Chapter Four - Feeling At Ease With You

The following day started pretty good. I did the same routine that I do, which my sister finds weird but whatever..

I took a bath and put on a denim jumpsuit, a white vest underneath, and white Jordan sneakers.. Then I tied my brainds into a bun and put my glasses on... I looked into the mirror and smiled, I felt good. This is why I loved Fridays.

I put my camera safe and took my bag. I was only fetching my assignments. I texted my boyfriend..

ME: Good morning you handsome thing of mine 😍😘... I hope you slept well. I did. So today I am meeting up with the camera killer and we are just hanging out. I will see you later or better yet tomorrow for the date. I fucken love you Nash 😘😘❤❤❤

Then I headed to school.

My boyfriend later responded..

BABY: Hey my beautiful nerdy person 😍😍😍... I miss you, so I hope to really see you tonight.. and I have a class later during the day. So I'm in bed. I miss your face.. I love you more 😘

I didn't waste time and around 11 I was back in the apartment with my things.

My phone vibrated and I checked it.

TAWNY: I am 5 minutes away.. please come out.. I am really scared of rats.. I forgot to tell you that yesterday..

I laughed..

ME: I should have known that you're well built for nothing.. coward.. 😂😂😂... I'm coming with this rat.

Then I took my black leather jacket and locked then went out.

Like she promised, she arrived in no time, opened the door and I got in. There was a bag on the passenger's seat..

"Shit.. throw that at the back... hey how are you..."

I took her in, she had on really torn blue jeans with a white t-shirt and a black fabric biker four zipper jacket with timberlands.. A dark marron lipstick, mascara.. and a black straight cap. She looked really good. No wonder people stopped her at the mall..

I smiled, "guess who has a clean car now.."

She laughed and started driving after I put a safety belt on, "don't be awful.."

"Oh if I do it I'm awful?"

She rolled her eyes and ignored me, "so.. should we grab something or order in.."

I shrugged, "with you looking like that we will never get out of any mall, let's order in..."

She laughed and looked at herself, "how do I look."

"Well dressed and nice.. very clean.. cleaner than your car inside.."

She scoffed, "you really suck at giving compliments... my car has nothing to do with me looking clean."

I laughed as I realized that we are making our way to Sandton.

"You stay in Sandton?"

She nodded, "Bryanston actually.."

I nodded my head and soon we were pulling up in front of this place.. the gate opened and she drove in...

The moment I set my foot outside her car and looked at my surroundings... my jaw was on the fucken floor. The place was breathtaking I can't even explain it.

I turned to her and then looked back at the house.. then back at her..

She seemed confused, "umh.. I'm parking here because I'll take you back home later.. right...?"

I laughed at her. She probably thought I was wondering why she didn't park in her garage.. but fuck.. I was stunned by the place. How green it was and the tiny field it had around the corner.

She took her bag and directed with her head that I follow her..

I did and we went past a swimming pool. From here I could already see some parts of downstairs inside since the walls were glass.

She unlocked the door and we got in. It smelled so good..

"Fuuuck... Tawny what bank did you rob? Or are your parents white?"

She laughed, "look at me laughing when I should be offended.. I worked hard you know.. very hard."

Ahh my sister's motto.. work very hard...

"Woooow fuck.. on a serious note dude.. you have done fucken well for yourself. This is just beautiful."

She took off her jacket, "thank you... umh.. let me go put these upstairs. Make yourself at home.. grab a beer in the fridge or something.."

I nodded my head, "cool.. but how do I open your fridge first?"

She laughed and shouted before disappearing, "stop being an idiot.."

"Yeyii I'm an idiot.. who still doesn't know how to open your fridge.." I said to myself while opening the fridge. It wasn't that complicated, but I was being an idiot...

Fuck okay.. you know even when my parents were alive I've never seen such food or such a beautiful house.. like why weren't they this rich?

I took out a can of Pepsi and opened it then started drinking..

She came down without the jacket and the bag like she promised, "okay food is on the way.. I'm hungry."

"Where were you... today?"

"Umh.. just meetings.. back to back.."

"Yesterday was an attire for meetings. Today is casual and way too casual for meetings.."

She laughed while opening the fridge, "well... I guess today's meeting was casual too."

We went to sit down on the couch and she switched on the big screen TV..

"What do you do? I wanna work for you.. screw photography.."

This made her laugh, "umh.. just got a few businesses I run.. clothing and a few others on the side.."

"Woow.. this would explain the way you dress.. it's stylish and suits you..."

She took a sip on her drink, "well you definitely need a wardrobe change.. especially after what you were wearing yesterday and the day before that.."

I poked her, "you're fucken awful.. this is from the bottom of my heart."

She got up, "oh she has a heart..."

I rolled my eyes and got up too, then my eyes saw her pool table at the far corner. I went to it. I've always seen how my friends play at these clubs and never actually cared enough to play.. so I knew I was pretty bad at it.

