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"Aight, I'm heading out for the meat festival, I'll be back by eight, love you." Haz said, giving me a kiss on my cheek as I looked up from my writing to find him dressed in an oversized hoodie and cap as he walked towards the front door.

"So, you're not going with Talie?" I asked him, watching as his body tensed and he froze at the door, his hand hovering over the knob before he straightened himself.

"Nope." He casually said, not even looking back as he opened the door and exited out of the house without another word.

I waited there on the couch, thrumming my fingers patiently against my notebook after a few minutes before darting off my couch at the sound of a car horn beeping from the front outside, making me toss my work and pencil to the cushions as I quickly grabbed my jacket, bag, and keys.

"Floor it!" I announced once I got out of my house and into Harry's car where he was waiting outside, the both of us dressed in black as I quickly buckled myself in with excitement while he glanced over at me.

"Where are we even going again?" He asked, turning in his seat to raise his brow at me.

"Oh right, meat festival. Floor it....." I trailed off again, poking Harry's knee, urging him to step on the gas as he looked at my hand before staring at my face with a blank expression.

"So that's why those two are here?" Harry began, jerking his thumb over his broad shoulder over to Carlos and Bernie who were dressed in all black attire as well in the backseats as they paused to stare at him.

"Do you see the way he treats us? No respect, no love." Carlos said with a shake of his head after a few moments of silence.

"Love me green orbed father." Bernie said, placing his large beefy hand over Harry's shoulder as Harry began to rub his face in frustration while I smirked besides him, leaning my elbow against the car door before Carlos and Bernie both began to rapidly chant "green orbed father" from the back.

"Okay I got it! Enough!" Harry snapped at the two, causing them both to flinch back in their seats with wide eyes.

"Daddy got angry...." Carlos whispered over to Bernie, the both of them still staring at Harry who let out a groan of annoyance while they snickered, highfiving one another.

"Look, I get that you want to spy on the kids and make sure they're okay and if I'm being honest I am a tad bit curious as well, but did they really have to come along with us?" Harry asked, now turning his attention to me as he started the car.

"Oh come on, they're pretty useful allies, right guys?" I said, looking behind me over at Carlos and Bernie who stared at me with clueless expressions.

"I can whistle through my nostrils." Carlos said.

"I brought free save the baby seals pins to give out." Bernie smiled, lugging a large cardboard box of pins.

I slowly looked away from the both of them, feeling Harry glance at me with a knowing look as I blinked at the front window.

"Well, you gotta admit you missed them." I finally said with a shrug as Harry rolled his eyes, continuing to drive but smiling ever so slightly, just enough for me to see through the reflection of the front window as I grinned.

"Who wants free baby seal pins!" Bernie hollered from the back, raising the box and jiggling it in his grasp as we all brought our hands up for one, even Harry.

"Who wants to hear me whistle through my nostrils!"

Everyone's hands except Carlos' went down immediatly.

"Pfft, whatever. Mandy thinks it's hot." He grumbled to himself, crossing his arms over his chest and sinking back into his seat as Bernie fastened a pin on his shirt.

"Yeah she also has a toe fetish which was probably one of the reasons why she married you." I countered, bringing my feet up on the dashboard only for Harry to swat at them, grabbing my ankles and putting them back down.

"Yo that explains why she loves this thing I do with my big toe in bed-"

I turned my head looking Carlos dead in the eye with a cold expression.

"Finish that sentence." I said.

"Ohhhh... She's taking her earrings off..." Bernie trailed off in a teasing voice as I calmly unclasped my hoops while Carlos stilled in his seat with wide eyes.

"Go ahead, finish that sentence." I challenged with a shrug.

"N-no I'm good. No me gusta death-"

"Do it, finish that sentence-"

"Please put your earrings back on, please-"

"Finish your sentence I'm not stopping you-"

"Harry help me! Ayuda fucking me!" Carlos begged, reaching over and tapping Harry's shoulder as he looked over at me.

