Lover's Quarrel

Destiny

Troy POV

Once we got seated a waiter greeted us and asked us for our drinks. She looked hesistant on what to get.

"Can I get a bottle of  your best champagne" I answered for her.

I had a feeling she didn't know how deep my pockets were and if she should order something expensive or cheap. After the waiter walked off to get our champagne I decided to start our conversation back up.

"You can order whatever you like" I stated, she deserved a freel meal, hell a couple of free meals.

"Thanks" she smiled

"So this might be deep for a first date but I was really" I started to stutter. Damn I really like this girl if she got me stuttering.

"I was enjoying our conversation in the car. I've been shying away from God for awhile. Years actually"

"Why is that?" She asked

"I gave up on Him, life was starting to get the best of me and I just stopped believing. I started believing in the world." I answered

"You know, life is never easy, never perfect. I understand where you're coming from. Sometimes I find it hard to believe in the bible and what it says. I believe in God I have a connection with Him but preachers say read your bibles and pray to God and he'll bless you. I've been reading for years and sometimes it gives me solace, others I'm even more lost. Life has truly beat me up and down" She laughed.

"but life has also been better than what someone who is sick and dying, poor and homeless deals with. I struggle getting out of bed sometimes. Knowing that working at a diner for the rest of my life is not what I'd envisioned. But I believe that God will pull me out of this situation. A blessing could come any second." she stated

This is what I've been looking for.  Someone who can feed me spiritually, I've walked away from conversations about God and how He will work things out because I didn't wanna hear it. My life had been hell growing up. I didn't believe there was a God because if there was why did I have to suffer and go through the things I did growing up. I still wanted to believe in something, maybe she was my sign to turn back to Him.

"That's true, man life has been hell for me. Growing up and getting to this point took too many turns, ups and downs that I wasn't prepared for. I'm thankful I'm at this point and I know nothing comes easy. But shit, life could've been a little easier on me" I laughed

"I feel the same way trust me. Sometimes I'm angry because I know if my mother was still alive my life most definitely wouldn't have turned out like this. I wasn't prepared to have this life. You know my parents owned a drug store, and when she died I was left to run it."

"Seriously?" I asked baffled

"Yep, my dad turned into an alcoholic, we still had bills to pay and there were too many days he was too drunk to even leave the house. I literally ran the store until I was 14. State shut us down because a teenager was running the business you know" she laughed.

"Damn that's wild, did you like running it or would you have preferred being a teenager" I asked

"Of course I'd rather have been a teenager instead of working, but I met some really nice people running it. Many of them actually helped me run it, restocking shelves, teaching me how to be a cashier. They all knew how we were struggling with the loss of my mom so they did pretty much anything they could to help us out."

"I wonder how'd the state knew a teenager was running the store?" I asked

"oh this old white lady came in one day, she saw me at the register and said I need to see a manager. I asked her what could I help her with because I was cashier, manager and everything else. She then proceeded to say, little black girl I said I need to see a manager."