"Alright." Nicki stood after tying Cadence's shoe. "What do you say?"
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." She smiled. "Safaree!"
"Yeah?" He laughed as he walked into the room with MacKenzie hanging onto his leg while holding Sebastian upside down.
"Can you stop playing? Its time to go."
"We ready." He placed Sebastian on the floor. She rolled her eyes and snatched her keys off the table.
"Lets go then." She said.
"Just one second. I gotta-"
"Seriously?" She stared at him blankly. "We'll be in the car."
After getting the kids into the car she got into the passengers side. She looked at her phone in hopes that the kids would catch the hint to stop calling her name to tell on one another. She wanted to do a simple back to school shopping trip but she knew that was not a possibility. Nicki placed her hand on the horn and let it stay until Safaree came walking out. He walked past the car and to the area where his bikes were.
"What are you doing?" She opened her door and asked.
"Riding."
"Nobody has time for that, Safaree."
"Yo-"
"Don't make this difficult. We both know how its gonna end." They stared at each other until he began pulling off his padding. She closed her door and smiled.
"Mommy?" MacKenzie said.
"Yes?"
"Are we still gonna get ice cream?"
"Yup."
"Yay!" MacKenzie and MacCadence screamed.
"Only if everyone acts right." Nicki said.
"And doesn't get on your nerves?" Cadence asked.
"Yup. That includes Daddy." She side eyed him as he got into the drivers seat.
"Am I gonna get stuff, mommy?" Cadence asked.
"Not today, Kay. We're just gonna get Bash and Kenzie what they need for school and I'll take you out later. Ok?"
"Ok."
"Mommy?" MacKenzie said.
"Yes?"
"I'm a big girl cause I getta go to school with big kids and learn and play and stuff."
"Yup." Nicki said.
"Am I a big girl?" Cadence asked.
"Nope." MacKenzie answered before Nicki could. "You're a baby."
"Am not!" Cadence said angrily.
"You can't go to school."
"Shut up."
"Don't tell your sister to shut up, Cadence." MacKenzie stuck her tongue out at her sister. "And stop picking with her, MacKenzie, cause you the first to cry when she calls you one."
"Nini?" A quiet voice spoke.
"Yes, Bash?"
"Are we still going to the game store?"
"I'm gone take you later on." Safaree said.
"Ok."
"Where is Micaiah?" Nicki asked Safaree.
"With his friends." Safaree said as he kept his eyes on the road.
"With what friends?"
"I ain't ask." He shrugged.
"That's something that we need to know, Safaree."
"He's going back to school shopping with friends. Nothing bad can happen."
"You don't know that."
"You always think the worst or don't trust him before he even proves to be untrustworthy."
"You don't get it." She shook her head.
"If you wanna run behind him for the next fours years, go right ahead. I'm not."
She rolled her eyes and mumbled under her breath while texting her son. He shook his head. He knew exactly why she wanted to make everything into an arguement. He wished that she would just say what she was feeling instead of nitpicking about every little thing.
Hours later they found themselves in a shoe store. This was to be there last stop of the day. It was taking much longer than expected because Safaree convinced Nicki to shop for Cadence as well as the other two. She agreed knowing that he would be no help to her. This would have been fine if MacCadence didn't have a weirdly sized foot. She couldn't fit the half or whole sizes in any of the shoes she wanted which were all the same shoes as her older sister.
"How does this one feel?" Nicki asked.
"Like hurt."
"It hurts?" MacCadence nodded. "And the other one was too big?" She nodded again. "Well, maybe you just don't need these Cadence."
"But I want them." She whined.
"You can't fit them. Find a different shoe that you like and-"
"I want this one." She stomped her foot and pouted.
"Safaree!" Nicki called out.
"Yeah?" He looked up from his phone.
"Could you like... I don't know... Get off your phone and deal with this?"
"What?"
"Explain to her why she can't have these. I'm over it. Cause if she stomps her foot at me like that again, believe me when I say she won't be able to walk." Nicki rolled her eyes and walked to where Sebastian was.
"You got everything you wanted, Bash?" She asked.
"Yes."
"You sure?"
"Mmmhmm." He smiled.
"Ok." She smiled. Sebastian was a man of few words but Nicki appreciated it because her biological children wouldn't stop talking.
"Cadence, come here!" Nicki heard MacKenzie's voice and followed her eyes to it.
