Just the two of us (book 2)

Chapter 32 A lot of unexpected visits

I wake up in Marshall's arms and it's nice to wake up feeling happy, I haven't tried that lately because I've missed Marshall so much.
I look up at Marshall to discover that he's awake.
"Good morning baby." He says and kisses my forehead. I'm actually still tired because we almost didn't leave the bed yesterday and let me just say that we didn't quite relax.
"Good morning." I mumble down into his chest while I nuzzle his chest with my nose.
"Did you sleep well?" He asks.
"Mmh.." I say as I kiss his chest. "What time is it?" I then ask and Marshall looks at his watch.
"It's 10:42." He says.
"I'm so tired." I say and lay my head back on his chest.
"Then sleep baby." He says and runs his fingers through my hair.
"No I really need to get up." I say and sit on top of him. "I'm gonna take a shower."
"Can I come with you?" He asks while he rubs my thighs.

"Not if you want to have sex because I swear, you gotta give me a break." I tell him which makes him laugh. I'm so sore from yesterday so he's gotta give me a at least a few more hours before I'm ready again.
"Fine but then you gotta shower alone because I can't keep my damn hands of you." He says but I already knew that. I get out of the bed and head to the shower, his shower is so nice and I could totally see myself living here but that's not gonna happen, at least not in the nearly future. I still think Detroit has too many bad memories and I could never convince Rachel to move with me to Detroit, I need to stay close to Rachel because she's the only family I got, I think Detroit is a bad place to live for both me and Rachel.
After I'm done showering I put on some sweatpants, a tight top and I put on some mascara, I don't feel like dressing all up today because I know that Marshall wouldn't mind anyways, he likes me exactly the way I am.
I grab my stuff and go back to the bedroom to discover that Marshall is still in bed, that lazy fucker.
"Are you still in bed?" I ask giving him a joking attitude.
"Hey, I need to shower too." He says. Now I just know that's a bad excuse because I know there's other showers in this house.
"And you couldn't use one of the other showers?" I ask him.
"Yo don't give me an attitude girl." He chuckles and pulls me down to the bed with me on top of him.
"Or else?" I ask him and my lips are very close to his lips.
"You know better than to provoke me baby." He chuckles and he's right but I don't care, I think it's funny anyways.
"Come on tough guy." I provoke him and I can't hold back my laughter.
"Baby I swear, your ass is gonna hurt so fucking bad if you don't stop provoking me." He warns me.
"This ass?" I ask him and raise my butt a little so he really can have good look at my ass over my shoulder, but then I feel a sharp pain on my ass and I hear a loud smack sound, I realize now that he just smacked my ass which makes me scream out in pain.
"MARSHALL!" I scream as I roll off him, but I quickly turn on my stomach because laying on my back only makes the pain worse. I just hear Marshall laughing his ass off while I lay there and whimper in pain. I knew I shouldn't had provoked him because it's always something like this that happens and it apparently hasn't changed over the years. "Oh my fucking god! It hurts so fucking bad!" I scream into the pillow.
"I told you not to provoke me baby." Marshall laughs which makes me turn my head and look at him, he literally has tears in his eyes from his laughter.
"You're so not getting laid today." I giggle knowing that it's the only way to get back at him and he just laughs.
"We both know that's not gonna happen." He chuckles and get out of bed.
"You're gonna be surprised." I say.
"Right." He just say in a cocky tone. "I'm gonna take a shower." He says and disappears into the bathroom.
After a while I decide to go downstairs and make us some breakfast, I know Marshall loves waffles so that's exactly what I'm gonna make him. His kitchen is huge so it takes me some time to find what I need.
"Who are you?" Someone asks behind me which makes me drop the flour on the floor in shock. I turn around and become face to face with some teenage boy. Wait, is this Nathan?
"Nathan?" I ask to be sure.
"Yeah, who the fuck are you?" He asks me angrily. I don't know if he thinks I'm some fan or some groupie but it's clearly that he doesn't remember who I am.
"I'm Amelia, don't you remember me?" I ask him and he looks at me for a minute like he's trying to remember.
"Marshall's old girlfriend?" He asks me. Nathan was 8 years old when I left Detroit so he must remember me, right?
"Exactly." I say smiling.
