The Bridge

Chapter 44

[Only Lightly Edited]

One week later

Charlie

Charlie: Can you come to my place? I just wanna talk.

Aubrey: working no time

Charlie: pls?

Charlie: the baby will be here before we know it and I think we should have everything in place. How we wanna raise the baby, visiting schedules, all that.

Aubrey: u right we do need to sit down and discuss how we gonna coparent and shit. I'll be there later.

I smiled at his reply and went to my bedroom to freshen up which was much needed after cleaning house all day. Pregnancy was taking a lot out of me. I could tell Aubrey was avoiding me since I sent him that video. Every time I contacted him he kept it strictly baby talk and when I mentioned it outright he would gloss over the topic like it never even existed. Thats okay though. He was going to give into me sooner or later. It's just who that nigga is. He could say all he wanted about not being interested in me and not wanting me and everything else but I knew he saw it and I knew he liked it. I made sure to make it extra nasty for him. It's his weakness.

Just as I had exited the shower there was a knock at my front door. I wrapped my towel around my body and padded down the hall and across the living room to open it. Aubrey stood there with a fresh fade sported on all sides of his head, his waves swimming and trim to his beard. He smelled so good and I couldn't help being addicted to his scent.

"You couldn't put no clothes on?" He looked over my attire.

Although he seemed irritated by the sight of me I could tell it was just sexual frustration.

"I was goin' to but you caught me as I was getting out of the shower." I moved to the side to let him in.

"How convenient." He walked past me and took a seat on the couch.

"Nigga all you said is you was coming later, if you would have given me a time frame I would have been dressed and presentable."

"No you wouldn't have." He laughed.

I tilted my head to the side and laughed with him, "prolly not."

"Mhm."

"Would you like to talk now or should I dress first?"

"Up to you."

He pulled his phone out typing a message. So I snuggled up on the arm chair across from him. He was so busy in his phone and not paying attention to me, that it made me feel a way and I actually started to cry.

He looked up as I was wiping at my eyes.

"What's wrong?"

I shrugged, "just hormones."

Aubrey lifted his brows and cocked his head to the side to give me that "really?" look people give when they don't believe you.

I laughed, "it is!"

I reached for a throw pillow and placed it behind me so my back could rest on it and sighed with relief.

"You're back hurtin' already?"

Sometimes I hated how close Aubrey would watch and study a person but it was nice to have him notice something. I have felt a bit alone in this pregnancy.

"Yeah...", I rubbed my little baby bump, "I'm not even very big now so I'm kinda nervous what this gonna feel like on my body when I am."

He nodded his head in concern but didn't respond.