“Gigi and I–" I hesitate.
“You and Gigi what?”
“Do you already know?”
My father has always been ten steps ahead of me. Maybe he already knows about me and Gigi and is waiting for me to come clean, or maybe I don’t give a fuck and I’ll throw her right under a bus of her own.
“Know what?”
“Our relationship has changed.”
“What do you mean?”
“We’ve been seeing each other… romantically.”
My father doesn’t speak for a moment.
“So, are you in love with her?”
It takes me less than three seconds to respond, unlike a certain drama queen I know.
“Yes.”
“And how does she feel about you?”
“I don’t know.”
“Is that the reason you’re considering making Miami your permanent residence?”
“That’s part of the reason.”
Who are you fooling, man? That’s the entire reason.
“I have to say that I’m a little surprised, Son.”
“Surprised or disappointed?”
“Surprised. I thought you had given up on our Gigi.”
“What do you mean, given up on her?”
“When you were in high school, you beat that Porter kid within an inch of his life. The only reason you would do something like that is because you wanted to be the one sitting on that picnic blanket with Gigi.”
“Please, I couldn’t stand her back then.”
“You don’t really believe that, do you? You’ve always had it bad for that girl. I think you've convinced yourself that your mother and I forced you to protect her over the years, but if you didn't care deeply about her you wouldn't have done it. You would have fought us tooth and nail every step of the way."
"Maybe."
"I get why you love her, Son. Gigi is a beauty inside and out.”
I look down at my phone again and suddenly feel so empty. I miss her dramatic ass and it hasn’t even been forty-eight hours.
“Yeah, she is.”
The rest of the ride is spent quietly with me rewinding in my mind every single moment Gigi and I spent in and out of bed in each other’s arms. This turn in our relationship has been a whirlwind and things admittedly moved fast, but still I’m left asking myself, how did we get here?
I don’t become completely distracted with other things until we arrive to my brothers’s dormitory and we don’t find them in their room.
