Santiago POV

Turning over to look at my phone, it was almost time for Khia to go to work but she hasn't moved since I put it down on her last night. I really didn't want her to wake up but I had to cause I had to go to church.

"Cmon babygirl you gotta get up to go to work",I told her quietly.

"Here call out for me",she said passing me her phone. I looked at her and smiled.

"Babe you gone lose your job calling out like this."

"Just do it",she whined.

"Ight but if you not going to work you gotta at least come to church with me. One or the other."

She didn't respond. I took her phone and called in sick for her and her manager seemed very understanding. After I hung up, Khia was already fully awake and we got our things and left the hotel to go to my house. Luckily no one was home, they were probably already at church for Sunday school. We passed by ebony house and I let Khia grab a dress and we got dressed at my house. Taking a shower, I could smell the scent of sex all over me. I don't even remember how many times we did it last night.

"Babe your done? It's almost 11",I asked Khia while getting out the shower.

"Yeah I just have to finish my make up real quick. I changed into a dress shirt and some slacks and put my vest on nd decided against wearing my suit cause it was burning hot out. I checked myself in the mirror to see if I looked good. Brushing my hair, i looked at Khia from a distance in her knee length dress messing with her curly hair in my mirror. She looked sexy in anything she wore I swear.

"Babe how do I look?",she said catching me stare at her.

"Like a angel we know you ain't."

We both laughed.

"I'm just playin. You look gorgeous babe",I said hugging her from behind. After we got dressed, we got in my car and I drove to the church. Although we were gonna be a little late, I anticipated getting there before service actually started.

We entered the church and sat in the pew with the rest of the youth. From time to time, I noticed raine glaring at Khia and I gave her a look so she could cut it out. My biggest fear used to be Khia getting into it with a girl I used to date in church cause I knew that wouldn't make her feel comfortable. Khia already is new at the gospel thing and I would hate for her to just stop because of my past. It was time for the worship team to go up and Raine went up to sing. They sung here I am to worship and led everyone into worship. It was a great moment and soon after was the preaching. Pastor Jake preached on becoming a new creature in Christ.

"A lot of y'all young people can fool people but you can't fool God. I target y'all because this is your revival and y'all are more prone to go clubbing and partying on a Friday and Saturday night am I right?",he started. The crowd of youth responded weakly cause we all knew where he was about to go with this.

"Turn your bibles with me to 1 Corinthians 5:17... based on this scripture it says to me that once you are in Christ you are a new creature. The old man has passed and now behold the new. Let's talk about the old man. Let's get a little personal, old Jake wouldn't be in church. Sitting with my boys, drinkin all night, going out partying was my hobby."

Interesting, I could relate. I listened attentively.

"But I knew God called me for a higher purpose in life. I was just tryna Get away from it. The Christian boy thing wasn't for me and I wasn't about to make it my thing until I found myself in the hospital after a night of partying. Although I wasn't the person driving, that didn't stop the car from going off the road and crashing into trees. I found myself in the coma and I was told I was there for a month. Moral of the story is it was time for me to surrender my entire life to God. It doesn't have to take a near death experience for anyone to give themselves to God but it can happen because God loves you that much. Once I accepted God, I had to change my entire life around. Had to cut my friends off, stop partying, clubbin, smoking, even family members the whole 9 because I was a new creature",he continued. Hearing his testimony made me think about myself. We had a lot of similarities. I just couldn't figure out how to stop the clubbin when it's now my job. It's my way of living now that I got the restaurant. After church, everyone hanged around a bit and it was as if no one wanted to leave including myself. I searched the room for Khia and I found her and raine in the back pew laughing it up. I guess they were getting along pretty well. I appreciated the effort Khia was doing. Lately she's been cooperative with me in terms of going to church every Sunday and company me in the restaurant business.

I took a seat on the pew and waited foe Khia to finish. Not even 10 minutes passed, and she kissed me on the cheek asking me if we can go because she's hungry. I laughed as we left the church.

"Baby where are we going?",she asked me.

"Somewhere where we can eat."

"Restaurant or buffet?"

"Girl you can't eat like you want at a restaurant", I said laughing and she laughed too.

"Okay cause I was about to say."

"What kinda food you in the mood for?"

"Chinese."

"Ight I thought you'd say that, we almost there."

Once I parked the car near the shaded area with trees around it, I hopped out the car and opened khia's door for her to come out. I tossed my vest to the back seat of the car and closed the door.

"Ready to grub?",I asked her.

She took her blazer off and switched her heels into a pair of black flat shoes she had in my car. She tied her hair up in ponytail and said, "now I'm ready."

I walked her in and we waited a minute before we could be seated because it was Sunday and I guess nobody felt like cooking. Once we were finally seated, we both grabbed a plate and chose whatever we wanted to eat. I got to the table first and Khia came right after.

We said grace and started to eat.

"You heard from ya moms?",I asked her.

"Yea she called me all day today."

"Why you didn't pick up bae?"

"I don't feel like being irritated by her today."

"Ya moms never irritating."

She made a face at me and said, "who's side are you on?"

"Yours babe you know that."

She scrunched her nose up and continued eating. Her phone vibrated on the table and she didn't answer it. She picked it up and set it back down on the table. I didn't know what that was about but I wasn't about to ruin this nice vibe we been on today.