Take Me As I Am: Book Three

One Happy Family

New York City, New York

Kastynn

8 hours later...

"Would you have rather had him in Atlanta?" Ti'Ron randomly asks me, looking up from our son's face into mine.

I bat my eyes and a smirk appears on my face-- a twisted smirk I might wanna add. "Why do you ask that?"

Pulling Kaiden's hat down further on his head, he shrugs his shoulders and calmly pokes out his bottom lip. "Because I know how many females are having a baby in the state they weren't born in. And in this case, neither of us were born in New York City, babe."

"I mean..." I pause, pushing a stand of hair from my face. "I technically don't care. As long as I had my son, I am fine wherever I am and wherever we are."

"Awww," Ti'Ron cooes, smiling up at me. He reaches up and pinches my left cheek, making me blush and smile harder. "I'm just glad you decided to go ahead and give birth to my son like I've been waitin' for. Kept me on pins and needles thinking we'd have to wait forever for my lil' man."

Smiling, I look down at both of my boys. Kaiden had been asleep for the last hour, and to say that learning he's a deep sleeper is astounding to me would be an understatement. I love my son already, or I think I may be in love at that.

Both of my guys together, bonding beautifully and holding on warmly. It was pretty insane how at the age of twenty I would be having my first kid, but things happen where we all don't expect them to, but we make the bed and decide whether or not we're going to lie in it.

For me, I'm more than willing to, and always have been, take care of of the messes I've made. And this mess happens to be the biggest and most life changing experience I've been in. And with my family and baby's father helping me along the way, what more could I have asked for?

Now, there were times where I felt that things would possibly go all the way wrong if I didn't keep my stress levels at a minimum, or maybe even nonexistent-- according to Ti'Ron and my parents. And as for Kris coming back into my life, leaving, and coming back again all within a month's time, it made my stress levels skyrocket through the roof.

My doctor was scared for me and my child's life, but I was even more scared watching Ti'Ron's facial expressions go from great to sour in a matter of seconds hearing her speak about me over stressing. He wanted answers, he needed answers, and he was bound to get them whether I wanted to talk about the situation or not.

Eventually I opened up my concerns for me and Kris' relationship, and he encouraged for me to talk with him and try to retain information on why he was so upset with me and Ti'Ron having a baby together. He was in a coma for two years, I had left the state to attend school somewhere else, met new people, became involved sexually with a guy, and ended up pregnant.

He was back and ready to rage war on the both of us. He was more upset and outraged with me than he was with himself and the things he was doing. While Kris maintained to entertain other hoes, I was busy breaking off me and Ti'Ron's constant love and sexual beguiling cycle. He was understanding of it all and wanted to remain friends, soon-to-be parents at the time, and continue to have a healthy friend who.

Being that I was only doing this so me and Kris could start over from scratch and rebuild what we had started, only to get a straight slap in the face basically fuck you. It hurt like hell to find out he was entertaining someone else, after he had jumped down my throat for doing the exact same thing. And what hurt worse was finding out that he had planned on cutting me off for good and wanting to have nothing to do with me at all.