BWWM
'OVERCOME' is the previous title!
Regret. It was the thing David had to bear for years. After all, he had thrown away his chance of working at a publishing house as a chief editor at university years ago. After making so many dumb decisions, Da...
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She made this job worth coming into...to stare into her green emerald eyes, I mean glance because she never looked at me long enough.
All of a sudden, she walked in front of me and stopped...was I daydreaming again?
"You're Jackson right?" she asked.
Her lawyer and journalist friends who always followed her around rolled their eyes together in chorus.
"Yes, you can call me David, what's the problem mam?" I asked, my heart pounding through my chest. She had honey-brown skin, it looked as if the sun was shining through her, and something inside me urged me to listen to what she was going to say.
"David, I wanted to thank you in person for doing a great job in glossing my desk and buffing my floors well, I almost thought it was someone else's office," she joked, tucking her jet-black hair behind her double-pierced ear.
"Oh, the pleasure is mine," I said, flashing a smile.
She smiled back.
She turned to walk away but for some reason turned back around, her eyes looking at the ground.
"Um...this is probably strange to ask, but this whole week we're celebrating our church's 105th Anniversary, and I was wondering if you were interested, did you want to come one of the days...we'd love to have you." she offered, smiling.
"Yeah, I'll think about that, thank you," I said as politely as I could. She smiled.
"Call me Victoria," she said, reaching out her hand. I looked at it for a moment and shook it.
"Alright...Victoria."
Her over-achieving friends, who tried to keep her from talking to me scoffed and walked away. Victoria laughed as she looked back.
"Yeah...they told me not to come over and talk to you," she said. I laughed.
"I can imagine," I said. People like that always looked down on janitors and other people they deemed lesser than their equals.
"Well, David...I have to go, don't want to get you in trouble, see you later," she said as she walked away, catching up with her friends. I liked her, but I had no idea she was a "church girl". I remember a verse in the Bible, that says not to be 'unequally yoked' with someone. Maybe she probably was just trying to be nice to me.
Out of nowhere, I felt something hit my head.
I turned around and saw John childishly throwing paper balls at me. "You staring at Victoria Wilkerson again, bro what she wants with a blonde-headed brother like you, except pay her bills and get her nails done each week." Josh teased. I rolled my eyes, I mean back in Yale I didn't have a problem with getting a girlfriend, I mean it was hard enough trying to keep them off of me. "Yeah, Romeo, the closest you'll get her to talk to you is just waxing her floors." Kevin, my short friend joked.
I laughed. "Aye man, we still on for tonight?" I asked, picking up a map. "You know it my vanilla brother." he teased, slapping my hand. "Yeah, you might find you a Mrs. Jackson up in there." John joked. I shook my head. I was not up for a one-night stand with a stranger. "Your loss boy, but Miss Victoria, that girl is classy, you couldn't get her if she wanted you." Kevin laughed. I pushed him playfully.
"Aye man shut up if he wants to date a lovely lady like Victoria let him...if the boss likes the pitch he delivered, he'll get promoted soon and then you guys will be waxing his floor in his office," Joshua, throwing a mop at both of them.
He was one level above us, he was almost like our supervisor. He didn't have a glossy desk, but he did have respect. "Thanks, man," I said, dapping his fists.
"No problem," he said.
"Everybody going to Amy's tonight, you coming?" I asked Joshua.
"Naw man, that ain't for no married man Tasha doesn't like when I drink," he explained to me.
I nodded understandingly.
"Tasha doesn't like us period," John said.
Kevin laughed.
"See that's why I'm not getting married," Kevin announced like it was a huge confession of his.
"I don't know any woman in her right mind would want to marry you." Joshua teased him. "You know what, I'm going downstairs," Kevin said. We all laughed chaotically. "He'll be alright man, that's just Kevin," Joshua said.
"Aye! Get back to work, I'm not paying ya'll to gossip and snicker down there!" Mr. William boomed from the break room. We quickly grabbed our buckets and got to work.
