After watching Baron share that kiss with Jordin, Aurelia grew extremely silent in the car. Angry, too. If flames could shoot from her hot ears, they would.
When Baron reentered the Porsche and requested that Aurelia sit up front now, she almost refused. Yet refusing would have alerted him to just how upset she was about that kiss, about his relationship with Jordin as a whole. Since she didn’t want to do that, she consented to leave the back seat as requested.
Now in the front passenger seat, Aurelia sat with her arms folded across her chest, her body stiff in her seat, and her gaze straight ahead. Her face was devoid of emotion, expressionless. Her mouth was a straight line, wordless. She didn’t want to say a thing to him. And he better not say anything to her!
Meanwhile, Baron put on his seatbelt and started up the car. As he drove with one hand, he kept stuffing sticks of gum into his mouth with the other. Unexplainable guilt propelled him to do something to remove Jordin’s flavor from his taste buds. Plus, the gum gave him a convenient excuse not to strike up an awkward conversation with Aurelia.
What could he say in this embarrassing moment anyway? What should he say? I’m sorry I kissed Jordin?
Why should Baron apologize for doing something that he’d done at the end of every date with Jordin? Especially since Aurelia was probably kissing Claude everyday at school and on the weekends.
Aaugh!
Why did things have to be this way? Especially when in Baron’s heart of hearts he knew that he and Aurelia were supposed to be a duet in the song of life. Not him and Jordin. Not Aurelia and Claude.
In an attempt to reduce the thick tension in the car, Baron turned on the radio. Instead of listening to his favorite Latin station, he turned to an R&B station that he overheard Aurelia and some of her peers talking about before class one day. Maybe, just maybe that would appease her. Or at least help them both relax some.
For the first three miles, they rode in silence, allowing the radio to do the talking for them. They listened to crooners like Eric Benet singing songs like Chocolate Legs.
Baron suppressed a moan as he thought about Aurelia’s chocolate legs. He glanced at them now out of the corner of his eye, using the light from the traffic signal above to get a real good look at them. He licked his lips upon noticing that her legs were devoid of stockings, smooth and freely shaven.
What Baron wouldn’t do to have those chocolate legs wrapped around him again right now. He suppressed another moan before forcing his gaze back on the road.
Aurelia rolled her eyes and looked out the passenger window. She’d felt his hot gaze on her. She’d seen him lusting over her out of the corner of his eye. That only increased her ire. Stirred up disturbing questions.
Was Baron like Cain? The kind of man that deemed himself too attractive to be with just one woman? Or was he just plain greedy, wanting more than one woman at a time regardless of his looks? It would certainly explain why Baron’s eyes were already roaming after just kissing a perfectly beautiful woman who was clearly smitten by him.
Although Aurelia couldn’t make all such men pay for being so disrespectful and unfaithful, she could definitely make Baron pay. Pay for not waiting on her. Pay for rubbing his new relationship in her face tonight.
And so the payback begins…
“Oh, I love that song,” Aurelia said, referring to the Ginuwine tune that was just cueing up on the radio. “Mind if I turn it up a little louder?”
“Let me do it for you,” Baron offered, reaching for the volume button. Soon When We Make Love was saturating the airwaves.
Aurelia closed her eyes, raised her hands in the air and began to sensually sway in her seat. As she lowered her hands, she ran them provocatively down the sides of her body from head to hips.
The low moan Aurelia heard coming from the driver’s seat told her that Baron was watching her little performance like a hawk. She’d counted on him doing so. She wanted to give him a vivid reminder of what he was missing out on by being so impatient, of what he would never get again.
Aurelia didn’t count on Baron being distracted to the point of actually swerving in the road, putting both of their lives in danger.
© 2009 by Mi’Chelle Dodson/Suprina Frazier
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Eric Benet’s Chocolate Legs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO_PqCRMFwo
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Ginuwine’s When We Make Love:
I don't know about y'all, but that gum thing cracked me up. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThat whole scene just crack me up! LOL
ReplyDeleteThat was good. What will she do when she finally finds out what really turned him to date others? Time for her own medicine back at her. Can't wait tell the next posting.
ReplyDeleteEric Benet's "Chocolate Legs" was HOT!
ReplyDeleteI have to get this on CD!
Jessie: Your question is a wait-and-see deal.
ReplyDeletePaula: EB's joint is slamming. I ran up on that tune on someone's playlist. I thought it would be a perfect fit for that scene with Aurelia and Baron.
Glad y'all like this scene so much. There are going to be more laughs to come in this book.
"duet in the song of life" - euw cheesy line. sorry :P
ReplyDeleteLilo: Yeah, that was a cheesy line. I'm cheesing about it now. tee-hee.
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