The Two of Us

Chapter 10

Noel-
"Jesus Christ, Noel. How do you even manage to stay alive?" I mumbled to myself as I stumbled down the stairs trying to put on my shoe. Gerald had been sitting in his car for 30 minutes waiting for me. What can I say, I love sleeping. I ran out of my building and opened the door of G's car completely out of breath, I managed to shine a weak smile as he pretended to be mad. As a smile spread across his face, I got in the car and kissing his cheek.

"You're lucky you're cute." He muttered as he began to drive with his hand on my thigh. "Why are you so quiet?"

I looked out the window then at him," Just thinking about my paper, it's not my best because I rushed it." I mumbled reaching for his hand and squeezing it. " I know I could've done better, but-"

"I'm sure it was fine, baby. So far what I've read is amazing, it'll turn out great." He interrupted me, pulling into the parking lot of an ice cream parlor. I slowly hopped out of the car still groggy and sleepy, meeting Gerald just outside my door I grabbed his hand in both of mine and rested my head on his arm. Laundry detergent, and weed lingered on his clothes and it began to grow on me, it became comforting like his voice.

As we stepped through the door a little bell rang, and the smell of ice cream and sweet toppings hit my nose, the aroma time warped me to my five year old self with my father, my heart raced at the memory.

"What do you want?" Gerald asked as he looked at the menu.

"Double fudge brownie with whipped cream and a cherry, please." He kissed my forehead. I made my way to booth, and later Gerald followed with both of our ice creams. " Thank you, papi." The word had escaped my mouth before I could stop it, and I was somewhat embarrassed.

To my relief he flashed a smile and winked at me. He's too good for me.

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Welp sorry that I haven't been on here it thank you for the comments tbh the last little bit was inspired by what happened to me like 3 weeks ago and I would talk about it here but you guys probably don't care. I'm really sorry that it's short I'll try to make the next one longer.