Opening Chapter: A Family
Sunday,
June 30, 2019
Javon's 28th birthday
6:45 a.m.
Omniscient
A tired Kaleena yawned as she slowly pushed open the twin's door. They were sound asleep in their cribs as Javon slept slumped over in the chair nearby. The sight of him the last few days being in daddy mode was one that she could never get enough of. On Wednesday night June 26th, Javon helped deliver a healthy baby boy and girl that he immediately fell in love with. After everything that had happened three months ago at the hospital and planning a funeral, he didn't think that Kaleena would be able to get through this and neither did she. She'd lost someone so close to her heart that she didn't even think she would be able to go on with life let alone deliver two perfect little babies that she was protective of. She'd been home for two days now, and in that time Javon never left her or his children. This moment was so surreal to him. As long as he'd been mentoring children he now had two of his own. A little him and a little Kaleena, who he knew would give him all types of hell just like her mother.
It was his 28th birthday and there was no greater gift than parenthood in his eyes. He'd had everything that he wanted and needed. A woman that loved him. Supportive friends. A job that he loved. A family. On the 3rd of this month, he and Kaleena had officially made a year as a couple. It hadn't been a perfect year, but they'd managed to work through it and be each other's rock when it was time to be. Life had thrown all sorts of problems Kaleena's way and the last one nearly forced her to give up, but she didn't. She kept going because it was what she needed to do. Life without her grandmother around anymore made her question God and why he was taking people away from her, but Javon had told her that it was something she should never do. Never question God's plan. Kaleena probably couldn't see it ,but the lord himself knew that her grandmother was tired. She'd done her part in helping to raise Kaleel and being Kaleena's backbone. Now it was time for Kaleena to take on life not only as Kaleel's full-time guardian but as a full-time parent to two newborn babies.
Surprisingly, on the day of Kaleel's surgery doctors were successful in removing the bullet without killing or even paralyzing him. That itself was a miracle. One that Kaleena was grateful for. She'd lost her grandmother, but her brother was now pain-free and he was still here on this earth.
"Good morning daddy," Kaleena whispered, rubbing Javon's head as he slowly opened his eyes and looked up at her. "Happy birthday." She said.
Javon yawned and stretched before he cracked a smile and stood up, kissing her forehead. "Thank you."
"You look so exhausted. Why didn't you wake me?" She asked as he wrapped his arm around her back. "I would've taken over."
"You needed the rest more than I did. Kaleel was here helping me but after a while, I didn't see his ass anymore."
"He ditched you?" Kaleena laughed lightly.
"Hell yeah. He fed Nasir and I fed Jazlyn but then this muthafucka told me that he had to go to the bathroom and he never came back." Javon shook his head. "As a matter of fact, I'm about to go wake his ass up. He doesn't need any sleep."
As Javon was about to walk away from Kaleena she grabbed his arm and he turned around to look at her. "Let him sleep. Don't go waking him up because you know he's goofy as hell. He'll wake up talking and joking about crazy shit and mess around and wake my babies. Don't bother him."
"Oh, they're your babies, huh?" Javon wrapped his arms around her back, pulling her into him as she blushed.
"That's what I said." She wrapped her arms around his neck.
"So, I didn't have any parts in helping you make them?"
"Well, I mean..." Kaleena shrugged and joked, watching as Javon frowned.
"Girl you're trying to get put in a chokehold early this morning. Don't play."
"Yes, daddy."
"What was that?"
"Daddy," Kaleena smirked. Javon smacked her on the ass, giving it a hard squeeze.
"Stop it." She giggled, resting her forehead against his chest.
"Lord, help me." He looked up at the ceiling. "I'm not gonna make it through six weeks."
"Your horny ass better try. We already have two..." Kaleena looked at the two cribs where their children slept. "You sure you're ready to have some more?"
"Well, I mean..." Javon shrugged. "I'm trying to give you at least 10."
"Ten what? Oh, hell no. Javon get out of my face with that nonsense." Kaleena pushed him to the side, walking over to the twin's cribs, staring down at the two as they slept peacefully.
"They're so long." Kaleena smiled.
"They're gonna be tall like their dada." Javon smiled, walking up behind Kaleena and wrapping his arms around her. She rested her head back against his chest, caressing his hand. Neither of them said anything for the next minute. They couldn't take their eyes off the two little human beings that they'd created. They'd brought them home and they were prepared to nurture and love them the way needed to be loved.
"I'm a...mom," Kaleena said, unable to believe it.
For years she'd raised Kaleel and she one day dreamed of having biological children of her own, but she didn't expect it to feel like this. She was a proud mother who planned on showering her children with nothing but love, and as excited as Javon was she knew that he'd be there to do the same. She knew that her children would have an active father in their lives and that's all she'd wanted. She'd turned down his marriage proposal, but that didn't mean that she didn't want to marry him someday because she did. She wanted him in that way. She wanted all three of her children to have a family.
A real family.
