Flipping the Script

Author:Paula Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Say it, girl!”

“She give a new definition to the word curve.”

—Akon, “Dangerous”

Jacinta’s butt wriggled against JZ as she attempted to wrestle her way free from his crushing, but painless, bear hold. They were a tangled statue, his arms tightened, pinning her crossed arms around her waist. He laughed at her futile attempts to unlock herself.

“All you gotta do is say it and I’ll let you go,” he said, calm and pleasant as if he were asking if he could take her order. He enjoyed the friction their bodies made, as she struggled, but not enough to alert Jacinta that his motives to bear-hug her were anything more than his usual teasing.

“I’m not saying nothing.” Jacinta stopped fidgeting and went limp. “So I guess we gon’ stand here just like this forever.”

“Is that a challenge?” JZ adjusted his grip to take up her dead weight. “ ’Cause you know I can.”

“So can I.” Jacinta snorted.

“You just like having me all up on you,” JZ teased, bumping her from behind.

“Whatever, Mo.”

He gripped her elbows and easily lifted Jacinta straight up until her feet dangled a few inches from the ground, as he fussed. “Now, see, why I always gotta be a mo?”

Jacinta laughed. “I don’t know.You tell me ... Mo.”

He placed her back down and she laughed harder when his right hand tickled her side. Anticipating her attempt to escape, as she tugged away, he twirled her toward him like an amateur ballroom dancer, scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder. He walked over to the sofa, lecturing the whole way.

“Don’t hate. How whack would it be if I didn’t share myself with the chicks who appreciate me?” He let her body slip over his shoulder until he held only her calves.

Jacinta’s feet kicked, uselessly. “Come on, Jay. Put me down.”

“Just say it. Come on, it’s not like I’m gon’ snitch on you for truthing up.”

He waited as Jacinta’s body quieted, grinning as she considered it.

He let her body dip a few inches deeper, chuckling at her flailing arms.

“You gonna drop me on my head,” she said, poking JZ in the back of his legs to no avail. His grip on her was solid.

“The sofa will break your fall.” He smacked her on the butt. “I’m waiting.”

“Oh my God, you’re so foul.”

“Say it.”

“Just ’cause I say it don’t mean I’m gonna mean it.”

JZ laughed at the petulance in her voice.

“Say it, girl.”

After sucking her teeth for good measure and sighing so hard JZ wondered how she had enough breath to say anything, she sang in a testy chirp, “I like spending time with you more than with Raheem.”

She yelped as JZ dropped her abruptly, face first on the sofa.

He laughed. “My B.You all right?”

Jacinta kicked at him. “Lucky for you.”

She pushed herself upright and sat cross-legged on the couch. JZ sat beside her with just enough space between them to claim innocence if any of the clique burst in.

He and Jacinta had started off playing the arcade games. But as usual, he’d come around to taunting her about Raheem—something he swore he’d stop doing.

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