Pulse: They Were Taught To Hustle, Not To Care. NEW ADD 8/20/14!!

-J. Rosé wrote:yes maam I understand, i've had problems with my dell laptop for ages. this will be the 4th time I send it back, for the same darn problem!

So I'm about to send itBACK AGAIN FOR THE SAME REASON.

ANYWAYS......UPS:D

Chapter Forty-One; Baby Blues
Janae


“Why you come in here glowing like you pregnant?” Tiffany asked as she led the way to her kitchen. How the hell did she know? Tiffany turned around and starred at me as my mind began to run, thinking of something to throw her off. “Oh my God,” Tiffany said as she looked me in my eyes. My eyes became wider as my mouth remained shut, what the hell was I supposed to do? “Oh my God! You are!” Tiffany said rushing to me to hug me. “Oh my God!! It has to be a girl! I can’t believe I just called your baby an ’it’. Okay, okay, she is gonna be a girl!” Tiff said overly excited. She grabbed my hand and led me to the living room. “So, she needs a nursery at my house too, I’m thinking light pink walls, with a princess crib that converts to a regular bed. Oooo! And she needs a flat screen too. I have the perfect name, Tiffany!“ Tiff finished as we both sat on her couch. I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Tiff, just stop, okay? I can’t even think right now let alone decorate a nursery.” I said exhaling.

“How far along are you?” Tiffany asked as she squinted her eyes at me.

“Umm, two weeks.” I slipped out as I played with my fingers. I knew she would eventually put two and two together.

“You sneaky little freak! Why didn’t you tell me you and Rome were back together? Or were yall even broken up? Or are yall just beneficial?” Tiff said prying into questions I didn’t want to answer. “Oh you can cut the silence, you’ve been silent for too long honey. Coming in here pregnant! I’m gonna make myself a drink, you can have apple juice.” Tiff smiled deviously as she got up and walked back into her kitchen. Getting the glasses out, she started to talk again. “So how does Rome feel about all this?”

“I don’t know,” I replied lightly.

“What you mean you don’t know?”

“I haven’t told him yet.” I confessed.

“Why not Nae? He deserves to know. I mean, he’s had his trifling ways in my opinion, but, it is his baby…right?” Tiffany asked as she poured the juice. I jumped up and looked back at her in the kitchen.

“How can you even ask that?” I asked upset.

“I’m sorry! But yesterday, if anyone had have asked me if you were pregnant I would have quickly said no, and that would have been a lie. You haven’t been telling me anything Ms. Thing. One night some guy is leaving your office, the next day your pregnant, tomorrow you’re the Queen of England.” Tiff said, causing me to laugh as she gave me my juice.

“I told you, Derrick’s an old friend, and old news. But can you please keep my pregnancy on the low, and low as in between me and you, not me, you, and Khail or any of the crew. I just don’t need the questions right now. I know everyone is concerned with Rome not being around and all.”

“My lips are sealed.” Tiff smiled as she sipped her wine, “So, when are you going to tell Rome?”

“When he gets back from Pensacola, he left this morning being all nice and crap.”

“Well, that’s a good thing, right?”

“Wrong, because he still left” I said rolling my eyes.

“The man doesn’t even know you need him the way you do. Well not need, but want him. He’s used to leaving and coming back to just you. He’s not married to you, and you have your own money so its not like your dependent of him.” Tiffany said as she placed her hand on my knee.

“I will tell him, whenever he gets back, he said two weeks but I pray its sooner than that.” I said as I exhaled. This damn apple juice was good.

“Well, that means we have two weeks for shopping for my neicey-pooh.” Tiffany smiled as she sat her wine glass down.

“Tiff I wont know if it’s a girl for a few more weeks now.”

