Aubrey POV
"I can't believe you really invited them here without telling me." Nic scowled.
"Nic, you'll be fine." I replied, "if this doesnt work I promise to let it go."
She exhaled, "fine."
"Lydia is bringing the kids over." I informed.
"Good, I wanted your father to meet OJ anyways." She said slightly more enthusiastically.
Lydia POV
I pulled up in front of Nic's house behind an Uber Black.
"Thats them" Liyah informed me.
"Damn, they're early.." I checked the clock, before refreshing my lipstick.
"They always are." Liyah rolled her eyes.
We got out the car and I put OJ on my hip. I walked them over to where Aubrey's parents were getting out of their Uber.
"Hey, you must be Aubrey's parents." I greeted them with a smile.
"Yes and you are?" His mom raised an eyebrow.
"Lydia Colvin." I replied.
"And my name is OJ." OJ added.
"Hey OJ, your mama told me a lot about you." Aubrey's dad tapped OJ's nose with his finger.
OJ giggled.
"You need help with your bags?" I offered.
I helped them inside, where Aubrey and Nic had been talking apparently.
"Heyy, you've got company." I announced.
They both quickly stood to face us.
"Mommy!" OJ jumped from my arms and ran to her.
"Hey baby boy!" She mirrored his excitement.
"Is the baby still in your tummy?" OJ asked, squinting the way Nic usually would.
"Mhmm." She nodded.
Before she could react, he lifted her shirt to reveal her stomach. He planted several exaggerated kisses all over her stomach and spoke in indecipherable baby-talk.
"Mommy when will the baby come out of your tummy?" He asked.
I could tell Nic was slightly embarrassed, but her focus was on OJ.
She knelt down in front of him, "Well the baby still has some more growing to do.."
She looked up at me.
"OJ I thought you were gonna show me the new picture you put on your wall?" I jumped in.
"Oh yeah." He turned to me.
Nicki mouthed Thank You to me, I winked a response.
Aubrey POV
After Lydia and OJ exited Nicki offered her hand to my mom.
"Nice seeing you two again." She smiled.
"It is nice isn't it?" Mom replied, putting just as much effort as Nic did to pretend to be happy.
"Well I am definitely looking forward to our stay." Dad said as he and Nic hugged.
It was evident that Mom was not too happy about that either.
"We do have some news though." I cleared my throat as I pulled Nic back to me.
"Oh?" Mom raised an eyebrow. "You mean the pregnancy?"
Nic shut down.
"Yep and we're engaged." She shrugged her shoulders and pulled away. "You guys staying here or I can book you a hotel."
"Im sure this place is big enough for us to stay here." Mom replied.
"Aubrey can you show your parents to one of the guest rooms?" She turned to me.
"Okay." I grabbed their luggage. Before exiting, I whispered to Nic "are you okay?"
"I hate her." She scowled through her teeth.
Nicki POV
Aaliyah and I began working on dinner. Shortly after Aubrey's mom entered.
"I'll be needing a tour of this place at some point." She stated.
"Its a house, not a museum." I said under my breath as I chopped vegetables.
"Oh, so you cook?" She asked walking over to me.
"Of course I cook, if I didn't cook how would I eat?" I rolled my eyes.
"Aaliyah, can you step out for a moment." She requested.
"But I'm -"
"Just for a minute."
"Mom?" Liyah looked at me for help.
"You can stay put." I assured her.
"Must you continue to make this worse?" Aubrey's mom folded her arms.
I shrugged, " you've been waiting for months for this moment huh?"
"Not precisely."
"I don't need you and your false sense of entitlement disrupting the balance of how I run my life. Okay?" I put the fish that Liyah had just seasoned in the oven.
"And what I don't need," she mimicked, "is for you to continue to disrespect me just because you're rich and think that you're above me."
"Don't tell me what I think. I know what I think, you don't know me." I scrunched my nose up at her.
"She's actually super nice okay?" Liyah backed me up.
"Fine.. but tell me this." she kept her arms folded, "why is your business partner here, at your house.. and why-"
"I don't have to tell you anything." I shook my head.
"You're marrying my son, you can't avoid me for ever" she stated and left the room.
"she's a handful." I pushed my hair out of my face.
"she's crabby." Liyah agreed.
"Niccccc!" I heard Lydia call me from down the hall.
I went to meet her.
"I'm gonna go babe." she hugged me.
"nooo. you're staying." I told her.
"I'm sorry what was that?" she blinked.
"I'm gonna go crazy here!"
"Aubrey's here." she reasoned.
"I know, but he has parents to tend to." I groaned.
"how long are they staying?" she asked.
"I don't know.. I didn't even know they were coming!" I exclaimed.
Then, as if on cue... Aubrey's mother entered.
"Speaking of the damn devil." I crossed my arms.
"You know if you just tell me the truth-" she began but Lydia cut her off.
"Can I just say, that you've been rude to me all evening and we haven't even met officially." Lydia stated.
"I actually see and understand why Aubrey doesn't associate with you anymore." I concluded, knowingly pushing all her buttons.
"That is none of your concern." she snapped.
