There is a first time for everything

Ther’s a First Time for Everything

“Who is it,” Ann yells as she walks towards the door .

“It’s me I’m here to pick up Josh”, Ryan says through the closed door.

“He’s not here,” Ann says as she open the door, “So just come back tomorrow.”

“Well where is he at, I told you earlier I was gonna pick him up today.”

“He went to the movies with Terrance and Jame’s kids.”

“And they’re not back yet,” he asks as he glances at his watch, “It’s 10:30 already.”

“So what, what do you care,” she says as she walks back towards the kitchen to finish putting the dishes away, “You usually don’t pick him up till 11 or 11:30 anyway.”

“I’m not in the mood for your mouth today, Ann,” he says as he closes the door and begins to walk into the kitchen.

“Well you can’t keep doing this, he has a schedule….”

“Shut the fuck up,” Ryan says as he punches the refrigerator, “I’m sick and tired of you always trying to keep me from my son.”

“You think that’s what I’m doing ,” shaking her head, “I want you to spend as much time with Josh as you can, but you can’t just be there when you want to be.”

“He’s my fucking son, I’ll come get him or see him when ever I want too,” Ryan shouts.

“Look I’m not trying to keep you from him, what ever you think in that tiny brain of yours…”

“I told you I wasn’t in the mood for your mouth,” Ryan says grabbing her wrist and squeezing the bones.

“Your hurting me,” she yelps “Get the fuck off of me.”

“I see you forgot who’s in charge here,” slapping Ann’ s face splitting her lip, “ Do you remember that.”


Terrance pulls into the Ann’s drive way and shuts off the Navigator.

“Josh, your home buddy, did you like the movie?”

Josh mumbles something barely audible, and Terrance looks back to see he has fallen asleep. Terrance pulls himself out of the front seat and opens the back door.

“Here we go,” Terrance says out loud as he picks Josh up and kicks the door shut, “Your getting a little big for this.”

Terrance walks to the door and knocks, and shifts Josh’s weight waiting for Ann to open it. He is surprised when Ryan opens the door, and immediately looks around too see Ann standing in the kitchen facing the sink. He begins to walk towards Josh’s room,

“Just put him in his room, T,” Ann says looking away as Terrance passes her.

“I thought I told you I was here to pick him up,” Ryan says turning towards her.

“You can pick him up tomorrow after I get home from work,” Ann says turning around, “The daycare is taking the kids to the zoo tomorrow and he has been waiting for three weeks to go, you aren’t going to ruin it for him.”

“Fine, whatever, we’ll pick this whole thing up, when you drop him off at my house.”

“OK,” Ann says sarcasticly, “ Just leave.”


Terrance sees Ryan walking to the kitchen as he comes out of the room, He pulls his cell phone out of his pocket.

“Yeah James, is it busy out there tonight,” he asks and begins to nod his head as he walks in front of Ryan and herds him to the door. “I’m dropping him off right now….I had to carry him in he fell asleep in the car on the way from your house…….Yeah he liked it as much as Ty and Aiden liked it…….Yeah I’m sure he’ll want to tell you all about it at breakfast…..OK yeah I’ll stop by for breakfast….Yep see you tomorrow…Alright….see you then.

Terrance turns around as he and Ryan reach the door.

“You need anything else Ann?”

“No I’m good, I’ll see you at work,” Ann replies turning back to the sink.

Ryan turns and slinks off to his car, Terrance charges behind him and slams his linebacker frame into him and watches him slid down the side of the car.

“I know that’s your kid in that bed, but your not married anymore”, Terrance exclaims looking down at Ryan, “so you better watch yourself, if you can’t be around all the time, maybe you shouldn’t be around at all.


“Keep your nose out of it, asshole” Ryan says picking himself up from the driveway, “Just because you want to fuck my wife doesn’t mean you get to have my son too.”

“Your a real fucking douche bag,” Terrance says faking a punch and make Ryan flinch, “Yeah real tough guy. You know I’ll beat the shit out of you , go home.”

“We’ll see about this, I’ll go to court…..”

“I hope you do,” Terrance interrupts with a laugh, “ Then you’ll have to pay child support like a real man.”

“If I go, I’m going for custody!”

“ I promise you, you’ll never,” Terrance leans in close to Ryan’s face, “ win that case. If I have to pay for the lawyer myself, if I have to eliminate you all together, I promise you, that won’t happen.”

Ryan gets into his car a peels out of the drive way, then speeds off down the street. Terrance shakes his head, and looks back towards the house, he nods yes, to himself, and then walks back to the door. He opens the door and sees Ann standing at the sink sobbing. Ann jumps ass she hears the door close and spins around, with fear in her eyes.

“Are you ok,” Terrance asks walking towards the kitchen.

“I’m fine,” Ann sobs, “He’s gonna try and keep Josh for good, when I take him over there tomorrow.”

“So don’t take him.”

“I don’t want to keep them apart,” Ann replies as she opens the freezer door and takes out an ice pack and puts it on her wrist, “He already tells Josh that I’m trying to keep them apart, and then he comes back to me and asks me why I won’t let him see his dad.”

“Well one reason is that his Dad is a piece of shit,” Terrance says walking to her and hugging her to him, “ and you know you don’t try to keep them apart”

“I could care less what Ryan or his mother think, I only care about that little boy sleeping in that room down the hall,” Ann says pushing away from Terrance and walking to the cellar door, “ I could use a drink, you want one.”


We can’t do this it will make work hard, Terrance thinks to himself, as they walk down the steps and sit at the bar.