I woke up to ringing in my ears. It took me a couple of seconds to realize it was the phone. I jumped out of bed and searched for it under a pile of clothes. “I really got to clean this room,” I said as I found the phone.
“Hello,” I mumbled as I looked at the clock it was 7:30.
“Hope I didn’t wake you,” a raspy voice responded. My heart almost jumped out of my mouth.
“AJ. Yeah you did,” I said trying not to sound bitter.
“Sorry. I just wanted to know if you wanted to join me for breakfast?”
“Well don’t you think that’s going to be kinda hard when your like 3,000 miles away?” I said rolling my eyes and curling back up in bed.
“Yeah I guess you would be right if I were 3,000 miles away but it’s more like 3 miles away.” He laughed, “I’ll be there in a few minutes.” He hung up and left me speechless.
I jumped out of bed. “He better be joking.” I thought as I searched for something to wear just in case he wasn’t. I was tying my shoe when I heard the doorbell. Why in the world was he doing this to me!? I opened the door and he was standing there with this big goofy smile on his face. He had like 3 big shopping bag in his hands.
“These, my lady are for you,” he said in his Johnny No Name accent as he held the bags out in front of him. I took them still speechless.
“So...are we gonna just stand here in the door way or can I come in?”
“Oh, yeah…uh…come on in. I was just, you know, what are you doing here?” I finally fumbled out.
He walked in and closed the door and sat down on the couch.
“Well I had a couple of things to take care of out here, so I decided to stop by and give these to you personally.”
“Oh thank you. Is this the…?” I sat down and started going through the bags.
“Yeah, the outfit and a few other things I thought you might like. They’re from all over.” He started taking things out and handing them to me and telling me where and why he got them for me.
“Well thank you very much,” I said putting the things back in the bags and taking them to my room.
“No problem.” He stood up and stretched. “Well I don’t know about you but I'm starving.”
“Well you know I'm hungry too. Where do you want to go?” I asked as I grabbed my purse.
“McDonald’s you know I gotta have my sausage egg McMuffin!” he rubbed his stomach. I smiled. Soon we were pulling into the McDonald’s drive-thru. We order and AJ parked in the parking lot. We ate and talked and had a good time.
“So when are you going home?” I asked as he started the car.
“Well did you know Nick is coming back with Vanessa?” he said.
“I didn’t know that. She’s coming back tomorrow isn’t she?”
“Yeah, well let me see it’s 9:30 right now and my plane leaves at 11:20 tonight,” he said as he turned on to my street.
“Oh. Well did you already take care of your business or whatever it was you had to do? I mean you got to my place pretty early didn’t you?”
“Yeah don’t worry about it. I took care of everything already.”
When we got out of the car and went back up to my apartment. The phone was ringing when we walked in. I answered it.
“What are you doing?” Vanessa asked.
“Nothing now, why?”
“Is AJ there?” she asked.
“Yes he is. What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. You’re not in the same room with him are you?”
“No! Would you just spit out whatever it is you have to say already!?” I said peeking out of my bedroom door at AJ. He was looking through one of my photo albums with a sexy grin on his face.
“Well you know he went over there just to see you don’t you?”
I rolled my eyes, “Yeah right. He said he had something to take care of…”
“Angela I'm serious. Amanda went to visit her grandparents for a couple of days and I think he seized the opportunity. Hasn’t he told you about Amanda?” I sat there confused. So he came to see me?
“Hello? Are you there?” Vanessa asked.
“I gotta go.” I hung up. I slowly walked to the living room where AJ was still looking through the album.
“Who was that?” he said not looking up.
“Vanessa,” I said. He looked up that time.
“And what did she have to say?” he closed the album and set it on the coffee table.
“She said she’ll be here tomorrow. And was just making sure you got here okay and everything.”
“Oh,” he leaned back. “Is that all?”
“Yeah, except that she said you didn’t really have any business to take care of or anything…” I picked up a magazine and started flipping through it. He sat straight up.
“She ratted me out!? Oh that’s wrong man. Oh well. Yes it’s true. But I thought it’d be nicer to give you those things myself, you know?”
“MMMhmmm,” I said breaking into a smile.
“Anyway I just…hold on one second,” he said. His cell phone was ringing.
“Hello? Hey! Yeah, so you having a good time?…Really?…Me too…yeah…yeah…no…okay…love you too baby…alright, bye bye.” He put the phone back in his pocket and looked at me like he was waiting for me to say something. I knew who it was. I was a little-no make that very choked up. I mean I had crazy feelings for this man. I don’t know if he realized it but it was suddenly a very, very awkward moment.
“So what did she say?” Nick asked as he pulled a couple of shirts out of his closet.
“Not much. But I did manage to get her to hand up on me. Turns out AJ told her he was there on business,” she said as she zipped up one of her bags.
“I don’t know, but I hope he doesn’t mess with her head. I think he’s confused or…I don’t know…something,” Nick said trying to be serious. The look on his face was so adorable Vanessa couldn’t help but to smile.
“What? Why are you laughing? Do I have something hanging out of my nose?” Vanessa giggled more as Nick walked to the mirror and looked up his nose. She jumped up and ran to him.
“Nick…I love you.” he smiled and his blue eyes lit up.
“Well since you put it that way...” he picked her up and playfully tossed her on the bed. As he was kissing her the doorbell rang.
“Why does something always come up right when things start getting good?” Nick said as he got up to answer the door.
Vanessa got up and started putting more of her things together.
“Babe come down and look who’s here!” Nick hollered at her.