“Trust me, it’s a girl.” Tiffany laughed causing me to laugh as well. Entertaining the thought of having a little girl wasn’t so bad anyway. My mind drifted on to seeing Rome with our daughter, he was an amazing brother to Joy; I know he’s going to be a perfect father to our unborn. For about an hour Tiffany and I talked about everything that had happened between me and Rome during the past weeks. After the whole Tyson thing, the only proof that I had of not being in connection with Tyson, was the messages we sent which were only on his phone. It took weeks for Rome to listen and in that time I had slipped into a depression, hell, he and I both had. Apparently, after speaking with Saint, Rome finally gave in and allowed me to explain and provide the proof, he knew my hands were clean. Rome explained that he had wanted to believe me the entire time but he was taught all of his life “women are just as deadly as men”. He didn’t want to be the one blinded by fabricated love. But what he and I shared was as authentic as it came. I was sure that eventually, he would’ve came to me to seek the truth, I was just glad it happened sooner. We talked and Rome knew it was time to get out while he still could; he refused to end up like his father. So he packed his mother and Joy up and sent them to his grandmother’s in Georgia. Meanwhile, he was tying up every loose end, so when he walked away, his plate was clean.

“I swear I just want to get on a plane and go to some country and leave everything else behind. I just want it to be me and him, you know?” I said as I laid my head in Tiff’s lap.

“Yea well that wouldn’t work because you know I don’t do foreign. I don’t know what the fuck they do, and you know most of them don’t like Americans. So bump that, stay your high-yellow-ass here. You know you always got me, and you’re definitely not taking my neicey-pooh anywhere.” Tiffany said, making us both laugh. My phone vibrated and Tiffany picked it up.

“Hey Sunshine?” Tiffany read. I got up quickly and snatched the phone.

“It’s Derrick,” I said while responding back.

“And? Heffa don’t snatch from me!” Tiffany said tossing a pillow at her pregnant bestfriend, me.

Within fifteen minutes my entire agenda had changed. Instead of staying at the salon all day, I was going to meet Derrick for lunch after my hair appointment. Tiffany had already scheduled for us to go to the expensive though exclusive baby store, saying her niece deserved the best. So we were set.

--Rome--

I drove to my place with pride, I honestly felt like a new man. Janae was pregnant with my baby. No wonder she wanted me around so much. I canceled my plans for today and planned on taking her out tonight. I knew she was disappointed when I left so I was hoping a small surprise would make her day. I can’t have her walking around depressed. I walked into my condo and it was almost foreign, I hadn’t been here in weeks. Anytime I was in town I was at J’s place. I came to my closet and picked out what I wanted to wear. I grabbed my phone and made reservations at Janae’s favorite restaurant. Dressed and ready, I headed to the hair salon where I knew she’d be.


I turned down the radio as I parked my car on the side of Joy’s hair salon, I spotted Janae’s car so I had perfect timing. I took a double take when I saw some nigga in the car with her, the same nigga’ I spotted coming from the back of Janae’s store last night. I never once thought she was doing something foul, but the shit didn’t sit right. She pulled off and I followed a few cars behind her. I kept telling myself it was wrong to follow her, but something kept pushing it. About 15 minutes later they stopped at LaBelle, a baby boutique. ”The fuck she shopping with him for?” I said in my head as I watched them get out of the car. Before they could walk into the elaborate store, Tiffany walked out of it, along with a white chick that must have owned the place. I watched with narrowed eye brows as ole dude placed his hand on the nape of Janae’s back as they crossed the driving path that separated the parking lot from the store. I reached for my door handle; this shit was already going too far. I spent weeks pissed off at Janae over some shit that ended badly and had fingers pointed at everyone. I wasn’t about to let another minute go by and not know what the fuck was going on. Just as I opened my door, my phone started ringing.


Felicia Fullard’s name come on my screen. I looked over at Janae and watched as she shook the white girl’s hand first, then ole dude did the same. I grabbed my phone and answered.

“Felicia, what’s up?” I said as I watched the four people disappear into the store. I was going to get to the bottom of this shit, and soon.

“Hey Rome, I got some good news. Are you in town?” my banker slash childhood friend asked.

“Yeah, I’ll be over in 20.”

