Chapter 13
The next few weeks Dave spent a lot of time with Rae trying to help get through the rough part of the pregnancy, which to Rae seemed to be getting worse. Every morning she woke up and vomited then would eat something for breakfast and vomit again, she couldn't keep anything done until mid-afternoon and even then she felt like she could vomit after she would eat, the medicine that her doctor gave her didn't seem to help much. Dave stayed the night a few times and would wake to the sound of Rae in the bathroom; he sat behind her rubbing her back and holding her hair for her.
On this particular morning Dave woke up in his own bed and Mel was no where to be found, there was a note left on the kitchen counter that said she had somethings she needed to do and she would be home later in the evening. That seemed to be what happened every day over the past several days with her, she would sit and watch the clock then up and leave saying that she had something she needed to do, it was almost like she was having an affair, Dave laughed then walked upstairs to wake the girls he wanted to get over to Rae's house as soon as possible to check on her.
After the thirty minute battle of getting Sara and Angel out of bed Dave stood at the bottom of the stairs waiting for them to join him ready to leave.
"If you two aren't down here in the next five minutes I'm leaving without and you won't see Rae this week." At that both girls came running down the stairs one pulling on her shoes the other pulling on her jacket. "I knew that would get you down here." Dave laughed as they walked out to the car covering their heads from the rain that had begun to fall.
Rae sat on the floor in her bathroom yet again this morning; she grabbed the wash cloth off the counter and wiped it over her face then placed it on the back on her neck. She stood leaning against the counter and grabbed her tooth brush from it holder and began brushing her teeth when she heard the front door open.
'Thank God he's here.' Rae thought as she rinsed her mouth of the tooth paste and headed back to her bed. Rae stepped out of her bathroom and into bedroom when was tackled by Angel and Sara.
"Rae, where have you been for the past weeks?" Angel asked as she threw herself on to Rae along with Sara.
"Yeah it's been like almost a month and you haven't called or stopped by, I have so much to tell you about Jason, you remember him don't you?" Sara exclaimed.
"I've been pretty sick here the past couple weeks." Rae explained, she didn't think Dave had said anything about the baby to any of them. "What are you guys doing here?" Rae returned their hugs and began walking down the stairs and into the living room with an arm around each girl.
"I brought them, Mel had some things to do today and the girls have been dying to see you so I thought I would bring them by." Dave answered the question. "How are you feeling today, any better then yesterday?"
"Let's see I've spent the last two hours throwing up my breakfast, so you tell me." Rae sat down on the couch along with the girls.
"That gross." Angel replied with a scrunched up nose.
"Well let me tell you if I had a choice I would not be spending my morning like that."
"Have you taken any of that medicine?"
"No, I don't see the point it doesn't help any. Could you get me some juice please?" Dave nodded and walked into the kitchen as Sara began telling Rae all about the last two dates that she had with her boyfriend Jason.
Once the girls had Rae caught up on everything that had been happening at home including a couple of the loud arguments that Dave and Mel had and the times that Mel up and left late at night for no reason at all, they walked into Rae's office to jump on the computer leaving Dave and Rae alone in the living room. Dave moved from the chair that he had been sitting in and sat beside Rae pulling her close to him and running his fingers through her hair.
"What are you going to tell them if they come out here and see this?" Rae asked as she closed her eyes and started to relax against his chest.
"The truth." Dave simply answered. He kissed the top of her head and placed a hand on her stomach. "How's my little guy doing?"
"His doing fine, at least I think so. I have an appointment on Tuesday at ten am." Rae laughed slightly as she put her hand over top of Dave's.
"I'll be here at nine-thirty so be ready."
"I really hope he is a boy for your sake. I know it's the one thing that you want."
"I would love to have a son, but I will love this baby no matter what it is. The only thing that matters is that it's healthy."
"What if it's not healthy?"
"We will deal with what ever illness that he has. But you don't need to worry about any thing like that, you just think positive thoughts and don't stress or do too much and everything will be fine." Dave pressed another kiss to the top of her head. "You just let me take care of you."
