Chapter 39: 175,200 Minutes

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Four months. It's been four months since Zander has been gone. It was like Kiana disappeared off the face of the earth with him. Chris and Zendaya were no longer together or more so that they were together but things weren't the same. Zander would be a year old today and they both knew that this would be hard on one another.

CHRIS POV
Looking at my watch I sighed knowing this would just add more fuel to the fire. Yet another day where I was walking in the crib at 7am after not being home all night.

Opening the front door I followed the noise in the kitchen. Leaning against the wall I watched her fill her cup up with orange juice.  Putting the juice back in the fridge she picked her cup up and turned in my direction causing her to jump a little and hold her chest. "You could've said something" she brushed past me.

"Good morning"

"That's right it is morning. You've been gone at least 16 hours. I lost track of  time" she shrugged as she sat on the couch.

"Baby"

"I don't wanna hear it Chris" she pulled out her phone and started typing. For four months this is what she did whenever I wanted to talk to her.

"Do you know what today is???"

"DO YOU???" She shot back the question towards me "you should've been here last night Chris. I cried as soon as midnight hit. He's 1 today and I don't even know if he's alive" she looked up at me with tear filled eyes

"You don't think I'm hurting Zen?? You don't think it kills me not knowing the status of my son. You think I don't -" getting fed up I snatched her phone out her hand.

"Chris give me my phone!" she jumped up

"I'm trying to talk you and you over here with your face glued to your phone. Talk to me! We haven't communicated in months" she went to snatch her phone out my hand but I moved it away from her just as a notification went off.

"Chris give me my shit!" She started to fight me for it which made want to question her.

"You ain't ever react like this when I've had your phone in my hand. Why you acting like this" I attempted to unlock her phone and realized my fingerprint had been removed and the passcode was different. "Wooow, unlock the phone "

"Do you pay my phone bill???" She snatched at her phone and I pushed her down on the couch and firmly gripped her neck.

"Zendaya stop fucking playing with me. Unlock the fucking phone before I break the shit" seeing the fear in her eyes I let her go "unlock the-"

Walking away from her I laughed " you changed it to Zander birthday didn't you??"  Quickly coming behind me for the phone as I unlocked it I ran in the bathroom locking the door and sitting on the sink as I scrolled through her phone.

Seeing nothing weird in her messages I started going through her apps. Seeing nothing on Snapchat and Instagram I moved on to Twitter where I would finally find the source of her acting weird. Counting to ten I took a deep breath and swung the door open tossing her phone at her.

"Chris-"

"I thought I asked you to stop talking to that Izzy nigga!?! When I start doing the shit you doing don't try to play victim. I've been nothing but honest and faithful since I've won your ungrateful ass back"

"Honest??? Faithful??? You've barely been home! Coming in at 7am"

"I'M NOT CHEATING ON YOUR STUPID ASS!! IM WORKING! I'm in the studio to keep myself sane! I have no reason to cheat on you. I FUCKING LOVE YOU!" I tossed my phone at her and she caught it.

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