Relationship Status. ON HOLD.

All I wanna do is sleep.

When Mrs. Anderson showed up to bring Karmen back home she about lost her mind when she saw BJ. "Ok so who does he belong to because he wasn't here a week ago." She went on and on about how cute he was, and how shy he was, and how he didn't talk, and how he looked sad, and how he looked nothing like either of us. I sighed and shook my head knowing I would have to explain how we came to have BJ sooner rather than later.

"Um, he is Karmen's older brother. And their mom dropped him off here a couple days after you took Karmen away to spend time with you." I looked back over my shoulder to see Xavier's sisters playing with Karmen and Bryan, and smiled softly BJ still hadn't talked but he was smiling now that Karmen was here. "And we're keeping him, he's old enough to realize that his mother gave him away and he's coping by not talking to anyone. So it's not him being disrespectful it's just how he's dealing with being abandoned." I told her defensively,  if I sounded disrespectful I didn't care because she was practically picking on poor defenseless BJ when all he was doing was trying to adjust. She looked at me for a moment and then at BJ and Karmen.

"When you two have kids of your own you're gonna be a great mother. I know Karmen isn't his, I'm not stupid and I know BJ isn't his either. So when y'all have one of your own they will be just fine Davionna just fine." Then she hugged me, to say I was caught off guard was an understatement. I looked up and saw Xavier looking at us approvingly, which made me smile. All we both ever wanted was for his mom to like me and now that I had gotten the seal of approval it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

I walked away to check on our food, the sting between my legs was minimal now but Xavier still kept trying to do things for me as if I were a cripple. When I got into the kitchen he followed me and I laughed to myself, I can officially call him whipped. "I saw you talking to my mom, then she hugged you." He told me as he wrapped his arms around my waist. "I think y'all are making good progress." He kissed the back of my neck and I giggled at the way it felt.

"Yea I think we are connecting on a motherly level if that makes since." I informed him, he nodded understandingly and I smiled. We stood like that for a while, while I check and stirred our food, it was peaceful. I realized that the food was done a few moments later and Xavier helped me make plates. "Are y'all joining us for dinner? We have enough food for everyone." I asked Xavier's family but they politely declined.

"The girls have finals and I have work so we gotta start heading home." Mrs. Anderson informed us then we all said our goodbyes and they left. I got the kids cleaned up and to the table while Xavier set the table, we had a pretty good system for adding a new kid to the family only two days before. We ate silently but it was a content silence, no one had much to say about the day.

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"What happened last night won't happen again until you beg me. Which now that I'm thinking about it won't take very long." I whispered to Xavier jokingly as we laid in bed. The kids were down the hall asleep, and we had nothing else to do but lay there and enjoy each other's company.

"Well in that case, please please please please-"

"That's not what I meant," I cut him off while laughing. "Just for that you most definitely aren't getting any for two weeks." I told him with finality, but he only laughed.

"Oh really?" When he said it his eyes turned a shade darker and his lips curled into a dangerous smirk. I gulped and I knew he saw it, why did I have to go and poke the bear. I tried to hurry and roll off the bed but he anticipated it and grabbed me by the waist pulling me closer to him, I wiggled and squirmed but he wasn't letting me go.

"Listen Xavier there's no need for this, you could let me take a shower and go to sleep. I think that sounds nice and peaceful don't you, me pressed against you calm and peaceful." I tried to persuade once I realized he wasn't letting me go anytime soon. He now had his chest pressed lightly against mine and when he chuckled it shook my body also. The feeling was weird but I didn't mind as much if it meant he was going to let me sleep.