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The Next Morning 7:08 am Jasmine
I couldn't get much sleep. I tossed and turned all night. Sandra Graham was on my mind. I couldn't understand what happened to our relationship. She was so supportive and kind to me before Aubrey and I got married but now, I felt that her energy had shifted. That she didn't love me anymore.
I stared out at the backyard from our bedroom balcony. It was freezing but so peaceful. I needed to figure out what I was going to say to Sandi when we finally talked.
I could understand wanting to protect Aubrey. He was her only child, her baby boy. He was also a grown man with a family. He was more than capable of making his own decisions and I felt like she was trying to plant seeds in his head to turn him against me.
I left the balcony and went back inside the bedroom before going down to the kitchen. Sandi was an early riser so I hoped we could talk before everyone else woke up. I put some tea on and cut up some fruit for her and myself.
"Good morning." I heard
I turned toward the voice and saw Sandi standing there.
"Good morning. Tea?" I asked
"Sure." She nodded
I made us both some tea and set the fruit on the table for us. We sat down together.
"Sandi I...I don't know where we went wrong. I don't understand what happened to our relationship. I need you to help me understand." I let out
She sighed and pushed her blonde locks from her face.
"Jasmine, I don't know either. I have always wanted Aubrey to do right by you. To marry you, to have a family. I just think that there are some toxic elements to your relationship- your marriage that could end with my son being hurt." She explained
"Genuine question, what have I done to him that makes you think I would hurt him and not the other way around? Because I don't mean to drag up the past but Aubrey has done most of the hurting." I asked
"The night of Adonis' birthday party changed a lot for me. You showed me how spiteful you could be. I mean you didn't give him the details about your doctor's appointment to check on the wellbeing of your baby. You used the children as pawns to hurt him." She said candidly
"It wasn't spite Sandi. He was causing me stress. I wanted space because I was worried about the babies." I explained
"So now Aubrey is to blame for you losing your baby?" She questioned
"That is not what I said." I sighed
"I just...I never want to see him look the way he did yesterday. I don't want to have to comfort him through another loss like this. That's why I said what I said yesterday and maybe I should've stayed out of it-
