Chapter 13

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****New Aug interview and a girl threw her flight and hotel info on stage yesterday in D.C. like wow. Please learn to show more class and respect please.  He's married. To me! Find your own. Enjoy another chapter in our life story lol. ****

AMBER P.O.V. –

“Well I’m going to get outta here.” Tanya kissed Munch on the forehead and hugged me. “Amb you need a shower.” She held her nose.

August laughed as he put the ingredients back in the fridge, which made Sata laugh.

“Mama can you hold her while I take a shower right quick?”

I gave Sata to my mother and as I walked away she immediately started crying.

I sighed and went back to get her.

“I got it till you finish.” Aug said washing his hands then drying them on a paper towel.

“Uh…sure. You can see if she’ll stop cr…”

As soon as he picked her up she stopped crying. I stood there for a second in amazement.

Assata generally didn’t take too well to people she didn’t know. She cried with everybody except me and Nate. But it’s like she knew Aug was her father.

“You stinky like ya mama.” He raised her up and smelled her butt. She kicked wildly and giggled.

“I’ll change her d--.”

“I know how to change a diaper Amb. We good.” He held her and turned to look at me.

“All the stuff is in there.” I pointed to the room her crib was in.

Aug took her in there and I looked at my mother.

“You told him?” I mouthed to her, trying to be silent.

She shook her head.

“You think he know?” I mouthed again.

“I don’t think so.” She mouthed back.

I walked down the hall, stopping to peep in the doorway watching him change her diaper.

“What you been eating mama?” He asked her changing her diaper.

She kicked her legs in excitement.

“I’mma put you on a diet.”

I laughed out loud and he looked over at me.

“Uh I was on my way to the…ok.” I quickly went into the bedroom where I was staying. It was the old room Rell used to have. But since he’s Mr. R’N’B star now, he’s got his own condo, which Tanya frequents. Those two are officially back together.

I picked up all the Kleenex and put them in a plastic bag. I changed all the sheets and put a clean comforter on the bed. I opened the window to let some fresh air in, then finally hopped in the shower.

After I finished showering I brushed my teeth, gargled with mouthwash then washed my face.

Wrapped in a towel, I opened the bathroom door and Aug was lying on the bed with Sata asleep on his chest.

“You can put her in her crib.” I said with my back facing him, putting on a purple tank and some purple pajama pants. I knew Aug was probably watching me, but I didn’t feel like going back into the bathroom. On top of that, he’d seen me naked before a million times. Nothing had changed except for the few extra stress marks I had due to having Sata.

“She won’t go to sleep in there.”

“She will if you make.” I faced him and walked over to the bed to get her.

He put his arm up to stop me. She was peacefully sleeping. Her tiny body going upward and downward as Aug breathed in and out.

“Fine.” I put my hands up in defeat and sat in the reclining chair that was next to the bed in the corner of the room.

Aug had one hand on Sata’s back and the other behind his head.

“What’s her name?” He looked over at me.

I cleared my throat. “Assata.”

“You just had to use the name I said I was going to name my daughter.”

“We mutually decided it and I came up with it first. So technically I had first dibs.”

“You are super petty.” He smiled. “God bless you Amb.” He rubbed Sata’s back.

 “I appreciate you coming over here, but I’m really tired.” I held my head.

“You want me to leave?”

Sata rubbed her nose in her sleep and turned her head the other way. It was hard to get her to sleep, and if he could do it, I wasn’t going to protest.

“Nah you don’t have to leave. You can stay until she wakes up which will be soon.”

I reclined the chair and flipped through the channels on the television. The next thing I know, I had drifted off to sleep.

I woke up about five in the morning in a panic because I never sleep all the way thru. Sata usually wakes up and cries. And I must have been dead to the world to not hear her. Neither her or August were next to me. I hurriedly got up and went to her room.

She was sitting on August’s lap in a rocking chair and he was reading her a book. She was flipping through the pages.

He looked up at me.

“Hey you was sleep so when she started crying I didn’t want to wake you.”

I let out a sigh of relief.

“It’s fine.”

She looked at me, got excited and held out her arms for me to pick her up.

I did.

“Hey you!” I held her in the air and she giggled wildly.

August got up.

“I’mma about to head out.” He yawned looking down at me and Sata. It seemed like he had gotten taller since I’d last seen him. Or maybe since Nate was closer to my height, I wasn’t used to somebody looking down on me.

“You can go to sleep in the bed if  you want. I got Sata.”

“I’ll be back later.” He kissed Sata’s forehead.

Looked at me then headed for the door.

“Aug I don’t want you to go.” I admitted what I was feeling.

He turned to me.

I started to tear up. “The image of Nate lying dead keeps replaying in my mind and it won’t leave. It’s scarring me.”
Assata was chewing on the shoulder of my tank.

“I just need you here.”

He looked at me for a moment.

“But you can go and do what you were going to do. I understand if you’re busy.” I turned around and headed for the bedroom.  I went in and sat on the bed, Aug came in behind me taking off his hoodie. Leaving him in only a beater and some sweats.

He laid on the bed getting underneath the covers.

He motioned for me and Sata to join him.

“Lay up here.” He meant lay on the pillow he was laying on.

I did and Sata crawled between us and on top of him.

Aug and I starred at each other for a minute. Sata softly playing with his beard.  

“You’re uglier than I remember.”

I hit him with the straight face.

He smirked.

“Sorry about earlier.”

“I ain’t trippin’. I know you going through it.”

I looked at him and tears formed in my eyes thinking about Nate.

“He was really a good man August. He really was.”

He wrapped his free arm around me.

“If you say it, I believe it. You’ll get through. You gotta be strong for your daughter tho. You can’t be around here moping. You gotta continue to live like Cha did after Mel.”

“You’re right.”

 “But we’ll get through it.” He kissed my forehead.

Munch yanked his beard hair hard.

“Ey girl.” He looked down at her.

She giggled and tried to do it again.

He scooped her up, raised her in the air then brought her back down to his face.

She smiled brightly.

He did it again.

She giggled and yelled.

He laughed and sat her back on his chest.  

Seeing how good he was with her, I wanted to tell him the truth. But I knew his temper and I was already going through a lot, so I'd just enjoy this peace for now.

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