Faith

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We were at David's Bridal for one of my clients, we were trying to find her bridesmaids dresses and her husbands grooms suits and she was being so picky. She had 6 bridesmaids, it wasn't that hard to agree on dresses but I completely understand because she's getting married in one more month.

"How about this Aaliyah?" I asked the bride.

She looked at the purple dresses that I was holding and scoffed. "Is that silk? I don't want silk!"

I put the dress back and rolled my eyes, we've been at this store for about 3 hours and I'm exhausted.

"Um, Aaliyah maybe you need to chill out." One of the bridesmaids aka Aaliyah's bestfriend suggested. "She's the wedding planner, she's trying to help and your being picky."

"It's my wedding Gloria I want it to be perfect!" She whined.

"And it will be perfect." Gloria looked at me. "Mrs. August in the most successful wedding planner in Florida. You can trust her."

Aaliyah looked at me then back at Gloria. "Your right." She sighed deeply.

"So do you wanna go to a nearby park and calm down? Have some ice cream and feed the pigeons?" Gloria asked her.

"Is that okay Mrs. August?" Aaliyah asked.

I nodded and smiled. "That's fine." I said. "I got this, you girls have fun."

The rest of the 5 bridesmaids and 6 grooms followed Aaliyah and Gloria out the store. I looked around the store for some nice dresses and suits, since Aaliyah's husband wants purple to be one of the main colors I had to pick purple dresses and suits.

30 minutes later I found the perfect dark purple dresses, I decided to do black suits for the guys with a purple tie and shoes. After I paid for everything from her husbands credit card I took it all back to my office. I sat in my comfortable chair and took my high heels off. I opened my email on my computer and saw that I had a message from the cake designer, he said he couldn't make the cake the way Aaliyah wanted because it was over the top, our budget for the cake was $2,000 and he said it would cost atleast $17,000.

I didn't want Aaliyah nor her husband to get worried so I decided not to tell them, it's my job to keep them happy during this whole go around so I have to handle this on my own. I pressed reply to message and started typing.

$17,000 for a cake? John the cake Aaliyah wanted shouldn't be that much. All she wanted was for you to make it white with purple designs. If you don't drop that price $15,000 less then it's no problem to ask someone else to do the job.

I sent the message and soon enough, Tracy came into my office. Me and Tracy have gotten really close these past 5 years, she's more than a assistant to me now. She's like my best friend.

"Yn f*****g August." She smirked.

I laughed lightly. "Tracy f*****g Daniels. Wassup?"

"Tell me why Austin had the audacity to come over lastnight?" She took off her shoes and sat indian style in the chair and sighed. "He misses me."

"You miss him to." I said on my computer. "I don't even know why you broke up with him."

"Because he didn't act like a boyfriend." She whined. "I told you that Yn. So I broke up with him to let him know and see what he's missed." She smiled.

"Then you'll be right with him again." I said. I looked at her, "Right?"

"Duh!" She chuckled.

I rolled my eyes playfully. "Go catch me a coffee rat."

"You gone stop treating me like your maid." She said putting back on her shoes.

"I'm not treating you like my maid Tracy." I disagreed. "I'm treating you like my assistant." I smiled as she scoffed and left out my office.

I looked at the time from the computer bottom screen, I leave work at 5:00 pm as usual and it's 4:00. I can't wait to leave. I wanna go home with my family and chill,️ relax, and make memories with my husband.

"Thanks again for watching my kids Bahja!" I thanked her one last time before getting in my car.

"No problem." She smiled, "I'll see you or Yn at 6 right?"

"Probably earlier than that." I responded. I went in my car and started the ignition. "Bye kids!"

"Bye daddy!" They yelled.

I chuckled lightly before pulling off, 30 minutes later I was at the studio. I got out my car and went inside, I saw Chris in the booth and Craig nodding his head. I listened to the lyrics Chris was singing and nodded my head as well.

My heart beats for you, girl you know are the one

Are you mad at me, girl I know I made mistakes, I know I f****d up

But my heart beats for you baby I'mma go and scream it loud

But if you leave it's something I can't control

So let's do it one last time and f**k for the road

He stopped singing and got out the booth. Me and Craig have him dap.

"That was dope." Craig said.

I agreed."Yeah what song that is? It's new?"

Chris nodded. "Yeah, I need somebody to do the verses." He said. "I tried to contact Wayne but you know he busy with his 8 kids."

We all laughed at his sarcasm. "Well I could do a couple verses." I suggested.

