SIMONE P.O.V.

I pulled my tube top up over my chest and smirked at myself in the mirror. "Aliyah are you dressed??" I yelled out my room door. "Yes!" She yelled back.I pushed my hair over my shoulders and made my way down the hall to her room.

"You got all your toys ready?" She nodded her head yes. "Yep, I have all my barbies so Tia and I can play outside with them." I smiled. "Alright, good." She turned around looked me up and down. "You look nice mommy." I chuckled.

"And so do you." I held my hand ou for her to grab, and led her downstairs. "Im going to open the sliding door, tell me of you hear the bell ring. She sat down on the couch and nodded her head. As soon as I turned around, the doorbell went off.

"Is that Tia?" She asked, standing up. "It should be." I stood up straight and walked towards the front of the house, feeling slightly nervous. I stood on my tippy toes and looked through the peep hole, happy to see Sean and Tia standing there.

I unlocked the door and pulled it open. "Hello Ms.Simone." I smiled once I heardd Tia greet me. "Hey Tia, how are you?" She hugged me and stepped into the house. "Im good...is Aliyah here?" She asked looking around my legs. I nodded my head yes. "She should be in the living room, you can run back here and see." She smiled at me one more time before taking off towards the back of the house calling for Aliyah, once I heard they found each other, I started to laugh.

"Hey ma." I looked up at Sean, who was staring at me with a smirk on his face. "Hey, come in." He stepped inside the house, as I closed the door behind him. "You got a nice ass house." He said looking around.

"I guess." I mumbled. "Since the kids are gunna be playing in the backyard, we can sit in the living room to keep an eye on them." He nodded his head, agreeing with me. "It's this way." I stepped infront of him, leading him into the living room, feeling his eyes on my backside the whole time.

I took a seat on the couch and patted the space behind me. He threw his head back, causing his dreads to flip back in the process. He sat down beside me and leaned back, placing both of his arms at the top of the couch.

"Getting comfortable?" He chuckled. "You want me to get comfortable?" I smirked. "Anyways." I started. "How you been? It's been a minute since we talked." He nodded. "Yeah it has, I was starting to think you wasn't gon call a nigga, but I've been good." "And why is that?" He rubbed his beard and smiled.

"You know, you still technically married, I wasn't sure if you were down with havin any friends." I laughed once I heard the emphasis he put on the word friends. "Im grown, I can do whatever I want, besides we really are just friends." He looked me up and down and nodded.

"Yeah we are, for now." I lifted a brow. "For now? What does that mean?" I folded my arms across my chest and turned to the side. He was just about to answer me until the sound of Aliyah's voice stopped him. "Mommy where's the chalk?" I looked over my shoulder to see Tia and Aliyah standing side by side.

"The last place you left it, outside on the table." She nodded and ran abck outside with Tia behind her. "They really like each other huh?" I turned back around and looked at Sean. "Yeah they do, but don't try to change the subject, what do you mean by for now?" He laughed.

"Damn, was it that serious?" I nodded my head yes. "What I mean is, if we keep spending time together, Im sure it's gunna turn into more, cause Im really tryn get to know you...only if you want that though, Im only gon take it as far as you let me." A small smirk formed on his lips, causing me to smirk.

"Right....so what do you do?" I asked. "Im a real estate agent." I frowned, looking him up and down. "You?? a real estate agent?" He chuckled. "Damn, why you sound so suprised?" I shook my head. "You just don't look like a real estate agent." He nodded. "I know, I get that alot, but what do you do?"

"I own two boutique's one here, and another in Atlanta. And I also style a few celebrities from time to time." He nodded his head, impressed with what I said. "So you do make your own money, I like that." I chuckled. "Of course, what? You thought because my husband has alot of money that I just lived off of him?" He nodded his head yes.

"Yeah, most females these days do shit like that." "True, but Im not one of them, I had my own money before him, and I still make my own now." He smirked. "I can tell you got a little attitue on you, but it's cute though." I leaned back into my seat, trying not to smile, but I failed. It was something about him that could make me crack a smile so easily.

He looked me up and down, taking in what I was wearing. "You look good." I looked down at myself and smiled. "Thank you, you don't look bad yourself." He nodded. "Are you cold?" I frowned. "Excuse me?" He laughed and rubbed his chin. "...Are you cold? I can turn the air down for you." He shook his head, still slightly laughing.

