"Nick why does she smell weird?"
"What are you talking about?"
"She smells different."
"Maybe she needs a diaper change."
"Not that type of different, like someone else. Who did you let touch her?"
"She fell asleep on Mali this morning after she was fed and wouldn't let go. She was looking for you and he found her in the kitchen. On my way to the room i tried to wake you up but you told me to leave you alone."
"Mali??!! Why was he holding her?"
"Oh my god didn't i just explain that, she had a full tummy and fell asleep, we had to go somewhere so i went into the shower, i asked him, to bring her to her room , so she could sleep, when he picked her up she didn't want to let go, so he is the one she smells of."
I am getting tired of this. I just want to go and make lunch. She looked at me with fire in her eyes then walked away WITHOUT HER KID. She wasn't fit to be a mother. Dominic sighed, picked up Emily and went inside, i put my violin on my shoulder and went in after him. He went to Emily's room while I went to ours. After I rested my case down and changed into more comfortable clothes, I went down to the kitchen. It was so quiet, come to think of it, I haven't seen Agatha in days. I quickly whipped up some sandwiches and brought them up to the room. There she was mother of the year herself sitting on the bed with Emily in Dominics lap.
As soon as I stepped through the door she seemed tence.
"Didnt you make sandwiches for me too?'
"Bella, I didn't expect you to be here."
"Well go make more."
"I'm not a servant, go make your own sandwiches."
"How rude,tells him to go get sandwiches, you bought him in the first place."
"That's not how it works Bella, now stop being a brat and go make your own sandwiches."
"Ugh, well give me Emily then , I don't trust him alone with my daughter."
"Ok take her."
She picked up Emily huffed and left the room. I passed Dominic an sandwich and he put it on the nightstand. I guess he wasn't hungry, oh well i ll enjoy mine. As I was about to begin eating, my sandwich disappeared. He took it and put it on the nightstand with his.
"What gives, I'm hungry."
"Im jealous."
"Of Emily??!! She is a toddler."
"What? No, not Emily, not yet, I'm jealous that you won't be here all day anymore."
"I'm not a housewife."
"I know, but i wish you were."
"Not happening."
"Why not be a housewife?"
"I want to do something with my life."
"How unfortunate."
"So who are you jealous of?"
"Your student."
"Why?"
"He gets to stare at your ass all day, while i have to wait until you get home."
"Wait so when you accompany me in the kitchen that's what you're doing."
"Pretty much, they remind me of two apples."
"Remind me never to let you stay in the kitchen with me again."
"No fair."
"Anyways, there is no reason for you to get jealous of my ass as a student, he wanted a chick to remember, so he won't be looking at my ass."
"But still."
"Grow up and please hand me my sandwich."
"No, not until I get something first."
"What?"
"Your ass."
"EH??"
"Not happening i'm hungry."
"Then you can eat me."
"Who knew you were so dirty minded."
"I did, no wet shave someone one time."
"It's one on one."
"I know what i said."
He came closer to me and cupped my face. when eh kissed me and slipped his tongue in my mouth. I bit it. I pulled back and looked at me surprised.
"I said i was hungry."
"You are serious?!!"
"Yes."
reached past him, grabbed my sandwich and chowed down. The whole time he looked at me surprised, I wondered why. WHat did I do? I warned him i was hungry, hen i wanted sex he ignored me . Karma is a bitch.
"Stop looking at me like that, it feels weird."
"I thought you couldn't hurt a fly."
"Get over it, I told you I was hungry."
"Ok well hurry up"
"You still want to have sex?"
"Yes."
"I'm not doing that with a full stomach."
He gave me a fake smile, tackled me , took my sandwich AGAIN!! I only took one bite, next time im scarfing it down. Who knew he would get this jealous, crap where was this on valentines day. But i am still hungry. He pushes up my shirt and begins to pull down my pants but i was saved by the bell. My phone rang, it was my brother's video calling, I pushed Dominic off , pulled down my shirt, pulled up my pants then answered the call.
Call
Hey Mali how are you doing?
I'm good though i am going to strangle your wife
Why?
Its better you don't know
Where is Dominic?
He is very busy.
Oh bummer
*background
Babe where did you put the whip?
Um ok i can see you two were busy so see a later
See you later Mali
*Call ends
Dominic took my phone and i pounced on him
"Give me back my baby she hasn't done anything to you. Tab That will be lonely.
"You have issues with our electronics, I want attention."