"Wanna play?" She asked approaching. And I shrugged, "umh... sure.. if you show me how to play.."

"You don't know how to play?"

"Was I supposed to know?"

She laughed, "that stung..."

I pulled her in for a hug from behind.. "I'm sorry... it should have killed you.."

She laughed and pushed me off, "Godness.. fine.. let me teach you.."

..

Two hours later we were laying on our backs facing up on the floor on her fucken expensive mat that was so darn comfortable while eating Pizza and drinking red wine .

"Woow.. you are such an awful teacher..."

She laughed, "I'm pretty good at it, you're just an idiot."

I turned my head to look at her on my right, "well... look at you being so big bodied and failing to teach me pool properly..."

She took a bite on her pizza and I took a smaller bite.. "I can teach you to eat Pizza..."

I laughed, "I'm out... God Tawny your body is so well built, why don't you play sport or something. I mean you beat me in pool but that's not something for you. You should try soccer.. might work for you.. I could say rugby but you'd mess your pretty face and not get waved at when you are walking by the mall"

She laughed too and looked at me seeming a bit amuzed, "you think?"

I nodded now seriously, "yeah... totally.." then I took a bite on my pizza too and chewed.

"You collect?"

I turned to her, "huh?"

"Paintings.. umh.. I saw one beautiful painting in your bedroom and another one in your living room.. do you collect or does Freya do?"

I shrugged, "oh no.. I painted those..."

She ached her brows, "whaaaat?"

I started playing with my Dad's watch again on my hand. He kinda introduced me to plainting... "Yeah.. painter and photographer... that's me.. you'll totally see my work sometimes.. I'm hiding it in that dirty dorm."

"Oh yeah...? I'd actually love to see them.. what I saw was beautiful already... So. This watch..?"

"It was my Dads.. he gave it to me.."

"Darn the old man has taste I swear.. where is he?"

My face fell and I kept quiet. That made her turn to look at me, "Amora..?"

"Him and my mom passed away a few years back when I was leaving high school..."

"Shit... I'm so sorry.. I didn't know..."

I rolled my eyes, "pshhhh of course you didn't know Tawny... we literally met two days ago and you called me R8,945.."

She laughed, "wooow... yeah I voluntarily gave you that name.."

I laughed too, but it was a sad laugh now. I think the wine was kicking in a bit.

"Wanna talk about it?"

I tilted my head to the side and found her already looking at me, "what?"

She cleared her thoat, "umh.. your parents...? If that's okay with you..."

I looked up at the ceiling.. it had down lights. They were not on yet coz it was not dark outside..

I wondered if this was good I mean I hardly spoke about my parent's death since it happened. Well I did talk about it but just lightly and not like this.. in a beautiful house drinking wine with someone I just met two days ago.

"I am not trying to cross any boundaries okay.. if you don't want to talk about it it's okay. I don't want to make you unco...."

"..it was a car accident." I cut her off before I could stop myself.

She looked at me and I at her, "I... it was a ceremony at my Aunt's place and they were coming back. Umh.. so a drunk driver it was... my dad died right on the spot.. mom passed away a few days later at the hospital.. yeah so that's it..."

"I'm sorry it happened, I mean no one deserves that... I guess God had different plans for you and your sister.. look at you now.. They are proud..."

I smiled a bit, "enough with depressing things.. where are your parents.. please tell me they are still alive..."

She smiled before telling me that both her parents are alive but separated. Her dad cheated when she was a kid. She grew up with her mom.. yep guys, she's a mommy's baby..

She had a pretty good upbringing and she loved fashion..and sports. Which explains why she goes to the gym a lot and dresses so beautifully.

We talked about me and photography and painting... then back to her businesses.. I found out that she was 29 years old and of course I thought she was lying, until she showed me her ID card.. yep, Tawny King was 29 fucken years old. Which explains why she was so mature when I told her my parents died.. A lot of people are sympathetic and they regret asking about it or ask me how I'm coping.. I mean it's been 5 fucken years later.. how was I supposed to be?

She killed me when she said I was a baby after she found out that I was 22.

"Fuck you.. I'm not a baby... only my parents called me that... and I was a kid then." I said and she laughed.

I sighed, "I miss them..."

She shifted a bit and I shifted to look at her. She was looking at me. She smiled a bit, "your parents?"

I nodded, "yeah... and it feels so weird to be saying it out loud like this. Usually I just bottle it in and start painting.. makes me feel closer to my dad."

She shifted and bit, totally turning to her side and faced me. She placed her hand on my cheek and smiled while looking at me, "it's normal.. to miss them. So don't ever deprive yourself of that feeling. They were your parents.."

I closed my eyes, "you're sweet.."

I opened my eyes and found her looking at me. She smiled a bit, that dimple showed and now I noticed that she has a double chin.

I smiled too... "I really miss them.."

I closed my eyes and felt her shift a bit. She connected her forehead to mine and I could feel her breath on my face...

I smiled..

I felt at ease like this, as if I knew her for longer than two days...