THE NEXT DAY

I walked down the hallway to one of the guest rooms and quietly pushed the door open. Ever since August got home hours ago, he had been fast asleep. Maybe he was sleeping off all the alcohol he had consumed last night, or he was extremely comfortable, especially since he was back in the house.

I walked over to him and tapped him on the shoulder, trying my best to wake him up. "...August." I nudged him a few times, until his eyes opened. "Wassup ma?" He asked with sleep in his voice. "You've been sleep ever since you got back here, you need to eat something so you can take your pain medicine." He yawned and slowly lifted his body up, so he was sitting upright. "Ight, Im up."

"What do you want to eat?" I folded my arms across my chest and waited for him to answer. "Whatever you cook for me is fine." "I was gunna make breakfast for Aliyah, do you want some?" He nodded. "Yeah, ight sure." I nodded slowly and turned around, walking out of the room.

It was extremely awkward for him to be back in the house, and for me to be waiting on him like this, with our situation being on the rocks right now. I made my way downstairs and smiled once I seen Brutus in the kitchen, making himself a bowl of cereal. "Goodmorning Ms.Simone."

"Morning Brutus, I see your making yourself at home." He chuckled. "Trying too." I opened up the fridge and pulled out everything that I would need to make breakfast. "Im about to cook, do you want something?" He shook his head. "Im fine with my cereal, Im on a diet." I laughed. "Right."

"So how was your vacation? I didn't interrupt anything did I?" He shook his head no. "Of course not, you know Im always going to be there for you and Mr.Alsina." I chuckled at the fact he still was so formal with us.

"Well Im glad that your back actually, Im going to need alot of help with August while he's down." He nodded. "No problem." I pulled out a pan and sat it on the stove. "He needs some of his things from his condo, do you mind picking them up for me?" He shook his head.

"No, It's fine, I'll do it later." I smiled. "Thanks." I cracked three eggs into a bowl and started to beat them. "..Can I ask you something?" I looked up from the bowl and nodded my head. "Yeah, of course."

"Did something happen while I was away? When did Mr.Alsina move out and get his own condo? I sighed. "It's a long story."

"I got the time." He said with a smirk. "...We've just been going through alot lately...and we seperated from each other." His eyes widened. "Seperated? Legally?" I shook my head. "No...August wouldn't sign the papers...but we aren't together together at the moment." He sighed and shook his head. "Do I need to put my therapist hat on?"

I laughed. "No, but Im sure you still are." He nodded. "Your right about that." I turned to the stove and began cooking the eggs. "Why'd you two seperate?" I sighed.

"Well, it was Augusts' idea at first, he claimed he needed his time away from me since we could never stop arguing, and he was tired of my ways." He motioned for me to continue. "..And then he got caught up with some little girl he was on tour with, and that was kind of when eveything started to fall apart."

"When you say caught up...you mean??" I paused for a second. "He kissed her." He sighed and shook his head. "And after that, all of our problems just started to come out one by one, and now were in a really bad space."

"Have you guys attempted to fix it?" I nodded my head yes. "I set up a counseling session when things first started to get out of hand, but August stood me up to be with the the girl." "Oh.." He said lowly.

"Yeah, everytime I attempted to fix things with him, something always went wrong, and pushed me even further away from him." I sighed. "And now Im too the point where Im not even sure if I want to move forward with him anymore....I just have alot of things to think about." I grabbed three plates out of the cabinet and sat them on the table.

"It's always something with the two of y'all." I sighed and nodded my head in agreement. "I know." "Maybe you two need some time alone to talk and resolve your issues." I chuckled. "You think so?"

"I do, don't you?" I shrugged. "I don't know, I don't think it will work, every conversation turns into a arguement." He smirked. "Well maybe you need to talk in a different type of setting." I frowned. "Why does it sound like you have something up your sleeve??"

He opened his mouth to speak, but the sound of Aliyah's voice stopped him. "Bruster!!" She ran over to him and gave him a hug. "Hey Li-Li, how you been?" She let go of him and climbed into the seat beside him. "Good, when did you get here?" I chuckled and started to place the strips of bacon in the pan.

"Last night, you were sleeping, so I didn't want to wake you." She nodded. "Are you here to help daddy too?" He nodded. "I sure am."

