“You lucky a nigga like your ass. Follow me,” I said.
She didn’t know what the hell I was about to do, but fuckin’ with a nigga like me, I always seemed to be full of damn surprises. We stood up front and once they finished playing, I walked up and asked the lead singer of the group if it would be okay if I took the mic for a second. He quickly nodded his head and passed me the mic.
Antonia looked at me, showing me that gorgeous smile, because I’m pretty sure now she had a feeling of what I was up to.
Clearing my throat, I began. “Hey everybody, how are y’all doing tonight?” I asked as people walked past.
Just that quick, women caught a glimpse of this fine ass nigga on stage with dreads and a mouthful of gold teeth and they stopped what they were doing. Niggas stopped and stared too because they probabl
y thought that I was about to start freestyling or some shit. It’s funny because the white folks stopped and stared, and knowing them, they probably thought I was ghetto rapper or something.
“That beautiful young lady over there is about to go to prom soon,” I said, pointing my finger at Antonia. She blushed and I continued with my lil speech. “I’m shocked as hell right now at myself as I stand up here to do this in front of all of you strangers, but when you really care about someone, you’ll go to the extreme to make them smile. I’m going to keep it short because I know many of you have better things you could be doing than watching me stand up here on stage,” I said.
“No we don’t. Baby, I’ll watch your fine ass all day,” a female yelled out in the crowd, causing other females to cheer on in agreeance.
I ate all of the compliments up, but I didn’t let it deter me from the matter at hand.
“All I wanted to know was if you, Antonia Taylor, would give me the honor of being your date to the prom. I promise if you say yes, that it will be the best night of your life,” I told her.
She said yes and it caused everybody that was watching to clap and cheer for us. People even had their damn phones out recording it and shit. I knew that once my boys from the block got a hold of this video, they were for sure going to clown my ass.
“You see the shit I do for you?” I asked Antonia as I came down from the stairs and wrapped my arms around her. She kissed me all over my face as she held onto the bag that held the dress.
“Thank you for my corny prom proposal,” she said. I laughed at her using the my line on me.
“How much for the tickets? I remember when I was in high school, the age limit used to be 24 years old that can come to prom, so what’s the limit now?” I asked, going into my jeans and pulling out my cash that I kept in the rubber bands.
“It’s one fifty per person, and the age limit is still twenty-four,” she told me.
I handed her three one hundred dollar bills so that she could pay for the tickets. She thanked me again and I looked down at my watch, seeing that she only had a few minutes left for break.
“Go put that money in your bag when you go back. What time you getting off tonight?” I asked her.
“I’ll be off at 9:30, but you know most times we don’t leave until like eleven because we have to help clean up,” she told me.
“Alright, by the time I head to the Sprint store to replace your phone and go pick us up something to eat, you should be about ready. Just meet me out in the parking lot,” I told her, as she handed me the dress.
“Okay, and thank you again, Jah, for everything,” she told me, wrapping her hands around me and kissing my lips.
We stayed hugged up in this position for about a few more seconds, then she left because she only had a minute left. I don’t know what the hell it was, but damn, was I slowly turning in my player’s card and falling in love with this girl? I hated to admit it, but I think I had found my soulmate.
Chapter 19: Antonia
May 20, 2015
Prom Day
A moment as big as this one shouldn’t have been celebrated with me getting ready over at Jah’s mom’s house, but sadly, that’s what it had come down to. Shaniqua came and picked me up from my apartment early this morning, and I had been getting pampered ever since. Jah had given her the money to spend on me, and she was doing everything in her power to make this day so special for me. The first stop we went to was to the European wax center, so that I could get my eyebrows and my legs waxed, but I had other motives too. Once we got into the room and the cosmetologist closed the door behind her, I wanted some other services done today. Instead of shaving like how I normally do, I wanted to wax my vagina, and boy did that shit hurt like a bitch.
Thirty minutes later, I was walking out of the back room with a beautiful ass vagina, but the shit was killing me. It was worth the pain, and I knew that Jah would be very appreciative of it. I don’t care what he said, today would be the night that I gave my body to him. I was more than ready, no matter how much he thought that I couldn’t handle him or that big ass dick that he carried around with him.
“Girl, why the hell you walking like that?” Shaniqua asked me, laughing as I came from out of the back room.
I signaled with my hands, telling her that I had just gotten down below waxed. She cracked up laughing and then went to pay.
“That’s what your ass gets. You were supposed to go back there for your legs and eyebrows,” Shaniqua teased as we walked to the car.
I waved her off and looked at her. “I plan on having a good night with your brother tonight, that’s why I wanted her waxed,” I told her, with a smirk on my face.