The
Story of Us
by
Candace Mumford
“ Baby do you think am I getting big?Tell the truth.” Jazzlyn asked standing in the mirror looking at herself.
Tyson looked Jazzlyn over appreciatively.
“ No... but your titties and ass look bigger. My baby is making you look even better. Also, don't add in tell the truth next time. Men know that's an automatic trap.”Tyson said laughing.
“ When are we going to be able to see the baby?” Jazzlyn said anxiously rubbing her still flat stomach.
“ Well you're three months now so it shouldn't be long baby. Where are you going today? You have me over here looking at you. Now I want some. Besides... I think we should be increasing the sex because pretty soon you'll be too big...I don't know how that whole sex with a big pregnant belly thing works. I've never done it before! Then when baby gets here we're going to be up all night...,” all of a sudden Tyson found himself frowning. “I hope we have a baby that likes to sleep instead of one that wants to holler all night.”
“ Tyson if your ass don't shut up right now! You're sounding real crazy you know that?”Jazzlyn said unable to stop herself from laughing. “ I need to finish getting ready your mom and sister will be here pretty soon.”
Jazzlyn and Tyson's mother and sisters Brianna and Nicole had a special girls day planned. Jazzlyn was secretly excited more than she was letting on. For the last month and a half things had been going downhill fast with her own family.
Tyson and Jazzlyn had been inseparable since the fundraiser event. They'd spent the early part of that night hashing out their differences and Jazzlyn told him about the baby. They spent the remainder of the night making love. The morning after, Jazzlyn's mother called her over for a family meeting where everyone was asked to pitch in money to pay an expensive lawyer to defend Rashad. Jazzlyn had refused. She'd definitely planned on telling them about her and Tyson reconciling... and of course the baby but when they started the attack on “ that white man” as they loved to refer to Tyson,she'd had enough.
Jazzlyn informed her family then and there she was expecting, in love and basically to get over it. Needless to say that conversation didn't go over well. Her mother downright refused to speak to her. Jazzlyn remembered the entire night and following day as if it had happened yesterday.
The party was still going on but Tyson and Jazzlyn were oblivious to what was going on in any other part of the hotel. Their thoughts weren't on the charity event,Sherica or Jevon, no one else...the only person they were allowing into their mental circle tonight was their unborn child.
Tyson and Jazzlyn spent the remaining hours of the night renewing their commitment to one another in every way possible. Verbally,mentally and physically.
" I'm happy about our baby Jazzlyn." Tyson said pulling Jazzlyn closer." I can't lie. It's not exactly going in the order I thought it would." Tyson said laughing" I wouldn't change anything though. As crazy as that sounds since it brought us to this moment right here." Tyson said leaning down to kiss Jazzlyn.
Laughing Jazzlyn said " I'd change some things...I've been so stressed out Tyson you can't even imagine. Just on top of everything else, last week finding out about the baby...then when you came over today saying you didn't want anything else to do with me, I didn't know what to do. I was going to put my notice in at the start of the month and just break my lease and move. That was going to be too much to handle." Jazzlyn said softly.
" I'm sorry you went through that by yourself Jazzlyn. Finding out you're having a baby should be good news. Not something that made you feel miserable."
" It's OK. How could you have known? I wasn't miserable when I found out Tyson. I've still been happy. We pretty much thought we were covered. It happened anyway. I'm seeing our baby as a blessing. It's just crazy because the day everything happened we were talking about the future,what our baby would look like, all of that and now it's happening."Jazzlyn said smiling.
" Speaking of that...who can we sue about this? I mean hell, I thought the odds of you getting pregnant on the shot were slim to none!" Tyson said raising up in the bed.
" Tyson please! The only thing 100% effective is not doing it at all...neither of us was going to stick to that." Jazzlyn said laughing.
" We have a lot to talk about baby. You already know how I feel Jazzlyn. You know I love you. I'm in love with you and the fact you're carrying my baby isn't making me say any of this. It's important to me that our baby doesn't spend one day on this earth and her parents aren't all in...the day my daughter leaves the hospital we need to all have the same last name. We need to all be under one roof.
