I loved how she smiled when I called her that, my wife was beautiful and I considered myself the luckiest woman on earth. Every night we video called, just to find out about her and the children's day while she asked me about mine. Being far away from my family was the reason I hated away games and with her being highly pregnant I could not bring her with me. Plus our boys had school now and she hated to disrupt their schooling. I could not wait to get these games over with, so I could go home and just be with them.
" Hey honey...."
We always spent hours talking about practice, her job, the children and her pregnancy and today was no different.
" ..thank you, I wasn't quite feeling beautiful today."
" Why? What happened?"
" Your mom came over."
She chewed on her lower lip as soon as she said that, something she did to stop from crying. My mother must have said something hurtful to her. I could never understand how my mom could not get along with the other important woman in my life. I blamed it on my mother because ever since we started dating my mother has made it clear to Noni that she did not approve of her.
" What did she say?"
" It's nothing I can't handle babe-"
" Don't give me that when you're on the brink of tears."
" Oli it's noth-"
" Noni stop! Stop taking up for my mom, now I want to know what she said or I'm hanging up this call."
I did not mean to raise my voice at her but I hated when she kept things like this from me especially about my mom. I know she is trying not to come between us but she does not understand that my mother is the one ruining our relationship.
" I'm sorry."
" Don't apologise_ I'm sorry for raising my voice."
She wiped her cheeks while sniffing her tears away, my mom could be very hurtful and it did not help that Noni was soft.
" How was prac-"
With that I cut the call. Since she would not tell me what my mom said I was going to call the woman herself.
" Mma what did you say to my wife?"
" So she calls you crying and you forget how to greet your mother?"
" Mma don't start or I swear you'll never see another cent of my money, or your grandkids! Now what did you say to Noni!?"
" You think because you're a big shot basketball coach you can talk to me however you want?. Olivia I am your mother!"
" Then start acting like a mother by respecting my wife and stop showing up to my house when I am not there to abuse her."
" I did not abuse anyone and I'll do whatever I want. Plus I just wanted to make sure that fat bitch was not disrespecting the home you bought."
I shut my eyes at those words and tried to calm myself before I cussed my mother out.
" Please tell me you did not use any of those words in whatever you said to her."
" If I did?"
" Mom I swear if you said anything-"
" What? What are you going to do? Nothing! Don't think now you hang around white people in those big offices, you're better. You're a black child who I raised to be respectful to her elders-"
" How do you expect me to be respectful to you when you're calling my wife every degratory word in the book."
" I told her the truth, she's fat, dirty, lazy and a bad mother."
I hung up. It was useless talking to her over the phone, she could never support me.
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