Really?

Macaiah stared at the big lump in the bed. He didn't really know what to think. The first thought that went through his mind was that his father had lied to him earlier in the evening. He frowned, his dad had seemed genuine earlier in the evening when he basically said he wanted to be with his mom but that he wasn't.

He was confused and just stared at them for about 10 minutes. Nicki was a heavy sleeper and was known to sleep through storms and arguments and hurricanes but luckily SB woke easily. He woke up with one arm wrapped around Nicki and one above the duvet. he inhaled Nicki's sweet scent and glanced at the clock on Nicki's bedside table. It read 3:00 AM and he looked through the window to see if there was a storm that had woken him up. There was normal weather and he was confused as to why he woke up. He glanced around and said

"Macaiah are you okay, whats wrong ? Has something happened?" Safaree was so troubled and concerned for Cai as he looked a mixture of angry and confusesed and weirded out.

"Cai ? CAI ?" SB was trying not to wake Nicki but Cai was scaring him and he didn't know what to do. Macaiah stared at his dad for ages and tried to figure out if he had been keeping himself and his mothers relationship a secret or it had just happened that night. He decided he needed time by himself and walked away ignoring all of his dads calls. ]

Safaree lied there for a second trying to figure out what was wrong with his son. He decided the best thing to do was go to Macaiahs room and ask again and if his son still didn't speak to him he would wake Nicki up. As soon as he thought of her he realised what was wrong with Cai. "SHIT" he mumbled. He got out of bed quite carefully but he knew he wouldn't wake Nicki up due to his Nicki's sleeping issues. Walking down the hall to Cai's room he was scared to what Macaiah was going to say.

He knocked on Cai's door not really expecting an answer at all.
"Come in Dad, we need to talk."

Safaree walked into his crying son who was gathering stuff up and folding clothes.

"What are you doing ?"

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Macaiah still hadn't looked up from his suitcase and didn't want to look his dad in the eyes whilst he was crying.

"Macaiah please listen to me. I'm begging you. I understand why your upset because you think me and your mom are together but we haven't told you. But its not like that. It was only a few hours ago that i ...that i told your mom i loved her."

"Oh and you just jump into bed together when I'm only in the next room?" Macaiah had stopped what he was doing now and stood in the middle of his room in just a pair of sweat pants staring at his dad.

"It wasn't like that. We didn't do anything, you know i have way too much respect for your mom to do that."

"What do you mean it wasn't like that. I saw it with my own eyes. You two couldn't have got closer if you tried?"

"We were cuddling. You and me both know how much your mom loves a cuddle and last night after we put you to bed i asked to speak to your mom. We got into the bed ,-"

"exactly my point".

"MACAIAH LISTEN TO ME" It was the first time SB had really shouted at him. Macaiah's shoulders sunk and his eyes grew big.

"Sorry" he mumbled.

"No i sorry, i shouldn't have shouted at you just then but you have to listen to me."

Macaiah had nodded.

" I basically told your mom how much i loved her, how much i needed her and that i wanted her to be mine. She wasn't having any of it, you know what your moms like, but she agreed. We werent going to tell you about it for a couple of weeks because we wanted to make sure that we were going to work as a couple. But i know we will work. We did before."

Macaiah had been listening intently and he was a bit surprised. He didn't think his dad would just confront his mom about how he felt and he didn't know how his mother felt about his dad.

"Dad ? Why did you and mom split up anyway?"

"Basically after we had you, we wanted to make sure we could get the best careers we could. We both needed to grow up and mature and we both just said that we should separate and just man up a bit . You know, learn to depend on ourselves in stead of each other i guess ".

"oh" Macaiah replied.

"You okay now little man ?"

"Yeh i guess so. But i wanna talk to mom about it in the morning."

"Thats fine. I think you should go to bed now though, its really late. - Oh actually why did you come in our room anyway? "

"Oh well, i couldnt sleep . Its just that film scared the crap outta me. I was ganna go see if mom was awake because i thought she would be to scared to sleep like me."

"Hey you can sleep in our bed with us if you want ? " Safaree tried to hide his smile. " I'm a bit scared too you know."

"Really ?"

"course i am. Theres plenty of room in our bed. You dont have to obviously but i want you too feel comfortable."

"Its not like, embarrasing to be in bed with your parents at the age of 13?"

"No not really, i mean i think our situation is a bit different from everyone elses isnt it ?"

"Yeh i guess, i mean are you sure it will be okay ? With mom?"

"your mum would love you to be in bed with her. " Safaree rubbed macaiah's head and pulled him into a tight hug. "And son, i wanted to tell you something else as well. I dont want to feel like because we are men we cant show affection. Real men cry, real men hug and real men say they're true feelings. Next time your scared dont feel you have to go to your moms room and not mine because you think i will be ashamed of having a son that is scared. I love you and im proud of you."

"Thanks dad, i love you to. " By now they were getting into bed and getting comfortable.

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Nicki woke up and looked around her. On her left was Safaree. He was the love of her life, the sexiest man she had ever seen and she knew he loved her. He had given her the boy to her right. Her beatiful son, her sweet little lampchop that was possibly the sweetest boy in the whole world. She was so happy and no one could burst this bubble right now.