"Nah, I think you need to turn it down for yourself." He gazed quickly landed on my chest, before quickly making there way back to my eyes. I looked down at my chest to see my nipples poking through my tube top. I quickly put my hands over them and stood up from the couch.

"Oh my god, Im sorry." He fanned me off and licked his lips. "Shit, ion mind." I slightly laughed. "Look, Im gunna go run upstairs and change my top, keep an eye on the kids." He nodded his head as I ran up the stairs to go change.

AUGUST P.O.V.

I slipped my key into the front door, praying for a better day than yesterday. I stepped inside and dropped my bag by the front door, wondering why everything was so quiet. I could hear the TV playing in the living room, letting me know Simone was in there.

I took a deep breath and walk into the living room and frowned once I seen some nigga sitting on my couch. "Who you is?" I asked walking further into the living room. He looked me up and down and sat up straight. "Sean."

I glanced out the sliding door to see Aliyah and some other little girl playing outside. "Why you in my house?" I asked folding my arms across my chest. "I was invitied here." "By who??" I asked sharply. "Simone." I took a deep breath, trying to contain my anger since Aliyah was right outside.

I turned around and sped walked up the stairs, calling Simone's name. I pushed open our bedroom door and found her in the room changing her shirt. "Who the fuck is that nigga sittin his dusty ass on my couch??" She spun around and frowned once she seen me standing there.

She placed her hands over her chest, covering herself. "What the hell, can't you knock??" I frowned. "The question is, what the hell is that dude doing in my house??" Her frown deepend. "This is my house too, and I invitied him here." She walked into our closet and slipped on another shirt.

"And who is he?" I asked, following behind her. "A friend." I sucked my teeth. "A friend? You must think Im fucking dumb, who is he??" She sighed. "A friend, I met him at Aliyah's ballet class, his niece and Aliyah are friends, so I invitied them over for a play date." I sucked my teeth again.

"Play date my ass, why you lyin to me? You didn't mention anything about this nigga yesterday at dinner." She sighed. "I didn't think I had too." She walked past me and stepped infront of the mirror, fixing her hair and makeup. "So be real." I started. "You know just like I know you ain't invite this nigga to our house for a play date with Li-Li, you could have did that shit at the park or something." She turned around sharply and faced me. "Why do you even care??" I frowned.

"Cause Im yo husband, and I deserve to know what the fuck is going on." She slightly chuckled. "Ohh, now your my husband? Cause from what I remember, you told me that you wanted to be seperated, and I clearly remember giving you your ring back, after I found you in your hotel room with that bitch."

I sighed. "I told you ain't nothing happen, I was helping her." she fanned me off. "Whatever, I don't even care. Just get the stuff you need and leave She turned around, but I grabbed her arm, spinning her back around. "You fucking him???" She looked down at my grasp on her arm and frowned. "No, Im not sleeping with him." She snatched her arm back and stared at me.

"You sure?" I asked looking her up and down. She opened her mouth to speak, but the sound of Aliyah's voice stopped her. "Daddy your back!!!!" I turned around and put a smile on my face and held out my arm for her to jump into.

"When you get back here?" I chuckled. "I just got here a few minutes ago, how you doin princess?" She nodded. "Im good, me and my friend Tia were just playing outside until her Uncle said they had to leave." Simone sighed. "They left?" She nodded her head yes. Simone shook her head, obviously upset.

"I wanna show all the stuff we did in school while you were away." Aliyah said with a smile She grabbed my arm and started to pull me. "Come on, let me show you." I looked back at Simone before walking out of the room with her.

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SIMONE P.O.V.

I placed the last dish on the drying rack, as I watched Aliyah and August finish up there third board game of the evening. "Do you want to play Uno daddy?" She asked standing up. He chuckled and nodded his head. "Yeah sure." She turned around and ran into the kitchen where I was. "Mommy where are the uno cards?"

"They're either on the top shelf in your closet or in the hall closet." She nodded and took off upstairs. Once she was gone, I dropped the sponge back in the sink and walked over to August in the living room. "You need to leave."

