Unconditional

Chapter 12

"My bad, I didn't mean to offend you. I just feel teased, like I got to see what a real woman was but then I get the short end of the stick. You're just friends with him."

"To tell the truth, there's always been feeling there. He was my first love but we never took it there. He's always been possessive over me and now he wants to try things."

"Well are you?"

"I told him that I need sometime to focus on what I really need."

"Maybe it's not him."

"Maybe, maybe not, but that's for me to determine."

"I understand. You'll always know how to reach me if you need to," he responded standing up.

Then Dionne came out of the kitchen.

"Ay, get away from her!" Dionne shouted.

"Chill, I'm leaving," he smiled and waved as he walked towards the door.

Just then Chris was walking in. Chris mean mugged Rashad while he simple smirked back at him.

"Dionne, I thought I told you to watch her?" Chris said to her after Rashad left out.

"Nigga, she a grown ass woman not a child. You wouldn't have had anything to worry about if you were on your grown man and handling business from the beginning." Dionne shrugged.

He just shook off her response and asked me was I ready to go.

"Yeah," said pushing myself up from my seat with help from the table. I wasn't use to carrying none of this extra weight since I was a little younger.

"You good?" Chris asked.

"I'm fine," I responded, even though I knew he was going to continue to baby me since I had to go to the hospital last night.

I grabbed some pans and bowls that were suppose to come back to my house which Chris removed from my hands.

I shook my head, "you wanna carry my pocketbook for me too?" I asked sarcastically.

"Do you want me to?" he asked in all seriousness.

I couldn't help but to laugh because he was serious. And then I seen a flash but I ignored it.

"Would you like to carry these babies too?"

"I would if I could," he smiled and rubbed my stomach, I couldn't help but to smile either. Then there was another flash finally I looked up to see Dionne with her digital camera.

"What are you doing?" I asked her.

"Showing y'all how cute y'all look together."

I sucked my teeth and rolled my eyes I exaggeration, "let's go Chris."

"Nah I want to see these," he said walking over to Dionne.

I crossed my arms as Chris looked at Dionne's camera with a grin on his face.

"Done yet?" I asked, "because my feet are starting to hurt."

"Oh, time to go, " he responded taking my hand.

Dionne was right behind us on the way out. She locked up and went to Rashad's office to return the key while we waited in Chris' car. He made it very clear that he didn't want me anywhere near Rashad anymore, not that he has any right to whom I choose to be around. I just thought that I'd give him a little break seeing that he was really stressing over the lightest things and I could see him ending up in the hospital over stressing also very soon.

As soon as we got to my house I took my ass upstairs and climbed in to bed. After the house was armed Chris came in to the room and pulled off my shoes. Then he kissed all ten of my toes before rubbing them. After the foot rub, he pulled off my pants and then my shirt. He grabbed a cotton nightgown out and wireless racerback bra out of the top drawer from my dresser. Then he handed them to me. Normal he would help me change my bra and slide my nightgown over my head but instead tonight he left out of the room. No longer than a minute later I heard the shower going so I just changed myself and turned my light off.

•Chris•

I was one of those nights when I needed a cold shower. I wasn't trying to be rude because I usually do help Kim change but I couldn't do it tonight. I was so hard and sexual frustrated so I had to tired myself out. While I had the shower water running I did alot of different exercises, of 150 reps each, shit if I was able to do suicides I would those too but unfortunately, the bathroom wasn't a gym. Since Kim wanted to 'relax' which really meant get away from her, I guess hitting the gym tomorrow would do me some good.

After the effects of the exercising started to weight on me I hopped the shower. It was extremely cold but I took it. After the shower I dried off and slipped on some boxers then lazily fell in to bed with Kim. As soon as I wrapped myself around Kim she fell in to me.

"Why is you skin so cold?" she asked me.

"I had to take a cold shower. Sorry, am I too cold?" I asked scooting away a little.

"No, that actually feels good," she said backing back in to me, "why did you take a cold shower?"

"I had to calm down. I'm good now," I told her, "now can we get some sleep, today was a long day."

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It only seemed like I'd been sleep for 10 minutes when my cell phone rang. I looked at the clock on the nightstand while reaching for it. It was 3:17 a.m. I looked at the caller i.d. and huffed. It was Brandi's mom. This had better been a damn good reason to wake me up.

"Hello?" I answered sheepishly.

"Wake yo ass up!" she yelled in to the receiver, "Brandi is in labor."

"What?!" I said popping up out of bed so quickly.

"Chris, what's wrong?" Kim asked jumping up out of bed also, which caused her to fall back on to the bed with a small groan.

"Shit, Kim, baby relax okay?" I said as I began throwing on some clothes.

"You need to stop worrying about that other baby momma of yours and get over here now!" Brandi's mom said bitterly.

"I'll be over there in a little," I responded then hung up, ignoring her ignorant ass comment.

"What's wrong?" Kim asked again as she eased off of the bed.

"Apparently, Brandi had gone in to labor."

"Oh god," Kim responded throwing on some comfortable stretch pants and her Nike slides.

"You going like that?" I asked her gathering my phone and car keys.

"Yeah, I'm pregnant, you think I give a damn about what I look like this time of morning?"

I just simply smirked as we rushed out the door. I found it odd that when we arrived at Brandi's house, it was quiet. As soon as Kim and I got to her doorstep the front door swung open.

"Damn near 20 minutes. It took you damn near 20 minutes to get here," Brandi's mom complained, "and on top of that, you drag baby momma #2 out of bed with you. You're lucky that this is a drill."

"Oh see," Kim chuckled humorlessly, "this be the bullshit." She turned back and got back in the car.

"This is un-fucking-believable!"

"Oh, believe it son. Because everytime you put my daughter and granddaughter second, I'm going to put you through hell."

"Where's Brandi?" I asked.

"Upstairs sleep. Not that you would care."

"You need to get a life and a man. Stop playing on my fucking phone, stay out of my business," I said hopping in to my car and pulling off.

When we got back in to bed, I sent Brandi a brief message stating that we need to have a serious talk. Then we off to bed, hopefully we get to sleep for the rest of the night.