“Alright.”
She spun around and let herself out of my room, pulling the door shut behind her.
I grabbed my cell phone and called Bishop immediately.
“What’s up?” he answered on the second ring.
“My sister popped up so I’m committed to some dumb shit. I’m going to have to push our date back or reschedule it.”
“Alright. You need anything?”
“Nah. It’s cool.”
“You sure? You sound like you’re not happy about the visit.”
“I’m definitely not jumping for fucking joy about it, honestly.”
“What’s wrong? You need me to run interference?”
“Would you?”
“Yeah. I’d do that for you.”
I smiled knowing that Bishop had already made it clear that he wasn’t necessarily a people person but he would bite the bullet for me.
“I appreciate it but I’m not going to make you go through that.”
“I thought you and Nadira were close.”
“We are, but she brought a friend along.”
“And you don’t fuck with the friend?”
“I don’t know her,” I admitted. “She’s trying to set us up,” I said after a moment.
“Oh.” We sat in silence for a moment. “Well, do you like her so far?”
“Nah and I don’t plan to.” I adjusted how I was sitting, “And uh, I told my sister about you.”
“What did you tell her?”
“That I was kind of seeing someone.”
“Yeah? You see me now?” he teased and I could hear the little smile I just knew he was wearing.
“All the time.”
“Except today.”
“I’m sorry about that.”
“You’re good. I hope shit turns around and you have fun with your sister.”
“We’ll see. She uh, she wants to maybe meet you.”
“Yeah?”
“Yep.”
