My eyes moved from my book again up to Tyron who nodded and grinned at us before walking off.
“Uh, sure. Do you,” I said.
“Hell no bitch. This nigga got my spidey senses all the way up.”
“You don’t say much, do you?” He asked.
“No, " I said, cutting my eyes at him.
“We don’t say much to predators. Bitch I’m telling you. He ain't right. He is loonier than us. I can feel it in my spirit.”
“I like that, " he said, eyeing me like I was some prize.
I wasn’t sure if I liked it but if I was being honest sitting here with him no matter how awkward, was something I had dreamed about, no matter what Nyx said. So, I tamped down her anxiety and just went with it.
“Would you like to go for a ride with me after this? I’m sure auntie won’t mind.” He said, confidently, looking from me to my aunt who was twerking on the new nigga of the month.
I looked back at him, catching the way his tongue slid across his juicy kissable lips while he spoke. I was so wrapped up in his mouth I hardly heard what else he was saying.
“Uh uh bitch don’t let those lips fool you. This nigga ain’t right.”
“Sorry, what did you say?” I asked, scrunching my brows and ignoring the incessant buzzy Nyx caused in my head when she was agitated.
He smirked knowingly.
“I asked if you wanted to take a ride with me real quick.”
He had that knowing look in his eyes again like he knew I was just checking him out. I was speechless. I guess it took me too long to answer because he grabbed my hand and pulled me along with him. He said his goodbyes to a group of my aunt’s people as we exited the backyard and headed to what I assumed was his car. Tyron smiled at us and hit me with a head nod as we went by, holding up his fingers in the shape of a telephone letting me know to call him later. Taye led me around the house to a silver BMW 5 series. Holding out his hand, he helped me into the passenger side, buckling me in and closing my door. He strolled to the driver’s side, hopped in, turned on the AC and drove away without another word.
“Okay don’t say I didn’t warn your ass.”
“Where are we going?” I asked. In retrospect maybe that should have been a question before I got into the car with a strange man. But in my defense my mind was all over the place from even being in his presence.
“You’ll see," he said, eyes never leaving the road.
I knew my cousin wouldn’t let anything bad happen to me, so I tried my best to chill and not let Nyx’s anxiety make me act tooawkward. Plus, he was the one that should have been anxious. He may not have known it, but I had my handy dandy box cutter in my back pocket just in case any bullshit jumped off. We rode for about twenty minutes before he finally broke the awkward silence.
“What do you like to do other than reading and being quiet? Tyron said that you were a homebody.”
“Um, I like music." I told him nervously.
And a morbid fascination with horror movies and the ID channel but I kept that one to myself. I can’t believe Tyron was talking about me with him. I wasn’t sure whether to be mad or happy that Taye cared to know the answers. His head bobbed back and forth as he went back to focusing on the road. He asked a couple more questions seemingly trying to get to know me. My answers were of course short and to the point since I was still sort of nervous around him. Not to seem weird or stand-offish I asked him about himself and found that he was a drug dealer. Figures with this car.
He said that he was single with no kids and had a bachelor’s degree in business management from University of Maryland Eastern Shore. I was impressed that he at least got a degree even though he was using it for his illegal endeavors. With my questions answered we shifted back into the awkward silence from before. Leaning back, I shifted in the seat and pulled out my Kindle so I could read until he struck up some more conversation. When the car started to slow I noticed we were pulling into a hotel just a little ways from Rehoboth beach.
What the hell are we doing at a hotel?I thought as my fingers tingled with anticipation of the feel of my boxer cutter.
“W-Why are we here?” I asked, giving him the side eye.
“See, I told your dumb ass.”
“Chill beautiful. I just wanted to take you to the beach but since it's getting late, I thought we would stay here for tonightand get an early start in the morning,” he said, placing his hand on my knee trying to calm me but actually doing the opposite. I was on high alert for any bullshit.
“I-I guess that makes sense. But you could have told me that before just deciding for me.”
“I’ll keep that in mind next time, pretty girl,” he said jokingly.
He parked the car and then turned to me in his seat before going inside.
