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Ashley walks into the mall with her mother by her side and Aiden in his stroller. They were going to pick up their dresses for the evening. Ashley of which had a hard time finding something that was comfortable and looked good on her changing body. Everything she tried discouraged her until she found a simple yellow gown. Her mother on the other hand would be wearing a black number that was off the shoulder and with a spit that stoped just at the top of her thigh.

"Ashley did you find some shoes to go with your dress" Melyssa asks as they wait for the sales associate to bring their dresses up while she looks at their shoe selection.

"Yes I did I'm just going to wear some nude heels I got with Izzy a minute back I never wore" Ashley says bending down to check on Aiden who was babbling and trying to wiggle his way out. They two then got their dresses before stopping by a fast food place before going back to the house. The two had been basically spending the day before together getting their hair and nails done. Izzy gave the two his card to use even though Ashley refused. She eventually came around and had fun looking at dresses.

At the warehouse Izzy say grumpily staring at the spreed sheets looking over how the money was flowing. After Ashley found that error in the product he took it directly to the source. Come to find out, the suppler was honest but the person who charted it messed up the numbers. Was it a mistake? Maybe. But we won't ever know. Izzy doesn't take mistake like that lightly.

He wasn't supposed to come in today but with all the new workload thrown upon his so quickly he had to jump straight back into the game. This didn't give him much time to transition or even make a plan. By him just working by himself that was forcing him to work more openly than before. Although he was still going to try to stay as unnoticed as possible, there was more at risk now. He takes a break noticing his personal phone ringing an unknown number. Sitting back from his computer he grabs the phone before placing it to his ear.

"Hi, this is Stacey Deed, from Atlanta luxury real estate. I'm calling in regards to your email that was sent in about our newest home. If you have a moment we can set a date for you and your wife to come for a showing" the cheerful woman says through the phone. Izzy has seen an ad one night of a house that really caught his eye. Being that it was on it own land with a guest house and fully updated he thought he'd look into it. Also the fact that they couldn't live in his house forever. He wanted the two to have something that was the both of theirs and didn't Ashley to feel a way about being in his house forever. And lastly he could really put in place the security he wanted in that house.

"Yes i do, hows this Sunday?" Izzy says before setting a date and time with the real estate agent and finishing up his work before gathering his stuff so he can head home. On his way out he stopped by the room that held Cash and his once ex girlfriend.

"Wussap boss" the dude who guarded the door said before Izzy stepped in.

"Gone head and get rid of her" Izzy says so two men who watch over the room referring to his ex's body that lyes is a bed of acid which slowly broke her body down making it easier to dispose.

"Damn you ruthless" cash's voice speaks up causing Izzy to turn around before deeply chuckling.

"You ain't seem the half of it" he says before walking out of the room and to his car.

Ashley POV

"You think he'll like it?" I look at my new platinum blonde bob in the mirror. I had been looking at them for a while now and I finally did it.

"Yes baby you look gorgeous" mu mother encourages me she stares at it. "And how has he not seen it?" She asks confused. I had had it for a day now and he hadn't seen it.

"I've had it wrapped it up. I told him I didn't want to ruin it" run my hands though it. It was really cute but it was very different for me. I had never did anything like this before.

"Baby" I hear Izzys voice call out as the front door opens before closing. I walk from the bathroom and out into the living room to see him sitting down his suit jacket and a small bag.

"Hey babe..." I say standing on the wall watching him as he turns around looking at his phone before looking up at me, then to his phone and then back up to me. He sits down his phone before walking over to me. I bite my lip hoping I don't look like a fool cause I know this nigga doesn't have a problem speaking his mind.

"When you did this" he smoothes out the top like I got some damn waves.

"Yesterday. You like it?"I bite my lip again.

"Hell yeah you look good ma" he says smiling which caused me to do so.

"See Ashley I don't know why you was trippin I told you you looked good" my mom says going into the kitchen to heat up her food.

"Where Santana at?" Izzy asks me rubbing my stomach.

"He is sleeping right now he should be up in a second. We gone start getting ready in a minute" I kiss his lips before going around him and going into the kitchen to get my food.

"Ight ima go take a shower real quick." He says "I got some for you tho" he says going over to the small bag.

"And what did you buy?" I say playfully before going over to him taking the bag. I open it up to see a jewelry box. As I open it I gasp seeing a pair of dangling diamond earring in a box that had a light shining over them.