I turned my head, my eyes locking with Harry's green ones before a knowing dimpled smirk slowly made its way to his handsome face as he looked back at the road.

"Open the globe compartment, and get your damn feet off my dashboard." He said, pushing my legs off again as I listened to his orders, secretly hoping it would be a shot gun for Carlos because I dead áss told him to never talk about his experiences with my sister in bed.

"Ohhh my god... chocolate chip cookie dough truffles, bot you didn't...." I exclaimed in pure joy when I spotted the brown expensive box of sweets inside the small compartment, taking it in my hold as I looked up at Harry besides me with wide eyes.

"Go ahead, I was gonna give it to you tomorrow but-"

I hugged Harry, cutting him off and actually making him swerve the car a bit in surprise as I smiled, closing my eyes and squeezing his tall frame in appreciation before pulling away.

"Thank you." I said, playfully nudging his chin with my fist as Harry's breathing hitched ever so slightly, his adams apple bobbing up and down as he simply nodded, avoiding my eyes and gripping hard onto the steering wheel.

"Fuck Aaron." Carlos suddenly coughed into his fist making both Harry and I freeze.

"Uh... what?" I asked, slowly turning as I stuffed a chocolate truffle in my mouth while Carlos fiddled with his fingers in an innocent manner.

"Oh nothing, just a lil sick is all." Carlos said with a light laugh, dismissing the subject as I furrowed my brows at him before turning back to the front.

"Oh yeah, heard flu season's real bad this year, I think I might even be getting- fuck Cynthia- it too, phew." Bernie said, dramatically sneezing and saying something into his arm before blinking rapidly and shaking his head as if he had just experienced the most intense sneeze ever.

By now Harry was stiff as a statue in his seat while I slowly sunk lower in my chair, my mouth filled with truffles and from my peripheral vision I could see a red tint forming over Harry's cheeks as he stared intensely at the road in front of him.

I was kinda too dark for any pigment of blush to show but was my face warming up at this exact moment?

Yes, yes it was.

"True, hey remember that one time when that chick gave you truffles and you guys fucked afterwards?" Carlos casually asked Bernie from the back as Harry coughed, shifting in his seat while I hacked some chocolate that was stuck in my throat.

"Yeah, I think the nicest way to show your appreciation to someone is to just have sex with them and dump whoever you're with first and then marry eachother. Again." Bernie stated in an informative speech.

"Wow. Subtle." Carlos commented, patting Bernie's back.

"Hey Nat..." The two suddenly said in unison in cheery tones making me quickly turn the radio on with wide anxious eyes to drown out whatever they were going to ask as Harry let out a small sigh of relief next to me.

And that was when Mariah Carey's Always be my Baby came on.

You'll always be a part of me, I'm part of you indefinitely, Boy don't you know you can't escape me, Ooh darling 'cause you'll always be my baby, Her melodic voice echoed throughout the car as Harry and I both tensed in our seats.

"Ohhh das mah girl! Love Mariah!" Carlos clapped.

Harry was the one to quickly change the station this time, making sure not to look at me as our bodies relaxed only for a moment before yet another Mariah hit song came on.

When you left I lost a part of me
It's still so hard to believe
Come back baby, please

"Cause we belong together!" Carlos and Bernie both sang in the back, smiling with their eyes closed, their arms slung over each other's shoulders as they swayed from side to side making Harry close his eyes and inhale slowly once we finally made it to the festival, rolling the car into a vacant parking space.

"You just had to bring them." Harry said, opening his eyes to look over at me as I blinked at him, giving him a weak smile before slolwy raising the half empty box of chocolates in my hand in front of him.

"Truffle?"

++

"What do you mean you can't find them?" I asked through my phone as I heard Carlos and Bernie continuously bicker over the line.

"Bernie's fucking fat flubber keeps hogging all the space in these tiny asś ferris wheel seats." Carlos complained as I heard Bernie let out an exasperated scoff in the background while Harry and I made our way through the crowd of meat lovers, making sure to stay on the side as I somersaulting behind a trash can.

