Our Little Secret

Chapter 23

Omniscient

Thursday, March 26

"Bre, come on bruh. Get up and get dressed," Romeo said as he pulled the comforter off of Breaunna.

"Noooo, I'm too tired Romeo. Please." Breaunna pulled the covers back up, over her head this time.

"I'm not playing with you. We got important shit to do today so get up."

Bre and Romeo had an appointment with the courts today. They were trying to get full custody of Cali.

Breaunna didn't understand why they had to go through the courts to get Cali when they already had her.

But Romeo wanted to do this because they didn't have any records for her. He was thinking into the future, like what if they wanted to register her for school... They had no birth certificate, social security card, nothing.

After twenty minutes, Breaunna finally decided to get out of the bed. Romeo was heated because he knew how long she took to get ready and he didn't want to be late.

If they wanted to make an impression and be on the courts good side, being late was not one of them.

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They pulled up to the court house with less than five minutes to spare for their appointment.

"Breaunna, come on," Romeo said as he helped her out of the car, "you taking all damn day."

He was still salty because they would have made it there sooner if Breaunna didn't have to do her makeup and her hair, then fix a big ass breakfast.

"Can't you see I'm pregnant," she said in a harsh tone.

It's the pregnancy hormones, Romeo thought to himself. He had to remind himself to not go off on her because she was pregnant and he didn't want to hurt her feelings.

Instead of starting an argument, he helped her up the stairs, then walked off to sign them in.

As soon as Romeo was about to sit down, the lady behind the front desk spoke up.

"Ahh, sir, you're just in time for your appointment. If you could follow me, that'll be great," she said.

Romeo motioned for Breaunna to come so they could follow the lady. She led them down a long hallway, and stopped in front of a door, then she opened.

"Your twelve o'clock is here Ms. Johnson," she said and walked off leaving us.

Romeo and Breaunna took a seat in front of the dark cherry colored desk.

Ms. Johnson's back was turned to them. She was focused on whatever she was doing on her laptop, not paying them any attention.

"Excuse me," Breaunna said and Ms. Johnson quickly turned around.

"Hi, I'm sorry about that," she said turning around. "My name is Ms. Johnson. I'm a social worker that'll be working on your case regarding a child that you want to adopt. Am I correct?"

"Correct," Breaunna said with slight attitude. Romeo noticed but he tried to ignore it. He had no idea why she was acting like that.