"Good, because mommy said he's gunna need alot of help until he gets better." Brutus chuckled. "Yep, that's right."

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I poured Aliyah a glass of orange juice, and poured another for August. I quickly made August a plate and turned to Aliyah, who was still talking Brutus' ear off. "Go bring daddy his food for me okay?" I grabbed the plate and handed it to her. She popped out of her seat, eager to help. I slowly handed her the glass of orange juice, making sure she could balance everything. "You got it?" She nodded.

"Okay, take your time going upstairs." She slowly walked out of the kitchen, trying not to spill anything. "Well, Im gunna get going." Brutus stood up from his seat and grabbed his empty cereal bowl. "And where are you going this early?" I lifted my brow and waited for him to answer.

"I have errands to run for Mr.Alsina." I smacked my lips together. "Uh huh right, you better not be doing anything sneaky Brutus." He chuckled and walked out of the kitchen.

Just then, I heard someone knocking at the front door. I turned on my heels and made my way to the front door, that was already open, since Brutus was leaving. I smiled once I seen Kerri and Ellis stepping inside. "Hey y'all."

"Hey, we got your text last night, how's August?" Kerri asked, pulling me into a hug. I sighed. "He's alright, he fractured his knee again, so he's upstairs resting." "Damn." Kerri mumbled. "So he's back in the house huh?" I nodded. "Pretty much, just until he's up and walking again."

Ellis chuckled. "Mhmm right, I got you something." He took his hand from behind his back and held up a brown paper bag. "What is that??"

"Alcohol...and a pack of condoms." I frowned. "And why would you bring me that?" He smacked his lips together. "Don't be actin like you forgot what happened the last time you was playin nurse with yo baby daddy." I rolled my eyes.

"We're not gunna have sex E." He fanned me off and handed me the bag. "Yo ass always says that." I ignored him and turned to Kerri. "Well thank y'all for coming by, I'll call y'all later so we can talk." They both nodded. "Alright, we'll take care of the shop today." I smiled. "Thanks."

Once they left, I closed the door behind them and went back into the kitchen.

I grabbed the plate I made for myself as well as Aliyah's and walked upstairs. I could hear her and August talking in the guest room, so that's where I went. I pushed open the door with my foot and walked over to Aliyah. "Here's your food baby." She looked up at me and smiled. "Thanks....can I eat in here with daddy? He said we're gunna watch the little mermaid." I looked up at August, who was already looking at me, semi smirking.

"Yeah, but just this once though." She sat her plate down on the bed and quickly climbed up and sat next to August. She reached over for her plate and began to eat. "...Alright, you two have fun." I turned around to walk out of the room, but Aliyah called me back.

"Mommy." I lifted my brows, giving her my attention. "Come watch the movie with us." I sighed. "There's not enough space in the bed, and daddy needs room for his leg." August carefully scooted over and patted the seat beside him. "You can sit here ma."

I rolled my eyes a little, at the fact he was going along with this. "...Okay, Im gunna run to the bathroom and I'll be right back." I sat my plate in bed and left the room. I made my way inside me bedroom and closed the door behind myself. I picked my phone up off of my pillow and sighed once I seen I had a missed call from Sean. I hit redial and placed the phone to my ear.

SEAN: "Hello?"

ME: "Hey, Im sorry about not answering before, I've been busy, and I had a really long night."

SEAN: "It's cool, you good though? You sound stressed."

I sighed.

ME: "I am a little bit, August had a accident last night, so his here with me...Im looking after him."

SEAN: "That's big of you."

ME: "Yeah."

I mumbled.

SEAN: "I was going to ask you to come out with me tommorow, but if your two busy, then I understand."

ME: "No, I can go out, I just can't stay out all night like last night."

He chuckled.

SEAN: "Ight, I'll pick you up around 8."

ME: "Okay, I'll see you tommorow then."

I hung up the phone and took a deep breath. I turned around and walked down the hallway to the guest bedroom. "You ready?" Aliyah asked me. "Yeah, Im ready." I sat down in bed beside August and picked my plate up.

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S/N: This has absolutely nothing to do with the story lol, but I put a video in the Multimedia for y'all to see. It's Funky Dineva (Ellis' character) tellin this story that had me dying lol