Chapter 151 - Downtown

Shiwoo had strapped the kids into the car in the car seats, and I was beside him in the passenger's side and Abigail at the back as we drove into town.

It was about forty five minutes to an hour drive from where we lived so we played a few of our favorite songs to keep the twins occupied.

"What are we buying today?" asked my sister and I shrugged.

"Anything you want, but I need a new bathing suit."

"One with a lot of coverage." added Shiwoo as he chimed in. "I cant have men starring at you."

"But women can stare at you? You do not own me and I will wear whatever I want." 

"We'll see about that." he said as kept his eyes on the road driving with one hand as his other rested on my thigh giving it a hard squeeze.

"Yes. We'll see." I said as I brushed his hand off and he looked at me puzzled, so I just stared out the window.

"Oookay." said my sister who was witnessing all of this, "anyways I'm hungry. Can we get something to eat first?"

"Sure. What do you feel like eating?"

"You know the usual. Cheese patty." she said and I nodded.

"Mmmm. Sounds good. Okay. Adrian and Adriel would you like that too?"

"Yes please." answered Adriel, and I'm guessing that it was for the both of them for Adrian kept quiet nodding.

"Okay. We are almost there. We will pull up at Tastie's and buy it right Shiwoo?"

"Mhmmm." he answered as I pointed to where he was supposed to drive since he was unfamiliar with the place.

After five minutes later we arrived at the nearest Tastie's and I told them to wait in the car as I went to buy them.

We ate before I directed him to where he could park, since his car was expensive and these parts were less that safe.

I held onto Adriel's hand as Adrian with his father and they followed behind me as we made our way cross the street, passing big tree as we walked to the busy streets.

"Hold onto your purses and children. This is downtown and you could be robbed blind in the blink of an eye." I warned and they nodded.

We were walking with cash in our purses since cards are not used here, and anybody could brush past you and slit your bag or just grab it off your shoulders and run.

"Where are we going?" asked Abigail as we walked on the road that was filled with vendors looking around.

"I'm trying to find the store that I used to shop at a lot, but I cant seem to remember where it is."

"Well can we go someplace else? I'm tired."

"Abigail you know that you complain more than the twins? Yeah you do. So just please be quiet till I find-oh! There it is!" I said as I finally spotted the store, but it was on the other side of the street so we quickly crossed and went in, "look around and pick whatever you guys want. I'm going to look at some bathing suits. Adriel go with your daddy."

She let go of my hand and walked over to him and he stared at me, but I just looked away not meeting his gaze like I would usually do.

"I'll stay here with them." said Abigail and I nodded as I walked away looking at bathing suits.

I saw some really cute ones and I ran my hand over them deciding on which to get.

I do not recommend trying on bathing suits as you would other clothes since you know, its right on the body of strangers.

Luckily I knew my size and ordered the one I wanted, paying for it when it arrived.

"Okay I have what I needed. You guys ready to go?" I asked them once I met up back with them and they nodded when Gail said

"Yeah let's go. We didn't see anything that we wanted."

"Do you want us to try another store or on the road?" I asked and she pondered.

"Hmm. Sure."

"Okay let's go. Adriel come here baby." she came and held onto my hand tight and we were off to another store.

We walked around the next store and others after others, buying what we needed and just what we liked.

I picked out a few things for my nieces and nephew and parents before we decided to call it a day for the twins and Abigail were getting fussy, "can we please goooo? That's why I don't like shopping with you Tally. You want to buy the whole town."

"Quit whining like a baby." I said and she pouted so I sighed, "okay. Let's go eat something."

"Yayy!" cheered the three kids and I playfully rolled my eyes at them as we carried our bags over to where the car was.

"Where are we going now?" asked Shiwoo as he opened the door placing the bags in and I thought about it before answering.

"Uptown should be fine. Less crowded and a lot more clean."

"Okay." he said and we were about to go in when Adriel screamed.

"Mommy mommy look! A man is eating out of the garbage."

"Well that's a homeless person baby. There are alot here." I shrugged and she frowned.

"Well can we help him?"

"Can we? Can we!?" chimed in Adrian and I nodded, "Yayy! Daddy can we have money please?"

Shiwoo without hesitation fished the money out and handed it to them as they pulled me towards where the man was and Adriel said, "excuse me sir. Here is some money so that you wont have to eat that gross stuff."

He looked at Adriel handing him the money, then he looked at me and I nodded saying that it was okay and he smiled before taking the money thanking us, "thank you. Thank you! May God bless you all. Thank you so much! You are raising such good kids and beautiful kids. Thank you! I will not squander this and get something to eat and drink. I will never forget you!"

The twins smiled at him as they waved him goodbye and h bowed and they bowed back.

I was beaming so proud of them that I pulled them into my arms as I snuggled their cheeks, "that was so nice of you my little monsters! Mommy, daddy and aunty are very proud of you! Keep being such little angel monsters okay?"

"We will." said Adrian smiling and I snuggled their cute little cheeks even more as they giggled.

"Okay let's go eat." I said as we walked back over to the car and I helped then got in and we were off to uptown to get something to eat.

"Here? Pull over here?" asked Shiwoo and I nodded as we pulled up to restaurant.

"Okay kids let's go." 

They exited the car holding onto my hands as we entered the restaurant and we were immediately led to a table and we ordered fries and wings for us and the kids.

As we were waiting for our order, Shiwoo kept getting messages and he was busy on his phone, and I would side eye him at every notification until I got really upset and decided to ignore him.

"Babe I'm going to the bathroom." he said and I ignored him.

He was gone about two minutes when I heard another notification and his phone lit up and across it read Harin's name with a text message saying, 'what if Atalia finds out?'

My heart ached as my breath shortened as I held my chest.

How could he?

No.

How dare he?

I scoffed as I shook my head in disbelief when he came back smiling at me as he sat beside me placing a hand on my thigh when I  whispered and said, "if you value your life I'd suggest that you take your hands off my thing and get the fuck away from me."

"Atalia what's wrong?" he asked and I scoffed.

"Abigail would you mind switching seats with me? You have been taking care of the kids since we got here. Allow me to free you."

"Uhh" she said as she looked between me and Shiwoo and I smiled, "okay."

I got up from my seat and bumped Shiwoo's legs from out of my way as I switched seats with her smiling at the twins, "hello monsters."

"Hello mommy. When is the food coming?"

"Soon baby I'll see-oh. Here it is." I said as the servers placed our meal on the table and I wiped their hands and mind with baby wipes before handing them their platter of wings and fries, "enjoy."

"I wanted Dino nuggies." said Adrian pouting.

"Baby they don't have your Dino nuggies here. Tell you what. Why don't you make a T-rex with your wings? That would be fun."

"Yeah!" he squealed excited and he was now content.

I smiled as I looked at him then my smile fell when I saw Shiwoo looking at me.

I looked at him up and won as I stabbed a fork into my fries and he flinched.

After we all enjoyed our meal cleaning our plates we had something to drink before leaving.

The atmosphere was still cold between Shiwoo and me, and Abigail knew better than to ask so she kept the kids happy and oblivious to our tense stance.

We drove home still not looking at each other, but I knew that he had a lot to say and asked, but I was not going to speak to him.

That night I slept on the farthest edge of the bed and he knew better than to touch me.

I was hurt and to be honest heart broken.

Not only that, but I was mad.

How dare he act as if he loves me when he is talking to her.

I wanted nothing more than to strangle him in his sleep, but I could not go to jail right now so I just counted to ten over and over before I fell asleep.

I will probably drown him at the beach on Sunday

That way I wont be the prime suspect.

He should know better than to fuck with me.