One and Only

Chapter 45

Avaa POV

While Khalil was dropping the kids off, I decided to clean up after breakfast. I cleared the counter and stove, washed the pans I used, and ran the dishwasher. Then I wiped down the counters with cleaning spray and dried off the dishes on the drying rack. Once I was satisfied with my work, I went upstairs to lay back down. Tired doesn't even begin to explain my level of exhaustion from being up all night, but I'm so glad that I'm off work today. I laid in my bed, enjoying the peace and quiet of not having 8 kids and a husband in the house and began drifting back off to sleep.

"Baby!" I heard Khalil call loudly through the house, making me jolt awake, "baby!" he called again and this time I could hear his footsteps coming up the stairs. There goes my lil bit peace and quiet.

"In the bedroom!" I yelled back and his footsteps got closer and closer until the bedroom door swung open.

"Let me tell you what your daughter said to me this morning" he said.

"Who? Ky or Kheris?" I asked while he undressed from his sweatpants, leaving on just his draws and t-shirt before hopping into bed on top of me. Sometimes, him laying on top of me was enjoyable because the weight of him was relaxing, but in those instances, it's only half of his body because he's too damn big to just be falling on top of me, especially not without a warning.

"You are crushing me" I said in a squished voice, trying to push him off me, but he wanted to play dumb.

"Huh ? What'd you day? I can't hear you." Khalil moved himself around, pretending to not hear me all while laughing up a storm.

"I'm so sick of you, get off of me boy" I said, hitting his side and he finally rolled off, still laughing like a kid and I just gave him a side eye. "I hate you...a lot."

"I love you too, baby" he spoke once his laughter died down. "Come here" he requested, now sitting up on the bed next to me.

"No, you play too much," I huffed.

"Are you really mad at me, wife?" Khalil asked, now rolling over to crawl on top of me, this time without the weight as he hovered above me.

"Yes" I replied simply, looking up at him.

"Are you really?" he asked again, leaning down to meet me nose to nose and this time I just nodded in response to his question, "really?" he asked one more time, giving me a kiss after and I grabbed the sides of his faces. Khalil deepened the kiss and I happily obliged. His tongue explored my mouth before he pulled away, flashing that million dollar smile I fell in love with 11 years ago.

"I love you, wife" he said again.

"I love you too, husband" I replied and he kissed my forehead before rolling off of me completely. "Now what did my daughter say to you this morning?" I asked, going back to his statement from a few minutes ago "and which daughter?"

"Kheris and I was getting her and Kee ready, so I did her hair. She told me she wanted puffs and twists, so I did puffs and twists. Then I asked her how I did and her little sassy self says 'good Daddy, but next time let Mama do the swoops' because I had tried to do her little edges" Khalil said and I bussed out laughing.

"That Kheris is one of a kind, man" I shook my head, "one thing my baby gon do is tell you the truth about yo self"

"Yes she is...lil mean ass" he said and he wasn't wrong. She can be kind of mean when she says those things and we're trying to teach her that it's not always what you say, but how you say it- but she only 5, so it's a work in progress.

"How'd things go at drop off?"

"Good, Kee almost pulled my damn finger off tryna get into school, his teacher says hi and Moo was good. One of her lil teachers was tryna flirt with me from the back of the classroom though, I had to give her one of those white people smile and nods and walk away because Unc aint what she want"