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We had a good breakfast, and when she picked an action movie for us to see, I think I started seeing hearts and shit. I was too damn glad I didn’t have to watch some chick flick, but I would’ve watched one for her. After the movie, we headed to some smoothie place she swore had the best salads in the world for lunch.
“So what park you wanna go to?” I asked, as we finished our lunch.
She shook her head and smiled at me. “We’re not going to a park, Ryan.”
“Why not? You don’t want me to make you—”
“I want to talk to you, and I want you to talk to me.”
“We talked at breakfast.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“You got something against me pleasing you?”
“No, but that’s not all there is to you. I want to know the side that doesn’t flash the irresistible smile. The side that doesn’t ooze southern charm. If we’re going to do this, if we’re going to get to know each other, I want to know the real you.”
I sighed and leaned forward, my eyes on her. “This is the real me. The real me likes you, Angela, a lot. The real me has never had to beg a woman for anything, but I basically had to beg you to give me a chance. The real me doesn’t get all messed up in the head over women, but you’ve had my head jacked up almost since the day we met. I have rules I’ve broken just for you. So this is the real me, a new real me, and all he thinks about, is obsessed with, is pleasing you.”
“Obsessed?” she asked, her head tilted to the left. “Why? Why do you like pleasing me so much? You barely know me.”
I reclined in my seat. “I do know you, Angela.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Yes, I do.”
“How? How can you know me when I’ve barely told you anything about myself?”
“Hmm. Well…I know you’re a vlogger, and a successful one, so that means you work hard. You’re serious about business, a straight-shooter, and you don’t believe in doing anything to jeopardize your brand or your coins. You’re kind, you love your family, but you’ve been hurt. That’s why you’re being cautious with me. Oh, and you’ve dealt with some unskilled, non-fucking niggas who didn’t give a damn if their sex left you satisfied or not. Hell, they probably had no clue how to please you. You’re not a virgin, but you’ve probably had, what? Two partners? Two and a half? Stop me when I get something wrong.”
She scoffed. “You are one arrogant man. So what about you, Ryan? You think I can’t read you?”
“Go ahead and try.”
She leaned forward and clasped her hands on the table. “Okay…like I said earlier, you’re spoiled and accustomed to getting your way. You already said you usually don’t have to beg women or chase them, so you’re used to them falling all over themselves for you. You’ve had a lot of partners. A LOT. And you know how to make a woman feel good physically, but you wreck them emotionally. You’ve used women, lied to them, probably have left a bunch of broken hearts in your wake. And although you might be a little calmer and more settled now for some reason, and you’ve most definitely pleased me physically, I’m wondering when you’re going to wreck me emotionally.”
I raised my eyebrows. “It’s not my intention to hurt you, Angela.”
“What is your intention then, Ryan?”
“To spend some time with you, to please you as often as you let me, and ultimately, for you to please me in return.”
“You believe I can please you?”
I smiled at her. “You already do.”
16
The text message alert on my phone tore my attention away from my laptop. I was supposed to be editing another “Outfit of the Day” or “OOTD” video I’d recorded in my backyard, adding music to it, but my eyes were tired, and my mind was on the kiss Ryan laid on me at the end of our marathon date on Sunday.
The message was from him, and I couldn’t help but smile as I read it.
Him: Hey, what u up to?
Me: Working. What u up to?
Him: Lying in this bed over here thinking about u.