I'm not knocking anyone else and their situations. I'm not judging other people. This is just what's important to me,for my family." Tyson said looking at Jazzlyn.
" I understand baby. That's what I want for us too Tyson." Jazzlyn said rubbing her hands over Tyson's chest." I want our families to come together as well but my first priority is my child's family. Making sure we're on the right path. I'm not worried about anything else. Especially since I know none of the conflict was brought on by you. My brother was totally in the wrong.
I'll even say it again Tyson, I can't apologize enough for the way I treated you that day and the hateful words that came out of my mouth. I still need to speak with your sister about what happened that day. I can't even imagine how she must have felt with him running his damn mouth the way he did. I could kick his ass my damn self."Jazzlyn said rolling her eyes.
" Guess what?" Jazzlyn said bursting out laughing. " You know the girl he was with Tamika?"
"Yeah?"
" How about she said to me " Tell Rashad not to call me anymore! How Rashad starting some mess and getting his ass whupped?" Jazzlyn said mimicking Tamika" If I wasn't so upset with the entire situation I would have died laughing!"
Tyson joined her in laughing." It was a mess all right. I don't even want to think about that day right now." Tyson said rubbing his hands over her belly. " I love you a hundred times more than I did few hours ago." Tyson said slowly kissing her neck. Seductively, placing small kisses along her jawline until he found her mouth for another kiss." Why ?" Jazzlyn asked breathless.
" Because you're having my baby."
***
A few hours later Jazzlyn arrived at her parents home.
" Mommy! I'm here ." Jazzlyn called out.
" We're in the den Jazzlyn come on back."
Jazzlyn went to the kitchen and poured herself some iced tea first. Damn I'm hungry too she thought grabbing a few cookies out of the jar before she went into the family room.
" Hey Daddy." Jazzlyn said leaning over to give her dad a kiss," So what's going on that we're having a family meeting? Hi Rashad,Antonio...y'all can't speak?" Jazzlyn said popping a cookie into her mouth.
" Well we needed to have a family meeting. Now we're here because we have to come together as a family to get these charges that white man has against your brother dropped. I want that mess done and over with! I don't want a thing on your brothers record you hear me? Not a smudge on your brothers record." Jazzlyns mother said pointing at all of them.
" Now your father and I have contacted a lawyer who we think can help your brother get these charges dropped... but he's pricey. We all need to pitch in financially to help Rashad." Jazzlyn's mother said with her father agreeing.
" I really appreciate this everyone! Things are a little rough money wise for me right now trying to get my promotion company off the ground. This is something I really don't need weighing on me right now." Rashad said grinning.
" Well Rashad if you didn't need any of this trouble why did you start it? Not to mention you have a degree in public relations yet are choosing to pass out flyers for club events...so you choose not to make the money you could be making. You've turned down three high paying jobs in the last year. Who turns down good paying jobs in a bad economy?” Jazzlyn asked.
" Mommy and daddy I can't believe you two are even considering putting yourselves through a lot of expense paying a lawyer when Rashad was clearly,clearly in the wrong." Jazzlyn said.
" I can't believe you Jazzlyn!" Antonio said.
" No. Hear me out." Jazzlyn said turning to Rashad.
" Now Rashad you know I love you more than anything. I appreciate the fact that you thought you were defending my honor but the reality of the situation is this...you didn't know what the hell you were talking about. Period." Jazzlyn said.
" See mama and daddy this white boy done got in her head already and got her turning her back on her own family!" Antonio said jumping up,pacing the room.
" I am not turning my back on anyone! What about Rashad taking responsibility for his actions?"
" You know what Jazzlyn... I'm really hurt behind this." Rashad said piping up in the background.
" I'm hurt as well. That white man doesn't have anything to do with this family. We have to think about Rashad right now. You mean to tell me at this stage of your life you don't know it's family first Jazzlyn ?" her father Charles asked.
