Two Months Later

Things have been going great between Paul and myself over the last couple of months and I must say that even though we don't have the most typical relationship he does make sure that he makes time for us, which is something that I appreciate so much. Today I'm at work and me and the girls are on lunch, of course we are having a little girl talk.

"Ok, So what your saying is that you don't want Morning sex?" Star ask us

"It depends on if it's a quickie or not." Jazmine says. I nod my head in agreement.

"What you two are freaking crazy, morning sex is the best." Star says

"We are not saying it's the best but…" I start to say but I get interrupted by cell starting to ring, I grab it off my desk and see that it is Paul FaceTiming me. "Alright ladies it's Paul so you know I have to answer this." I say smiling,

"Hey baby."

"Hey babe are you still at lunch or have you started seeing patients again."

"Nope we actually just started lunch like 10 minutes ago."

"Oh ok..how is your day going so far."

"It's good, me and the ladies making it through especially with these crazy schedules we have today."

"Hey Paul." My co-workers say in unison.

"Hey ladies." He says back with a smile.

Before I knew it Star comes up behind me and says "Paul maybe you can help us out on a little debate we have going on here right now."

"Ohh gosh" I say and roll my eyes .

"Ok what are we debating on over here." Paul ask

"Well your girl, Jazmine and Misha are totally against Morning sex, meanwhile me and Mrs. Ward are for it. What are your thoughts since your girlfriend is against."

"I think Asher is full of shit and she is acting innocent in front of y'all there was plenty of times we have had morning sex, hell I can count some times she has almost made me late for meetings because she has needed her morning fix."

I just look at him as the girls are laughing in the background "First off, I should put you on sex punishment for outing me out like that, your my boyfriend your suppose to have my back." I say in a fake whiney voice. "Second off I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it wasn't the best." Paul shoots me a dirty look, and I can tell I'm walking in thin ice with him. Now I'm not saying Paul isn't good, matter of fact he is the best I have ever had but since threw me under the bus I had to do a little pay back.

"Ash I wouldn't say what your about to say." He says to me

"What? I'm saying spontaneous sex like on and airplane or the limo, or bathroom is the best. You know the thrill of getting caught." I say with a smile, and he is just looking at me with his mouth wide open.

"Ok I think this debate is over with." Misha says laughing.

"Yeah" everyone else says laughing. I grab my headphones out of my purse so we can finish the rest of our conversation privately.

"You know you got me with your last comment."

"I know" I say

"Well you should also know that your in big trouble little girl and when I see you it's on."

"Yeah yeah yeah." I say laughing.

"So since you not falling into my little trap, next weekend I want you to come with me to Connecticut."

"Lucky for you I didn't pick up, so what am I coming to Connecticut for?"

"Ok good and my parents want to meet you."

"Oh ok."

"And it might be a possibility that you can meet Stephanie that way you can finally meet the girls."

"Well that's a lot for the weekend."

"I know but I already met some of your friends, your sister and your grandmother. It's time you meet my family."

I look at my watch. "Well Babe it's time for me to get off the phone, my first patient is here. I'm going to have to talk to you later. Bye." I hang up on FaceTime and immediately turn to the girls and say.

"Omg Paul wants me to meet his parents and his children's mother next weekend."

Everyone stops talking and all turn to me. Jazmine is the first one to say something " Whoa!"

"I know right."

"That's cute Asher, that means he his taking you serious to meet the parents, the ex wife and the kids." Mrs. Ward says.

"Right girl you are bugging out for nothing. So what you going to do?" Misha asked. Before I could answer her my phone buzzed letting me know I had a message, I checked and I had two messages one from Paul and one from Chantel.

Paul: Did you just really hang up in my face?

Chantel: Aye Bitch how's work.

I of course answer Chantel first since I had told Paul that I had a patient and I couldn't answer him back in a text so fast. I told Chantel what just went down and she of course being my best friend told me that I'm over thinking shit.

"Alright to answer your question Misha I already told him that I was free, so I have no choice but to go. I mean I'm just nervous what if they don't like me."

"Girl I understand being nervous these are his parents but them not liking you is silly, when they see you two together they are going to know how much you care for their son." Jazmine says to me.

"I agree, y'all are just too cute together and you compliant each other." Star says.

So we continue to sit there and talk about me meeting Paul's parents and Stephanie. After listening to some of their advice it seemed to calm my nerves down a little bit but I still had some nerves. We finish out the work day and I decide instead of going straight home I would swing by sisters house to see Her and Jojo. I pull up too her house and she is outside with Jojo shooting some hoops with him.

"Hey you two." I say walking up the driveway.

"Hey sis what are you doing here?"

"Hey Auntie! " Jojo says running up to me giving me a hug and kiss.

"Hey my pumpkin, I came because I need to talk to you about something."

"Ohhh boy, Umm Jojo come let's go inside so I can talk to your Aunt, you can play the game for an hour then you have to get off Ok?"

"Ok mommie" He says running in the house.

My sister turns to me as we are walking in the house. "You're not fucking pregnant are you?"

"Goodness no, really that's the first thing you come up with right now."

"I mean what else could be so damn important that you drive 30 minutes out of your way to tell me in person." She says washing her hands getting ready to start cooking dinner.

"Well Letwa, Paul asked me to Connecticut to meet his parents, his ex wife and possibly the kids."

