Love hurts?

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Michael's POV

I turn around to see Ocean standing behind me. I'm about to speak when

Bang!

She punches my straight in the face busting my nose in the process. "Ahh!! Fuck!!" I groan loudly putting my head down and my hands on my nose, which is bleeding like crazy. "Let me go! You fucking psycho!" Aisha screams as Ocean pushes past me and grabs Her by the hair yanking her head back. "If I see you near this house again, I'm gonna slit you fucking throat do you understand!!?" Ocean hisses at her through gritted teeth then opens the back door shoving Aisha through it with so much force she falls landing hard on the floor and she slams the door shut on her without saying another word. "It- it wasn't what it..."

"Where's Nevaeh?" She says coldly cutting me off. "Upstairs" I mumble. She takes a tea towel then runs it under the sink and hands it to me. "Here" I take it from her holding it firmly on my face and she walks straight past me and I follow her upstairs to our room.

I go in the room and Ocean's holding Nevaeh who's still sleeping. "What you saw downstairs. It- it wasn't what it looked liked" I stutter "really? Because it looked like she was coming on to you and you turning her down telling her you'd rather die alone than be with somebody that wasn't me... Hm, guess I was wrong" she shrugs and takes Nevaeh into the nursery and puts her in the crib "ok, it was exactly what it looked liked but I only let her in because I thought she came to see Jermaine I didn't know she was gonna.... Wait! if you knew I wasn't doing anything, why did you punch me!? And why didn't you tell me you were allowed home? I would have come and got you"

"Michael, there was a woman in the hospital with me who chopped off her husbands dick and put it in a blender when she found out he cheated, so you should be grateful all I did was punch you!.. And I was allowed to to leave a week ago, but I didn't feel ready... Then your mother called me and told me about DJ and I checked out first thing" she shrugs and goes back into our room and again I follow her "was it in here? You and her?" She asks looking at the bed. "No" I mumble and she sits down on the bed "did you read my letter?"

"Mhm.. All 32 pages... Front and back" I walk over and sit beside her at the edge of the bed. "In the last part, you said that you'd understand if I didn't love you anymore and that you respect my wishes if I chose to leave. Did you mean it?" She mutters "yes" I croak. "Did you come here to take Nevaeh?" I look at her nervously and she shakes her head. "I wouldn't do that" I sigh slightly in relieve. "I meant every word I said in that letter and I still do...Ocean I love you so much and I'm so sorry for what I did and what I told Aisha about wanting you and only you I meant that too" I sigh looking down at the floor. "I don't know what else to tell you"

"Then shut up and let me talk" I nod and look up at her. "I do still love you, as much as I've tried to hate you since you told me about Aisha, I can't... Just like I don't know if I can trust or forgive you" she takes a deep breath and sighs "we've been together what? Two years now? and looks what's happened? Two kids an illegal marriage, drugs, miscarriage losing DJ, breakdowns and all the other stuff.. And then you cheating..."

"But we got through all that. We got through it all together and we can get through this too, I know we can" I sob cutting her off. "Just Shut up and let me talk... When we first met the biggest worry we had was the two of us getting caught holding hand or hugging each other. I'm 17 an your 19 it shouldn't be like this" she sniffles and tears starts falling down her cheeks. "We can't go on like this"

"Are- are you leaving me?" I sob and she doesn't answer for a moment. "No"

"Thank you" I sigh in relief and lean over to kiss her but she places her fingers on my lips cutting me off. "I'm gonna stay and I'm willing to try and save our marriage, for our children and for us. But we need to take things slow, everything we've ever done has been so rushed and neither of us had time to think about the consequences until it was too late and when I say I wanna take things slow that includes the intimacy part too"