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need to stop babying him so much. Don’t be making my son all soft and shit!”
    She rolled her eyes. “Boy whatever!” She walked over and sat down on my lap. She kissed me, caressing my face. “Are we good now?”
    I wrapped my arms around her and smacked her on her ass . “Yeah, we’re good.”
    “I love you .”
    “I love you too.”
    She kissed me again. “Bae, I want you to know that I see the effort that you have been putting into our relationship lately and I want you to know that it is appreciated. You’ve been helping me out around the house more and spending more time with me and the boys. I don’t know what has gotten into you but I like it.”
    I smiled, giving her thigh a light squeeze. “Nothing has gotten into me. I just love my family a lot and I want y’all to know it. I want you to know that even though I’ve done some fucked up things in the past. I appreciate you. You’ve stuck with my black ass when most women would’ve been packed their shit and left!”
    “Yeah, we’ve been through a lot but every relationship has its ups and downs. You’ve taken me through a lot and there were times when I did think about packing my shit and leaving but I couldn’t because I love you too much to walk away.” A tear rolled down her cheek and I wiped it away with my finger. “I’ve had people tell me that I was stupid for staying with you and putting up with your cheating. Those people don’t know what I feel in my heart f or you. Those people don’t know what I see when I look at you. They are on the outside looking in. They don’t know that times when my family turned their backs on me. You were here. I remember that time when I had pneumonia and thought that I was going to leave this world. You stuck by my side and took care of me. I remember hearing you pray asking God to please make me better because you couldn’t imagine having to live without me. It’s those things that made me sti ck with you all of these years.”
    Her little speech left me speechless. It wasn’t every day that we sat down and had a heart to heart. I knew that she loved me but hearing her break it down like this touched me in a special way. “Damn bae, you make a nigga want to let a few slide.” I kissed her. “Damn girl.”
    She wiped her tears away and laughed. “Be quiet silly.” She hit me playfully on the arm.
    Quan and Shaun burst into the room. “We finished eating!” They both announced.
    “Alright, well I am going to run your bath water. One of you can take a bath in mama and daddy’s bathtub and the other one can take a bath in y’all tub.” I told them.
    “I want to take my bath in here.” Quan replied.
    “That’s cool with me.” I tapped Kisha and asked her to get up so that I could run the boys bath water.
    “Well while you get them ready for their baths I am going to go in the living and finish reading my book.”  She left out of the room and I went into the bathroom and started running water in the tub for Quan. While his water was running I went across the hall and started Shaun’s water.
    “Y’all get you some underwear and your pajamas.” I told the boys. They went and did as I had said.
    After the boys were done with their baths, each of them read a book to me. They did such a good job that I gave them both a Popsicle and then we played for a little while before I put them both to bed. Once they we re in bed, Kisha and I took a shower together and then went to bed.
     
     
    Lala
     
    I was laying down watching TV in my hotel room. I’d been renting a room at the Innkeeper over on Piney Forest Rd. for the past few weeks. I’d lucked up and gotten a housekeeping job here the week before when one of the other housekeepers quit. I asked the manager if I could have the job. He told me to fill out the application and I did. When he saw that my previous job had been one dealing with janitorial services he told me that he was sure that I’d be great for the job and hired me right