Bigger Than Most

Chapter 54💚

Ranae

Date Night Pt. 2

  "So what made you finally ask me on a date?" I say to him, drinking more of my wine.

He sipped from his wine glass and sat it down. "You was waitin'?"

    "Yes." I admit. "I didn't think you ever would ask though. Since you don't really seem like the romantic type."

He grinned. "It ain't that I'm not romantic, it's the fact that no other shorty was worthy enough to bring it outta me."

    "Aww. So basically I'm the special one." I cooed, giggling like crazy. Looking at him staring back at me with a smile on his face made me laugh.

   "You are. So consider ya self lucky." He says softly pinching my cheek and I smacked my lips.

    "Nah, you're the lucky one." I shot back.

    "Fasho." He says still staring, making me grow nervous now.

    "Why do you always do that?" I say, blushing looking down at my nails. "Stop staring into my soul."

     "Cause we havin' a conversation." He says leaning forward on the table and crossing his arms. I still felt his eyes on me heavy.  "Plus, it's considered rude not to. And I'm paying attention. It's how I figure people out, watch they body language. Like you, I see you ma."

    "What do you mean you see me?"

   "Shit different. You slowly changin. Breakin outcha shell wit me. Ya confidence growing." He explains. "Just watching it happen is fire to me."

I feel his hand cup my chin, turning me to look at him. "And I expect the same when someone talkin to me."

"I can't. It's too..." I paused trying to find the word for it, chuckling.

"Intimate." He answers and I nodded.

"Right." I blushed. "And I feel like you judging me low key."

"Judge you for what?" He ask.

    "I don't know. People judge and criticize me for a lot of things, I told you."

     "And I told you I'm not people ma. Stop seeing me as them. I fuck wit everything about you."

I glanced at him, nibbling on my bottom lip. I was still on the fence about some things he says. Apart of me feels like he really doesn't but another part of me feels he does because why waste either of our time? I'm just overthinking things.

   "I'm so use to it though. Not something I can just throw away." I say honestly.

"That's why we work on it together. Shit takes time."

The waiter came back over and we told him what we wanted. As he finished writing it down, he took our menus. "I'll have both of your meals right out to you soon." He says and we thank him.

"So back to you saying us moving forward, what do you mean by that?"

He took a sip of his from his glass of wine and set it back down. He looked at me through my soul like normal, making me blush but I kept the eye contact.

"I want you."

My heart was fluttering hearing him say this. I never blushed so hard until right now. Probably looks like I got slapped in the face. I've been waiting for this for what feels like forever. Right now I wanted to just say yes and kiss all over his face.