“He was being mean to me,” Mauricio snitched on me, and Riot held him up with one arm, so with her free hand, she started playfully hitting me, acting like she was beating my ass. Mauricio loved that shit because he was in her arms cracking up and telling her to keep going.
“Yeah, aight. Watch out,” I said to Riot, once she was finished.
She picked up his plate, and she took it over to the table. She sat him down in one of the chairs, and she sat down next to him. Lil nigga started talking her head off, asking her a bunch of questions. I came over, holding my plate, and Riot’s plate in my hands. I sat hers down in front of her, while placing mine in the empty spot next to her.
I grabbed something to drink for Riot, and I brought it over, and she thanked me for it.
“What’s on the agenda today?” I asked everyone, wanting to see what they were going to say. I’m sure all this shit was put in the group chat, but I never read the messages, so I wouldn’t know.
“We have a few things lined up today. The boys want to go to Iguana island, so we’re going there first. We’re doing ATV riding afterwards, and we’ll end it off with horseback riding on the beach. We pretty much have a full day,” Uzi let me know, and I nodded my head.
It sounded like a fun day. I knew damn well Riot wasn’t going to fuck with doing anything that involved being around iguanas. We lived in Florida, and on a typical hot day, it wasn’t out of the norm to see them walking around. She wasn’t really scared of them. She just didn’t fuck with them. I knew she would enjoy the ATV riding. We didn’t get to do it in Mexico. It was too much shit going on. Horseback riding on the water sounded nice too. I’m sure I would love that.
“You going to get on the horse with me?” Mauricio asked Riot.
“Yes. We’re going to ride together. You been on a horse before?” Riot asked him, and he nodded his head up, and down proudly.
“Okay, so you gotta teach me then,” she replied to him, and here I was, sitting here, sucking my teeth, acting like I was in my feelings.
“So, just fuck me, huh?” I asked Riot, and everybody that was at the table that heard me started laughing.
That’s how breakfast went. We kicked it as a family, talking shit, just enjoying ourselves. Riot was opening up with the women. They’d already made plans for them to hang out tonight, leaving all the men, and the kids home. I was proud of Riot when she agreed on going with them because I just knew that her ass was going to shut it down. She didn’t do that though. She agreed.
I knew she wouldn’t have any problems getting along with the women here. They were cool. They weren’t on any messy shit. They weren’t going to judge her because of the life that she was living, either. Shit, two of them used to live that same life, and the ones that didn’t, their niggas used to live that life. Hell, Scrappy was still living that life, and Puma was with him. This was a judgement free zone here, and I’m glad Riot was able to see that.
Hours Later
We were at Long Bay Beach. Shit was so fuckin beautiful out here, man. All the sightseeing and excursions that we did all day, and it landed us here at our final stop. We weren’t going to leave until the sun completely went down. Right now, we were catching the sunset, and it was beautiful.
I captured so many pictures and videos on my phone. In this moment, sitting down further towards the back, down on the sand, with my legs extended in front of me, I had the perfect view of what was going on around me. My family was spread out everywhere. Loco was sitting next to me, while Skyro and Scrappy were on my left. Cartier, Phantom, and Caine were over here too.
From where I was sitting, I had the perfect view of Riot. Something about her energy that had Mauricio in a chokehold. He had been stuck up under her all day, which is crazy because he was the kind of kid where his mama was his favorite person in the world, and all he wanted to do was be up under Uzi.
Riot was holding Mauricio, as he had his little arms wrapped around her, and his head resting on her shoulder. He was tired and falling asleep. All he had on was his swimming trunks. His bad ass ran around with iguanas all day, rode on the back ofplenty ATV’s, and had a ball during the horseback riding. My little girl cousins fucked with Riot too. She was over there with them right now. Zuri, and Oakley thought that Riot was their big sister because they had been clinging to her all day too. Just teenaged girls that thought Riot was so cool. Chosen, who was Nyne’s teenaged daughter loved Riot too. Same with Benelli’s daughters Peace, and Pilar. Aries had a little girl too named Alai, but she was over there with Aries and the rest of the women right now, taking a nap.
“I feel like you got you one of the good ones. Get married nigga,” Skyro told me.
I fucked with Skyro. I looked at him as a little cousin. I was only three years older than him, but he liked to come to me from time to time for advice. I was proud of Skyro though. I was a fan when it came to his music. I told him that I didn’t think there was anyone else in the world that played his music as much as I did.
“Listen to you. I should be telling you the same thing. You been with Beretta longer than I’ve been with Riot. What’s stopping you?” I wanted to know.
“Timing. I’m still on tour. I’m wrapping up another album, and then Ima want to go on tour again for that. As soon as that’s over with, I’m proposing, and I want a baby out of her. Nigga, I be having baby fever out the ass,” he told me, and I laughed.
“Beretta always saying that she not having kids though,” I said.
“We made an agreement. She agreed to give me one. She told me that she don’t want to be a baby mama though, so nigga I gotta do it the right way. I respect it, and Ima give her what she wants. What about you? You got a girl that obviously does well with kids. Mauricio lil ass love her, and you know how he is. I been in the picture for a few years, and he still has his days when he acts funny acting with me. He chilling with her like the two ofthem got history together,” Skyro went on, and I looked ahead of me, where Riot still was standing with the girls. All of them were on the horses, while Riot still stood there with Mauricio.
“It ain’t gone happen, man. At least, not right now it won’t. You were once living this life that I’m living. You know the dangers that come with it. You know I would be selfish to bring kids into it,” I shared, and he nodded his head, as if he understood where I was coming from.
“I feel that. You got a real one though. I fuck with her. I had a moment earlier to sit and talk with her. I never knew that Grim was her pops. You know being from Miami, it’s just certain names that you hear, and the work that they put in. She got that dog in her like her daddy. My girl like her too. Beretta told me earlier that she’s ready for them to go out tonight, and hang,” he went on, and I laughed at that.
Moments went by, and I stood up. I only stood because I saw Riot walking away from the girls, and she went over to where Uzi, and the rest of the women were, so that she could hand Uzi her son.
I walked further away from the guys, going closer to the water. As Riot was walking back, I looked in her direction.
“Come here,” I called out for her.
She walked over to me, and once she stood in front of me, she wrapped her arms around my neck. She stood before me in a black bikini top, that exposed her flat belly. On top of the bikini bottoms, she wore these black linen bottoms, since she was finished with her water activities for the day. Her curly hair was still a little damp because she had been swimming in the ocean about an hour ago. She had a nice tan too. We’ve pretty much been in the sun all day.