Bread: A Hood Love Story

Michael (XIII)

Michael

June 20th

9:45pm

"Gabi!" I whisper-yell up to her when she opens her window. "Can we talk? Please?"

Look at this shit. Girl got me begging already.

Gabi just stares down at me with so much hurt in her eyes, it's killing me. Felt like someone stabbed my chest. I hate that I caused it, again. I've been trying to apologize all day, but no one was home. Finally I had a chance. I need to convince her that Amiyah and I are not together. 

She's it for me.

Gabi keeps glaring at me for what feels like hours. "Fine. Go around back." She disappears from the window.

I sigh in relief. 'Thank God...'

I hurry around the house to get to the back door and wait for her to let me in. When she opens the door, she's wearing nothing but a black tank and black shorts. I almost start drooling. She was gorgeous.

"Uhm, you ain't got a robe or..."

But she didn't seem to care how her, ahem, pajamas were affecting me. Gabi slams the back door, stepping outside with me and snapping me out of my trance.

"Now you listen here Michael!"

My eyes widen in surprise. As soft spoken as she was, here she was yelling her heart out at me.

She kept going. "I've liked you since the day we met! Besides Nelson, you were someone else I could turn to! Someone else I could trust! And I thought you felt the same! I mean, when we danced, and we almost..." Gabi shakes her head, tears falling on the ground. 

"Gabi, you have to listen to me -"

"SHUT UP! You lied to me about not being with Amiyah, and led me on to think that you actually liked me! I feel so unbelieveably stupid for falling for you! I knew it would end like this. I'm such an idiot! I can't believe -"

I cut her off with a kiss. I felt her tense at first, then relax, kissing me back softly and gripping my shirt. Pouring all of our emotions out into that kiss, I pulled her closer, my hands on her waist. We pull away from each other, both of us blushing at the intensity of the kiss, though I left our foreheads touching as I whispered to her.

"You're sexy when you get mad." I say, biting my lip.

Gabi blushes even harder. "W-What?"

"Now YOU listen. What you saw, it wasn't what it looked like. I had come home and Amiyah was already there. She tried to seduce me. And I'm not gonna lie to you, it did work."

Gabi looked down at the ground, but I gently held her chin up to look her in those bright violet eyes.

"For a minute, though. As soon as I thought about you, I knew then that not even Amiyah can make me feel like I do when I'm with you, and no other girl ever will. We ain't known each other that long, but I feel the same way you do." I smirk at her. "Now that I know for sure how you feel, Imma ask you now..."

I take her hand and open the door, leading her into the living room. Sitting down on the couch, I gently pull her down with me to sit on my lap.

"Will you trust me with your heart, Gabi, and let me be your man?"

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Gabrielle

10:25pm

I was in complete shock, nearly passing out from happiness at his confession. Even the way he said it gave me chills. It was crystal clear how he felt about me, and I could see the love in his eyes, and right then I knew I could trust him with my heart.

"Of course." I beam. "I trust you, Michael."

His face lights up like a kid on Christmas, and I giggled at his happiness, a warm feeling bubbling in my stomach. Shyly, I put my fingers in his soft curly hair and leaned down to give him a light kiss, but Michael had other ideas.

His hands rested on my hips, and when I gasped in surprise, he used the opportunity to slide his tongue through my lips. I'll admit I got a little nervous; I had never made out with anyone before. Michael would have been - well, is - my first boyfriend. He must have sensed my nervousness and made his kiss more gentle. He gave my hip a soft squeeze to calm me down.

I let out another gasp when I felt his, uh, 'friend' poke my inner thigh.

Michael removes himself from the kiss, and I could see him blushing, embarrassed. "Shit, I'm sorry, babe."

I felt my heart flutter when he called me babe. "It's okay, maybe we should stop. I don't think I'm ready for that..."

"It's cool, we ain't got to do anything you not comfortable with." Michael says, giving me one last kiss.

He leans back on the couch, bringing me down with him. I layed with him, facing his chest with my head under his chin. He wraps his arms around me while I do the same to him.

"You know," I tease. "that was my first kiss. Nelson's going to flip when he finds out."

I could feel Michael's chest rise and fall as he chuckled. "Let him find out. It was worth it." He says, making me smile.

Never had I felt this way about anyone, and I was loving that it was being returned. God don't take him away from me.

"Night, Gabi." He whispers in my ear.

I smile to myself.

"Goodnight, Michael."