My Jade

ch. 3 The box

Ch. 3

When I get off the plane all I see is a huge sign reading "House of blues, new orlean's best show" and goes to say that a Stereohype is playing there next week. I guess that's a band, im not sure. As I continue walking down this strange looking airport, I see a neat looking eatery. Café du monde. That looks interesting. I grab a small bag of beignets they looked pretty good, and a café o lait to go. I walk to go sit down at a table looking over the flightline, when a teenage boy walks up to me.  

"you must be Jade right?" he askes startling me that someone knows my name.  

"yeah that's me, but how do you know me?"I reply  

" im here to pick you up. Are you ready to leave? Or would you like look around?"  

I sit there staring at him. I don't even know his name, but but he looks amazing! He has the darkest brown hair that is pointing straight up down the center of the top of his head in a neatly messy feaux hawk. The shiniest brown eyes, and a little stubble around his chin catching up to the small triangle of hair right below his bottom lip. The two small balck hoops dangling from his earlobes really set it off. Holy crap! How did my dad know someone this good looking. I hope he isnt like a brother or cousin or something, because he is so hot!  

"umm, hello? Are you ready to go?" he asks again  

Crap I gotta stop daydreaming like that, even if he is smokin. "oh, yeah sorry I was just thinking, we can go its fine with me." I reply trying to sound nonchalant.  

"good because im parked in an unloading only spot, I borrowed one of your cars to come get you hope you don't mind. The limo would have taken forever to get through the city, the name is charles by the way."  

Whoa! Limo, my car? Is this really happening? "no I don't mind at all, considering I never even knew I had one, well I do but It's a pink mini cooper back home. I'm sure it isn't down here now that would just be weird." Ok now I'm rambling I need to stop.  

He just looks at me funny. We walk in silence outside to the car. My car? Wow could this get any better. He pops the trunk of my brand new lexus IS I've always wanted one of these even if it is a bit big for my taste its so beautiful. I go to load my bags, all six of them, into the trunk only to have him stop me.  

"Don't worry about that I got it for you just get into the car." He says to me as he lifts them in with ease. Wow It took me almost 25 minutes to get them into the cart they were so heavy.  

We don't speak another word till we are on the interstate and it says we were leaving elysian fields. We take an exit labeled Audobon Zoo. That sparks a conversation.  

"So do you like going to the zoo also?" he asks me  

"Of course I do who doesn't like to look at beautiful animals? What do you mean also though?" I asked.  

"Your dad had a lifetime membership to the zoo. I guess it carries over to you now though. He made several donations to the zoo every year. He would go almost every day if he could and just watch the animals."  

Wow, maybe my dad wasn't a complete dick. Maybe he had a soft side to him. "what about his girlfriend? Did she ever go with him?"I asked curiously. He just stared at me like I didn't know what I was talking about, " you know the pretty little blonde secretary that got him to leave me and my mom 15 years ago?"  

"I don't know who your talking about, obviously you don't either and you deftinitely don't know your father to be making accusations about him like that." He said kind of irritably to me.  

"Whoa! Hold on there cowboy. Just because you seem to know him more than I do doesn't mean I don't know that he is a scumbag that walked out on me and my mom when I was three. Okay? Most normal guys just don't leave their families they love and never come back around."