Going Solo: Davis Gen 3.19

I tried to keep things casual with Blythe but it didn't work. She was sweet, and fun and just sort of struck a cord with me like...Cora did. Of all the women I'd dated, Blythe was only the second one to really meet Mom and Sha. They both took a liking to her. When the girls came to visit she was happy to meet them. She'd get up in the mornings and fix them breakfast since she didn't approve of me feeding them pop-tarts and other non-healthy options.

Hey they never complained. Hope warmed up to her quickly, Grace took a little while longer. We'd have fun on family outings and have dinner some nights with Mom and Sha. Mom often had that look of hope that I was finally settling down.

I liked Blythe, I did but something still felt like it was missing. Mom thought it was all in my head since I was a self-proclaimed bachelor for life according to her. Cora called me after the girls went back, I guess they told her about Blythe and she was asking questions. She didn't approve of me having a parade of women run through the girl's life. I told her Blythe was the first one I'd introduced them too.

She asked me if it was serious and when I told her I thought it could be the tone of the conversation changed. She seemed ticked off, but also a little sad and got off the phone with me quickly. I continued to see Blythe and when the girls came out for Christmas, and for summer, they were happy to see her. Cora had become a little stand offish again, the girls said she was tired a lot working late hours at the hospital. I tried really hard not to grill the girls about their mom and her relationship, but when I heard some of the things they told me, I was worried about them and Cora.

Grace: Dad are you going to marry Blythe?

Davis: I'm not sure why?

Grace: Well, cuz you are with her all the time and you guys are happy.

Hope: Yeah, we like her. You should marry her like Mom is gonna marry Tristan. She said we'd be her flower girls when we got back.

Davis: They are getting married when you guys go back?

Grace: Uh-huh. Mom had been putting it off. They didn't know, but Hope and me would hear them talking.

Hope: Yep. Tristan was mad that Mom wouldn't set a date, but she finally did I guess. She told us when we talked to her the other day.

That was interesting news. I knew they'd been engaged for a long time, but I had no idea it was Cora that was putting things on hold. She was so gung-ho to get married I thought she'd had jumped at it the first chance she got. I'd known she was planning on marrying that guy, but hearing that the date had been set had an unsettling feeling on me.

Hope: Hopefully now she'll be happy too.

Davis: What do you mean?

Grace: Well sometimes she's just sad. When she thinks we're not around she cries for no reason.

Hope: Yeah, but she gets happy when you call. Maybe you should call her more often.

The girls didn't say much after that since Mom showed up. They were having a girls' spa day and they were very excited. After they left, I called Cora but she didn't answer. She sent me a text saying she was working and would call me later. When I did talk to her, I noticed she sounded tired. I offered my congratulations on her upcoming wedding, she was shocked I knew about it but I just told her that the girls were excited to be her flower girls.

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Going Solo: Davis Gen 3.18

A lot changes in two years. The adjustment to not seeing the girls daily took some time. We did talk or text a lot and we'd use Skype as well. I worked a lot and dated here and there, but no one was ever that serious. Rebecca I met at work. She was a new hire and my boss wanted me to show her the ropes. After dating Raven, I'd tried not to mix business and pleasure, but Rebecca actually pursued the relationship.

We went out for a few months but I had to end it, I quickly learned she wanted more than the casual dating I had in mind. It caused a bit of a hiccup at work, and she ended up being transferred to a different office. When the girls came back for the summer I made sure we enjoyed our time together.

Hope had gotten into computer games and we'd play together a lot, Grace was still found with her head in a book. However the two of them got along well. I think they complimented each other nicely since Hope was still the more outgoing one. At the summer fair they talked me into a hot dog eating contest, who would have know Hope could eat so much so fast, and that I couldn't.

Boy they didn't let me live that one down for a while. Cora and I talked often. She did a good job keeping me informed about the girls and their activities. I even flew out for their first ballet recital. She was loving her job in the pediatric department of the hospital. We didn't talk much about her relationship with Tristan (I still called him Tracy when we talked just to annoy her) but I did know they lived together and were engaged. The girls liked him ok, and said he worked all the time and was hardly ever home. They didn't like his dad all that much, they'd only met him a few times but they said he was scary looking and wasn't very nice. To them, or Cora. Hearing that ticked me off, but when I asked Cora about it, she just brushed it off.

She did say they weren't around him often so I had nothing to worry about. When the girls went back in the fall, I went back to focusing on work more. Mom even talked me into having dinner with her and Sha some nights. Dad said Nick was doing good in college, he was studying telecommunications and apparently partying hard like I did. Of course I didn't tell Dad that part when Nick would call me. I also told him to make sure he was extra careful, not that I didn't love my girls, but he needed to avoid that oops that I made. At least at such a young age.

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