Faith moaned when she rolled over in bed and found the space next to her empty. Ty had the day off and she was expecting to wake up in his arms like she used to before she was pregnant. While she was pregnant and after she had Sam he wouldn't wake her up unless it was absolutely necessary, that meant he was out of bed when she woke up most days. She had to be honest with herself one of the things she loved about Ty was the way he held her at night. He had strong arms that always made her feel safe and loved.
When she opened her eyes she found a note on the table next to Ty's side of the bed. She sat up and picked the note off the table and read it.
-Faith I wanted to give you a break so I taking the kids out for the day. I love you. Ty
Faith smiled to herself as she wonder why it took her so long to find a guy like Ty. She got up and tried to think of ways to spend her day. Her usual Saturday was spent with her kids and sometimes Ty's mom. Since she figured Ty probably was going to take the kids over to Maggie's some point in the day she knew she had to think of something else to do.
After eating, washing up and straight up what little mess the house was in, Faith was bored as hell. It was one o'clock so calling Kim or Alex was out of the question, she knew they were probably getting ready to work. If she called Bosco it would be the same problem. So she called the next person on her list Holly. She and Holly weren't as close as they once was but she still consider her as one of her closest friends. She picked up the phone and dial the familiar number with out a second thought. It on took three rings before Holly answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Hol."
"Faith?"
"Yeah, are you busy right now?"
"No I'm free till six, why?"
"Ty took the kids out today…"
"And your bored?" she finished for her with a chuckle.
"Yeah." she laughed
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, I just don't want to be here all day doing nothing."
"Okay, I pick you up in a half hour we'll figure out from there alright?"
"Yeah, thanks."
"No problem, the kids are at there dad's house so I'm on the same boat as you." she chuckled "See you in a little while."
"Okay bye." Faith smiled and hung up the phone.
When Holly arrived it was ten minutes till three so they decided to try to make the 3:30 movie at movie theater. After the movie they had a quick snack and made there way back to Faith's house.
Holly stayed for an hour before having to leave to get ready for her date with a ups driver she met when she received a package from her ex husband of all people.
When Holly left, Faith was right back in the boredom that cause her to call Holly in the first place. She really wasn't into watching to much TV so she decided she would try to started to read a book as soon as she started to get into it she heard a knock at the door. She put down the book she was reading and walked to the door. "Who is it?" she didn't receive a answer so she looked into peep hole of the door "Oh God." she groaned to herself, When she slowly opened the door and was greeted by the grinning face of a man she hadn't seen or talk to in over three years. Her brother. "Stanley!?! Wh-what are you doing here."
"Nice to see you too sis, can I come in?" he said smiling at her innocently
"Yeah." she moved aside and let him in, but didn't let her question go. "What are you do here?"
"I came up for a week too visit mom and dad-"
"How are they doing?"
"The same,"
"So dads still drinking, mom still pretending nothings wrong?" Stanley sighed heavily and followed Faith into the living room
"They miss you Fay. So do I."
"Yeah I can tell by the way you always call me." she said sarcastically
"Hey I would have if I had your number, but the last number I had of yours was the old apartments Besides the last time we talked to each other I got the feeling you needed time to cool off." he said trying to make an excuse for his lack of communication with her over the years.
"Three years? I doubt I was that mad at you. What made you think it was safe to see me now?"
"I ran into Holly yesterday when I went to the market with ma.-"
"I was wondering how you got my new address."
"She gave it to me and told me I should come see you."
"She did, did she?" 'No wonder she asked if I heard Stanley yet.' she thought to herself and then started think of ways to get Holly back.
"Yeah she said you had a new person in your life that I should meet." He smiled, thinking she had a new boyfriend. "So…"
"So what?"
"So tell me about him." She could tell by the look in his eyes he was more then happy to hear she going out with someone other then Fred.
"You automatically assume she was talking about a guy?"
