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still after all the years they had been apart. He went to hug her but she held up her hands in protest.
    “Hi Charles.”
    “Desi. How have you been?” he went to her again but she put both her hands up.
    “Fine.”
    “You look great.”
    She gave a fake smile and clapped her hands.
    “Yay for me. Where’s the car.”
    She walked towards the luggage carousal and Charles and Zach followed. Desiree told herself she needed to stay focused on dropping Zach off and getting out of Charleston as soon as possible. She didn’t want to be around Charles any more than she wanted to see the dentist. It was a need to do basis. After taking Zach’s luggage, he led them to his 2009 silver Dodge Ram.
    “I was thinking we could go out to eat for dinner tonight?”
    “No thanks if you can drop me off to a hotel until I leave I will see you guys then.”
    “Nonsense I was actually hoping you would join us for church tomorrow.”
    She let a laugh leave her lips. “Church? You attend a Church?”
    “Why is that so hard to believe?”
    “I don't know maybe because in the whole one year of marriage we were together you wouldn’t join me once.”
    He flashed her, his pearly whites and she rolled her eyes. He cleared his throat then licked his lips. “What can I say? I was a fool back then. I keep trying to tell you I have seen the error of my ways.”
    “And that is what?” she turned to him waiting to hear his answer.
    “That I need to be a better father and a better man. And if you would come with us to church that would mean a lot. I just started going and I don’t really know anyone but you go to hear the message right?”
    “Yeah mom come on.” Zack said with wishful thinking in his eyes.
    Desiree looked at her son and felt like she would let him down if she said no.
    “Fine.”
    “Good so you can stay in the spare room.”
    “Spare room?”
    Zack smiled.
    “Dad has a three bedroom house. It’s so kewl because he said that the basement is like our man cave with a pool table and the games systems.”
    Desiree felt anger rise within her. “A house? So I guess that is where all that back child support has gone. I'm glad your son and I could help you live it up.” She folded her arms.
    Charles looked at her as she looked away and out the window. There was nothing more he could say at the moment. He knew she was still upset about the past few years and if she was anyone else he would have just let go a long time ago but he couldn’t she was the love of his life and despite how he acted towards her in the past he was determined to show her.
    Desiree walked around Charles’s two-story home and frowned. While she lived in small two bedroom apartment with her son, was barely scraping by trying to take care of her son and here was Charles her no good rotten excuse for an ex was living in a beautiful three bedroom, two and a half bathroom house. The living room was covered with carpet as well as the hall and stairs leading up to the bedrooms. The only parts of the house that weren’t were the bathrooms, which held white tiles, the dining room with ceramic wood, and the kitchen with ceramic tile.
    She couldn’t lie and say she didn’t love the kitchen. With the island in the middle of the room and brand new stove and fridge, it was a place she would love to be. She felt the counter tops and sighed. She gave in to the thought of waking up early in the mornings and cooking for a loving husband and her wonderful kids. She thought she would have at least three by now. At 2 7 she was ready for her life to begin so why hadn’t it? When had she realized that she let her life be put on hold?
    She walked out of the sliding glass doors in the kitchen to the back yard and saw the fenced in pool. At Eight feet deep, it was a standard size underground pool she figured. She stepped off the porch and felt the warm breeze from the trees hit her. She did love the calm of this place. The more she saw of Charleston the more she loved it.