Nicolas POV
"Mr. Hawthorne."
"Yes ma'am?"
"Wife on line one"
"Alright thank you Deja ."
I pushed the button on the phone and she picked up.
Convo
Line one: baby
Me: yea
Line one: I'm at work
Me: alright, how was the ride?
Line one: long as hell. There was a lot of traffic and Josiah was whining the whole way.
Me: oh ok. Well baby a client waiting on me so I'll call you when I get finished. I love you
Line one: I love you too.
I buzzed the button so the customer could come in. She walked in clicking her heels across the tile floor. Her hair was down her back and she wore a fitted skirt and a nice blouse. I stood up and greeted her with a hand shake.
"Good morning Ma'am."
"Raine, Good morning sir."
"Mr. Hawthorne. So how can I help you today?"
"I want you to market my team."
"And what's your team?"
"Langham Cougars."
"Football?"
"Actually track."
"Oh, ok. Well, I'll call you when I figure out somethings and contact people."
"Ok thank you, ummm Mr."
She looked at my shirt then at my desk.
"Hawthorne." I laughed.
"You got a first name?"
"Yes. Nicolas."
"Oh, well have a great day, Nicolas."
"Thanks you too ma'am."
She got up and walked out my office. I grabbed my phone and dialed Destiny's number.
Convo
Wifey: Hello
Me: Hey baby what you doing?
Wifey: uh Working.
Me: What time you going to lunch?
Wifey: Uh, I'm not sure I have a lot to do today. A lot of people I gotta talk to. I don't know if I have time to eat today.
Me: You want me to bring you something?
Wifey: No it's fine.
Me: I'll be there on my lunch break.
Wifey: what time is your lunch break?
Me: In thirty minutes.
Wifey: till what time?
Me: twelve
Wifey: Alright. What you wanna eat tonight?
Me: What you cooking?
Wifey: Probably steaks, green beans, and Mac and cheese. Unless you want something else..
Me: No that's fine. What we eating for dessert?
Wifey: Fruit
Me: We have some at home?
Wifey: I think so. If not I'll go after I pick up Josiah and chae.
Me: Alright baby. Go head and get back to work. I'll see you in a minute. I love you baby
Wifey: I love you too.
~Later that evening~
Destiny POV
I made it home finally after getting the fruit and picking up the kids . I was currently finishing up dinner and waiting for Nicolas to get home. Nyla and NJ were sitting at the dinning room table doing their homework while the twins were upstairs.
I started putting the food on the plates, until I heard crying. I sighed and put the spoon down. I went upstairs to where the crying was coming from and of course it was from Chae's room.
"What the hell?"
Josiah's nose was bleeding and he was crying. I looked at Michaela and frowned.
"You hit him?"
"No."
"Michaela, did you hit him?"
"No."
"Yes she did."
"Why she hit you Josiah?"
"Cuz I... Cuz I didn't give her a my toy."
"What toy?"
"This one."
He held up his batman figure with his loose hand.
"Did you hit him Michaela?"
"Yes, Cuz I always.."
"Hush. Go give me your toys. All of them. Matter of fact. Go sit on the couch.....NJ... go help your brother with his nose it's bleeding."
"Yes ma'am."
I walked downstairs and finished putting the food on the plate and sat the on the table.
"Y'all go eat. Michaela come with me. Nyla when you take a bath we doing sight words."
I grabbed a trash bag and walked upstairs to Chae's room. I started bagging toys while she sat there and watched.
"Since you can't play with your own toys, and feel the need to hit people when you don't get your way ima take your toys. All of them. You not gonna have nothing to play with. And you better not ask anybody in this house for a toy. You can watch tv, color, but I'm taking your toys."
She started crying as I finished bagging the last toy. When I got downstairs, Nicolas walked through the door. He looked at my face and sighed. He followed me to the bedroom and closed the door.
"What happened?"
"Chaela hit Josiah with something and his nose was bleeding. I took her toys. Now she mad."
"Oh. You need me to talk to her?"
"No. Because at the end of the day you're going to end up spoiling her."
"Why you gotta attitude."
"Because, I feel like you spoil the girls too damn much."
"I spoiled you."
"But I wasn't bad like them and I'm not your kid, I'm your wife."
"True. But they my baby girls."
"That's your problem. When they do something bad they can't be daddy's girls they need to be punished. Josiah and NJ get punished but they're mommas boys."
"Ok, ok. No more spoiling when they in trouble."
"Thank you, Now Let me go eat, so I can help Nyla with her sight words and take the twins a bath."
"I'll help Nyla. You can go bathe the twins. I'll make sure NJ's in bed too."
"Alright thanks baby."