"So are you just going to keep sneaking over here to take care of me? What about when the baby's born are you going sneak over here once a day to help me take of it? I'm really curious as to how that one is going to work out." Dave detected a touch of sarcasm in her voice, not that he blamed her.
"Baby I plan on telling Mel and the girls about everything that has gone on, I just need time to figure out how and when and where. This is going to be rough on everyone and I don't want things to get out of hand. As you heard from Sara things between Mel and me aren't going so well and with the frame of mind that she is in she'll do something drastic and I don't want to lose my girls or you, so please just go along with what I'm doing right now."
"Dave I know things aren't going well with you and Mel, wouldn't this be the best time to tell her about me and the baby?"
"Not right now, I promise you that before we find out what the sex of the baby is I will tell Mel and the girls and file for divorce." That gives me at least four months, Dave thought, I'm sure I can do this in that amount of time. "Now with all of that said, are you going to be able to come on the road with me on this next trip? It's an easy one; we'll only be gone for the weekend I think it would be the perfect chance for you to get back into things nice and slow."
"I thought about it, I just don't know if I could handle the flying part right now."
"Well then I'll rent us a car and we can drive it's not that far away, if we leave here on Wednesday then we should be there by Thursday night or Friday morning."
"Sounds good to me, I could really use some girl time with Steph." Rae let out a small sigh.
"You haven't told her about us and the baby have you?"
"Not yet, but don't worry she is the only person that I could trust to say anything to, she already knows about the affair." Rae looked up at Dave. "I just need someone other than you to talk to about this whole thing you know some one that I can vent to and get every thing off my chest so I'm not stressing over anything."
"If you trust Steph and you really need to talk about it with someone then go ahead, just make sure that she doesn't say anything to anyone else." Rae picked up the TV remote and turned the TV on to try and get her mind off the conversation before she began to stress and worry over it.
Dave and the girls spent the whole day at Rae's house they played board games and watched TV, talked about Sara's boyfriend and joked around. Dave and the girls made dinner for Rae and they watched a movie as they sat and ate in the living. It felt like a real family setting and made Rae forget about the situation she was in and just enjoy the time that she had with the girls and Dave.
Rae laid on the couch with her head propped up on the arm of the couch and her feet resting in Dave's lap. She smiled at the thought of this being a part of her life every night for the rest of her life this was going to be her family.
Dave looked at Rae when the movie ended and found her fast asleep, he stopped the tape and turned the TV off then stood from the couch. With the girls help they cleaned up the mess they had made in the living room, washed all the dishes they had dirtied and put away the left over food. Once the place was clean, Dave picked Rae up from the couch and carried her back up to her bed carefully laying her in the middle of the bed and pulling the covers over her body, pressed a kiss to her forehead and then to her stomach. Then walked out of the condo with the girls and headed back home.
When Dave and the girls got home they found Mel's sister there waiting on them with clothes packed for each girl.
"Tiff what are you doing here?" Dave asked surprised.
"Mel called and asked me to come over and take the girls for the night she didn't say why just said to be here at eight to pick the girls up, so here I am and I have no clue where Mel is. I walked in and their clothes were already packed and sitting here by the door then you three showed up." Tiff explained picking up the duffle bag and throwing her arm around Sara "So are you girls ready to have one of our late night movie fests?"
"Yeah!" The girls yelled and ran out to Tiff's car.
"I'll bring then back sometime tomorrow night."
"Thank Mel." Dave laughed as Tiff walked out the front door.
Dave closed the front door and kicked his shoes off then looked around for any sign on Mel, not finding her downstairs he walked upstairs to their bedroom. As he opened the door he found the room almost completely dark there were only a few candles lit on the dresser and the lamp that was on beside the bed had a sheer material over it dimming it some. Dave walked further in the room not seeing Mel anywhere he was beginning to get worried.
