Ever after .

Grey • 1

"All I know is you need to come get your daughter! " I hung up the phone. "I'm sick of your daddy Dri."  I said packing her bag .
I finished packing her a few outfits and shoes. The doorbell rung. I opened it and there stood my baby daddy Steel D. Brown. I rolled my eyes and let him in.
"Daddy!" Driskell squealed as she wrapped her small arms around his legs .
"You were supposed to be here two hours ago. I'm late for work." I said with attitude.
"I'm sorry. I got caught up.."
"with what Steele? Another female.."
He didn't say anything.
I shook my head in disbelief. I scooped her up and kissed her face. "mommy loves you. Be good for daddy." I cooed. She giggled and I handed her to her father.
"her medicine is in her bag, I already gave her the morning dose so she won't need anymore until tonight at 8. Bye baby girl." I kissed her cheek once more and put my laptop bag on my shoulder. We walked out of the apartment and I locked the door. I noticed he parked right beside me.
"Look Grey. I'm sorry" he said once he buckled Driskell in her car seat.
"you're always sorry Steele. You know you're supposed to get her every Wednesday so I don't know what the problem is. Half the time you don't even show up."
"I be busy man......"
"Busy?!?! How the fuck are you too busy for your ch....you know what I'm not even gonna waste my breath. Just have her back by Friday morning, she has a doctors appointment."
With that being said I left him standing there as I pulled off.
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It wasn't always like this between me and Steele. We met back in college, he was a sophomore and I was a freshman. We were just friends for a while and then I had to go away for about a year. By the time I came back I was a junior and he was senior. We decided to rekindle our relationship, so like most relationships we fell in love and planned our life together.
However that life seemed to go downhill after I got pregnant during my senior year. My health wasn't the best so I had a very tough pregnancy. I stayed in the hospital and on bedrest because of my sickle cell anemia. We would argue a lot and our stress levels were through the roof. Eventually He went back to being the player I once knew before we even got together. He didn't seem to care anymore. We ended our relationship after I had our daughter. Turns out he was messing with multiple women. I was hurt for a long time and part of me still is hurt because he was my first love. I never asked for an explanation to why he did it, I just kinda tuned him out and decided the only reason I needed him in my life was because of our child.
I wouldn't classify him as a bad father or anything it's his priorities aren't up to par. I hated that. We still argued but tried to keep calm because I didn't like arguing around Dri, who was now 3 years old.
She also had sickle cell anemia so we had to keep an eye out for her 24/7.

Steeles brother, Paine is married to my best friend Onyx. I love them so much. They always tried to get me and Steele to get along. 
I owned an office in downtown manhattan. I was a blogger and I co-owner of Onyx's clothing boutique called "Onyx ". I was the web designer of the website and kept all online orders in tact.
Steele owned an art gallery; one downtown and the other on the outskirts of town. He was also a record producer with his brother. He lived the fast life and seemed to get caught up in it a lot.
I didn't have an active love life but I had met this guy a little over two months ago and we clicked. His name was Landon. We've went on a few dates here and there but we weren't that serious yet. I didn't want to introduce him to Driskell until I knew we were a thing. The only person who knew about him was Onyx. It was gonna stay that way until I said so .
I knew Steele had women around Dri but I didn't say anything as long as they didn't put my child in any danger. Sometimes I didn't really approve of the women he surrounded himself with but I also didn't wanna be one of those baby mammas who didn't want their baby daddy to have another women around their child. So basically I just deal with it.

Steele always had a problem when I brought up things that made me uncomfortable. He would get so angry and wouldn't call for weeks about his daughter. I would literally go to his workplace to drop Dri off. Most of the time it felt like I was doing all the work.
I just wish things were different.