(Reece Smith on top, Chris Logans bottom left, Keith Brooke bottom middle, Jermaine Lamar bottom right)
Meilyn.
"That'll be $389.44." I said as I waited for the customer to pay. She handed me the money and I punched in the amount giving her, her change and her receipt. I smiled and told her to have a nice day as she walked away. I yawned tiredly as I looked around my store. It was always crowded in here. I looked at my watch seeing that it was about to be four. I looked over to my assistant and she nodded and gave me a shooing motion. I smiled gratefully at her and went to the back to my office to grab my purse.
Once I had my purse I headed out the store to S&N Beauty Salon. I waited patiently for them as they grabbed what they needed.
"Wassup lil mama," Nisrina greeted me. I smiled at her and Semira gave me a hug. "I feel like I haven't seen you in forever," I rolled my eyes a her being so dramatic. "I saw you last night girl," She stuck her tongue out at me.
"Y'all look good today by the way," I complimented them.
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Nisrina stopped and popped her shoulders, did a spin then did her famous stripper drop. I busted out laughing and Semira shook her head at her best friend. "Nissy, you finna get popped by Chris if he see you doing that," Nisrina mean mugged her. "I don't like that boy stop talking about him!" She muttered and flipped her hair.
"She trippin' she know she love me," A mans deep voice said from behind us and I jumped. I turned around quickly to see the four men from yesterday standing in front of us.
"Wassup Semira," I'm guessing Chris said dapping her. I awkwardly scooted back letting them greet each other. "Why she hiding like we finna eat her?" One of them said and everyone's eyes landed on me. I blushed looked down.
"Oh this is Meilyn y'all. Meilyn meet Chris, Jermaine and Keith. And you already know Reece," Nisrina introduced them pointing at each one of them. They all greeted me and I nodded back at them still feeling shy.
"Can we go now? I'm hungry as hell!" Keith complained and Nisrina laughed linking arms with him. "Come on y'all we going to the Olive Garden across the street." Semira came over to me and held my hand. "Why don't you go over to Reece and chat it up with him?" Semira bumped shoulders with mine and I blushed. She pushed me towards him and I mugged her. I glanced at Reece seeing his doing something on his phone.
We were walking out the plaza we all worked at and was heading across the street to the restaurant. "Meilyn wait up!" I heard someone say I turned to see Reece jogging to catch up with me.
"Hey Reece," He smiled at me, "You look nice," He said while licking his lips. My eyes widened and I looked away quickly feeling another blush come across my cheeks. "Mhm, and you do too... I guess?" He mugged me. "I guess?! Nah you know I look about sexy as shit," I pursed my lips, "Yeah you do look like shit," He sucked his teeth and I laughed. We arrived at the restaurant and we headed inside. I was relieved when cold air blasted my face. Florida was about hot as hell even if it was winter.
"Hi, we have a reservation under Syd," the waitress nodded. "How many?" "Seven," The waitress nodded again before motioning us to follow her. She gave us a table and we all sat down. Chris made sure to sit next to Nisrina and she rolled her eyes at him. I raised an eyebrow wondering what was going on between those two.
The waitress gave us our menus and took our order for our drinks. After she left we all looked for what we wanted and chatted with each other.
"So Meilyn, how about you tell me about yourself?" Reece asked getting close to my face. Once again I blushed from how close he was and I pushed his head away while he laughed. "If you would stop trying to flirt with me I would," I snapped jokingly. "Nah, I'm tryna get to know you for real." He said softly and I turned my face to hide my smile.
The waitress came back with our drinks and we ordered our food. "Ole fat ass, why you ordering so much?" Keith said to Jermaine and he flicked him off while the rest of us burst out laughing. "Y'all having fun without me? An female voice from behind me said startling me. I frowned and turn around to meet a beautiful woman's eyes.
"Why are you here Brittany?" Semira said with disgust in her voice. I raised my eyebrows never hearing her like that before. "We always used to go to Olive Garden on Thursday like a big ole' family," Brittany said before pulling up the chair and sat next to Reece since he was at the end of the table. Nisrina's eye twitched and she started tapping her fingernails on the table.
"Hey Reece, how you been?" She purred, and I mean literally purred in his ear. I raised both my eyebrows getting suspicious of her now. "Man Brittany get out of his face before Reece throw yo ass out the window," Jermaine snapped and I sat back just watching. Brittany sucked her teeth and turned back to look at Reece. "I know you been missing me," She said about to touch his face but then Nisrina slammed her hands in the table.
"If you don't get the fuck up from that chair and move up out of here I will punch you in your throat!" Nisrina gritted out of her teeth. Brittany rolled her eyes. "You not finna do shit. Bitch." Keith whistled, "Y'all better not fight in this restaurant. Cause a nigga got to eat." "Yes, so get up and leave Brittany no one wants you here," Reece said for the first time since she came. Hurt flashed in her eyes before she got up, flipped her hair and walked away.
As soon as she left our food came and we all forgot about what just happen, or at least I did, and ate our food.
***
"Hello?" I answered my phone and fell onto my bed. "Hey wassup?" Reece's deep voice sounded and I froze slightly. "Oh hey wassup?" I said my voice squeaky. "You sound like a mouse," He laughed and my face become hot. "Shut up! You look like one," I shot back and he laughed again making butterflies fly around in my stomach.
"Yeah sure. What you doing up so late?" "I can ask you the same thing," I bit my lip twirling of piece of my hair around my finger. "I just came home from basketball practice. I wanted to hear your voice," I smiled at his cuteness. It has been a couple days since Thursday and we had gotten closer and exchanged numbers.
"Yeah I didn't want to hear yours though," I lied and he laughed. "If you didn't want to hear my voice you would've been hung up. Ole' lying ass." He said making me laugh. "Yeah you right." We continued having a conversation until I was about to fall asleep.
"You sound tired as hell. I'll see you tomorrow Mei. Goodnight." "Goodnight Reece." He hung up and I put my phone on the nightstand. Falling back on my pillow I smiled feeling the little crush I had on Reece get bigger.
