The Man in Front of Me

10💖

Chris Brown

"Open your mouth for daddy! Her comes the airplane!" I tease Madison with her food as she opens her mouth, impatiently waiting for me to feed her.

"Damn. Why are you so adorable?! Why? How? Hmm?" I rub her nose against mine, making her giggle as I kiss her cheek and give her more of her breakfast.

"¡Buenos dias!" My maid, Carmela strolls in smiling brightly as I give the same back.

"Aww!!! I thought you were kidding when you said you had a twin in your house!" She pinches Maddy's cheeks as Madison glares at me and makes me laugh.

"It's true. I'm a father now." I say proudly as Carmela nods.

"Thanks for the time off by the way! I'm glad to be back! I can't wait to meet this Mia! I mean, based on all the good days you talked to me about her...not the tough nights!" She says and sighs, while I give a small head nod in return.

Mia was still sleeping, which was odd, since she's usually up by at least 10, and it's 10:30. I hope she's dreaming good things at the moment.

Last night she had a nightmare and I had to calm her down by repetitively telling her that I was going to be right by her side and nobody was gonna hurt her on my watch.

She didn't explain to me what it was about, but it scared her to death apparently. Something something about something, making Madison and I disappear due to some kind of disease or massacre.

Anyway, she'll be up soon. In the meantime, I'm working out a schedule plan for Mia while I'm gone for the next finals I will be attending in Cleveland. I have the day off today, then tomorrow it's time to practice. The team doesn't have the spirit when I'm not there, so I promised to be with them at practice for now on and no more taking days offs.

"How was Rosita's recital?" I start up a conversation with Carmela as she gives me a thumbs up, while cleaning the dishes.

"That's great! I bet she'll be a terrific dancer one da-" I hear a ding from the elevator, and it showed that someone was coming up from the first floor, up to here.

"Did you invite someone over?" Carmela asks as I shake my head no and she shrugs.

"Probably your mama then. I'm gonna go do your laundry first, then get started on cleaning the rooms! Call me over if you need anything." Carmela informs me as I nod, giving Madison a few cheerios and eating some too.

"Hey Chrissy! Where you at in here?! I came over to apologize and that I wanna make things up so we- oh my god. Is this place looks like a child care cen- waiiiit a minute. HOLY SHI-"

I drop my spoon I was feeding Madison with on the ground and groan, knowing exactly who that obnoxious voice was. How the fuck did she get in my house!

"How the fu-" I stop, not wanting to swear in front of Madison, and go over to her instead.

"What the fuck are YOU doing here! I never gave you a key, and I TOLD you yester-"