That Awkward Moment

Thats The Way of The World

The following morning, Bakari woke up by the sound of his phone ringing.  It was a FaceTime call from his sister Jamila, so he steps out of bed to answer it before waking up Ebony out of her sleep.  He immediately shivers being that he only wore boxers to bed and walks into the bathroom to take the call.

"Hey baby bro, what's good?  How are you feeling" She asks.

"I'm doing good, tired but good I can't complain. What's up sis what's got you calling me so early?" He rubs the sleepiness out of his eyes.

"I just wanted to remind you, that our family reunion is this up coming weekend in New Jersey are you gonna still go? I know you've got a lot on your plate with the divorce and everything..."

Bakari scratches his stubble, looking at his older sister through the phone.

"Shit I completely forgot about the reunion...everyone's going to ask me about Vanessa and I really don't want to deal with all the questions of nosy aunts ready to gossip about my business."

"Well, why don't you invite your friend who you were gushing to about the other day, what's her name Ebony?" She asks.

Bakari nods.  "It's too early for her to meet the family isn't it? We're just friends with benefits at the moment, I don't want my mom to meet someone who I only have sex with."

"Oh," She sounded disappointed. "Well okay my bad I thought you were seeing her romantically."

"Nah, we're just friends.  I'll come alone."

"You could see if Jamal wants to go back home, go with him.  He'll help ease out the tension in the room." She suggests.

"I think I just might do that." Bakari looks at her.

"I hope you're not just using her as your rebound whoever this woman is.  I know you're hurt but women have feelings too, especially the ones you have sex with."

"I'm not just using her, I actually like her I just don't want to be in a relationship with her right now."

"Then bring her with you, show her around the city it'll be good to meet her in person. Besides I wanna get a sense of who she is to you, she seems really sweet."

Bakari sighs, "She is, but alright I'll ask her if she wants to go."

"Yay, Okay ask her and see what she says and if she does accept, text me and keep me updated. I'll see you this weekend, bye love you." Jamila hands up moments later.

"Love you too." He sighs, hanging up the phone and uses the toothbrush that Ebony left out for him to brush his teeth since he was already up.

When he made his way back to bed, he sat on the edge of the bed and could see that Ebony was now up scrolling through her social media feed.   She smiled, and covered her mouth before yawning.  "Good morning." She clicks her phone off and slowly gets up out of bed to brush her teeth and use the restroom.

"Good morning." Bakari watches her walk into the bathroom.  Twenty minutes later Ebony re-emerges from the bathroom and climbs back into bed. 

"How'd you sleep?" She asks, reaching over to the nightstand to grab her remote to turn on the morning news.

"I slept fine," He smiles and pulls his legs over the bed and rests his head in her lap. 

"That's good," she placed her hand on his shoulder, lightly massaging it. 

"You have any plans this weekend?" He asks, and turns on his back so that he could look at her. 

"No, I was just going to go to this new club that opened up here...why? Wassup? What do you want to do?" She looked at him, wondering what he was about to ask her next.