"Give me back my baby or I won't speak to you for a week."
Dominic huffed clearly annoyed and tossed me my phone. Oh sweet baby did the meme man hurt you? I bet he would hate it if i snatched his phone, maybe i will. He left the room and disappeared down the hall. I could hear his heavy footsteps. Why did he get pissed? He knows I love my babies. I pulled the pillow over my face and screamed. Why is he like this, it's like he is going through puberty.
I rolled off the bed and went down the hall to his office. He was typing on his tablet. I closed the door behind me and walked over to him slowly. When i did i realized it was TABATHA he had.
"What are you doing with Tabatha?"
"Restarting her."
"What? You can't do that. I have things on there that are still open if you shut it down they will be lost."
He looked up at me and pushed down on my baby. She was one. Everything, all my lesson plans, my exercises, my BUCKET LIST. I don't care how pissed he is about me wanting my phone, he had no right to shut down my tablet, it is my property. He had a bright smile on his face as he handed me poor lifeless tabatha. I just took it and walked out of his office, I went down to the kitchen and turned her back on.
My screen saver was gone and so was my work. Now I have to redo a whole week's worth of work. I went back to the room and found him sitting in a chair next to the window reading. I went over to where he was to grab the papers I needed to redo my work. As I was about to leave he grabbed the strap to my bag.
"Now you should have time for me."
"Actually now I don't, all my lesson plans and other stuff are gone and I need to redo them before tomorrow so thanks for that. As i walked out of the room i was on the verge of tears because there were pictures of my granny i wasn't sure uploaded to my cloud. When I went back to the kitchen Agatha was there, I cant look at her right now.
"Beastie what's wrong you look like you're ready to cry a river."
"Excuses me."
I put my things down and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and shed my tears. I wiped the way, washed my face and went back to the kitchen. I began searching my cloud and didn't find the pictures I had taken. It was the two of us outside in the garden. It was winter and snowflakes were stuck to our eyelashes. She looked like an ice queen when our hair was completely covered.
Just then I felt two hands rest on my shoulder. Riht now was not teh time to be fucking with me.
"A little work isn't going to kill you, quit frowning."
"I have a right to frown at the last picture of my grandmother and I were one as well, I was supposed to update my cloud in afew days to hold everything but you deleted it."
I turned around and looked at him with fresh tears in my eyes.
"I hope you got the result you were looking for."
I brushed his hands off of me and bean working. I ended up skipping dinner and working through the night. It was when I got a notification from Dominic that I realized it was 3 in the morning.
*Message
Aren't you coming to bed?
Its late
You have work in the morning
I hate this
I ignored them, i had a few more slides and videos to add in an di was done. When i was finished it was 3:45am. I packed up my things and went upstairs. Daminic was sitting in the bed on his phone i put down my things and went straight to take sjower. od known i'm going to be too tired for it later when i have to go to work. When i was ready for bed i set an alarm for 9am took my glasses off and put tabitha in the night stand and my phone under my pillow.
I layed down without any other word to him. I'm still pissed.
"Can we talk about this? I didn't know about the picture."
"Please can we just go to sleep? I'm exhausted."
"No we need to talk about this now so it doesn't fester."
"Trust me it's not a pain to feser in my mind it's too tiring."
He looked annoyed so I grabbed tabitha and my phone and shoved them under my pillow.
"I'm not going to mess with your adets anymore."
"You had better not i just shit back in order."
My eyes were becoming heavy and I was becoming irritated with him. I felt my eyes becoming heavy but was forcefully shaken awake.
"Talk to me!"
"Alright fine you want to talk let talk i'm exhausted you are acting like a child storming off and then acting like a father taking away my gadgets and unknowingly erased all my work and personal things on her so there is that. Are you satisfied because I am so tired? I don't even think I have the energy to be pissed anymore."
"I just wanted to get your attention. Is that so much to ask? Now that I think about it I don't regret anything I did today except wanting you.Glad I didn't waste my valentines day.
He said you with disgust then rolled over. I did the same, even though most of me is numb by now I have to admit that stung, it stung hard. I just closed my eyes and tried to get some sleep. The moment i close them hear my alarm. My eyes fly open and it's 9am. Dominic was still asleep, i just ready quietly. I put on my glasses, grabbed my violin, tabatha, my phone, both the chargers, my bag and headed out the door. When I got downstairs a driver rated me. He drove me to work and I was ready to start my day. I knocked on the door and the little bastard opened. He left the door open and walked upstairs. I walked in and closed the door behind me. Once in his room, there was a place marked out. There was a small dry erase board, his violin and a desk.
