Baby Fever

"Yo, do you have on jeans?"

Nicki stopped dead in her tracks and looked in Safaree's direction. She looked down at her pants and then looked back up at him with her lip twitched.

"Obviously."

Nicki continued walking to the bathroom stopping at the sink. She grabbed the rag while turning on the hot water. She looked up at herself in the mirror and smiled when she saw Safaree walking in the bathroom. She stared at him through the mirror as he made his way over and took a seat on the lid of the toilet. Nicki focused back to the sink and put her rag under the steaming hot water ready to get all this make up off her face and just relax. She turned off the water and placed her other hand under the rag pushing it into her face. She ran the rag up and down her face and took it off of her face looking in the mirror to see if she had got it all off.

"Yo, now that I think about it I'm glad we're home. Their bathrooms wasn't as good as ours."

"What time will my baby be getting here? I miss him." Nicki said ignoring his statement and continued wiping at her face getting the little bit of make up that was left on her face off.

"He should be here any minute." Safaree looked down at his watch and looked back up catching Nicki's eyes in the mirror.

"SB, why do you even look down at that knowing damn well for one, you can't tell time- and for two, it doesn't even tell time?"

Safaree threw his arm up and waved her off. He leaned back against the toilet and folded his arms across his chest. He licked his lips while looking over Nicki.

"You're such a pig."

Safaree took his eyes off her ass and looked in the mirror locking eyes with Nicki. He wiggled his eyebrows and Nicki rolled her eyes. He watched her as she balled up the rag wringing it out before tossing it into a basket in the corner. She went to turn around bumping into Safaree's chest. He palmed her ass and Nicki dropped her hands over his. She smiled up at him and slowly removed his hands from her ass, even though he was loving it because she was basically helping him get his feel on, and put them back down by his sides. Safaree leaned his head down right as the doorbell sounded off. Nicki's eyes bucked open and her smile grew on her face.

"He's here!" Nicki let go of his wrist, dashing out the room and towards the living room as Safaree was left hanging with his licks puckered. He shook his head, straightening up his face and turned heading out of the bathroom and towards the living room. He turned into the living room seeing Nicki already holding Elijah smothering his face with kisses as his sister was placing his bags and things on the floor by the door.

"Coonista!" Safaree through his arms up for a hug and she gave him a look before accepting his hug.

"I told you about calling me that Safaree."

"Ah, whatever." She leaned out of the hug and leaned against the dresser that leaned against the wall in the living room. Nicki finally detached her lips from Elijah and looked at her when she began talking again.

"Now, he hasn't been fed yet but I don't think he's hungry. I tried feeding him before we got here so he could just go to sleep but he didn't want it. You could try again though." Nicki nodded and stared at Safaree who went to go take a seat on the couch. Nicki grabbed hold of Elijah's hand that was trying to grab her earrings and looked back at Safaree's sister. "I shouldn't be out too late, we're just gonna go to dinner and a movie. If you need me, just-"

"Call. Yeah, we know. We've watched him before."

"Safaree, I don't want to have to hurt you in front of Nicki."

"Oop!"

Safaree smacked his lips and flicked through the channels on the TV.

"Now everything you need is in the bag and stuff. Uhm... I don't think I brought his rattle but-"

"Thank God."

"One more time Safaree. I'm telling you, I really don't want to embarrass you in front of Nicki."

Nicki laughed while looking at Elijah as he looked down at his tiny hand wrapped around her long finger. "I don't think that's a problem anyways, he still has toys over here from the last time. My baby will be good. Right, babe?!" She stared at him as he still seemed to be fascinated with the way that his hand was wrapped around her finger.

"Alright, Imma get going." She leaned off the dresser and walked towards Nicki. She stopped in front of Nicki bending down to kiss her son before embracing Nicki in a hug. She walked towards the door opening it, she stopped to pick up her purse off the floor and turned to say her goodbyes. Nicki stepped to the door after she closed it and locked it before wiggling the handled making sure it was locked. She turned away from the door placing a hand on the babies back heading towards the couch. She stopped in front of Safaree and he looked up at her.

