Please, Remember The Bench (BY: Book 3)

She's Here!

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Two weeks later

Lena's POV

It's an understatement to say that Stef and I have no relationship anymore. We co-parent and that's about it. Her words hurt me so bad during the last conversation we had that I don't even wish to speak to her anymore.

I could already see that she didn't love me, she didn't have to throw it in my face. If she wants a fucking relationship with Tess, then she can go have it.

I hate it, but in any case, she doesn't care.

It's been two weeks now that Tess had shown up and Stef talks to her over the phone almost every day and now, guess who's taking her to her therapy session! I hate her. There's no other word to describe what I feel for her.

I'm so jealous that it keeps me up at night, I'm always wondering what they talk about, how they talk to each other and Stef... Stef is just breaking my heart because if I don't try to talk to her, she doesn't try either, she really doesn't care about me, and it hurts because I thought that... I thought that we were getting closer, I thought she was trying to at least know a little bit about me and about us.

What we should be doing is talking about her past in order to make some memories resurface, but are we doing that? Not at all, she rather be with that home breaker.

On top of that, Stef can walk rather normally now, she still has to go a little slow, but she doesn't need her crutches anymore so it's just a matter of time before she comes to me saying that she doesn't want to live with me, the stranger, anymore.

That alone is heartbreaking because I can't only think about me, Kamaya would be devasted too. She loves Stef so much, and now she's going to have what? Two parents separated, to crush her even more than she already is.

She needs something stable and if Stef moves out, Kamaya is going to be lost as fuck and I fucking hate that, with everything in me.

I don't even feel like I have a lot of people to talk too. My mom is busy with my dad, and my children can't have me complaining about their mother. Jenna is angry with me because it took me weeks to tell her about Stef's car accident, and I don't feel that much comfortable with my other friends, since I manage to blow them off when I was at the State Assembly...

I feel so alone, and I miss my wife so much. More than I ever imagine possible since she's right here in our house but... it isn't really her.

I stopped working to be with her... and that is a choice that I don't regret because she really needed me and that job at the State Assembly made me become a person that I didn't like. However, Stef doesn't need me anymore, and even if she did, she doesn't want my help, Tess will do that I guess... so maybe I should consider finding a job again, to feel at least like I'm useful somewhere.

Suddenly I hear my phone go off, seeing it was Brandon, I immediately respond.

"Hello?"

"Mama! Mama! She's here! My baby is here! You have to come!" he literally yelled as I gasp and feel my heart fill with instant joy for finally some good news.

"Oh my God! Baby, why didn't you call us when Eliza went into labor?" I ask for I so badly wanted to be here the exact moment my first grandchild would be born.

"Sorry, mama, it all went so fast, Eliza got sudden contractions, so we rushed to the hospital and not even ten minutes later she was there! The nurse called it the dreamy birth." He says as I could feel how happy he was just at the sound of his voice... my baby is a father now...

"Oh congratulations my love! I'm so happy for you baby. How are they? Eliza and the baby?" I ask, eager to know everything.

"They're both good. Eliza is tired and the baby is rather calm for now, but you should see her mama, she's... oh she's perfect, you have to come meet her, tell me you're going to come, you and mom." He says with so much joy and excitement, like... he never sounded like that before, but I love it so much.