Shante
I was laying across my bed reviewing charts for work, sadly on a Saturday morning my work duties still find me. There was an incident involving two patients and a nurse I made mental note to talk to the nurse about the incident.
I heard the front door shut and I jumped up off the bed, I straightened out my clothes and went downstairs to greet Anthony. "Hey Hubby." I said kissing his cheek and playfully slapping his butt.
"Shante stop doing that shit, I told you about playin with my ass." He said looking at me half way smiling.
"Babe Monique and Byron are going bowling at 6 tonight, you wanna go? I think it'll be fun." I started playing with the flowers that on the counter.
"No." He said dryly.
"Why? You wanna stay home then and watch movies? We can order a pizza?" I said trying to think of other alternatives, if he didn't wanna go out then I was fine with staying in.
"No not really. You go out and have fun." He said barely even looking at me.
"Anthony? You don't wanna spend time me anymore. Is it because of us not being able to have kids-"
"Shante stop. Please. Just got out with Monique and have fun." Anthony walked away from me and left me standing in the kitchen.
After the conversation sunk in I went upstairs took a shower and put on a floor length strapless dress, I pulled my hair in to a messy bun grabbed my phone and my car keys and left out the door.
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"Can I come over?" I said speaking into the phone.
"Only if you bring food when you come." The baritone voice said into the phone.
"I'll be there in 30." I hung up the phone before I could even get a response.
Derek and I have been hanging out a lot lately, after that day we went to breakfast together we've been hanging all the time. It feels nice to have someone that isn't connected to Anthony that I am comfortable enough to be myself around. He relaxes me. I pulled into a Vietnamese restaurant and got us a few orders of pad Thai and some egg rolls, I stopped at the liquor store and got a bottle of Lambrusco and headed to Derek's.
I pulled up to Derek's and he had the from floor open waiting on me to come inside. His home was beautiful, high ceilings, big bay windows it was gorgeous. I had been outside before but I had never been inside.
I set the food on the counter and seen that we both had the same thought because he had a bottle of wine sitting on the kitchen counter. I opened up the wine I bought and poured us each a glass.
"Well great minds think alike huh?" Derek said coming from behind me. He had just gotten a fresh line and was comfortable sporting a white muscle shirt, Nike basketball shorts and matching Nike slide ins.
"Apparently." I giggled. "I brought pad Thai, I remembered you saying you wanted to try it before. Hope that's okay." He walked to the other side of the counter and picked up his wine glass and took a sip, I did the same with mine.
"So what's going on Tae?" Derek asked calling me by the nickname he had given me over the last few weeks.
"I just wanted to hang out, get out the house." He looked at me like he didn't believe me.
"Tae don't lie tell the truth." I picked up the wine glass and drank it, poured another and drank that to. I wiped the corners of my mouth looking back at Derek.
"Anthony. I don't think he loves me anymore." In said fighting back the tears.
"He'd be a fool not to love you Shante, shit he'd be a damn fool to let you go." Derek picked up his wine glass and took another sip. He started putting food on the two plates he had taken out the cabinet.
