“Nah baby, not at all. I just don’t want you acting confused when I ask you to prove it.”
That statement really threw her. She sat up immediately, looking at me. Too bad she was showing too much fucking skin. The sight of her loose supple breasts and perfect flesh sent my mind into other spaces.
“And that means?” she asked, rocking my favorite expression. The one that let me know she didn’t know what was next.
“It means stay on your toes, baby.”
“Reminisce.”
“You’re saying my name like that don’t do shit but get my dick hard. Now get some rest; we’ve got an early morning ahead of us.”
That pissed her off quickly. Not a second after I closed my eyes, she sucked her teeth. She’d be aight.Mad ass.
Neither of us rose from the bed until like nine, and for Rim, even that was too early. I didn’t care how much shit she gave me. I’d planned to be up earlier, but the night of endless thinking took a toll when I finally closed my eyes. Rim assumed we were headed to get my baby, but I had a stop before that, one that had been on my mind since she told me I had her forever.
“Why are we going downtown, Reminisce?”
“To take care of something. What are you over there mugged up for?”
“Because I could’ve just sworn I told you I was hungry before we left and now you’re talking about going to handle something.”
“We’ll eat after.”
She sighed dramatically, then turned to look out of the window. “What the hell is wrong with you this morning? You’ve been in your head, now you’re starving me with secret, impending plans.”
I smirked, deciding not to answer.
For the remainder of the ride, she said nothing, sure to let me know she was hangry. So when I pulled into a park right in front of the courthouse, she turned and looked at me, expression sexy and unforgiving. “Reminisce. Why are we at City Hall?”
I cut the car off and finally gave her my undivided attention. She liked to be in control, knowing everything, but at this moment those eyes of hers held nothing but confusion.
“You said I have you in the afterlife, right?”
More confusion poured from her expression. “Meaning?”
“Meaning I’m not some fairytale ass nigga.”
She bit into her bottom lip, eyes going from City Hall to me. “Are you serious?”
“As a heart attack. I’m asking you to prove it.”
She sucked her bottom lip before unlatching her seatbelt. “Okay. Just know there is no turning back and there damn sure isn’t a rewind button.”
“I’m not looking for one.”
She grinned. “Good. Let’s do this.”
I didn’t ask her if she was sure or anything. I hopped out of the car like time was of the essence and approached her side. Once I had her door open, I extended my hand for her to take and she gladly took it. That shit right there was all I needed before we walked into this old ass building I bet smelled like mothballs and dust. It didn’t matter though. This was happening, no matter how impulsive it may have seemed.
About a half an hour later we exited the courthouse with a marriage license. Illinois had a mandatory twenty-four hour hold, which meant we’d be making it official in the morning. I could tell Rim wanted to reach over the counter and lay hands on the dry ass clerk who nastily told us we had to come back in the morning.
“Can’t believe we just did that,” she murmured once we were in the car again.
“What, you regretting it? You’ve got about twenty-three hours to change your mind.”
“When it comes to you, I don’t regret anything. I just hate that we didn’t get our shit together sooner. That we played cat mouse for so long before seeing what could happen.” Her hand found the side of my face as her thumb rubbed across where her name was tattooed on my temple.
“I don’t. Neither of us were ready then. Shit would’ve been fucked up before we started. There is a timing for everything, this is within our timing.” I cut my eyes between her and the road. “Now what you wanna eat? Since you were so fucking hungry earlier.”
