Finding Our Love

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Today is my birthday so maybe double upload? 🤔

Aryanna

Christmas had come and gone and it was a great one. Everyone loved their gifts and I loved mine. Justin and my brothers iced me out and had a bitch feeling like money. Everyone who had come in for the holiday flew back out yesterday afternoon so we wouldn't see them again until next week at Disney World where we would be celebrating New Years and my 26th birthday. I was sitting at home cleaning up while Jaden was away at Nev and Shaq's house with Summer and Justin was at the gym with the guys. I had just finished wiping down the counters when my phone pinged alerting me that someone was at the front door. I unlocked my phone and checked the camera app seeing that it was the mailman. I went out and greeted him retrieving the items.
"Be without you baby" I sung to myself listening to Mary J playing in the background and sifting through which mail was mine and which was belonged to Justin when I noticed some mail addressed to him from a rehab facility again. I picked my brain trying to come up with someone else in rehab besides the one and only Joann Bates but I knew for a fact his ass wasn't communicating with her again. I stared at the envelope contemplating on if I should open it or not. We had a Counsuling session with Dr. Marshall later on that day and I was tempted to bring it up inside her office but I decided against it, I trusted my man but I could never trust a snake ass bitch like Joann. I grabbed all of his mail and sat it on the counter walking away refusing to get all worked up about it but it still puzzled me as to why was he getting mail from her.

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I had just arrived at the office for our couples session and was still annoyed from earlier. As much as I tried not to think about it, it kept nagging at me. Justin was suppose to be meeting me here but after looking around I didn't see his truck parked anywhere. I frowned grabbing my bag, locking the door, and walking inside of the building.
"Can I help you ma'am?" The receptionist asked.
I nodded "I'm here for a couple's session with Dr. Cassandra Marshall"
She typed away on her computer for a minute giving me a chance to look around the room seeing if I could spot Justin but nope, no where.
"Ok you can go on in" she said looking up smiling. I thanked her and walked down the long stretch of hallway listening to the clicking sounds that my means made against the Marble floor before coming to her office which was at the end of it. I softly knocked before walking in noticing her sitting there with her notebook listening inventively to Justin while he talked. I eyed him and sat on the other side of the couch. He smiled and grabbed my knee reassuring me of something but I glanced at him and looked away. What was he up to?
"Ok now that Aryanna is here, let's get started" Dr. Marshall spoke handing me a complimentary water bottle, I took her still feeling suspicious about something but couldn't put my finger on what it was exactly.
"Did I get the appointment time wrong?" I asked her.
She looked at her watch before shaking her head.
"You're right on time."

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I didn't say much through the session I was too busy side eyeing Justin he's been super sneaky lately and I didn't like that. The old Aryanna would go ahead and pop off but I was trying to do better and be more calm about things. Justin and Dr. Marshall mostly talked and every now and then I would reply to something but other than I stayed to myself. As I walked through the front door Justin was hot on my trail just talking and every now and then I would nod when he asked if I was listening. I went upstairs to our room sliding out of the light pink heels that I was sporting and changed into a pair of lounge clothes. Justin did the same before following me into the kitchen. I leaned against the counter staring at him as he talked a mile a minute. I didn't know what he was saying but I'm sure he knew I wasn't listening.
"You have mail on the counter" I semi yelled cutting him off. He furrowed his eyebrows eyeing me before he grabbed his pile of mail going through them before he stopped on the mail addressed to him from Joann's rehab.
He sighed holding it up
"Is this what is wrong with you?" He asked amused.
I rolled my eyes and tried to walk past him since he thought everything was a damn joke but he blocked me.
"Open it." He tossed it across the counter at me. I looked at the letter then back at him.
"It's addressed to you, not me" I crossed my arms simultaneously rolling my neck.
He chuckled irritating me more.
"Jealously isn't cute on you baby" he said. "Now open it, you know you want to."
I shook my head attempting to leave the kitchen again.
"Nah bring your ass here and let's deal with this son. I'm 28 years old now, I'm too old to be chasing after you" he started tugging me by my oversized t-shirt back into the kitchen.
"We not in high school no more and if you want this to work on another level you gotta communicate with me. I know what's in the envelope but you want to know so open it." He crossed his arms leaning against the counter with a smirk on his lips. I let his words soak in before I snatched the letter up ripping it open. It was a basic letter saying that Joann had entered rehab again and the remaining balance for her treatment that he needed to pay. Before I could even say anything he put his hand up dismissing my argument.
"I know this is the second time if this doesn't work for her she's on her own next time. She's still the biological mother of my child and just because it's been two years since we last saw her I still owe her that" I nodded my head understanding where he was coming from.
"You good now?" He asked gripping my waist and kissing the bridge of my nose.
I rolled my eyes feeling sort of relieved.
"I'm sorry I was ju-" he interrupted me.
"The past is the past for a reason, I'm not going anywhere and neither are you" he said then began pecking my lips over and over again.
"I love you"
"I love you more"

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Short chapter!
Should Justin be paying Joann's rehab fee?
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