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painted a deep lilac with black accents on the walls, my bed was a large California King with a black upholstered headboard and an all-black Ralph Lauren Egyptian comforter set. My nightstands and dressers were all black as well. I loved my room and I was barely in any other room in my house.
    I heard my phone ring and I tried to sit up so that I could grab it off my nightstand but I didn’t have the strength to pull myself up. After the third attempt, tears began to fall from my eyes. I couldn’t believe my life. I would be 18 in three days and I was pregnant with my first child, my baby had no father and I couldn’t even see my fucking toes.
    “Aaaagh!” I screamed out of frustration as the tears continued to flow.
    “What’s wrong, Jae?” Lexis asked as she came in the room and sat down on the bed next to me, playing in my Senegalese twists.
    I began to cry harder because I was tired of everybody seeing me cry, I felt like such a weak bitch because no matter what, I could not control my damn emotions. “I’m just frustrated, Lex. I wish Antonio was here with me to help me put my socks and shoes on and help me up when I can’t move.” I wiped my eyes and stared into her face as I vented to her. “I don’t have Laela here to get on her nerves and make her do random stupid shit for me because I can’t do it myself. I just want someone to go get me nachos in the middle of the night and rub my belly when this baby is inside of me kicking fucking field goals but I don’t have that shit and I’m angry as fuck!” I shook my head as I thought about all the shit that I didn’t have and I just wanted to curl up and die.
    Lexis got up off the bed and pulled me to so that I was now sitting up. I stared at her because she was staring at me with an evil scowl on her face. “You know what, Jaeda? I understand you are hurt hell. We all are fucking hurt but it’s time that you get ya mothafuckin’ life. Shit, we all lost the same fucking people but you don’t see us moping around, crying all damn day,” she said between clenched teeth. “We are out living life and making shit happen. What yo ass need to be doing is getting on your knees every day, thanking God that you are alive with a healthy ass baby in your stomach instead of dwelling on what you lost, dumb ass.”
    I was shocked and hurt. Lexis had never spoken to me like this and I knew that she was fed up with me.
    “I’m not trying to tell you that you can’t mourn because on the real, we all mourning, Jae. They were our family, too. But it’s unfair that you are saying what you don’t have when you have the most precious part of all of them because that baby is going to be the reflection of every last one of them.”
    Lexis grabbed me into a hug as I cried silently, letting her words sink in. She was right. I had a lot to be thankful for and I needed to get myself together and stop throwing myself pity parties every day. I hugged her back tight as hell. She was my best friend and sister and I was glad she was able to put things into perspective for me and that’s why I loved her.
    “I will always be here for you, Jae, so will Greg and B. We all family and no matter what you need night or day, you can call. Shit, you know that your black ass dragged me out my bed with my nigga at 2 a.m. Shit!”
    I laughed at her crazy ass because I kept forgetting that Lexis now had live-in penis. I was going to have to respect the fact that she couldn’t just hop out of bed whenever. “I love you, Lex baby,” I said as I pulled away from her embrace. Suddenly it seemed as if a huge weight had been lifted from my heart.
    “I love yo fat ass, too, Jae Money.”
    Just as I was about to clown her about the fat jokes, my phone rang again. Lexis grabbed my phone off the nightstand and handed it to me. I looked at the screen and answered it, putting it on speakerphone.
    “You have a prepaid call from Ricardo Mendoza.”
    After the operator’s prompts, I pressed zero