The Woods [Book One]

Five

"Will that be all?" The cashier asked and I nodded pulling my card out to swipe it. Once my card was cleared I signed my name on the dotted line and placed it back in my wallet.

"Bitch come on, we don't got all day." My best friend Danielle said behind me. I rolled my eyes and grabbed the receipt from the lady and she handed me my bags.

"You don't have to rush me." I mumbled as I walked up to her looking at all the people who were now staring at us.

"Well we all know you slow as a snail so." She said as we both walked out of Victoria secret.

"I'm not slow." I stale faced her.

"Do I need to call mom?" I laughed because she knew that if she called my mom, they would go into a whole conversation about how I comprehend thing a little later then they do. "Exactly, lets go into shiekh." I shrugged and we both headed over to the store.

"So I was with Johnny the other day," I said as we walked in going straight over to the sneaker wall.

"Uh huh?" She nodded for me to continue.

"Well I wasn't with him, you remember that day that I had asked you to come out with me? But you had to work?" She nodded. "So I asked Denise and Angie if they wanted to come with me. So when we get there Johnny up there with his friend!" I said making her eyes bulge.

"His friend? Who his friend?" She asked now facing me. She was interested now.

"Girl his name is Eric! I acted like I didn't know who he was but I knew who he was. But anyways, Johnny introduced me to him and blah blah, we were flirting and dancing. Then he had to go because Johnny was ready to go, so the next day! I'm at work right? And guess who walks in bitch!"

"Eric?!" She asked surprised.

"Girl yes! Mrs. Gloria is his mama!" Her mouth dropped.

"Get the fuck out! Don't play!" I jumped up and down squealing.

"Bitch yes! I damn near walked back in the break room when I seen him standing there."

"Well what did you do? What did he say?" She grabbed my wrist and pulled me over to a bench and we both sat down on it.

"She introduced us and we shook hands acting like we didn't know each other. So I'm like 'Hi it's nice to meet you, I'm Toni.' And he's like 'I know who you are'. Bitch I wanted to smack that stupid smirk right off his face." Her eyes got wide and she pulled her neck back.

"Then when me and tootsie went to the game on Friday, Guess who was there!" I exclaimed.

"Eric!"

"Girl yes! But anyways, I go downstairs to get some food right? And he's behind me in line. So the lady tells me they don't accept cards, so I get out of line to call tootsie to bring me some cash down and boom all of sudden he's behind me with my food in his hands."

"What the fuck." She said.

"So I try to give him the money for it and he argues with me about not taking the money so I slip it in his hand and walk away, so me and tootsie go back upstairs and he follows me. Someone had took our seats so we had to look for more. So I'm looking for a seat right?"

"Right." And she nods her head.

"All of a sudden I feel his hand in my back pocket so turn around and he winks at me and walks back up with Johnny and they start laughing like it's def comedy jam or something."

"Wooaahh." She said trying to process all of this. "This hella weird." I laughed.

"It's weird girl, like hella weird." I said standing up. She stood up with me and we both walked over to the heels.

"Bitch was he at least cute?"

"Cute? This nigga was fine. Like, as fuck." I said picking up a pair of heels.

"Elaborate." She said.

"He was tall, lightskinned,he has tattoos, nice Cesar cut, and he dress nice too."

"Sounds like someone you would go for." She smirked. I laughed and looked around the store.

"Danielle!" I smacked her arm. "That's him!" I pointed him across the store with Johnny. She turned her head so fast and I pulled her close to me so she could see them together.

"Damn they fine." She mumbled with Me behind her hiding from them. "Bitch, why are you hiding?"

"Because I don't want them to see me. He'll say something cocky, I already know." I rolled my eyes.

"Well I found my shoes sooo you gon be on your own for a minute." Danielle ripped from in front of me and began walking toward the register leaving me standing there.

"Danielle!" I said with a straight face.

"Come on." She mouthed back waving her hand at me.

I rolled my eyes and put the shoe that I had picked up down and followed her over to the register. I noticed that they had moved across the store which was in back of the registers. I tried my hardest not to look over because one of they asses could see me.

Me and Danielle waited in line until it was time for her to pay and we both stepped up to the register. She swiped her card and paid for her shoes and we hurried our asses out the line and made it to the door.

"You wanna go into Jhlae?" She asked as we walked out of the door.

"Girl yes! I seen this cheer white skirt that I wanted." I said as we started walking down the mall to go to the store.

When we go into the store I found the skirt and me and Dani tried on a few shirts and jeans. When it was time for me to pay I went pull out my wallet and pay for my clothes. When I grabbed the bags from the lady she gave me my receipt and we left the store.

"Did you get invited to Dejah's all black party?" I asked as we sat down at the food court sipping our frozen lemonades.

"Yeah, but all black? We going to a funeral or something?" I spit out my lemonade from laughing so hard.

"You know Dejah gotta turn something around," I said drinking more. "I heard that it's masquerade too."

"That might be cute."

We finished up our lemonades and decided that it would be time for us to go since I had to work in a few. We headed toward the exit and I wasn't paying attention because I was texting someone on my phone and bumped into somebody.

"Oh damn, my bad shorty." I looked up from my phone seeing Eric. My voice was caught in my throats and I couldn't speak.

"You know," He passed licking his lips. "We gotta stop bumping into each other like this."