Pecking Order by Omar Tyree

Author:Omar Tyree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT NIGHT, Ivan invited Christina over to his apartment before running out to another weekend event. Chris was not nearly as engaging as she usually was. She had a lot on her mind that Friday evening, and she would not allow Ivan to work in a quickie of sexual satisfaction.

“What’s wrong?” he asked her.

Christina had settled in on the living room sofa and would not budge.

“I just don’t feel like it tonight, Ivan,” she told him.

Ivan waited to hear more. Christina was a woman of layers.

She said, “I’m thinking about going back to school.”

Ivan looked at her and nodded. Higher education was on her mind.

He asked her, “How many years did you do?”

“Two.”

“And you would go back to school to study what?”

“Business administration,” she answered. She had thought about it in detail.

Ivan then wondered about Catherine Boone and how she was making out in her new job.

He asked Christina, “Were you studying business before, or you just decided you want to study it now?”

She faced him and said, “I just decided on it. I mean, I don’t plan to be a hostess at parties for the rest of my life. What kind of life would that be?”

Ivan nodded again in silence. She had a point.

She said, “But I may need for you to sponsor me.”

Ivan heard that comment and frowned. “Sponsor you? What do you mean?”

“I mean, help me to go, Ivan. Colleges cost money.”

Ivan said, “You got money to go. You get paid every time you host. You’re making a thousand dollars a week now, aren’t you? Plus you work at the Thai restaurant during the daytime now.”

She said, “Yeah, but that’s just enough to pay for my living expenses. You know I don’t share rent with Audrey anymore. She has her own place now.”

Ivan did the math and said, “You’re making more than four thousand dollars a month, and you’re talking about me sponsoring you to go to college. What are you talking about? I had to pay my way through college with half of that.”

She said, “Yeah, but I wouldn’t be able to work that much once I start. I would have classes, homework, and other things to do full-time.”

Ivan told her, “Yeah, that’s what all full-time college students do.”

He thought, I’m not treating this girl like she’s my child just because we’ve been intimate. What the hell is she thinking?

Christina stood up from her spot on his sofa and told him, “You know what, I can make it happen on my own. I’ve been doing that all my life now anyway. I just wanted to see if you would support me to do something more, that’s all. But now I know that you won’t.”

Ivan looked up at her and argued, “I support you as a friend, and I would help you out if you really needed it, but all this sponsorship talk…I mean, for what? You don’t need me to sponsor you. You can pay for school.”

“Okay. Bye, Ivan,” she told him as she headed for the door.

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