Not Your Typical Family(Book 3)

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The home aid nurse removed Karmas bandages from her ribs and pushed down on a few sore areas. "Does it hurt?"

"Yes but not like before"

"That's good. They're healing faster then I thought they would. But to be sure, I'm gonna need you to wrap them when you're sleeping ok?"

Karma nodded and ran her fingers down her skin. It felt weird to touch that part of her body, after not touching it for almost three weeks.

Kat and Ash stood by the door, watching closely and once the nurse left, they laid on the bed. Karmas arm and hand was still wrapped up and the bruises on her face were clearing up thanks to the coco butter Ash applied almost three times a day.

"I miss my kids" Karma mumbled.

"Call Kacy and tell him to being them over" Ash said "You know he'll be here in two seconds if you call"

"He's having like a daddy day with them and I don't wanna ruin that. I'll just call tomorrow. But in the mean time" Karma trailed off.

Ash rolled her eyes "I'll get Morgan over here then"

Dion, Morgan and baby Morgan soon showed up and Karma smiled when she saw her baby. Morgan ran up to Karma, as fast as she could, and Karma pulled her into the bed slowly.

"Oh, you missed me too?"

"Me too" Baby Morgan babbled. She continued to babble on and in this moment, Kat smiled. She imagined how it'd be if she had a baby.

"Ugh" she mumbled lowly. She shook it off as being simple baby fever, considering that fact that her two friends had kids. But a feeling deep inside her, she couldn't shake off. "Babe, can I talk to you for a second?"

Ever since Dion found out Kat didn't plan in having kids, the tension between them has been thick and things haven't really been the same.

Dion looked her way and even though he didn't want to, he stood up and followed her into the living room.

He stood in the middle of the room, with his arms crossed. Kat approached him and wrapped her arms around his neck , kissing his lips. "I don't wanna argue, D"

"Then don't" he told her. "What you wanted?"

"I've been thinking" she started off "Lately, seeing Ash and Karma with their kids. I think I want a b-"

"Kat don't play with me" Dion smiled, unfolding his arms and bringing them down to her waist.

"I'm serious. I want a baby"

"Let's not waste no time then, let's go" he pulled her down on the couch and started kissing her neck as he pulled off her shirt.

"Not here, let's go home" she laughed.

"Oh yea, cause this aint our home" he remembered. Without even saying goodbye, the two made their way out the door and towards their house.

Kacy had Keegan sitting inside the stroller, making sure the sun was off him and a small fan blew air towards him and had Moe sitting in the back of the stroller, since it has two sitting spots. The sun was off her and a small fan blew air on her.

They'd been at the zoo for only 20 minutes and already, Kacy spent $30 on food alone. Moe licked on her ice cream as she looked at the different animals and Keegan was busy trying to suck on his ice cream.

"Look Moe. Your favorite animal is right there" Kacy pointed over to the tigers. They laid, lazily, on the grass and when Moe got out the stroller to get a closer look, the tiger looked at her.

"You saw that? He looked at me. Daddy, he looked at me" Moe said, excited.

Kacy smiled but froze when he realized what she called him.

Daddy?

Moe got back inside the stroller and Kacy continued to push. Moesha wanted to see the entire zoo and Kacy had no problem with that. He actually liked spending time with Keegan and Moe.

Once they left the zoo, Kacy drive over to Karmas place. It was going on 8pm and he knew she'd be alone around this time, giving him the perfect opportunity to explain himself.

He knocked and waited until the door was pulled open by Ash. "Good, I was just leaving" she hugged Kacy and kissed Keegan and Moe before walking past them.

Karma smiled when she saw Moe and Keegan walk in her room. She'd been missing them like she hadn't seen them the entire three weeks.

While cradling Keegan to her chest, she had Moesha under her arm. "Thanks for bringing them. I was just telling Ash how much I missed my babies"

"It was nothing"

Kacy looked at Moe and seen how she was drifting off to sleep and Keegan was already knocked out. "Karma, I know this a lil past due but I really owe you an explanation"

She nodded, agreeing. "I already know the back story Kacy, bout when y'all was younger and how you always tried to prove yourself to him. All I wanna know is why? After all we been through, why treat me the way you did, just to prove yourself to someone who caused so many problems in your life?"

"I don't know Karma. I don't. I spend all night trying to figure out why I'd hurt you. Or push you aside like you didn't matter. And I honestly don't know. Maybe to show Kenton I wasn't in love, cause he always said being in love is for p*****s. Or maybe to show him, it was still me and him after so many years of him being gone"

She shook her head "You know what I think it was. You treated me the way you did because after all was said and done, you knew I'd come back to you like nothing ever happened. Right?"

"I mean s**t, no. I want you to come back but not to forget what happened"

"Well no, I'm not coming back" she said "The day in the hospital room, hours after giving birth to your first child, you said you didn't care that you were breaking my heart. Remember? "

"Yes b-"

"Weeks after, you had the nerve to tell your brother I was a hoe, that ended up pregnant. Remember?"

"Karma i-"

"Do you remember?!" She raised her voice a little, her true feelings and emotions showing.

