March 30
Today was no different than any other day for Shawn. He woke up, took care of his hygiene, and set out on his mile long walk through Central Park. He passed the newspaper stands and took a quick glance at the cover stories. President, Celebrity, and local hero. Same news stories too.
However, today something else caught his eye. And when it did, he went running back home. He entered the house and cautiously walked to his office. This couldn't be happening, how could this be real?
"A dream, yeah, that's what this is, just a bad dream." He said trying to reassure himself. The more he looked around the room, the more he realized that this wasn't a dream. This was real. "Shit!" He grabbed the phone and started sending his text messages.
"Shawn!" There it was, he knew she would eventually find out as well. "Shawn! Where are you?" Beyonce screamed through the house. He stepped out of his office and called her over. "What is this? Tell me I am not on the cover of this magazine over a damn sex tape."
"I don't know how it happened." He responded. Her heart sank. Beyonce, the world wide entertainer that girls were proud to call their role model, was now no better than the Paris Hilton's in the industry.
"Fix this, and fix it now." She stormed off into the living room with Shawn hot on her tail. Fix it? How was he supposed to fix something he never had control over in the first place?
"I'm gonna try." She stopped walking and turned to face him.
"Try? No, that's not good enough." She grabbed his face with both hands and brought him down to her eye level. "Make this disappear, make it go away!" She screamed. He pulled away from her and watched as she broke down. "I have done everything right in my life! What more do they want from me?" She dropped to the couch and placed her hands over her face.
Shameful, Disrespected, and Embarrassed.
She never felt worst. "It's going to be okay." Shawn tried to reassure her, but her mind was already somewhere else. It was on their daughter and her future.
"I can't have Alexis growing up and people judging her because of this!" Her leg began to shake and anger overtook her. "They aren't going to hurt my baby." She responded with a cold look. Before Shawn could say anything else Beyonce disappeared up the stairs.
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"Did we win?" Alexis asked from her seat. As a way of releasing stress, Shawn decided to take Alexis to a basketball game. Beyonce was supposed to join them, but it was already halftime and she wasn't anywhere in sight.
"No, it's halftime. We still have more time to play." He said handing her a container of snacks. Instead of buying her junk at the game, he thought it would be better to get healthy snacks from home and pack them up. "You enjoying your food?" He asked looking down at her.
"Yes, very much, thank you." She said with a smile. That was the best way to keep her occupied during breaks, give her food. It kept her quiet, and most importantly, out of trouble.
"You look more and more like mommy every day." He said playing with her curls. She let out her famous giggle and showed all of her teeth. "What's so funny?"
"You." She responded. "My baby brother is gonna look like you when he comes." Shawn had to do a double take. Baby brother?
"How do you know that?" She just continued to smile and looked behind him. She immediately stood up and pointed in Beyonce's direction.
"Can I go over there?" She asked with excitement. He nodded and Alexis took off running down the court. She jumped into her mother's arms as Beyonce carried on a conversation with some peers.
"A son." Shawn repeated while he looked at his two favorite girls in the world. He couldn't imagine having a child that could take after him; all he knew was how to raise a girl.
A son is different.
"Hey baby, sorry I'm late." Beyonce said walking up to him. She sat Alexis in her seat and leaned down to kiss Shawn. "What has you looking so misty eyed?" She asked with a giggle. There it was, the same one Alexis has.
"Something your daughter said." Beyonce looked at Alexis and raised her eyebrow. She was known to repeat things she shouldn't have heard in the first place.
"What did she say now?" Beyonce asked while shaking her head.
"That you're carrying her baby brother." Shawn replied. They both just stared at each other while smiling from ear to ear. They had dreams of the baby, but none of the dreams included the sex.
Alexis filled in the blanks they had.
