Old Flames

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Aaliyah sat in the nursery with her baby in her arms. Today she woke up and Jayceon wasn't there, but his phone was still laying on the bedside table and it was ringing uncontrollably.

She didn't want to be that type of woman, but she did have her suspicions so she unlocked the phone and the messages she seen almost killed her.

He's been texting Amber back and forth about lunch and dinner dates and meeting up. Aaliyah placed his phone back and walked into the nursery with her baby and this is where she's been since this morning.

She didn't know when Jayceon was coming back home. She just sat in the nursery. Her baby looked up at her and smiled. He was trying to cut teeth. He had one little tooth in the front of his mouth and two on the bottom.

He started making incoherent sounds as she heard the front door open and close. She knew it was Jayce. She looked at them time and it read 4:00. He's been gone since seven this morning. To say she was pissed is an understatement.

She didn't move as Jayceon vegan calling her name. She just stayed in that one spot and played with her baby.

Jayceon finally came upstairs to see where she was. He looked in and saw her playing with JJ.

"I was callin you." She looked over at him, he could see anger in his eyes, but he's not sure why.

"Wassup?" He asked. Aaliyah scoffed and shook her head before she continued to play with her baby. Jayceon sighed, lately all they've been doing is arguing.

She gets mad if he says it does something that she doesn't like and he'll get mad whenever she gets mad and they don't talk for days. And with the wedding being so close, arguing is the last thing he wants to be doing.

He just left her in the room and went to the room they shared. He grabbed his ringing phone and sighed.

"Today was fun we should do it again. ;) " the text from Amber read. Jayceon didn't respond he just deleted the message thread. He didn't need any unnecessary drama going on because his hands were already full with Aaliyah.

Jayceon got undressed and took a shower as the events of today played along in his head. He couldn't figure out why Aaliyah was so mad if he hasn't been here all day, but then it dawned on him.

He got out the shower and Aaliyah was laying there on the phone. She was frowning at something. Jayceon just got dressed and didn't say a word, he didn't want to spark an argument.

"Where you been?" Aaliyah asked after silence. He sighed, "I went out with a friend." Jayceon said nonchalant. He didn't want to tell her he went out with Amber because she would get the wrong idea.

"Mhm, and you're just now getting back? Must've had a hell of a time. You must've been in a rush because you left your phone here. It's been ringing all day." She said in this tone that caused Jayceon to feel uncomfortable. He looked into her puffy red eyes and sighed.

"Why do you continue to do this? Do you like hurting me?" She asked. Jayceon couldn't understand.

"I read the messages, I read them all." Aaliyah said as the phone chimed. Jayceon looked at it and sighed. He should've just came clean, but now he's in a much bigger mess and it isn't helping that Amber is blowing his phone up.

"Answer it." Aaliyah finally said. Jayceon grabbed the phone and sighed. He answered the phone and Amber's voice boomed through the speaker.

"So today was fun, when can we do it again?" Jayceon looked over at Aaliyah and saw that she was pissed. She got up and walked out of the room making sure she slammed the door.

"Amber what we had was a friendly lunch. Nothing more, nothing less Ight?"

"Of course I know that. I'm not that same girl Jayce." Amber defended.

"But you blowin up my phone and Aaliyah suspects some shit is-"

"Oh wifey... Seems to me like you're never on good terms with her. Explain why yall are still together again."

"I love her."

"Riiiiight. From the stuff you told me today, love ain't enough. But good talkin to you." Amber said before hanging up. Jayceon sighed. He was getting frustrated. He walked downstairs and saw Aaliyah sobbing into a pillow.

He hated to see her cry and he hated to be the reason.

"Baby."

"Jayce no. You really are losing it right now. If it's not one thing it's another. If you don't want to be with me just tell me. Because I refuse to fuckin sit here and deal with this shit any longer. You're hurting me, I cry everyday. We argue everyday. It's like you don't care anymore." She sniffled. Jayceon shook his head.

"Baby I love you. Sometimes...I don't know. But it's not what you thought. It was friendly. I would never cheat on you...again." Aaliyah looked up at him. His eyes were filled with sorrow.

She sighed, the constant battle and arguing has her confused and misguided. She's done a lot of thinking and she's not sure if they're even ready for marriage.

She looked down at her ring and more tears streamed down her face. Who would've thought, they would get this close only to get hit by a storm.

"Liyah." Jayceon said as he walked over and held her. She cried into his chest.

"This isn't happening right now." She cried. She just wanted to be happy and right now she's just been sad and depressed. Angry, hurt anything but happy.

"Baby stop. We're going to get through this. This arguing is just the devil blocking us, it's just misunderstandings. I would never hurt you or try to hurt you. I love you too much."

"I love you too. I love you sooo much." She sniffled. Jayceon kissed her cheek. She smiled a little before she heard the faint cries of her baby.

She stood up and went to check on him. Once he seen her his crying stopped and turned into soft whines. She smef as she picked her baby up and carried him downstairs.

He layed his head in her chest as his hand rested on her breast. She laughed because that has become a new peaceful position for him

"Hey man." Jayceon smiled. JJ immediately shot his head up and reached for his daddy. Jayceon grabbed him and smiled. Aaliyah shook her head because she knew she would be up all night with these two because JJ wasn't going to sleep anytime soon.

Aaliyah clicked on the television and turned it to some cartoon as they all three sat on the couch and watched the movie until they all fell into a peaceful slumber.

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