"Unless you turned into a lesbian since the last time I seen you, yes." He smirked
"Wait here." She got up off the couch and left the living room. When she returned she handed Stanley a picture frame .
"What's this?" he asked before looking at the picture.
"That's your niece Samantha." she smiled at the expression on his face. He was surprise and shocked all at once.
"M-My niece?" He stuttered. Faith nodded. "The guy?"
"Is her father Ty. Before you asked he's a cop we meet at work."
"You two are still together?" he asked not talking he's eyes off the picture.
"Yeah we're engaged."
"Congratulation!" he beamed and leaned over and gave Faith a hug.
"Thanks." she said kinda slowly shocked by his reaction.
"She's beautiful, how old is she?"
"She turned a month old a couple days ago." She smiled, even though she was shocked by the way he was reacting, she was happy with his reaction. She really didn't know how her family would take her being in a interracial relationship, and if she was honest with herself she actually did care what they thought of her. Not enough to change how she lived or who she loved, but enough to feel hurt when they didn't accepted her for who she was.
"You haven't told mom and dad?" he asked already knowing the answer. There parents haven't talked about Samantha at all since he came up form Connecticut. He knew his mom and if she knew about her new grandchild that would be all she would talk about. If she new about Samantha, all they would have done the whole week would have been relating to Sam.
"No, I haven't talk to them in years."
"Don't you think they have a right to know they have a new grandchild?" He said trying to talk some sense into his little sister.
"No, they don't have any rights when it comes to me or my kids."
"Faith they-"
"Don't start Sta-" she started but cut herself off when she heard…
"Faith! Baby we're back."
"Stay right here I'll be back." she said and got of the couch. She walked out of the living room and turned the corner just in time to see Ty try to kick the door shut with his foot for the fifth time.
"What you do to wear them out." Faith asked as walked up to Ty who was straggling caring both a sleeping Charlie and Sammie who was in her car seat.
"We went to the park, the mall for lunch and some thing's, the video store then stopped at my mom's to dropped off Em." he answered after Faith gave him a quick kiss and took the car seat from him.
"You didn't eat at your mom's?" She asked ignoring the 'some thing's part of his statement" she knew some thing's meant he brought them more toys.
"No they wanted pizza."
"And you just had to give it to them?" she smirk as she rose one of her eye brows. "Your spoiling them."
"I'm going to be there step-dad it's my job to spoil them."
"Yeah? So what's your excuse for spoiling Sammie, she's only a month old and she already has more stuffed animals then most Toy Stores in Manhattan."
"I'm not the only who brought those stuffed animals, Kim and Sully brought more then me."
"Yeah you keep telling yourself that." She said as she took Sammie out of her car seat.
"Baby who's that?" Ty asked quickly when he saw someone moving in the living room.
"It's Stanley." she said trying to wave it off like no big deal.
"Your brother!?!"
"Yeah, come on he wants to meet you." Faith said and stared to walk towards the living room but stop when Ty placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Wait I thought you didn't talk to him."
"I don't, he came to visit my parents for a week and wanted to see me while he was up here."
"How did he found out where we lived?"
"Holly told him, come on Ty lets just get this over with okay? He likes you a lot more then he ever like Fred so you have nothing to worry about." She said seeing the nervousness that was so obviously displaying on his face.
"Worry? I'm not worried. I just wasn't expecting to meet any of your relatives anytime soon."
"Yeah, like I was ready to meet Maggie when I did, it's not like I'm forcing you to meeting my parents."
"No just your brother." he sighed lamely.
"Don't be such a big baby," she said and pulled him in the living room. When they walked in Stanley immediately stood up.
"Ty, right?"
"Yeah."
"Stanley." He said and extended his hand to Ty. "but you already know that huh and this cutie must me Samantha." Stanley grinned reaching for the baby.
"Yeah all nine pounds of her." She said and handed Sammie over to her uncle for the first time.