" Daddy come on now. Of course I know that. What's done is done though. It was brought on by Rashad. Rashad was the aggressor in the incident with Tyson. His name is Tyson by the way please call him by his name!"
" Wait just a goddamn minute....Jazzlyn you aren't still seeing that man are you?" Dionne said standing up and placing her hands on her hips.
" Mommy yes I am . We worked out our differences and we're back together. In all honesty we didn't have any differences other than me jumping to conclusions about what happened between him and Rashad."
" Jazzlyn I can't believe you! You can not be the daughter I raised. Lord have mercy! Lord this can't be the child I raised!" Jazzlyn's mother said starting to cry and waving her hands to heaven.
" Look Tyson is a part of my life. Everyone is going to need to except that and deal with it OK." Jazzlyn said standing up to leave.
" Let me tell you something." Jazzlyn said pointing to Rashad." The day you started this entire mess with Tyson, had you just said hello to him, Tyson would have introduced you to Nicole his sister. Trust me when I say... I know all about jumping to conclusions about that with Tyson. The difference with me is that I never felt like I had the right to approach him in public, name calling and putting hands on folks." Jazzlyn said.
"I've already told mommy about Tyson's upbringing,the black woman you saw Tyson eating with that day is his sister. No more no less. There is a lot I could say about his upbringing but all you need to know is this. Tyson was adopted by a black family when he was three years old. Tyson has two sisters actually, both black. His father who died four years ago....black and his mother is black. They are his family. I'm not going to let you all sit here and try to paint him as some racist white man out to get your son when that is not what happened. Even Tamika who was with you..," Jazzlyn said pointing to Rashad " said you started the entire incident. Jazzlyn said.
Antonio and Rashad both stood there speechless.
" A white man with an all black family? What in the damn hell? We don't give a damn! That don't give him no pass. His ass ain’t black and it's been nothing but trouble since he came around here." Rashad said.
"Well here's the deal, and I'm not going to say another word about it unless everyone is willing to be reasonable and rational. I love every one of you. I shouldn't even have to tell you that but I will. I love Tyson too. That isn't going away anytime soon and I wouldn't want it to go away. I love him. I am in love with him and very soon he's the man I want to marry. Also this coming December he's going to be the father of your grandchild ." Jazzlyn said pointing to her parents "...and your niece or nephew." Jazzlyn said pointing to her brothers.
" I just hope this family is ready for two more people because one is here and the other one is coming and he or she is a part of all of us. I'm leaving now. I can't really deal with this anymore." Jazzlyn said walking out of the family room and out the door.
Jazzlyn's mother fell back in her chair " Oh Charles! "
" Don't Charles me right now! My baby is over here pregnant with this white mans baby! You should have been talking to your daughter more about safe sex...shit no sex, and especially not no damn sex with a white man!" Charles said rubbing his head.
" Aww damn! Pregnant? We ain’t never getting rid of his white ass now!" Antonio said.
" Well I know his white ass better get these charges dropped on me. His ass over here done got my sister pregnant!" Rashad yelled.
“ Jazzlyn, I'm so serious baby come here, what I want ain't gonna take long. I promise.” Tyson said smiling.
Jazzlyn looked over at Tyson and immediately put the nastiness of that day behind her.
“ Don't look at me with those dimples! You are so nasty Tyson! I just said your family is on the way!”
“ I know I'm nasty. You like it too. They can wait. They're not gonna want to come all the way up here anyways. They'll call you to come down. So come here.” Tyson said motioning to her bed.
Jazzlyn walked over to the bed cautiously.
“ Tyson I know your ass... your quickies are like forty-five minutes we don't have time!” Tyson grabbed her wrists and pulled her onto the bed on her back and before Jazzlyn knew it Tyson was making a slow descent down her thighs and slowly removing her panties. Tyson then spread Jazzlyns thighs, “ Don't be gone all day baby because we have unfinished business when you get home. This will have to do for now.” Tyson said.
