When we got to the mall we decided to eat first. All we seemed to do was eat but yeah we decided to eat seafood and to say it was weird to eat raw fish is an understatement.
Y'all have to understand, I'm a black person and we don't normally do raw meat unless you grew up in an elite group.
It wasn't so bad to eat that kind of food, it's definitely not something you fall in love with at first taste or sight. But it seemed as if Khalil enjoyed watching my face scrunch up in disgust whenever I ate. He kept on laughing and even took a video of me. He even imitated me, jackass!
After eating we went to the cinema where we spent another thirty minutes fighting about which movie to watch. He wanted to watch some romantic movie but I wasn't for it. I wanted to watch Bad Boys For Life, I mean how many years have we been waiting for that one!?
As we finally came to an agreement, the person at the till seemed amused with us that both I and Khalil looked at him as if he was mad.
"Young love. Always so entertaining" he said with a smile towards us, ncaaw he was gay. I gushed and just stared at him. "Let me guess, she won?"
"Yeah, my baby here always gets what she wants from me," Khalil replied playing along, putting his arm on my shoulder and squeezing me while smiling at the guy.
"Ouch, you hurting me douchebag! There's no need for you to be so rough just because you can't stand your ground." I grumbled in pain and annoyance.
"No foxie, that's just me showing you that whatever you say I'll do. Even if I don't want to." He replied smiling and kissed my forehead making me blush furiously.
"Oh my gosh, you two are officially my new favourite couple. Your tickets will be free." The guy said and I've never been so happy, free tickets just for faking it with Khalil. What more could we get? How about a free wedding my conscience adds. Shut up bitch I respond.
"Wow, thanks. I just love my foxie to death." Khalil thanks him and gets the tickets. We buy our popcorn and drinks and walk into cinema B and I realize that Khalil's hand is still on my shoulder.
"K you can get your hand off me now, actings over!" I tell him with a shrug to move his hand, but it doesn't budge.
"Nah foxie. It's quite comfortable where it is, and who says I was acting?" He asks. I stare at him as if I had just seen a ghost. What the...as I'm about to reply he laughs at me and points at my face "you should've seen your face..." He laughs crouching down to hold his stomach..."priceless!!" He says as he comes up for air wiping tears from his eyes.
This causes me to punch his arm but also some sort of relief and a bit of hurt I guess. "I'm eating your popcorn, you get to keep your drink. Stay away from me!" I say walk away to find our seats. He comes and sits down next to me.
"Hey foxie." He says carefully
"What?" I ask not looking at him
"I'm sorry, can I have my popcorn now please" he pleads
"No. I said I'm eating them."
"Can't we eat them together?" He questions trying to find an alternative way to eat.
"No. You were mean and don't deserve this very tasty warm popcorn." I say looking at him with an annoyed look which is totally fake because I'm enjoying watching him beg.
"Please foxie. I'm sorry. Don't take it out on the popcorn," He pleads even more putting his hand on my knees shaking them.
"Shut up, I'm trying to watch the movie," I say not looking at him. He mumbles something about me and food which makes me laugh in addition to what just happened on the screen. Somehow during the movie he was able to eat the popcorn and by eat I mean finish the whole bucket. Sneaky greedy hot jackass.
"So what do you want to do now?" He asks as we get out the cinema grabbing my hand, intertwining our fingers and waving at Reggie...that was the guys name.
"Well, I really feel as if I need more clothes. So let's go browse through yeah?" I asked smiling at him. I felt all giddy inside because of the intertwining of our fingers, he saw me looking down at them and removed his hand, it instantly felt cold.
"Sorry, was doing it for Reggie." He says touching the back of his neck as a nervous reaction to the situation. Why do boys do that? Instead of being mad, I smiled at him and pulled him into the closest clothing store. I took some outfits and went to see if they corresponded with my body.
"Sit here," I commanded.
"Wow, and here I was thinking this was a dad's or boyfriends job," He says sarcastically smiling at me and I just respond by closing the curtain. I only took dresses because I don't have a lot, so I had to fix that right away. The first one was a simple mid-thigh black dress. Hugged all the right places and showed off a bit of the cleavage. I'd say appropriate for a family dinner.
"Uhm K and only your honest opinions please," I asked with a sweet voice.
"Just come out already." And I did. He looked at me and smiled a mischievous smile... "It's as if you dressed to piss your mom off for forcing you to go with her somewhere you don't like with people you hate. Probably on a date with her best friends 28-year-old son who still lives with his mother." Wow okay, I wasn't expecting that but okay.
"So it's good enough?" I ask with a thumbs up and he nods. Great, on to the next outfit. And it was like that for about an hour. I got all my clothes and paid. When we got out he pulled me to a rather expensive boutique saying that he just wants to see.
I see him going to the women's section and I'm surprised. "Uhm K? The men's section is on the other side," I tell him looking at him curiously.
"I know, just picking out something for you." He replies.
"What for?" I question.
"You'll see. It's just in case."
"Just in case what?"
" Uhuh. These are perfect. Go fit them and let's see which one we'll buy." He says smiling at me. I take the two dresses and go into the dressing room. Okay, the first dress is nice. It's a little bit too tight but beautiful. It's a shoulderless silver dress with a slit that's up to the middle of my thighs. I go out and see K waiting. He's reaction is something I wouldn't have expected.
He stares at me far too long and clears his throat. He nods "It looks perfect on you." I smile at him
"Really?" I ask
"You look beautiful foxie..." He says in a whisper and as if he noticed my blush he adds quickly... "you always do but let's get on with the next dress." I turn around and go change into the next. It's a shimmering gold dress, it has an open back and a slight v in the front. It screams sex appeal but elegance as well. It hugs my curves and flares down. I look at myself in the mirror and I look gorgeous.
I get out and alert K that I'm here now. He turns around and stills. "Wow" he whispers making me blush and look somewhere else. "You look incredible Rina. Absolutely gorgeous." He adds on.
"Thanks, who would've thought you'd ever compliment me." I teased trying to break the awkwardness.
"Well, it's just that you have a banging body that I'd so much like to see." And just like that he ruins the mood.
"Ahhh. Was wondering when he would come out." I say in a monotone voice turning around to go take off the dress. He laughs as I leave and I laugh too. He's so laid back these days, seems so happy and playful.
"K. These dresses are too expensive and I don't have enough money to pay you back for them," I say as we walk to the register till. There's a beautiful woman standing there, well she seems to be a part of this place and here I am looking like an outsider.
"No need to pay me back. Take it as a thank you for dealing with me already." He says as he hands over his card to the lady.
"Well if that's the case you could also buy me a room full of food and wine," I say jokingly.
"Here you go, Mr Mancuso. It's always a pleasure having you shop here." The lady says handing back Khalil's card and giving him the bag of clothes too.
"So where to now?" K asks me. Dang ain't he tired yet.
"You still want to do something?"
"Yeah..." He says shrugging..." Don't tell me you want to go home already."
"Ehe. Nne ndo neta weh." I say knowing he doesn't understand me at all. [sigh. I'm too tired ]
"Foxie, you know I don't understand you. So I'll take it as if you said you want to go eat ice-cream."
At the mention of food, I immediately stand up straight and nod my head vigorously. "Yes. That's exactly what I said." K chuckles at me and we head to the ice-cream shop and sit and talk for hours until the store eventually has to close and we head home. This day was great and to spend it with Khalil just made it special.