"Would you stop doing that." Harry said for the hundredth time since we got here, staring down at me in my crouched position behind the garbage as I looked up at him.

"I'm trying not to attract attention." I whispered to him, not wanting my son to know I was here spying on him and Talie.

"Well you actually are attracting attention." Harry informed, stuffing his hands in the pockets of his jeans.

"What? How?" I asked in confusion.

"Because no one freakin somersaults and hides behind a trashcan." He reiterated, making me look up to realize that most people standing by were staring at me with weirded out expressions on their faces.

"Huh," I said under my breath before ignoring the looks and glancing up at Harry, gesturing for him to crouch down and join me.

"Come on," I urged, looking around as Harry sighed, lowering his head and pinching the bridge of his nose, mumbling something to himself under his breath.

After some contemplating he finally raised his arms, slowly going down on the ground, somersaulting and rolling over to me only to crash his head against the trash, miscalculating the distance as I laughed.

"Why are you laughing? What's so funny?" Bernie asked through the phone as Harry rubbed his head in irritation, glaring at me while I laughed and pointed at him.

"Harry bumped his head on a trash while somersaulting." I told them, cackling slowly before there was a slight pause on the other line.

Carlos and Bernie then began to laugh along with me in slow teasing cackles through the phone, not even questioning the situation as Harry narrowed his eyes at me, grabbing the device in my hand and abruptly ending the call.

"How did those two even get up there in that ferris wheel. It's supposed to be closed off." Harry asked, his body stiffening when I raised my hand to touch and feel his head, making sure there was no actual bump from when he hit it.

"Carlos knows a guy, they're the only ones up there to help overlook the whole festival yet they still haven't seen the kids yet." I explained in a distracted tone, now focusing on Harry's head as I felt his eyes staring intently at my face.

"Hey, you okay? You sure you didn't like bruise anything right?" I asked in concern, now meeting his gaze only to find him looking at me with so much emotion behind his jade green eyes before he gently grabbed my wrist, slowly bringing my hand down that was on his head without looking away.

"I'm fine." He simply said in a soft voice, both of us still staring into each other's eyes before I felt his thumb tenderly rub against the tattoo of Olivia's name as he held my wrist.

"Would you like me to tell you your future?" A high pitched nasally voice suddenly asked from besides us, causing both Harry and I to immediatly pull our hands back as we looked over at the big haired cheetah print wearing woman in one a fortune telling stand next to us.

"Really, you're giving fortunes at a meat festival?" Harry snorted while I wondered if it was free or not.

The woman's friendly smile immediatly dropped as she gave Harry a look, resting her long manicured cherry red nails on her table.

"You're holding hands behind a trashcan, you don't see me questioning it." She fired back at him in a deadpanned tone before she quickly smiled her bright commercial grin again.

"Come on, I'll tell both of your fortunes for free-" Before she could even finish her offer I immediatly bolted back to my feet, going to her and sitting on one of the chairs in front of her stand making her smile.

Harry followed after me in a grumpy manner, showing how much he thought this was a waste of time as he plopped down in the chair besides me, leaning back and crossing his toned arms over his chest, grumbling under his breath.

"Ah, past lovers I see... You two have a very distinct vibe towards one another." The woman began, looking between the both of us with a speculating look as Harry rolled his eyes.

"I could've told you that." Harry scoffed, an unimpressed expression on his face at the same time I said "yo we got a vibe," an amazed awe-struck smile on my face.

"A believer and a non-believer, very very interesting. My name is Elanna, hands please." She ordered with an excited smile, bringing her hands out for ours as I put mine in while Harry kept still.

I nudged him, making him turn his head slowly to narrow his eyes at me before he finally outstretched his hand out as well, both of our palms facing upward as Elanna peered down at them.

"Oh my oh my..." She tsked, looking between Harry and I's exposed palms with an intrigued expression.