Story of Us
by
Candace Mumford
“ Baby do you think am I getting big?Tell the truth.” Jazzlyn asked standing in the mirror looking at herself.
Tyson looked Jazzlyn over appreciatively.
“ No... but your titties and ass look bigger. My baby is making you look even better. Also, don't add in tell the truth next time. Men know that's an automatic trap.”Tyson said laughing.
“ When are we going to be able to see the baby?” Jazzlyn said anxiously rubbing her still flat stomach.
“ Well you're three months now so it shouldn't be long baby. Where are you going today? You have me over here looking at you. Now I want some. Besides... I think we should be increasing the sex because pretty soon you'll be too big...I don't know how that whole sex with a big pregnant belly thing works. I've never done it before! Then when baby gets here we're going to be up all night...,” all of a sudden Tyson found himself frowning. “I hope we have a baby that likes to sleep instead of one that wants to holler all night.”
“ Tyson if your ass don't shut up right now! You're sounding real crazy you know that?”Jazzlyn said unable to stop herself from laughing. “ I need to finish getting ready your mom and sister will be here pretty soon.”
Jazzlyn and Tyson's mother and sisters Brianna and Nicole had a special girls day planned. Jazzlyn was secretly excited more than she was letting on. For the last month and a half things had been going downhill fast with her own family.
Tyson and Jazzlyn had been inseparable since the fundraiser event. They'd spent the early part of that night hashing out their differences and Jazzlyn told him about the baby. They spent the remainder of the night making love. The morning after, Jazzlyn's mother called her over for a family meeting where everyone was asked to pitch in money to pay an expensive lawyer to defend Rashad. Jazzlyn had refused. She'd definitely planned on telling them about her and Tyson reconciling... and of course the baby but when they started the attack on “ that white man” as they loved to refer to Tyson,she'd had enough.
Jazzlyn informed her family then and there she was expecting, in love and basically to get over it. Needless to say that conversation didn't go over well. Her mother downright refused to speak to her. Jazzlyn remembered the entire night and following day as if it had happened yesterday.
The party was still going on but Tyson and Jazzlyn were oblivious to what was going on in any other part of the hotel. Their thoughts weren't on the charity event,Sherica or Jevon, no one else...the only person they were allowing into their mental circle tonight was their unborn child.
Tyson and Jazzlyn spent the remaining hours of the night renewing their commitment to one another in every way possible. Verbally,mentally and physically.
" I'm happy about our baby Jazzlyn." Tyson said pulling Jazzlyn closer." I can't lie. It's not exactly going in the order I thought it would." Tyson said laughing" I wouldn't change anything though. As crazy as that sounds since it brought us to this moment right here." Tyson said leaning down to kiss Jazzlyn.
Laughing Jazzlyn said " I'd change some things...I've been so stressed out Tyson you can't even imagine. Just on top of everything else, last week finding out about the baby...then when you came over today saying you didn't want anything else to do with me, I didn't know what to do. I was going to put my notice in at the start of the month and just break my lease and move. That was going to be too much to handle." Jazzlyn said softly.
" I'm sorry you went through that by yourself Jazzlyn. Finding out you're having a baby should be good news. Not something that made you feel miserable."
" It's OK. How could you have known? I wasn't miserable when I found out Tyson. I've still been happy. We pretty much thought we were covered. It happened anyway. I'm seeing our baby as a blessing. It's just crazy because the day everything happened we were talking about the future,what our baby would look like, all of that and now it's happening."Jazzlyn said smiling.
" Speaking of that...who can we sue about this? I mean hell, I thought the odds of you getting pregnant on the shot were slim to none!" Tyson said raising up in the bed.
" Tyson please! The only thing 100% effective is not doing it at all...neither of us was going to stick to that." Jazzlyn said laughing.
" We have a lot to talk about baby. You already know how I feel Jazzlyn. You know I love you. I'm in love with you and the fact you're carrying my baby isn't making me say any of this. It's important to me that our baby doesn't spend one day on this earth and her parents aren't all in...the day my daughter leaves the hospital we need to all have the same last name. We need to all be under one roof.
