My Cigar

Problem

The next morning started out with me and Race in the same bunk. His kept both arms around me as my arms rested on his chest. I woke up to his soft lips kissing my forehead. My eyes slowly open to his beautiful deep blue eyes gazing at my face. I smirk as I shut my eyes again. His fingers trail down my arm and lace together with mine. He places a hand on my head and pulls me into his chest.

"Get up." He wines shaking my arm." 

"5 more minutes." I say taking his hand and holding it close to me as I cuddle in his chest. I haven't been this warm and comfortable in a while. I know it's summer, but during the night it gets cold, and Race is the best blanket ever. He stayed quiet during my thoughts. I open one eye to see what he was doing, and he was staring up at the ceiling. He looked like he was thinking about something. All of a sudden he looks back at me with a suspicious smirk, places a hand on my cheek, and places his lips on mine. My heart started to beat faster. Race takes his lips off of mine and sits up. He pulls my arm making me sit up and started kissing me again. He pulls away and smirks as he looks at my lips.

"I gotcha ta wake up." He says tauntingly. My face becomes sad as I look at where i was laying before I sat up. He laughs as he kisses my cheek. My sad face goes away as I look into his eyes. Uhggg, his eyes are you beautiful I could stare at them all day long. Everyone was already gone. It was just me and Race in the lodging house. I look around at all the empty beds as Race keeps his gaze on me and plays with my hair. I love it when he does that.

"What time is it?" I ask turning back to him. I started laughing at how zoned out he was looking in my eyes. "What?" I laugh.

"I's is just so lucky that your mine." He says with a smile. My heart flutters at his words. I plant a kiss on his cheek and got up from the bed.

"You slept in really late. I wanted to stay with you until you woke up but it's like 11 o'clock right now." Race says as he watches me clip on my suspenders. If i woke up the time we normally do, I would be half way done with sellin my stack of papers. 

"11 o'clock? Why did I sleep that late?" I ask myself looking out the window.

"Was it cause of what we went through last night?" Race ask hesitantly getting up from the bunk and walking over to me.

"I don't know." I shrug looking down to the floor still facing the window. His arms snake around my waist and he places his head in the crook of my neck. I put my hands over his arms and lean my head on his. 

"We gotta go if we wanna make any money Kenny." He says following with a kiss on my cheek. He removes his arms from my waist and runs out the door. I just walked behind him. We met up at the paper stand and got our papes. We parted ways when we went to our sellin spots. He made his way to the sheepshead races and i made my way to the alley ways. I made a lot of money today which was good since I've been slackin on sellin lately. I'm getting ready to leave as I see Jack walk in the alley way. 

"Why's is you here?" I ask giving him a dirty look.

"Wow? My little sista doesn't talk to me for days and when i finally come to see her she doesn't wanna see me?" Jack ask offensively.

"What do you want?" I laugh. "You never visit me here."

"Well I wanted to show you what I found." Jack says digging in his pockets. I look at him confused as he takes his clenched hand out of is pockets. He opens his fingers to reveal my ring.

"Where did you find it?" I yell with the biggest smile on my face

"Well I was walking around town when I was finished sellin and found this in one of the alley ways." He says watching me take it out of his hands and puttin it on my finger.

"But how did it slip off? It doesn't even budge if I move my hand." I say shaking it in the air. Jack laughs at me and leans on the wall.

"Anyways, I wanted to talk to you about somethin." He says putting his hands in his pockets. 

"About..." Please don't be Race. Please don't be Race.

"Race." Aw shit. I keep a straight face on as i fix my posture.

"What about him?"

"Well I know you two are happy but... I just want you tah be careful. Guys like Race... they aren't really the most loving people, ya know what i'm sayin?" My furrow my eyebrows at him.

"What do you mean 'not the most loving people'?" 

"He isn't a goody two-shoes, Ken. He causes trouble, steals things."

"Um. We do the same things." I say defending Race. Does he think i'm not safe with Race?

"C'mon sis. Don't act like you don't get where i'm comin from." He says standing straight.

"Are you tryin to say it's... dangerous if I go out with Race?" 

"Yea. I mean god forbid he gets you locked up or somethin." He says waving his hand.

"Locked up? Jackie you said it was ok if I was with him. Even in front of him." I say referrin to the time he saw us hugging. Jack looks off into the streets. My mad expression drops and I cross my arms as I realize he isn't just saying this for shits and giggles.

"What are you hidin?" I ask smug.

"What?" He ask turning his attention back at me.

"Somethin happened, right?" I ask raising my eyebrow.

"I don't know what your talkin about." Jack says shaking his head. I raise both eyebrows and he lets out a sigh.

"Alright. There was a girl before you." I don't like where this is going.

"What happened?" I ask not getting the point.

"She is crazy. She was obsessed with Race. She started seeing a guy who looked like Race after they broke up." Jack says. My head perks up.

"Is her name by any chance Katie?" I ask.

"How did you know?" Holy shit.

"That's not important, is she gonna hurt me or somethin?" I ask.

"I don't know but what I do know is she won't be happy when she finds out Race has a girl friend. I don't want you gettin hurt." Jack says.

"Oh Jackie. You have known me for as long as your tiny little mind can remember." I say poking his forehead. "If she takes one step near me or Race, haha." I laugh with a smile. "let's just say fist will be swung and hair will be pulled." I say as my voice gets darker.

"Kenny this is serious. I've learned from you and Katherine that girls can be psycho's." Jack says widening his eyes.

"Look, I've seen this princess before and she looks like she wouldn't even be able to kill a fly. I think I can manage." I say. Although I truly don't. A girl can become Satan for a boy that she loves. This also means Albert lied to me. He said that they don't know a Katie. How do things become more and more stressful everyday so easily?