ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Cross Pov

“You finally decided to come back to the base family man?”

Dean said in greeting as he worked into the house, I didn’t go to work because I wanted to spend some time with Kathy, but the crazy lady ditched me and was out on a date with Marilyn, she picked Marilyn over me, which had sucked and I had wined and pouted but she said she had to go see her and say hi, I had no choice than to suck it up and stay home, which is why I had called Dean who showed up four hours later.

“It’s good to see you too man, even though Anna said I should not talk to you again for not coming to see her,”

I replied getting up from the chair to welcome him.

“Aha, Anna, I called her this morning and she is still angry at me but I told her I will come to see her soon, she wanna meet Grace too but Grace doesn’t wanna meet her, she doesn’t like people,”

He replied sitting on the chair opposite me and grabbing a glass, I poured him wine.

“How is she though? How are you guys?”

“She is fine, I guess but still doesn’t talk to me much except when she was in a good mood but it is better than before and she is seeing her therapist again, she hasn’t gotten into any troubles recently so I can say there is a lot of progress,”

He answered.

“That’s good to know, I hope she gets back on her feet and does things right,”

“Yeah me too, where I’d your wife? And why are you sitting lazily at home doing nothing?”

“My wife ditched me and I stayed home to be with her but she choose to go out with her friend,”

“Boo, sorry, but really I am happy you have been able to work things out between you two, I have never seen you look as happy and contented as you are right now talking about her,”

“Yeah, you can say that again and the fact that she gave me a chance is still surreal for me, I am so thankful though, and I won’t even take her for granted,”

I replied, it’s been really blissful, from the time we spent in Arizona to getting back here, the whole of last night we spent talking and making plans for when our baby will be born, at the beginning of the year, I never thought I wanted to be married or have family and all I can think of is my family, the family that Kathy and I are gonna make together, just the thought of it can fill my whole day and I won’t get bored, and as Kathy would say, I am thankful to our parents.

“Now you make me wanna go start a family too, but unlike you, I am not so lucky when it comes to women, in fact right or should I say for a while now I haven’t been with any woman,”

He said and I took a step back from thinking about my own and looked at him, this was the first time Dean was talking about starting a home and he looked genuine.

“What about Grace?”

“What? Grace is off limit, can’t go there, she still isn’t cool with me after what happened,”

He said shaking his head, but I disagreed with him, I think they were a perfect match, he knew her better than anyone else just like she did with him and they had the hots for each other.

“Are you sure? I think you guys will make a great couple,”Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

I voiced.

“Nah, dude, you are just programming your happiness and lovey-dovey moments with your woman on me, let’s not talk about this okay?”

He said and I respected his wish.

“So, have you spoken with her again?”

He asked after a long pause.

“Who?”

“Her, I mean your ex, what’s her name again?”

“Ginna?”

“Yes, her, have you spoken to her since?”

“No, I blocked her and do not want to have anything to do with her again not after what happened, she lies a lot, I don’t want to do anything that will ruin this happiness I have now,”

I replied, I had made sure I won’t come across Ginna again, I blocked her and made sure she couldn’t contact me or Kathy again there was no way I was going to let her come back into my life and ruin it

“Cool, though I did meet her once,”

“Where?”

I asked.

“At the club, I took Grace out to get some fresh air when she asked and I met her there, she didn’t know who I was, she was with this guy, she moved on from you pretty quick because the guy looked loaded and they were all over each other,”

He revealed.

“Good for her, maybe she finally found her match, at least,”

I said, if only she could stick with him and not mess it up too, despite everything that happened I didn’t hate her and wished she could have a good life, I hoped she can find happiness too.

“Yeah, so let’s talk business, I have a few ideas to talk to you about,”

He said changing the topic to something we both like and had in common.

“Alright, bro hit me,”

I said replied, we spent the rest of the morning discussing business and by the time he left after two, I went to prepare lunch for my wife hoping that she will be back in time, I wasn’t great in the kitchen so I had help from Nora who spent most of the time telling me to leave her kitchen, Ddaeng, but I didn’t leave I told her I wanted to feed my wife so she spared me, my day went pretty much great, the only thing missing was my beautiful wife and I couldn’t wait for her to get back home so I could cuddle with her…