You Can Trust Me (Keith Powers Story)

12

I like you too

Manhattan, NY

• December 3, 2017 •

I kind of
sort of
really
like you

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"You have my number but you insist on coming here unannounced in the middle of the day. Just why?"

He stepped out of the doorway and into my apartment, not even answering my question.

"Wassup with you best friend? You miss me?"

He kissed my cheek and grinned from ear to ear. I blushed and looked down briefly while shaking my head.

"I don't know what I'm gonna do with you."

We sat down on my sofa and he made himself comfortable while putting his feet on my coffee table and turning the TV on.

"Is this yo house?" I asked, pushing his feet off of the table and snatching the remote from him.

"What's yours is mine and what's mine is yours."

He took the remote back from me and continued clicking through channels.

"Ion like you."

"Lies."

He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and took a double take towards me.

"What?"

"I like yo hair." He chuckled and played with the curl on the side of my face.

"Thanks. I don't know what made me try it but this was the result." I laughed.

"And are these prescribed?"

"Nope. Are yours?"

"Unfortunately, yeah. I'm hella blind."

"Awww really? Lemme see."

I took them off of his beautiful face and replaced mine with his. As soon as I looked through them, I quickly removed them from in front of my eyes and blinked rapidly.

"You right, you are hella blind. Oh my gosh." I wiped my eyes.

"Ight you ain't gotta be all dramatic." He said with slight attitude in his voice as he took his glasses back.

"Hostile much. How come you don't wear them though?"

"I usually got contacts in but I wasn't tryna do that this morning so." He shrugged.

I nodded my head understandingly and decided to get up and let Coco out of his cage since he was going crazy with another person in here.

He ran straight to Keith onto the sofa and started licking him. I laughed and sat back down.

"You like me better than yo momma huh? What a shame." He shook his head and looked at me.

"Shut up." I chuckled and changed the channel from some football game to SpongeBob.

"Brooo we gotta watch this?" Keith whined dramatically.