// Chris POV //
"Myia get yo ass up." It was early in the morning and somebody sent me a text with a picture of Myia, Tay and Nick.
"What? It's Saturday!"
"Bitch I thought I told you not to fuck with this nigga no more? Then you got my damn daughter around him. What the fuck wrong with yo dumb ass? You know people always watching us and shit now they probably thinking you stepping out on me, or you got somebody else playing step daddy, and that Tay ain't mine and all kinds of shit." I was heated, cause I swore I told her to leave him alone. Myia was still sleepy cause she was wiping her eyes and I'm pretty sure she ain't catch all what I said.
"Okay I understand you mad but really? You couldn't have waited cause your breathe stinks like hell."
"Man what the fuck was you doing with him after I told YO THOT ASS not too?"
"Thot?" she slapped the hell out of me.
"Yeah THOT!" that shit hurt so I said it again.
She then punched me and got on top of me swinging. I was trying to stop her by holding her arms but then she spit on me, so I pushed her off me and she fell off the bed and hit the floor.
"I fucking hate you!" She was crying, but I was the one that should be crying. She was whooping my ass and I couldn't do anything about it and when I pushed her she wanna act like it really hurt worse than them hits.
"Man I hate you too! Shid don't play that victim shit again!" I had a tear rolling down my face. Good thing the twins rooms was far from ours and they was heavy sleepers, cause we was loud.
We both went our separate ways and didn't speak to each other for the rest of the day and we didn't sleep in the same bed.
That day turned into days, days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months..
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"Me and my so called wife are growing apart."
"So are you sure you want to do this and have you discussed this with her?"
I was talking to my lawyer. I'm filing for separation.
"I kind of love her, but we barely talk and the twins birthday coming up and I don't know how we are going to plan it. This gonna be our first real conversation in a long while."
"You should talk to her first. Then call me and we can discuss everything and if it leads to divorce are you going to pay alimony, child support, or are you going to have custody?"
"I want custody."
"Can we prove her as unfit? Because she dose have a good paying job."
"She beats on me when we argue."
"You have proof?"
"Yeah."
"Well this will be easy."
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When I got home Myia smiled, not at me but at the sight of Ben and Tay running to me. I looked up at her and she stop.
"Myia? We need to talk."
"Okay.."
She followed me outside to the pool. It was pretty out, so I thought it would ease the mood. We both took off our shoes and sat on the edge and put our feet in.
"Chris can I go first?"
"Yeah sure."
"Okay I miss you! I cry myself to sleep every night.. I feel so empty on the inside. I never realized how much I loved you and how I'm so used to us playing around. The laughs me and you shared was so precious and the fact that we haven't had one in a while is so saddening to me. Oh then the kids, I feel like they know we're not the same anymore. We can't even do things as a family because of all the tension between us two. Dude I love your ass so much and this right here made me see that I want you, I want us to be like we used to be can we do that? Chris I still love you."
I had to let every single word she just said sink into my body. I didn't realize how long it took me, until she got up and splashed water in my face.
"Wait! I love you too and yeah I want us to be like old times and talk." I laughed a little.
"What's funny"
"Because your a marriage therapist and look at us.."
She laughed too. "But we have to try."
"Yeah well.. see about that that, I filed for separation today."
"Really? We didn't even talk about that!"
"That's why I did it, cause we wasn't talking.."
"Mhmm so now what?" She had her arms folded.
"We sign the papers, see if we can work out, and if we don't then we'll divorce"
"So you really want to go through with this?"
"Yeah kind of, but now it's different I thought you didn't love me, but only time could tell."
"Okay.."
"One more thing..."
"What?"
"Um I hired movers an they coming next week and if we don't work out I want full custody."
"Really? Why? Why? Why are you throwing all of this at me at one time?" she was crying.
"Come here." I pulled her into me and held her. I felt bad, maybe it was too much at once but it's too late. I don't love her the same...
