Clover

Chapter 23

I pushed a cart down the aisle with Soren who was humming Christmas songs. It's a few days before Thanksgiving and since it's so many of us were having a potluck type of dinner. My household is cooking ham and yams. We're out getting the supplies now.

"Look I found this huge ass box of oatmeal cream pies." Adonis came back up us to us. "Oh and I got a few sweet potato's." He dumped both in the basket.

"Romero please don't make any cream pie jokes. I saw the look on your face." Soren said something before I could.

"Damn." I frowned. "I had a few, something like 'I can be your cream pie,'."

"Romero!" Soren yelled.

"I'm sorry I had to get one out." I smirked. I hugged him to my side. He pouted but melted into me.

"I don't understand how you've put up with his mouth for so long?" Adonis said. He snaked an arm around my shoulders.

"At some point I got used to it." Soren shrugged. "I like his filthy mouth."

"Oh that's how you don't mind it because you say the same nasty shit as him." Adonis smirked. "I'm dating two perverts."

"Hey you like these two perverts." I pointed at him.

"Maybe we should stop calling ourselves perverts." Soren interjected. We all nodded and made our way to the checkout line.

"We going to the soup kitchen this year?" Adonis asked while we were putting the groceries in the car.

"Of course we go every year." I smiled.

"I've only been like twice. When I did go though our entire family was there." He smiled. "When I was little I used to take myself and Jamal there for holidays. It wasn't far from our house so we'd walk. My parents never said anything, they let me do it for a few years."

I reached up and wiped a tear that fell down his face. Adonis used to have some deep hurt in him, he still does but he's talks about it now. He talks to me about shit now and it's heartbreaking to hear. I'm happy he's comfortable enough to share with me but it's hard hearing about your partner's bad past.

"Sorry, that was like some deep childhood memory type shit that just came up. I'm okay baby." He leaned into my hand with a smile. I nodded and pulled away.

*~*~*

I peeked over at Soren's painting. He was making a grassy field with flowers. It was beautiful and it made me feel like shit over my odd looking sky.

"Stop looking Donny, we gotta switch soon." Soren turned his body away from Adonis.

"You making that artist shit and all I did was mesh some colors together." He laughed. "I don't know if I wanna fuck yo painting up."

"It gotta be better than mine." I turned my canvas over. I was trying to make a sun with an airplane. It got away from me though.

"No, Ro, that's um a nice uh." Soren squinted.

"It's an airplane. Damn you really couldn't tell." I turned it over to me some. I guess they couldn't. It was sort of an blob.

"Oh yeah I definitely see it now." Adonis nodded. "Anybody get on that bitch they definitely crashing though." He and Soren laughed.

"Fuck you." I frowned.

"It's true." His phone rang, cutting him off. "I'll be back." He smiled getting up.

"It's okay my love when we switch I'll fix it up and make it really nice." Soren hugged me. I set down the painting and pulled him in my lap. He straddled my waist and connected our lips.