She was stood in front of the stores big picture window and making faces at the paparazzi. Nicki sighed. She knew that if any of her kids were to take the same path as her in life it would be MacKenzie. Nicki was annoyed by the paparazzi but her strange obsession with fame was passed along to her daughter. MacKenzie was fearless. There was no camera or stage that she was afraid of.
"No." Nicki said. "Cadence, you whined about the shoes so go get them. MacKenzie, come here."
"Yes, mommy?" MacKenzie looked at her feet.
"What did I tell you before?"
"Not to pay attention to them." She looked at Nicki. "But they keep following us so I made faces so they would leave."
Nicki laughed lightly, "Lemme see the face."MacKenzie screwed up her face and looked just like Nicki. Nicki laughed hysterically and MacKenzie followed suit.
"Mommy, look!" Cadence said.
"Excuse me?" Nicki looked at her.
"Look at my shoes, mommy!"
"Mommy?"
"You're silly, mommy." She laughed.
"I don't have any kids." She stepped away from her.
"Mommy, look at my shoes." Cadence whined.
"Stop calling me that."
"Mommy." She frowned and stepped towards her and Nicki stepped back.
"Security!" Nicki laughed.
"Mommy!" She cried and fell to the ground.
"Aw, baby." Nicki extended her hand to her.
"No!" She cried and folded her arms before turning away.
"I got her." Safaree picked her up and she rested her head on his shoulder. "You must've volunteered to play bad guy today."
She rolled her eyes and rubbed Cadence's back.
"I was just playing, baby. Mommy loves you." Cadence buried her face into Safaree's chest and he laughed.
"You get on my nerves." She said.
"Nah, you mad at yourself. Hurting this precious baby's feelings." He rubbed her back and her head popped up.
"I not a baby, daddy. I'm a big girl like Kenzie cept I don't go to school but I don't pee on myself like Lexi. She's a baby. I'm not." He looked over her serious face before smiling.
"Will you be my baby? I'll buy you ice cream and barbies." He looked at her ponder.
"Ok but only for three days and you can't tell anyone."
"Ok." He laughed.
"Pinky promise." She put her small pinky out and he locked his with it. She slid out of his arms and ran over to the other two children who were hovering over Safaree's phone playing a game.
"You gone be my baby after the three days up?" He asked Nicki and she smiled.
"Ask me if I give a damn about anything you have going on in three days." She walked pass him. "Ma'am, we're ready."
"Evil ass." He mumbled and walked behind her.
Nicki stood at the counter checking all of the sizes and shoes. She didn't trust the sales associates to do it and even though MacKenzie was five she was already in the habit of discreetly sliding items onto the counter that they didn't ok. It wasn't that they couldn't pay for the items. It was the fact that she was being sneaky to get what she wanted that bothered Nicki. Sure enough, Nicki opened the box to find a small pair of heels. Safaree told MacKenzie that she wasn't allowed to have them and Nicki had no choice but to back him.
"MacKenzie." She called.
"Yes, mommy." She slid off the bench and skipped over to Nicki.
"What's this?" She showed her the box and she shrugged. "Looks like the shoes that your Dad said you couldn't have."
"But... "
"Don't lie."
"I wasn't gonna lie."
"There's nothing to say though, MacKenzie. You were trying to be sneaky."
"I wasn't." She looked sad.
"Ok." Nicki said then turned her attention to the cashier. "All of this," She waved her hand around the shoes that were to be MacKenzie's. "They can go back."
"But, mommy." She whined.
"So, just these?" The cashier gestured towards the shoes that were Candence's and Bash's.
"Yes." Nicki answered.
"Mommy." She cried and rested her head on Nicki's thigh.
"No, ask your Dad to get them. I'm not spending my money on you." In this moment she expected him to back her but he didn't.
"Daddy." MacKenzie cried as she found her way into her fathers arms while Nicki paid for the other children's shoes.
"Cadence. Bash." She called and they walked over. "Here." She handed them their bags. Safaree stepped to the counter holding MacKenzie who's breathing was hitched.
"Imma get these for her." He said.
He seen Nicki cut her eyes at him and heard her heavy sigh but he ignored it. After paying he handed Kenzie her bag and she happily joined the other kids.
"Why did you do that?" Nicki asked lowly.
"You was gone send her to school with no shoes."
"Safaree, she has a closet full of shoes that fit. I was gonna get them for her anyways. All you had to do was back me."
"You done?"
