AMBER P.O.V. –

Aug opened his eyes and I put my head on his pillow where our faces were directly facing each other. “Goodmorning Pop-Pop.” I smiled.  

He just looked at my chin, I softly ran my hand up and down his face.

“You need to pluck that beard you got growing.” He finally opened his mouth.

“Stop playing. I don’t have a beard.”

He pulled a piece of hair from my chin.

“Oww.” I hit his arm.

He turned on his back, yawned and stretched.  

I went to the mirror and looked at my face. Holding my chin up touching it to see if there was any hair. It wasn’t.

“August that was one piece of hair.”

“It starts as one. Then you get a whole goatee like yo mama. Maybe that’s why Sata so amazed by mine, it reminds her of yo mamas.”

I rushed on the bed and hit him with a pillow in the chest.

“It’s too early for that shit. Gone.” He stretched, while laying down.

I laid back down and pulled the covers over me. August turned to me and put his head on my pillow. He put his left around my waist and sandwiched his left leg between mine.

“Why do you always sleep so close to me?” I was noticing ever since we got back together he would sleep insanely all up on me. I didn’t mind it, the touch of his warm skin against mine was calming in a sense, but sometimes it would make me hot as hell.

“I don’t want you leaving me during the night.” He moved his hand down to my butt.

“Where am I gonna go August?”

“I don’t know you might change ya mind on a nigga.” He slipped his hands into my pajama pants and grabbed a handful of my ass.

I kissed his lips. “What do you want for your birthday? It’s coming up.”

“To be inside you.” He kissed me, still caressing my ass.

“Isn’t there something besides sex you want?” I ran my hand over his cheek that was still slightly bruised.

“I got you back and I got Sata. That’s all I want.”

“There has to be something else?”

“Not really. I don’t want nothing else.”

“Sex is not a gift you know.”

“It is for me. Especially when you ain’t had none in a long ass time.” He yawned.

I sucked my teeth, “as horny as you are,  I know you’ve had sex.”

“Unh-uh. It’s been a minute.”

I didn’t believe him. “What is a minute?”

“I’m not getting into all that but it’s been a minute.” He chewed on his bottom lip.

“Stop doing that. You’re going to make your lip worse.”

He stopped.

“Why has it been so long? I know it was beautiful women up there Philly”

“You that interested in my sex life with other women?”

“No, I’m just asking. With me, you were a gotdamn energizer bunny rabbit.”

“I’m not a hoe Amb. You were my girl. I don’t like just having sex with random brauds like that. And on top of that, every person I did have sex with, it just wasn’t the same because it wasn’t you.”

“You missed me that much?” I was a little shocked.

“Of course. Every day we were apart it killed me inside.”

“I thought you didn’t care. I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Some days I would look at Sata and just cry with her in my arms because I knew she was a piece of you. And I would tell her how great you were, and how much I missed you. Sometimes those stories were the only things that would make her stop crying. And she used to smile sometimes, like she knew who I was talking about.”

“Maybe she did.” He smirked.

“Maybe.”

There was a period of silence where we were just starring at each other.

“I just imagined you were living a much better life without me.” I ran my hands through his curls.

“I tried. It didn’t work. I loved you too much. You don’t know how many times I looked at your number, dialed it and hung up before it went through. My pride kept me from hitting you up. And just not wanting to dishonor my brother or my cousin ya know. Loyalty is really important to me and I don’t ever want to be seen as disloyal.”

“What made you come back?”

“A lot of different things, but I was talking to Kay one day. And she said she talked to Mel. And I’m like talk to him? And she was like yeah when I closed my eyes. And she said he brought up something about Paris.”

“Paris?”

“Yeah, he told her like I need to remember the promise I made in Paris. And I’m thinking like that must really be a message from Mel cause nobody knew about that.”

“Knew about what?”

“When we were at the love lock bridge I saw a bright star when you were walking back to the carriage. I looked up at it as though it were Mel and basically told him I wasn’t going to let you go. And I knew that was Mel telling me through Kay, like bruh I’m good. You not dishonoring me.”

“What about your cousin?”

“I’m still battling with that. I went to visit him and the guilt be eating me up.”

I got an idea just then.

“Since I’m not going to be working, what if I looked into your cousin’s case? See if there was something I can do?”

“Like what?”

“Appeal iy.”

“He already plead.”

“That means nothing. There are always loop holes baby.” I played with his ear.

“You think you can get him out?”

“I don’t know I have to look into his case, but I can most definitely try.”

A smile ran across Aug’s face.

“You so fucking amazing you know that?” He pecked my lips.

“Idris has told me on more than one occasion.” I smirked.

“You still in love with Idris huh?”

“That will never change.”

“It won’t?”

“Nope.”

Aug got on top of me.

“What are you doing?”

He pinned my hands down with his and started sucking on my neck. I wrapped my legs around his waist and grabbed the back of his head.

How convenient though, my phone began buzzing.

“Baby I got go get this. It’s mama.”

He ignored me and lifted my shirt planting kisses on the skin between my breast.

“Hey Ma. What’s up?” I tried not to moan in the phone as he took my right brown hardened nipple into his mouth.

“Ok. I’ll be there.” I hung up. August crashed into my lips, grinding up against me.

I talked against his lips while he kept kissing me.

“Babe.” Kiss. “We gotta.” Kiss. “We gotta get Sata.” Kiss. “She won’t stop crying.” Kiss.

I could tell he was agitated. “Aight.” He got off of me and stood up to get his clothes off the chair.  

I went over to him and stood on my tippy-toes.

“I promise to make it up to you. Whatever you want to do, we can do. Aight?” I pecked his lips.

“You know that’s gon include 30 days of head while I’m brushing my teeth in the morning right?”

I rolled my eyes at his ignorance.

He laughed.

“We put on our clothes, got our things and checked out the hotel.