"We tried to hide in the hills
We watched the sky turn peach
Summer's light like, summer's night
It's like, Christ masterpiece
She taste like Corona Light, sweet
Even the lime gotta squeeze
She gave me a lil swig,
to chase behind my weed
If I can stay in her hair forever,
that'd be fine by me"
- Jay-Z

O N E  Y E A R  L A T E R

"Watch your step, babe." I kept my hand on the small of Bailey's back as we made our way up the steps of our private jet. Today is our four year anniversary and we're on our way to Rome for three weeks. We haven't been on a trip that didn't involve work since the honeymoon we went on after our wedding last year. From the moment she moved to LA we've been working nonstop.

I took my phone out and began recording her walking to her favorite lounge chair on the jet. Her pillow and blanket in the same exact place she left it last time.

"Do you know what today is?" I sang, bringing a bright smile to her face.

"It's our anniversary!" She sung along, grabbing her blanket from the side of her chair. After announcing our rebranding as Rogers-Price Industries it's like business damn near tripled. Apparently, Ronald Rogers, wasn't a well liked man in the industry. So seeing someone other than him take over was a bonus. Added in with the fact that Bailey and I are married, family oriented, and heavily involved in charity only increased our value in the industry.

I flipped the camera to the front facing and sat across from Bailey. I slid out of my house slippers and moved one of my sock covered feet into her lap. One of her hands instinctively started massaging my ankle. I twisted my ankle a couple weeks ago after landing wrong on it while dunking on LJ during a game of basketball. My ankle isn't even bothering me anymore, but I'll keep faking it to get these massages from her.

"My wife and I have officially been together for four years." I spoke into my phone since I was still on live and even at four in the morning I still have close to six thousand viewers and counting. "I can't even begin to explain the impact that she's made in my life. I love this woman with everything in me, and I just wanted to get on here and say that before we disappear to celebrate." I looked at the comments deciding to answer a couple of them before ending the video.

"Do you want a bottle of water?" Bailey whispered to me while moving my foot out of her lap. I nodded my head, not turning away from the comments.

"Nah she's not from Cali. Bailey and I met during my first trip to the East Coast. She had just came home for the summer from her boarding school in the UK. I was out there with my dad for a business meeting he was having with her dad. We met, spent everyday that summer together. Got married, went to Bali for a honeymoon with the gang, and here we are four years later." Bailey walked over with a bottle of water in her hand and I grabbed her arm, pulling her into my lap. She looked at my phone, squinting her eyes to read the comments.

"Fuck you, Tone. I don't have my glasses or contacts with me." She responded to Tone's goofy ass comment about her squinting at the screen while continuing to scan through the incoming comments. I placed my hand on her flat stomach, lightly dragging my fingers across it. We've been trying consistently for the past year to get pregnant, but it's been unsuccessful. We've even met with a specialist who said that her body is still getting adjusted to being off of birth control. I could tell it was bothering her as well, so I stopped bringing up having a baby so she wouldn't feel like I was pressuring her for something she had no control of.

"I have a Bachelor's Degree in Business and I'm currently working on my Master's. Jerrell can speak Spanish fluently and he also can read and understand Arabic." She started going down the list answering questions as they came in. "Jerrell definitely sings better than me. He just doesn't like people knowing that he can sing."

"Lies!" I called out while looking at all the hearts flooding the screen.

"Our fathers grew up together in Jamaica.... If anything, Jerrell is the gold digger. I'm the money in the relationship, girly." She responded to a comment from one of my old hoes saying that she was only with me for a check.

"If I can't google your net worth then please don't come in here talking about income, and I mean that with all disrespect.... Oh, and you with the long username, not once did I call my husband broke and if I was the brokest bitch in the world my husband still wouldn't leave me for you so let's be very clear.... We don't count each other's pockets in this marriage, there's no need to.... I'm going to continue referring to him as my husband, because that's what he is. Log off on that note, big mama." I laughed and took my phone out of her hand, seeing a bunch of crying laughing emoji's coming in from Essence. Essence is the main reason Bailey is so mean now.

"I been warned y'all to stop trying my wife. She-" I paused when I seen that nigga Josh comment 'smh'. "I know damn well a nigga who dated my wife for two years that she didn't even feel comfortable kissing ain't in here commenting on my live. Not the nigga who would hide in his dorm when her dad visited campus because he was too afraid to introduce himself. Nah, you can log off too, scary ass." Just as I expected, my niggas were quick in the comments with the jokes. I glanced away from my phone seeing the flight attendant letting us know that our pilot is ready for takeoff.

