Hungry ch.3

--NICKI--

"It's been two weeks Nelly and they still haven't called."

"Ugh Nicki shut up!! You've been saying that since the morning after the interview you're going to get the job," she exaggerated.

"Fine you didn't have to be so mean," I said getting more comfortable. We were sitting on the couch cuddling under a blanket watching tv. Trinity was on the floor sleeping using her spongebob stuffed animal as a pillow. She freakin loves that thing. She's takes it everywhere. It's sad because I sometimes have to lie to get her to leave it at home or in the car. She really likes this place. It's more open, bigger and most importantly safer than any other place we've stayed in. I'm happy she likes it here. She's even warming up to Shanelle. Trinity likes to keep to herself and she doesn't react to new people very well so imagine my surprise when I woke up on the second day of being here to find Nelle and Trinity playing hand games.

"Nelle you know I love you right?" I asked her to make sure she knew.

"Yeah I know," she replied.

"I also appreciate everything you've done for me."

"YES I KNOW you've also said this COUNTLESS times I get it," she said rolling her eyes.

"Why are you being so mean?" I asked pouting.

"You know I'm kidding. It's just that you keep telling me this as if I didn't already know," she explained.

"I'm sorry I feel as if I don't show you how much I actually do love you especially when we were in high scho-"

"Nicki don't start," she interrupted me.

"Why can't we ever talk about it?" I asked. I've wanted to know how she felt during the situation years ago for a long time but she always shuts me down.

"Because I don't want to talk about it. Leave it alone I've gotten over it and I don't want to think about it anymore." Silence fell upon us as I focused my attention back on the plasma screen. Trinity started to shuffle and opened her eyes. She got off the floor with spongebob and was wobbling all over the place before falling on her butt because she was off balance.

"Honey are you okay?" I asked her and she nodded her head while rubbing her eyes. She started patting her belly with a pout on her face.

"Okay hold on." I told her getting from under the blanket.

"Who are you talking too?" Nelle asked me.

"Trinity," I replied looking at her as if she was slow.

"But she didn't say anything," she said looking at me as if I was stupid.

"She patted her belly she's hungry. Remind me to never let you babysit you gonna starve my baby," I uttered while walking into the kitchen.

"We ain't got no food and how was I suppose to know her communication methods?" she asked.

"Really communication methods. Now you sound stupi-" I was interrupted by Trinity's whining.

"Aww T we gotta go grocery shopping can you wait for a little while?" Nelly asked her and Trinity shook her head no with a pout. 

"Well you're gonna have too baby." I picked her up and took her upstairs to change and put on some shoes. We went to the living room and waited for Shanelle to get ready before we were on our way.


--DRAKE--

"Did you get all the things on the list?" my mom asked me.

"Yeah mom I already told you that."

"Call off what you have so I can make sure." 

"Eggs, milk, sugar, yeast, six different colored frostings, and fish," I huffed.

"What type of fish?"

"What do you mean what type of fish? Regular fish," I replied looking at the phone as if she could see me.

"No I said whitening eight piece fish!!" she yelled.

"Okay I'll switch them out," I replied annoyed.

"Okay hurry back," she said before hanging up.

I got out the checkout line  and went back through the aisles looking for where I got the fish from. As if it didn't take forever to find it the first time. My mom sometimes annoy the hell out of me. She changed when wealth came into the picture. She became uncivil to anybody that she felt was beneath her. She's always too good for things now she's too good for regular ass fish. My sister is a whole nother story. She's like a younger version of my mom but snobbier. We don't get along at all. I finally found the frozen fish section and put the fish back.

"What did she say it was called again?" I asked myself out loud. I looked around for help and saw Shanelle, Nicki, and Trinity turning the corner into the aisle next to mine. I don't think they noticed me. I looked around the corner to catch Trinity's stare. The others were still unaware of my presence. I started making silly faces causing her to smile which turned into a laugh. I kept on until she was crying laughing.

"What's so funny baby," her mom asked her. She looked up still laughing before looking back at me.

 I continued to make her laugh but quickly walked away when Nelly and Nicki started looking around for the source of her laughter. I didn't want them to think I was stalking, or watching them. I started looking for the whitening fish again and found it. I opened the freezer door and pulled it out. I turned around and jumped accidently closing the door with my back. Nelly was standing behind me with her arms crossed.

"Why so jumpy?" she asked me while my heart rate regulated.

