“What, you got another business venture in mind? I thought this was your dream, Tati.”
“It is, but I’m not fulfilled anymore. I have a studio that I bought, and I want to teach dance full-time and do my therapy part-time.”
“What?” he laughed in my face.
I was disgusted, and he hadn't even picked up on it.
“Dance? What fuck are you thinking about? You won’t be able to continue your extravagant lifestyle off teaching dance, Tati. You’re sitting here telling me, you’re leaving a six-figure job for what? A couple thousand a year. You’re joking, right?”
“Actually, I’m dead serious, but I don’t know why I would think someone like you would understand me.”
“It’s not that I don’t understand you. I’m being real, and you’re living in some fantasy shit. How long have you been dancing? We’ve been together for years, and I’ve never known you could dance.”
I just nodded because we were so far removed from each other. He forgot about me being on the dance line in college. I stuck around for a year after I graduated to teach the girls the dances for the following year.
“Well, I just thought, as your wife, I would let you know. It wasn’t me asking you for permission. I’ve had the studio for five years now, and you never knew. I never asked you to payanything for it. And if you’re concerned about money, don’t. I got me.” I got up from the table and left his stupid ass sitting there.
EIGHTEEN
JAHMIR
Song: Joe- Good Girls
“Everything looks good,Mr. Grant. You have a clean bill of health,” the doctor told me.
“Glad to hear. I told you I was fine.”
“You're not even forty yet. Take care of yourself and try not to stress yourself over things you can't control.”
“Noted, Doc.”
Now that I was clear and could move on and get the hell out of my house and go see the twins. I was about to take them out. I had the need to be a big kid. We were about to eat whatever we wanted. I have seen my babies in two weeks. Plus, I needed to kick with Dream once I found out he was being isolated from his sister.
Thanks to Tatiyonna, it was revealed. I had to send her an extra bouquet of flowers for the shit. She thought the flowers were going to stop, but they were still coming. Sometimes I wondered what she was telling her husband after three months. It was strange not running into her like we did before we startedfucking. It was like she didn't exist and we didn't live in the same town.
“What did the doctor say?” Lonni asked before I could walk all the way in the house.
“I'm straight. It was stress.” I shrugged.
“May that love never find me.”
“Tatiyonna was worth it. I know, as your brother, you're being protective, but she only did what was right. Though I feel like it should've been me, who am I to force her to be with me? That's not love. Love is letting her go and be happy.”
“And then you almost die from a broken heart. Fuck that and her too.”
“Aight, not too much on Tatiyonna. I have to take accountability in my heartbreak, too.”
“My feelings still remain, but anyway, where are you taking them?” Lonni handed me their book bag.
“We are going wherever they want to go. I missed them, so don't call me and ask when they’re coming back. I might not come back until midnight with their behinds.”
“Well, have fun.”
Since they had just ate, we ended up at the arcade. It was evident how much I missed them. They had me running from one game to the next, and before I knew it, I was four hundred dollars in the hole fucking around with the games they wanted to play. They had so many tickets to turn in that I had to get a bucket to put them in. I had to make sure it was enough tickets so they both could pick what they wanted. They knew Uncle Jah didn't play about them fighting each other.
“Wow! I didn't know you had kids,” Kileen said.
“Shit, I don't know you had any either,” I lied.