-25 Minutes Later-

“All of the money has transferred; every tender attached to your name is clean and perfectly legal.” Felicia smiled. We were in her office at the bank's headquarters. I nodded my head, this was beyond good news. Felicia could tell something was wrong though. “Rome what’s wrong? We’ve been working to get to this point for weeks, months! I thought you’d be happier.” Felicia’s statement was true. Felicia had worked hard to get the work accomplished. She drew up some paper work and certified me as a realtor, dating the certification two years back though. Through some friends in high places, she managed to attach my name to a few sales she had made from the past two years and forward, thus explaining why I had money. She also managed to get me a few stocks and trades which all came out pretty well. I didn’t need the stock and trade money, I just needed reason for the money I had. I anonymously donated that money to a few charities. All of the paper work was certified and now my money had legal reason, and I had paper work to prove it. Felicia had the gift of changing the past. I know I should’ve been jumping for joy, but Janae and ole dude still had my mind. She couldn’t have been doing me wrong, could she?

“I appreciate everything, I swear you saved my ass,” I joked.

“Yeah well, you saved mine.” Felicia smiled back as she referred to me helping her out when we were younger. Her mother wasn’t always around so I kept up with her until her aunt got custody of her. “It was the least I could do. Now Mr. McKenzie, I have a lunch date with my waiting husband. And you need to go fix whatever is going wrong in your love life cause you buggin’, and it’s showing.” She laughed as I looked at her funny. “Rome, only a woman could have you sitting here looking confused. I just basically told you that your connection to anything illegal has been erased, and you haven’t moved. Go get whoever she is, please. Blue doesn’t look good on you.” Felicia smirked as she grabbed for her purse. I shook my head and smirked as well. I guess she knew me. I said goodbye to Felicia and her husband before heading back to my place. I had to get my mind together before I approached Janae.





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I cant type sorry enough for how late this is:(
finally kicking writer's block's ass lol
so...what do yall think?
and as always sorry for any typos, especially for this add bc I kept switch from 1st person to 3rd and had to correct it many times

hope yall enjoyed!

Man o man...really tho. Ok so I'm caught with Derrick. I should have known Rome was gonna surprise me and come off guard. Glad everything straight with his money but really, not another misunderstanding. Took forever to get it back going. Ups add asap

I think it's time to bring this to an end also, my baby(this story, i dont have any kids!) is like, four years old! Lol wow, this story has been on and off for a while lol. It's probably my favorite so far though!

So here's a WHO KNEW fact about PULSE

Originally, Pulse was starting yeeaaarrrs back, I mean like, "Pretty Ricky Board" back lol, but Pulse was supposed to be a Pretty Ricky story!

IKR?!?! I never got passed the first two adds before I became board with the characters though.

The main character was Cory (Slik'em, or whoever you spell it), who is now Rome (Trey Songz).

I'm sooo glad this board was created because Pulse became a very very interesting little tale lol. I had not thought of that title until i got to this board and began brainstorming...


Also, I deviated from my original plan of them being college students, but oh well. I think it worked out!



well, thats my WHO KNEW fact, random post! #CarryOn

Rome had had one too many drinks just thinking about every scenario that could have been going on behind his back. His calm, thoughtful mindset had been lost three shots ago. Janae should have known better, she should’ve known. Now his clouded mind began to doubt that this baby was even his. What if it wasn’t? He knew he wouldn’t be able to bare to see her carry another man’s child, he just couldn’t. He shot back another round of Vodka as he sat back on his couch. He had been home for hours, and when Janae declined to answer or return any of his calls, he began to think the worst of her. He knew he and Tiffany had not been on good terms in a while, so he doubted that she would stop Janae from doing something foul. After all, she was there too. She saw that bastard escort Janae across the street as though she bared his child. The bolts on his door shifted and he looked up. In came Janae with several bags in tow. He stood himself up, barely able to stand straight. Janae flipped the lights on, surprised to see Rome standing hazely in the living room.


“Babe, I-…I thought you left?” Janae said skeptically as she tried to hide the bags.

“I bet you did,” Rome’s words slurred as he traveled slowly towards her, “Where you been, I been calling you all night.”

“Bae, it’s 8 o’clock, ” she replied, squinting her face at his weird behavior, “And I had some errands to run. Are you drunk?” Janae dropped the bags as she examined him, he definitely was.

“I saw you with your boyfriend Janae, what the fuck is going on?” Rome cursed, his voice clear and dangerous. Janae looked at him confused as hell.

