Noelle & Keith: A Romance in Progress

Give it to God

                 Later on that day

"Noelle?" Keith called me from the kitchen, he had a sympathetic look on his face. "Yeah?" I responded dryly. We stared at each other silently for a few seconds until I looked away. "Look, I'm sorry about what happened today." He said to me, I looked at his awkwardly. "Sorry for what? You defended me. That's what you're supposed to do. It wasn't your fault. Richard charged at you! He's the one that should be apologizing to me. No. Kelly should be apologizing to me and kicking Richard's ass to the curb. And Mama Shey, oh my God. I feel so bad that she had to see us turn up like that. Shit. I gotta call her." I ran to the phone and dialed her number. "Hey Mama Shey." Mama Shey seemed glad to hear from me. "Hey baby, how ya doing? You okay?"
"Yeah grandma I'm okay. I apologize for what happened earlier I know you don't like violence but they attacked us first!" Mama Shey laughed and said "baby I know, you did the right thing. I was honestly glad when Keith put the paws on Richard." I started cracking up laughing. "Mama Shey what you know about putting the paws on somebody?" Mama Shey sternly said "girl I watch the love and hip hop Atlanta. Lil scrappy can come stay with me if the Bam don't start acting right. He's kinda cute." Mama Shey and I continued to talk and laugh per usual and we started to wrap up our conversion because I had to get dinner ready. Before we hung up Mama Shey said something that really stuck with me. "Noelle, as long as you continue to work hard, be successful and have a man who truly loves you, your mother will always continue to dislike you. So at this point you just need to ignore her all together. Stay away from her." I was confused because I never go to see her. "Mama Shey I do stay away from her, I came to your house to get you." "Noey, she lives here. Her and Richard. I meant to tell you but I didn't know how." I was silent for a second. "So does that mean I shouldn't come to your house anymore? How will I see you?" Mama Shey went on to say "I'm gonna move soon, I don't know when but soon. I'm gonna move towards you so that way when you have my great grand son I can help you." I chuckled extremely loud because she and Keith have been plotting to get me pregnant for years. They're annoying. "Okay grandma, well just let me know when you're ready because I'll help you pay for it and move. But I'm gonna take your advice and just leave her alone completely. If I see her, I'll just walk the other way. I'm gonna give it to God." Mama Shey replied "praise Jesus. That's right. God is the ultimate ruler. Give all your problems to him. Amen." We said our I love you's and our goodbyes and we hung up. I felt a lot better. I walked back into the kitchen to see what Keith was doing and I seen him making tacos. That's the only thing he knew how to make extremely well. He was frying up the beef and shrimp in two separate pans with sautéed onions and peppers, it smelled heavenly. I walked behind him and put my arms around his waist. "Lovinggggg youuu is easy cuz you're beautiful. And every day of my life is filled with loving you." Keith chimed in and we both began to sing "la la la la la, la la la la la. La la la la la lala la la la la. Doo doo doo doo doo doooo. Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" We started chuckling, Keith turned the pans off and turned around and kissed me ever so gently on the lips. " I love you more than you'll ever know. And I know I'm not perfect and I know I made some mistakes but the biggest mistake I ever made was to wait this long to marry you. You been holding me down for 6 years and honestly I was just scared to settle down at a young age. Now that I wanna marry you and make you Mrs. Powers all of this bullshit keeps getting in the way." Keith said irritated. I knew what he meant and I felt every word he said and I realized something. "Keith, we may not be married but even if we were to go to the court house right now and sign those papers I would feel the exact same way I do now. I know we're gonna get married and I know that we're gonna stay together we just gotta stay prayed up. God is testing us right now and I know that we're gonna pass as long as we continue to praise him, pray and do right by him. You're the only person I wanna have kids with, you're the only person I wanna grow old with and most importantly you're my best friend. There is no one in this world who compares to you in my heart. I appreciate you and everything you do for me. Thank you for being who you are." Keith started to tear up a bit. We normally don't open up like this because we're not sappy but when we do, it's real. He started to construct our tacos, we both like soft shell tacos so he started with the ground beef, shrimp, onions and peppers, the cheese sauce he made from scratch and a dollop of sour cream. These tacos were bomb as hellllll. Keith ate two of them and I ate seve-- I mean I ate the rest..........don't judge me. You can't just expect a person to only eat two tacos, I mean come on be serious.

"Thanks for the dinner babe, it was really good. I gotta shit though." Keith laughed at my statement and pushed me off his lap. "Well you better go do it because if you shit on me, I'm kicking you out the house!" We started cackling. I ran upstairs to our master bedroom and opened our bathroom door and you wouldn't believe it. It was flooded. Our entire bathroom. "WHAT. THE. HELL?!" Keith ran upstairs to see what was wrong. "How did this even happen?!" He questioned, until we realized that the bathtub was still running. I knew it was my fault to because Keith only takes showers. At that point all we could do was laugh because we been through much worse that day. We put towels all over the floor and waited for them to soak up the water. In the mean time we laid down on our bed and talked about how we would handle certain situations with our kids. "Let me find out my daughter is having sex, I will kill whatever boy she's doing it with! I don't play that shit." Keith said angrily, I just looked at him. " and what about the little hoochie that your son will be having sex with?" I asked curiously. "Oh well baby that's different." He laughed. So of course you know I had to hit him with the "but that's double standards and we're not doing that in my house." So after a good back and forth over this nonsense we both agreed that our kids will not be having sex until we're dead. I think that's a good compromise. Keith's phone rang, it was Woody. "Yo what's up man? What's good, how you feeling?" I chimed in with a "heeeey Woody." There was a long pause. "I don't think the baby is mine. I think it's Luke's." Keith and I said "WHAAAAAT?!" We looked at each other in disbelief because that was wild. "What makes you think that?" Keith inquired. "Well I was going through her messages and I seen her thread with him and he was asking her when her last period was and why would he ask her a question like that if they weren't having sex as well? I'm speaking on it tomorrow after our interview cuz I'm not with that sucka shit. If this baby ends up being Luke's not only am I dropping Nina, I'm whooping Luke's ass." This shit just got real.