When We Were Young

Chapter Thirty nine

Desireé POV

"Am I allowed to take you out now?" Odell asked as he laid on my bed.

I guess he barged his way in while I was in the shower. Good thing I got dressed in the bathroom. Creep.

"Take me out now?" I questioned.

"Yeah, you know since you the mother of my child, officially," he smiled over at me.

"What does that have to do with anything," I laughed.

"I hear that's what people do, take they baby mama's out to dinner and stuff like that," he shrugged, "you gon let me?"

"No and why are you on my bed?"

"It's comfortable," he shrugged.

I went to my night stand to get my sleeping pills from the drawer. I glanced over the contents- something is missing- I don't know what but it's something. I shrugged it off and grabbed the bottle of Ambien.

"You take these every night?" He asked as he took the bottle from my hand.

"If you must know, yes," I reached to take them back.

"Don't take them tonight."

"No I have to. I can't sleep without them."

"Since when?"

"You know Ive never slept, but after Zora it got even worse and the doctor told me I have insomnia, so I take those to sleep."

"You ain't take them with me."

"So," I shrugged. The fuck is he getting at?

"Just see if you can fall asleep without them tonight," he offered.

"I already tried and I can't. Will you just gimme my stuff," I huffed.

"Come lay with me for a while then take them," he patted the spot next to him. "Please. Come on, we gotta talk about how we gonna split the time with Mack anyway."

"You're irritating," I rolled my eyes as I sat down next to him and he pulled me closer and I moved back away.

"Stop, don't be like that," he pulled me back.

"Being like what? In my personal space?"

"Nah," he shook his head before looking down at me, "I really am sorry for the things that I said and did. You such a good person and I couldn't ask for a better person to be the mother of my child, for real."

"Thank you," I smiled and laid down. I was tired, a good tired. I held in as best could how anxious I really was to find out about Zora. I was fucking terrified, but now that was behind me and I really had no need to think about Derrick again because he was out of my life and Zora was Odell's.

"I think we should tell her tomorrow, that sound good?"

"Yeah," he smiled.

"Why didn't you wait for me to open them, or at least called me," I laughed as I touched his chest.

"My bad, I was just too excited," he cleared his throat and grabbed my hand that was on his chest and kissed it lightly before putting it back on his chest and stroking the back of my hand.

"Well I'm glad that you did, I don't think I would have been able to do it."

"It worked out though," he rubbed circles on my side and I felt myself getting sleepy. I was so tired.

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Odell POV

"So I was thinking that, maybe not now, but when you feel comfortable enough, I could get her three days out the week, or four if you want," I offered. "There's nobody there but me now," I added quickly.