"This was entertaining, but we're about to take off and we gotta recertify for our mile high club membership." Bailey blushed, quickly moving out of my lap, moving back into her chair. I ended the live and the first post I seen on my feed was from Bailey. According to the time stamp it was posted an hour ago. She probably posted it while I was in the shower this morning.

"Aye, send me this picture you posted." I told her while typing a quick comment on her post and posting it to my story. I can't help the way Bailey and I compliment each other. We look good as fuck together.

"You want everything I have." She joked as my phone vibrated with a text from her.

"Hell yeah I do. You be living the life." She laughed and began pulling her hoodie off. My eyes made their way to her exposed stomach, trying to imagine how she'd look pregnant. I had to force myself to look away before she could get the hoodie fully off.

"I have a gift for you." She nervously spoke while tossing her hoodie over to one of the empty chairs.

"You know the rule." We made a promise that gifts would be off limits for our anniversary so that the focus would remain on us enjoying each other's company.

"I know, but I figured we can make this one time exception."

"So now I look like the asshole who didn't bring a gift?" She smiled, slightly rolling her eyes.

"I mean, yes, but that's okay."

"Is the gift pussy?" Her mouth fell open in disbelief, making me let out a loud laugh.

"I would never. You know what, I'm just going to keep the gift." I stayed silent while staring in her eyes, trying to see if she was bluffing about this gift or not. As soon as the flight attendant let us know we reached the cruise elevation and were able to move around I got up and walked over to pull Bailey up.

"Come on, we getting in the bed. Where did you put my gift?" She smiled and rushed over to her lilac Fendi mini backpack I got her for her birthday. She pulled out a colorful envelope and I figured it was one of those corny joke cards she likes so much. "You did all that for a card."

"Stop, it's cute!" I shook my head and walked into the bedroom, falling face first onto the bed. I felt Bailey straddling my back and a few moments later I felt her hands slipping under my shirt so she could massage my back. I sat up a little, careful not to make her fall off of me, and pulled my shirt completely off before laying back down. I released a deep sigh as Bailey's hands worked magic on my back.

"Turn around." She instructed after twenty minutes. She climbed off me and I rolled onto my back. She handed me the card and straddled my lap so she could start massaging my chest and shoulders. I opened the envelope, pulling the card out. It was a white card with a large gold heart in the center. Right above the heart it said 'Only The Best Husbands' underneath the heart was the words 'Scratch Me'.

"There's a quarter inside the envelope for you." She spoke up while continuing to work her hands into my chest.

"This sounds like it's about to be corny." I joked while getting the quarter out of the envelope so I can scratch the heart. Once the words came into view I dropped the card and flipped us over, attacking her face with kisses.

"Are you happy?"

"You damn right I'm happy." I could feel the tears stinging at my eyes and I didn't bother trying to hold the shit in. "I love you so fucking much."

"I love you too, baby." She responded, her own tears falling from her eyes. I kissed away her tears and grabbed the card off the bed.

"Where's my phone. I need the world to know this." I walked out to get my phone and took a picture of the card to post on Instagram.

As soon as it was posted I turned my phone completely off and walked back into the room, climbing into the bed next to Bailey.

"When did you find out?"

"Remember when I was having all of those horrible headaches last week? I went to the doctor and my blood work confirmed that I'm about four weeks pregnant. I didn't get a ultrasound or anything. I told her that I would schedule it so that you can be there with me." I pulled her close to me and kissed her lips, placing my hand back onto her stomach.

"This is the greatest gift I could ever ask for. I love you so much, and this next chapter of our life is going to be amazing."

"I love you too. I wouldn't dream of experiencing this with anyone other than you. You're so perfect to me, so perfect for me. I can't wait to see you as a father. What do you want to have?"

"Twins. A boy and a girl." I stated, watching as she rolled her eyes. "What Hov say? 'I want a boy and girl to fight for truth. Whatever God give me, I'm cool'." She laughed, relaxing her body against mine.

"We'll see what happens." I leaned down, kissing her lips once more. Everything I want in life is happening and I can only thank God for these blessings. It's taken plenty of patience, but it's definitely been worth the wait.

T H E  E N D

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