Someone Like You

Chapter 21

Zeniyah

We get to my condo apartment and Giovanni gets out fussing about how the neighborhood isn't safe. I take him up to my unit and tell him to wait outside but he refuses stating he's "scared". He follows me into my room where I grab one of my luggage that's already partially packed and begin swapping some clothes around so I only take what I need: bonnets, undergarment, jeans, tights, a few dresses, and 2 pairs of scrubs for when I go back to work. 

"Princess, why do you just have luggage pre-packed, where you going?" Giovanni asks while poking around my room taking up so much space

"Nowhere," I laugh "When I was younger my family wasn't exactly rich, the building I lived in had roaches and rats so we mostly kept our clothes in hard luggage," I explain thinking back 

"You have more family?" he asked curiously 

"Yeah, did you think I was an orphan?" I ask him back 

"Maybe," he says making me shrug 

After I packed my clothes I grabbed my Air Forces, my Air Max 97s, and some heels, just the basics along with some wigs and my laptop. Giovanni grabs most of my things taking them down to the car. The second he leaves I push my bed frame to the side and lift one of the tiles, I pull out a lockbox from there that has a burner phone in it and slip that into my pocket. I put everything back in its place and change out of Giovanni's joggers into my own skinny jeans but I keep on his hoodie.

I lock up then join him back in the car and he starts driving again. We pull up at a mall a few minutes later and I just look at him. He climbs out then walks around helping me out before grabbing my hand and we begin walking in. I feel so weird walking in a mall without my purse and not alone but it feels nice at the same time. 

"So where do you want to go, first princess?" he asks

"What do you mean?" I ask back to him

"I brought you here to have a shopping spree you know for new clothes and such," he says back

"Hun if I need new clothes we can just go back to my place there's so much I haven't worn since I've been working all year," I say laughing

"Whatttt no common love, live a little there has to be something you've always wanted but didn't want to splurge on yourself," he says making me think 

"I can never think of things at the moment," I say after a while laughing. "I don't want you spending your money on me anyways," 

"You let Tony spend his money on you," he says frowning

"That's not fair, I didn't ask that of him," I say hitting Giovanni's arm and releasing his hand walking forward. He reaches for my hand but I pull away and he continues to follow me like a lost puppy for a while. 

After some time he speaks up again, "Hey look there's a movie theater, wanna go?" 

"Yeah why not," I say and we begin walking towards it

We get there and I choose a comedy movie and he insists on buying the tickets and snacks. We settle in watching a movie called "Thunder Force" the movie is absolutely hilarious and I laugh till my sides hurt. 

"I love your laugh baby," he whispers in my ears causing chills to run down my spine. Suddenly I can't focus on the movie anymore. After the movies over, we walk out into the mall and he asks me yet again what I want to buy but nothing comes to mind. 

"Ok fine I know what I want to buy but it's not here, lets go," I say taking his hand and leading him to the exit. We pass a Foot Locker and I look inside at the new Retro 7's. 

"You want princess?" he asks and I quickly shake my head no. I really do deep down but they're almost $200 and he's already done so much for me.

We walk out of the mall and he asks me where it was I wanted to go. I enter the address on the GPS and we pull out of the mall parking lot. After about 10 minutes we pull up to a Western Beef grocery store. He parks before looking at me strangely, 

"Why the hell, are we at a grocery store," he says to me with his brow raised. 

"Well you wanted to spend money on me and this is what I want, we're running low on groceries with all my cooking so we need more," I said. He shakes his head sighing, 

"Love that's not what I meant," he says. I smile shrugging before hopping out of the car.

He climbs out and holds his hand out for me to take which I do, I grab a shopping cart handing it to him then we walk into the store. Going through the isles I grab everything from baby food, chips, and cookies, to chicken, beef, cheese, milk, and cereal. We also got things like soap, diapers and toilet paper. We got everything you name it. 

The total of everything comes up to about $300 making me frown. 

"What's wrong, are we forgetting something?" he asks 

"No the total, it's so much I'll pay half," I say pulling money out of my bra

"Too late," he says tapping his card against the terminal making my glare at him angrily. He bends down pressing a kiss against my lips and pushing the cart after grabbing the receipt. 

We stop once more grabbing some Mediterranian food because I'm craving it, then we drive home.