Open Opportunities

Chapter X

MORRIS

"Babe is that all?" I yelled tiredly carrying what I thought was the last box into our new house. After one long month of searching, we finally found our dream house in a quiet, safe, gated community of Cedar Park, Texas.

"No this is the last one." She came into the house with a big box in her hand, I helped her with it.

She sighed heavily, acting like she carried all of the boxes when in reality I did.

"Babe we gotta unpack all this stuff!" She exclaimed, exhausted. I nodded knowingly.

"You're the one who bought all this extra stuff talking 'bout filling up the house."

"Yeah because you're the one that wouldn't let me put down any money for this four million dollar house."

"Yep and you wouldn't have paid for the furniture either if you weren't so damn stubborn." I said wrapping my arms around her waist.

"Whatever." She said kissing my lips tenderly. Just when I started to take it further, she pulled away and I sighed.

"Less kissing, more unpacking." She said patting my chest.

"Baby c'mon, I haven't had her in two days." I said down kissing her neck.

"I know, but we've been really busy and we need to unpack. You also need to get ready for trial tomorrow."

"Just let me slide the tip in." I whispered in all seriousness. I'm very desperate.

"Boy please." She said going out the front door. I followed her and locked up the house before getting into the car.

"Where we going?"

"To get the kids from school, boy where your head at?"

"I wish it was between your legs." I smirked causing her to blush.

"Morris stopp." She said squirming in her seat.

"I'm making you wet baby?" I said leaning over to bite her ear.

"You better be glad I'm at a red light because you would have made me crash."

"I know I got you gushin' over there." I said caressing her inner thigh.

"You wish." She said, her breath picking up. She slapped my hand off her thigh and drove, turning into the front of the school.

We parked in the bus loop on the car riders side until we spotted Ariela. We both got out of the car and approached the long line of children and her teacher Ms. Claire.

"Mommy!" Ariela yelled running into Tameka's already open arms.

"Hey munchkin, how was school today?"

"It was fun momma. We had art today and I drawed a picture."

"It's drew honey, and good I'll frame it."

"So y'all just gon' have a conversation like I'm not here."

"Daddy me and Mommy talking, don't be rude."

"I just wanted a simple hug sweetheart, but you had to hurt daddy's feelings." I said fake crying. She reached for me and I grabbed her out of Bria's arms.

"Sorry, daddy don't cry. I love you." I smiled.

"I love you too pumpkin." I put her down and she grabbed my hand and we all walked to the car. After she was strapped in, we took off to Talia's daycare.

About thirty minutes later we pulled up to the colorful building. Bria and Ariela stayed in the car while I navigated through the enormous swarm of parents.

"Hey, daddy." She said obviously happy to see me.

"Hey baby girl, I missed you."

"Daddy I miss you." She said kissing my cheek.

"Good but I missed you more." I said chuckling. I walked to the car strapping her in.

"Mommy I miss you."

"I missed you too honey." She smiled and sat back, content with Tameka's answer.

"Babe do you want to eat out today? I really don't feel like cooking at all."

"Sure what were you thinking."

"I don't know, you choose."

"What about Panera bread?"

"Really? You think that would fill them up."

"Babe we aren't talking about teenagers, it would fill them up."

"Whatever I know."

"Sure, but we need to just get them a snack and groceries since our appliances are already set up."

"Yeah, and we need something to keep them occupied, while we start to unpack." I nodded in agreement.

*****

"Is that all we need?"

"Yeah, that's it." We've been shopping for about thirty minutes and now we were done.

"Daddy, can I get this?" Ariela said running up to me with a bag of Hershey's© chocolate candies in her hand.

"Nope. Didn't you already put something in the cart?" I asked reminding her of the candy she had tossed in the cart a little earlier.

"Yes." She said walking back into the isle defeated. We wanted our kids to be happy and healthy, so we made sure they didn't always fill on sweets and not want to eat real food.

She came back and we all went to the cash register to pay for the food. After we were done we packed up the food and headed home.

Two hours later...

"Ugh, I'm beat." Bria replied hopping on the newly set up bed.

"Me too." I said lying beside her. In two hours we have set up our three rooms and the kitchen. We have three rooms left and the living room, dining room, basement, and much more.

"The movie should be done by now." Bria said getting up. We had a movie room and we set up the movie Bedtime stories© for them to watch while we were setting up.

We both walked down the long hall into the movie room only to see both of the girls sleep on the recliners that we had in there.

It was 6:30 P.M. and I knew if we didn't wake them, it would f**k up their whole sleeping schedule.

"Baby their sleeping so peacefully, why don't we just bathe and feed them then let them go back to sleep." Bria suggested and I agreed.

In about two hours we had the girls fed, bathed, and rested and now we were in bed watching T.V.

"We're really doing this." She whispered snuggling up to my body.

"Yeah, we are. I love you." I said kissing her lips.

"I love you too."