"Ser-"
"Seriously." He nodded and stepped to her. He leaned down and whispered in her ear. "You been complaining about little shit all day to piss me off. Now I'm here. So, yeah, seriously. Stop testing me. Grab the girls and lets go."
He put his sunglasses on his face and went to get the girls' shopping bags. Nicki put her purse on her shoulder and sunglasses on her face before grabbing a hold on MacKenzie and MacCadence's hands.
Moments later they found themselves at the ice cream shop. All the kids ran to the glass and stared at the many options before them. Nicki and Safaree hadn't spoken since they had left the store but Nicki kept giving him puppy dog eyes and he was trying to ignore it.
"I want this flavor and this flavor and this one and that one and-"
"Ok, Cadence." Nicki laughed.
"I want all the flavors!" She said and all the adults laughed.
"Lets start with one tonight, baby girl." Safaree said.
"Ok." She looked over her options. "I want this one!" She pointed to the cotton candy flavor.
"I want this one." MacKenzie pointed to a banana split flavor.
"You can't get that one, mama." Nicki said. "Everything you're allergic to is in that."
"Well... I want this one." She point to one that had nuts in it and Nicki sighed.
"Faree, get Cadence and Bash situated while I help Kenz."
"Alright." He nodded.
These moments were always difficult and Nicki seen it going horribly wrong. MacKenzie had at least five food allergies which was easy to deal with on most days because they never placed options in front of her that she couldn't have. Nicki watched as the other two children sat and began eating their treat while MacKenzie stood sadly watching.
"Look, Mook." Nicki said. "They have vanilla and chocolate and-"
"Those are boring."
"Get the one that Cadence has."
"That kind is nasty." She said sadly.
"Well, you have to pick something that won't make you sick. You don't want to go back to the hospital again, do you?"
"No, I just want some ice cream." She pouted.
Nicki sighed, "Don't do this, Kenny. You know that you can't eat certain things. This isn't new."
"It's not fair." She looked at Nicki sadly.
"You know, there's a candy store like two doors down." The server said.
"That sounds cool." Nicki smiled. "Wanna get some candy?"
"No." MacKenzie pouted.
"Come on. Just us." She smiled but MacKenzie was unmoved. Nicki grabbed her hand.
"We're going to get candy." She called to Safaree.
"I want some!" MacCadence said eagerly.
"Me too!" Sebastian chimed in.
"Nope. Just me and Kenzie." She called over her shoulder.
When they got into the candy store MacKenzie was still dragging her feet. Anything Nicki picked up and asked her if she wanted she shrugged at.
"What's wrong, Mama?" Nicki asked. "You love candy."
"I want ice cream."
"You want ice cream that has things in it that you're allergic to. You could've still had another flavor but you decided not to. Now we're here and you're hurting my feelings by being a Debbie downer."
"Who's Debbie?"
"A lady who mopes around, making everyone else sad."
"How come I gotta be allergic to stuff? Is it cause I'm bad?"
"What?" Nicki laughed.
"Cause when I do bad stuff you and daddy say I can't do other stuff."
"No. I told you that this is just the way that God made you."
"I'm in trouble with him?"
"No."
"Why then?"
Nicki huffed and twisted her lips, "Oh! Ok. So, you know how you're about to start school but you're sister cant?"
"Cause she's not old enough. She's a baby."
"She's not a baby but yeah. That's because God gave you to me first. Now, Cadence really wants to start school but she can't because?"
"God made me first."
"Right." She nodded. "Do you think that Cadence thinks that's fair?"
"Noooo."
"But that's just the way it is." Nicki shrugged. "And I promise that you aren't missing anything spectacular."
"How do I know that?"
"Do you ever hear anybody running around saying, "I LOVEEEEE BANANAS!" or, or "I LOVEEEE PEANUTS!!!!"?"
MacKenzie giggled, "Noooo!"
"PEANUTS ARE AWESOME!" They heard a random voice. They both looked over at a man walking out of the store. "NICKI, YOU'RE AWESOME!"
"Thank you." She laughed and MacKenzie looked at her weirdly.
"Mommy, you're crazy."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Mmmhmmm."
"Guess I should put all of this candy back."
"No! I'm sorry!" She laughed.
After getting the kids settled in the media room Nicki set off to find Safaree. He was in the game room, shooting pool. She sat on the edge next to where he was and he moved pass her. She rolled her eyes and sighed as she turned her body to face him.
"Safaree, come here."
"You know I don't like you sitting on my shit."
"You liked it when I was sitting on your-"
"Yo, what do you want?"
