I can’t tell if she hears me because she sinks further into me. Still, I try to reel her in. “Jelly. Relax yourself.”
It’s no use.
Her body tenses up and she goes. And goes. Until she falls.
“Fuck!” She grabs her lower abdomen when I pull out.
“You okay?”
She turns on her side and curls in on herself. “Get out.”
Huh?
“Huh?”
“If you can ‘huh’, you can hear. Get. Out.”
“Frankie,” I reach for her arm to pull her closer. “You need an ice pack or something? Or you want me to run you a bath? Talk to me. What do you need?”
“I need you,” she swats my hand away. “To pull your trousers up, grab your shit and get the fuck out of my room. Now.”
Oh.
“Seriously?”
“Now, Jabari.”
I sigh. This girl really is a character. But like she requests, I pull my trousers up, and readjust my clothes as if nothing happened between us.
“Frankie.” She doesn’t respond. “I’m sorry if I hurt you, okay? We’ll be gentler next time.”
Like I should’ve been this time.
She just lays there, face buried in the covers. It’s muffled, but I hear it. “Go.”
Damn it.
I’m half way out the room when I turn around to try again only for the door to be slammed in my face.
fourteen
keep it strong.
Frankie.
?The momentJabari’s footsteps fade down the hallway and the lock clicks, I sag against the door like it’s holding me up.
Jesus Christ.
I push off it slowly and wander back into bed, suddenly aware of how empty the space feels without him in it. This was supposed to be a harmless ting.
Lure him in with the promise of sex.
Make him feel stupid.
Then kick his ass out.
It’s petty. But it was harmless.
