played meet and greet with all the adults and I
made my way into the kitchen to see Amari. She was turned around
making potato salad and didn’t notice me come up. “You missed me
baby?” I said wrapping my hands around her small waist. She turned
around and scoffed. “Derrick get off me.” She said releasing my
grip on her. I stood back and admired how beautiful she was. Amari
had light bronze skin, pretty bambi like eyes and shoulder length
black hair. She was a real beauty and had a lovely figure that
showed perfectly in her tangerine summer dress, which was doing
nothing really but enhancing what was already there. “Derrick where
have you been?”
I rolled my eyes; I was in
no mood to listen to her nagging…not today. “I woke up late…
chill.” Amari went back to fixing up the potato salad and huffed.
“You know it really works my nerves when you tell me you’re going
to be here and you don’t show up.” I gave her a sly smile trying to
ease her attitude. “You used to like when I worked your nerves.”
She stopped what she was doing and scowled at me.
“Derrick please…”
“What do you want from me
Amari…” I sighed. “I’m here.”
“I don’t want anything from
you but your son, the child we have together would like to see more
of your tired ass.”
I stared out through the
window at Danton and the others playing outside, all my kids were
good children, I would do anything for them…I didn’t like being
accused of being a bad father. “I do what I can.” Amari saw the
annoyed look on my face and sighed. “Look Derrick I gave up on you
being there for me a long time ago, but Danton is still your son
and he needs you more than ever now and I’m not just talking about
your money. He’s going to be a teenager soon.” I stared into her
eyes that were pleading with me to get it together and I smiled.
“Ok…ok I’ll do better.” She nodded, hoping she had finally gotten
through to me.
“Good… now let’s take this
food to the main room before everybody starves to death.” I grabbed
her arm before she left, taking her off guard. “Can I get a hug?” I
asked innocently. Amari eyed me suspiciously and reluctantly
agreed. I wrapped her small body against mine and gently kissed her
neck causing her to shiver. “Derrick don’t…” She said trying to
pull away from me but I held her in place. I placed my lips on hers
and bit on them a little causing her to moan. “Derrick…” We were
getting pretty into it until she pushed me away. “What have I told
you about doing that?” Amari yelled. I just leaned back and
laughed. “C’mon girl you were feeling me.” She just shook her head
and sighed. “Derrick we are not together anymore ok. I don’t need
you coming at me like that.” Reluctantly I admitted defeat and
nodded. “Ok…I’m sorry.”
Amari took a breath and
nodded taking one more glance at me before she exited the kitchen
into the main room. “Ouch… shot down again.” I heard the sounds of
venom spewing to the right of me. I turned around to see Kim with a
wicked grin on her pretty face. Amari made it a point to invite all
the kids’ mothers over whenever she had a function since they all
were brothers and sisters. She was just mature like that, too bad I
couldn’t speak for the others. “What the hell do you want
Kim?”
She walked toward me with
curious eyes. “All I want is for you to stop wasting your time with
Ms. Holier than thou over there and come get what you have been
missing.” I shook my head, as tempting as Kim was there was no way
in hell I was going to be fucking with her again…hell I learned my
lesson. I attempted to walk past her. “Girl… you wasting your
time.” She grabbed my hand softly and sighed. “C’mon Derrick you
know you miss me.” I looked her dead in the eyes giving her my fool
attention. “Oh I miss you.” I said running my finger down her sheer
pink blouse. “But one thing I don’t miss is that funky ass