“Why you told her that? Now, I got her fuckin crying,” Gemini said to his sister.
He talked to her with a smile on his handsome face. It was so evident that he loved his sister deeply. It was the way he looked at her, even through a video call. I was looking at him talking to his sister, all the while trying to wipe the tears that were falling from my eyes. I was feeling so many emotions right now. I felt like the worst girlfriend in the fuckin world.
“Because why wouldn’t you tell her that, Gemini? That’s so fuckin weird!” Gianna snapped on him, telling him exactly what I wanted to say, but was just too emotional right now to say it.
“My bad, baby. I’m not heavy into birthdays like that. I swear I didn’t keep that shit away from you to be weird. All the deep shit that we talk about. I guess we forgot to talk about the little stuff too,” he took his eyes off his sister, so that he could look at me.
“That’s not little stuff to me, Gemini. That’s the day that you were born. It’s the day that we celebrate another year of life. I wish I had known that. We don’t even know each other’s birthdays,” I whined to him, and he smiled.
“I do know your birthday, bae. It’s November 8th,” when he said that, I felt even worse than I already did before.
I wasn’t sure what the hell was wrong with me this morning, but my God, my emotions were all over the place. I knew that I could be very emotional, but even this was new for me. I was really sitting here having a fit because I didn’t know it was his birthday, yet he called my birthday out so easily, letting it slip through his tongue like it was nothing.
“How do you know that?” I cried to him.
“I only know that because when you showed your I.D at the bar in Louisiana so you could get a drink. I saw it then. Gianna, hold on,” Gemini said, talking to his sister, and then he placed my phone in his pocket.
He came for me, pulling my legs down that I had folded Indian style, so I could take them out of the seat. He turned mearound, so that I was sitting sideways in the seat, facing him. He stood between my legs, and he was smiling. Seeing that smirk on his face caused me to stop wiping my eyes, so that I could push him.
“Gemini, it’s not funny. I didn’t know. I feel like the worst girlfriend to you,” I went on to say.
“You not the worst girlfriend. We didn’t talk about that, and that’s my fault. Stop crying because you making me feel bad,” he said, reaching his hand out to wipe the remaining tears away.
“Can we at least go to dinner or something tonight then?” I asked him.
“Yeah bae. We can go to dinner,” he said.
He leaned into me, while I grabbed him on the sides of his face, and repeatedly placed kisses on his lips.
“Happy birthday, handsome. I’m so mad at you right now, but I love you so much,” I told him.
“I love you more, beautiful,” he replied, sealing it with a kiss on the lips.
Once he pulled away, he took my phone out of his pocket, so that he could finish talking to his sister. I placed his phone on the charger like he told me, and after he spoke with Gianna for about ten minutes, he handed the phone back to me.
He told me to give him ten minutes to finish with the inspection, and then his closed the door. Gianna was still on the phone, and she had this smirk on her face. I already knew that she was going to say something slick. Even though the phone had been inside Gemini’s pockets while he was talking to me, I’m sure she heard the entire thing. This would be her first time witnessing me, and her brother in action, especially when he calms me down whenever I’m having one of my moments. I knew she was going to troll me because of it too.
“Oh, girl please. I didn’t know you was in that deep,” was the first thing that Gianna said to me. I laughed because I knew it was coming.
“Bitch, I’m deep. I got it bad for your brother. That dick is messing with my brain cells,” I told her, and she started gagging at what I was telling her, carrying on as if she was getting ready to throw up because she couldn’t bear to even hear me talk about her brother in that manner.
“Oh, please spare me with the details. I don’t even have to know. You know how sick in the head you have to be to cry because you didn’t know your man’s birthday? Your ass is crazy,” she continued to troll me, and because I didn’t give a damn, I sat back, with the phone in my hands, on my own little high, not giving a damn about what she was talking about.
The only thing that I was thinking about right now is what I was going to do for my man tonight. We had to do dinner or something. I wanted to make him feel special. Just like he always makes me feel special, even though it’s nowhere near my birthday.
“What are you going to do for him tonight? I heard him agree to the dinner,” Gianna went on to tell me.
“When we get off the phone, I’m going to find some restaurants in the area. Probably do a nice dinner tonight. What else does he like? He’s so simple. I wouldn’t even know what to get him,” I told her, and she smiled at that.
“When it comes to Gemini, you’ll never make him happy by buying him something materialistic. That’s not the kind of person that he is. Gemini just isn’t wired like that. I can say that he does like watches, cologne, nice shoes, and things like that, but if he wants it, he’ll just go buy it. I’m telling you, if you were to spend a lot of money on him for his birthday, his ass will make you take it back, so you can get your money back. Me, and my mom have learned our lessons over the years dealing with hisass. Gemini is the kind of man that you just have to give him good memories. Do the dinner. A nice dinner,” she started, and I sat back, taking in all these things.
I wasn’t shocked with what she was telling me. This was a man that didn’t even like for me to take my wallet with me whenever we would step out together. He wanted to foot every bill. If Gianna never told me these things, I know for a fact that I would have been sitting here, trying to find a watch, cologne, or shoes for him, trying to find a way to get it shipped to somewhere near us. I just wanted to do something for him that would make him feel special.
“My brother likes to eat, so whatever restaurant you choose, just make sure that it’s something nice with a good menu. Once dinner is over, I’m sure it’ll make his night if you do something simple like put a movie on in the truck for you two to watch together. Just give him your time. That’s what’s going to make him happy,” she let me know, and I took in all the things that she was saying, making mental notes of it.
Gianna continued to give me more pointers, and by the time she finished, Gemini was getting back in the truck. I wrapped up my conversation with Gianna, letting her know that I loved her, and promising to call her later. After that, we hung up, and I turned in my seat, so that I could get a better look at the birthday boy.
He was cooling down, using one hand to get the sweat off his forehead with a face towel, and with his other hand, he was drinking water from his Stanley cup. I don’t know if it made me sick in the head, but I sat here wondering what his sweat might have tasted like.
