Penda is in an abusive relationship with her husband and father of her child Leonardo. True enough, she does get tired of being beaten on. She has a son, she doesn't want him to grow up thinking it's ok. She also has a daughter, she doesn't want her...
"That hurts me to even think like that!" He added. "We know Shon. I'm so sorry baby." Said his mother as she stood up and hugged him.
"I agree Shon, you might want to get a test just to be sure about everything." His grandmother suggested. Dashon nodded.
"That's what I am going to do. But regardless.... Ima be there for them. Unless she finds the father and he decides he wants to be in their life then I'll back off.. that's out of respect." Said Dashon.
To Lauren...
Lauren is driving headed over to Donald's house with the girls.
"Ma?" "Yes." "How do you have a girlfriend and boyfriend?" Lauren stayed quiet for a minute taken back about what Ari just asked her.
"Grown folks business." She replied. She knows that it ain't nobody but that damn Dashon that told them that.
They finally arrived. She turned off her engine and grabbed the twins things. She could tell that neither Ari or Bri didn't want to be here.
"Be nice please?" She said more so of asking them. They nodded but still wasn't up for it. As she walked up to the house she entered.
The twin girls spotted a brownskinned man with a long beard cuddled up with a darkskinned girl. They both were smoking but they put it out once the kids walked in.
Donald stood up to get some air freshener so it could smell more fresh in the house instead of just weed.
"These must be your girls?" Keisha guessed as Donald walked away.
"Yes." Lauren answered. "I can tell, they got your nose." She said chuckling. The girls kept a straight face.
Donald came back in the living room and sprayed some air freshener. He then sat it down on the counter once he finished.
"What's up girls? I'm Donald. What's y'all's name?" Donald jumped in.
"Arianna." "Brianna." Donald nodded.
"Lauren how you tell these two apart?" Donald questioned her. "I don't know.... I guess it's easy when you're the parent." She answered but not in a rude way.
"Well Arianna, Brianna... I got someone I want y'all to meet." Donald trialed off.
"DJ!" He yelled. "Yes sir?" They heard a little boy's voice yell. "Come here for a sec!" A few seconds later the boy came from his room and he was met with a woman and two little girls who appears to be around his age.
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(How DJ looked and how his hair was cut.)
"DJ these are your step sisters Arianna and Brianna. Also your step mama Lauren. Arianna, Brianna this is your step brother DJ. He's a junior so we call him DJ." Donald informed.
Brianna and Arianna frowned at that name. What does he mean step? "Nice to meet you DJ but Donald, you are not our step dad and DJ is not our step brother. Get that through your head." Bri sassed. Lauren hit Bri without even thinking.
"Ow!" Bri winced. "Why would you say something like that!?" "BECAUSE THAT IS NOT OUR BROTHER!" "BRIANNA CAROLINE HOWARD I DONT KNOW WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU BUT YOU BETTER LOWER YOUR VOICE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO ME!"
Bri started to cry. Ari hugged her sister. "Bri is right mom. We don't even know him like that and he already tryna claim us. I don't like this.... We want to go with dad." Ari stated.
"Mommy please... just let dad get us." Ari begged. That broke Lauren's heart. Her little girls didn't want to be around her?
"S-so you're saying you don't want to be around mommy? What did mommy do?" Lauren asked full of hurt.
"You didn't do anything. We just wish you had your own place because I don't want to be around that man." Bri spat as in if Donald wasn't even there.
"I get that baby but you have to stop being disrespectful okay sweetie?" "Yeah because none of my kids ain't disrespectful towards me so a child that ain't mine sure as hell ain't about to disrespect me!" He raised his voice a bit making everyone in the room flinch even DJ and Keisha.
"Okay see what you're not about to do is raise your voice at my girls. I am their mother. If they do something wrong that's on me to straighten them out, not you!" Lauren replied with the same force.
"She's right Donald." Keisha agreed.
Donald nodded. "Look I'm sorry aight? I just don't like disrespectful children. So in order for this to work you gone have to control your girls shawty. Especially if they gone be living up in here." Donald stated.
"We ain't wanna come here in the first place! Mom made us do this!" Ari told him. Donald shook his head.
"See what I'm saying? They still disrespectful." Donald pointed out.
"Can I go outside to have a talk with my kids?" "Yeah, go on."
"Come on girls." Lauren coached leading them out the door. Once they made it outside Lauren closed the door behind her.
"Now explain to me what was that? I told y'all to be respectful! And you turn around and do the opposite really!?"
"No disrespect ma, but we let you know from the jump that we ain't want to go. And what do you do? Take us anyway." Ari spat.
It was true, when Lauren first left with the girls, they told her that they didn't want to go.
"I am the mother, I make the decisions! It is y'all's job to listen to me! So with that being said, go in there and apologize." Lauren demanded.
"But mom-" "I. Don't. Want. To. Hear. It. Go in there and give a sincere apology now!"
Lauren opened the door for them. The two girls stood side by side. Lauren cleared her throat reminding the girls of what they were suppose to do.
"Sorry." Both of them mumbled. "What was that? He can't hear you." Said Lauren.
"Sorry." They said a little louder but it still sounded like they didn't mean it. Which they didn't.
"That don't sound sincere." Donald voiced his opinion. Ari secretly rolled her eyes.
"Sorry." They said again making it seem like they were forreal when they actually are not.
"Good, I accept y'all's apology. I'm going to bring my girls over tomorrow so y'all can meet em and get to know em. Especially since you, DJ ain't seen them in like 3 months." Donald planned out. His son nodded happy with the planning.
"Lauren show them their room so they can unpack their stuff." Donald instructed.
"Okay." Lauren replied.
"Come on Ari and Bri." The girls followed behind her. This is a place where they really don't want to be....
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Dashon was forced to give up his girls
Dashon and Penda almost do something that they might regret..
Dashon is having doubts about the twins..
The twins don't want to be with their mom.... Poor Ari & Bri 🥺💔
