His protective love

Chapter 4

Antonio's POV

Jay, Divine, and I are driving to 'The Spot', as we talk about school. 'The Spot' is this dope place that all the kids from Northeast go to. It's at the beach, and there's one part that's surrounded by rocks, so we go there to chill, drink, swim, and... you know.

"I don't know man, seems like she has a hold on you, right Jay?" Divine says and hits my arm, and they both laugh.

"Nobody has a hold on me." I respond. Divine scoffs and rolls his eyes. "What," I say, "Mad 'cause I get more pussy than you?" I say. Jay busts out laughing and Divine turns to me.

"I'd rather be faithful to one girl, than get an STD." He says, and jay continues cracking up.

"Aight, not that it's any of your business, but I always use protection." I finish. Get it?

"Yeah, okay." Jay says in a mocking tone. I turn up Cali Lifestyle that's playing on the radio as we drive with the windows down.

We arrive at the spot, and already see hella people sitting around the fire drinking and making out. I scan but don't see her yet. Thanks to Ameera, I know her name is Tyara. God, her name's so beautiful, I can't believe I have the privilege of saying it.

I don't see her friends either, so that's a good sign. We walk down with our stuff and put our hoodies on. Jay walks over to the cooler and grabs two beers.

He hands me one and opens the other one. I sit down on one of the logs set up next to the fire. We're all talking and kicking it, before I see Divine look behind me. "Ayyy what's up baby?" He says with a huge smile and Serene comes running up before sitting on his lap.

I hear footsteps behind me, hopefully she's here. Nini walks to me and daps me up, before sitting on the other end of the log, next to some of her friends.

"What's up, LoSpeechio?" I hear a sharp voice behind me. I chuckle lightly before she comes and stands in front of me. She's wearing the same pants and shoes from today, but she's wearing a red zip-up over her shirt. I look up in her eyes before responding.

"What's up, ma?" I switch it up a little, I hope she's okay with it. Her eyebrows raise a little bit in surprise, and I smirk at her reaction. "Come on, you wanna sit?" I say and gesture at the empty spot next to me.

"Thank you." She smiles and sits down next to me. "So, where you from?" She says and we both laugh. She really switched it up on me. I like it. "For real though, where you from?" She asks again.

"Well, I was born in Italy and came here when I was around 8, but ethnically I'm Italian." I tell her. "You?" I ask.

"My mom's Trinidadian and my dad's Italian. You know who he is." She says and chuckles lightly. I take a sip of my drink before answering her.

"You got that on lock though, both -ians." I say, talking about the end of each word. She scoffs before laughing loudly.

"Yo, that was corny as fuck." She says and we both burst out laughing. I look down at my bottle before looking back at her.

"You want some?" I say and hold the bottle up to her. She looks at it and smiles before taking it.

"Thanks." She says before taking a sip. I take the second to look at her and admire her beauty. She has on golden hoop earrings and her diamond stud in her nose. It shined bright in the light of the fire. Her jacket has rhinestones in the pattern of a heart, it's cute, but I'd love to see her without it. "Antonio?" She asks. Shit, I was spacing out.

"Yeah, sorry. What's up?" I ask. She chuckles lightly before repeating herself.

"I asked, why'd you move here from Italy?" I smile. No one really asked about me before.

"Uh, we were super poor when we were over there. My dad came here, and started a business, with your dad actually. Then he came back and we moved here." I look at her and see she's super attentive and listening.

"That must've been hard, and especially leaving your hometown. I'm sorry." She says and gives me a half smile. I see her leg bouncing a little bit and wonder if she's anxious about something.

"Hey, you good?" I ask. She looks down at her leg before responding.

"Yeah I'm good thanks." She takes a sip of the drink before giving it back. I look forward at Serene and Divine. She's sitting in his lap with a blanket over the both of them. Her head is buried in his shoulder and they're talking and smiling. They're for sure in love, they've been dating for almost 5 years. It's not that I don't want a relationship like that, it's the only thing I want. But, I'm scared. I don't want to get my heart broken, not again.

About 20 minutes pass of everyone talking, drinking, and just hanging out. I see Tyara get up and start to walk away. Nini grabs her arm and says something, before she responds and Nini nods her head and lets go. I see Tyara put her hands in her pocket and start walking away in the direction of the water, walking along it. I get up to follow her, but I'm flooded with questions.

"Hey, where you going?" Jay asks me.

"Man I gotta take a leak, mind your business." I say and he rolls his eyes and laughs. I start walking after her and see her kind of in the distance. I see smoke rising from in front of her and a faint smell of weed hits my nose. I catch up with her before saying something.

"Hey, are you good?" I start before she turns to me and I see her smoking a joint. She looks surprised.

"Are you following me? Kinda stalker-ish LoSpeechio." She says, holding the joint like it's nothing.