Nicki entered the dark house. She had been busy all day with the kids before going to an award show. To say that she was exhausted was an understatement. She pulled off her shoes before walking up the stairs. All she wanted to do was shower and sleep. A sense of confusion came over her when she reached top of the stairs and heard MacKenzie talking. She followed her voice, and the bathroom light.
"Daddy, you have to get all the soap out." She huffed as she instructed her father on how to wash her sister's hair. "Mommy does it better." She commented and leaned over the bath tub to get a better look.
"Ow!" Cadence whined.
"What?!" Safaree said with a hint of fear in his voice.
"It burns!" She cried.
"What burns?" He asked.
"Her eyes, Daddy." MacKenzie explained.
Nicki sighed before stepping into the bathroom, "Move, Safaree."
MacKenzie and Safaree both looked up. Safaree had a look of relief as he moved with no questions asked. Nicki sat on the side of the tub and rinsed the soap out of Cadence's eyes before rinsing her hair.
"Hi, Mommy." MacKenzie said excitedly.
"Don't hi me little girl. Why are you up?"
"Tell her." Safaree said when MacKenzie looked at him.
"Cadence needed her hair washed." She said smally.
"Um, hmm." Nicki said as she wrapped a towel around Cadence's head. "Why do you need your hair washed?" Cadence looked at MacKenzie. "Look at me."
"Well, Daddy said we could stay up a little late and when we got on his nerves he told us to go play in our room."
"What does this have to do with your hair, Cadence?"
"When we went in the room Kenzie said we should play beauty shop and she said she was gonna do my hair like in your video." Nicki sighed and looked at MacKenzie then back at Cadence when she continued to talk. "She put paint in my hair and Daddy got mad. He didn't think it was pretty."
"What else she do?" Safaree asked.
"When she cut it?" Cadence asked.
NIcki's eyes got wide. "She cut it?!" She began running her fingers through her hair and pulling on the curls to see where the length fell. She ran her hand over her face before sighing. It was uneven in many places.
"What's wrong, Mommy?" Cadence asked innocently.
"Nothing." She said irritated. She went to grab a blow dryer and plugged it in.
"Mommy?" MacKenzie asked.
"What?"
"Are you mad?" She asked in a sing song voice as she swayed back and forth.
"MacKenzie, go to bed." Nicki said annoyed.
"But-"
"Go. To. Bed." Kenzie huffed and began walking out. "And don't think you gone sleep until three o'clock in the afternoon because your behind wanted to be up at three am playing beauty salon!"
"So-"
"Safaree, get out."
"O-K." He walked out and she started the dryer.
After blow drying her hair and sending her to bed Nicki got in the shower. She didn't speak to Safaree, just gave him dirty looks. All he had to do was send them to bed on time and he couldn't do that. On top of that Micaiah wasn't at home and Safaree couldn't tell her where he was. When she got out of the shower both of the girls were in the bed with Safaree. She rolled her eyes before grabbing her favorite pillow and began to walk out.
"Where are you going, Mommy?" Cadence asked.
"To bed." She called over her shoulder.
She tried to get comfortable in the guest bed but she couldn't. She tossed and turned for almost a half an hour. All she could think of was all of the things that she had to get done the next day, including Cadence's hair, and how uncomfortable she was. This only happened when she wasn't sleeping next to Safaree. She debated on going to get in the bed with him and the kids but she honestly didn't feel like having Cadence squeeze the life out of her or MacKenzie fighting her in her sleep. Her thoughts were interrupted by the door opening. He got into the bed with her and laid beside her without touching her.
"Where are the girls?"
"In our bed."
"I'm mad at you."
"I know."
"Every time I leave them with you someone is hurt or lost or-"
"This is nothing new though." He chuckled.
"It's not funny, Safaree." She whined. "Its like you don't even try. When I come home from work at two o'clock in the morning the last thing I wanna do is wash a kids hair."
"I do try. They don't listen."
"They not afraid of you."
"I don't want them to be."
"But they don't listen to you at all. That's not acceptable."
"I don't want them to not like me."
"You think I care if that five year old likes me?" She laughed.
"Those my little girls."
"They bad as fuck because of you."
"Me?"
"Yeah."
"What little girls you know have regular spa appointments?"
"They go because I go. If I leave them with you it'll be regular emergency room appointments."
"These kids gone be the death of us."
"Speak for yourself. I'll be damned if these little bastards kill me." She laughed.
"Yooo." He laughed. "Your a horrible mom."
She laughed, "I would never say that in front of them. I love my babies. They just annoy me. Especially MacKenzie's bad ass."
"Are you mad?" Safaree imitated MacKenzie and they both laughed.
"She always ask me that shit when she know she pissed me off."
"She got that shit from you."
"I do not do that." She laughed.
"You do. You always piss me off then do little shit like that to make it worse."
"Whatever. Its only two of me. It's three of you."
"What?"
"That shit you do when you hold shit in for months then randomly go off months later... Caiah and Cadence do that."
"Everybody can't be like you going off everytime the wind blows too hard."
"Shut up." She laughed. She yawned before moving closer to him. She rested her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around him. She was sleep within minutes.
The Next Day
"Mommy, I don't wanna." Cadence whined.
"It'll be fine. Ms. Lisa won't cut it too much." Nicki said and the child stared at her with a pout. "So, you willingly allowed your sister to cut your hair but a professional can't?" She didn't respond. Nicki huffed. "MaCadence, don't be difficult."
"I'm gonna be bald like Daddy and Caiah."
"No, you're not."
"You go first."
"What?!"
"If you get bald first then I will."
"Baby, you're not gonna be bald." Cadence blankly stared at her. She sighed. "Fine." Nicki sat in the kids size chair.
