I sat in the sauna letting my thoughts flow freely, I could feel a shift in me and Kairo's relationship; I couldn't kiss him without wondering what happened between him and Quincy, I couldn't hold him without thinking about him in Quincy holding each other laughing at me, I couldn't fuck him without feeling like I was going to sick.... I hadn't had the courage to come out and ask him if he and Quincy had actually fucked, but I saw how they interacted, Kairo laughed at all of Quincy's corny ass jokes, they'd look at each other and start laughing at random shyt and Quincy had even gone as far as to ask Kairo about his clothing line. Apart of me felt like I was trippin, I could see Quincy doing something like fuckin my dude because of what I did to him but Kairo.... nah, he had no reason to betray me like that, then again Quincy had this charm to him that was hard to deny. Sweat formed on my body as my frustration grew; sexually frustration, emotionally frustrated, physically exhausted, and spiritually drained... maybe I just needed to flat out ask Kairo for the truth, he's always been honest with me and I don't think he start lying now.
"Ayy Ka'Jai when you're finished come up to the office, I wanna talk to you." Anjo said knocking on the door to the sauna and I guess I could go see what he wanted since it was better than sitting here thinking about my own issues. I took a quick shower and went down to the office where Devin was sitting at the desk with the entire staff all looking at me.
"Uhh... am I in trouble?" I asked nervously because usually when I walk into a room full of adults it was never a good thing.
"Nah, not at all I heard the staff picked you to be house leader, that's good shyt and I also heard you were doing amazing at the internship, Yin can't speak more highly of your performance." Devin said proudly, honestly, I was surprised to hear that because my focus has been diverted elsewhere even though software development was my passion.
"So uhh.... what's this about? If I'm not in trouble is there any particular reason why I'm in here with the entire staff?" I asked looking around the room.
"As you already know I want to implement a mentoring program, it was supposed to take place sooner but some shyt fell through but now I got everything set up so that when everyone gets back they'll meet their mentors. You already have yours with my boy Yin, Nayquinn is still going to be mentored by Will.... though I have some reservations about the two of them together, Calvin will meet my boy Seven, Denzel is going to be paired up with this bomb ass photographer I know, and the twins..... will they got special mentors." Devin said with a hint of humor in his eyes.
"Aight that's coo... they should be back from the game tomorrow night so I'll call a house meeting and let them all know." I said wondering if that was all because authority figures made me nervous and even though they were all coo... I'd much rather be sulking about my relationship. "Is that all?" I asked and they all looked at each other.
"Actually I got one more thing I wanted to run by you, in a couple of weeks y'all will be going to Columbus for Thanksgiving.... which reminds me, Will remind me to check with the mentors for my Columbus residents." Devin said and Will looked at him like he was waiting for something, Devin sighed and pulled out his wallet handing Will a hundred dollar bill. "Niggas ain't shyt."
"I'm doing you a favor Devin, so the least you could do is help me out.... gas ain't cheap." Will said and I could tell they were really good friends because I don't know too many bosses who'd let their employees get away with what Will had just pulled.
"But yeah Thanksgiving, I just need you to get a list of everything that y'all want.... I'm trying to have the final menu ready by the end of the week so you can do that during y'alls house meeting." Devin said and the doorbell rang saving me. "That's all I really wanted, we got a staff meeting so you're free to go." Devin said and as I was leaving I heard him mentioning something about another group home but I wasn't too concerned about that.
