The Best Friend and the Husband

Chapter twenty one

Madison froze and thought about running out the door but stood her ground because it was her house. Right? Anna was giving her a cold stare. She felt like she was a teenager again when she came home only 1 minuet late for curfew. She just smiled at her but that didn't cut it for Anna
"Who was at the door?" Anna asked very stern
"It was Russell, he forgot his phone earlier"
"What was he doing her earlier"
" gosh mom what's up with the interrogation. I mean I'm a grown women and he is the father of my children."
"I know ,I just don't want him around you"
"He is going to be around no matter what. Because he loves our children. And we will always be connected because of our children. You of all people should know that."
"You know what I'm going to go get a hotel room. I feel like I'm just irritating you so I'll leave"
" no mom you can stay it's just that you're making it seem like I'm still that little girl who you think you can control all the time. But I'm a grown up now and I think I'm doing just fine. So please stay I think Ash would want to hang out with her nana"
"Okay and I'm sorry for making you feel like that"
Madison walked into the kitchen to find her other mom Becky cooking dinner. She was glad that she was apart of her life again,she had always been there for her. And gave her heck when she needed it. Madison sure has missed her. She remembers when she was in school when they had lunch together every Monday or Wednesday. Madison has never ever called her other mom 'auntie', when she was young she only knew her as her other mom and her mother's sister.
Next day
Madison's POV
I was laying In bed, I rolled over to look at the clock it was 6:00 my stupid internal clock thinks I have to go to work. I laid there and turned on the tv, then a few hours later I got up to start making breakfast for everyone.
Around 10:00 everybody was awake.
I asked Kayla to come with me to pick up the cake for the party. We left shortly after breakfast. It was nice to spend time with her. When we got back they had the house all decorated. Now all we had to do was wait for people to arrive. The first person to come in was auntie Nessa.
"Hey auntie. How are you?"- me
"Hey baby girl. I'm doing good. Oh my god you've gotten big. Oh I can't wait to meet this little one."
"Yeah the doctor says baby should be here October 18th."
I could feel my mothers glare. I knew I should of told her earlier but it just slipped my mind.
"Oh wow well I'm going to go see the birthday girl"
I walked over to my mom and we just sat in silence. Until she broke it.
"Were you going to tell me?"
"It just slipped my mind and I was planning to tell everyone later tonight. When Russell was here"
"Oh okay, is he coming to the party?"
"Yeah he should be here soon"
"Did he find out if the kids are his?"
"I don't think so"
Once she brought it up everything that happened in the past 5 months came back and I was back into my dark space. I hated feeling this way and I knew it wasn't good for the baby. I don't want to see him or else I might blow up on him.
And with just my luck he walks in the door. My heart was racing and my blood was boiling and then it all went away when I seen him with Asheel.
I hate that he can make me forget why I'm mad at him and make me love him even more if that was even possible. But I already promised myself that I wouldn't go back to him and act like everything is okay, and I don't want to make the same mistake my mother did with my father. I want to be able to  move on from him and start living my life without him. But I know I can't just cut him out of my life forever I mean he is the father of my children. He loves them too much to just let me take them away from him. It would crush Asheels little heart to know that she can't see her daddy anymore.
I was interrupted from my thoughts by   No one other than Russell. He gave me a side hug that was totally unexpected, but my stupid hormonal pregnant self wanted it to be more than that.
"Hey"
"Hey you uhh so h-how are you?" I ask not knowing what to say like I'm a teenager talking to my crush
"Good traffic was okay actually"
"Oh that's good"
"Can I talk to you upstairs?"

We headed upstairs and I was sweating because I don't know what he wants to talk about. Oh wait does he want to talk about the divorce papers.
" so uhh I took a look at the divorce papers yesterday and I called my lawyer and he thinks I should get more than just the weekends with Asheel"
Wow with just my luck he decides to talk about the thing I wanted to avoid.
"WHAT you're barely even home how the hell are you supposed to take care  of her. You live in a fucking hotel. The weekend is plenty of time"
"And how do you have the time to take care of her?, when you have TWO fucking full time jobs. You're in surgery working on someone's brain for 16 hours then you get a case at NCIS and you're working 24/7 trying to catch a killer. How do you expect to win custody over her?"
"You want to fight for custody. I would definitely win ,because I have a house, I'm more financially stable, and I'm not the one running off partying every other weekend. Soooo you really want to do this. Because I don't want a Judge telling us who the better parent is, and telling us when either of us can have her, I think we can figure this out on our own" I was out of breath after finishing my little 'speech'. I was also a little worried because he has a darn good lawyer and probably would win so I was hoping he really didn't want to go to court.
"Okay okay I won't fight for custody and you're right you would win. And I have an idea. How  about I have her for a week than you have her for two weeks. And maybe we could spend Christmas's together and any other holiday"
"Okay I think that can work. So we can work out the details later because I think everyone downstairs could here us yelling and we should enjoy our daughters birthday"
I walked downstairs ahead of him with a bit of relief. I knew things about the divorce would come sooner or later. I wasn't ready for it to come up now, I wasn't ready to part with my husband but I couldn't stay.
I walked into the kitchen where mostly everyone was except the kids. I stood next to Kayla. Then Russ came behind me and put his hand on my lower back I gave him a glare and he immediately retrieved his hand to by his side. Kayla laughed and I just rolled my eyes.