Be Love

9.

Birthday and Problems: Pt.2

Sorry for any errors

Raekwon

The drive to our destination was coming to an end. About 3 hours into the drive, Kianna fell asleep. Her head was resting to the side as she snuggled under a blanket.

Occasionally I would reach over the armrest to caress her thigh, and to make sure her blanket wouldn't fall. I was now taking the last exit just before the bridge. Carefully merging over, I get into the lane with all the other traffic.

As I make my way through the city, I see Kianna stretching and yawning. She rubbed her eyes like a baby and pushed the blanket to her lap. Pulling up to the red light, I felt a small hand pulling at my arm. I stopped behind the array of vehicles before entangling our hands together. 

"Hey." I lifted our hands kissing the back of hers. I relaxed against the seat.

"Hey." She smiled. I mirrored her and leaned over to kiss her but she stopped me, turning her head to the side.

"No babe. I'm sure my breath is hot." She covered her mouth shaking her head.

"Girl stop playin. I've kissed you multiple times when you've had dragon breath. Now come here." I pulled her by the hand.

"Ok ok." She went to lean over the armrest and just before our lips could touch-

HONK!

HONK!

"Damn. Niggas can wait." I gripped the steering wheel pulling thru the green light.

I heard Kianna gasp as I let her hand go. She had finally looked out her window and realized where we were.

"New York? Really?" She exclaimed, clapping her hand, bouncing in her seat.

"Yea. I thought about going home for my birthday but I wanted to be with just you. And I have too many people who are ready to meet you back home." I pulled up in front of the hotel putting the truck in park.

"My mom knows about you and asks about you every time we on the phone." I lean back into my seat blowing out a long breath. After driving the whole way, only stoping once for gas's and to use the bathroom, I am tired. Kianna turns back to face me furrowing her brows.

"You told your mother about me?" We unbuckle ourselves and I watch as she digs through her purse to retrieve her lip gloss.

"Yea. She hasn't seen me genuinely happy in years. Even with my ex she knew I was stressed." I disconnect my phone from the charger to put it in my pocket. "But ima take you to meet her one day soon."

"Dang now I'm nervous." We both laugh.

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10 minutes later after checking in at the front desk, I grabbed a luggage cart and wheeled it out. Kianna was there standing at the trunk starting to pull her bags out.

Loading up the cart, I straightened everything making sure they won't fall. Was I being lazy, yes because I could've easily carried our bags.

"Got your phone and charger?" I pushed the cart to the door. Glancing back to see if she heard me, I saw she was searching through her purse

"Damnit. Ima have to buy another one while we here." She held her phone in her hand and made her way over to me.

It was finally time to made it way to the room. Pushing the luggage cart thru the rotating doors, we headed to the elevator.