OH, FUCK ME.
“Really?” Cooper has now inched his way to me, holding my neck in his hand, bringing me closer to his side.
“Um, actually I wasn’t here last Sunday. My ex was with her. She refuses to let her Sunday swim day go, so he drops her off.” I try to calm the storm.
“Oh, that must be why you weren’t here.” Sam offers as an explanation.
“Yeah, that must have been the day you spent with me,” Cooper says, and in that moment, I swear he should have just pissed on my leg.
“Oh, wait, are you guys together? I thought I heard Tom say that you were single.”
“She was single, but then we had dessert together, so you should know she’s taken as in taken means she’s mine.”
Just at that moment a little wet fish comes in wrapped in a towel.
“Cooper, did you see me do the biggest cannonball eber? It eben splashed the edges.” She looks up at him, and he scoops her up into his arms, not giving a damn that she is dripping wet all over him.
“I did see that, but then I came to get your mommy so she can see.”
“Momma, it was so big. Cooper, can we habe ice cream?”
“We gotta ask your mom first. Mommy, can we have ice cream?”
“Sure, baby, we can all have ice cream. Why don’t you tell Matthew it’s time to go? We can swing by DQ on the way home.”
“Yes,” she says, wiggling out of Cooper’s arm, running to tell her brother.
“It was nice to see you, Sam. See you at the rink,” Cooper says, pulling me away with me turning around to wave.
“I can’t believe you just did that,” I hiss at him.
“Babe, he needs to know you will never go out with him. I’m doing that guy a favor by always asking you out and getting rejected. The shit stings the ego.”
“Really, how many times have you been rejected?”
“Never, but I’m not Sam. So, are we really stopping at DQ because I can’t lie to your kids?”
“You’re unbelievable, you don’t even reason like a normal person.” I shake my head side to side. “Let’s go before you whip your dick out to see which one is bigger.”
“Babe, he can’t win there either. You’ve seen my dick. It’s fucking huge.”
“Oh. My. God. You did not just say that.”
“I don’t lie, babe, it’s a fact.”
“Mommy, Cooper, let’s go. Matthew is in the car.”
And with that, we say our goodbyes and head out to DQ where Cooper buys Allison the biggest cone with sprinkles.
Chapter Eleven
I don’t know if it’s me but this week has been going at a snail’s pace. I just want this week to be over. It may be the fact that I will be having a date date with Cooper Saturday night. Oh, who am I kidding, it is exactly that.
This week has been rough in the orgasm department because the kids are here. My vagina may be a magnetic pull to his dick, but I’m not doing that knowing the kids can catch us. I mean, I’m almost thirty-five. I think I can wait a couple of days. Okay, fine, I have been using BOB in the shower with the door locked. Dude, it’s been a while, so don’t you go judging.
I’m sitting at my dining room table, tossing around the food on the plate, not paying attention to the conversation. I’m thinking about dessert, I’m thinking about him eating dessert, I’m thinking he should eat dessert daily.
“Babe,” he speaks up, waking me from my daydream. It’s been four days since he came over for breakfast, and he hasn’t missed supper once. He either shows up with burgers or a pie or today it was just because.
“Yeah, sorry, my mind was somewhere else.”
“I said I saw this restaurant away from town called the Lobster Trap. I was thinking we could all go tomorrow night. It looks nice. What do you say?”
I sit up straight, trying to hide my hammering heart.
“We really don’t, like, go there,” I say, hoping he just drops the subject and picks another restaurant.
“I know. I was wondering if you wanted to go there?” he says, looking at me, not understanding what my words mean.
“We don’t like going there as in we are never going there.” I try to continue when Allison speaks up in a soft voice.
“I thought you didn’t want my mommy to cry.” She looks over at him with big tears in her blue eyes.
“Sweetheart, I never want your mommy to cry,” he says, caressing her face, when Matthew speaks up.
“We don’t go there because that is where Dad takes his ‘girlfriend.’ It was where he used to take my mom. But he didn’t care to change, so now we don’t go there, as in ever. With Dad or without Dad,” he says a little harsh, so I look over at him and my baby girl and try to do damage control.