“Asher please can we just talk about this for a minute?” He pleads with me.
“No dad you have had all these years Jason has been home and now you want to fix it? Too late. I love you but I won’t put up with this shit anymore. You need me, I will be at Ryder’s.” That was the last I heard from either of them. Mom texts me every now and then but that’s it. Funny how all of us ended up at Ryder’s all the time.
After Skylar and Malia left school that day Malia drove Skylar home and it just so happened to be that their mom was actually home. They confronted her and unfortunately Helen and Skylar’s dad got a divorce shortly after.
Considering Helen kept Malia a secret he couldn’t trust her. I couldn’t say I blamed him, that was a big secret to keep from your family. Helen basically disregarded Malia. Skylar nor Malia have a relationship with Helen.
Unfortunately when Skylar cut ties with her mom she also lost any access to money she once had. Skylar was still in touch with her dad since he didn’t know. Bradley, Skylar’s dad has a great relationship with Malia.
Speaking of fathers, Malia's dad had been sober and was currently dating Jessa. He helped her get back on her feet after the fall and she has been like a mother to Malia. We also found out why she hid Malia’s birth certificate. Apparently Helen was threatening Bradley and Jessa didn’t want anything to happen to him.
Some people might find it weird that her dad was dating her moms sister but I appreciated the shit out of her. She has given Malia something she never had which was a mother/daughter relationship.
I honestly have never seen Malia happier than she was these days.
Malia and Skylar were best friends these days. They worked together at a coffee shop and were pretty much always together. I didn't think anyone ever saw this relationship coming. Considering Skylar was at Malia’s throat throughout the beginning of senior year, this has been an improvement. It was Malia’s idea to let Skylar stay with us. Ryder didn’t like it but Malia has us wrapped around her fingers to say the least.
When the girls went to school the next day after confronting Helen there was a bit of backlash for Malia. Considering she kissed all of us at the Halloween party there was a bit of slut shaming for a while not that Malia let it bother her. The same thing happened at college in the beginning. Bringing us to the present.
We were at a party on a Saturday night and I was sitting on the couch sipping my beer which did nothing for me. Grayson and Ryder were currently dancing with Malia in the middle of the living room at the frat house.
There was this girl that has been constantly trying to get with me and Malia knew about it. She hadn’t said or done anything to her because she knew she could trust me but I fear this may be too much for her. Since I was just watching them dance I guess Sasha thought it was okay to come over and approach me.
She sat on my lap and tried to talk to me but I ignored her. Before I could even push her off, Malia was there in front of me.
“Can I help you?” Sasha asked Malia.
“You see you are in my man's lap and I don’t appreciate that. You have been after him and I have been nice enough not to say anything. You apparently don’t understand the word no. So I am going to ask nicely that you remove yourself from his lap.” Malia told her with a sickly sweet edge. Malia had become somewhat of a popular person with her adorable attitude and she was the girlfriend of the best football players on the team. Sasha didn’t take the hint. She did something even more stupid and leaned in to plant a kiss on my cheek. Yikes this was about to get ugly!
Malia smirked at her and looked over her shoulder at Joe who was one of the frat brothers in charge at the party. Sasha smirked right back at Malia thinking she has won. Ha! She had another thing coming. Malia beckoned Joe over with a wave of her hand. Joe came over to see the situation and rolled his eyes with a sigh.
“Jesus don’t you ever quit Sasha? You know Asher is with Malia so why do you even try? Let’s go, you're out!” Joe said while dragging a whining and pleading Sasha behind him towards the front door.
Malia took her place in my lap and wiped the shit off my face from Sasha.
“That was pretty great gorgeous. Thanks for coming to my rescue.” I kissed her to show my thanks as well. Malia sighed, “Well it isn’t like it was a hardship. Hopefully she learned her lesson.” Grayson and Ryder just chuckled at our girl while sitting next to us.
“This party is pretty lame. Wanna get out of here? Skylar isn’t coming home tonight so it will just be us.” Malia asked with a grin on her face. There wasn’t anything I loved more than spending time with my best friends and our girl.
Acknowledgments
First I would like to say a ginormous thank to my husband for being my biggest supporter. Since the day I told you I was going to write a book you have been there for me.