"Hold him while I go put on some sweats." She leaned down putting the baby in Safaree's arms before smiling at him and placing his kisses on his cheeks again.

"Nah, keep them jeans on."

Nicki dropped her smile and rolled her eyes looking up at him. "I need to be comfortable."  She stood up straight and turned walking out of the living room.

"That ass looks like it's comfortable to me."

"Watch your mouth, SB!"

Nicki turned into the room unbuttoning her jeans. She wiggled out of them as she made her way to the dresser, bending down to her last drawer pulling out a pair of black jogging pants. She grabbed the jeans off the floor while clutching her jogging pants in the other hand standing up. She tossed the jeans on her bed before put on the jogging pants. She put one hand on her night stand as she adjusted her socks and stood up. Making her way back to the living room she smiled as she heard Elijah's giggles. She stood peeking at Safaree behind the corner smiling at him. She really loved how good Safaree was with kids. Just then she thought about how Safaree has never even said if he wanted kids. Of course she did and of course he knew that, but he never said whether he did or not. Nicki pushed herself off of the wall and made her way to the couch. Safaree looked up at her as she took a seat next to him and moved in close. She propped her right leg up on the couch and caressed the back of Safaree's head with her left hand while smiling down at Elijah.

"Do you ever want kids? I know I talk about it all the time but you never say anything."

"Of course." Nicki stared at him as he continued looking down and playing with Elijah making him laugh.

"Really?" Nicki gave a soft smile while looking at him. "How many?"

"Two boys."

"Aww. What? You don't want a mini me?"

Safaree looked up at Nicki and blinked. Nicki gave a little giggled and looked down. She reached out grabbing hold of Elijah's foot and her smile grew when he began giggling even more. She dropped her leg down that was propped up and stopped caressing the back of Safaree's head, holding her hand there as she bent down to place kisses on his stomach. She raised up his shirt and blew on his stomach making a little motor boat sound and his arms flew around in the air before landing on her head. Safaree laughed at him continuously hitting Nicki's head as she was placing kisses on his stomach. He began pulling her hair and Nicki took her other arm off of the back of Safaree's head and grabbed hold of Elijah's wrist.

"Babe, you can't. This isn't my hair."

Safaree's laugh got louder and Nicki quickly let go of one of Elijah's wrist to punch Safaree in the stomach. "Help me, Faree." He grabbed Elijah's hands the were pulling at Nicki's wig and held them captive. Nicki leaned up pulling his shirt down and staring at his blank face.

"You know I love you, but you can't be messing with da kid's hair. Ya dig?"

Nicki ran her hands through her black wig and straightened her bangs. She leaned into Safaree again and propped her leg back up on the couch placing her arms around her leg and locking her hands there.

"I think my lil' man is getting tired." Safaree sat him up in his lap with Elijah's back to his chest and stomach. Safaree placed his arm under Elijah's arm and rested his right hand on his stomach. Nicki looked down at Elijah before looking up at the TV that seemed to grab his attention. She grabbed the remote and turned from VH1. She looked down at Elijah who made a noise.

"What? You can't watch that. I don't want you listening to that and seeing that."

Elijah blinked at her and reached up playing with his ear. Nicki went back to flipping through the channels looking for something else for him to watch.

"Yeah." Safaree licked his lips and tilted his head to the side looking down looking at him. "Every time he starts messing with his ear that's when you know he's sleepy. What time is it?"

Nicki looked at the time on the TV Guide before looking back down at the remote. "8:42"

"Ahhh yeah." Safaree turned him around and looked at his face. Nicki stretched her arms out and Elijah stretched his arms out toward her. She smiled and scooped him up out of Safaree's hands.

"Come to Aunty Nicki." Nicki cradled him in her arms and stared at looked at Safaree as he got up from the couch. He pulled up his pants before he bent down and grabbed the bottle out of the side of the bag and made his way to the kitchen.

