me & tomfoolery

Cold as Ice pt. 5 | Shilo Sanders Short Story

"I think this is so cool, I've never been interviewed on my own before" Tennessee had selected Shelomi as her 'student ambassador to watch'.

From the list of prospects, it wasn't hard to choose. This was one of her final assignments for the semester and it was a steal because it wouldn't be hard to get all the information she needed.

"Really?"

"Yeah, people normally forget about me when it comes to my family. No ones' had interest in who I was outside of the name Sanders."

"Well, I'll make sure they don't forget  after this goes public. Let's get to work cause I'm hungry and the cafe closes early today."

"Oh, I'll just ask Shilo to bring food home."

It was like a punch in the gut to hear his name simply because he still wasn't speaking to her. She didn't think what she said meant anything but soon realized that not only do words matter but intention. As predicted, she was doing exactly what she set out to do, which was run him away. This time her efforts affected her differently. Tennessee spent more time thinking about Shilo than she did ever in her life.

He officially got her.

Contrary to her thoughts, she was glad they weren't around each other. The tension was high and even higher under the influence.

"He asked what you wanted from One Pot." Tennessee loved One Pot, but for a college student it was a rather expensive oriental food experience. "Umm, I'll take an orange chicken with pork fried rice. If he doesn't mind."

"Ten, he doesn't mind and he also doesn't have a choice. If it was up to Shedeur I would starve."

Once the food order was placed, Tennessee went through her list of questions. From the initial answers, she found other questions to ask. Sometime this week she would shadow Shelomi in her natural element.

The door opened Shedeur entered with the food, which confused both Shelomi and Tennessee. "I was just talking shit about you leaving me for dead. How did you end up with the food?"

"Well thanks for the confidence sis," Shedeur gave her a kiss on the forehead before giving Tennessee a side hug. "Shi had to go to his study session. He was running late by the time he got out and caught me on the way in."

"Well thank you!" Shelomi didn't hesitate to open her food to get the full inhale she needed. "Girl you better eat!"

Tennessee at a bit and then picked at her food. Her appetite was unfortunately tied to her emotions and right now there were too many questions going through her head.

Was he that mad he wouldn't come into the house?

Was the study session with Bria?

••••

In all honesty Shilo should've cancelled this session with Bria. She was annoying and couldn't stay on task to save her life. She had been focused on her next nail set while Shilo asked her the proposed questions for their analysis. His MacBook open on a Word Document that was shared to the one person not doing any work.

"Do you even care about this?" He asked finally having enough of his time wasted. "Huh?"

He hated when people said that, because they heard what was being said. He made this face that she didn't even notice.

"You care about this grade or no?"

"Of course I care," she placed her nail file down and put her hand over his, "I'm sorry, what were you saying?"