"You two have a lot in store for you, a lot." She informed, making me lean forward with interest as Harry mumbled a small "for fucks sake" under his breath, looking away in irritation.

"Things aren't always what they seem, what you expect is not what you get." She advised, directing her statement to me as she carressed my hand as Harry scoffed.

"Original." He commented in a sarcastic tone, making Elanna turn her attention to him, not bothered by his words as she looked at his hand.

I tried looking at his hand too, not knowing what the hell she was staring at as she traced the lines on his palm.

"Three B's for you." She suddenly said to Harry, making both him and I exchange confused looks.

"I'm sorry, three whats for what now?" Harry asked with furrowed brows as I tilted my head to the side.

"I had a dress code back in highschool that talked about the three B's. No breasts, butts, or bellies showing, is that it?" I asked, watching as both Elanna and Harry looked at me with the same 'what the fuck' expressions as I deflated.

"Or not...." I began, shifting awkwardly in my chair as she looked back at Harry's hand.

"Three B's." Elanna repeated, bringing three of her fingers in the air as she looked between Harry and I.

"Birthmark." She said, her first finger going down with her now holding up two.

"Blood." Another finger went down.

"Baby." She finished, the last one really throwing me off as Harry and I blinked at her.

"A baby... you mean as in... a baby?" Harry clarified again as the woman nodded.

"A baby in both of your futures to be exact." She confirmed with a nod as I furrowed my brows at her.

Another baby... but Aaron and I rarely ever had sex... like ever, I mean he couldn't even make time for Haz there was no way I could have another kid with him.

I looked over at Harry who looked just as bewildered as me, opening his mouth to say something but rethinking as he closed it.

Maybe him and Cynthia were expecting....

The thought shouldn't have made me so happy yet so hurt at the same time as I looked away, swallowing.

There was a sudden loud commotion in the middle of the festival, chants of protest traveling through the air as Harry and I turned in our chairs at the sounds of argument.

"The vegetarian protest." I said in realization, locking eyes with Harry before we got up from our seats.

"Well, thank you for truly wasting our time, wish I could say it was nice meeting you but I don't really buy all the bullshít you're giving so..." Harry said, sending Elanna a fake smile as I gawked at him with wide eyes.

"Dude." I scolded him under my breath, swatting his arm before turning to her with an apologetic look.

"Thanks for the free fortunes!" I told her as Harry and I began to walk away, waving goodbye as she brought her arms behind her head and leaned back in her chair with a knowing smile as I looked back in front of me.

"Goodbye Nat and Harry! And good luck!" We heard her yell from across the place behind us, her words causing both Harry and I to freeze with wide eyes as we turned to look at one another.

"How did she..." He began in a slow cautious voice, both of us looking back only to find Elanna gone.

"You don't think..." I said in a suspicious tone, staring at the empty stand in bewilderment as Harry blinked at it with wide eyes.

"What are you two staring at." Elanna suddenly asked, causing Harry and I to jump away in surprise at her appearance and sudden close proximity.

"Jesus Christ how did you even..." Harry began, placing his hand over his heart as I tried to catch my breath while she looked at us.

"What? You two aren't the only ones who want to see the fight." She said with a raise of her brow, giving us one last lingering look before she smiled and walked off, her small body disappearing into the crowd of people as we stared at the direction she left.

"I'm never getting my fortune told with you again." Harry suddenly said, turning his head to me as I blew a small breath between my pursed lips, awkwardly rubbing the back of my neck not really knowing what else to say as we walked towards the crowd of meat lovers and vegetarian protesters.

"You see Haz or Talie anywhere?" I asked, watching the opposing sides yell at one another, one side holding up their forks and rolls of sausages while the other held up their picket signs and posters.

"No, all I know is that both of their outfits are stupid as hell." Harry said, gesturing to the people, the meat lovers wearing red 'I Heart Meat' shirts with weener hats on while the other side had people dressed in green 'Lettuce Love' printed shirts and cucumber hats.

