New Native Land (The Blossoming)

Chapter 35 (Out On a Limb)

We were in the car headed back to Brooklyn and I kept a permanent smile on my face because that was honestly so much fun. I can't believe Ahm, this gangster, bad ass, hood guy took me all the way to the upper east side so I can look at exhibits and gain just a small portion of confidence.

"You had a good time huh?" He asked arrogantly, I wanted to glare but I couldn't, I was too happy "Yes, I did!" I stated proudly and he smiled and it was so cute, wished he would do it more often. 

"You see how you know a lot of stuff already?" I nodded, "You always got room to learn more." He told me and I tilted my head at him, "I want you to take them classes because I want you to be the best you, and if that means taking harder classes then you should do it. I don't know anyone in this world who is smarter than you, and I'm being real. I want you to live your dream of being a doctor and stuff, and I don't want anything to stop that, not even yourself." He concluded, leaving me extremely touched.

"Just promise when you become a doctor you don't forget about me." He asked and I smiled, "I won't." He simply nodded. "Don't leave me either." He added and I blushed, "You think everything I do and say is lame, but you always want to be around me." I teased he smirked, "You are lame, but you entertain me so I keep you around." He told me, I wanted to hit him but he was driving.

"I'm the one keeping you around." I said defending myself. His face went back to normal but his eyes danced with humor, "Is that so?" I gloated, "Of course!" He snorted and kept driving. "You just don't wanna admit you like me." I let slip out and my eyes grew wide at what I said. He snorted out in humor, "I like you. Happy now?" I scoffed, "What kind of confession was that? No, I am not happy." I told him and he chuckled, "What do you want from me woman?" I exhaled sharply and looked at him, "Something better than that. I expected flowers, candy, maybe a choir singing. Not that." He made a face and shook his head, "I ain't that kinda guy baby."

I frowned at his words, he paid more focus on the road. His eyes showed some kind of regret, for what I don't know... "Why aren't you that kind of guy?" I asked playfully. "What I look like with some flowers in my hand and chocolates and shit? Niggas ain't gone take me seriously." I rolled my eyes, "Lucky for you, I'm allergic to pollen, and I don't like chocolate." He smirked, "You might be perfect." I nodded in agreement, "I am. I don't know what took you so long to realize that." He glanced over at me for a second before his eyes went on the road, he smirked again and laughed quietly to himself, while the car went into a comfortable silence.

"You hungry?" He asked out the blue and I shook my head no, "You never eat but your ass is so fat, I don't get it." He said out loud. I think he wanted to keep it to himself but it didn't happen that way, "Um, excuse me?" I acted offended "What?" Was all he said and I opened my mouth appalled, "You don't comment of a woman's assets like that." I schooled him and he scoffed, "You belong to me right?" He asked me, I made a face and rolled my eyes, "You want to believe that." I answered "Are you mine, or aren't you?" He asked me and I thought about how to cleverly answer this.

"I might be; I might not be." I answered him and his whole aura changed, "Who else do you belong to if you don't belong to me?" Sarcastically I said, "Myself?" He tsk'd, "Exactly, and you're mine so you belong to me. You're mine, all mine, every day, every night. When you wake up, when you fall asleep. You are mine. And since you are mine, I can talk about your ass all I want to." He went on a rant and I laughed at him.

"Stubborn ass girl." He slipped out and I mugged him really hard, "Are you any better?" I asked him and he made a face that said Duh. I rolled my eyes at him and gave him a stank face, "Fix yo face." He stopped the car at a red light. "Fight me." I challenged and he grabbed my face and gave me a kiss which caught me by surprise, when he pulled away he stared me in my eyes, "I'll fix it from now on then." I stayed there flustered while the light turned green and his attention wen back to the road and continued driving, smirking to himself. 

"That is not fair, you always one up me!" I complained and he let out a small laugh. "You one up me all the time." Ahm said back to me and I looked confused, "When?" Ahm just continued to smirk while remaining quiet, "That's not fair tell me!" I whined but he remained quiet. "You cute." His sudden compliment, made me blush like always. I treied to stop myself from blushing again but it didn't work so I just turned away from him and looked out the window.

I noticed there was something coming down from the sky and then more of it came, "Is that snow!?" I asked excitedly to myself and I heard Ahm smack his lips, "Yep." My eyes grew with excitement! "Wow! This is amazing! I never seen snow before." I said with even more excitement. "You serious?" Ahm asked me and I nodded while watching it snow some more.

He watched me admire the snow fall, commenting, "You're going to hate it soon." I glared at him "Don't mess this up for me." I warned him and he put his hands up feigning innocence.

When we got back to my house we sat there for a minute, "You good now?" He asked me and I nodded. "Don't worry about anything, let me do the worrying for us." I made a weird face at him, "You're all in but you don't want me to be all in?" Ahm's face went back to the normal, dull look and his eyes quit twinkling, he turned his face away from mine. 

"I could be taken out at any time, and I don't want to leave you heartbroken. So, I don't want you to give me everything. But I want to give you everything because you deserve it and more, and I'm going to give it to you." His words came out as if he's already chosen the path of our relationship, but I felt a twinge in my heart when he said that, it somehow physically hurt me.

"Get inside and stay warm." He told me, pulling me out of the loop I was in taking in his words, so I pouted. He poked my dimple, I chose to smile and pretend to be happy. I blew a kiss at him and he raised his eyebrow at me, "Catch it." I said whining and he made a face at me, "No, it's wack." I frowned and I crossed my arms and said, "Catch it or I'll never kiss you again." He let out chuckle. I blew him another kiss and he didn't catch it he just raised another eyebrow, "Catch it!" I whined again which made his eyes flicker in admiration. I blew one more kiss at him and he caught it against his better judgement. I beamed, and teased "You like me!" He breathed in sharply, trying his hardest not to smile. "Yeah, yeah, take yo ass inside." He said trying to be hard again.

I picked up my backpack and started to open the door, but he grabbed my hand and pulled me back in, my attention snapped to him. "You're forgetting something." He said, his voice dull. My eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "What?" I asked him. "I want a real kiss." He said still looking forward. I smacked my lips, "You want me  to kiss you?" I was sort of shocked. "Yup." He dragged the U. I sighed, I leaned over to him and he turned his face so I could connect to his lips, warmth immediately consumed my whole body. There was clearly electricity between us. When I pulled away, he stared me in my eyes. I couldn't register what the look was, but he broke contact soon after. "I'll see you later baby." He said and I smiled.

I got out and walked up to the door. I can't believe it's snowing, like real life snowing. I walked inside the house and declared, "It's snowing!" My brothers looked at me and said, "Yeah, it's cool huh?" I looked giddy, "One thing you don't get in Texas." My dad commented and I nodded. "How was studying?" Malcolm asked me and I shrugged, replying, "Cool." He smiled.

"You watching the Rockets with us later huh?" My dad asked. "I'm going to study for finals." I told him and he smiled, "You study a lot, I'm glad. I told your mom and grandparents, they said they were proud of you." I glared at him, "Tell the whole world why don't you?" I walked up the stairs while they laughed at me.