mommy.”
“You’re welcome sweetie. Do you need any money?”
“No I have a credit card from dad.”
“Ooh, look at you with a credit card,” she said jokingly.
“I am grown mommy and I need it and plus my car constantly needs gas.”
“I know baby, please have fun and be safe.”
“I will, bye mommy.”
I hung up and went to my next class wondering how it would go with Reggae. I was hoping school would go by fast so I could hang with this mysterious girl. The final bell finally rang and I rushed to the bathroom to wait for her; to my surprise she was there waiting for me.
“Hey!”
“I didn’t go to my last class, I just didn’t feel like it,” she said with a blank expression the whole time.
“Oh ok, so you’re ready?”
“I guess.”
We walked side by side towards my car and she looked at my Lexus with surprise.
“This is your car?”
I pressed the unlock button on my car remote, “Yup ,my daddy got it for me because the bus left me one day and for a few hours, I got lost walking home.”
“You got lost?”
“Yup, I was running late to catch the bus, the bus driver left, so I had to walk home.”
“Do you live around here?”
“Yeah.”
“How did you get lost then, don’t you ride the bus every day to school and back?”
“Yes, I guess but I never paid attention, I have always had my earphones in my ears with my eyes close or reading something.”
“Oh,” she said.
“So tell me if this sounds good. What I have planned today is first we can go eat, then get some ice cream and then off to the park.”
“Sounds fun, what kind of park?”
“Amusement Park.”
“Cool.”
“Do you need me to take you to your house to tell your mom first?”
“She’s at work and she doesn’t get off until really late.”
“Oh cool, I wish my mother worked so I wouldn’t see her face a lot.”
“I wish I could see my mother more and less of my stepfather.”
“She might have a lot of bills to pay.”
“Not really, my dad pays our bills and he doesn’t even live with us. I think she just works too hard to make her fiancé happy because all he ever wanted from her is money, I think that is the only reason he is still with her.”
“That may not be true.”
“No it is, but it’s ok because I’ve accepted it.”
“Where would you like to go eat?”
“I don’t care.”
“How about we go to the Cheesecake Factory?”
“Sure,” she was quiet the whole way there. We got to Cheesecake Factory and the clerk in front told us there was a wait to be seated. I wanted to know more about her while we were waiting, so I asked.
“So tell me something about you?”
“There is really nothing special about me.”
“Sure there is.”
“Like what?”
“Like what you like to eat, your favorite color, just stuff like that.”
“Oh, I like to eat Italian food.”
“So do I, it’s really good.”
“And my favorite color is blue.”
“Awww just like your eyes.”
“That was not why I chose blue, it’s just because I feel blue all the time.”
“Oh.”
At that point I wanted to play it cool on getting to know her more. We were seated and as our waitress came, we ordered food and ate in near silence. I decided to break the silence and ask her a few basic questions in which she gave me basic answers. We left the restaurant to get ice cream right before we headed to the park. The car ride was silent. We got to the park, walked around and then we came across the Go Carts.
“Come on, let’s ride the Go Carts.”
“I don’t know,” she said not too interested.
“Come on it will be fun!”
She walked with me to the Go Carts without saying a word. We were riding and she finally loosened up a bit when I hit her from the back. She was beginning to get the hang of it and then she started enjoying herself. I finally saw her smile which made me smile.
“Come on Reggae you about to be last!”
“Ok I am coming!”
She drove faster and then smiled to show off her
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