"They be picking the most inappropriate stuff to put on top of their heads I swear." I said, shifting my weight on one foot and placing my hands on my hips in thought as Harry simply nodded at my side.

And through the roar and bickering of the two opposing crowds we finally heard their voices.

"Talie!"

"Haz!"

"Talie!"

The two separate voices were coming from both sides, the crowds becoming quiet as people were being pushed and shoved, someone trying to make it through the sea of meat lovers and another trying to make their way through the abundance of vegetarian protesters.

Finally right in the empty space between the two crowds Haz and Talie finally stumbled out of the groups of people, staring at eachother with wide surprised eyes as Harry and I's jaw dropped.

"No fucking way." Harry said under his breath in shock.

Haz had come out from the group of protesters, wearing the matching green shirt about lettuce and a cucumber hat on his head while Talie had surfaced from the crowd of meat lovers, wearing the red 'I Heart Meat' shirt and a weener hat as they looked at one another.

Slow amused smiles began to grow on both of our kid's faces before they started to laugh.

"You look so stupid." Talie laughed, clutching her stomach and pointing at Haz's hat as he laughed along with her.

"Me? You're the one with a weener on your head." He pointed out with a snicker as they smiled at one another, blinking at eachother with grateful expressions on their faces before they hugged.

"I'm sorry." Talie said, pressing her face against Haz's broad chest as he wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on top of her weener hat with a smile.

"I'm sorry too." He told her with sincerity, rubbing her back before they broke apart, smiling as they took their hats off.

"You know, my mom actually makes a pretty mean mac n cheese. We can settle on that right toots?" Haz asked, casually slinging his arm around Talie's shoulder as she nodded with a smirk.

"I'm for it." She said, the both of them exchanging knowing grins as they began to walk away.

"I like mac n cheese!" Someone from the meat lover crowd proclaimed, causing both Haz and Talie to stop and turn to look at them.

"Me too!" Another person yelled from the vegetarian side, the protesters slowly lowering their picket signs in unison with the festival attenders who brought down their forks and rolls of meat.

"Cool. Mac n cheese at my place everyone!" Haz announced, clasping his hands together and bringing them up as both crowds cheered, dropping their hats, signs, and meat as they followed Haz and Talie.

Harry looked over at my frozen state with a concerned expression.

"You think you can cook for that many people..." Harry asked in amusement as I stared at the crowd of people who were following our kids home with a slack jaw.

"I'm gonna kill him." I said with a serious face, looking over at Harry who laughed, stuffing his hands into his pockets and shaking his head at me with a dimpled smile before I let out a small sigh.

"Well the good thing is, the kids are okay again." I admitted, happy to see them together as Harry let out a small "yeah" of agreement besides me.

"Hey, what do you think they'll do when they find out you're not at home." He suddenly asked as we watched the crowd leave the festival, my eyes slowly widening as I processed his words.

"Shit get in the car! Get in the car!" I exclaimed, rapidly hitting his arm, pushing him to the parking lot as he laughed while we both ran to his vehicle in a rush.

++

"Are you cheating on me?"

Aaron and I made eye contact, my brows raised as he stared at me.

"Wait wait wait, you're asking me, if I'm cheating on you?" I reiterated, placing my writing down as my husband stood there with his hands on his hips.

"Yes that's exactly what I'm saying. All day you're with Harry and I know the history between you two. I'm not okay with infidelity and if there's something you need to tell me that's going between you and him then tell me straight up." Aaron ranted, a stern look in his blue eyes as I furrowed my brows at him, slowly rising from the couch to be eye level with him.

"I'm not cheating you with Harry or anyone. In fact, I was going to ask if you're cheating on me?" I said, crossing my arms over my chest as a look of shock overcame his features.

"Me? You think I'm cheating?"

"Uh... yuh." I stated in a 'duh' tone.

