Alaysia Martin
Dec 8, 2024
I was currently finishing up my second to last client today. It had been two days since I had seen Amari and I kind of missed him. Of course we had been texting but that was only a little bit because we were playing phone tag and then we would FaceTime at night when I was going to bed but that was really all the contact we had had since the other day when he came over and stayed the night.
I had spent most of my time working or hanging out with Imani. We went to a party last night but it was madddd crowded and became too much for me so Imani being the real one she is, took me home and we watched movies for the rest of the night.
After finishing up with this client, I waited for my next client which should be here in a couple minutes. I was bored so I texted Amari.
amari.ð
im bored
oh so you only text me when you're bored
yup
good to know. guess I won't come see you tdy since im not more than a person you hit up when you're bored
you gonna come see me mari???
not anymore
please bubba. I kinda miss you (if you guys don't like this pet name pls give me some suggestions bc I couldn't think of one)
kinda?
js come see me
that's not how you ask Read 4:13pm
I couldn't reply to him because my last client had just arrived. She was  going to take a while because she liked to get extra extra long nails with intricate designs but they always eat up and I get good money from it.
I led her to my studio and turned on some music on the tv because I didn't want to watch something so I could have my full focus on her nails. The more I am focussed, the faster I can get this set done.
We made small talk while I did her nails and since every time she comes, she's here for a while we had created a friendship and she would tell me all the juicy things going on in her life at the moment and trust me they were always juicy.
In the middle of doing her nails I heard my front door open so I quickly excused myself to check who it was.
It was Amari and I was so happy to see him. I kind of speed walked over to him and wrapped my arms around his waist.
"What I tell you about locking this door?" He said as he wrapped his arms around my waist and kissed my head.
"Can't you just be happy to see me?" I said with a smile on my face and stood up on my tiptoes to place a quick kiss on his lips.
He tried to kiss me again but I had to pull away because I didn't want to keep Alexis, my client, waiting.
"I have a client waiting and her set is probably going to take about another hour and a half to finish. You can lock the door and hang out in the living room or my room while I finish up."
I went back to my studio and went back to working on Alexis's nails. she asked me who it was and I didn't think she was out of line for asking because as I had mentioned we kind of formed a relationship during her long ass appointments. I told her about him, I didn't tell her all the little details but I told her most of what's been going on since I met him and how I met him even though not that much has happened.
After I told her about Amari, she went back to telling me what was going on in her life and before we both knew it, I was finished with her set. At the end of her appointment she told me about this party she was hosting this weekend and she invited me. I would most likely end up going but only if I could get Imani or Amari to go with me. Maybe both.
Once she left, I cleaned up my workspace and then turned off everything in the room. I made my way out into the common space and saw that Amari had made dinner. It melted my heart.
"You're so sweet making dinner for me." I said as I walked into the kitchen and came up behind him.
He turned around and wrapped his hands around my waist, "I can make dinner for you every night if you let me."
"Oh really? You're gonna come here every night just to make dinner for me? I feel special." I said as I pulled out of his embrace even though I enjoyed it but I was hungry because I haven't eaten since this morning and that was just a bowl of fruit with honey. I walked over to where he had two plates laid out side by side.
"You are special to me and hopefully at some point we can live together so that I won't have to commute every night." He made his way over to the seat next to me.
I laughed at his statement. "You act like it's a long commute. I don't even know where you live but if I were you, I wouldn't come see some girl I just met frequently if she lived far away. That's too much work." I took a bite of the food he made and moaned at the taste. Maybe he should come here every night just to make dinner for me. He had made some roasted chicken, roast potatoes, and green beans but the fancy fresh kind and not the frozen kind. I was planning on making a meal similar to this later this weekend hence why I had the foods at my house but he did it for me.
"Well maybe I am willing to put in the work for someone to show them that I'm serious about making them mine." He said and looked down at his plate as he took a bite of his chicken. "But for real though, I only live about 30 minutes away."
"Oh."
His words had me thinking he was genuinely serious about me but I didn't know him like that for real for real so I didn't know if he was playing me or some shit.
We sat there in silence as we finished eating and the once we were both done, I took both of our dishes and went to the sink to clean up. I didn't see a problem cleaning up because he had made dinner for me and I appreciated. It was like a 50/50 thing.
"I got it, mami."
"No it's okay. You already cooked and I'm showing my appreciation by cleaning up."
"I said I got it." he said with a level tone and pulled me by my waist away from the sink gently.
That was one thing I noticed about him. Some of the things he did, you would think would be more aggressive whether its his words or his actions but they were always gentle even if he was trying to get his point across which I thought was pretty nice.
"Fine. Im going to go change and brush my teeth and then we can watch our show. Do you need anything?"
"No, Aysia. I got things handled. Relax." He said facing away from me as he got started on the dishes.
I rolled my eyes even though I appreciated it and walked to my bedroom. I changed into a pair of sweatpants and an oversized sweater. I usually wore an oversized t-shirt and no pants to go to bed but I can't do that with company here. Then I brushed my teeth and made my way out to the living room.
I turned the show on but waited to play it until he got finished with cleaning up the kitchen.
A couple minutes later, he walked into the living room and sat down beside me, placing my legs over his lap.
"Thank you for dinner and cleaning the kitchen up after."
"Of course, mami." He kissed the top of my foot and I made a face at him and snatched my foot away because even though my feet were fairly clean and manicured, it's weird to kiss them.
"Nigga ew. Don't do that. You don't know where my feet been."
He laughed.
I pressed play on the show and placed my legs back on his lap because it was comfortable like that.
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hey guys!! sorry for releasing this chapter so late. I wanted to post at least another chapter tonight but I got pretty busy so hopefully I will have two more chapters out for yall tmr.
pls vote and leave comments to lmk what you think!!