"Hey lover, it's about time you get home." He heard behind him. Slowly turning around he found Mel standing in front of the now closed bedroom door wearing nothing at all. "I've been waiting up here all alone wondering when you were going to show up." Mel walked toward him standing only inches away from him. "Did Tiff come and pick up the girls?" Mel asked as she began unbuttoning his shirt.
"Yeah she just left." Dave smirked as he ran his hands over her bare back. "So this is what you had planned." Dave bent and kissed the crook of her neck as she started pulling his shirt off.
"Yeah, I know that I've been kind of out of it here lately and picking fights for no reason and just being a total bitch." Mel placed a kissed to his chest. "And you have been so great with everything that I have put you through the past couple months. I guess this is my little way of saying I'm sorry for everything that I've done and thank you for not leaving me for everything that I've put you through. You're the best husband any woman could ever ask for and I don't know what I would without you in my life." Dave bent his head kissing her lips as she finished her sentence. "I love you so much Dave."
"I love you too baby." Dave picked her up in his arms and carried her over to bed placing himself between her legs he began spreading little kisses a long her collarbone and down to her breasts. Taking one pink bud in his mouth rolling his tongue over it ever so lightly, while he wrapped his arms around her body pulling her closer to him.
"Dave." Mel moaned running her fingers through his hair. "I know that you want to take you time and everything but I really don't think that I could handle that right now." She left out a yelp when he lightly bit down. "Please just fuck me and fuck me hard it's been so long since I've had you inside me I just want it and I want it now." Mel begged pulling his face up to hers. Dave smirked and ran his hand over her breast down her side over her stomach and down to her core sliding his finger over her clit. "You ass." She gritted between her teeth when she realized that he wasn't going to give her what she wanted just yet.
"You know you love it." Dave whispered sliding his finger inside her as she dug her nails into his back. "You love every minute of it don't you baby."
"Oh God yes."
Just as Mel was about to come Dave removed his finger and stood from the bed shedding his clothes then moving to the foot of the bed, he climbed on the bed pushing her legs apart once again and bringing her moist center to his face running his tongue over her tasting her sweet necture.
"Dave please." Mel begged as she came closer to her climax.
Just as Mel was about to reach her peak Dave thrusted inside her giving her exactly what she wanted.
Dave laid in bed listening to his wife steady breathing, they made love several times that night each time had more passion then the last. He realized something while he laid in bed holding on to his wife as she slept; he realized that he still infact loved her. She is my wife, the mother of my children, my friend, my lover, she is the one that I promised to love and cherish until the day I die, I've been with Mel since we were in high school how can I not stay with her and I can't bare to think of not being with her.
But then there was Rae while I love Mel there are so many things that Rae has that Mel doesn't. Yes I love Mel but she doesn't have my heart or soul like Rae, I can sit and tell Rae things that I could never tell Mel. Rae is my best friend, my soul mate, and when I make love to her there is something there that isn't when I make love to Mel. When it comes to Mel she just wants a down and dirty fuck but Rae wants me to make love to her, she wants me to kiss and touch every inch of her body, Rae lets me worship her body in my own little way.
Rae doesn't care about the money and fame or the big houses and the flashy clothes and cars and jewelry, some times I think that's all that Mel cares about. Rae wants the same things that I do a little house out in the country with a few horses and dogs maybe some chickens and of course kids. Mel would never think about living the big city to move out in the boonies.
I can't just give up on my marriage like that, I need to stay and try and work things out Mel knows what's she's been doing and she says that she's going to fix everything and change her attitude. But Rae's carrying my child I can't just leave her like that she needs me right now and our baby needs me too. Oh God what am I going to do both of these woman need me and I don't know what to do I know that I should stay with my wife and fix are marriage but what about Rae do I just leave her out in the cold with nothing. Give me a sign or something to let me know what to do.
Dave looked down at Mel when she began to stir in her sleep; she pressed a kiss to his shoulder and whispered I love you. Okay I get the point. Dave kissed the top of his wife's forehead.