"You just want me to cut the wig?" Lisa whispered in her ear.
"Yeah."
Lisa picked up a comb and scissors and parted a section.
"See, not scary at all." Nicki said.
"That's not your real hair, mommy." Cadence said dryly.
"MaCadence. "
"Mommy, you can't cheat. It's dishonest."
Nicki rolled her eyes and pulled off the wig. Lisa called an assistant over to help take down her braids. At first Nicki thought about chickening out but the way Cadence looked at her changed her mind. She looked at her in amazement and with pride.
"Are you ready?" Lisa asked holding the ponytail.
She took a deep breath, "Yup."
"All done." Lisa said after making the big chop.
Nicki arose from the chair and looked at it in the mirror. It fell a few inches past her shoulder. She didn't know why but she felt like crying.
"Did it hurt, Mommy?" Cadence asked.
"No." She laughed.
"Can I see?"
"Sure." Nicki picked her up. She ran her fingers threw her mothers hair with a smile.
"Can I go next?" She smiled wide.
"I don't know. Now that I did it I don't think you're ready." Nicki said.
"But I am, Mama."
"Nah, its for big girls. Besides, Ms. Lisa can't stop in the middle because you wanna cry and freak out again. You'll look crazy."
"I won't cry. Promise." She held her pinky out.
"Ok." Nicki linked their pinkies.
Hours later that arrived home. Nicki had running around to do and just took Cadence alone. Cadence was good for running around with. As long as she had Nicki's headphones and iPod she wouldn't complain.
They walked into an empty house. They heard the kids screaming and splashing outside and instantly knew what was going on.
"Mommy, can I go swimming?"
"Yeah. Go put on your swimming suit."
"Yay!" She began running to her room.
"The red one... And stop running!"
"Yall back?" She heard Safaree's voice and turned to see him closing the sliding door that lead to the backyard.
"Yeah. Who told yall to have a party while we were gone?"
"Its just a few of Caiah's friends." He shrugged. "Yo, check this." He motioned for her to come to the window and she did.
"What?"
"Ya boy Caiah got a girlfriend." She looked out the window and observed the scene.
She laughed, "Please, he isn't thinking about her."
"How you know?"
"One, she's skinny as fuck. He likes thick girls. That's why he keep looking at my home girl in the black one piece. Two, he's doing that half listening shit that he does to me. Not paying her no type of attention."
"Whatever."
As soon as he said that the girl in the black swimming suite got out of the pool. Micaiah, who was sitting on the edge of the pool, gave the girl talking to him the "just one second" finger and got up. He almost rushed to the other girl and wrapped a towel around her. They talked for a second before begging to walk in.
"Shit." Safaree said and pulled Nicki's arm.
"What?"
"We can't be in here. Cock blocking and shit."
"When Micaiah is old enough to have a cock that needs blocking and pays bills, then I'll leave a room."
"Come on man." He pulled her into the dining room. She peeked her head around the corner and Safaree tried to pull her back. She pinched his arm and he released her.
"You're like the only boy who takes all AP classes willingly." The girl laughed.
"Nah, other dudes do too. They think girls like dumb dudes."
"You don't?"
"Nah, my moms always told me that it ain't nothing worst than a dumb nigga. And my pops act a fool but if he was dumb she wouldn't be with him."
"How long have your parents been together?" She asked as she watched him get waters for both of them.
"Um, I don't even know. Pops scooped her when she was like seventeen."
"Really?" She smiled.
"Yeah."
"My parents got married young but they divorced after three years."
"For real."
"Yeah." She took a sip of her water. "I always wanted something like that. Like, what your parents have. I mean, i know I'm only like fifteen but i think about that kind of stuff. Do you?"
"Huh?"
"What are you staring at?" She laughed.
"You."
"Don't."
"You're beautiful."
"Jessica likes you and-" He kissed her.
Nicki's eyes widened. She turned and looked at Safaree who was smiling. She hit him and motioned for him to go stop them but he shook his head with a grin. This was what she deserved for being nosey and lurking around.
"Mommy, Daddy... What are you doing?" Cadence asked. Nicki put her finger to her lip. "Why do i have to be quiet? Are we gonna scare somebody? Who we gonna scare?"
"Ma?" Micaiah peeked in. Nicki rolled her eyes. "What are yall doing?"
"Oh." Nicki laughed. "We were just... I mean, I just wanted to show your Dad that I cut my hair. See." She pulled off her baseball cap and let her hair fall.
"Yooo. Why did you do this?" Safaree asked.
"You don't like it, Daddy?"
"You was being nosey." Micaiah said.
"We weren't." Nicki said.
"What yall doing in here then? You never let us come in here." Micaiah said.
"You cut a lot off." Safaree said, still focused on her hair.
"Daddy, your being rude. You should complement, Mommy."
"That's right baby." Nicki smiled.
"Next time I'll just have sex with a girl. Give yall something to watch." Micaiah mumbled while walking away.
"What'd he say?" Nicki asked.
"Nothing..." Safaree shook his head.
"He said he's gonna have sex." Cadence said. "What's that?"
Ugh, so half way threw writing this I was like damn I should've did a b'day oneshot then I was like fuck it then that woman tweeted that beautiful tweet that was full of inspiration right as i was finishing and now it's like BLEH.... Whatever. Aren't they cute tho? Ugh. Love them...
Anywho, i hope this isn't boring guys. I tried. You can all thank Nisi for this one (if you like it). I have two half written oneshots for the other blog (No, Tia, they aren't WHIV). Might post those soon. I forgot i had them.
Thanks for reading and commenting guys! ^.^
Oh, I hope you guys don't care about titles... I couldn't think of one.
