Little Bambina

Twenty-eight

Allison

"Could you slow down?!" I tell Kells.

"Bitch, I know it's not me you're telling what to do with my damn car." She clicks her tongue but slows down nonetheless.

"Thank you, damn." I say with attitude.

"Girl, I will pull over so you can get out my car and find your own way to Jason's."

"It's Jacob's. And I dare you to pull over."

I swear she's been having an attitude since she got back from her cruise late last night. I called her to ask how it was but she dismissed me giving me an awful excuse of being tired. Kells is never tired to gush out about her travel experiences to me. In fact, she'll hit me up as soon as she gets back but last night I had to call her. I'm sure something happened on her trip.

"How was your trip?"

She ignores me.

"Kellianise, I know you heard me."

"Don't call me that!" She spits.

"Did something happen to you while you were away?"
She ignores me again.

"Seriously?" I look at her deadpanned.

"We're here." She mumbles before parking the car.  I sigh.

"Good afternoon ladies. My name's Case. Welcome to Jacob's."

"Hi. Allison for Jacob Carrington."

"Right. He's expecting you. Please follow me to your table." We follow the kind man and he shows us our table for two.

"I will inform Mr. Carrington of your arrival. In the mean time, can I get you lovely ladies anything to drink?" He says placing two menus on the table.

"I'll have a Long Island iced tea." I tell him.
"Margarita." Kells says.
"Alright." He leaves.

"Are you gonna talk now? Cause I'm worried over here, okay?"

She rolls her eyes and sighs. "Fine."

"Great. Now talk."

"It was great-"

"Then why you acting like something went wrong?"

"Let me finish talking, damn."

"My bad." I apologize.

"As I was saying. It was great, Mark really loves spoiling me and I enjoy it. We've been messing around for some time now six months give or take. We had an agreement that I'll just accompany him to events or when he needs to fuck and I get compensated for it. So the cruise was supposed-"

"Allison!" We both turn our heads to see Jacob approaching our table with Case right behind him holding our drinks.

"Jacob!" I squeal standing up to hug him.

"Thank you for coming."

Case places the drinks on the table and leaves.

"Sure no problem. Oh! This is best friend Kells. Kells this is Jacob. He's the owner and head chef of the restaurant."

"Pleasure to make your acquaintance Miss Kells. Like Allison said, I'm Jacob Carrington."

He takes her hand and places a lingering kiss at the back of it while maintaining eye contact with her. Kells seems to be mesmerized by Jacob. It's clear they're into each other. It's like they're both in a trance and I'm feeling awkward just standing looking at them so I decide to clear my throat to get their attention.