He sent it to Archie with the wordsSome of my village.
It took two minutes before he got a reply.
Rad.With about seventeen heart-eyes emojis.
About ten seconds after that came,Is that selfie withyour baby bro?
He sent back,No, my brother Joker’s boy.Joker is inthe other pic with his girl.
To this, she returned,Your brother is hot.
The rest of them are dogs, he replied.
She sent a gif of some woman pursing her lips and rollingher eyes.
Which meant, when Jagger headed toward the Bronco, he wassmiling.
At six-thirty that night, his doorbell rang.
Jagger left his kitchen, went to his front door, opened it,saw Archie outside wearing a pair of faded olive jeans shorts and an oversizedV-neck tee she’d knotted at the waist.The tee was white, a little see-through,and what he could see through it was a red bra.She also had on flat sandalswith a bunch of braided straps around her feet and ankles.
Seriously, he dug how she dressed.
That was the only thought he had, outside he was pleased asfuck she was there, before he returned the favor she gave him the night before.
He hooked her at the waist, pulled her to his body, droppedhis head and took her mouth.
Kissing her deep, he shuffled her in, shut the door,shuffled her around, and then moved them in further.
Only when she was pressing close and had a hand fisted inhis hair, did he break the kiss.
“Hey,” he greeted.
“Hey.”She smiled.
Truth.
She was beautiful.
But when she smiled, she was all kinds of pretty.
That might seem a demotion in compliments.
But it was seriously not.
She let his hair go but only to rest her hand on the back ofhis neck, remained snug against him, and looked around.
And even if she was close, she still managed to collapseagainst him with her laughter.
He knew what was funny and grinned down at her while she didit.
When she was getting control, she drooped a shoulder anddropped a beat-up leather backpack to the floor.
She did some head turning to take more in before she slappedboth hands on his shoulders and said, “Thank God, finally, you do somethingthat’s cute.I mean, could thisbemore of a bachelor pad?”
He looked around his space that was totally andunapologetically a bachelor pad.
Hewasa bachelor.And it was his time to have thiskind of pad.
