the king and the pauper

meet my mama

I was sitting in Elvis's car while driving us to his mama's house. I found I was just staring at him. I just found everything about him so fascinating plus he is too dang attractive it isn't fair.

"Young un you're staring at me that much I'm afraid you're going to burn two holes into my face." He laughed while I cringed.

" Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to stare."

"What were you staring at anyway?."

What was I going to say? I couldn't tell him I was staring at his beautiful face he would think I'm awful forward.

"I......uh....uhm I'm not sure." Oh my gosh, why did I say that? I sink further into my seat hoping it would swallow me whole."

"You are a silly little gal."

I couldn't help but laugh with him because I think he is right. Some of the things coming out of my mouth are pure silliness.

"Little un you can come and sit beside me. If you get any closer to the door I'm afraid you will fall threw it"

I looked up and saw that there was quite a lot of space between us so I moved over a bit and now I'm within touching distance. Elvis looked at me and smiled and laughed a little. He suddenly reached one arm around my waist and pulled me even closer to him so our bodies were now touching.

"There isn't that better." He said smiling that famous smile at me.

"Yeah," I say my breath catching in the back of my throat

I'm sure Elvis is well aware of the effect he is having on me because he has a mischievous glint in his eyes and I just feel like I'm melting more than a snowman in summer.

"You're very quiet. What are you thinking about?"

I'm thinking about your arm draped over my shoulder and how your thumb is rubbing circles at the top of my arm. I'm thinking that I might just lose my mind.

"Oh, I'm not thinking about anything in particular."

"I'm thinking your mama is going to be mad Elvis that you are late." I hear a voice in the back seat and I let out a high-pitched scream.

" Holly, what's wrong? What happened." Elvis asked looking nearly as shocked as me. I think my unexpected scream scared him also.
I glance behind me and saw Lamar sitting in the back seat clutching his heart.

"You trying to kill us all. What's that hollering all about.?" Lamar asked looking like he was on the brink of having a heart attack.

I felt so incredibly silly.

" Ok promise not to laugh?"

"Yeah yeah," they both say

"I forgot Lamar was in the car. I thought we were going to get robbed" I say.

I turned to look at them both and I could see they were struggling hard to not laugh. Elvis had tears streaming down his face.

"Well charming," Lamar said

Suddenly Elvis burst into laughter quickly followed by Lamar and I sat with my arms crossed looking ahead feeling very foolish and my embarrassment making me feel a tad grumpy.

"You's promised not to laugh." I huff

"I had my fingers crossed," Lamar added laughing even harder.

Elvis seeing that I'm getting annoyed was trying his hardest to not laugh but the more he tried not to laugh the more the opposite happened.

" Stop the car let me out please."

"Come on Hunny we're just having a little fun."

"Yeah at my expense," I say tears falling from my face