Page 26 of A Player's Prayer
Sitting on the plush sofa, she swayed side to side as the tunes of Usher filled the building. Champagne flute to her lips, she grinned as some mark-ass nigga whispered in her ear.
“Tell me the joke,” I said, startling them. In front of them was a table that held their drinks. Pushing the cups and bottles to the side, I took a seat right on top of that muthafucka. Placing my elbows on my knees, I leaned forward and eyed them both. “It must be something if you can get her mean-ass to laugh.”
Unfazed by my presence, Kodi continued to sway to the music. Amelia, who was seated next to her, looked between us all like she knew it was about to be a shit show.
“I was just telling her how beautiful she was.” Pee Wee smiled, winking at her. “I told her that her man was lucky to have her.”
“I am.” I nodded, locking my eyes with her. “Let me talk to you, Kodi.”
“I’m good…” She waved me off when I reached for her hand. “I’ve been calling you for days, and you’ve been blowing me off. I can take a hint, Adrian. You got what you wanted. We can act like it never happened, playboy.”
Turning her back to me, she went back to talking to the nigga like I wasn’t there. I watched her for a few minutes before I said fuck it. Standing up, I pulled my coin from my pocket and flipped it without a second thought. Amelia stared at me as Kodi continued to act like the nigga had her attention. After seeing what the coin landed on, I knew her act wouldn’t hold up for long. Peering over my shoulder as I left the section, she glanced at me for a second before giving her attention back to him.
“Damn, bro. Just give her some time,” Uno spoke sympathetically as I reached our table. “She’s probably mad that—Wild!”
Bypassing the table, I made a beeline for the DJ’s booth, not halting my feet as my brothers stood, shouting my name. Tapping the DJ’s shoulder, I whispered in his ear before sliding him the entire bankroll in my pocket.
“Excuse me… if I could have everyone’s attention.” The murmurs of the crowd died down once they heard my voice boom through the speakers. “A lot of y’all know me, so there’s no need for the introductions.” I chuckled while everyone shared a laugh. “I just wanted to tell y’all tonight that I’ve found thewoman of my dreams. She’s fine as fuck, has her own money, and got a grip like?—”
“Aye, yo!” Uno and Skip yelled out, interrupting me and making the crowd laugh harder.
Nodding, I dragged my eyes to Kodi’s section and saw that I now had her attention. “Kodi, I don’t have the politically correct words to say to you, so I hope this song will do.”
As “Kissin’ On My Tattoos” by August Alsina began to play, I sang along to the words through the mic. Drifting through the crowd, I made my way back up to her section, sounding like a wounded cat. Pushing the square-ass nigga away from her and to the floor, I took her hand in mine and sang from my heart.
“All my homies wanna know what’s up with us
They can’t believe that I’m kicking it with just one girl”
With her arms draped around my neck, her eyes shone bright as ever as she smiled and swayed before singing along with me. Nothing or no one else mattered in this moment but her. Even though I sounded like I was calling the crows home, she was fucking with it, and that was all I cared about. Dropping my lips down to hers, I tried my hardest to swallow her entire face for everyone to see.
“I apologize for ghosting you, baby.” I pulled away, and she thumbed away her gloss from my lips. “I was in my feelings, and that’s something that’s never happened to me. It ain’t just the sex, but gah damn, you got the kind of—” I stopped when she glared at me. “What I’m trying to say is, the way I feel for you is something I’ve never felt before, Kodi. I want you—I want us. I want to see where this shit with us can go.” Scratching my head with the mic, I walked over toward the banister and looked for my brothers since they were no longer in our section. Skip wasrecording, and Uno was grinning like a wide-mouth bass. “Do I just ask her to be my girl or do I need to buy her a gift or some shit?”
“This nigga!” Skip chuckled, moving the camera from his face. “Man, just ask her!”
Giving him the middle finger, I turned back toward a giggling-ass Amelia and Dakota. Before I could continue, Kodi threw herself into my arms again.
“Dakota Jenkins,” I spoke into the mic as I stared into her eyes. “Will you be my girlfriend?”
“Yes, Adrian. I’ll be your girlfriend.” She smiled, and then for a second, it wavered. “Don’t make me regret it.”
Cheesing hard as fuck, I pulled her into my arms, kissing her with all the passion I had to muster. The partygoers clapped and cheered as the DJ resumed the music, cutting the mic I held. Once I felt my dick stiffen, I knew it was time for us to go.
“Let’s get the fuck out of here before I give the mayor and his townsfolk a reason to really look at me.” I chuckled with her still in my arms. Glancing over at Amelia, I made sure she was good before we left. On our way out of the section, I kicked that nigga’s feet and mugged the fuck out of him. His ass was still sitting on the ground as if he were scared to get up. That was good—he needed to be nervous after having the audacity to try and mack on my woman.
Putting her in her car, I told her tonight we were staying at Grove’s Plaza Hotel to commemorate our newfound relationship. Truth is, it was closer than both of our places, and I was ready to fuck. It was evident that our bodies had been calling out to each other with the way we couldn’t keep our hands to ourselves.
I’m not going to say I was in love with Kodi, but I wasn’t going to fight the idea of it happening. I’ve never been anybody’s boyfriend, but something told me I could do this for her. Shehad proven to be different from these scallywags I’d been dealing with, so it was my turn to show her I could be different as well.
Man, I hope I don’t fuck this up.
“Adrian,you’re going to make me late,” I moaned as I rocked my hips against his tongue. “I have to leave soon.”
Today was my first day back at Grove’s Memorial, and Martha asked me to come in earlier than my shift start time. She didn’t tell me what the earlier arrival was about, but I figured it was for us to have a discussion and clear the air. To settle my nerves, I decided I would stop to grab some coffee from the café. I was doing good on time until I passed Wild sitting on my living room couch. He all but tackled me when I reached the door, pulling my scrub bottoms down and diving headfirst between my thighs.
Glancing up at me with lust-filled eyes, he continued to eat my pussy as if it were his favorite meal. Coming up for air, hegrinned at me devilishly. “Give me my breakfast, and I’ll let you go.”
With one hand holding me up on the wall and the other palming the back of his head, I pulled my bottom lip between my teeth and rode him to ecstasy. Since making it official a week ago, we haven’t been able to get enough of each other. For him to say he never put his mouth on a woman before me, he sure couldn’t keep his tongue out of me.
