Chapter 7

“OOOOOHH! Daddy, look cars!”

“Your mom told me you’d like them.”

LJ looked around his new room in his daddy’s condo. The walls were murals of himself, his dad and mom. He gazed at the mural of his mom and sat on the floor unconsciously.

“LJ, what’s wrong?”

“I wish Mommy lived here with us instead of Karen.”

SB tensed up and choked on the right words to say. He didn’t want to give him false hope about them getting back together. He looked down into the small face of his son and still couldn’t come up with words.

“LJ, don’t say stuff like that, maybe we can invite mommy over for a camping trip and feed her smore’s, alright?”

“Yay! We’ll be one big happy family.”

Happy? Ha. SB thought picking his son up off the floor and walking him down the hall to the other room.
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LJ slide down the rail & slammed right into the wall! He looked at the wall and gasp. His hand prints were on the white walls. He ran to the bathroom to wash his hands and to get his rag to clean up the wall.

“Daddy’s going to be angwee.”

He pushed open the kitchen cabinet where he had seen the maid lady put the cleaning things and grabbed a bottle of glass cleaner. He opened it and poured more than enough on his rag then ran back to the spot and began rubbing it.

“Oh! Why not clean up like the cleaner lady!”

He said beginning to cry. He slammed the rag to the floor then dropped to the floor looking up at the wall with blue and green smeared over it. I’m a be in big trouble. He listened as a door open and heard heels coming his way. He crawled towards the kitchen and climbed into one of the cabinets. He sat and listened to Karen speak on the phone.

“His son is over, so he’s being a dad with this other bitch’s baby.”

“He never said he wanted kids with me, but went and fucked this bitch. Bastard ass kid probably not even his. She just want him for his money!”

“Yes, mom. I’m just angry…. What the fuck?”

“Oh hell no this lil boy didn’t fuck up my bleached white walls and my damn white carpet with fucking paint!”

“Boy, where you at? Don’t fucking hide now!”

She took off towards the kitchen and began kicking cabinets several times! LJ pushed open the cabinet and ran into the dining room and under the table. Karen stopped and took off after him dropping her phone & purse.

“Come here boy!”

“No!”

“Getcho ass out from under there!”

“NO!”

Karen reached under the table and snatched him up. She pulled him to the spot he messed up and forced him to look at it. She held his head up with one hand and his body still with the other. He started crying again trying to fight out of her grip, but she tightened up every time he moved.

“You see what you did to my fucking wall.”

“You see it boy!”

“Do you fucking see it!”

She pushed him forward into the wall and began spanking him. He cried and kicked for his mom and dad. Safaree came running down the stairs from his office to see Karen disciplining him. He hurried over and pulled his son from her grip.

“Yo what the fuck is your problem?”

“He’s my fucking problem! Look at the fucking wall!”

“So what? He’s a child!”

“That needs to be taught right & fucking wrong!”

“Yo don’t ever put your hands on him a fucking gain!”

SB snarled at her then walked out comforting LJ. He looked in his sons sad eyes and got pissed all over again. What the fuck is her problem with my damn son? He turned into LJ’s room and laid him on his bed then picked some clothes out for him. He mumbled to himself as he looked through his things.

“LJ, get up for me and get undressed.”

SB sat on his chair and waited for LJ who looked to be in pain. He pulled him over and looked at his body which had marks on it.

‘KAREN IN HERE NOW!”

“Yo LJ?”

“Yes.”

“What she do?”

“Her hold me tight and tighter then push me on the wall and slap my butt a thousand times. Mommy never do that before.”

He frowned looking up at his father. SB was enraged and stood up nearly knocking LJ over. He picked him up and went into the kitchen. He shook his head.

“Karen yo! Look what the fuck you did to his fucking skin! Over a fucking wall yo? Like you act like he fucking robbed someone or something!”

He walked towards the wall and punched it repeatedly then kicked it. He pointed at LJ and then to the wall. LJ ran to the wall and kicked it then began laughing falling back onto his father’s legs.

“That’s how I feel about that fucking wall! Don’t ever putcho fucking hands on my damn son like that again. I’ll have your ass picking up your fucking teeth with your feet and that’s a promise!”

He picked his son up and left her in the kitchen looking stupid. He has never fucking talk to me in his life like that. I need to get rid of this fucking kid and that bitch.