He sighed and stood up from his seat. "You gon make me leave with Aliyah here?" I nodded my head yes. "Don't try to use Aliyah as a pawn right now, I told you you coud come back to get your clothes and now that you got them, get out."

"And what are you guna tell her?" He asked, getting upset. "The truth, she deserves to know what's going on, Im not going to lie to her anymore, I just want you out." I pushed him towards the direction of the front door.

He turned around and walked off towards the front door, slipping his Jay's back on his feet. "And where you want me to go??" I shrugged. "I don't care, go stay with your girlfriend Ryelle, since you were in the hotel room with her."

He sighed. "Her boyfriend beat her ass and she ran to my hotel, I let her in my room, and I was about to leave to get another one when you popped yo ass up out of nowhere." I paused for a second.

"....So after she gets beat up by her boyfriend she runs to you?" He sighed. "She didn't know where else to go." "Bullshit." I started. "Why is that hoe always running to you??? You weren't the police, and you room wasn't a hospital August. Even if you were just helping her, why does she always feel the need to come to you for something?? She's aways around you, that's what makes me think something is going on between you two. And why wouldn't she wait until you left the room to start changing her goddamn clothes???" He was silent.

"Now you have nothing to say. Just leave, and go to Ryelle, since you guys love to be with one another." He took a deep breath and ran a hand down his face. "You always wanna turn shit on me, like you ain't just have another nigga in my house today. How I know y'all ain't messing around??"

"Cause I told you we weren't." He looked me up and down, trying to figure out if I was lying or not. "I know you, and I can tell when you ain't being honest, is you fucking with this nigga or nah?" I frowned. "Im not fucking him, we're just friends...getting to know each other." I folded my arms across my chest, waiting for him to speak.

"Getting to know each other?? When did we agree to see other people??" I could tell by how he was speaking, he was getting angry. "You should have been more clear on your seperation rules."

"Your bullshit is why I wanted a seperation in the first place, I didn't ask for it so I could fuck other bitches." I shrugged. "You want to be seperated from me, so Im giving you a seperation, and everything that comes with it. You brought a bitch in my house without asking me, kissed her, and your constantly putting her before me, it's more than obvious that you don't give a damn about me because if you did, you would have been cut all ties with that whore, so get out and go be with her, cause Im tired of your shit. I don't even want my damn ring back."

He paused for a second, suprised by what I said. He picked his packed bag up off the ground and nodded. "Ight cool, Im gone." He turned around to walk out the door, but the sound of Aliyah's voice stopped him. "Daddy?"

He sighed and slowly turned back around, while Aliyah made her way down the steps. "Are you leaving again?" She walked up to him, as he crouched down to her level. "....Yeah Im leaving baby." She frowned and looked back at me. "Why are you leaving? You just got here." Her voice began to crack a little.

August looked up at me and shook his head. "Aliyah listen, I know daddy hasn't been home in awhile, and your probably wondering why." She held onto Augusts' arm as she turned around to face me. I took a deep breath before continuing. "Mommy and Daddy haven't been getting along that well, so Daddy's gunna leave for a little while." She frowned. "What's a little while?" I sighed, trying not to cry, since I could see the tears in in her eyes.

"I don't know baby." She turned back around and looked at August. "Why can't you guys just say sorry? You told me to always say sorry when I've done somthing wrong." August nodded. "I know, but a simple sorry can't fix this Li-Li." She turned back to me, pouting.

"Does he have to leave mommy?" I nodded my head yes. "Yes, he does, Im sorry." She wiped her eyes and turned back to August. "But you said you would never leave me and mommy, you don't love us anymore??" He sighed and pulled her into him. "Of course I love y'all, but mommy and I need some time apart right now." She wiggled out of his grasp and wiped her face again.

"I'll still come see you all the time, and you can come with me some days." She frowned and shook her head. "I want you to stay here, with us." She turned back to me on the verge of tears. "Mommy tell him he can stay, I don't want him to leave." I sighed. "Im sorry baby, but daddy's leaving, I know-" "No!" She yelled. "Tell him he can stay!! Your the one making him leave!!" I sighed. "Aliyah clam down I know-" She stormed off and ran up the stairs before I could finish my sentence.

