Xander
You know she is right, it doesn't make sense, and it doesn't make her life any better. I don't know why I didn't see her before I jumped to Kendra, and I don't know why I rushed to think that I was satisfied with Kendra.
'Ooh, boy, are we here again? I mean, you are still depressed about her? You know you saw her first before Kendra, but what were you told?'
Okay, just chill, I don't want you interfering with me when I am trying to think! Man, what's wrong with you? Would you, for once, give me an idea of how to help her?
Fuck, that will never happen because my brain is only good at mocking me every time. I watch her as she flinches and tries to put herself away from me. Why do I feel hopeless, and helpless every time it is her? I don't feel this way around Kendra, I didn't feel mad that she lost her baby. Maybe I was still undecided whether it was mine or not!
"At least, take something, I don't want you to go home hungry." I don't know if this is going to be helpful but I hope my words change her mind. She looks over at the table but can't see any food because they were covered. She sighs and takes a step, going through the tins that are on the small table. She opens the lid and I watch as her head is slightly in the tin, she smiles while allowing the aroma to freely hit her nostrils. I can't keep myself from taking a snap, remind me to change phones when I get home.
"This is yummy, when did they prepare this?" she asks while grabbing a plate from the side. She places two pieces of drumstick and some vegetables. I know she rarely gets some food for her belly but I hope that this will compensate for it. Maybe I should try and talk to Kendra about the stay arrangement so that we can try and move her from her initial place. I doubt her sister will want her to have the life. I don't know why but I feel like I still don't understand her family.
"Hey, put more, bring this plate here!" she wants to protest but I am not going to let her just have two drumsticks yet she can have as many as five or more. At least she doesn't pretend with food. If it was someone else, they would have placed a lot of vegetables and claimed how Vegetarian they are.
"Xander, what about we share this plate, and then, when we are done we can add more, keep me company while we eat, we will finish everything."
That sounds convincing, I won't mind listening to her munch the vegetables and tear every part of the drumstick. I pick one lid from the tin and pour the food that was already on the plate and add more.
"Spoons?" she shakes her head and lifts a water bottle, "what is the need for spoons when we have ten fingers to help with the job?" she asks while drowning the water remaining. I search around and find the other three bottles of water, I get two and use one to wash my hands. She has short fingernails, I have nothing to worry myself about.
I raise my eyes to watch her but we meet. She chuckles and then dips her hand in the tray. She looks up again and I can't help but smile watching her hold a drumstick in her hand. She brings it closer to her mouth and takes a bit, her eyes close, she chews it and swallows the contents can be seen moving down her throat, my lips are imagining the taste of her neck, I envy the way the food can pass through her neck but my lips can't touch her lips.
"These are good, really, are they organic?" she asks as she places some vegetables in her mouth. I quickly bite my meat before looking at her, "Yeah, totally organic from Kenya, they have amazing chicken over there, you should visit that place once." she nods and goes ahead to eat her meal.
I think this was a nice idea, to place everything in a tray and use our hands. The eating was smooth and we got to talk about random things. She didn't seem shy talking to me, I don't know why but I love it.
She dips her hands back to the tray to grab a slice of meat but accidentally she touches the same drumstick that I was lifting, she looks at me but I am not ready to let it go. She wants to remove her hands but I shake my head, "have it, I can get us some from the tins over there," I say, trying to act cool. I wanted something else, I wanted her to say something that will bring me closer, something like, let's share this but she didn't say it. Instead, she nodded and I woke up to pick the remaining drumsticks from the tin.
Fuck, there are no more drumsticks, looking over at the other tins, there was fish stew and some rice in the other bowl, I had forgotten that I served us all the drum stick. I want to serve the fish but my appetite is not in the mood to have fish right now. I close the lid on my left hand and turn back but there she is, I almost knock her over but she hold on to the table while her left hand was holding the drumstick in her right hand, "sorry," I held her waist slightly so that I can be steady too. "Let's share this, I think, you didn't get any drumstick."
I look at the drumstick that she is trying to hold dearly in her fingers. It is still fresh and she has not bitten any place. I look at it, and as much as I have closed my appetite for the drumstick, the way she is doing it while waving the drumstick in my face drives me to grab it. I bite on it and lift the remaining part, "if you jump this high you will get it but if you fail then, you won't have anything to eat,"
She frowns and looks at the drumstick, she started jumping but she didn't get it. She moves closer but she is too short unlike her sister Kendra who is tall. Using her right hand, she placed it on my neck, I want to back away but I can't, I want this moment too, the way she is using me, hands on her shoulder, her face lifted looking at my lips.
"I have wanted to do this, ever since you did it, can you allow me to do it?" she asks with her left hand trailing on my neck. I want to back out, but my instinct is kicking in and my lips are forcing themselves on her face, I lower my head towards her bringing the drumstick down, she parts her lips at me, her eyes closed, mine closed both of us with eyes closed, I was an inch away but the second I placed my lips on something, it was on the drumstick which she pulled from my lips and stuffed it in her mouth looking at me.
"Haha, you are stupid, you thought I wanted to kiss you? Haha, I got my drumstick back!" she laughed at me while waving the drumstick that was reduced to bones on my face while munching the content in her mouth. Fuck, she knew how to lure me, she knew what I wanted and she got what she wanted.
"You lied, you even said you were sure," I argue. "You didn't ask me sure about what?" she said back while eating the bones and chewing everything.
I loved how she is carefree, but for how long? After this, she will go back to her life and I will be back in my house, place my ring back and act like I am the loving husband, who is tired from his job.
I look at my phone, I know she might be having a curfew, but why have a curfew, she is eighteen!
"Sir, here is what you asked for." My guard was at it again, whispering in my ear. I picked up the package and nodded to him. He doesn't need to follow me everywhere I go. He walks away and I clear my throat while walking toward Vee who was watching the city from the balcony.
"The view is amazing," I stand behind her as she lays her head on the rail and makes her fingers dance on the rail. "It is, just look at the sun setting, it is magnificent." she has good eyes for things. I loved watching the sunset with dad but for now, I don't.
She sighs and closes her jacket but my hands could stay still, they went to her jacket and slowly I helped her close it up, "Soon you won't be closing the jacket, " she chuckles, "Let's hope it will happen."
She turns around and looks at me, the flash on her face can be seen as her eyes shine, "I think I need to head home now." I don't think I am ready to watch her walk away. I have to though.
"Here, this is an iPod, but you can use it to text." she looks at the gadget and shakes her head, "What if he asks me where I got it from?" yeah, that will be another question. "Say you used your savings to buy it. Say it's secondhand. Plus he won't suspect anything about a text. I will try and text you daily, okay?" she nods and places it in her purse.
"Thank you," I blurt it out not intending to, she widens her orbs out, "Why, I should be grateful, for allowing me to arrive early to see my papa and watch this amazing view." her smile makes me smile too, "Can I get that kiss now?"
"Hell no, take me home!"
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