"Every Time You Scream at Me, I Want to Kiss You. When You Put Your Hands On Me, I Want to Touch You."

Around 10:00pm on Friday night, bae and I arrived in Fruit City. We were on our way to surprise his Grandmother. The only problem was that she lives in a gated community, and we didn't know her code. He couldn't ask bae's sister, because we planned to surprise her next. It made sense to do it in this order, so that we wouldn't scare his grandmother by coming too late. One of his cousins lived with his grandmother in late 2018. He guessed the code correctly, so we were all able to come in. We parked our cars and walked up to her house with bae right in front of the door. We knocked on the door and didn't hear anything, so we sent his cousin to knock on her window. She asked "who is it?" He said, "Grandma, it's M----". She came to the front door and asked once again, "who is it?". His cousin answered again. When his grandmother opened the door she took a step back to make sure it really was bae. She was in her pajamas and sleeping cap. Super adorable. Then she said "I knew you were going to pull up on me this weekend. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it." She gave him a big hug and it was beautiful. This was my first time meeting her. When he had walked in the house, he said "Grandma, look who's behind you". It was me. I gave her a hug and said nice to meet you. She chatted with Antwane and her grandsons and nephew. Her grandson's friend had come with us and out-shined me a bit. He got up to shake her hand and introduce himself in a more official manner. I just didn't want to be to in her face. His grandmother told us that she is going to a church event in the morning and would be back to spend time with us in the afternoon. That's when we left to go visit bae's sister.

We pulled up to her house and Bae opened on the door. His niece opened and was completely surprised. She put her hand over her mouth and looked shocked. She let us know that her mother wasn't home, so we went to his nephews room to surprise him. He had a leg injury and couldn't leave the bed without crutches. He was surprised as well as more and more people walked in the room. He said something like "Wow, it's a family reunion". Bae face-timed her sister's boyfriend to see if he knew where she was. He said "she told me that she was going to bed". That's when the mood became awkard and everyone assumed she was hooking up or something. I don't think she actually lives the life they assume, but she has a social media persona that kind of encourages "hoes" etc. It's a hot girl summer and lots of people share those kind of things, so I'm not quick to assume that that's actually her lifestyle. We then took off and headed to their other cousin and her best friend's home. We pulled up to the driveway and she came outside. She didn't recognize any of the cars. When we came outside, she was really happy to see bae and her little brother as well as their other cousins. She was really kind and welcoming. I liked her a lot. She called bae's sister while we were there. Bae stole the phone and started talking. She was surprised to hear him on the phone and asked that we meet her at her home. She was also really kind and welcoming. My heart was full to be so accepted by her. A couple weeks before we arrived in Texas, she had made a Facebook post congratulating me on my graduation. It made me feel really good.

We sat down and started hanging out in her living room/diving room area. She put Netflix on and we watched a time traveling move that everyone said was good. The guys gathered around the table and started smoking. Bae had been clean for the two years that he was on probation. I had suspected that he smoked with a friend the day that he got off papers, but didn't know for sure. As I'm sitting on the couch, he comes up to me with a blunt in his hand. He's twirling it in my face. I know my man. That was his way of asking me if he could smoke it.  I told him that he had made too much progress to just revert back to his old ways now. I was whispering, because I didn't want his family to hear and think that I was a controlling girlfriend. I am a controlling girlfriend when health and future are at stake. Part of loving someone is wanting what's best for them. What's best for my man is him not smoking.  I didn't want to stare him down or be stuck to him like glue after that, but it was obvious to me that he had smoked. We got in an argument about it in the car. It got so loud that I wasn't sure I could go back to his grandma's house. We did anyways and I got some really great apology loving. Legendary.

Quote of the day : "A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other".

Song of the day: When You're Mad by Neyo