From Time

Strained Relationships

Bianca inspected something in her fingernail while she was cleaning the kitchen. She shook her hand and winced in pain at the fact that she burned her finger on the stove that was still hot. Michael was putting the dishes away in the dishwasher for them to be washed.

"I told you to just let me clean the kitchen." Michael shook his head while closing the dish drain.

"I'm pregnant babe not crippled." Bianca hesitated. "Although being pregnant has limited me to doing quite a few things cleaning isn't one of them."

"Okay, like what?"

"Like putting on my shoes, I can't do sneakers anymore unless someone's there to help me put them on, i can't see past my belly and our son is making it pretty difficult for me to just enjoy regular foods like I can't even eat pizza and I fucking love pizza." Michael chuckled while he listened to his wife ramble. "I can't control my hormones although I'm aware of it I'm trying I really am, and I know I've been getting on your nerves lately but i promise I'll make it up to you. Oh, and I'm sorry i can't do most of my flexible shit that I'd normally do in bed I'd end up winded so for now we have to stick to the sideways position or missionary."

"I don't care about the position as long as I'm getting my nut." Michael snickered while Bianca gasped and hit him across his chest.

"You're fucking mean."

"I'm kidding you know I love you babe and we've just got three more months of this I think I can manage."

"Of course you can manage you're not the one who's growing a whole human inside of you." Bianca rolled her eyes.

"I'm not but I'm trying to make this process as easy as possible. You're carrying my seed."

"OUR seed." Bianca corrected.

"Well, my seed and your egg if you wanna get technical." Michael shrugged but was hit by Bianca again.

"Ow, you hit me in that same spot."

"Good, that means my message is getting through to you." Bianca smirked. "And since you've got this cleaning shit I'm gonna take a nap hopefully Kari won't wake me up." Bianca kissed Michael's cheek and walked out of the kitchen leaving Michael in the kitchen cleaning by himself.

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Bianca made her way to her office building to pick up a few things that she left at her desk and to get ready for a board meeting with OVO executives for this afternoon.  Once Bianca unlocked her office she smiled at the familiar luxurious space and closed the door behind her.  She cut on the light so that she could see and made her way to her desk and sat down in the leather chair. 

It felt weird to be in this place again without seeing or interacting with Aubrey.  Her stomach fluttered when her baby started kicking again.  She smiled at the thought of meeting her baby for the first time and mentally thanked God for her blessing.  She cut on the mac desktop and watched it load when a knock on the door startled her.

"Oh, uh come in!"

Aubrey walked into her office drinking from a Starbucks cup. She smiled at the sight of him being that she hadn't seen him since before the wedding. 

"Hey, oh my gosh Aubrey I've missed you it's been what? Four months since we've last seen each other in person I—"

"I didn't come here to catch up Bianca I just wanted to get those papers that I asked you to bring." Aubrey stood in front of her desk killing her mood.

"The contracts for the new artists right?"

Aubrey nodded.

"I'll get them for you just give me one second." Bianca bent down to take out her work bag and looked for the forms that she helped put together with her lawyer.  When she finally found them she took them out of the manilla folder and handed them to him. 

"Aubrey I have something to ask you..."

"Can it wait Bianca? I'm kind of busy right now." Aubrey shot her down.

"There's no reason for you to be rude to me, I have done nothing wrong.  My baby will be here soon and I wanted to be apart of his life...at one point we were best friends or at least I thought we were.  Maybe you just needed me for sex, I see that now,  I've always admired you and looked up to you and no matter what our situation was you've always made it better for us.  I want my son to have positive role models in his life and Michael and I both agreed that we would want you to be The Godfather of our son."

"I think you should keep looking or find someone else to be The Godfather, I don't want to be it." Aubrey started walking towards the door.

"But, why? Why are you acting so cold towards me all of a sudden? I'm the one who should be fucking mad at you for obvious reasons, you have NO right to be fucking mad at me!" Bianca slowly got up out of her chair.  "You humiliate me time and time again!  I don't even know why the hell we were friends in the first place.  You just used me for sex and when you were done with me you wanted nothing to do with me.  I don't know what I did to he treated this way but I know I won't stand for it anymore.  We can be business partners nothing more nothing less.  You've shown your true colors Aubrey and if I don't ever interact with you again I'm fine with that.  I have a man who loves me for me and accepts me and all of my flaws.  I hope that one Day we can work out all of our issues but that day can't be today.  I'll see you at the meeting." Bianca's eyes welled up as she made her way back to her desk.

Aubrey left her office and closed the door.  He could hear Bianca sniffling on the other side of the door and saw some of his employees were being nosy when they returned to what they were doing.