~Part 1~

I had just got Darrius to take his medicine and now he wanted to lay
down to watch some cartoons, let me tell you the tv is his second best
friend. And you can say that I'm his first. We even have nicknames for
eachother, he's my prince and he calls me his princess. I don't even
know what I'd do without him in my life. He's my everything.

In the midst of my thoughts, while cleaning up the kitchen, my cell
phone began to ring. I dried my hands on a dish towel and reached over
the counter to retrieve it. I saw that it was a local number but I
didn't know who's. I answered it with a friendly, "Hello."

"Hi, uh, may I speak to Jaye?" hmm... Sounds familiar.

"This is she, who's calling?"

"Its Justin, Dr. Justin, I mean."

Aww he sounds nervous, I let a chuckle slip.

"Oh hey Justin, Dr. Justin, I mean."

He began to laugh...

"You can call me Justin, ma."

"Ok Justin. So what can I do for you, pa?"

"Well, I was just callin to see how everything with Darrius is going.
And to see how your holdin up."

"Oh really? Hmm...well D's doin pretty good, he hasn't been coughing as
much, and he's really relaxed, which is great for me, and...I'm doin ok
too."

"That's great, exactly what I wanted to hear, and I was
wondering.........well nevermind."

"Go ahead, you can ask me anything, I'm an open book."

He chuckled a little,

"Well in that case, would you like to go out with me sometime?"

Aww he's soo cute!!!!!

"Yeah, I'd love to. When are you free?"

"How about this Friday night around, lets say, seven?"

"Perfect!!!"

So we sat on the phone for about three hours and I found out soo much
about him and vise versa. I now know that he is twenty six, and he's
from Memphis, TN.  He moved out here when he was 18, to go to school.
Which he hasn't exactly finished, but he was at the top of his class so
they offered him the head position at the hospital. Yeah he's that damn
good!!!! Haha. Let me stop. So after our conversation, I decided I
should go, as much as I didn't want to, but I had to get up early for
work. So we said our goodbyes and promised we'd talk more tomorrow, then
hung up.

I got up off the couch, turned off all the downstairs lights, went
upstairs, and down the hall to my bedroom, but first I checked on D, for
the millionth time tonite. He was sound asleep and his breathing seemed
to be getting back to normal. Possibly a result of the brand new
humidifier that Chris bought him.

I watched my little angel sleep for a few minutes, and imagined where
I'd be without him, I really have no idea. But I do know that if it
wasn't for him, I wouldn't have the job I have as a massage therapist,
or my own spa. And I sure wouldn't have went to college to accomplish
this much, I know I would have ended up living at home with my mom and
just going to school for who knows what. Well I guess things happen for
a reason.

I walked into my bedroom and went to my drawer for some night clothes. I
then went in the bathroom, and took a nice hot shower, just what I
needed to get rid of todays stresses. After the shower I lotioned up,
put on my underclothes and climbed in my huge, empty bed.....