Why Do I Put Up With You!

~Twelve~

For the next several weeks it was like I was living in total bliss my career was going platinum, and I thought I had the greatest and sexiest boyfriend on the planet, and as of late, he's been taking a lot of time off of work and spending it with me instead, because he was telling me he was wanting to get his priorities straight, that his happiness was to come first, then his job, then finally his celebreality. I stood behind him on everything he did and accomplished trying to be a supportive and loving girlfriend. But he didn't do exactly that for me and my career, matter of fact he was telling me constantly that if I was going to be with him, I didn't really need to have a job, that way I could spend all my time taking care of him and being there when he needed or wanted me.

At first, I didn't think he was really serious about it, but as the next few weeks went by he was still hammering on me about it until I finally gave up, because I loved my job but I loved him more and didn't want to lose him. So I called in my early resignation and sold my recently boughten condo and let him move me into his home with him, so I could be there for him all the time. I figured it was what any woman would do for the man she loved, and in a way, I thought it was progress in our relationship, but all it was to Criss was a power play and I didn't know it...yet. But he did it so gradually that I never realized how he was modifying me to what he wanted me to be.

Before I knew it I was a completely different person, I had let him mold me like clay in between his fingers, I had to admit most of the modifications he did on me was actually for the best, but there was a select couple that if I'd have realized he'd done to me, like controlling and manipulating me like my ex-boyfriend did I would have blown up on his ass, but he played it so smooth and cool, that I never realized him doing it, and it wasn't until my girlfriends all came to visit me, that they all noticed very quickly how much Criss has changed me, but when they confronted me about it I denied it and ignored all their comments.

Anyways, so now here I am back to the present day, I have been living with Criss for almost 5 years, and right about now I was realizing how right my friends had been. Because lately Criss and I were fighting more often than not, and he was blaming me for our arguments because I chose to rebel and not be the same loving girlfriend I was before. I hollered at him, telling him that what he called rebelling I called being myself instead of who he wanted me to be molded into, and I wasn't ever going to allow him to do that to me anymore.

Sometimes our fighting got so bad we even took turns throwing hits, well his were more like pushing, because he was quite the gentleman even during his outrages, while mine, on the other hand, was pretty good punches, but I knew they weren't doing much good because he could take down an entire swat team if he wanted too. But I had to let it out and show him how he was making me feel, and how badly he's been treating me lately when all I wanted to do was be there for him and love him to no end, but right now, I wasn't sure if it was worth it anymore. But like the magical man he was, every time I would think heavily about leaving his ass, he would come up with the ultimate apology and be so loving and romantic again that I just couldn't think of ever being without him.

Abby and Mark decided to fly to Vegas to introduce me to there newborn daughter Melanie and to see how I have been doing with Criss lately. But I was extremely surprised when Sandy and her husband Sully and daughter Skylar came to the house as well for the weekend. I was really happy to see them and their little bundles of joy, but when I told them my relationship with Criss has lately been on the razor's edge, and how he's been treating me lately, they all asked me why I was even putting up with it at all, and that I should just leave his ass, because even though Sully was Criss's best buddy, when he saw how he was treating me for no reason at all, he highly disagreed with him, and told me that I could find someone better than him, and that he was probably just getting tired of me, and wanted to move on to another flavor.

I hugged Sully and told him that I have considered leaving him many times, but I just couldn't do it, because I loved him so much and I was living proof that love was a battlefield and blind, and right now I was on the losing end, but I wasn't going to give him up without a fight. Abby understood how I felt, but she just didn't want to see me get hurt. Mark and Sully both said if Criss ever did hurt me, they both would stomp a mudhole in his magical ass. But Criss was a really smart one and was very good at acting just the right way until after our company left, then he spun a 360 and cuss my ass out for not telling him that we were going to have company.

I shrugged it off and told him that I didn't even know until they walked in the door yelling surprise at me, and he would have known when I did if he was at home instead of at the casino again on a day that he didn't even have work. Criss glared at me and said he worked all the time no matter what day it was and if I was insinuating something I needed to let him now straight out. I turned to him and asked him if I should be insinuating something for him being so defensive about it after that world war III was on again. Only this time, he wasn't going to get away with it, because during his secretive outrages with me, his family walked in and heard it all.