"You happy now." August said, turning to me. I frowned. "Excuse me? Why would I be happy about doing that?? I would never want to hurt Aliyah, but she deserved to know the truth, Im tired of lying to her." He sucked his teeth. "Whatever."

"Don't whatever me August." I started. "If you wouldn't have kissed that hoe in my house, none of this would be happening right now. It's clear who you care about more, you have no respect for our relationship, you keep letting her disrespect me and our bond." I threw my hands up, not even wanting to continue with him.

"You know what, just leave, I don't even want to talk to your sorry ass anymore, call Ryelle up and let her know she has a new roomate." I shut the door as soon as he stepped out of it.

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I pushed open Aliyah's door to see her face burried in her pillows. I took a deep breath and stepped into her room, hating to see her like this. "LI-Li?" She stayed still, ignorning me. I took a seat on the edge of her bed and gently rubbed her back. "Can I talk you to you?" She slowly rolled over at looked up at me with red puffy eyes.

"Im sorry about what happened today, I know you may not understand, but Daddy and I would never do anything to hurt you on purpose." She rubbed her eyes and stared at me. "Why'd You make him leave?" I sighed once I heard her said voice. "Daddy and I aren't the best of friends right now, we needed some time away from each other."

"He promised me he would never leave us, no matter what." I nodded. "I know, and he hasn't left you baby, he's still gunna be around you all the time."

"But he won't be home." I sighed. "I know but-"

"You made him leave and now he's gone!" She turned her head around and buried them back in the pillows. "Aliyah, talk to me, I understand your upset, but you still need to talk to me. She sat there silent, ignoring me like I wasn't even there. After many failed attempts to get her to speak to me, I eventually gave up and left her room. She was never mad at me like this before, and I didn't know when she would get over it.

AUGUST P.O.V.

I parked into the hotel's parking lot and pulled my phone out of my pocket. I quickly dialed Ryelle's number and placed the phone to my ear.

RYELLE: "Hello?"

ME: "Wassup? I didn't know if you still were in the hospital or not, but I guess your not."
She slightly chuckled.

RYELLE: "I got released last night, Im flying back home in the morning."

ME: "Oh ight....did they arrest Rodney yet?"

She sighed.

RYELLE: "No, they got the footage from the hotel I was staying at, and now they know what he looks like, so there's a warrant out for his arrest.

ME: "Damn, I hope they find him soon.."

RYELLE: "Me too, I was hoping they found him before I was released from the hospital, just so I could feel a little safer going back home to my apartment."

ME: "Yeah I feel you..."

RYELLE: "You alright? You sound a little uneasy."

I sighed.

ME: "Im good, just a little stressed, Simone kicked me out the house and told our daughter what was going on."

RYELLE: "Damn, really?"

ME: "Yeah, and plus when I came home today, she had another nigga in my house,claiming that they was getting to know each other."

RYELLE: "Oh my god, what did yo do??"

ME: "I had to restrain myself from beatin his ass since Aliyah was right outside the door."

RYELLE: "Damn, what the hell is going on with you guys?"

ME: "According to her, we're completely seperated right now, she told me she ain't want her ring back, and she don't want me in the house so yeah."

RYELLE: "....And your okay with that?"

I sighed.

ME: "Im tired of tryin to explain shit to Simone, besides Im the one who asked for a seperation t begin with, so if she wanna be seperated forreal forreal, then we can do that."

She sighed.

RYELLE: "...Damn, are you sure you mean that or are you just upset?"

ME: "Nah, I mean it."

RYELLE: "Alright well....call me if you want to talk, or if something else happens."

ME: "Holup...I got a idea."

RYELLE: "What kind of idea?"

ME: "Ima be staying in a hotel for a minute or I might just get me a spot somewhere depending on the situation....since you don't feel comfortable staying in your apartment, fly out to New York tommorow, instead of going home."

RYELLE: "What??? And where am I gunna stay?"

ME: "I got you on a hotel room, just come kick it with me for a few days."

She sighed softly.

RYELLE: "....Alright fine, only because you need a friend, and I definetely don't wanna go home with Rodney on the lose...I have to fly home to get soem clothes and stuff, and then I'll be on my way to you."

I smiled.

ME: "Ight, I'll talk to you tommorow then."

RYELLE: "Okay."

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