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“Obviously he likes it, since he’s texting you morning and night. It may sound cliché, but that means you’re the first thing on his mind in the morning and the last thing before he goes to bed.”
“I feel that way too, but if it’s one thing I learned from Ned, it’s that a man can send out a string of texts to different women and only lose ten minutes out of his life. Xander is going to have to do more than that to impress me.”
I make a mental note that his name is Xander as I say, “Good girl.” I am actually proud of her for talking this way. There was a time when I couldn’t get her to see Ned’s deceptive ways for anything. “What do you think about this dress?” I hold up a tangerine-colored, form-fitting, long-sleeve dress. “I have heels that match it, and I can wear my autumn colored makeup to make it pop.”
“I like it a lot. Let me see what jewelry you’re going to wear with it.” Jayne spends the next few minutes helping me decide on jewelry to wear with my dress. “I guess I’ll go to the car and get my bag so I can get dressed too,” she says.
“Alright. Let’s do this,” I say, giving myself a vote of confidence.
As I walk into the bathroom to shower, I can’t believe I’m really about to go speed dating.
Chapter Four
Omega
Mystery Solved
Santerían walks into my apartment with an unreadable look on his face. He then goes into this spill about his girlfriend, which I knew was coming before he showed up.
“Man, I don’t know what I’m going to do with Tangie. She’s always pulling some slick shit when I’m about to go out without her. Either her car breaks down, she’s sick, someone dies in her family, or something weird happens at my job. It’s crazy.”
“I have to give it to her. She’s dramatic when it comes to keeping you at home, but you love her and all her antics. You eat it up, then have some bomb sex, and forget about it. You love this shit, man.”
“I like her a lot, but come on, Omega. She had me stuck at work for hours, which is time I can’t get back. The games have to stop if she wants me to get serious with her.”
I chuckle at Santerían’s comment. He actually thinks his relationship with Tangie isn’t serious, which is hilarious. He’s head over heels in love with her possessive ass, and this is just another round of their love spats. She never disappoints when it comes to creating drama to control his movement. For some reason, she has it made up in her mind that I’m corrupting Santerían and making him be interested in other women. She actually has blacklisted me and all of our homeboys from hanging around him. He just refuses to comply with her demands, which makes her come up with crafty ways to keep him home.
“What did she do this time?” I ask.
“I’ll tell you about it over drinks. I have a lot to think about, and I need very strong drinks to help me do it.”
“I just left a bar last night,” I tell him. I have finals to grade before Christmas break, so I’m hesitant about getting bar-wasted a second night in a row.
“I’ll buy the drinks since I didn’t show last night,” he says to sweeten the deal.
I can tell by looking in my friend’s eyes that he needs someone to talk to, so I say, “Alright, you owe me, anyway.” I grab my coat off the rack and walk to the door.
On the ride to the bar, Santerían begins a long story about what happened last night. I relax my head on the headrest and listen and laugh at Tangela’s plan and how it worked perfectly.
“So, you were held up at work waiting on a delivery. That’s how she got you?” I question.
“The front desk called to tell me the freight delivery company was coming in with a late delivery. Apparently, the delivery man had been tied up in traffic, which was why he was coming in after 7 p.m. when the dock usually closes. Well, my boss hadn’t left any notes about a delivery, but I stayed because our receptionist can’t sign for packages. A supervisor has to do it.”
“And Tangie knows this?” I ask.
“I’ve told her this before when I was running late getting home. She knows.”
“It’s still possible that she had nothing to do with it.”
“I was thinking that too, but when I finally called our freight company to see what time they were coming in, I was told our next delivery isn’t until Friday. That was the moment I knew Tangie had called the receptionist and pretended to be from the freight company.”
“That’s cold,” was all I could say. It’s not the first time she has done this.
“I wasn’t expecting it last night. I called her on my way home and confronted her about it, and she told me she didn’t do it but she wanted me to come over. I reminded her I was going with you to Elite’s grand opening. Then, she hung up on me. Next thing I know, she’s standing at my front door wearing nothing but a coat.”
“I guess she didn’t want to chance you hooking up with someone else.”
“I wasn’t going to anyway. I haven’t been anywhere without her since we started dating frequently. We’re not monogamous, but— Well, I haven’t slept with anyone else since we’ve been together, but we have an understanding that I can if I want to, and so can she.”
