Actors only - Pt 5

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I woke up from a nap to see the kids asleep. The littlest one started to get fussy. I pick her up and rock her back to sleep. Max was also asleep and then the door bell rang. I open the door to see Max's tia.

"Hi, your kids are asleep and so is max."

"Oh, thank you for putting them in bed but I can get them now." She picked her oldest up and then her second, then the youngest.
"I hope to see you more."

"You too." I said my goodbyes and sat on the couch. Max started waking up.

"The kids! Where are the kids?!?" Max yelled.

"Calm down, their mom picked them up. They were also asleep." He calmed down and sat down next to me.

"Wanna eat?" He asked shyly.

"Sure." Thinking we were going to eat at home. But sure enough I was fooled, i started being pulled on by the hand, realizing he wanted to eat out and not at his house.
"Where we going?" I ask.

"Out." He held my hand so delicate. It felt like a slight pull. It's like untying your shoes.

"Oh my god!" I gasp.

"What?" Max looked at me concerned.

"I forgot me and Chauncey were going to hang out." I say kinda sadly.
"You think he'll understand?" I ask max.

"I couldn't say, we barely met the dude."I nod, waiting to see a pay phone so I can call.

We get to a fast food place, we go inside and Max is still holding my hand.

"I'll order for us, what do you want?"

"Just a cheeseburger and fries." I answer him, he sends me a nod.
I look around trying to see if there's a pay phone and I see Chauncey with Marty and mike.
I quickly go to Chauncey and start apologizing.

"Heyheyheyhey, it's fine. My mom wanted to meet you and your parents first so we couldn't hang out till then."

"Thank god." I sigh out of relief.

"Hey, uh, Chloe, who are you with?" Mike asks me.

"Oh I'm with Max."

"So, you were with him all day?" Marty asks.

"Yeah, we went to the library, but quickly went to his house, I met his mom." I see that they are kinda tense.

"That's nice." Chauncey said, giving me a smirk.

"Yeah, yeah, nice got cut short when I had to babysit."

"You had to babysit?" Mike asks.

"Yeah, his tia came and asked if he could babysit her kids, sadly I was there." I joked.
"But they were good kids, asleep for the most part."

"So you got to play mommy and daddy with max, hm?" Chauncey joked.

"Bro, don't even, I was watching them and max was sleeping." I rolled my eyes.

"Seems like my parents." Chauncey said again.

"Same." I replied.

"So like one does everything and the other doesn't?" Marty asks.
Chauncey and I look at each other, and shrug.

"My mom cooks, clean and works. She also watches us all the time. My dad just works." Chauncey said, finally giving an answer. I nod my head at him.

"My parents do both?" Mike says.

"Must be nice, my parents argue all the time." Chauncey said.

"My parents are divorced, they got it when I was born."

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