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She nodded, “That will be twelve dollars.”
Before I could get my cash out, Zeke pulled out his wallet and offered the little girl a twenty. She nodded, bit her lip, and counted with her fingers.
Then she pulled out a five and three ones and handed them to Zeke.
A woman stepped to the little girl and smiled down at her with pride in every feature. “Good job, sweetie.” Then she looked at us, “I hope you like them.”
I winked at her then turned to Zeke, “Help me with this?” I held up the Aztec one.
He took it from me and tied it so I could loosen it whenever I needed to.
Then I grinned up at him and said, “I need your wrist.”
He didn’t say a word as he offered me his left one, and then I tied the black, white, and gray one to his.
“I like it.” I smiled up at him and then moved to the next vendor with Zeke.
And when a man got too close to me, Zeke would move his body and block his view.
I hadn’t laughed so much in one day, for as far back as I could remember.
We were halfway through with the vendors when Zeke looked down at my belly and asked, “You okay to finish, or do you need to rest a bit?”
“I’m fine to continue on but I’m getting pretty hungry,” he nodded, then whistled.
I looked at Powers to see him look up and then nod at whatever Zeke had done.
Five minutes later, we were all in line at a taco truck.
Mackenzie sidled up next to me with Lincoln on her side.
“What’s that on your wrist, brother?” Lincoln asked.
Zeke looked at him, then tilted his head at me, “She got it for me.”
And that was that.
I heard Harlow snicker then she grabbed Skinner’s wrist and, low and behold, he had the same one on his wrist.
That caused a myriad of giggles.
“Where’s everyone’s bags?” I asked before I bit into my first taco.
“The prospects took them to the trucks,” Lil said with a smile and bit into her own taco.
Zeke looked at me and said, “Yeah, speaking of that, are you not buying anything because you don’t want to spend my money, or have you just not found anything else that you like?”
“So far, nothing else really. I did spot a few vendors near the end of the street that I wanted to check out.”
He nodded, then started eating his own taco.
I had just eaten four and taken a sip of my soda when I let out a very unladylike burp. My hand immediately flew to my mouth. My cheeks got pink.
Zeke looked down at me and winked, and then, almost as if it was choreographed, the women started throwing out rating scores.
Then one by one after they all had a sip of their drinks, they too did the same, and it was the smallest of us all, Cora, that won.
After we were all through eating, Zeke placed his hand on the small of my back and whispered, “Don’t ever be embarrassed? Okay. It’s a bodily function.”
