousin. You got that?!" Sabrina batted her eyes at him.

Rayshawn just stood their with a blank face. He has never been rejected like this before. That stupid look that he got on his face was priceless. It was delicious irony for me. I'm glad I recorded the whole thing because I'm posting this on i********: and YouTube. So yeah, I'm embarrassing this fool like that because I don't like him, and that's on Mary had a little lamb. 

"And one more thing." She got close to his face. "My boyfriend's name is written all over my kitty cat." She said to him seductively and all he had was a blank face. I howled so hard when she said that to him. I had stopped recording and rolled on the floor holding my stomach from die hard laughter.

"Oh I think I need a tissue for this!" I blurted out. She really set this nigga straight with that. She was over here quoting from Soul Food. I got up and got myself together, and dragged her away from this speechless fool here.

"C'mon girl, let's go pick this lock so we can get out of here."

"Bye, bye!" She blew him a kiss and followed behind me.

"I know DJ is going to be proud of your ass when he sees this." I showed her what I recorded to her.

"You recorded that?" She sucked her teeth asking me that.

"I sure as hell did. I just sent that to him too. He might have your ass limping again. s**t, I'm surprised you ain't limping now!" I grinned at her.

"Trust me I was." She scoffed rolling her eyes. We both giggled as we made our way to the door. "You have a bobby pin on you?" She asked me holding her hand out. I gave it to her and let her do her thing with the door knob.

To her success, she unlocked the door for me. Soon as we got in, Jasmine had the audacity to sleep in my damn bed! IN MY f*****g BED!!!! She must have lost her mind in outer space or some s**t.

"Bri, please tell me you do not see a b***h sleeping in my bed?" I turned sideways looking up at the ceiling and praying that I'm not seeing things. I made it perfectly clear to her that she is to NOT sleep in my bed. That is one of the reasons why I laid out that mattress for her.

"Who is that? Is that your cousin's girlfriend or something?" She asked me as I was getting my things.

"No! That's his damn sister. My mom is making me share a room with her trifling ass." I said to her. As I was heading out of my room, I stopped midway as an idea struck in my mind. I looked over at sleeping bitchy and motioned for Sabrina to come over my way.

"What?" She whispered.

"Come on." I nudged my head at her and she followed me to the same left side of the bed as me. "Grab that end." I instructed her and she did. She undid the bottom left of the sheets as I undid the top left.

"On three, we're going to flip her ass off the bed, okay?" I whispered at her. She nodded her head understanding my plan with a big grin on her face. "One...Two...Three!" We lifted the sheets up. Jasmine yelped as she rolled off my bed landing on her ass.

"Oww! What the hell Aaliyah?!!" She shouted at us. We both stood there laughing at her humpty dumpty ass. She should have known better than to sleep in my bed in the first f*****g place.

"And I will do it again too. Next time sleep your ass on the mattress Jasmine. Not my damn bed!!" I addressed her ass. She just threw the middle finger at me, but I for damn sure don't give a f**k. We didn't want to entertain this cousin of mine any longer, so we left. As we were in the car, we called Sasha up to see if she wants to kick it with us today. Of course, she agreed to come with us. So then on, we headed our way to her house.

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"So then, we flipped her ass off my bed. The b***h had me f****d up sleeping on there when I told her ass where to sleep while she's here." I explained to Sasha what happened. She busted out laughing as we explained.

"I can't believe I was not there to see that! I would've had a field day!" She held her chest to tame herself from laughing any further. We're currently at Chipotle eating our meals. We were midway into finishing up until I forgot to tell them on more thing.

"Oh! I almost forgot to tell y'all this." I had their undivided attention. "Y'all remember when I said that Rayshawn brought his pregnant girlfriend with him right?"

"Right." They both confirmed in unison.

"You guys cannot believe who the girl is!"

"Who?" They asked in unison.

"I know you two remember Elena." I looked at both of them as they had surprised looks on their faces, although with Sabrina, she has a more pissed off look.

"OMG!" Sasha exclaimed.

"What the hell is she doing there?" Sabrina asked.

"Well, she is with my cousin now, and having his baby so..." I shrugged.

"Yeah, okay, but evidently he's not being faithful to her." She pointed out.

"I know what you're saying Bri. It doesn't make any sense at all. That's why I felt how felt when she first walked through the door. She is so stupid to leave DJ for Rayshawn's dumbass." I said with irritation. She messed up a good relationship for some quick f**k. How ridiculous is that?

"On the other hand though, if she hadn't messed up there relationship then that means that I wouldn't have him." Sabrina pointed out and she kind is right. However, she did have to endure all those other girls he was f*****g with. But, she's with him now and she'll be damned if anyone tries take him away from her. 

She really is possessive when it comes to her belongings. And now, my brother is part of her belongings. Hell, she'll literally butcher somebody if some random even try to take something that belongs to her.

"Well girl I don't think you have to worry about that. I can see that you will stick around for a very long time." I pointed out.

"You got that right, because am not going anywhere."

"Yeah cause y'all are possessive as hell. Y'all deserve each other." Sasha stated out. I chuckled at her response.

We all finished eating and threw our trash away. We then decided to just look around the shopping center. We went to little stores and bought stuff here and there for a couple of hours. Soon, I had the urge to vomit and I had to get to a toilet quick!

"Guys we need to find a bathroom fast!" I informed them.

"Why? What's wrong?" Sasha asked as both of them looked at me with concern expressions.

"I feel like I'm going to throw up!" I exclaimed. Both of them bursted out curse words in unison and rushed inside a small café that we so happen to stop in front off. We went straight to where the bathroom is, which it so happens to be coed. Sasha locked the door behind us and I headed straight to the toilet.