"I can't believe my baby is about to go to sleep and he just got here." Nicki poked out her bottom lip and stared down at him playing with his ear as she caressed his cheek. Safaree took the top off of the bottle putting it in the microwave for 30 seconds. He took the bottle out placing the lid back on and shaking it while walking back over to the couch. He stopped before he sat down holding his arm to give the Nicki the bottle. She took it out of his hands and adjusted Elijah before placing the bottle in his mouth.

"Have you met the new guy your sister is out with?"

"Nah. She trippin'. She said she doesn't want me to meet him until things get serious." he said putting air quotes around the word serious."Cause I overreact and starting hounding them."

"You do."

"No I don't."

"Yes...you do Faree. You're overprotective and she's a grown ass women now."

"So."

"So, you should let her date who she wants and accept it if she's happy." Nicki eased the bottle down a little when she saw Elijah's eyes getting heavy as he remained playing with his ear. Nicki looked up at Safaree when he flipped it and began going in on her.

"This coming from the overprotective big sister. Okay." Safaree took the remote from the other side of Nicki and began flipping through the channels.

"Fuck you, Safaree."

"Watch your mouth, Nicki." SB said mocking her from earlier. She rolled her eyes and looked down at Elijah who had dripped off. She smiled down at him taking the bottle out of his mouth and placing it beside her foot on the floor. "Safaree bring his crib out of that room and bring it into my room." Safaree turned off the TV and dropped the remote to the couch to stand up in front of Nicki. She placed Elijah on her chest with his head resting on her shoulder and grabbed Safaree's hand that was extended to her. He placed his free hand on her waist to make sure she didn't fall. She looked back down at the couch before placing her hand that was in Safaree's hand on Elijah's back. She walked down the hall with Safaree on her heels before he made a left.

She took a seat on the edge of her bed patting his back and looking around her room and nothing in particular. She looked up at the door when she heard the crib being rolled into the room.

"Where do you want this?"

"Put it on my side." Nicki stood up and followed behind Safaree when he rolled the crib by her side of the bed. He moved to the side of it and Nicki stood beside him. Nicki removed Elijah from her shoulder placing a soft kiss on his cheek before laying him down in the crib. She rested her hands on the rim of the crib looking down at him.

"Go get his bottle and his bags and lock up for me." Nicki said never removing her eyes from him. Safaree nodded and turned heading out the room. Nicki moved around the crib and to her nightstand checking her phone. She scrolled the business emails from Manny and made a mental note to get back to him in the morning. She pulled up her BBM and scrolled right passed the BBM from Waka and closed BBM. She opened her missed calls and nodded at the ones from Candi and Lauren assuming they weren't serious and said she would get back to them later. She put her phone down and stepped back to the crib when she heard Elijah make a noise and shift. She stepped to the other end of the crib and patted him on his back slightly. She stood there smiling down at him when she felt Safaree wrap his hands around her waist.

"Have I ever told you that ass is crazy in sweatpants?"

Nicki playfully rolled her eyes and gave a slight laugh. She smacked his hands that was wrapped around her before placing her hands back on the crib.

"Babe. I want a baby. Look how adorable my baby is sleeping right now." Nicki spoke in a soft voice.

"Let's start trying to make one." Safaree took one hand from around Nicki's waist and moved her hair out of the way placing kisses on her neck before wrapping his arm back around her waist. Nicki closed her eyes and took one hand off the crib reaching up and grabbing the side of Safaree's face.

"No." Nicki slowly opened her eyes and tilted her head to the side to look at Safaree. He stopped kissing her neck and looked up at her. They held eye contact before Nicki's eyes traveled down to his gorgeous lips. She kissed his bottom lip before breaking away and leaning back into place a quick peck on his lips and then looked back down at the crib.

"Whenever my career settles down. You know this." she smacked his hands the was around her waist lightly and he let go of her. She stepped to the side before plopping down on her bed. Safaree patted Elijah on the back before leaning down kissing his cheek.