"Long time no see." He chuckles. It's crazy how much Nathan has grown now, he must be around 16 now. "What are you doing here?" He asks. I have no idea what to say to him because I don't know if Marshall wants Nathan to know and what is Nathan doing here?
"Yo Nate, what are you doing here?" I now hear Marshall voice behind us and I can hear that he's just as surprised as I am about seeing Nathan here.
"I just didn't feel like being at mom's place so I thought I would just come home early." Nathan says as he looks down. Wait, home? Does Nathan live here? I can see on Nathan that he's hiding something because he avoids Marshall's eyes. Marshall now looks at the flour on the floor and narrows his eyebrows.
"What happened with the flour?" Marshall asks.
"Oh.. Nathan scared the shit out of me." I say honestly.
"Yo no swearing." Marshall tells me and I can't help but laughing. I expect that Marshall cracks up and tells me that he's joking, but he just stands there with the same look on his face. Wait.. He's serious!
"Oh.. you're serious." I say in surprise.
"Yeah." He just says coldly and look back at Nathan. "What happened at mom's?" He asks him.
"Nothing, I just wanted to go home." Nathan says as he leaves the kitchen, but Marshall grabs his arm stopping him for taking another step.
"Don't lie to me Nate." Marshall says.
"Mom was just drunk and yeah.. You know she's no fun in that state." Nathan tells Marshall.
"Yeah." Marshall sighs. "Good thing you came home then." Marshall says as he rubs Nathan's shoulder.
"Can I go to my room now?" Nathan asks. I can't believe that Marshall hasn't told me that Nathan lives here with him.
"Yeah.. Sure." Marshall says and he lets go of Nathan. I hear Nathan running up the stairs and Marshall doesn't say anything, he just sighs deeply before he turns around and look at me, then he look at the flour on the floor and then he looks back at me.
"I'm sorry, I wanted to make you waffles." I say in a low voice.
"I think there's another bag around here." Marshall says as he begins to look through the closets. Finally Marshall finds the back of flour and he place it on the counter in front of me while he kisses me.
"How come you haven't told me that Nathan lives with you?" I ask him.
"I forgot." He just says as he go towards the fridge.
"How can you just forget to tell me that?" I ask him. Marshall takes some orange juice in the fridge and turns around to face me.
"I just gotta get use to the fact that you don't know every single detail about my life like others do." He says as he pours some orange juice up in the glass. Marshall doesn't look at me and I can tell that he's in a bad mood, I don't understand because just 20 minutes ago we laid in the bed and had a good time, so why is he suddenly in such a bad mood? Has it something to do with the fact that Nathan is home now? Or has it something to do with the reason why Nathan chose to come home? I have no idea how his relationship is with Debbie today, I know that it was very tensed when him and I were dating.
"Why does he live with you?" I ask him.
"Why do you think Amelia?" He asks me clearly annoyed about my question and I can tell that he thinks my question is stupid. Marshall doesn't even look at me as he says it and I don't understand why he has to give me an attitude, I'm his girlfriend and I should know those types of things.
"I don't know, that's why I'm asking Marshall." I say as Marshall drinks his orange juice.
"You know my fucking mom so why do you think that Nathan doesn't live with her?" He hisses. I know how Debbie was and is for that matter but I just wanted to know if anything spectacularly happened.
"Okay, I'm sorry." I just say because I don't wanna argue with him. I begin to clean up the flour from the floor and there's some minutes of awkward silence.
"I'm just so fucking tired of her man.. It's unbelievable that she can't behave while Nathan is there, it's like she doesn't give a flying fuck about him." Marshall then finally speaks while I'm beginning to make the waffle dough.
"Yeah, it's sad." I say and I really feel him. It's not fair towards Nate that she acts like that. I just make Marshall waffles and we don't say much to each other, I think Marshall needs for me to just let him come to me and after we've eaten our waffles, he's already in much better mood.
"I'm sorry for biting head of like that." Marshall says as we cuddle on the couch watching a movie.
"It's okay." I say. I turn around to look at him and he immediately leans down and kisses me. I feel his tongue enter my mouth and I begin to moan a little bit when our make out session gets a little heated. Sadly I suddenly hear someone ring the doorbell and then the door opens, I look at Marshall and I can tell that he wonders who it is.
"Marshall?" I hear Kim's voice. Fuck, do I have to hide or something?