"Real s**t Chres?" He asked.

"Man yeah! Just tell me what the song about."

"Alright it's called f**k For The Road, about us going on tour for a minute and we need something before we go if you know what I mean." He winked.

I nudged his arm. "I got you bro." I got into the booth and Craig started the beat.

"Just freestyle first." He said.

I nodded and began free styling.

They say what goes around comes around

And I know I made mistakes and you forgave me how

I don't understand, you know I'm trying the best I can

I guess it's consequences when you dealing with sin

And even sacrificed your friends over me

All them nights in the club turn to nights with me

It's like the same old story out your diary

Memories never fade but only in time we'll see

Hope to see you with me cause...

I stopped . "My bad, I'm stuck."

"That's alright." Chris said quickly. "That can be when I come in."

I got out the booth. "Alright cool, so should we keep that verse or -"

"Duh nigga!" Craig said cutting me off. "Aye, me and Chris got to go on tour in 2 days, if we finish this song less that that you should come. Y'all can preform this joint."

I thought for a moment. "How long y'all gone me on tour?"

"Just 3 weeks."

"I'll think about it."

I got a box of hamburger helper out the cabinet and hamburger out the freezer. I turned on the oven and put the hamburger in a pan, seasoning it then turning the pan on low.

I walked in the living room and saw Kai and Ariana watching Spongebob.

"Where's Jay?" I asked.

"He's upstairs." Kai said. "He didn't want to watch Spongebob with us."

I walked upstairs and went into Jacob's room, he was playing with his power rangers action figures. "Hey baby."

He looked at me and smiled. "Hi mommy." He put down his toys. "I'm hungry."

"I got your favorite cooking in the kitchen." I smiled. I walked towards him and picked him up. I kissed him and tickled him as he laughed uncontrollably. I soon enough stopped and we both caught our breath. "So, did daddy talk to your teacher?"

He nodded.

"So do you still have to go to school on Saturdays? Or do you have to go to tutoring?" I asked.

He shrugged. "If daddy goes over Mrs. Simmons house then I don't think so."

"What do you mean?"

He grabbed his action figures. "Mrs. Simmons told daddy that if he comes over she will improve my grades."

My whole face expression changed. "Oh really? So is daddy going to be there?"

"I think." He said. "He said he was at 12."

"At night?!" I semi yelled.

Jacob laughed. "I dunno mommy!" He looked out the window. "Daddy's here!" He yelled. He ran out the room and downstairs.

I turned off Jacob's tv and his light then went downstairs. Chres had Kai in one hand and Jacob in the other, Ariana was on his back and they all were kissing him repeatedly. Usually, I would join in but I'm irritated by him right now.

I went straight into the kitchen and stirred the hamburger, I got a pot to put the noddles in and boiled them.

*******

After dinner, Ariana and Kai got in the bath. I washed up Jacob and laid them all down for bed.

I went in our room and went in the bathroom. I stripped out of my clothes and threw them in the dirty hamper. I took a 10 minute shower then put on some pajama shorts and a sports bra. Chres was laying in bed, watching tv. I put my hair in a sloppy bun and laid down turning the opposite direction if him.

"Okay Yn, what did I do?" He finally asked.

I ignored him, it took him more than a hour to find out I was giving him the silent treatment.

"I been knew that you weren't talking to me, I just thought you would crack." He explained. "Obviously you didn't, so I asked you. What did I do?"

I sat up and looked at him. "Answer me, and be 100% honest Chresanto."

He nodded. "I gotcha, just tell me wassup."

"What did Jacob's teacher say?" I asked.

He sighed deeply. "She thinks he's not smart."

"I said what did she say." I growled. "Not what she thinks."

He stayed quiet, I rolled my eyes. "So your going over there tonight?"

He looked at me. "Nope."

"Why can't we just transfer him babe?" I asked. "It's a school right up the street that-"

"Baby were famous." He said. "Remember? Your the most successful wedding planner in Florida and I'm the new Jay Z! We can't have our kids go to a public school, do you see Will Smith's kids at a public school? I don't think so."

"Is there a different suggestion?" I asked. "Why not just change his class."

"Desiree is the only kindergarten teacher at his school." He explained.

I scrunched my eyebrow. "Who?"

"Desiree!" He said a little louder. "The one who accused me of raping her 7 years ago. But now she's married, so she's Mrs. Simmons."

That's when I got angry. I got up and put on Chresanto's big hoodie and my sweatpants. "Where this b***h stay?"