Through It All

10

I am at home watching a movie with Saint. It has been three weeks since that shit with Carmen happened. She has been a really huge pain in my ass. My shop was broken into twice and I know she did it. I had to send Saint and Killa to put the fear of God into her. But, it feels good not having to worry about anything right now. Summer is at her friend's house, Faith is spending the weekend with Galaxy, and my moms are watching Prince for the weekend. Leaving Saint and I to have some alone time; we have really been doing better. It is as if things are like they were before. I remember why I fell in love with, and married, him.

His phone starts ringing and he tells me to answer it for him. I look and see its his mom.

"Hey momma," I say

"Hey baby, where my hardheaded ass son at?" she says causing me to laugh.

"He right here."

"Ask him why he put my cups so high up, knowing my short ass self cannot reach?"

"Momma want to know why you put her cups so high up." I say

"Man, tell her that what she has a step stool for." He says not taking his eyes off the movie. I shake my head.

"Tell him keep getting smart; he aint too old for me to whoop his tall bear looking ass." I couldn't help but to brust out laughing.

"Anyways, how do you love the new house?" I ask. She and Mr. James moved out last week.

"I am so in love. You did a great job of getting it looking like my home back home. Thank you."

"No problem. I know how much you miss being back in Atlanta." We talk for a few more minutes before she says she has to go because she is meeting some people for lunch.

(8:30pm)

Saint had this idea that he wanted to take me on a date, which I am all for. He tells me to dress comfortable and I do. I put on a tank top, dark blue skinny jeans, matching jean jacket, and my J's. I wear my hair straight with light makeup. When I am done I see we are matching.

"Look at you copying mommy." I say teasingly

"Girl, gone on somewhere; you know wanted to match daddy's fly." He says opening the door for me. I shake my head and walk out the house. He makes sure the house is locked up. We decide to take his lambo. He opens my door making sure I am in good before he closes it. He gets in and we pull off.

(Funzone)

We pull up to the building and I look at him sideways. He is always taking me on crazy dates that have a lot of physical activaties in them. The last one we were on we went rock climbing. But, I can say that we always have a great time. We get out the car and walk hand in hand. We go inside and there are people everywhere. I look around. They have leasar tag, go karting, skating, bowling, arcade games, and in-door roller coasters. We go to the ticket booth and he buys us the game cards that have $200 a piece. Shawty was smiling a little extra too hard at my nigga and paying me know mind. But, I can say he wasn't paying her any mind. We decide to do lasar tag first and of course he kicked my ass. But got his ass handed to him by a nine year old though and that had us weak as fuck. Then we did a few rides. Played some games and skated for a bit. We didn't get to do go karting because my poppa called a meeting and he had to go.

He dropped me off at home and made sure I was straight before he left. Right now, I am cooking and listening to music. I hear the front door slam shut. I know it couldn't have been Saint cause he left 20 minutes ago and those meeting take an hour to two.

"Summer!" I call out. She walks in and I can tell she had been crying. I open my arms to her and she hugs me and breaks down.

"I thought he loved me Momma. How could he do this to me?"