Drama Queen by La Jill Hunt

Author:La Jill Hunt [Hunt, La Jill]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Urban, African American, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781622861507
Google: nLTNAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00K58CF1O
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2013-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

17

“A godson. My first godson,” Terrell said to Kayla. They were sitting at their desks and Kayla finally told him the results of the ultrasound. She tried to lie and say she didn’t know, but Terrell in his eternal nosiness had seen her writing down boys’ names on a piece of paper, so she had come clean. “Now we have to come up with a tight name.”

“We?” Kayla looked across at him.

“I’m not letting you screw up his life with some cornball name.”

“I am not picking cornball names, you jerk.” Kayla threw a rubber band at him.

“What do you have so far?” Kenosha asked.

“Okay. How about Xachary Denzel Hopkins,” Kayla said proudly. “But spell Xachary with an X, not a Z.”

“Annnn!” Terrell made the sound of a game show buzzer.

“I like it,” she said.

“Hell, no. First of all, Zachary with a Z isn’t even player. It’s a nerd name. And then you’re gonna really confuse him, his teachers and everyone else by spelling it with an X? And when he plays football, he’s gonna be big Xach. That is ugly. And Denzel? Come on.”

“Well what do you suggest, Terrell?” Kayla waited for him to think.

“Tyranny. Now that’s player.” He smiled.

“Annnn!” It was Kayla’s turn to make the buzzer noise. “What the heck? Tyranny? Doesn’t that mean oppression? What about Montel Jordan Hopkins?” Kayla asked.

“His first words are gonna be ‘this is how we do it’,” Terrell joked. They tossed names around every day for weeks until Kayla decided on the perfect one, telling no one. She did, however, let everyone know that she appreciated their input, but they would just have to wait.

“Why won’t you tell me, Kay?” Roni asked as they were painting the nursery walls a pretty shade of sky blue. It was the end of August and Kayla was getting bigger by the day. She decided they had better get this done before she couldn’t get out of the bed.

“Because it’s a surprise, Ron. I’m not telling anyone until he’s here.”

“Not even Craig?”

“No, not even Craig,” Kayla told her. Kayla and Craig had come to terms on their relationship. He would come by once a week to check on her and see if she was okay, bringing her banging desserts that she began to thrive on. They would talk for a little while and he would see the progress she was making on the nursery. The entire theme was denim, and everything was OshKosh thanks to her childless girlfriends who got a kick out of outfitting the room. He agreed to purchase the two hundred-dollar stroller she wanted and surprised the hell out of her when he showed up at her door one night with it. At this point, Kayla had no complaints about him. He tried to push up on her every now and then, but she stopped that real quick. They were just cool and Kayla made sure that he and every one else knew that.

“Is he excited?” Roni began painting the opposite wall.

“I don’t think so.

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