Past Love

Chapter 17: Date Night

Wednesday July 27th, 2005

7:30pm

Tyrone

I had a rough day today but I am glad that I'm getting out of this house to go spend some time with Jahmelle. I called him over the weekend and I apologized to him and we agreed to have a date night tonight we're going to go to a restaurant somewhere here in St Louis so I was getting my best suits together, trying to figure out which one to wear. I finally settled on this nice all white Armani suit that I had tucked away in the closet. I got it out and put it on, to be honest I was surprised that it still fit the way it did. I put on a little bit of muscle, the dress shirt was a tad tight but not uncomfortable. Once I got dressed I put some very nice cologne on. I'm still kind of upset about the whole thing with my boxing career because I put so much work into it but at the same time I shouldn't have said what I said to him. I was in the wrong for that, so hopefully when I take him out tonight me and him can get back on the same page, because I really care about him. As I was putting my tie on I got a phone call. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was my mother Lisa calling.

"Hey ma, how are you doing?"

"Hey baby I'm good. I'm just calling to check on you. How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling okay I guess. I could be feeling a lot better though. Anyway I'm just getting dressed, I'm getting ready to take Jahmelle out to a nice restaurant. Do you know of any nearby?"

"Well I heard of this fancy restaurant on the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Olive boulevard called Sylvan's French cuisines. They make all types of cuisines like Steak frites. Voilà, cannelé, French onion soup, Bouillabaisse, Salmon en papillote. They also have some other things like lobster, steak, salads, things like that. Oh and their desserts are nice, especially the chocolate souffle."

"You sound like you were there recently with somebody." I say laughing. "I hope you have been behaving yourself ma."

"Don't worry about me child, what you need to be doing is thinking about your man. Take him out and have a good time. Anyway I'm going to go ahead and go. I got something to do and I'll talk to you later. I love you son, bye."

After I got off the phone with my mother I called Jahmelle. I talked to him for a bit and I told him that I was going to be at his place in about 5 minutes. I told him to be ready when I got there, and that I had a nice surprise for him. I got in my car and headed towards his place and as soon as I got there he wasn't out there so I honked the horn and waited there for a few more minutes and then he came out with an annoyed look on his face. He got in the car and he folded his arms.

"Nigga didn't I tell you to come out here and be waiting for me?" I asked him, smiling.

"You not my daddy." He said.

"But I can be." I told him, winking at him.

"Oh word? Is that right? we'll see, we'll see if you can handle all of this." He said, biting his bottom lip.

"Oh so you trying to get something started early huh?"

"Mhmmm I might be." He said laughing. "Anyway where are you taking me?"

"That's a surprise. But when we get there I know you're going to like it, so just sit back and enjoy the ride baby."

I drove down the road, I drove right to the corner of the restaurant. It took about 7 or 8 minutes probably with traffic and everything but other than that it was smooth sailing. When we got there and I parked in the parking lot you looked at me and kissed me right on the cheek.

"Yo man I didn't think you would take me to this nice place."

"Well you deserve the best. Don't forget that either."