"You know you should be thanking her." Lydia told her.
"For what, taking away my son?"
"He was already gone! The only reason he's contacted you at all this year was because of me! And look at the mess you've made of it!" I shouted, "All I wanted, was to offer the kids everything I never had."
By the time I'd finished my spiel I was instantly met with a sting in my cheek. It took me a moment to process what happened but by then Lydia had already reacted for me.
"It took everything in me not to intervene too much when you hurt her emotionally, but you and no one else will ever lay a hand on her ever again." Lydia said through her teeth.
"you slapped me?" I touched my face, still in shock. "are you serious?"
"Its about time someone disciplined you for once." She justified her actions.
I stormed upstairs and found Aubrey talking with his father.
"We need to talk." I demanded.
"What's wrong?" Aubrey stood and looked me in my eyes.
"She's been rude all day, she's disrespected me, raised her voice at me and she just fucking hit me." I listed, blinking away oncoming tears.
"She hit you?" He and his father said simultaneously. His father stood and walked over to us.
"I just don't know why she hates me so much." I groaned, still fighting back tears.
"She's just a little off-set. You becoming now the most prominent woman in Aubrey's life." His father tried to explain.
"But all I've been trying to do was to have her be apart of our lives." The tears fell. Aubrey instantly pulled me into a hug.
I heard footsteps behind me and Aubrey's body tensed before he let me go.
"What's wrong with you?" He growled at her.
"Aubrey stop that's your mother." I grabbed his arm.
"You just said-"
"I know.. But I will not allow you to let me be the line of division between you and your mother. No matter how much she and I disagree, you can't pick sides. She has an issue with me, not you." I explained.
"that's the first sensible thing she's said all night." she observed.
"I'm going to bed." I decided, tired of dealing with everything at the moment. I turned to Aubrey's dad and hugged him. He kissed my forehead. When I pulled away, I did the same with Aubrey. We kissed, then I left.. avoiding his mother as I made my way down the hall.
By the time I'd taken my shirt off and had been staring at my reflection in the mirror, someone knocked at the door.
"Who is it?" I called, still focused on my reflection.
"Lydia." she replied.
"come in." I ordered.
She entered and closed the door behind her.
"Damn I didnt realize you were getting big already." She exclaimed in regards to my stomach.
"Yeah, you can only really tell when I don't have clothes on." I cocked my head to the side.
"you two are going to be amazing parents." She assured me, as if reading my mind.
"Thanks." I said, staring at her through the mirror.
"you don't have to thank me." she winked.
"I'm not talking about what you said... I'm talking about what you did downstairs." I informed.
"I know." she approached me and rested her chin on my shoulder.
"Every woman in Aubrey's life hates me." I sighed.
"They just feel threatened by you." She coaxed, "Its just the reality of the fact that they're replaceable, everything about you is intimidating to any female thats insecure about herself."
There was a soft knock at the door and then Aubrey entered.
"See you two in the morning." Lydia gave me a hug and half-hugged Aubrey before leaving.
"She didn't have to leave." Aubrey said to me.
"I didn't tell her to." I shrugged.
"I wanted to talk to anyways." He put his hands in his pockets.
"I asked her to stay here while your parents were in town. You can go talk to her." I told him.
"I'll be right back." he pecked my lips.
AUBREY POV
I found Lydia getting herself settled in the guest room beside OJ's. The door was open so I knocked softly as I entered.
"Hey." she looked up from her phone.
I closed the door behind me and approached her.
"I need you to do me a favor." I cleared my throat.
"I'm listening.."
"Nic won't let me get involved the way I want to..." I opened up.
"oh with your mother?" she comprehended.
"As much as I hate to say it, you did the right thing." I added.
"You're kidding." She cocked an eyebrow at me, "Even I have even the slightest bits of regret about it."
"It may not have been the most... logical reaction, but it was the right thing nonetheless." I admitted.
"Thanks." she playfully hit my arm.
"Since Nic won't let me just be on her side.. I need you to do it for me." I told her.
"Don't worry.." she winked.
"thanks."
"One more thing.." she stopped me from leaving.
"yes?"
"I know I'm not supposed to be involved in your relationship, but your fiancée is in need of some sex okay?" she pointed to the door.
"What-How.."
"I told you, I can tell when she does.. and I already promised both of you and myself I wouldn't step in like I did last time." she said in a joking manner.
"Fair enough." I shrugged.
I left and returned to Nic's bedroom.
"How was the talk?" She asked, sitting on the bed in green and gold lingerie.
"it was nice." I replied, "Thats a new color." I pointed to her attire.
"yeah." she exhaled, "My usual ones were getting a little uncomfortable with the baby and all.. but I guess I should stop caring as much about my appearance huh? I mean.. its inevitable at this point."
"You look stunning no matter what." I ran my hand slowly up her thigh. She bit her lip and blushed a bit. I kissed her as my hand made it between her legs. I felt her throbbing against my hand and I realized just how right Lydia was.
I carefully removed her lingerie and kissed down her body.
QOTD: Do yall want me to post part 3 / 4 of the Q&A this week?? I swear yall still haven't watched the 1st two...
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