26 years old Nicole has it all from a huge business with her best friend to a man that loves her irrevocably but there is only one problem.
He is married.
What happens when the situation gets more complicated than expected and Nicole is forced to m...
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I just felt overwhelmed at this point.
All the family drama and juggling 3 men back and fourth was just a lot especially now with them all knowing about each other which went in a completely different direction then I thought but I was tired of thinking about them.
My mom had to practically beg me to come to her house today for what she calls a "family dinner" and her reason was because we haven't all been in the same room in years which was true, I really can't remember a time we've all been in the same room willingly and I guess if my mom is willing to put all the drama with my dad to the side then I guess I can try and be cordial for 2 hours but not without some liquid courage.
No one told my mom about my dad and Taylor so it made sense why she wanted to have this dinner and truthfully I think we were all scared to tell her, I mean if you thought I was crazy then who do you think I got it from?
Pulling up I seen everyone was already here by the number of cars in the drive way, I immediately started to feel sick to my stomach but Chris did say I should make the most of it for my mom, James told me to call him if I needed him, and Eric didn't want me to go but here I was walking in.
I could hear laughter and smell food coming from the kitchen.
When I walked in everyone looked my way "Oh Nic's here" my mom said with a smile on her face, everyone else's smile fell perusal I was the least liked in the family because I was the only successful and honest one in the group besides my mom of course.
"Hi mom, it smells good in here" I said walking up to her and hugging her "Oh your highness has arrived" Clarissa said laughing and Asia laughed with her "Well you know, bow down bitch" They quickly stopped laughing looking at me as if I was a germ"Come on girls don't start" i sighed "Your not gonna speak to me Nicole" I rolled my eyes "Hi Craig how are you?" He looked at me with a straight face "Don't be disrespectful"I chuckled "You haven't seen disrespectful yet" "Please...can we just get through this dinner without the cold shoulders" my mom looked at all of us before grabbing some of the food "Craig help me bring this to the kitchen" he got up and grabbed the rest of the food and went to the dining room.
"So Nicole who was that fine ass man that kicked us out your place?" Clarissa asked "Thats what I was trying to figure out" Asia said raising her eyebrows "He's called mine so don't get your hopes up" "I would never, I'm not Taylor " I chuckled at Asia trying to get under my skin "Well unless you want to get the Taylor treatment then I suggest we watch our words tonight gentlemen " I left the kitchen and went in the dinning room to sit down with Clarissa and Asia right behind me.
I ate as my mom and Craig reminisced about their old times, I couldn't help the feeling I got in my stomach just being close to Craig..... I hate him.
And if it wasn't for my mom I would be laying everything out on the table like I love to do.
"Nic you should have brought Taylor, she's basically family" everyone looked at me waiting for me to answer, probably wondering if I was gonna tell "Yeah she was busy tonight " she cleared her throat "Well I'm sure y'all wondering why I wanted us all to come together, I know we haven't been on the best of terms but we are family and—" my mom got cut off from a laugh that came from Asia "Mom we're not a family" "Not in the slightest" Clarissa added "If i'm able to put the stuff with your father aside then you should be able to make up with your sister" I just started siping my wine cause I knew exactly where this was gonna go "It's not us, it's her" Clarissa pointed at me "She's the one that makes it difficult for us all to get along, she's always acting like she better than us" I rolled my eyes and didn't respond "Nicole is just a busy woman but she doesn't think she's better than anyone" I poured me another glass of wine from the bottle that was generously sat on the table.
"Wanna lay off the bottle?" Craig said and I looked at him laughing before taking a big gulp "Y'all want me to make it through this bullshit dinner right? Then leave me be" "Well I do want all of us to be more active with each other, I know as your father I've done some things I'm not proud of but I've changed" I chuckled which wasn't as low as I thought when I seen everyone look my way "Mybad" I could see I was pissing Craig off which only made me happier "Anyways, let's just not forget who I am. I'm your dad and I deserve respect" I sipped my wine wide eyed cause that was the only thing keeping my mouth shut "Craig don't get beside yourself "my mom said and he kept quiet.
"I think we should do this every Friday and just get to the point where we can sit in the same room and enjoy everyone's presence ...I mean Nicole's business has grown so much in the last year and I'm sure as a family we can all be supportive together" I couldn't help but laughed "Please feel free to keep your support to yourself as I have done wonders without it" I said to my sisters and Craig "Your being disrespectful Nicole" Craig said with a pissy look on his face "Mmm you call it disrespectful, I call it being honest" I shrugged "I know we're not perfect but as long as we're honest but respect I really want us to try and be a family" my mom said sounding like a broken record "Just a moment of honesty here mom cause that's what you want... you have to stop throwing that family word around as if it's suppose to magically pull us together, we're past that" "Everyone seems willing but you" my mom said "Well that's because I'm not gonna lie or be fake like the rest of them, they both stole from me and I'm just suppose to forget that because we're blood?" I shook my head sipping my wine "We borrowed that money" Asia said getting defensive "When you don't give it back it's called stealing but I guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree" I said looking at Craig "like I said, I've done things I'm not proud of but I've changed" I rolled my eyes shaking my head just completely over this conversation.
"You know what... I can't do this" I stood up "I can't respect a man that continues to disrespect me blood or not" "Nicole" my mom sighed "Nicole nothing, it's always me but there's shit you don't know" I took a deep breath realizing I let that split by accident "like what?" My mom asked "Nothing, you know how she is Marie" My dad said cutting me off and I scoffed at he tried to shut me up but fuck that "You know why Taylor didn't come mom, because we're no longer best friends nor are we in business together and we have Craig here to blame for that" my mom look towards Craig who was pinching the bridge of his nose "What do you have to do with that?" My sisters and I watched in anticipation to see if he was gonna have the balls to tell her the truth or lie "It wasn't on purpose, we didn't mean for it to happen which is what we tried to explain to Nicole" "They're fucking mom" Craig stood up abruptly "We're not just fucking, I love her" I scoffed and looked towards my mom.
"You love her Craig? We practically raised her, you know how sick that looks?" He rolled his eyes "It's not like that Marie" "Your more than half her age, you were around when the were kids...how could you... even think that way about her?" I could tell my mom was shocked but she shouldn't have been, I mean there was always something with this "family"
Craig turned to me clearly pissed off "You couldn't just keep your mouth shut" "Fuck you" he laughed "You were always a spoiled bitch" "And you were always a deadbeat narcissistic asshole who liked them young" everyone snapped their neck at me and I watched his face drop completely. Now that shocked me because I didn't even mean for that to come out "What are you talking about Nicole?" My mom asked standing up and I just shook my head sighing before downing the rest of my glass of wine " I'm done with this shit" I grabbed my stuff and quickly made my way towards the door before the tears rolled down my face but before I could make it I was pulled back by my arm "Nic what did you mean?" To my surprise it was Clarissa "Nothing, I shouldn't have fucking said anything.... let me go" I snatched my arm away walking out the door.
"NIC YOU CAN'T DRIVE!" She yelled but I didn't want to hear it, I got in my car and quickly drove off which was probably my biggest mistake.