"Baby..." I whine

"I thought you needed some to wear with yo dress"he says before i jump on him wrapping my arms around his neck

"Thank you baby" I kiss all over his face before he has to lightly push me off.

"Anything for you ma" he says kissing my lips. I squealed looking at them again. Now I'm really excited to get dressed up.

I set my mom up in a guest bedroom to get dressed and all while I went into our bedroom seeing Izzy laying down with a fast asleep Aiden. I then go to my closet before taking off my clothes and placing on a robe and walking back out. In that short period of time, Izzy is now up and sitting on the side of the bed shirtless looking mighty fine. I couldn't resist the urge and walked over to him before wrapping my arms around his neck. He embraced me tightly before I looked down to him kissing his lips and his hands massaged my butt.

"Go take a shower before you don't go" he threatens making me smirk and I pull away. I ended up taking a nice soothing shower before getting up and starting on my makeup. I did a soft glam look with a glossy brown lined lip which is my favorite right now. After that I touched up my hair which wasn't much but brushing it some and want on to get dressed. My dress was a lovely shade of yellow with some crystal touches. I initially wanted to go with black but this was honestly my favorite dress and the others made me look weird.

I placed on the nude heels before my new earring and finishing off with a couple sprays of good girl perfume. I took a finally glance in my body mirror before grabbing my clutch and walking out to the room. As I stepped out I caught izzys eyes off of his plate of food and Aiden began clapping.

"How do I look?" I ask him

" you look fine as hell ma" Izzy says smiling. I walk over to the two before leaning down and kissing Aiden and then Izzy.

"Let me know when y'all make it and on y'all way back Ight?" He says

"I will baby" I kiss his lips again

"What car y'all takin?" He ask me

"Umm I'm not sure" I say honestly

"Take the g wagon. The Benz need a some gas and it's too late for y'all to be stopping" he says taking a bite out of one of his wings.

"Okay baby" I say

"Don't make me kill nobody for looking at you wrong ash" he says making me chuckle

"I won't baby" I yell out before walking down the stairs seeing my mom putting on her shoes by the door. "You look great ma. What you tryna do catch a man" I joke

"Girl at this point yes" she says chuckling before standing up. "Look at you. You better hope they don't think it's your party" she says as I laugh before we walk over to the key rack and I grab the gwagon keys before we head off.

"I can't believe you've never met Mayas parents" I say as we drive down the rode

"Nope they were always busy and y'all were grown so I never really minded." she says as we arrive to the large gates.

"To be honest now that I think about it I've never met her dad only her mom like once." I shake it off. We ride down their long driveway approaching a large home with lights shining all around. We pull around to the valet before we hop out and I shoot Paris a text letting her know that we had made it. Bri ended up working tonight and supervising Paris could make it.

"Ash bash" I hear from my left side before I turn and see Paris coming up to me in a satin emerald green cocktail gown.

"Paris" I squealed out before embracing her in a hug.

"I've missed you bitch."she whispers in my ear laughing "hey ma" she says going over to hug my mom before we all walk in together. As we walked in you could tell this was a upper class party. A small orchestra played in the main room while servers went around with hors d'oeuvres and cocktails. All types of snobby people engaged in conversation about nothing as we tried to find maya.

"Paris! Ashley!" We hear a voice call out before we spotted Maya approaching in black strapless dress with Kind by her side. "I'm glad you guys made it" she say hugging us. She comes to me and gasp holding her mouth. "You're pregnant?!" She whisper yells as I shake my head yes

"Oh my god congrats girl" she hugs me again. "Do you know what you guys are having?" She asks me

"No we don't as of now" I say in response.

"Maya could you show me the bathroom?" Paris asks her before they go off.

"I need a drink in this boring shit" my mom says to me. "Young man could you show me to the bar" she asks King who is left behind.

"Bring me a ginger ale please" I ask her as I step to one of the servers grabbing a small plate and some sliders and a few shrimp. I'm not going to lie that shit was good as hell but I'm going to need a lot more to fill me up. Baby ass food.

"Ashley?" I look up hearing my name to see Michael standing in-front of me dressed in a black suit.

"Micheal... how are you? What are you doing here?" We embrace in a short hug before pulling away

"Thomas is my lawyer and he invited me tonight. Also I've been good. Working as usual" he chuckles scratching the back of his neck.

"And daisy?" I ask referring to his young daughter.

"I actually got joint custody of her so that a step ahead." He says to me.