I lifted the seat up and put my head close to the bowl where my vomit can land in. For about 10 minutes or so, I was puking out my food that I've ate a while ago. Sasha and Sabrina were both rubbing my backs and soothing me. I flushed the toilet after I was done throwing up.

"Girl what is going on with you? You haven't been looking to good in the last couple of weeks." Sabrina inquires me as I got up and flushed the toilet.

"I have no idea." I spoke as I was rubbing my temples. "I don't understand what is going on with me lately. I'm always tired, hungry; I get get killer headaches, I've been vomiting a lot, and on top of that, my period haven't even started yet!" I exaggerated. Both of them had their eye widened along with their mouths open. They looked flabbergasted. 

"What? Why are two staring me down like that?"

"Umm..." Sabrina started out and then pressed her lips together while being lost in thought. "Liyah... when I ask you these questions, I need you to think long and hard for me, okay?" I shrugged but agree wondering what she wanted to ask me.

"Okay, other than that one time at the party, have you slept with anyone else since then?" She asked and I scrunched my eyebrows looking amused. 

"Sabrina, that one time was the only time I did it."

"So it is him. I can't believe it!" Sabrina groaned to herself as she palmed her face. I'm over here wondering what the hell did she mean by that.

"Okay, now um... think very hard on this on as well. Since the party was the only time you did it... did he strap up?" I paused when she asked me that. I replayed that night in my head as I recall all the things that happened. I then soon come realize... there was no protection.

I froze when I realized it. My lips started trembling as my eyes were getting glossy. I slid down on the floor breaking down in tears. I honestly can't believe this is happening to me. What am I going to do? How will my family react to this? Or what if I contracted something else than what I think it is? 

Either way, this is all overwhelming to me. I'm just a high girl trying to graduate high school. I'm not ready for this!

"Hey girl, come on now. You don't know if you are until you take the test." Sasha counseled. 

"Yeah Aaliyah, we have to be sure before we jump to any conclusions." I didn't say anything to them. I was just sitting on the ground still sobbing. 

"Come on now, Dry those tears." Sabrina handed me a paper towel. "And lets got get some tests."

I wiped my tears away and got up from the floor. This s**t is unbelievable to me. If it turns out that I am, I don't give a damn who he is. I'm going to kill Gavin for this s**t! I wiped washed my face and we headed out of the bathroom. We made our way to Target since it's in the same shopping center.

We got three different pregnancy test and a bottle of water for me to drink. Soon as we purchased everything, I chugged down the bottle of water. Since I don't want be bothered with them people at my house, we all went to Sabrina's house to do it. Lucky for us, no one is home.

Each of use opened a test and wait a minute for me to urinate. Ten minutes later, I took all three of the test and washed my hands afterwards.

"So what's up?" Sabrina quickly asked me.

"Wait for five minutes. I've already set a timer on my phone." I told them as I laid across Sabrina's bed.

"Are you nervous?" Sasha ask rhetorically as she plotted next to me.

"Hell yeah! In about..." I took a glance at my phone. "four minutes and fifty-three seconds, I'm about to find out that I might be someone's mother!" I exaggerated.

"Oh it'll be okay Liyah!" Sabrina tries to soothe me but I'm not falling for it.

"No it's not!" I shot up from the bed and started pacing back and forth. "Do you guys realize that this is going to be a drastic change for me? I have to tell my parents this, and when I do, it won't go down well. Then, I'll have nowhere to go. I won't have no place to stay!" I ranted on.

"Well if you are, are you going to keep it?" Sasha just asked me the million dollar question. I paused from pacing and thought of what I'm going to do:

1.) I don't want to go through any doubts our what ifs if I don't keep it.

2.) I made that decision to lay there and sleep with somebody unprotected. So the right thing to do is take care of my responsibilities as a young parent.

I don't want go through any regrets in my life, so I made my choice and told her, "yes."

"Okay, well I'm here for you boo not matter what." Sasha said to me and it made me smile.

"Me too chica." Sabrina implied at well. I kept my smile because I know they have my back regardless, just like I have theirs.

"So, second question. How will the daddy react about this?" I froze when Sasha asked me that. I didn't give much thought about Gavin in this, even though he plays an equally big part in this situation as me. He may be a sweet, charismatic guy, but he seems like the type to where he don't want kids. I feel like if I tell him, he might not believe me and say that it's my problem and not his. Or, he may think that it's not his child. So, I don't want to go through that kind of situation. I don't know if I can deal with that kind of heartbreak.

"He's not going to know." I told them briefly.

"What?" They asked confusingly in unison.

"What do you mean he is not going to know? It's his child too if you are carrying it." Sabrina chided at me.

"Yeah Aaliyah! He does have the right to know!" Sasha retorted.

"Oh please, don't give me that s**t, okay! Yeah you right, Sasha, he does have the right to know. But he also has the right to be apart of it or not! So, I'm making the decision for him." I prolonged.

Sabrina palmed her forehead and shook it with so much disappointment. Sasha just huffed and rolled her eyes at me.

"Are you serious right now?" Sabrina asked, "you're not going to tell him because you're having doubts?"

"I mean really, Aaliyah? We don't even know that you are pregnant yet and you are already depriving the father away from his child!" Sasha pointed out.

"Man, look I..." I was cut off when the timer on my phone went off. I looked up and at them and said, "Well, this is it. I'm about to find out of I'm going to be a mother or not."

I took a deep breath and headed down the hallway to the bathroom. It feels like I'm walking towards my destiny. I slowly opened the door that lies what's ahead of me. I leisurely approached the bathroom counter where the tests were sitting on. I looked down as I'm about to see if my life will be driven on a different course all from just those three little sticks. Closed my eyes and said a silent prayer. Finally, I looked down and saw that all three tests have the same results:

Positive.