The kids were growing up so quickly, I feel like Ashley just walked in the door with new baby Cimba in her arms. As Cimba had grown we started noticing the odd scales on his legs, just like what Ashley had except hers were purple. Ashley insisted we didn’t take him to the doctors, saying […]

I got so focused on teaching Nala to talk I didn’t even realize how long I had been sitting on the floor with her, until Ashley walked through the door. “There’s my favorite family!” She said enthusiastically as she walked in and sat down next to us. She cradled a brand new baby in her […]

I was loving life as a father, you could always find me close by my lovely daughter. Sometimes Ashley would come in and tell me to put her in her crib just so she could get some sleep. She would laugh at me and tell me she found it funny how much I had changed […]

My mother was dead, but there was new life forming inside of Ashley. Along with the bad news of losing mother came the good news of our baby. I had finally made Ashley’s dreams come true and we were expecting a baby. She had found out that day that mother had died that she was […]

I caught mom standing in the nursery the other day, just looking at the cribs and sitting in the rocking chair. I knew she wanted grand kids and I felt terrible that I didn’t want to give them to her. Maybe I would just have to suck it up, for both my mother and for […]

The closer Ashley and I got the more I pulled away from her, I couldn’t help myself. My brain was trying so hard to protect my heart, that it would ever hurt Ashley if it meant keeping my heart safe. I could tell she wasn’t appreciating it, but I didn’t know how to change that. […]

“That’s very sweet of you to say, Raja. I’ve thought about you a lot as well.” Ashley was so beautiful, everything about her just called to me. As I was thinking this a little voice in my head was screaming at me to stop. What if you get hurt again, what if she dies, cheats, […]

“Why are you really here, Ashley?” I asked her, hoping the answer would be because she missed me or regretted never having a relationship with me. “I remembered how good of friends we were and wondered if you were still around. A lot of people told me you moved, it was actually pretty hard to […]

Jasmine and I were now starting our journey, even though I knew my sister really hated me and I didn’t like her. With my father’s death I really wanted to honor his wishes and at least try and get along with my sister. All I could do is try, for now and that was what […]