I set down my violin and pulled up my exercises on tabatha. He plopped down on the desk and looked at me with cold dead eyes.
"Quit giving me fish eyes and get your ass in gear the faster you learn the faster i am out of you oh so interesting life."
We got through the lesson rather quickly, at least we have an understanding.As i was leaving he said the weirdest thing.
"I've never been so happy to see you walk your fat ass out of here."
I didn't bother responding. When I reached outside I expected the driver was Dominic. I think I would rather teach tomorrow's lesson today than talk to him right now. He was just leaning back on his car looking at me. I think taking the bus and seeing the sights would do me some good. I walked down the walkway then began walking to the right near a bus stop I noticed tsi morning.
I got on the bus and asked the driver to drop me off as close to the Riviera mansion. He did as I asked and told me to walk half a mile. Fuck. When I got there I saw Dominic's car. Hmm maybe i can hide- i mean visit the kitchen. I went there to see him sitting at the table with a chocolate dipped strawberry. You know what a walk in the arden sounds good too. I turned around hoping he didn't notice me and managed to find my way to the garden. I was mortified to see Emily trying to get a little boat out of the pond, she kept on reaching forward until she fell in. I dropped everything without thinking and ran towards the pond. I kicked off my shoes and jumped in, it's deeper than it looked. She was thrashing and screaming but I managed to get her before watering it in her lungs. I felt my feet sinking into the heavy mud. Emily was crying and declining on me, the mud had reached my ankles and the water was under my neck. I kept Emily high above it while I tried to loosen my feet. Fuck it.
"DOMINIC HELP."
In a flash he was there he was terrified to see us. He ran over and as he was about to step in I told him to stop.
"Dont j-just take emily, you'll get stuck to. The mud is heavy i can't move, take her, i'm sinking. He reached out and to the poor crying thing from me. He ran to the other side of the arden and wrapped her in his jacket. I was done, I couldn't see the top anymore and I was sunk to my knees. This is like quicksand there is no getting out. I look down at my locket and open it one last time. Thank god the picture is air tight. I looked at the picture as if it was the last time. Who knows maybe it will be.
Im coming home granny yoru little beasty is coming home. Save some strawberries for me. I let my glasses fall off and keep looking at the block through my blurred vision. Who thought I would have saved the child and in turn, risked my own. I hate kids, why not this one.
As the last bubble left my throat and the water started to float in my eyes too heavy and so was my body. Just then when I thought it was my last moments in the cold watery rve i was pulled out. WHen i saw the sun i was blinded and thats it.
DOMINIC POV
I went back to the pond to find Mali completely submerged. I told dad this pond was dangerous but no he never wanted to fill it in. There aren't even any fishes. He can't drown, not with the way we ended things. I was an asshole, I said things I shouldn't have, he can't go thinking i hate him. I reach down with my right hand dipping my upper body into the water while holding onto the stone around it. I grabbed the back of his turtleneck and bean pulling. It was near impossible but i did it. He wasnt waking up.
I was doing CPR but he wasn't waking up, I began thinking back for some reason, the first time I saw him. His dorky glasses, his slender face, big innocent eyes. Valentines day, i deliberately ignored him, i even had the nerve to lie to him saying i was nervous i just wasn't interested in him at the time but jealousy changed that bi time. I shouldn't have lied. As i continued to do CPR i felt light headed and he finally started to cough up water. Oh thank god. He rolled over couhing up even more. When he finished he layed back on his back . Agatha and my sister. Agatha went to get a blanket while my sister was ranting and raving about god knows what. Mali stood up wobbly and looked at my sister with something different in his eyes.
"Mali are you ok?"
"CAN YOU SHUT UP??!!!"
"What did I do ? I just saved your miserable life."
"Not you, your sister."
My sister turned around and looked at Mali with fury, he didn't care, he was muddy soaking wet and no doubt pissed as hell.
"What did you just say to me?"
"Shut up. Your child nearly drowned, you weren't watching her, you didn't have anyone watching her, you don't feed her. You only claim her to spite others or when it's convenient for you. You shouldn't be a parent.Your not ready. She is over there shivering in a coat and you are here yelling at her and me who both almost drowned. You could have gone to comfort your child but not as usual wrapped up in yourself."
He coughed one more time, walked over to Emily, picked her up and left.
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