The Last Fall

Our Children

CHERYL's POINT OF VIEW

After Toni left Shemar's house, I got a call from Tony.

I grabbed my phone, walked out of the kitchen and went into the dining room to talk to him.

I knew that Shemar would be on his way back downstairs since Toni had just left a few minutes ago.

"Hello?" I said as I stood at the head of the table and placed my hand on the top of the chair.

"Hey baby." He said in a sweet voice. I took a silent deep breath and looked around the empty dining room.

"Hey...what's up?"

"I made Dana a doctors appointment for today. Her cough seems to be getting worse. I think that she would feel better if you tagged along. Besides, I haven't seen you in a while myself. What do you say?" He asked me.

"It's today?"

"Yep. Around 4 o'clock. I'm gonna go get our older two, take them home and then be on my way."

I nodded my head and bit my bottom lip out of hesitation.

I had to be there for my baby though. Dana that is...

"Okay. I'll be there. I just need to get dressed and I'll go." I told him as I started walking out of the dinning room and towards the main stairs.

"Gotcha. See you soon."

"See you." I told him as I then ended the call quickly and lightly jogged up the stairs to go to Shemar's room.

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Once I got to a Shemar's room, I saw him laying in bed watching TV. He jumped up, smiled at me and said, "Hey baby girl."

"Hey. So, uhm- I actually have to go."

Once I said that, he started to look confused and got out of bed. I played with my hands as he walked over towards me and started to grow nervous because I knew that he was gonna start asking me questions.

"Where to? Home?"

"No, I actually have to go to Dana's doctors appointment with Tony and we have to—"

"Tony?" He asked me as he furrowed his eyebrows together at his name.

He hates Tony.

Obviously.

"Well, yeah baby. He is her Father. She got a cold a few days ago and now it's starting to get worse. Her cough." I explained to him hoping that he would just say okay and stop with the questions.

"Oh, okay. Well, I'm coming. Let me put my sho—"

I grabbed his arm before he could leave and said, "No, no...it's okay. Tony and I got it." I said as I lightly rubbed his arm. He looked at me and then shook his head.

"I don't want him around you when I'm not there, Cheryl. You know how I feel about him. You even said that he wants you back."