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I nearly snorted.
I wasn’t captivating.
I was just me.
A person that worked out to stay in shape, fought when I needed to fight, and ran a business for the rest of my free time. I wasn’t “captivating.”
“Well, we’re going to show Kobe our bus. Catch you later, alligator,” JP called.
“In a bit, chickenshit,” Caristonia replied as she watched JP drag us both away by our hands.
I snorted out a laugh.
Folsom turned to me with a gleam in her eyes.
“Gorgeous, wasn’t she?” Folsom said.
“Very,” I admitted, because why lie? “She looks like she’d eat me alive, though. And to be honest, the fact that she’s that close with those cats is kind of chilling. I mean, she could totally tell them to eat someone, and they’d probably do it.”
“They would,” JP confirmed. “They do anything for her. It’s the oddest thing.”
“What’s odd is her thinking I’m captivating.” I snorted. “That’s the oddest thing.”
Neither JP nor Folsom said a thing for the longest time, so I thought they agreed with me.
But then Folsom said, “You don’t see yourself clearly, do you, Kobe?”
I blinked down at her.
Before I could reply, though, we got to a large bus that looked like it came straight out of the fifties.
Large and yellow, it had “Harder Public Schools” written on the side of it.
Yes, it’d definitely seen some hard times.
“Go on in, baby,” Folsom said to JP. “Wash your hands and we’ll get dinner started.”
JP went without a word, but she shot me a look of amusement and a statement before she left. “There’s something about you, Mr. Kobe, that is captivating. It means ‘capable of attracting or holding interest.’ It also means charming. Not that I’ve noticed any charm out of you, but you’re definitely holding my interest. And I only just met you.”
With that, she went inside, leaving me with Folsom, her older self, staring at me with the same amusement on her face.
“My mini-me is right,” she said. “You are captivating. I thought so the moment you started to tail me all those years ago.” She crossed her arms over her chest. “The night you looked into my eyes, I knew that everything was going to be all right with JP. I knew I wasn’t going to die. I was absolutely terrified once I’d actually conceived. I guess maybe in the back of my head, I always assumed the insemination would fail. But it didn’t. It worked. And then, for the next nine months, I was terrified as hell that I was going to die during labor. Then bang, I look into your eyes, and I feel like I’m all right for the first time since I could remember.”
Well wasn’t that a kick in the stomach?
“What’s for dinner?” I semi-croaked.
She smiled, then led me inside.
I don’t know what I was expecting from the outside.
But from the inside, it looked like a small little retreat.
Though it was skinny, it was long as hell, and the place looked extra cute.
“I bought the bus,” she said. “And one of Keene’s military friends helped me whip it into shape. He got all the guts fixed up—plumbing and electrical, drywall and stuff like that—and I painted, decorated, and got all the appliances in place.”
I was already nodding my head. “This is nice.”