"That's great congratulations." I smile

"Oh congrats to you. I see you're expecting again" he say

"Yes..Thank you" i shake my head as a woman come up behind him. She was a light skinned woman wearing a black gown with straight black hair. And then I noticed it was Diamond.

"Micheal there you are" she says hugging him and kissing his cheek.

"Oh my apologies. Ashley this is diamond my date and diamond this is Ashley a friend of mine" he introduces us.

"How are you diamond" I extend my manicured hand to her.

"I'm sorry do you know each other?" He asks looking in between us.

"In a way yes..." I smile looking at her as she looks away.

"Well Ashley have a good night i should go congratulate the couple." He hugs me one more time this time seeming as if he didn't want to let go. As I pulled away I noticed that Diamond was looking as if she noticed what he was doing and they walked way.

I throw away my trash before looking up and seeing lance walk in hugging and hand shaking many people. Damn I should've asked who all was gone be here.

"Okay we are back I'm glad you stayed in one spot" says Paris as they step beside me.

"He works at my fathers firm now" Maya says referring to Lance who is walking around.

"I'm not worried about him" I say taking another slider from a servant. Damn these sliders are good. I turn around to see my mom laughing with king as they approach with drinks for us all.

"Maya baby keep this one he seems to have his head on straight" she says handing me my ginger ale as the rest of them have alcoholic beverages.

As I take a sip of my drink I notice my moms face scrunch up as she drinks hers.

"What's wrong ma?" I asks her noticing her disgust.

"This is nasty" she says referring to the drink.

"Let's go get you another one I need a napkin anyways" I says before we head back to the bar together. We maneuver our way though the large group of people before she bumps into a man causing her drink to spill all over his suit jacket.

"Oh god I am so sorr-" her words are cut off as she looks up to the man in shock and he looks at her wide eyed trying to find something to say. I stand there confused as a Mayas mother comes up behind him.

"Babe it's almost time for-" she stops looking to my mother and back at the man then to me before her eyes widen. She mumbles something not even acknowledging me before pulling away.

"Ma are you okay?" I pull her through the crowd and into an empty room where she sat down. Staring into empty space. "Mom you have to talk to

Me. You are scaring me" I send a text to the girls letting them know to come to the room before sitting down beside her.

"Ashley..." she gets out

"Yes mom?" I say concerningly before the girls come busting in the room closing the door behind them.

"Maya what is your fathers name?" She asks.

"Timothy Thomas why is everything okay?" She asks

"God no..." she says placing her head in her hands

"Mom please talk to me" I rub her back

"Ashley he's your father" she blurts out taking me by surprise.

"My what?" I ask again

"Wait. What? Are you sure because my parents have been married and-"my mom cuts maya off

"Yes I'm sure I gave him three years of my life. I'm ready to go Ashley." She says

"Umm I'll go tell them to pull your car around" king says trying to find a way out of the situation. I sat there in shock as to what she just said. I know it's the truth because my mother has never lied neither acted like that before.

"Lets go" my voice cracks. I stand up picking my dress up for better walking access before helping my mom up. I wipe the lone tear from my face and pick up my phone and clutch.

"I'll talk to you later" I said to maya who was in shock as well before we walked out the room. Paris led the way out as I caught eyes with mayas father who seemed to be watching us make our way out.

"Call me when you make it home" Paris says after I get into the car. I agree and shut the door. The ride was silent not even the radio played.

"Drop me off home" my mom says lowly

"Are you sure you? I can stay with you if you want." I say to her.

" go home to your family babygirl" she says to me as I pull onto the highway. I looked over periodically looking at her as she peered out of the window. It was so much to process that I didn't know where to start. I had just seen my father whom I hadn't seen ever. And I've never seen my mother act this way before. She's always portrayed herself as a strong independent woman and now she seems broken.

"I love you" she says lowly as she leans over the center console hugging me

"I love you too mommy" I say back. After she leaves I stay in the silence under I arrive home and park into the driveway. I slowly exit the car before entering and placing the keys where the belong. I take off my heels and take my time walking up the stairs. Once I make it to the room I see that Izzy is still awake with Aiden on his chest falling asleep.

"You back early ma." He says

"Yea..." I say coming around to his side so he can unzip me.

"How was it?" He asks as he unzips the dress and I slide out

" it was okay" I say dryly honestly not in the mood to talk.

"You straight sum happen or sum?" He asks as I walk into the closet placing on a random tee shirt.

"I saw my dad" I say causing him to look up and I burst into tears.

Authors note

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I had to add a little scoop of drama it's only right.

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