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Chapter 13
Joshua
July 4th
We have come a long way in the past few weeks, I have watched my maua yangu open just like a midnight rose. When she got to work that Monday after I caused a scene with her and her coworker, there was a little office chatter. But her engagement overshadowed most of the talk. She began planning the wedding and I planned the 4th of July BBQ and engagement party.
Today she will meet my parents and I will meet her other two kids. Her sister Bailey and husband, as well as her good girlfriend Shellwyn and husband Michael, a/k/a Brown, are all flying in. Her dad and his wife, Saint and Mell along with Bubba and Sarai, and Skye and her girlfriend Alayna and Sheppard get here today.
Everyone is staying at the compound this weekend no one knows we are engaged, and this is our way to announce to everyone we love and to ask them to play a role in the wedding. Today we will have the barbecue, make the announcement and just enjoy our time with our family. Saturday we’ll have breakfast, and the ladies are off to get pampered at the spa while the men will go-kart, play basketball, gun range or whatever else the men want to do.
Later that night we’re having our engagement dinner. Sunday will be brunch and then everyone will be heading home. My brothers went to the airport to pick up all the other family that came in, I don’t know how Savvy pulled it off, but she basically got everyone here at pretty much the same time.
My parents are coming in later, so we secured transportation for them. I am on my way to pick her up from the beach house, and I just know she is not going to be ready. I park the SUV and opened the door with the key she gave me, we exchanged keys when I proposed, even though it is technically my brother’s and mine house I still respected Savvy by only coming to the house when invited.
Now I come and go as I please and so does she. I walk in and stop in my tracks at the sights and sounds before me. This woman is full of surprises, I thought I pretty much knew everything about her so how did I not know this? There Savvy is in the living room in a tank top panty and a long lightweight sweater dancing to a remix of Whitney Houston’s I want to dance with somebody and if that is not enough, she is singing along with Whitney and she can sing.
She is soulful alto; I can definitely hear the church influence in her voice. I wonder if I can convince her to sing at our wedding. I move to a corner so she can’t easily see me and watch her be free. Then Sweet Dreams comes on by the Eurythmics and she starts singing that too, not a song or genre I would’ve expected from her but here she is singing every word. She is singing, dancing and getting dressed all at the same time, I pull my phone out to record this.
She turns around and I damn near swallow my tongue, those thighs, and hips are amazing, I have noticed she does not like wearing short dresses or shorts and I think it has to do with the scars on her legs, she told me she had an allergic reaction to something one summer at her grandparent’s house and it left scars all over her body but especially on her legs. She has tried over the years to get rid of them with different products, but nothing has completely removed them.
Do I give a fuck about them? Hell no, she is perfect from the scars on her legs to the fupa she hates, to those perfect ass lips. I know she has a hard time at times believing she is beautiful enough to be with me but if she could see herself from my eyes, she’d know just how beautiful and perfect she is to me. It takes monumental strength for me not to fuck her hard every time I see her, on any surface, anywhere, but it so much more than that. Yes, I want to fuck her, but I want to talk to her, hold her, cook with her, read to her, sit on the porch with her, travel the world with her, conquer our fears together,
I want way more than to just fuck her. But when I do finally slide inside her body, I want her to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is the sexiest creature on this planet to me and everything about her body is mine and I love all of it. Just as I am about to step out of my hiding spot Ed Sheeren’s Thinking Out Loud comes on I sneak up behind her and wrap my arms around her, she doesn’t even jump.
She turns in my arms and says I was wondering how long you were going to hide. How long did you know I was here? As soon as you walked in she replied. Let me go Joshua, I need to put some clothes on, she says. No, you don’t, don’t do that Savvy. Joshua, we have to go let me go get dressed. Don’t try it Savvy, that is not why you want to get dressed, yourself conscious around me still why baby.
“You know why.”
“Haven’t I proven how much I love you?”
“And if I love you, I love everything about you, I need you to know that.”
“I know that Jag.”
“No, you don’t but you will,” I tell her. I release her so she can go get dressed. When she walks away, I slap her ass.
She spins around on me, “Joshua!”
I look at her unrepentantly and tell her to hurry up. She just shakes her head and walks away. I grab her bags since she’ll be staying at the compound with our guests this weekend. By the time I walk back in from taking her bags to the car she is walking out of the bedroom, dressed and ready to go. Oh, she is not playing fair today at all, she has on a yellow strapless empire waist sundress with her yellow flip flops her toes are done in a cute multicolored tie dye pattern.
She has gold accessories and that mane of hers is free and I love it, no makeup, skin glowing and all she has on is a golden bronze shimmery lip gloss. She is flawless and that damn perfume makes me want to carry her ass fireman style back to the bedroom. “You’re wearing your hair out today? No, it’s too hot. The shrinkage will have my hair looking like a brillo pad is sitting on my head. We head out the house, lock it up and head to the compound. By the time we get there none of the guests have arrived yet, I put Savvy’s bags in the master bedroom in my wing of the house.
The caterers are there, and the party planners are still setting up the setting is beautiful. The outside living room, kitchen pavilion pool area has been completely transformed. You won’t find any red, white and blue decorations at this barbeque, all the decorations are black and white, pun intended. Everything looks beautiful. The food is in the kitchen since the retractable doors are open, but we have the screen doors out to keep the bugs out of the house. For the folks that can’t take the heat they can enjoy the inside.
We have ceiling fans going and misters but it’s July in Mississippi, it's hot as the outer realms of hell. Once Savvy is sure everything is up to her standards she heads back in the house. About five minutes later the doorbell rings, when I open the door, I come face to face with a miniature version of Savvy. She is a fun size version of her mother; she can’t be more than 5” 1’. She looks up at me and says hi Mr. Joshua nice to meet you, where is my momma? All in one breath. I’m right here Savannah says walking up behind me. Mommy! She screams and runs into Savannah’s arms, hi sweets, where is your brother she asks as she squeezes the life out of her daughter.
“Outside with one of the other giants,” Skai replies.
Savvy chuckles, she releases her daughter and introduces me to her. We say hello again then head out the door to find Sheppard, her other son. We find him outside looking at the cars in the garage. We all have a little problem with vehicles, we have agreed to keep it down to three cars per brother that usually consists of one SUV, one luxury sedan and a sports car, not to mention the motorcycles and other outdoor vehicles we own too.
“Shep!” Savvy says.
He turns and grabs his mom in a bear hug. He looks just like his older brother Saint and sounds like him too. Once he puts her down, he turns to me, “so you must be Mr. Joshua” he says as he extends his hand to me. I confirm as I shake his hand, “is this your McLaren 720S” he asks. “Yes, but I barely get the chance to drive her. If you want to take her out on the track you can, the keys are in the locked box”. He looks up like he is about to take me up on the offer when we hear a car approaching, it's Jabarri driving up with Saint, Mell, and the grands. Bubba is out of the car as soon as the car comes to a stop. Bibi! he yells as he runs full speed at Savvy but before he reaches her Sheppard scoops him up.
“You don’t see anyone else” he asks him.
“Put me down Uncle Shepp,” he says.