"Maybe because the devil snuck up behind me," I breathed heavily.

"Funny," she said sarcastically while making a face.

"So when are yall going to call and tell us she got the job?" she asked me with her arms still crossed.

"When she actually gets the job," I mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Huh nothing umm we had other applicants that applied for the same job she is currently applying for so we are going through everyone and we'll hire the best person for the job."

"She is the best person for the job plus she needs this job."

"Do you even know what position she applied for?" I asked her and she fumbled with her words confirming my thoughts.

"Well n-no i don't know what she applied for but s-so what she's good at anything she does. Can't you pull some strings so her name can be on the top of the list?

"No because she may not be the best and we want the best."

"Okay what if I bring her by the office and you test her out there with some of the lines because I know yall backed up in that department. She'll finish up the things that need to be done, you see how good she is, you hire her and you don't have to pay her for the work she did because she wasn't 'officially' an employee at the time. You save money, she got a job and everybody's happy." I thought for a little while before agreeing.

"Deal but what if she doesn't do a good job?"

"Well we don't have to worry about that because she'll do great. Okay now freshen up and go to the other aisle and break the news to her. By the way this conversation never occurred and I won't tell her how you was luring her daughter to you with faces," she mumbled the last part.

"Excuse me!?!" I yelled after her even though I heard her loud and clear.

"Freshen up? Fuck she mean freshen up I'm as fresh as it gets."


--NICKI--

Where is this woman? She got my small ass pushing these two carts by myself. And yes I said two carts. One was filled with every snack Trinity liked that we walked passed and the other was filled with stuff Shanelle picked up. I let Trinity pick out whatever she wanted because I felt like I at least owed her that since I brought her into a life where she constantly had to hide and run. But I think she went too far. Nelly came from around the corner and I was beyond relieved.

"Where have you been? You know I don't have any upper body strength to push these carts," I reminded her letting go of hers.

"Sorry I was thinking of making fish but I changed my mind. Umm honey I see you got food for the baby what are you going to eat?" she asked me looking at my cart.

"I'll eat what you'll eat," I told her as if it was obvious.

She started to doing this fake laugh before saying," Ohh noo baby girl this is Shanelle's food not Shanelle's and Nicki's. You catch my drift you better buy yo ass something to eat." I looked to the side of me and picked up a pack of ramen noodles and waved it in her face as if I was the shit.

"Bitch I don't need your food Imma eat good tonight."

"Mhm but forreal Nic how you gon pay for all this we both know you ain't got no job yet."

"I don't know I just feel as if she deserves this. She doesn't get stuff like this often I just wanted to treat her to what she likes."

"Okay so you let her buy the whole snack section," she joked.

"I know, what's in this cart is all we're going to buy nothing more i'm putting my foot down." Right when I said that Trinity came up to me with a pack of ring pops in her arms.

"'No Trin you can't get anymore snacks if you get that you have to put something back," I told her. She tossed the pack into the cart barely making it in then looked at me with a pout on her face.

"Alright now put something back." She quickly snatched the ramen noodles out my hand and threw it on a shelf. Shanelle started laughing and I huffed.

"Okay let's go before my blood pressure drops and I go into anaphylactic shock." We turned the corner and I went flying into someones chest.

"Excuse me."

"Yeah you're excused," he said rather rudely. I look up at the jackass and I wasn't surprised by the face. This nigga, you'd think he would've at least changed some type of way. Who the hell he thinks he is with his high yellow ass. If I had the guts to go off on him I would've the first day I ever met him. I tried to walk past him but he pulled me back.

"Actually I've been meaning to talk to you about the job. There were other applicants that applied for the same job as you and it would help me and the boss choose the right person if we saw you in action. So come in sometime this week we have work that'll be ready for you," he finished before he walked off.

"Wait!!" I yelled after him. He stopped and turned around with his eyebrows raised.

"You didn't ask me to come in you more commanded that," I spoke up.

"Did I ask you to apply?" he asked walking up to me.

"N-"

"Then I don't have to ask you when to come in for an evaluation," he interrupted.

"Hey beautiful," Drake snapped his attention to my daughter beside me. He bent down and started smoothing his hand over her hair. She grabbed his nose and started squeezing it.

"Tell mommy to come in Wednesday morning and Friday night okay," he said tickling her and of course she started to laugh.

"At 10:00 on both days," he said walking away.

