Chris POV
Royalty was drawing on the wall. I was staring at her trying to see if she knew I was there. I cleared my throat. She looked up at me. Then dropped the marker. I smiled. She smiled.
"Come here." I said. She ran to me. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Hii." She said playing with the string hanging down from my sweatpants. I picked her up.
"Hi." I said mocking her. She laughed. I smiled and walked downstairs.
"Daddy!" she yelled in my ear.
"Royalty!" I said. She looked at me and frowned. I smiled.
"Hungry?" she asked.
"You hungry Ro?"
She nodded. I put her down and went to the kitchen. She followed behind me. I went into the freezer and took out the chicken nuggets. Then I turned on the oven. Then I turned around to look at my babygirl.
"You wanna dance?" I asked. She smiled. I walked into the living room and turned on the radio. The song that was on was Wrist by me and Solo Lucci. She started to do this twirling type of move. I stared at her for a second then joined in. She laughed. Then made a face. Then started to try to Hit The Quan. I laughed. I made the same face she made and started to follow behind her. She frowned again and sat on the floor. I stared at her. "You tired mama?"
"Daddy." she said pointing to the door.
"What?" Then I started to hear a knock on the door. I turned the radio off and went to the door. Royalty, like always, followed behind me. "Who is it?"
"Open the door Chris." I heard her say. I looked at Royalty.
"Rita!" she said. I opened the door. Rita and Royalty's sister was standing there. "Hi Zillah." she said running to her.
"My baby." she picked her up.
"What do you want Rita?" I asked. She looked at Zillah and then Zillah walked into the kitchen. I stared at Rita. "Is there something going on that I should know?" I asked.
"Just sit down and watch." she said. She plugged her phone into the radio. Then music started playing. It was Rihanna's Watch N' Learn.
Then she started to dance for me. I stared at her for a brief second. Then got up and turned the music off.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I wanted to show you that I love you and that I'm only here for you."
"Rita, why?"
"Because I still love you Chris."
I sighed and sat back down. Rita sat next to me.
"Rita, you can't."
"I can't what?"
"You can't love me still."
"Why can't I?"
"Why would you cheat if you love me?"
"Chris I was lonely."
"I was lonely too. But do you see me cheating on you?"
"Chris. That isn't fair. I messed up once."
"No you didn't. This was your 3 time Rita. 3 times to many. I'm tired of being hurt."
"Chris, please. I really love you."
"I- Rita, I can't do this."
"What can't you do?"
"Be hurt."
"Chris."
"I think that you should go." She stared at me. "And I don't think that you should come back here. I'm moving."
"What?"
"I'm moving back to LA."
"What?"
"Bye Rita." I said. She stared at me. Then walked out the living room into the kitchen.
"Come on Zillah."
Zillah put Royalty down. "Bye Ro. Bye Chris."
"Bye." I said. Royalty ran to me. Rita looked at me. I could see tears in her eyes. I looked away before I would cry. I heard the door open and close. I looked. Rita and Zillah was gone. I felt my eyes watering.
"Daddy OK?" Royalty asked.
"Yeah. Daddy ok." I said. Picking her up and kissing her cheek. "Let me fix our chicken nuggets."
