Kinga laughed, eyes moving around the space before they landed on me. “Tighten up, bro, you looking like you in love in here.”
“I’m saying,” Dimitri cosigned.
I waved him off. “Y’all would know, huh?”
“Damn right, ’cause I know what it looks like.” Kinga was the one to respond while Dimitri just laughed.
As if she felt me looking at her, Caya looked away from Harlem. Her eyes scanned the room before they landed on me and she poked Harlem, pointing to me. She then pushed away from the banister, moving toward me.
From the back and side, I could see her back was out, but the front of her shirt had me ready to unbutton my own and hand it to her. The fuck was she thinking out here showing off like this?
When she made it to me, she stood in front of me, just looking, with that bottom lip poked out. I’d address that later. I was ready to get these introductions out of the way, so when it was time to cut out I could do just that.
I threw my arm around her shoulder, pulling her into me before we turned to my brother. “G, this is Caya. Cay, this is my little brother.”
He nodded in her direction but screwed his face up in mine. “What I tell you ’bout that lil brother shit?”
I laughed and dragged her in the direction of the rest of the pack. I wasn’t shocked that everything went easy, and when I said easy, I meant it just fit. They met her and didn’t make ascene. They let shit rock and she fit right in. Hell, everybody fit. For a good portion of the night, the ladies stayed in one section while we talked shop and chilled. Everything was cool.
At some point in the night Caya ended up in my lap while Lotus performed. The feel of her buttery skin against my fingertips had a different type of effect on me.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?” she asked, her lips near my ear.
“You didn’t ask. Shit, I didn’t intend to even come in here, but after you didn’t tell me what club and I did all that work to find out, they all wanted to meet you.”
She smiled. “Your family seems cool. Even though you, Reminisce, and G look like triplets. That shit is way creepy.”
I laughed. “I’on look like them. I got my own face.”
She kissed the side of my face. “If you say so. Are you coming over tonight?”
“Did you have to ask? We gotta talk about this lil fit you walked your ass out the door in.” I tugged at the barely holding anything straps.
She giggled. “You don’t like it?”
“You know I like it, too much, but you out here tryna get somebody handled.” I kissed her exposed shoulder.
“Nobody needs to be handled because where am I right now?” She didn’t give me much of a chance to respond before she was talking again. “In your arms, your embrace, and tryna share your skin with you if I can.”
I nodded. “Makes sense, just remember you said that later on, since we talking about sharing skin.”
Laughter escaped her lips.
“Y’all over here caked up, all smiles. I ain’t never seen you smile this much. What have you done with my brother, Caya?” Rem asked, taking a seat across from us with some random chick in his arms. All I could see under the dim lighting was thatshe had bright orange ass hair. He loved those ones who were straight up outliers. There was nothing wrong with it, but how in the hell did the most unartistic nigga keep finding the most artistic girls. It made no sense, but then again opposites attract.
“I have no clue what you’re talking about, Reminisce.” Caya laughed.
“I bet you don’t. You doing magic on my brother, ain’t you?” Rem laughed at his own joke.
She laughed, waving him off.
The rest of the night went by like a blur, all of us kicking it with good vibes and no bullshit. Everybody had a time and even the birthday boy had to be walked out by his brother. That was funny because he fell on his ass twice before Kinga just grabbed him and walked him to the car.
“I enjoyed myself with you.”
Her voice made me look over at her. She was holding my hand as it rested on her thigh. “I’m glad. You know that’s the first time I’ve ever done anything like that,” I said honestly.
“Anything like what?” she asked.
