Resistance by Nia Forrester

Author:Nia Forrester
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stiletto Press, LLC
Published: 2020-06-23T18:30:00+00:00

Bill taken care of, we stood awkwardly for a few moments at the curb before I extended a hand. Kai looked at it, then grinned.

“You’re just gonna shake my hand?” he said, grinning. “And walk away just like that?”

I laughed. “Well. I mean …”

“I admit, it’s been a crappy first date. Getting arrested and me stiffing you for our breakfast … or lunch. But I was hoping I could get your number at least, and maybe …” He let his voice trail off.

The fact that he called it a date was, I knew, just a joke. But it still gave me confidence that he wasn’t slotting me into the friend zone. That was when I admitted to myself that that was not the zone I wanted to be in with him. There was something a little embarrassing about knowing that even in a full-blown racial justice crisis, I was noticing cute boys and crushing on them. Like, how shallow was that? Tianna would never …

I handed him my phone. He dialed a number and his phone rang. He handed mine back to me and declined the call on his, typing something in.

“What’s your last name?” he asked without looking up, still typing.

I told him. “Yours?” I asked.

And he told me, so we were done. But we both stood there for a minute, updating each other’s contact information probably more slowly than the task merited.

When we were done, it was Kai who finally broke the silence.

“I promise, I’ma make this up to you,” he said. “A classier joint, no arrests … And I’ll hopefully have a wallet with cards in it and everything.”

Cops were exiting the carryout in pairs, skirting around us, until Kai held my arm and pulled me out of their path.

“Anyways …” I let the word drag, shifting my weight from one leg to the other.

“Yeah. It was cool,” Kai said. “Hanging out. Eating breakfast … and having you pay, that was not so cool, but …”

His geek-lite thing was growing on me more each second. I thought about the tasks ahead of me – finding Tianna, calling my dad, getting back home. I wasn’t sure how much of Center City was blocked off now, and where I might have to go to meet him, likely on foot.

“Actually,” I said. “Did you … do you have your keys to get back into your house and everything, or … I mean, since you don’t have your wallet, are you going to be okay?”

Kai’s face brightened a little and I saw the moment he reined it in.

“I was planning on going over to my building and seeing whether anyone was there to let me in. Like the maintenance guy or whatever,” he said. “But if you need me to …”

“I’m going to call my dad,” I said. “But I don’t know how long it’ll take him to come or anything, so maybe I could go with you to your place. I mean … just your building lobby or whatever and

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