Lies & Affairs

seventeen

"You look beautiful."

Sapphire closed the top to her edge control. "Thank you, now get dressed."

"It won't take me long to get dressed, it's you that takes hours and hours on end." Ty'Quan said, removing the towel from around his waist. "I have a gift that I want you to open."

"Really?" Sapphire's eyes lit up. "Where is it?"

"Wait just a second." He told her, sliding his boxers over his legs and private area.

Ty'Quan disappeared downstairs then returned with a gift bag in his hands. He set the bag on the bed then stepped back and motioned for Sapphire to open it.

Sapphire reached her hand inside and pulled out a card. She opened it, catching the three blue, crisp 100 dollar bills before they hit the ground. She read it aloud:

"I don't know how you got into my heart, but I do know that I don't want you to leave. Aww."

"Keep going."

Closing the card she reached inside of the bag and pulled out a box that had the words "MacBook Air" running up the side of it.

"I remember you telling me you broke your other one and how you've been meaning to buy yourself another." He explained.

"You got me some more AirPods too."

"Yeah, I got tired of not being able to talk to you while you're working because you ran over the other ones. I still don't understand how that happened."

"I didn't! I had too much stuff in my hands and dropped them, they bounced around and a car coming through the parking garage ran them over right in my face. I was so devastated." Sapphire said.

Sapphire continued searching through the bag. The rest of the items inside were perfumes she'd briefly mentioned and jewelry that he thought would look good on her. At the end, she was a crying mess.

"Why are you crying?"

"I'm just so emotional," she wiped her face.

He hugged her and kissed her forehead. "If you're crying over this I'd hate to see how hard you cry tomorrow."

"What do you have planned for tomorrow?"

"Now, baby, why would I tell you that?"

He walked around to the other side of the bed. "I only brought the little gifts along on the trip, that way we wouldn't have to take so much back home with us. Everything else is home; the clothes and shoes and all of that stuff."

"That makes sense."

He pulled his shorts up. "Stop staring at me, weirdo. I feel like I'm about to get fucked."

Sapphire laughed loudly, laying across the bed and watching him get dressed. "I'll give you whatever you want."

"Jesus, let me call my mom and tell her I'm about to get raped."

"It's not rape if you like it."

He raised his eyebrows. "True."

They both laughed. Ty'Quan pulled his shirt over his head then looked around the bedroom. "Bae?"

"Hm?"

"I left my wallet."

"You left your wallet back home?!" Sapphire exclaimed.

"No, I left it in the car. Can you go get it for me?"

"Hmm..." Sapphire trailed off. "I guess so. I guess I like you good enough to do that for you."