"Is he always that rude?" I asked Nelly.

"You the one who let him run over you like that," she said shrugging her shoulders and walking in the direction of the checkout lines.



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We were home and Nelle was making dinner. Trinity already ate and was now running around the condo. I've never seen her so hyper before. She was running, skipping, crawling, and jumping everywhere. I was afraid she was gonna go superman on my ass and start flying.

"You still think giving her half a bag of gummy worms was smart?" Shanelle giggled more than asked.

"She wasn't going to eat anything else. She was going to ruin her dinner anyway so I let her eat a little more than usually. How was I suppose to know she would attack it like a vulture." Shanelle started shaking her head. She finished making dinner and fixed her a plate. Can you believe she was actually serious about not sharing. I just watched her while she ate.

"Stop giving me that look." I kept looking at her though.

"I was kidding go make your big butt a plate." I got up and did just that with a smile on my face. We were eating talking about stupid stuff while Trinity kept running around. She tripped, fell, got back up and looked at me.

"Are you okay baby?" I asked her and she nodded her head.

"You want some?" I asked motioning to my plate and she shook her head no.

"Okay be careful, gon bout ya buisness."

"Such bad english. Is this what you teach her," she joked making a face. I rolled my eyes and looked back at Trinity who was still standing there looking at me.

"You tired?" She shook her head no again.

"What's wrong then?" I asked her and she looked away before she started jumping again and took off.

"She's so weird but she's so cute you can't hold it against her," Nelle commented. She came running back into the kitchen but this time it looked like something was in her hand. Me and Shanelle finished our food and washed the dishes. I waited until Trin came running back through the kitchen and into my arms. I picked her up and walked into the living room with Shanelle and watched some tv. I looked down in her hands and something was there. 

"Baby what's in your hand?" She opened it and there laid a crumpled up hundred dollar bill.

"Trinity where did you get this from?" I asked her but she was looking everywhere but at me. When I finally got her attention I asked her the same question and she looked at me confused.

"Nelly this yours?"

"Naw I ain't ballin like that but I'll still take it," she said taking it out of my hand.

"Trin were did you get that from?" I asked for the third time pointing to the bill in Shanelle's hands. She started patting my sweats pocket and I finally got what she was trying to tell me. I went upstairs and went through the clothes she wore earlier and I saw a stack of hundreds in her jean jacket pocket. I went downstairs to show Nelly.

"WOW!!! Where did that come from?"

"I have no idea. Jesus did my baby rob a bank when wasn't looking?"

"Yeah the security guards with guns backed down to a two year old with a sippy cup," she said sarcastically but I was too busy county the bills to care.

"Nelle this is twelve hundred dollars," I looked at her with wide eyes.

"How did a two year old start ballin in my houses before me?" she joked.

"This is serious. What do we do? Should we turn it in?"

"What!!! No they gon take it for themselves. Plus I'm sure she didn't take it from anybody forcefully. For all we know someone gave it to her. You need it so keep it," she advised. Silence filled the room except the talking from the tv. I considered what she said. She sat up abruptly.

"Do you think he pu-"

"No!! Why would he do tha-"

Maybe he heard you when we were talking about paying for the stuff at the store." The more I thought about it the more it made sense.

"Ugh I'm so embarrassed," I grunted throwing my head back.

"Maybe it wasn't him and it was someone else. Remember when she disappeared for a second then came back with the ring pops maybe someone gave it to her then," she tried to cheer me up.

"One that'll make me a bad parent for letting her out of my sight. Someone could have taken her. And two they still had to have heard me. I'll rather go with the first scenario." I turned to Trinity who was now sitting in front of the tv. I called her over and sat her in my lap.

"I'm sorry I let you get out of my sight I'll never do it again," I told her then kissed her cheek. She looked at me confused and focused her attention back on the tv.

"No one ask don't tell."

"Alright."

*I got 7 comments on my last post and I'm so happy. That's the most comments I've ever got (sad I know but I don't care). Sorry this chapter sounded bullshitty to me. I really hated it and it took a week and a few days to type it. I know it's super long and if you guys want me to I'll shorten it next time. I had to get this chapter out the way so I could get to the chapter I can't wait to get too. It was suppose to be the next chapter but I have to add another on in between this one and that one so the story can make more sense. Sorry for any eras too tired to go over this COMMENT PLEASE!!!*