One Night Can Change Your Life

Chapter 17

We just found out that we're having a girl, so I decided why not use my mom's gift card to go shopping for my baby girl. "Baby?" I say grabbing Damen's thigh trying to get his attention, which work. He looked at me and smirked "yes gorgeous." He says grabbing my hand and kissing it.

"Let's go shopping for our baby girl, my mom gave me a 5,000 dollar gift card to babies 'R' us for Christmas." I say looking at him for an answer.

"5,000 dollars, and you want to spend all of it today?" He asked raising an eyebrow at me, then looking back to the road.

"Probably, I just want to be prepared for her, and I don't need last minute planning, I like to plan ahead. Plus I want to get her nursery started." I say as we are stopped at the light.

"Okay, babies 'R' us it is." Damen says looking at me smiling.

We get to babies 'R' us and I'm excited to get everything with my gift card. We walk in and I grab a basket for my baby's things and I immediately go to the crib section, so I can decide whether if I want a cherry wood or white wood to go in her room. Damen is following me and he looks like he has something on his mind. "Penny for your thoughts." I say smiling and mocking him, he looks at me and walks up to me "where is her nursery going to be?" He says looking at me waiting for my answer. Something tells me that this question is going to turn into an argument.

"Her nursery is going to be the second bedroom in my apartment across from my bedroom." I say looking back at the white wood and cherry wood cribs. By the look on his face I knew he didn't like that answer, "so she is going to have a nursery at your place, why can't the nursery be at my place?" He says kind of raising his voice at me. "She will just have two nurseries, no big deal." I say trying defuse the situation and walked away to get other stuff. 

Damen follows still angry about the nursery, "we need to set up her main nursery at my house." He says angry while I'm picking up newborn diapers and wipes. "Why your house when I have a place of my own." I say annoyed putting the last pack of diapers and wipes in the basket and walking away to get more things. "Ava my house is big enough for the both of you to stay, and I want my daughter with me under the same roof." He says sounding aggravated with me, I look at him very irritated at the answer and decided not to say anything.

I grabbed a 10 things of each baby powder, baby shampoo and conditioner, baby lotion, and baby body wash day and night. "Ava, talk to me, and tell me why my daughter can't sleep under the same roof as me." Damen says very angry that I ignored him, and when he said that it really pissed me off to where I just walked to the clothing aisle, because if I keep entertaining him then the whole store is going to be staring at us.

Me walking away makes Damen even more mad to where he grabs my arm "My daughter is going to be in my house." Once those words came out his mouth I couldn't control myself anymore, "she's my daughter too and you cannot tell me where she is going to stay. I'm her mother and what I say goes, so you can't tell me that I can't create her nursery at my place when she is my child! I scream at him making some other customers stare at us. I was so pissed that I felt my eyes start to water while looking at him waiting for him to respond. Damen seen I was crying and came over to me "Okay let's not have this conversation now, let's finish shopping and we can finish this later." He says wiping my tears with his thumbs. I nod my head and we get our daughter a bunch of blankets, clothes, onesies, socks, pacifiers, and pajamas.

We decided until we figure out her living situation, that we hold off on the furniture. We are in line at the register and the tension between us is very thick that the cashier noticed, "rough day." She says to me with a smile and I smile back taking my gift card from my wallet, "You have no idea." I say waiting on my receipt. Damen starts to grab the basket, but I grabbed it before him "I got it!" I say pushing the basket to the door. "I'm just trying to help" he says walking beside me, we get outside to his car and Damen starts putting the bags in the car, as I get in.

As soon as we left the parking lot the conversation started right back up. "So can you tell me why my daughter can't be under my roof with her father?" Damen says glancing at me, then back on the road, "DAMEN I NEVER SAID THAT SHE COULDN'T SLEEP IN YOUR HOUSE, THAT'S WHY I SAID SHE WILL JUST HAVE TWO NURSERIES. WHAT PART OF THAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!!" I scream at him looking at the road.

Our conversation was getting so heated that he had to pull over, so we could talk, "Ava don't scream at me or talk to me like I'm stupid I'm simply asking why does she have to have two." He says with his head in his hands on the steering wheel, "Damen your acting stupid, this whole conversation is stup____." I'm cut off by my baby girl moving, I sort of smiled a little bit but then I realized she shouldn't be listening to mommy and daddy argue like this.

Damen looks at me with worried eyes when I stopped talking "are you okay, is the baby okay?" He asked with a concerned look. "We're both fine, but Damen can you take me home please , I'm tired." I say looking out the window.

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Damen's POV

When Ava asked to go home I immediately knew that I pissed her off, and we needed a break from each other for today, because this conversation made her cry and scream in babies' R' us.

I took her home and took all the bags out the car and took them up to her apartment, as I sat the bags down Ava sat down on the couch and curled up. After sitting all of the bags down I let myself out and headed back to my car, I got in and dialed Jaylon's number then pulled out of her parking lot.

"Hey D what's up?" Jaylon says into the phone.

"Ava and I just had an argument and a stupid argument at that." I say very irritated.

"What happened?" Jaylon asked concerned.

"After the doctor's appointment when we find out the gender, Ava wanted to go shopping for her to get a head start on the baby's nursery and everything, when it hit me that my girls won't be living with me. So I asked where was her nursery gone be sat up, as in who's place mine or hers. When she said hers it did something to me , to where I got pissed off and So did Ava. I know it was probably my fault but I just want to see my daughter everyday and I guess when Ava said the nursery was going to be at her place, I just started thinking I won't get to see her everyday." I explain to Jaylon.

"Did you say daughter and Ava never said you won't be able to see her everyday, and what Skylar have told me and what I've learned is that Ava is very independent. She doesn't want to depend on anybody, that's why she is paying for herself to get a master's and PHD, and I just think she said her place for something to fall back on. Why won't you ask her to move in to solve your problem?" Jaylon says while I pulled into my drive way.

"Thanks Jay" I say walking into my house,

"No problem bro, but I would give her some space before you say anything." Jaylon says giving me a warning.

"Well do."