Free Another Hood Love 2 by Jontu' Page B

shoulders. “I don’t know, China. He kind of just always is there/ he gets these moments where he is jealous and says dumb shit that has me like, ‘What? Really?’” I grabbed the bags of grapes and placed them in the sink as I washed them off and placed them on the platter.
    “Is he tripping off Tone or what?” asked China while mixing the potato salad and then placing it in the freezer to chill.
    “That too, but just everything. We could be out and if a nigga looks a little too long, he’s trippin’ like, ‘Oh, you know that nigga or something?’” I shook my head as I leaned against the countertop facing China and Lexis walked in with no baby in sight. “It’s irritating because I’m used to my nigga being confident. I know hella people, niggas and bitches, so it’s hard when he gets to flexxin’ about bullshit,” I said, taking a bite from a slice of mango.
    “Who we talking about, Chris retarded ass?” Lexis asked and I nodded my head. Lexis was team Chris a few months ago but recently she had been insisting that maybe I shouldn’t place all my eggs in one basket.
    “So how you feel about Chris, Lex? I’ve only met him a couple of times so I’m not really sure how he rubs me,” China asked Lexis.
    “I don’t know. At first, he seemed hella sweet and I felt like he was good for my bitch but now I just don’t know. He seem like he controlling and not to mention how he seems like he’s envious of the attention Jae shows Baby Tone.” I shook my head because I knew that Lex was about to bring up the incident that occurred a couple weeks ago.
    A couple of weeks ago, I was having a chill night at home with Lexis, Jizz and Baby Tone. I had told Chris that he could stop through earlier that day but he really had never said whether he would or not. Tone’s mother had stopped by for a couple of hours earlier that day and after spending time, she had asked if she could start getting Baby Tone on some weekends and keep him overnight. I told her that at the moment I wasn’t comfortable with that, but maybe later on down the line it would be okay. I had nothing against Ms. Tracy but at the end of the day, I didn’t really know her that well. it had only been a couple of weeks since we had met and I just wasn’t comfortable letting my baby away from me overnight if it wasn’t with Gio or Lexis. Chris had texted and told me he was on the way so I got up and unlocked the door for him and went back into the living room, sitting back on the floor where we were all sitting around playing with Baby Tone.
    We had continued our conversation on the situation with Ms. Tracy when Chris walked in and took a seat on the couch. He dapped up Jizz and spoke to Lex as he kissed me on the cheek. I noticed he didn’t say much to Baby Tone and I decided I would talk to him about that later, once we were alone. I didn’t expect for Chris to try and be my son’s father or even take on a role as his stepfather, but I did expect them to have some kind of bond or something considering that he was the man in my life.
    I broke down to Chris my conversation with Ms. Tracy and I looked at him as he scrunched up his face. Chris felt like I was being selfish and that I was overreacting by not giving her solo time with my son. I explained that it was my child and I didn’t have to let anybody be around him that I didn’t want but one thing led to another and we ended up in a full blown argument with Chris trying to say that I babied Tone too much and that I was going to turn him into a sissy by being so overprotective. I wasn’t trying to hear shit Chris had to say because it was my child and he was not his daddy.
    In the midst of our arguing, I told Chris that his opinion didn’t matter at all because he was nobody to my son and acted like he didn’t even like him. Chris ended up saying that he didn’t have to like my child because he was in a relationship with me and wasn’t going to play stepdaddy to the next man’s