No Love

Chapter 17

AugustPOV

I headed to the address that my mama had gave me for the florist shop that I was meeting her at. I had no idea of what to look for so I called up mama to help me out a lil bit with this shit. I would've brought Chandra to help but in all honesty I already needed a break from my nieces.

It took about 45 minutes to get here because of traffic. I saw my mama's car and parked beside her. She wasn't in her car so I assumed she was already inside.

I walked in and she was looking at some flowers as she talked to one of the male workers.

"Ma."

"Hey, August. This is Mr. Andrews, he's gonna be helping us today." She smiled.

I nodded.

"Are you looking for anything in particular?"

"Nah, I don't know nothing about this."

"Are the flowers for anybody special?"

"Yeah, my girl. Well she ain't my girl yet but that's what this for," I said gesturing to the flowers. "Ima ask her to be," I smiled although I tried to hide it.

"Okay well I'm going to let you look at some flowers. Do you want them mixed or you want one kind of flower," he asked and I looked over at my mama.

"Does she have a favorite flower that you know of?"

"I don't know," I answered.

That made me think, maybe I'm rushing it. We have a lot more to figure out about each other. I got real love for her and I care for her, but she might think the same thing.

"He'll get them mixed."

"Yes ma'am. Follow me." We followed him through the store until he stopped at at section with a bunch of different flowers. "You can choose the flowers you want. Just come to the register when you're ready."

I nodded and looked at the flowers. I got a dozen of pink,red,white,and orange flowers. I don't know what kind of flowers they are, but they're flowers.

We walked to the front of the store and went to the register where the guy that had helped us was.

"Your total is $45.74." He said looking up from the computer.

I had no idea flowers cost this much. The fuck am I paying for? I only got flowers! They're gonna die after about four days anyway.

"Do you want any other gifts or anything to go along with that?"

I'm not a rich ass nigga, but I didn't wanna look like a broke ass nigga either, so I got a bear and some chocolate.

She better be grateful for this shit. I been coming out of pocket for her ass this week, but I can't  complain. This was my choice.

"You wanna grab lunch or something before we head home," Mama asked as we walked to the parking lot.

"If you're paying, I'm down."

"You spent nearly $75 on that girl, but you can't pay for lunch."

"Maaaa," I groaned, throwing my head back.

"Oh hush, I'm just joking. Follow me there."

I put the flowers and and other gifts in the passenger seat before I got in and started the car, following madukes out. I wasn't planning on staying long because I still got shit to do but I guess I could give her at least an hour of my precious time.

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Lyric POV

Everyone around me should be obligated to remind me to never go shopping with Alijah again.