"That can't be Charlie can it?" He asked lightly rubbing the back of the boy whose head was laying on Ty's shoulder. "He's gotten so big. Where is Emily?"
"She's at my moms."
"Are they close?" He asked starting conversation that last a least three hours.
To be continued…
When she opened her eyes she found a note on the table next to Ty's side of the bed. She sat up and picked the note off the table and read it.
-Faith I wanted to give you a break so I taking the kids out for the day. I love you. Ty
Faith smiled to herself as she wonder why it took her so long to find a guy like Ty. She got up and tried to think of ways to spend her day. Her usual Saturday was spent with her kids and sometimes Ty's mom. Since she figured Ty probably was going to take the kids over to Maggie's some point in the day she knew she had to think of something else to do.
After eating, washing up and straight up what little mess the house was in, Faith was bored as hell. It was one o'clock so calling Kim or Alex was out of the question, she knew they were probably getting ready to work. If she called Bosco it would be the same problem. So she called the next person on her list Holly. She and Holly weren't as close as they once was but she still consider her as one of her closest friends. She picked up the phone and dial the familiar number with out a second thought. It on took three rings before Holly answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Hol."
"Faith?"
"Yeah, are you busy right now?"
"No I'm free till six, why?"
"Ty took the kids out today…"
"And your bored?" she finished for her with a chuckle.
"Yeah." she laughed
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, I just don't want to be here all day doing nothing."
"Okay, I pick you up in a half hour we'll figure out from there alright?"
"Yeah, thanks."
"No problem, the kids are at there dad's house so I'm on the same boat as you." she chuckled "See you in a little while."
"Okay bye." Faith smiled and hung up the phone.
When Holly arrived it was ten minutes till three so they decided to try to make the 3:30 movie at movie theater. After the movie they had a quick snack and made there way back to Faith's house.
Holly stayed for an hour before having to leave to get ready for her date with a ups driver she met when she received a package from her ex husband of all people.
When Holly left, Faith was right back in the boredom that cause her to call Holly in the first place. She really wasn't into watching to much TV so she decided she would try to started to read a book as soon as she started to get into it she heard a knock at the door. She put down the book she was reading and walked to the door. "Who is it?" she didn't receive a answer so she looked into peep hole of the door "Oh God." she groaned to herself, When she slowly opened the door and was greeted by the grinning face of a man she hadn't seen or talk to in over three years. Her brother. "Stanley!?! Wh-what are you doing here."
"Nice to see you too sis, can I come in?" he said smiling at her innocently
"Yeah." she moved aside and let him in, but didn't let her question go. "What are you do here?"
"I came up for a week too visit mom and dad-"
"How are they doing?"
"The same,"
"So dads still drinking, mom still pretending nothings wrong?" Stanley sighed heavily and followed Faith into the living room
"They miss you Fay. So do I."
"Yeah I can tell by the way you always call me." she said sarcastically
"Hey I would have if I had your number, but the last number I had of yours was the old apartments Besides the last time we talked to each other I got the feeling you needed time to cool off." he said trying to make an excuse for his lack of communication with her over the years.
"Three years? I doubt I was that mad at you. What made you think it was safe to see me now?"
"I ran into Holly yesterday when I went to the market with ma.-"
"I was wondering how you got my new address."
"She gave it to me and told me I should come see you."
"She did, did she?" 'No wonder she asked if I heard Stanley yet.' she thought to herself and then started think of ways to get Holly back.
"Yeah she said you had a new person in your life that I should meet." He smiled, thinking she had a new boyfriend. "So…"
"So what?"
"So tell me about him." She could tell by the look in his eyes he was more then happy to hear she going out with someone other then Fred.
"You automatically assume she was talking about a guy?"
"Unless you turned into a lesbian since the last time I seen you, yes." He smirked
"Wait here." She got up off the couch and left the living room. When she returned she handed Stanley a picture frame .
"What's this?" he asked before looking at the picture.