"Do you have the girls with you?" Marshall asks while he quickly gets up from the couch.
"No." She says which makes Marshall stop walking towards her voice.
"I'm in the living room." Marshall then says and sits back down on the couch with me. What? Did he just invite her in here where I'm sitting? I know how much Kim hates me and I'm not so sure that I want to take this discussion with her right now.
"Do you want me to leave?" I whisper to Marshall and he shakes his head no. Kim then enters the room and I can tell that she's surprised about seeing me here, her eyes widens and she doesn't speak, she makes me nervous, she always does. I know that I can be very intimidating and a psycho bitch but Kim takes it to a whole other level.
"What's up?" Marshall asks her but Kim eyes are just fixed on me.
"Weren't you suppose to get married?" Kim then asks me totally ignoring Marshall's question.
"I changed my mind." I just say. I don't know what else to say because I'm still embarrassed about cheating on Kevin, even though I don't regret it then it still isn't cool to be a cheater.
"I see." Kim gives me an attitude and then she looks back at Marshall. "So.. Are you together with her now?" She asks.
"Yeah." He says coldly and I can tell that Kim is pissed but she just tries to hide it. "What do you want?"  Marshall asks her.
"I was going to ask if you would look after the girls for a few hours later today, but I think I'm just gonna ask my mom." She says and looks at me. It's very obvious that I'm the reason she doesn't want her kids to be here.
"Why are you even making plans when you have the kids?" Marshall asks her angrily.
"It's just for a few hours but it doesn't matter, I'm just gonna ask my mom." She says and roll her eyes.
"I'm just gonna visit Lucas while they're here." I then say. I don't want the kids to miss the opportunity to be with their father for a few hours because of me.
"Good girl." Kim now says in sarcasm. God she can be such a bitch!
"Shut the fuck up Kim." Marshall says to her in a harsh tone and look at me. "You don't have to go, you can be here even though the girls are here." He says to me.
"No fucking way." Kim says and I can see that Marshall is just about to speak but I decide to speak first.
"It's really no problem, I should visit Lucas anyways while I'm here in Detroit." I say and Marshall sighs deeply because he knows that I'm not gonna change my mind.
"What time do you come over with them?" Marshall asks Kim.
"At 4." She says.
"Alright." He just says.
"See you then." Is the last thing Kim says before she leaves. I can tell that Marshall is really irritated after Kim's visit and I have no idea how to comfort him.
"Are you okay?" I ask him softly and he looks at me, I can't read him and it makes me uncomfortable.
"I really want you to meet them, you know." Marshall says.
"I know but maybe next time." I say. I still think it's too soon to meet his kids so I want to wait for a bit. I already know that this relationship is gonna contain hard work and a lot of trust and it would be a shame to bound with his kids if it doesn't last between us. I don't say that I think it's gonna happen, I just say that if does happen then it's just gonna confuse the kids.
"It sounds like you don't wanna meet them." Marshall says frowning his brows.
"I just think it's too soon." I say honestly.
"Then when is it not too soon?" He asks.
"I don't know." I say.
"I can't help but thinking if this has something to do with those things you said when you broke it off last time." Marshall says referring to how I told him that I couldn't fit into his life because he had kids, what Marshall just forgets is that I didn't mean it like that and now he thinks that's the reason I don't wanna meet his kids. I can't tell Marshall the real reason either because I already know how he's gonna twist my words, he's gonna think that I don't faith in this relationship.
"Marshall I would love to meet your kids but it's not gonna be today, okay?" I say softly.
"No it's not accepted before you give me a reason." Marshall says and I sigh deeply.
"I got to prepare myself for meeting your kids, okay? It's actually a big step for me so I'll appreciate if you could just slow it down a bit, okay? I'll meet them next time, I promise." I say.
"Why are you nervous about meeting my kids?" He asks me. Is he kidding me? It's his kids! They're the only ones I feel can break us apart, if they don't like me then I'm screwed.
"What if they don't like me?" I ask Marshall and he just pulls me into his chest.
"That's not even a possibility. They're gonna love you baby, trust me." He's trying to calm me down. I know I'm gonna be so nervous the day I meet them because like I've told Marshall, I'm not good with kids and maybe it's because I don't have any kids myself, I don't know.. All I know is that I always gets nervous around kids.