"Come here." She pouted and batted her eye lashes. He sighed and walked towards her. She pulled on his shirt and pulled him closer so that he was standing between her legs.
"What man?"
"So, I think we misunderstood each other earlier."
"Oh?"
"Yeah. When I was saying that I wasn't going to Bash's party that didn't mean that you couldn't."
"But you said that you weren't going and that I cant take your kids and fuck me if I went."
"See, this is where the misunderstanding comes in cause-" He shook his head and laughed. "What?"
"Cause you about to try to mind fuck me and I aint in the mood for it."
"No, I'm not." She said with an attitude, "Earlier, I said that I wasn't going and that I didn't want to go and just like now when you cut me off, you cut me off earlier."
He huffed, "So, what was you gone say?" She opened her mouth to say something but he cut her off. "You mad petty. Like, shit aint even that serious."
"Um, ok. . . So, if I put you in a room with Webb or Brandon you would be cool."
"Son."
"You would just be chilling? Like, I don't get it."
"You act like I'm gone fuck the bitch. It's a kids party, Nic."
"Oh, because we never stuck off at our kids parties?"
He sighed, "For four years we been good son."
"Ok, but I don't like the bitch and I know I'm not gonna be able to bite my tongue. You know me and what my feelings are towards her. Fucking Joan said that the bitch is engaged." She shook her head. "I just can't. Like, everybody is gonna sit around and act like she isn't running in and out of that boys life and on top of that I'm supposed to act like she didn't fuck my husband? Nah. I'm not doing that."
"But you know this is important to Bash. All he wants is for all of his family to be together."
"I already talked to him though."
"That shit don't matter. You like the only mama that boy got. You and Joan. But Stephanie aint never been there."
"I'm not doing it." She chuckled.
"Just show your face." She huffed and shook her head. "Come on."
"Alright." She said and he smiled. "Fifteen minutes tops and I'm out."
"Where's my apology?"
"That was your apology, nigga!"
"It's been four days." She busted out laughing.
"Safaree. . ." She laughed.
"I'm just saying." He shrugged. "Four. Long. Days."
She cocked her head to the side and bite her lip.
"Let's make a deal."
"Alright."
"If both of the girls are sleep and Bash looks like he's falling asleep then you can have me right now, anyway and anyplace."
"Nah, cause Cadence ass stays up mad late if we let her."
"Ok. So, if Kenzie is sleep and the other two look like their on the way AND Micaiah is in his own little world then you can have me anyway, anyplace."
"Deal." He turned on his heels.
"Wait, nigga. Shake on it."
They shook hands and she hopped off the table and followed him. They could hear whatever movie they were watching playing loudly. Safaree looked at Nicki and nodded as if to say, "Its about to go down." and she smirked. He rounded the corner and was smacked in the head with a stuffed animal.
"Sorry, Daddy!" MacKenzie said. "I was trying to hit Caiah." She picked it up and ran in the other direction.
Safaree looked at Nicki laughing hysterically then back at the children running wild. they didn't look in the least bit sleepy.
"Alright, niggas! Everybody in the bed, now!" Safaree yelled.
"What?!" MacCadence yelled. "The fun just started!"
"Yeah, well, playtime is over and its bedtime."
"But we're not ready, Daddy." MacKenzie said sweetly.
"Nah, they ready." Micaiah said.
"Shut up, stupid!" She yelled.
"Hey, hey!" Nicki said. "Don't call your brother stupid."
"He lacks brains." MacKenzie said.
"Well, then, say that."
"You don't have a brain dumb dumb!"
"MacKenzie." Nicki said.
"What?" She looked at her confused.
"No name calling."
"Look, its time for bed."
"For Kenzie and Cadence?" Bash asked.
"Everyone."
"Well, put mommy to bed and then come back." MacKenzie said seriously.
"That's what I'm trying to do." Nicki punched his arm.
"Yo." Micaiah said.
"Micaiah, don't start." Nicki warned.
"We gots to go to bed, mommy?"
Nicki looked at her watch, "Um, in an hour we'll come back and then you'll have to go to bed for real."
"But-"
"Shush, Safaree. Come on." She pulled his shirt.
"I gotta wait an hour, son?"
"No," She smiled. "You got an hour to warm up."
Meh, I know this isn't much but its a lot considering all that I got going on. When I do these oneshots for these characters, don't expect a storyline. so, the next oneshot might not have anything to do with this one. Ok?
