Before I could say anything else, the waitress arrived with our food. I was starving. As soon as I was done eating, I planned to go home and take a long nap. Jamel reached across the table for my hand, so I slid it in his, and he blessed our food. That was the last thing I expected from him. I supposed he was more multifaceted than I perceived.
“You have to get bored being out here by yourself. I can’t believe that you don’t have any friends.”
“My mama was my best friend. I don’t make friends easily. I go to work, and I go home. Besides occasional trips to the grocery store, I don’t get out. Now that I’m not working anymore, I don’t know what I’m gonna do with my free time. I went to high school here, but I was always extremely quiet. Plus, I switched schools my eleventh-grade year. I was already shy and quiet. That didn’t help me gain friends either.”
“As beautiful as you are, I would have wanted to get to know you.”
“I feel like you’re just trying to run game on me, Jamel, but thank you.”
He chuckled. “What makes you think that?”
“You give off the vibes. Everything from your smile to the way you walk. You seem like a player.”
“I don’t sell wolf tickets. Whoever I got involved with knew what the deal was.”
“Why are you speaking in past tense?”
“I don’t know. I just feel like I’m done with that shit.”
“If you say so.”
I dug into my food, not in the least bit shy about eating. Although I wasn’t looking at him, I could feel his eyes on me. “Why are you staring at me, Jamel?”
“Because something about you seems familiar to me.”
I swallowed my eggs without chewing them, nearly choking.Fuck!I quickly drank some water to calm my throat down. “What about me seems familiar?”
“I don’t know, but it just feels like we’ve met before.”
Shiiid, we met alright. We’ve damn near fucked.I didn’t entertain him any further. I simply shrugged and left him in his thoughts.
CHAPTER7
JAMEL
When I laid eyes on her, her name popped right into my head.Sandrene.I couldn’t remember it until then. She was crazy as hell if she thought I hadn’t put shit together by now. She was Obsession. I was so fucking excited when I got there and stared at her. Her hair was the same, and her voice was the same tone. That body was something I could never forget, even with clothes on. The moment that sealed the deal was when I saw her car. It was the same Benz I saw her drive off in at the club.
I was trying to get her to say something about it, but she wouldn’t. That was cool though. I would continue acting like I didn’t know. I could pinpoint her scent anywhere, and when I stood next to her while waiting to be seated, I was mesmerized all over again. Although she had clothes on, I could clearly see everything she was hiding. My dick was hard as hell under this table.
I couldn’t wait to tell Arrow this shit. She knew it was my birthday because she’d seen my ID at her fulltime job. She was feeling me as much as I was feeling her. That was why she looked like she swallowed the fucking canary when I walked in her job to get recertified. She’d recognized me from Onyx. This whole mess about me not signing where I was supposed to was all by divine intervention. Had to be. The woman I wanted was sitting across from me.
Being that close to her this past weekend ruined her identity with me. I would know who she was if I were blind or deaf. Just like I would never forget her body, I’d never forget what her voice sounded like. I wanted to pull her from that chair and take her to my house and wear her pussy out. I knew that was what she wanted. She’d said something to that effect in my ear at the club Saturday night.
“So what are you going to do when we leave here?” I asked her.
“Take a nap. I think I need to recharge my mental before I start looking for another job. I just hate that they didn’t give me a chance to make up for it. Part of me wants to believe that it’s because I’m a black woman, but then I have to realize that I did indeed fuck up.”
“You’re probably right in your assumption. You don’t see a lot of women in our industry, let alone black women. I’m willing to bet that a white man will be in your place before the day is out.”
She rolled her eyes, and the only thing I could imagine was her moans, knowing that if my dick was buried inside of her, her eyes would be rolling the same way. I wasn’t sure how long I would be able to keep this game up, but I was just happy that she was letting me in her space. Maybe, now that she’d gotten fired, she wouldn’t care if anyone knew who she was.
“What are you doing after this?” she asked, pulling my mind from the depths of hell.
“Nothing. Probably call my mama to check on her.”
She lowered her head, and I could tell that me talking about my mama made her miss hers. “Why don’t you just kick it with me?”
“Jamel, I really need a nap.”
