Its been four months now, and today is the day that i’ll finally be going back home, to Chicago. I know I was only supposed to say a month, but a month turned into two, and well .. y’all know the rest. My life here in Miami has been everything I’d ever dreamed of. The first few weeks there he stocked my closets with stuff that I needed and even wanted. He took me on shopping sprees every other weekend, buying everything I picked up. Ace made sure he showed me a good time, he even invited me to bring the girls back the next time I come. Ace made sure he got my transcripts from my school back in Chicago and I finished school got my high school Diploma here. He even made sure I had a personal driver to take me to every single one of my doctor appointments and attended the ones that he could. He took care of me like I was his wife here, and it was honestly everything I deserved. I made sure to tell him how thankful I was everyday.
But, the time that I spent with him I couldn't help but to think that this was supposed to be me and Chris. Somewhere no one else was, just to getaway from the pain. I’ve had a hard life before I came here and Chris was supposed to be the one to help me take the pain away.. or so I thought. Instead he just made things more difficult for me. I facetimed Tia and Tinly every night that I was here and made sure they were at home ion the bed. But, I still didn't talk to Chris. They told me it was several times he popped up at the house asking for me, but they told him I wasn't there. I had talked to Ty a few times while I was here as well just to keep him up on everything that was happening and he promised he wouldn't tell Chris where I was. I really wanted him to think that I dropped off the face of the earth, since that’s probably what he wanted me to do anyway.
“Ma’am” I felt someone shaking me and I opened my eyes blinking a few times.
“Your flight has landed” She continued. I sent her a soft smile and got up.
I wobbled off the plane and into the baggage claim area. It was hard for me to try to carry all of my luggage considering I’m due any day now, but I retrieved my bags and went to get my car keys, since Id left my car here. I smiled at the lady as she handed me my keys and told me how to pay my bill online, as if I didn't know that already. No one knew I was coming home today, I wanted it to be a surprise. I turned on some soft music since everything else hurt my ears now as I rode smoothly home. Riding up the street I felt a bit scared, I’m not sure for what though. The space where I usually park was opened and I smiled, feeling a little at home. I walked up to the front door, unlocking everything and I walked in.
“Anyone here” I asked but nothing.
I walked through the house and to my room. Everything was just how I left it. I crept down the basement steps and turned the lights on.
“SURPRISE” Everyone yelled and I covered my face almost falling back but a strong pair of arms caught me. I stood up but holding on to the wall while opening my eyes. I turned around and it was ace. I cried softly in his arms while everybody “Awww’d”.
“How did y’all know” I said wiping my face.
“Wait...I’m having a girl” I said looking at the table again and the tears started flowing once more. I mentioned to Ace that I didn't ant to know the sex of the baby, I wanted to have a gender release party but that was the first and last time I brought it up.
The twins ran over and hugged me so tight. I must say, within these last four months, they’ve gotten so big. I looked around it was Sade, Mesha, Amber, Mama J, Mama T, Ty, Mijo, Austin, My Aunt, and one familiar face. I walked up to each and every one of them hugging them one by one. Silently crying, I missed them all so much.
“You've gotten so big” Mama J said rubbing my belly and I nodded in agreement.
“Now you know we have a lot to talk about” Mama T said and I simply nodded.
“You knew and didn't give me a hint or nothing” I said slightly punching Ty and bringing him in for a hug.
“It was a surprise lil sis, all for you” Austin said and I hugged him and Mijo.
“I missed hanging with my dawgs so much yo” I said
“Man shit ain’t been he same without you” Ty aid rubbing his head and i already knew something was wrong.
“Where’s Chr-” I started to say but Tia was pulling my arm.
“Ash ace wants you” She said and pulled me to him.
“Yes” I said and he smiled.
“How did you pull all this off” I asked.
“I’ll tell you letter” He whispered in my ear and brought me over to the cake.
“Time to cut the cake” Mama T yelled and all of my close family members gathered around me. It felt so good to be around family again. I looked arond and everyone had their phones out and I thought to myself, Ive never seen people so excited to eat cake before.
“The baby carriage on top is your personal piece” He stated and picked it up.
“Close your eyes” He said and I did just that. I waited a few seconds before I opened my eyes and screamed when I did.
Ace was on one knee with this beautiful ring in front of my face.
“Baby I know some may say this is too early, or the time may not be right, but im in love with you and have been since i first met you. These past few months has been everything to me and I just want to know, Ashlynn will you marry me?”
“Christopher Brown” the guards called out.
“Fuck y’all want” I spat. They came to unlock my gate and put me into cuffs into cuffs as they guided me into the cafe.
“Man whats up” Dro said as I sat at the table with him.
“Shit man i’m ready to get out” I replied shaking my head
“You got like ten more days don’t you” He asked and I nodded.
I’ve been in this piece of shit ass jail for 50 days, my 60 days will be up in exactly ten days from now. Im in here all because of a deal gone wrong. All those niggas had to do was give me my money and I wouldn't have went down for armed robbery. The only reason I only got 60 days was because they had no evidence that I was there. They would have never known if I was speeding from the scene, and they pulled me over after that.
Life for me has been great. I’m at the top of the drug game now, getting ready to take my pops position since he said he’s getting too old for this. Many people disagree since they've been in the game longer than I have, but I don’t give a fuck. The fast money has gotten me to move out of my mom house, and to well furnished apartment of two bedrooms. The fast money has also brought my hoes back, although some never left. I found out shortly after Ash disappeared that Crystal really wasn’t pregnant she was just trying to keep me around. And lets just say I made her disappear.
Speaking of Ash, she think I don’t know that she moved to Miami with Ace. But my homeboy Dro used to move weight with Ace and that was like his right hand man. Long story short, Dro and Ace got into some bullshit back here and Ace took flight without letting anybody know. According to Dro, he got some shit set up for him when he gets out, which will probably be in a few years. When I found out Ash went with Ace, I set up a private investigator to go all the way to Miami, track her down, just to see where she was. The second week she was ‘missing’ I had that happen. Part of me wants to believe she wanted me to come look for her just because she left the location on her phone on, the other half is still clueless as to why she would up and leave being pregnant with my child and not telling me. It even makes me question if the baby is really mine? I shook those thoughts and focused on me coming home.
“So you trying to take your mans out together or what” I told Dro
“Man I don’t know, this is kind of a one man job” He shrugged
“Man I need some kind of revenge on that nigga, he took my babymama away from me” I said and continued
“Look if we take this nigga out together, when you get out you’ll have a permanent spot on my team” Dro simply nodded his head
“Let me think on it” After he said that I gto up from the table and moved around.
“Man I heard it was some old niggas in here punking you” Bliz laughed.
“Man you know these niggas in here know better” I mugged. I looked back up at Bliz and he had a smirk on his face.
“Man what you say” I heard a guy yell from behind me. I did a dark chuckle and stood up. As soon as I was about to throw the first punch, I felt blood tickled down from the back of my neck. It was my reflex to put my hand where the blood was coming from has I fell slowly loosing conscious.
“BROWN DOWN, BROWN DOWN” Was the last thing I heard.