I'm not knocking anyone else and their situations. I'm not judging other people. This is just what's important to me,for my family." Tyson said looking at Jazzlyn.
" I understand baby. That's what I want for us too Tyson." Jazzlyn said rubbing her hands over Tyson's chest." I want our families to come together as well but my first priority is my child's family. Making sure we're on the right path. I'm not worried about anything else. Especially since I know none of the conflict was brought on by you. My brother was totally in the wrong.
I'll even say it again Tyson, I can't apologize enough for the way I treated you that day and the hateful words that came out of my mouth. I still need to speak with your sister about what happened that day. I can't even imagine how she must have felt with him running his damn mouth the way he did. I could kick his ass my damn self."Jazzlyn said rolling her eyes.
" Guess what?" Jazzlyn said bursting out laughing. " You know the girl he was with Tamika?"
"Yeah?"
" How about she said to me " Tell Rashad not to call me anymore! How Rashad starting some mess and getting his ass whupped?" Jazzlyn said mimicking Tamika" If I wasn't so upset with the entire situation I would have died laughing!"
Tyson joined her in laughing." It was a mess all right. I don't even want to think about that day right now." Tyson said rubbing his hands over her belly. " I love you a hundred times more than I did few hours ago." Tyson said slowly kissing her neck. Seductively, placing small kisses along her jawline until he found her mouth for another kiss." Why ?" Jazzlyn asked breathless.
" Because you're having my baby."
***
A few hours later Jazzlyn arrived at her parents home.
" Mommy! I'm here ." Jazzlyn called out.
" We're in the den Jazzlyn come on back."
Jazzlyn went to the kitchen and poured herself some iced tea first. Damn I'm hungry too she thought grabbing a few cookies out of the jar before she went into the family room.
" Hey Daddy." Jazzlyn said leaning over to give her dad a kiss," So what's going on that we're having a family meeting? Hi Rashad,Antonio...y'all can't speak?" Jazzlyn said popping a cookie into her mouth.
" Well we needed to have a family meeting. Now we're here because we have to come together as a family to get these charges that white man has against your brother dropped. I want that mess done and over with! I don't want a thing on your brothers record you hear me? Not a smudge on your brothers record." Jazzlyns mother said pointing at all of them.
" Now your father and I have contacted a lawyer who we think can help your brother get these charges dropped... but he's pricey. We all need to pitch in financially to help Rashad." Jazzlyn's mother said with her father agreeing.
" I really appreciate this everyone! Things are a little rough money wise for me right now trying to get my promotion company off the ground. This is something I really don't need weighing on me right now." Rashad said grinning.
" Well Rashad if you didn't need any of this trouble why did you start it? Not to mention you have a degree in public relations yet are choosing to pass out flyers for club events...so you choose not to make the money you could be making. You've turned down three high paying jobs in the last year. Who turns down good paying jobs in a bad economy?” Jazzlyn asked.
" Mommy and daddy I can't believe you two are even considering putting yourselves through a lot of expense paying a lawyer when Rashad was clearly,clearly in the wrong." Jazzlyn said.
" I can't believe you Jazzlyn!" Antonio said.
" No. Hear me out." Jazzlyn said turning to Rashad.
" Now Rashad you know I love you more than anything. I appreciate the fact that you thought you were defending my honor but the reality of the situation is this...you didn't know what the hell you were talking about. Period." Jazzlyn said.
" See mama and daddy this white boy done got in her head already and got her turning her back on her own family!" Antonio said jumping up,pacing the room.
" I am not turning my back on anyone! What about Rashad taking responsibility for his actions?"
" You know what Jazzlyn... I'm really hurt behind this." Rashad said piping up in the background.
" I'm hurt as well. That white man doesn't have anything to do with this family. We have to think about Rashad right now. You mean to tell me at this stage of your life you don't know it's family first Jazzlyn ?" her father Charles asked.