“Rome what are you talking about?”

“I saw the fuckin pregnancy tests in your bathroom Janae! You wanna lie to me and tell me that’s my fuckin’ baby?! I just saw yo ass wit’ that bitch nigga today!” Anger ripped through him, she could at least have the decency to admit who she was with just hours, possibly minutes ago.

“Okay, you’re drunk, and you are clearly getting your shit mixed up.” Janae said, she was more hurt than anything, how could even think that of her? She wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt because he was drunk. She wanted to be the one to tell him they were expecting. It was supposed to be their moment of blissfulness, now it had turned into a drunken mess. “Let’s just get you to bed before you say something else you’ll regret.” Janae tried to pull him towards his bedroom, but the moment her hand toughed his arm, he snatched it away.

“The fuck off me! You gon’ stand there and ignore what the fuck I just said? Huh? You fucking around on me? I fuckin’ trusted yo ass, after all this fuckin bullshit and you come here with this? Fuck you Janae!” Rome’s drunken tongue had hit her hard, this wasn’t the man she loved. She tried to make herself believe that it was just the alcohol talking but part of her felt as though he had been pondering her fidelity for months now. She was a ball of hormones and right now she was on the verge of breaking down into a fit of tears. She had planned this moment out all day. It would be beautiful, he would be happy, and they’d start their family together, happily.

“Fuck me?” Janae yelled back, her index finger pointing into her chest, ”You don’t think I’ve dealt with your shit too? I don’t even know where you are 90% of the time! You fuck me and you leave!”

“We aint gotta fuck, just get the fuck out!” Rome was drunk, angry, and increasingly aggressive. He made his way to the door and swung it up, Janae watched in awe, he was really going put her out.

“Rome I’m not leaving, we’re gonna-“

“JANAE!” Rome’s deep voice roared, it was as though the bass in his voice had traveled through her body because she jumped instantly. “Get out, now.” In that moment Janae had paralyzed herself as she starred back at him. His eyes were unrecognizable. She didn’t know this, this drunken fool. He was treating her like a hoe off the street.
“Don’t make me pull you outta here, Janae I swear. You need to fuckin bounce.” He said to her. Even his tone was unrecognizable.

“Rome please, this isn’t you.” Janae cried, tears rolling down her rosey cheeks. Rome’s eye hit the ceiling; he was done with her excuses. “ It’s not true, I haven’t-“ her words were cut when Rome came towards her. He gripped her arm tightly and yanked her from her position. Janae yelped in pain as he grabbed her and began pulling her towards the door. “Let go!” she pleaded as she struggled to free herself, his grip only tightening as he moved closer to the door. “Rome you’re hurting me let go!” she yelled at him as she pushed him hard enough to knock off his balance. He released her arm as he stumbled back, catching himself on the wall.
Janae watched this, stranger, pull himself together. She shook her as tears followed like a broken dam; before he could say another word, she took her exit and didn’t look back…

Rome slammed the door moments later when he realized she was gone. He headed towards his bedroom, but something caught his foot, causing him to lose his balance for a second. He looked down to the bags Janae had brought in. He rambled through them to see boxes of white rose pedals, a small rectangular box with a knotted bow, and a mint green photo book. He pulled the book open to see that it held three photos side by side, however, his vision was too blurry to make them out. He tossed the book and headed towards his bedroom.

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Tiffany knew something was wrong when she looked at her best friend standing outside her door. She had an even bigger feeling that it had something to do with Rome.

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so...what do yall think?
Rome's got anger issues or nah? Blame it on the Vodka?
Do y'all think it was wrong for J to bring Derrick baby shopping? Is the situation suspect?

As always sorry for any typos.

Well Well Well, Rome still hold some animosity. I understand he was pissed but dang I couldn't get a word out. I wish it was just the alcohol but I think it's more. I don't know y Derrick was there. Hopefully for some advice and not admitting the attraction. Or maybe I was clearing my conscience to move on. Love it as always. Ready for another one.

When is the next add coming up???



Rome bout to regret what he just did...Janae should have just slapped him and told him the truth and THEN walk out!!!