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Tremaine Johson
"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Jaliyah. Happy birthday to you." We all sang loudly in unison as we stood around Jermaine and Alysia's backyard for my niece's birthday party. "How old are you? How old are you? How old are you? How old are you?"
"I'm eight years old!" She began as she swayed happily. "I'm eight years old. I'm eight years old. I'm eight years old. Mommy can I open gifts now?"
"Girl if you don't blow out those candles first." Alysia huffed causing everyone to laugh.
Alysia and Jermaine were everything that Megan and I were supposed to be. Happily married with their daughter and their son brewing in his mommy's protruding belly. But things don't always work out that way. I was happy for my brother and sister in law none the less and happy that we were all a pretty close knit family still.
"Daddy?" I heard from behind me as I headed for the food table to get more plates and forks for the cake. I could tell by the tone that I was about to be asked for something.
"No Siena."
"But I didn't even ask yet." She sassed and I could tell she was rolling her eyes before turning around.
"Excuse me?" I asked looking down at her with furrowed brows.
Being a father to a fourteen year old girl was way harder to me than being a primary care physician. Siena tested me day in and day out because she knew I had a soft spot for my kids, but I wasn't soft.
"I was just going to ask if I could go stay with Meg tonight. She was going to do my hair for the first day of school."
"Why can't Kayla do your hair?" I asked her only to receive an eyeball that she didn't even bother hiding. I sighed and looked around the spacious yard until my eyes landed on Megan who was stuffing her face with a forkful of cake while she laughed at whatever she and Alysia were talking about.
"Hey baby." I heard from the side of my before feeling her lips graze my cheek. "Hey ma." I greeted, squeezing her ass discreetly before Siena shifted on her leg to show me how impatient she was becoming.
"I'll be right back let me go talk to Meg real quick." I told Kayla, my girlfriend and other baby mama and ignored her huffing and puffing. She despised Megan for whatever reason, but she was just going to have to suck that shit up. She was the mother of my son, and damn near the mother of Siena so she and I were always going to be in contact.
"Talk to her about what?" I heard her mumble before I walked off. Turning of my heels I shot her a confused look but she pretended to not have said anything.
Megan sat in a pink lawn chair next to Alysia sipping a peach flavored wine cooler. With her being a high school English teacher, and Alysia being a third grade teacher, tomorrow would be their first day of school as well. "What's going on, ma? Let me talk to you real quick?" I asked Megan as I helped her out of her seat and pulled her and Siena to a secluded corner.
"Everything okay?" She wondered looking from Siena to me and back.
"Yeah, Siena said you said she could stay with you tonight so you could do her hair or something for school?"
"Yeah of course." She chuckled. "You know she's always welcome at my house you don't need to confirm."
"Si, go check on Tristan and Kaiden." I told her before sighing deeply once she was gone.
"What is it?" Megan wondered, furrowing her eyebrows in confusion. "You okay?"
"Yeah, but you know don't make her look too grown and shit. You know?" I rambled and she laughed wholeheartedly.
"Tremaine cut it out." She laughed and I rolled my eyes. I was being serious. Siena was my baby and I wasn't prepared for her to be walking around like a grown ass woman rather than a fourteen year old. I knew how high school could be and I just really wasn't prepared for it. "You know I'm not going to have her looking too grown."
"I know." I chuckled nervously. "Okay well I'll bring her over once we leave and get her stuff together. TJ is on punishment so don't let him play you."
"That boy." She laughed. "Okay well let me go tend to my god child before I have to hear her mouth again. Your niece is something else." She joked and i couldn't agree more.
Megan and I were the perfect co-parents. She stuck to her word of not wanting to deal with me after finding out about my son, Kaiden, and his mother Kayla and we both move on into new relationships. We didn't speak much unless it concerned the kids or our family and we liked it that way.
The party went on for not much longer before everyone said their goodbyes until the next get together. Packing my car up with my three kids and my girlfriend we headed home. I air was thick and I could tell I would hear Kayla's mouth again about something.
She and I never planned to be together, it just sort've happened. While she was pregnant with Kaiden she had begun staying over my house once she was farther along while I was in med school and fast forward seven years later, she was still there. She and I definitely had a connection like no other so I was grateful for that. Siena hated her, but that was only because she loved Megan. That was a given.
Parking and getting everyone out of the car and into the house I plopped down on the couch. I was exhausted. "Si, go get your stuff together so I can take you to Meg's. Kaiden, get your pajamas out and wait for mommy to come upstairs okay?" I yelled like a robot. The words almost sounded rehearsed. With all of the kids upstairs, Kayla plopped down next to me and I sighed.
"What's wrong babe?" I wondered.
"Why doesn't Siena like me? Even after all this time?" She whined. "Shouldn't I be helping her get ready for her first day of high school?"
"Megan is her mother figure." I told her growing annoyed with the conversation already.
"So what the fuck am I?"
"Watch you mouth."
She sighed before climbing into my lap and pecking my lips repeatedly before traveling her kisses to my neck. "I love you, daddy." she purred as she grinded in my lap.
"Yeah?" I chuckled. "Love you too." I assured.
"We've been together for a long time baby. Our son is seven." She said in between pecks.
"Mhm?" mumbled as rubbed my hands along the bare skin of her back underneath her shirt.
"When are you going to ask me to marry you?" She asked and I sighed.
Here we go.
