Dream Girl | Omeeka

Chapter 7: Perfect Imperfections

Chapter 7
Perfect Imperfections

Downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Part 1

10:36 a.m.

(Meek wakes up to the sound of dishes banging in the kitchen. He rolls over and doesn't see Nicki in bed. The door to the room is slightly open. He can smell eggs cooking and a smile spreads across his face.

As he rolls out of bed his head is pounding. He had barely made it home from the studio only a few hours ago.

He gets out of bed in a pair of long black pajama shorts and slides his feet into his slippers. He checks his phone to find a message from his sister.

// The text read:

Na: I got papi and denim

Na: you want us to come through, or you coming out here?

He responds//

He walks out of the bedroom to his living area where he sees Nicki in the kitchen. She's barefoot, with a pair of boy shorts on and a crop top. She turns around to notice him as he walks toward her)

Nicki: "Goodmorning Meeky Mouse" ...

Meek: (rubbing his eyes) "oh that's my nickname for today?" (laughing)

Nicki: "yep!" (in a kidlike voice)

Meek: (walks up behind to peek at the food on the stove) "you cook too? see Im gon fuck around and marry you..." (kissing her on her shoulder)

(Nicki is preparing a traditional West Indian breakfast, grits, eggs, plaintains, fried dumpling, and turkey bacon. All she can do is smile. She changes the conversation)

Nicki: "so, we're thinking about doing a video for buy a heart?"...

Meek: "alright" (he says as he's leaning on the counter eating a grape)

Nicki: "just alright? ..."(she looks at him) "what do you think?"
Meek: "I'ma support whatever you do.." ... "if we do the video, I'ma have to get in the gym so I can play the lead man..."

Nicki: (laughing)

Meek: "get my Trey swag on.." (flexing and laughing)

Nicki: "Oh yea?" (walks over to him seductively, and leans in) "go brush" (she whispers)

Meek: (laughing and smelling his breath) "damn Nick, its like that?"

Nicki: "yes go now!"

Meek: "aight" (he leans in and kisses her anyway, then jogs to the bathroom)

(Nicki has everything ready and laid out on the table. It's just the two of them. Meeks friend Tak sometimes stays there in the other room, but he didn't return this morning)

Meek: "am I good now?" (walking to Nicki and giving her a kiss)

Nicki: "yah, siddung" (in a west indian accent, motioning for him to sit) "eat up"...

(Meek sits down and eats as if he were starving, never putting the fork down)

Nicki: "so..." (she gets serious) "have you spoken to your lawyer?"

Meek: (stops eating and puts his fork down) "... I heard from him a few days ago"

Nicki: (anxiously) "and?"

Meek: "it's looking like a No, as of right now" (disappointment comes over his face)

Nicki: (begins to pout)