"That's your niece Samantha." she smiled at the expression on his face. He was surprise and shocked all at once.
"M-My niece?" He stuttered. Faith nodded. "The guy?"
"Is her father Ty. Before you asked he's a cop we meet at work."
"You two are still together?" he asked not talking he's eyes off the picture.
"Yeah we're engaged."
"Congratulation!" he beamed and leaned over and gave Faith a hug.
"Thanks." she said kinda slowly shocked by his reaction.
"She's beautiful, how old is she?"
"She turned a month old a couple days ago." She smiled, even though she was shocked by the way he was reacting, she was happy with his reaction. She really didn't know how her family would take her being in a interracial relationship, and if she was honest with herself she actually did care what they thought of her. Not enough to change how she lived or who she loved, but enough to feel hurt when they didn't accepted her for who she was.
"You haven't told mom and dad?" he asked already knowing the answer. There parents haven't talked about Samantha at all since he came up form Connecticut. He knew his mom and if she knew about her new grandchild that would be all she would talk about. If she new about Samantha, all they would have done the whole week would have been relating to Sam.
"No, I haven't talk to them in years."
"Don't you think they have a right to know they have a new grandchild?" He said trying to talk some sense into his little sister.
"No, they don't have any rights when it comes to me or my kids."
"Faith they-"
"Don't start Sta-" she started but cut herself off when she heard…
"Faith! Baby we're back."
"Stay right here I'll be back." she said and got of the couch. She walked out of the living room and turned the corner just in time to see Ty try to kick the door shut with his foot for the fifth time.
"What you do to wear them out." Faith asked as walked up to Ty who was straggling caring both a sleeping Charlie and Sammie who was in her car seat.
"We went to the park, the mall for lunch and some thing's, the video store then stopped at my mom's to dropped off Em." he answered after Faith gave him a quick kiss and took the car seat from him.
"You didn't eat at your mom's?" She asked ignoring the 'some thing's part of his statement" she knew some thing's meant he brought them more toys.
"No they wanted pizza."
"And you just had to give it to them?" she smirk as she rose one of her eye brows. "Your spoiling them."
"I'm going to be there step-dad it's my job to spoil them."
"Yeah? So what's your excuse for spoiling Sammie, she's only a month old and she already has more stuffed animals then most Toy Stores in Manhattan."
"I'm not the only who brought those stuffed animals, Kim and Sully brought more then me."
"Yeah you keep telling yourself that." She said as she took Sammie out of her car seat.
"Baby who's that?" Ty asked quickly when he saw someone moving in the living room.
"It's Stanley." she said trying to wave it off like no big deal.
"Your brother!?!"
"Yeah, come on he wants to meet you." Faith said and stared to walk towards the living room but stop when Ty placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Wait I thought you didn't talk to him."
"I don't, he came to visit my parents for a week and wanted to see me while he was up here."
"How did he found out where we lived?"
"Holly told him, come on Ty lets just get this over with okay? He likes you a lot more then he ever like Fred so you have nothing to worry about." She said seeing the nervousness that was so obviously displaying on his face.
"Worry? I'm not worried. I just wasn't expecting to meet any of your relatives anytime soon."
"Yeah, like I was ready to meet Maggie when I did, it's not like I'm forcing you to meeting my parents."
"No just your brother." he sighed lamely.
"Don't be such a big baby," she said and pulled him in the living room. When they walked in Stanley immediately stood up.
"Ty, right?"
"Yeah."
"Stanley." He said and extended his hand to Ty. "but you already know that huh and this cutie must me Samantha." Stanley grinned reaching for the baby.
"Yeah all nine pounds of her." She said and handed Sammie over to her uncle for the first time.
"That can't be Charlie can it?" He asked lightly rubbing the back of the boy whose head was laying on Ty's shoulder. "He's gotten so big. Where is Emily?"
"She's at my moms."
"Are they close?" He asked starting conversation that last a least three hours.
To be continued…