"Honey I'm home!" Nick said as he walked into the living room.
"Shhhh!! I just got them back to sleep," I whispered.
"Do you need a hand taking them upstairs?"
"I could always use a hand with these two."
"Where's D? It's pretty late."
"I'm going to assume the club - he didn't bother calling me tonight."
Nick and I took the twins upstairs. Nick pulled me into his bedroom. "What's going on with you guys?" Nick asked concerned.
"What do you mean?"
"You and Howie...you guys seem to be fighting a lot lately. Everyone has noticed."
I sat on Nick's bed and figured out where to begin. "Things just haven't been the same since the twins came home. It's like...Howie doesn't seem to be around at all...its like he doesn't want to be a dad. He was so excited about them at first but then...I don't know anymore," I sighed and lay back onto the bed.
"Howie's just been really busy lately, that's all. I'm sure that he wants to be a dad," Nick said trying to comfort me. "I'm sure that if you and Howie spend some time together you'll work everything out."
"How am I suppose to spend time with him if I don't seem him?"
"Well...if he's at that club, then why don't you go see him there?"
After a while, Nick talked me into going to the club to see Howie. I called Amber to see if she wanted to join me. Arrianna was spending the weekend at her grandma's house so Amber could actually get out of the house. I got ready in record time and headed over to pick up Amber.

"AJ's not coming with us?" I asked.
"Nope, I told him we were going to the club and he said that he would meet us there."
"Okay then...I guess we can play some of our girl songs on the way!"
I pulled out my Stevie Nicks CD and we sang all the way to the club.

Amber and I arrived at the club and walked by the security guards that seemed somewhat surprised that we were there. We walked around a bit looking for either Howie or AJ, neither of which was in sight. I looked up towards the VIP Section and noticed Howie walking towards the office with a tall blonde in a very short red dressing following close behind.

A few girls by the bar were giggling. "I guess someone else is going to get a special pass to the VIP section," one of them said.
Amber and I both looked over at the girls. "And how would we get one of those special passes?" Amber asked.
"Simple, if the hot owner gets a blowjob, you get to go up to the VIP area."
"Wow, really?" Amber asked pretending to be interested in getting these passes. I was just speechless in shock. "Who all here has gotten them?" All of them just giggled. "All of you?"
"We just wanted to see if any of the other guys were up there. It wasn't a big deal," the red head said.
"Any other guys up there?" Amber asked knowing that AJ was somewhere in the club.
"Yeah, AJ is up there but he was talking to some girl."
"Well," Amber said, "let's see if we can get up there." She grabbed my arm and we headed up the stairs.

Amber's View

Rhonda stopped suddenly and I turned around to see what was the matter. She looked as if she were about to be sick. “I can't do this,” she said in a small voice. Rhonda started backing down the stairs. “I've got to go home.”
“Ok, we'll go home then,” I said starting back down the stairs myself.
“No,” she said putting her hand out to stop me any further. “Go get your husband safely home. I'll deal with mine later. Besides I kind of need to be alone right now.”
“But…”
“Go, I'll call you tomorrow and let you know what happened.”
“Are you sure you'll be alright?” I asked Rhonda concerned that all that had gone on tonight at the club had been too much of a shock.
“I'm fine,” she said in a small voice as she turned around and walked out the front door of the nightclub. I stood there a minute and then headed upstairs to see what information I could pry out of AJ about tonight's events.

Rhonda's View

I ran out to the car. I got in and slammed the door shut. "I can't fuckin' believe him," I said to myself. I closed my eyes and tried to pull myself together. I started the car and pulled out of the parking lot. I got half way home when I broke down into tears at the stoplight. "I can't fuckin' believe this is happening to me. It's gotta be a bad dream.”

Amber's View

I spotted AJ sitting on a couch on the far side of the VIP lounge chatting with his guard Marcus. There was no sign of the woman he had been talking to. A few of the special guest women were hovering around the edges of the room. “Let's go!” I said walking over and pulling him up.
“What are you doing here?” AJ asked his voice slightly slurred.
“I'm here to save you from getting completely wasted tonight.”
“What's wrong?” he said figuring out that my anger was not completely focused on him.
“It's nothing,” I said not wanting, like Rhonda, to deal with this here.
“Don't tell me it's nothing.” His voice was slightly more stable as he spoke now. “You come storming up here with a chip on your shoulder and acting like my mom and you tell me that it's nothing! What's wrong?”
“What's wrong is that Rhonda was just here and found out how these little sluts got their passes up here!” I said angrily pointing at the girls standing around, most of them giggling at the fact that they were actually in the VIP lounge.
“What are you talking about?” AJ asked pulling me into a corner for a more private conversation.
“I'm talking about the fact that a blow job for Howie will get you a free pass up!”
AJ looked shocked at my statement. “What the hell are you talking about? What makes you think Howie would do something like that?”
“So you're telling me you've never seen him with another woman here at the club?” I asked suspiciously.
“Well I mean of course I have, he's Howie, he's always been a big flirt. You know that. But he'd never do that!”
“Fine, why don't you go ask them yourself,” I said once again pointing in the girl's direction. AJ shook his head in disbelief at me but wandered off to talk to some of them. A few looked as if they were offering their services again to AJ but he pushed them off and headed to the next one. After awhile he slowly walked back over to me.

“I just can't believe that…man I just thought Howie was just flirting with them.”
“So you had no clue that this was going on?” I asked suspiciously.
“No babe, I had absolutely no clue.”
I tried to look into his eyes but the light in the corner where we were was to bad to see them. “You swear you had no clue,” I asked once again not knowing whether to believe him or not.
AJ reached over and lifted my face so I could see his eyes. “I swear I had no idea about how these girls got up here tonight. Now,” he said patting my stomach let's get you and my son out of here.”
“Fine,” I said suddenly weary, “let's go.” AJ took my hand and led me to the stairs. We were almost to the door when I noticed Howie heading back towards his office with one of the women Rhonda and I had talked to earlier. I ripped my hand out of AJ's and stormed over to them.
“Hey Amber! AJ didn't tell me you were coming tonight,” Howie said as I walked up to them. “What's going on?”
“I think you need to go home!” I said angrily.
“What? Why?”
I looked from him to the girl he was with. Her face was red, finally figuring out whom she had been talking with earlier. “I strongly suggest you go home to your wife!” I said in a tightly controlled voice.
It took everything in my power not to hit him. I might have if AJ hadn't walked up behind me that second and pulled me away, somehow sensing what was in my mind. Howie looked to AJ who just repeated what I told him. “Go home to your wife D,” he said quietly and then pulled me away and out the door.