"Ok and the problem is?" She looks at me confused.

"What do you mean the problem is? It's only been two and half months of being together."

My sister starts laughing "Child you are a trip that man is your boyfriend correct and he has already met me, grandma and some of your friends here correct?"

"Yeah"

"Ok your not dating a young ass boy you are dating a grown ass man, and when they know what they want and what they want to do they usually do it. Be happy he wants you to meet his parents and children that means he knows your going to be there for the long haul."

"And the age difference between us don't bother you considering that he is older than you?"

"I'm going to be honest it did at first but then I talked him and I saw how you two are together. He treats you with the upmost respect and I haven't seen you this happy Well ever. Even with Anton and we all know you loved that idiot."

"Yeah I know. It doesn't feel the same with Paul like it did with Anton. I feel like I can really be myself around him."

"Exactly what I am saying, I see with Paul that your working out and eating right but your enjoying it. It's not something that he is forcing you to do. So I think you need to go ahead and call Paul and tell him that your coming and stop being chicken shit. He is nothing like Anton, so stop making him pay for his mistakes."

"Ok I know I know."

"Ohh do you know now. Well have you been totally honest about your past with Anton with Paul?"

"No" I say sighing.

"And why is that?"

"Because I don't know how to bring it up."

"I call bull."

"No!"

"Yes and you know it, tell him so he can at least know why you are the way you are. The last thing you want is for him to be around the family and someone, and by someone I mean Aunt Cemp slipping up and telling your business."

"Ok your right, I'll tell him."

"Ok, now your staying here for dinner right?"

"Yes I am" I say laughing. "Who says no to a free meal."

I decide to head into the living room and call Paul, better yet I'm going to FaceTime him and talk to him about what I'm feeling about everything. The phone rings and rings just when I was about to hang up he answered with a not so pleased face.

"Oh so now you know how to work your phone."

"I'm sorry I thought I responded to you."

"So now your going to lie to my face. I have texted you at least ten times and you didn't respond."

I just sat there because I didn't know what to say to him.

"Since you don't want to talk like an adult, I have some things to handle. You can call me when you are ready to talk." He hangs up in my face. I of course get highly upset but then I realized he had every right to be upset, I FaceTime him right back. He picked up on the first ring.

"What Asher, I told you I'm busy."

"I got scared ok!"

"Of?"

"Meeting your parents"

"Why?"

"Cause I'm chicken shit." I chuckled

"I can agree to that why didn't you tell me instead of hanging up on me?"

"You were so happy and I didn't want to disappoint you."

"And hanging up didn't do that. Look Ash I know that you and your ex went through a lot but I'm not him and I can guarantee that I am nothing like him. I want you to meet my parents and stuff is because you are important piece of my life and so are they. I want them to know how happy you make me and for them to get to know you."

"Ok..I understand and I want to meet everyone connected to you but I am still nervous."

"And that's fine baby, but remember that I will be there right by your side. I was nervous about meeting your sister and your grandma."

"You where?"

"Yes I was but I didn't want to show it."

"Well just wait until the birthday party when you meet the rest of my crazy family."

"And I can't wait!" We both start laughing.

"Are still too busy to have a conversation with your girlfriend?"

"No I can spear a few minutes to talk to you. What's up?"

"Ok, Umm, I kinda wanna tell you somethings.."

"Ok"

"Well we kinda have a lot more things in common then I lead you on to believe."

"Huh what do you mean?" I can tell that he was getting more nervous by what I was saying.

"You know how I keep saying that Anton is my ex…"

"Ash I really don't want to talk about him….."

"I know but I need to open up to you a little more, Umm Anton is an ex but not an ex boyfriend." I just looked at him. After a while he caught on

"He is your ex-husband. You were married to him?"

"Yeah, we wasn't married for long. I wanted to tell you in person but I never got the guts to tell you."

"Ok so what gave you guts now?"

"Letwa!"

"What does your sister have to do with this."

"I came over here to talk to her and you know how she gives me my motherly talk and well today you basically told me I have to stop making you pay for his mistakes."

"Ok. So if you don't mind me asking what happened with you two?"

I sighed "I thought everything was great between us, we laughed, we joked on each other and just enjoyed each other's company. Then the deployment came he left we was doing fine but when he came home we did fine for a month. Then I noticed the change he would pick little fights with me, he would leave the house for a few hours but then he would come home and cuddle and be sorry for the fights. I would forgive him and we would be fine for a couple of days then he would say things to hurt my feelings. The last two months of our marriage I had a stalker who would call my phone all times of the day, send me messages on Facebook, Twitter and even instagram. This person even slashed my tires, to make matters worse he was convinced that I was making this all up for his attention even though I had proof of all this. The most hurtful part was when he walked in our house a month before our first anniversary and placed the divorce papers on the kitchen table and said I don't love you anymore. And then three days after our divorce was finalized he married the woman he had cheated on me with. You see that's why I'm scared because it starts out great but then the other shoe drops. That is why I'm so cautious with you."

I can tell that Paul is trying to digest everything I said to him. Right before he said anything I continued.

"I know it's a lot to take it but I wanted to tell you everything that happened."

"Ash baby, it is a lot but I am happy that you want to tell me, but Anton sounds like a coward to me. You know I'm nothing like him."

"I see that but there is more I need to tell you."