Not Nearly Metta

Destiny

          It seems like just yesterday when we first meet. It was on the beach of Miami for spring break of our sophomore year of college. I was 5’3”, light brown skinned, long thick hair to the middle of my back and thick in all the right places. There I was wearing a two piece purple bikini lying on a towel under an umbrella. A few of my male friends left to go chase after some naive and hopefully legal girls or played basketball. And as for the hand full of female friends that I did have they was either looking for their next victim for the day or on the board walk. I didn’t mind being alone. It gave me time to relax and read up on my romance novels before night hit. That’s when the party animal in me came out. Just when my book was getting good I got hit on my ass with a football. “Ouch” I yelled, “that hurt”! I got up to pick up the ball and as I looked to see who ball it belong to the world seemed to move in slow motion around me. This dark brown young man with the body of a Greek God and the face of a model came running my way, waving his hand and shouting something I could not make out. He had to be at least 5’9” or 5’10” on a good day. He had on purple and yellow shorts, and from what I could see a 6 pack and nice, big, strong arms that I would love to be wrapped in. “Are you ok” he said with a deep yet concern voice. “Yea, it just ummm you hit me on ma ass” I said never blinking or really thinking about what I was saying. I was to wrap up in the sight of this fine specimen of a black man standing in front of me. “Well I hope my ball isn’t damaged” he said with a smirk. “Excuse you” I snapped as his remark snapped me out my trance. “I’m just saying with all that you packing in your trunk you can do some damage” he replied. “No disrespect” he said waving his hands and slowly taken a step back. “Here’s your ball, try not to hit anyone else” I said as I tossed the ball at him and picked up my yellow wrap to cover myself with. As I started to turn away he said “I see we match”. As I looked myself and him over “I guess we do”. “What was your name again beautiful” he asked.  “I never gave one” I said taking my seat on my towel and attempting to read my book. “Well Ms. I Never Gave One, my name is Antonio but everyone calls me Ant or Tony. And I apologies for hitting you with the ball and for what I said earlier” he said lending his hand to me. I took off my glasses and smiled “apology accepted Mr. Antonio” and shook his hand. “Still not going to tell me your name” he asked. Before I could reply my phone ranged it was my best friend Alicia. Her nosey ass was watching me wondering who the man I was talking to was. Not that I could really blame her because he was fine but she was always in someone else business. So I summed up our conversation and hung up. “Sorry for being rude, but I have to go” I said packing my things. “Well if you’re not busy tonight I would like to see you again under different circumstance. The Omegas will be having a bomb party tonight starting at 10”. Before he could finish his invite I told him that my friends  and I had planes and that if he wanted to see me again if he throws the ball I’m sure it is destined to hit me again. “Wait” he said running after me “can you tell me your name now” he asked. “Nope” I said with a big smile. “But I can tell you, you have some beautiful brown eyes”. And just like that I was gone.

         As I got ready for dinner my friend Marvin  told me to change into something comfortable. Meaning no heels! So I changed into a long white dress, brown sandals and earrings. The dress hugged my body just right; the front was low enough to play peek-a-boo with my breast without showing to much. It was thin and stretchy which made it comfortable. It dragged on the floor so I hiked it up when I walked. I pulled my hair into a low ponytail and sat my glasses on top showing off my Cali Swag in Miami. “Daaaaaaaamn Le-Le milk really does do a body good” Marvin playfully said as he smacked me on my ass. I was use to the booty jokes from a lot of my friends if not all.  A few hours later all 10 of us were finally ready to go eat. Since Chris  was from Miami he knew all the hot spots and planned where we went. None of us minded as long as we all got to party every day. We ordered and joke around as we waited for our food. “Hello again Ms. I Never Gave One” a deep voice said from behind. Everyone stopped talking and laughing and looked at the mysterious group of men standing behind me.  Before I could say a word he continued “I guess you weren’t blowing me off when you said you had planes with your friends. Damn girl you role deep” he said flashing me a smile. Once again before I could speak my time was stolen away by Alicia this time. “And who might you be” she said standing up playing as if she had an attitude. If I knew Alicia she was flirting and was going to have at least one if not all the men phone numbers before they left the table.  Alicia was pretty. She was a year older then me dark skinned, about 5’4” with huge breast and rocked a short hair cut like no one ever could. Not saying that I wasn’t just as pretty but she was a lot more confident and wasn’t shy about her breast. Unlike me I tried to hide my body behind clothes. And she was very flirtatious which could sometimes come off as sluttish “I’m sorry, my name is Antonio. I’m a friend of”… “Lela” I said interrupting Antonio. He turned back to me and grabbed my hand “I’m glad I didn’t have to throw a ball to have to see you again Lela” he said in a low voice that only I could hear as he kissed my hand. I hung my head down because I could feel my face turning red. I felt like the spot light was on me. No matter how beautiful I seemed to others on the outside I was extremely shy on the inside. If luck was ever on my side when I needed it the board walk floor would open up and swallow me whole. I could feel everyone eyes on us and I was looking for any way out. Alicia mission was to break me out of it. “And might I add you are looking very beautiful tonight” he added. Whisper of agreements and compliments brought my head back up as I turned my attention to the men standing behind Antonio. “How rude of me, these are my brothers” he said standing to the side as I waved and said hello to them all. It had to be at least 5 of them behind him. And none of them looked like him so I assumed he called them his brothers since they were close friends. “What up T” Chris yelled at one of the men standing behind Antonio. Chris asked them if they wanted to join us and waved for the waitress to bring more chairs. As all the men sat down one of the men reached for the chair next to me but Antonio told him to move and sat next to me. Chris introduced the table to his friend T. In unison Carson  another friend of mines well my best friend since childhood and I asked how Chris and T knew each other. Carson was a few shades darker than me, thin, 5’5”, and with shoulder length hair. I always told her she should be a model if she wasn’t so clumsy. She was just as pretty as one but had two left feet. We grew up together from elementary and we’re like sisters. Any way Chris and T went to high school together. After we all finished the guys in my group all wondered what we were doing next. Chris told us that we were suppose to me up with T at the Omegas bomb fire tonight but because I already knew one of them we could all leave together. “One of them” I asked Chris. “Yea, I am a member of Omega Psi Phi” Antonio said as his friends and started barking. “And they are my frat brothers” he added. “I guess you got what you wanted” I said to Antonio. He asked me if I wanted to ride with him but I said I’ll past. However Alicia was ear hustling and accepted my invitation as long as she could ride along between two of his frat brothers. It didn’t matter who she was sitting with she just loved the attention rather it came from a male or female it didn’t matter. As we arrived to the beach Antonio and his brothers as he called them and my 7 male friends that came with me unloaded the cars and started cooking. Carson, Alicia and I walked to the water away from everyone so that they could grill me for information in private.