ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Kathy Pov

I woke up to his touch, I had slept off waiting for him, I opened my eyes and there he was, his hands in mine and the other on my face, I just kept looking at him.

“Why did you take so long to come back home? I have been waiting for you,”

I finally said sitting up.

“Sorry baby, I needed to clear my head,”

He called me baby, does that mean we are cool?

“I thought you weren’t going to come back home today because of what happened earlier,”

I said as I stood up, rubbing off sleep from my eyes, when I saw his missed call that afternoon I had called back but he didn’t pick up, so I felt he was mad at me for not taking his calls.

“Why won’t I come home,”

“Are you drunk?”

“No,”

“You sound like you are though,”

“I am not, I just had a few drinks with Dean,”

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“Yeah, are you still mad at me?”

“I was never mad at you,”

“But earlier today,”

“I am sorry about that, I promise it’s not you, it was all me,”

“Uh, I thought I said something to piss you off,”

“You didn’t, I am sorry I reacted the way I did,”

“It’s okay, I am glad we are good,”

He said releasing my hands, he took off the robe and got on the bed naked yup, he sleeps naked and I liked it, I liked having his naked body against mine, he yanked me off the bed and placed me on top of him, I let out a surprised scream.

“Shush, don’t scream,”

“You surprised me,”

“I am happy we are cool, I honestly don’t wanna fight with you, I don’t like fighting with pretty girls especially one that is my beautiful wife,”

Okay he was definitely drunk, no way did he just call me pretty, wife, and beautiful in one sentence, yeah he does tell me I am pretty once in a while but right now, he sounded drunk.

“Dude, how did you get home so drunk?”

“I am not drunk, I am tipsy, my alcohol tolerance high and I took an Uber,”

“Well, okay but you are acting like you are pretty drunk,”

“We are going to finger lakes for my birthday,”

He announced, the kind of wife I am, I didn’t even know his birthday was close.

“Is your birthday this weekend?”

“Yes, and you didn’t know,”

“You don’t know mine either,”

I replied, I knew he wouldn’t know mine but I still felt bad for not knowing his.

“I know yours, you are July Fifteen,”

He responded pucking me slightly, he was right about my birthday and now I felt even worst for not bothering to know his.

“I am sorry, I promise I will keep it in mind and make sure to plan your birthday events next year,” “if we are still together,” I added the last part in my head, I didn’t even know what will happen in a year time, would we still be married? Or would we separate, I have never thought of our future, now thinking about it, I wondered if we have one, and on that thought, there is also the thought of a baby, would we have a child together, what’s going to happen to us in a year time, the thought was running through my head so much, it felt choking, I couldn’t imagine not being married to him next year, I liked being his wife

“Okay, snap out of it,”

He said snapping his fingers in front of my face which brought me out of my thoughts.

“What?”

“You were thinking so hard, I am not offended that you didn’t know my birthday, you can make it up next year,”

He said, and my head added, “if we are still together,”

“Okay fine, you are being extra sweet to me, are you sure you are not drunk?”

“I already said no lady, if I am drinking, would already be sleeping,”

He said, smiling at me, even his smile feels drunk, he pulled me down and our lips met, I melted into his touch, he pulled off and smiled at me, I smiled back.

“Let’s go to sleep, I have work tomorrow and it’s already late,”

He said cuddling close, he was definitely drunk because he was acting extra sweet with me, his snores made me smile, he never agrees that he snore bit he does, every night and surprisingly I don’t find it offensive.

“Because you love him,”

The voice in my head whispered.

“Shut the fuck up bitch, I don’t,”

I replied back, there was no reason to debate whether I fell for him or not, I am not going to disturb myself with that, I am just going to go along with everything and see how far it goes, right now I can at least agree with myself that I liked him and admire him a lot, he was kind, never thought I would address Cross as kind but after listening to everything he had done for Anna even after I left like that on our engagement day, I decided only a kind person could do that, not to mention he always makes sure that everyone around him were okay, the Cross I knew or the one I thought I knew ten years ago was different from the man he is right now, he even told me to forget about whatever Louis did to me and that he will give me back the money if I wanted but I didn’t have a use for it, honestly if I had known this, I would have just followed through with the engagement without running away, but everything that happened was for a reason.

“Are you not gonna sleep?”

He asked and I looked to see that he was awake and staring at me.

“I will,”

I replied and closed my eyes, he pulled me closer and dropped a kiss on my forehead and I fell asleep to his breath against my skin.

“Are you going to hurry up or do you want to spend the whole day on the road? New York traffic is no joke and you know it, I want us to get past the busy side before it gets too busy, so hurry the fuck up,”

I heard Cross say from downstairs, he was being dramatic as I literally just came upstairs to grab my charger, we were headed to finger lakes, that’s what he called it, for the weekend, it was his birthday tomorrow, and he wanted us to celebrate it together in a Cabin house, I was much excited about this trip and have been awake since three am and the lazy ass man had slept till after five.

“You are such a tease, I just went to collect my charger, anybody who hears you will think you were ready before me,”

I said as u hit out of the room towards him, he had on a pair of jeans trousers, and a plain white tee, for the first time he was wearing sandals instead of his signature shoes or sneakers, he looked extra hot.

“Whatever, let’s go,”

He said, I followed behind him and we drove out of the house towards the city, it was still early on Thursday morning and although people were already out, it wasn’t busy like what I have come to know about New York.

“I wanted to ask though, why are we leaving today and not tomorrow?”

“Because tomorrow is my birthday and I want to wake up and not have to stress about moving about, I want to enjoy a quiet calm weekend with my wife,”

She said without looking at me, my poor heart did a little flipping.

“Awww, that’s so romantic,”

I said dramatically, I didn’t want to dwell on how it made me feel.

“Let me concentrate,”

“Yes sir,”

I replied and we continued the rest of the journey in silence.