Waking up to another beautiful day while stretching on her bed, she sat up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes, and checked her phone for the time.

“6:30 am” she muttered and put her phone back on the bedside table and stretched again before getting out of bed, stripped herself and went to her bathroom, and did her daily morning routine before coming out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body and sat in front her dresser and blow-dried her hair and took her phone to remove it from silent when she saw a message from an unknown number and checked the message.

Unknown number: hey good morning Eb, how was your night?
~RH.

She checked the time of the message and a smile crept to her lips, so thoughtful of him she felt a warm feeling in her heart upon reading the message over and over again ‘c’mon Beth don’t put any meaning to the message, he just greeted you the good morning that’s all’ she tried to tell herself but she kept on smiling like a fool and decided to text him back

Me: hey to you too, and morning. I had a good night, how about you?.

She replied to the message and put her phone back on the dresser table, she sat up and stretched before going to the bathroom to do her daily routine after she was through she came out, then entered her walk-in closet and settled for a black and white stripe turtle neck dress with a black suit jacket and pumps. While she was dressing he remembered the message and smiled, Mike couldn’t even make an effort to make their relationship work, she was the only one pushing the relationship forward while he sat down and cheated on her... Thinking about this almost brought her to tears but she had to put herself together but once she starts crying she won’t stop anytime soon and she doesn’t want that since she got other things to do than cry all day. ‘i gotta move on’ she cheered herself then took her jacket and exited her closet then walked up to her dresser and took her phone and a lip balm and put them in her purse and wore her bracelet and rings since she is a big fan of rings and makes lots of them.

She picked up her purse and took the paperwork she brought home the previous day and went down the stairs, passed the kitchen, ‘i will skip breakfast’ she told herself but stopped when she heard her mum’s voice in her head telling her to never skip breakfast as it is the most important meal of the day, she turned and went back to the kitchen to check for something to eat ‘hmm... I need more groceries’ she thought to herself since she hardly ever eat it cook except Nana Andrea who keeps her penthouse 3 times a week, who she allowed to take home some food and she will look at Beth with a kind smile then say “you are a kind soul, the LORD bless you child” and then advised her on stuff.

She settled for apple and pineapple, after peeling them she cut them into cubes and ate while she checked her social account. When she was done she disposed of the peel and washed the plates and cleaned up then went to the garage to her Toyota Tundra and put her purse and files inside the car then got in and drove off to work.

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“Papa”

“Yes, baby?”

“What should I wear? I want to look prettier today for you” Gwen said looking at her father with cute brown eyes while her hair was in the bun Ricardo helped her do.

“Baby you’re beautiful in anything you wear” he replied with a grin.

“I know Papa, just pick something for me pweese” she asked with puppy dog eyes sitting on the bed making Ricardo chuckle and he bent and gave her a kiss on her forehead and then went to her mini closet and ransacked and saw a brown top with matching leggings and boots.

Hmm.... the color brown reminds him of someone, Ebony. her name is Beth but he prefers to call her Ebony, ‘suits her color’ he thought to himself with a chuckle then he laid the clothes on the bed and checked his phone if she has replied to his message. But he didn’t see any message yet ‘she might still be asleep as it is still early’ he said to himself and set his phone aside to dress his daughter up.

“Here you go princess”

“Brown?” Gwen asked “Hmm since you picked it’s good then,” she said with a smile. “Now daddy I want two ponytails”

“Okay baby,” Ricardo said while placing Gwen on his lap and doing her hair, after about 10 minutes with the help of Gwen he was through and dressed her up. They then went downstairs to the kitchen and he checked his phone and saw a message, he wondered why he didn’t get a notification ‘i will check my settings later’ he made a mental note and opened the message.

Ebony - Hey to you too and morning, I had a goodnight, how about you?.

He smiled as he read her reply over and over, he was about to call her when his daughter asked

“You seem, smiley Papa since yesterday” she then frowned “did you find another girl?”

“Gwen, don’t you want a mommy?”

“I want my mommy, not a mommy, those other girls are not nice and I don’t need any more drama Papa,” she said crossing her arm over her chest. Behaving older than her age.

“Don’t worry, Papa hasn’t found one yet” she softened a bit and continue to eat the food their chef served them, he smiled while shaking his head and put his phone down, and continued eating too as he asked her about school and stuff.”