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He said it so plainly and I think he was getting a bit too like me. It was not meant to be a big deal, but it kind of was. I think we both felt it too.
“Well, then, maybe it is best if we take a night off. I will see you next week if you still want to.”
“No, I am going to come get you and we're going to go out and have some dinner.”
“Go out? How can you hide the fact that we're friends if we go out in public?”
Dennis was quiet for a moment, and he told me something that quite shocked me.
“Tell me right now that you'll be with me, and I will drop every single one of my friends.”
“What about your reputation?”
“Reputation is for a boy, I'm a man now, and I shouldn't worry about it. Besides, it certainly isn't my priority.”
“And what is the priority?”
“You know what it is.”
I didn't press the question anymore. I probably didn't want to hear the answer and if I did, I wouldn't know how to respond to it.
“You're the priority. Just so you know, Kimberly, my priority has shifted and it's now you.”
I know that he was trying to be cute and everything, but his words made me tremble inside. Why was I so concerned with something that I knew all along could happen? I knew that there was this underlying tension between us since the moment we met. At least there had been on my side. I didn't have to wonder if Dennis felt the same way. He was quite quick to make his attraction to me clear.
“I don't know why you would waste your time on me, Dennis. It is really impossible, and you know it.”
“What if I don't care?”
“Well, I guess you know why we're not going to be going out tonight then.”
“I don't care what you say. It's our night and you're going to see me.”
“When did you get so demanding?”
“When I realized that I might lose you.”
I tried to reiterate again that I didn't think it was a good idea, but he wasn't taking no for an answer. I don't know if I liked it or not. I guess in a way I did, the idea that he was so into me, that he wasn't even going to listen.
After getting off the phone with Dennis, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. There was a big part of me that still wanted to cancel the whole situation. He had just been acting weird, and I didn't think it was going to get better. I actually thought it would get worse. He had something on his mind that couldn’t be. I had the same thing on my mind as well, but I was doing my best to block it out.
* * *
I sawthe limo pull up and I kind of groaned inwardly. What was he doing?
Since I hadn't let him pick me up in front of the dorms because I didn't want people talking, we have decided to meet at our same location, but he had not traveled the same way. For a guy that was worth millions of dollars, he really didn't show it. Not usually, but apparently, he was feeling a little bit different. Now, he was wanting to flash it and I didn't know what to think about it. I wasn't into all the fancy stuff like he probably thought I was. I was way more interested in Dennis as a person, but the limo did look nice.
I was only slightly impressed, though I wasn’t going to show it.
He turned around and stopped in front of me, and he popped his head out of the top with a huge grin on his face. He was really full of himself, and I had to admit that it was a pretty good surprise. I had definitely not seen it coming.
“What are you doing in that thing?”
He shrugged, with a huge smile on his face. “I thought that we would go to dinner in style.”
I just kind of shook my head and opened the door. I don't know what exactly he was doing, but I was going to have to stop him from whatever this was. Surely, he could see that nothing good could come of this. Why did I have to be the one that kept my head on straight?
When I got inside, I could see that Dennis already had a drink. That was a bit strange for me, because I had honestly only seen him drink a couple of times in the last couple of months that I'd known him. When compared with all the other people in college with us, that was quite shocking really.
