Thick & Thin

Chapter Eighteen; The Morning After

Completely broken from her slumber, Kelly reached over Greg's chest to grab the phone. It was damn near 7:00 in the morning eastern time and close to noon where Roy was when he decided he wanted to call and check up on his wife.

"Hello?" Kelly said sheepishly; still exhausted from her previous randevous. She moved her hair out of her face and frowned; noticing Greg knocked out beside her.

"Hey baby!" Roy retorted smiling at the sound of her tired voice. "Did I wake you?"

Letting the sound of his voice finally click, she paused before responding. "uhm No!" she knocked Greg's leg off of her so she could get up. Once she hit the hallway she made a b-line for the stairs.

"Wussup?" Roy asked.

"Uhm, nothing. How's your trip going so far?"

Despite the rate her heart was beating by this time, she still was able to keep a normal conversation going.

"Its going alright. I can't wait to get back home though." he sighed. "You know I was serious about what I said right?"

"mmhm."

"Maybe we can go on that vacation, like you said."

Kelly bit her lip and sighed. "That's fine with me, baby. Whatever you wanna do." she laughed nervously but of course he didn't catch on.

"Aight well I have to get back to work. I was just calling to hear your voice. I'll talk to you later."

"Okay!"

"I love you!" he added.

Kelly's heart sunk and she literally felt like crying right about now. "I love you too baby."

She hung up the phone quickly and set it down on the counter. By this time, she had walked into the kitchen to avoid any contact with Greg while she spoke to Roy. He'd probably flip if he knew he was laying up in his bed right about now; better yet spent the night making love to his wife.

Completely torn in between love and lust, Kelly stood there with her arms crossed and in a daze. Minutes later, a pair of muscular arms embraced her.

"mmm. Morning beautiful." Greg murmured after grabbing her from behind and kissing the nape of her neck.

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Michelle slept peacefully under her plush comforter while Kevin crept out of the bed. He had just received an 'important' phone call and felt the need to leave all of a sudden. Feeling his weight shift the mattress, Chelle turned around and stretched her arms out while yawning.

"Where you going?" she asked sleepily; trying her best to pull her eyelids apart.

"Go back to sleep." he kissed her forehead after pulling his jeans up. "I'll call you later aight?"

"mmhm." she cuddled up to her pillow and slowly drifted off into another deep sleep. Usually she'd ask a million questions about where exactly he was going, but that only led to him getting upset and leaving her feeling like she had pushed it too far. During this particular time, she was just too tired to push the subject. It was just too earlier for her to be raising her voice at anyone.

Relieved; Kevin finished getting dressed and made sure to lock her front door on the way out.

A couple minutes later her phone started ringing.

Groaning with irritation, she lifted her hand up and searched for the phone on the night stand next to her bed, with her eyes still shut.

"Hello!?" She growled with an attitude.