Kacy sighed "Yea, I remember"

"Kacy, because of you, your brother thought he could beat and r**e me. Not to mention, hold Moe and Keegan hostage. Something could've happened to them and it would been your fault. Something happened to me and it's all your fault. And for all those reasons, I'll never forgive you. That's why I'm not coming back"

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A week later and what Karma had told Kacy was still heavy on his heart and mind. He didn't know that's how Karma felt and now that he did, he made it his main goal to make things right.

Even if they didn't end up back together, which is what he was aiming for, he hoped they could still be close friends.

But the more he thought about it, being friends with Karma wouldn't work, at all. Just by looking her way, he could see how much she missed and loved him.

He could also see how hurt and disappointed she was in him.

Kacy and Karma had been together for almost five years and even though they've had their ups and downs, there was nobody in the world either of them wanted to be with. And now that they official have a family, their bond and connection with each other seemed to grow, if that was even possible.

That was one side of how Kacy felt.

The other emotion was anger towards his brother. There were so many questions he needed to ask and that's what he planned to do. Getting Kat and Dion to watch the kids , Kacy woke up at 5am to drive 4½ hours to see his brother.

Arriving at the maximum security mental institution, Kacy was first patted down and searched. The officers led him to the hospital section of the institution and that's where Kacy laid eyes on his brother.

The sight, however, was disgusting and would've made any weak stomach person throw up their dinner.

Kenton sat on the edge of the bed in an all white gown. His feet swung on the edge as he hummed to himself and looked down. The massive wound on the side of his head was wrapped up but blood still seemed to seep through the bandages. He was covered in cuts and scratches, self inflicted of course.

He looked up at Kacy and smiled a little "Brother" he mumbled "What brings you by?"

The nurse patted Kacy on his back "He's been on his medication so he's been pretty calm"

Kacy took a seat across from his brother, a few feet away. "I came ta' ask ya a few questions. Ya know, about what you did to Karma"

"Ok" Kenton kept smiling.

"Why? I mean like, she ain't did s**t to you. So why beat and r**e her? Why hold my kids hostage? Any anger you had, you coulda took that s**t out on me"

"She turned you into a b***h" he spoke, his smile falling "When you was younger, you wasn't no b***h"

"That's where you wrong, Kenton. I'm not a lil ass boy no more. I'mma grown ass man, and it's thanks to Karma. Without her, I'd still be on some lil boy s**t. The same s**t you on " Kacy expressed.

"Well you asked a question and I answered it. Anything else?"

"Yea, how long you been a f*****g lunatic? Cause I been thinking, the day you was shot, ya ass wasn't really shot"

Kenton chuckled "Yea I found that out when they threw my ass in here the first time. I got paranoid schizophrenia. It really hit me when I was about that age though"

"You know ya the reason mama started beating my ass and started doing drugs, right ? The reason pops started hitting her and the reason I had to kill him, right?"

He shook his head "Little brother, it's so much momma kept away from you"

Kacy's eyebrows furrowed "Like?"

"I'm the one that got momma hooked on cocaine. I supplied her meaning I was a drug dealer. Which is why I thought I was being followed. She beat you cause you put away her supplier. Pops beat her, cause she was beating you"

Kenton laughed at the expression on Kacy's face "Seems like you hurt everyone that tries to help you and better yourself. You know what they say, what you learn at home, takes you a long way. Seems like your long way is heading towards divorce from your trick"

Kenton laughed again and finally, everything started to make sense and it scared him. He needed to get out, he needed to get away from us brother before he did something he would regret.

While rushing down the hall, Kacy could hear Kenton laugh. Harder and harder, like seeing his younger brother in such pain , was actually funny.

Once he finally got home, Kacy so badly wanted to call Karma. He needed to hear her voice, to calm him down. But he knew they weren't in the space for that.

So he called Ash and Kat.

"My whole childhood is a lie." He started off, his head down in his hands .

Kat and Ash sat on the same couch as him, gently rubbing his back. Never had they seem Kacy so upset and low. He was usually so hard and cold towards emotions but lately, everything seemed to be hitting him hard.

" Everything I thought to be true, wasn't. Everyone I looked up to and trusted, wasn't who I thought they were. The people I thought wanted to make my life a hell, wanted better for me. I don't know what's real and what's not anymore. Right now, everything feels like a lie. I need to get away for awhile to find myself. Maybe back to my home town, be around family and people who love me. "

"You are around family Kacy. And you know we all love you" Ash spoke softly.

"It's not the same no more. Everything happening so fast and for the first time in a long time, I have ta' deal with them on my own"

Kat and Ash locked eyes over Kacy and knew him getting away would be best for both him and Karma. And besides, who were they to stop him?

Kacy knew his kids would be well taken care of and even though he honestly didn't want to leave them or Karma behind, he felt like he had to.

"When do you plan on leaving?" Kat asked.

"This weekend"

"When do you plan on telling Karma?" Ash asked.

"Tomorrow morning when I pick up the kids. I'll stop by her place"

"And when the last time you spoke to her?" Both Kat and Ash wondered.

"Not since she said she'd never get back with me"

"Do you think it's best to hit her with this news? Especially with what's she's going through?" Kat asked.

"It has to be done. The kids are good with y'all until she healed up, right?"

"Of course"

"Then she won't have nothing to worry about" he shrugged off their hands.

"How long you plan on being gone?"

Kacy cleared his throat "Honestly, I don't know"