" Daddy come on now. Of course I know that. What's done is done though. It was brought on by Rashad. Rashad was the aggressor in the incident with Tyson. His name is Tyson by the way please call him by his name!"
" Wait just a goddamn minute....Jazzlyn you aren't still seeing that man are you?" Dionne said standing up and placing her hands on her hips.
" Mommy yes I am . We worked out our differences and we're back together. In all honesty we didn't have any differences other than me jumping to conclusions about what happened between him and Rashad."
" Jazzlyn I can't believe you! You can not be the daughter I raised. Lord have mercy! Lord this can't be the child I raised!" Jazzlyn's mother said starting to cry and waving her hands to heaven.
" Look Tyson is a part of my life. Everyone is going to need to except that and deal with it OK." Jazzlyn said standing up to leave.
" Let me tell you something." Jazzlyn said pointing to Rashad." The day you started this entire mess with Tyson, had you just said hello to him, Tyson would have introduced you to Nicole his sister. Trust me when I say... I know all about jumping to conclusions about that with Tyson. The difference with me is that I never felt like I had the right to approach him in public, name calling and putting hands on folks." Jazzlyn said.
"I've already told mommy about Tyson's upbringing,the black woman you saw Tyson eating with that day is his sister. No more no less. There is a lot I could say about his upbringing but all you need to know is this. Tyson was adopted by a black family when he was three years old. Tyson has two sisters actually, both black. His father who died four years ago....black and his mother is black. They are his family. I'm not going to let you all sit here and try to paint him as some racist white man out to get your son when that is not what happened. Even Tamika who was with you..," Jazzlyn said pointing to Rashad " said you started the entire incident. Jazzlyn said.
Antonio and Rashad both stood there speechless.
" A white man with an all black family? What in the damn hell? We don't give a damn! That don't give him no pass. His ass ain’t black and it's been nothing but trouble since he came around here." Rashad said.
"Well here's the deal, and I'm not going to say another word about it unless everyone is willing to be reasonable and rational. I love every one of you. I shouldn't even have to tell you that but I will. I love Tyson too. That isn't going away anytime soon and I wouldn't want it to go away. I love him. I am in love with him and very soon he's the man I want to marry. Also this coming December he's going to be the father of your grandchild ." Jazzlyn said pointing to her parents "...and your niece or nephew." Jazzlyn said pointing to her brothers.
" I just hope this family is ready for two more people because one is here and the other one is coming and he or she is a part of all of us. I'm leaving now. I can't really deal with this anymore." Jazzlyn said walking out of the family room and out the door.
Jazzlyn's mother fell back in her chair " Oh Charles! "
" Don't Charles me right now! My baby is over here pregnant with this white mans baby! You should have been talking to your daughter more about safe sex...shit no sex, and especially not no damn sex with a white man!" Charles said rubbing his head.
" Aww damn! Pregnant? We ain’t never getting rid of his white ass now!" Antonio said.
" Well I know his white ass better get these charges dropped on me. His ass over here done got my sister pregnant!" Rashad yelled.
“ Jazzlyn, I'm so serious baby come here, what I want ain't gonna take long. I promise.” Tyson said smiling.
Jazzlyn looked over at Tyson and immediately put the nastiness of that day behind her.
“ Don't look at me with those dimples! You are so nasty Tyson! I just said your family is on the way!”
“ I know I'm nasty. You like it too. They can wait. They're not gonna want to come all the way up here anyways. They'll call you to come down. So come here.” Tyson said motioning to her bed.
Jazzlyn walked over to the bed cautiously.
“ Tyson I know your ass... your quickies are like forty-five minutes we don't have time!” Tyson grabbed her wrists and pulled her onto the bed on her back and before Jazzlyn knew it Tyson was making a slow descent down her thighs and slowly removing her panties. Tyson then spread Jazzlyns thighs, “ Don't be gone all day baby because we have unfinished business when you get home. This will have to do for now.” Tyson said.
