shattered.

chapter eighteen; october 2nd.

and still
your heart is fractured but it's
still valuable.
-r.h sin.

8:08AM.

The usual sound of my babies crying woke me out of my sleep. I looked to the side of me and Bryson was knocked out. He had a show last night so, I wasn't going to bother him about me not getting my rest. I threw the covers off of me and got out of the bed. I walked out of my bedroom and into the nursery room. Zion was the only one crying, surprisingly. I picked him up and walked out of the nursery so he wouldn't wake Dylan. I walked downstairs into the living room and sat down with him.

I rocked him in my arms and his cries calmed down. As I was gazing at him time by time, my mind went back to yesterday evening about what Daniel had told me. I don't want to seem like the dumb lady and forgive him about everything he has put me through. But, I don't want our kids growing up with separated parents. Plus, I'm sure Kaycee is already confused about everything. If I could just know that he's telling the truth I'd be fine. But, to think about it we weren't a happy family. He wasn't around and the times he was around, he was sleeping. I don't know what to do.

Why does Zion have to look so much like him?! Since I was so into my thoughts I didn't hear the door bell ringing until, Zion accidentally hit me in the face. He's mean already and it isn't fair. I carefully got up off the couch and walked to the front door. "Who is it?!" I yelled slightly but, not extremely loud.

"Daniel!" I heard the voice from the other side of the door say. I should've known, nobody is up and running at this time of the morning except for him. I opened the door and smiled.

"You know it's eight something in the morning, what you want?"

He smiled. "If you don't mind I have a little family photo shoot set up but, that's only if you'll be down with it."

I mentally screamed in my mind because this is something that I've always wanted to do. I smiled. "Of course! Just give me some minutes to get dressed and I'll just feed Ziom and Dylan in the car." I handed Zion to him in his arms and rushed upstairs to get dressed. I walked into Kaycee's room and she was already awake watching TV. "Get dressed baby. Daddy is taking us to a photo shoot."

Her face lit up and she instantly ran into the bathroom to get ready. I chuckled and then walked out of her room and back into my bedroom to get dressed.

9:18AM.

I finished curling my blonde hair and added some pink lipstick to complete my look. I didn't go for nothing fancy just, a simple black dress and black sandals. Just as I was about to walk downstairs Bryson stopped me. "Where are you going?!"

"Daniel scheduled this photoshoot for me and the kids. We're doing family photos, it'll be nice. Plus, I know Kaycee wants to see him really bad."

He shook his head. "Family photos? He comes back around and so do your feelings towards him don't they?"

"I never said that my feelings came back, I just want them to spend some time with their father. I don't have time for this early this morning." I shook my head and walked past him into the nursery. I grabbed the diaper bag, making sure everything I needed was in there. I picked Dylan up out of her bassinet and carried her in my arms. I walked out of the nursery and downstairs out of the door.

Daniel opened the door and surprisingly he had already brought car seats and things for his car. Kaycee was already strapped into hers and so was Zion. "Your surprising me a lot today." I chuckled and then put Dylan inside of the car making sure was strapped down securely. I closed the door and he opened the passenger door for me.

"Surprise is good." He laughed and closed the door once I was in. I placed the diaper bag on my lap and watched him get into the car also.

"I like it when your nice to me."

"I'm starting to like it too."

10:19AM.

We arrived to the photoshoot place and parked in the parking lot. I took my seat belt off and looked in the back seat. "I need to feed these children." I reached into the diaper bag pulling out a box of fruit loops and giving them to Kaycee. Afterwards, I pulled out two bottles. "Are you going to help me?"

"You don't have to ask me that question anymore, Nique." He smiled and grabbed one of the bottles.

10:26AM.

Once they were all feed we both got out of the car. I held Zion in my arms and Daniel carried Dylan and held Kaycee's hand as we walked into the building. When we were in the photographer was sitting there waiting on us. People have to wait when there's babies on board. He walked over to us and greeted us. "I'm Tremaine, it's nice to meet you all."

"It's nice to meet you too. Do we jus get started?" I asked and he responded with a nod.

"Just act like I'm not here." We both nodded and walked straight on set.

No poses were involved, it was just us dancing around with the babies in our arms. Kaycee was doing her little ballerina moves and it was extremely cute. I found myself reminiscing on the good times we had at that point. I moved closer to Daniel and looked him in his eyes. Zion was in my arm and Dylan was in his. My face inched closer to his and our lips met. It felt right and wrong at the same time,

"PERFECT!" I heard Tremaine say and I moved away from Daniel with a shy smile on my face. "That's the perfect shot we got all day."

Behind my smile all I could think about was how I was going to tell Bryson abo t this kiss.

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