Brother's

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Three Weeks Earlier

Alissa Hayes

I stood in the kitchen prepping dinner for my husband, if cooked his favorite Steak, baked potatoes and asparagus. I had already poured the red wine in two glasses for us in the lit the candles. Everything was perfect and set, except the fact that he was now going on 15 minutes late.

Finally the sound of the front door closing made me smile and turn around.

"What's up with the food?!" Xavier walked into the kitchen smelling like straight kush. I laughed and throw a oven mitt at him. Tonight it was supposed to be a dinner just for me and Kenneth, but I always make extra Incase I drop something or something gets burnt.

I fix a plate for him as he makes his way to the dining room area and sit it down. Sitting down across from him I pout as time continues to pass.

"Maybe we should have never gotten married" I blurt out.

"Girl you trippin, I don't even think it's that man. Yaw been together this long, ain't it normal for things to get a little rough? Not everyday gon be a good day that's just life." Xavier looked at me as he cut his steak with a knife.

"He's changing on me, and he has cooped up in this damn house all day. I mean yeah I can shopping and have fun or whatever but what's a home without kids?!"

Xavier just looked at me and continued eating, usually Xavier didn't even talk this much. He was a good kid he just always dated the wrong girls and hung with the wrong guys.

"Can he have kids? Maybe he got a low count or some shit, I don't know but girl you blowing my high" he laughed holding his stomach. I shook my head smiling at this idiot. As I stood up and went back towards the kitchen Kenneth walked in with his briefcase and his glasses on with an extra stack of papers. I rolled my eyes, I could already tell how the night was gonna go.

"Hey babe, sorry I'm late. I had to talk with administration we caught one of my students cheating on a test today."

I nodded my head as he kissed me on the lips and sat his stuff on the counter before sitting before his plate that laid on the table. I didn't even feel like eating my own cooking at this point. Xavier and Kenneth talked for a while as I snuck into the other room turning on basketball wives.

I liked watching the show when I was bored but they really did make us black women look bad. All the fighting and bickering back and forth about who said what, when practically all of them had at least one child that was grown. That's also how I felt about love and hip hop, all the fighting and sleeping with each other's man. That shit was not cute at all.

I decided to order Chinese food, when my food showed up Kenneth walked into the living room.

"Thanks for dinner beautiful" he smiled taking his Rolex off and loosening his button up shirt some. I was spread out across the couch eating when he lifted my legs, sat down and laid them across his lap.

"You're welcome" I replied dryly.

"Baby come on don't do that to me, I'm sorry. I've been extra busy this week because of midterms and I promise I'll make it up to you. Anything you wanna do this weekend we can do, it's all about you." He said rubbing my legs.

"Kenneth, don't you think it's time for us to fill the extra 4 bedrooms in this house?" For the past two weeks I had hinted stuff about kids and babies but he either hadn't caught on or didn't care.

"Are you pregnant?" He smirked looking at me then my stomach. I frowned.

"No, but I wish I was. I want us to start a family babe" I look at him with sad eyes. All of my family on my side was dead accept my sister and we fell out long time ago. Last time we talked I had just gotten engaged to Kenneth and she wasn't a big fan of the age difference.