Life After Marriage Book 3

Career Day Part 1

*** the pic has absolutely nothing to do with this chapter but do y'all remember when Amb in my story met the Prez in book 1? The real Amb met him a couple of weeks ago.
That's crazy!!

Now if we ca. only we can get Amb and Aug in a room lol.***

Travis POV-

"Uncle Boobie?" I woke up to Sata staring at me, sitting on the edge of the bed. I looked down at Stacy who was lying on my chest asleep.

"Yeah Booty-Doo. What's up?" I scratched my head and looked at the clock.

It was 7:00 clock.

"Today is career day at school. I want you to be me and Octavian's guest."

"Your guest?"

"Mm-hmm."

"Ask your daddy. He's a dentist." I said half sleep.

"The only exciting thing about daddy's job is the slide in his office. Kids don't like the dentist."

"Ask your mother she's a lawyer."

"Nooooo I want you and you're leaving tomorrow and I won't see you again." She scrunched her face to cry.

"Aww Booty-Doo don't do that." I patted her back to calm her down.

"Will you do it?"

I didn't feel like. I was sleepy as hell. And what was I going to say to a room
full of rugrats? But it was for my favorite niece.

"Yeah I'll do it."

"Yay!" She threw up her hands in victory. "Love you Uncle Boobie." She kissed me then jumped down and ran out the room.

"Baby." I shook Stacy to wake her up.

"Hmm." She said with closed eyes.

"Sata wants me to go to her school for career day."

"You should do it." She moved from my chest to her pillow.

"But you know how sensitive August is. He's going to be in his feelings."

"Ignore August. He'll get over it."

"Come with me." I laid my head on hers and put my leg between hers bringing her close to me.

"Travis I'm tired."

"And you think I'm not? All that work I put into that wedding?"

"What did you do besides hire Bobby Ray who probably isn't ordained so we may not even be married."

"See now you just ungrateful. I see how it is." I got off of her and stood up.

"Trav I'm joking."

"Nah you meant it. Give me my ring back?"

"You mean string?"

I gave her the straight face. She laughed.

"Yeah I'll go. Geez. Stop being sensitive." She got up, kissed my cheek and smacked my ass.

"Watch it."

She went in the bathroom door and closed it.

Amber POV-

"Ain't today career day?" Aug asked me from the washroom while he was shaving.

"Yeah." I said helping Auggie put on his uniform.

"What time I need to be there?" Aug stood in the doorway of the bathroom looking at me.

"Auggie go get me that brush off the sink so I can brush your hair."

I was trying to buy time to tell him she wanted Travis.

Auggie walked passed Aug into the washroom to get the brush.

"Amb. What time I need to know so I can make sure that time block is free."

"She wants Trav to go baby." I took the brush from Auggie and brushed his hair.

"Travis?"

"August it's not that serious please don't start." I sighed knowing he was going to go into a sensitive rant.

He just went in the washroom and finished shaving. He came out and silently put on his clothes.

"August kids never think what their parents do is cool. Besides Trav and Stac are leaving tomorrow. Let them spend this last moment together.

He didn't respond he just got dressed.

"Come on Auggie let's go get breakfast." Me and Auggie went downstairs.

"He's my uncle I'm introducing him."

"But he's my friend."

"Sooooooooo. Uncle is better than friend."

"What are y'all in here arguing about?"

O and Sata both yelled at the same time saying stuff.

"One at a time please. O go."

"Why him first?" Sata pouted.

"Because I said so. Now O what's going on?"

"I want to introduce Travis because he's my friend."

"But he's my Uncle!" Sata yelled.

"Girl stop yelling like you're crazy." I told her.

"How about you both do it?"

"I don't want to do it with him." Sata pouted.

"And I don't want to do it with you either because you're going to take over." O said back at Sata.

" you both do it or he doesn't go."

They sucked their teeth.

"Fine." They said in unison.

I got the cereal down for each of them to get some.

"Help Auggie please." I left and went upstairs to Aug who was laid on the bed in his dress clothes watching television.

"Aug you eat with the kids everyday. Stop being a brat."

"I'm not tripping." He said unbothered.

"Babe I think Trav needs this. It'll help him see he's done more than he thinks. Which he has." I kissed his forehead and sat on the side of the bed.

"Think about how many times you went on career days with Kay. Or Chay or Noonie. You're to them what Trav is to Sata. Everybody got a favorite uncle, Sata's happens to be Trav. You're Kay's. She's almost 13 and you're still her favorite."

"It's just that's my babygirl Amb. Her first career day I wanted to be there you know."

I laughed. "You know what this reminds me of?"

"What?" He looked at me.

"When you came back into my life after Nate died And all I had was Sata and before you even knew she was yours, you would pick her up and she would stop crying. She would squirm right out my arms to get to you. I had to put in all this work and here you came out the blue and she would just giggle and stop crying. That made me feel some type of way.

But I would look at how you would lay her on your chest and she'd fall right to sleep and you'd be sleep. And as you breathed in and out her little body would go up and down. Ahhh it was the most beautiful thing . You and her together. And the first words out of her mouth were Pop-Pop. That's the same little girl Aug. And her love hasn't changed. Go eat with the kids."

"How do you always know what to say? That deserves another baby." He pulled me on him.

"Man if you don't get cho..." I laughed. "I haven't even got this one out."

He looked at me and kissed my shoulder. There was a comfortable silence as we laid there.

"You ever think about what would've happen if I never came back?" He asked randomly.

"No because you did and that's all that matters."