"Baby I'm out working, look at me, come on look at me." He said, placing his hands on my shoulders as he grabbed my chin when I tried looking away in irritation before our eyes met.

"I solemnly swear, I'm not with anyone who isn't my wife. Aka you." He said, leaning forward to kiss me only for me to step away from his grasp.

"Look, I get that you're busy and everything but trust isn't the only thing wrong between us. You never spend time with Haz." I brought up, more concerned about my child's relationship with his father as Aaron gave me a look.

"Oh come on not this again, I told you I'm busy a lot and I'll make it up to him." He quickly defended with an exasperated look.

"That's what you always say, and you know what pisses me off. I work too but I still make time and guess what, everytime you're off like today all you want is sex. Oh hey Nat, did you get the shot, hey baby, you feelin' nasty today? You're annoying as fuck. You would rather use all your free time to stick your dick into a hole rather than getting to actually know your own child." I said, jutting my pointer finger at his chest ad he glared at me.

"I don't even know why I made you get that fucking shot anyways, at this point sticking my dick in a random hole would be a whole lot better than being inside you since you never want to have sex! Ever! How many times have we done it in our whole marriage, less than five I can tell you that much!" Aaron said, now raising his voice making me grateful I wouldn't have to hold back on his ass since Haz was at track practice today.

"Because you make me uncomfortable! You don't get that, I'm not comfortable with you everytime we have sex- I mean you never wanna just talk afterwards or if I'm making a joke you just stop and I just- I don't find it pleasurable or fun!" I told him, causing his eyes to widen in rage as he glared at me.

"It's not my fault you can't fucking orgasm!"

"Um, it actually is your fault." I lied, knowing that it was partially my fault as well.

"Why don't you just whore around and let Harry fuck you then while I can go stick my dick into something better!" Aaron snapped at me, getting close to my face as I laughed.

"Just make sure it's not a pencil sharpener, you wouldn't want it to get any smaller." I shot back, watching Aaron ball his hands into tights fists at his side as I turned to leave

"Hey! Who the fuck do you think you are that you can talk to me like that." He said, violently grabbing my arms, his fingers digging into my skin catching me off guard as I turned around, his fist coming down onto my face.

Only for me to immediatly grab it on reflex, blocking the hit.

Aaron's eyes widened in shock as I held on to his wrist, his fist centimeters away from my face as I glared at him, slowly tilting my head to the side.

"Next time you try hitting me again," I began, gripping hard onto his wrist and bringing it down making him clench his teeth, humiliated and angered at the fact that I had the control as his jaw locked in frustration.

"Make sure you make it count, because if you don't," I said, leaning forward until our faces were only inches away as we locked glares.

"I'll bust your ass." I said, finally letting him go, throwing his hand back to him and prying his other hand away from my arm as I stormed out of the room, my hand immediatly rubbing my sore arm as I looked down to find the bruising welts on my skin from his rough grasp.

I went into the bathroom, closing and locking the door before I placed my back against the wall, taking in slow steady breaths as I sunk to the floor, trying to calm my body from the exhileration.

And yet even as everything like this was going on around me, I still felt like I was forgetting something....

++

"You think they forgot?" Bernie asked as Carlos cuddled closer to him on the top of the ferris wheel, the festival below them now empty and abandoned.

"No shit, they haven't come back in over twenty four hours, now hug me, I'm freezing my balls off here." Carlos shivered, hugging himself as Bernie gave him a look.

"Oh, guess who's not complaining about my fat flubber now? Besides, you were the one who dropped both of our cell phones." Bernie reminded as Carlos tried placing one of Bernie's large hairy arms over his shaking body.

"Shut up and hold me like a man."

AN: Glad you enjoyed the comedy cause next chapter is when the real plot starts comin' in.

Hope you guys liked my little appearance in there, it was for me to hint to you guys the readers what's going to happen in the future in this story so keep those hints in mind and buckle up.

What do you guys think the fortune telling was about hmmm???